The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
FEBRUARY.

separation Of Church, and state In
 France has to do approximately as
 much with Protestants and Jews as
 with Catholics. all Churches having re-
 ceived subsidy from the public funds.
 The inventory of Church property pro-
 vlded for in the act meets opposition
 Pope talegraphs. deploring violence and
 advising submission. On the issue gov
 ernment receives a vote of confidence,
 ss4 to 16s Pope issues White Book
 on subjects, designed to show responsi-
 biIity rests upon the State.
 ' Buffalo chosen as place frext nat
 ionai convention of the American Fed-
 eration of Catholic societies
 General Jewish Conference in Brus-
 sells. declares Jews can not expect irn-
 provement of the status In Russia, ana
 advises frnmigration. Permanent organ
 lzation provided for. Committee to
 define the countries where Jewish col
 onization Is most practicable
 President Roosevelt asked to use his influence to insure that the condition of Jews in Russia betone of the subjects of discussion at The Hague Confer ence
 Fourteen Jews elected to British parliament Formation of consregation- al. clubs in svnagogues advised Christian Endeavor history epitorniz- ed bv its founder. Francis E. Clark February g. 1881. one society, forty members; February 2. 1906, 67.000 so- cieties. 100000 members; 1Ss1.s one nation. one language: 1906, fifty na- tions. eighty languages: 1881, only lit- Arature draft of Constitution: 1s06, forty publications in fifteen languages; l 1881, one denomination; 1906, 100 de- | nornina tf0ua
 First Hindu temple erected in Ameri- ca, dedicated fn San Francisco, bears I inscription, May the Absolute Bless | All"
 Passive resistance to Education Act | still continues in England. By terms of the law f6.o0o sectarian schools. mostly of the Established Church. are | entirely supported by general taxes. | Men and women refusing. for con- | science sake. to pay taxes for this ptir- | pose. are stfIl going to prison. Practi- | cal effect the uniGcation of Non-eonfor- | mists.
 Number of representative Jews meet \ in New York to consider question | whether or not 1t is advisable to call | general congress of Jews in the | United States to pass upon the advis- I ability of establishing a national or- | gstnization. Committee appointed to | Issue call.
 | 1H9 FEOIHSIahE MiSN1OHdT% bOdi uS I unite in giving in New York dinner | to the Chinese commissioners sent to i America to study the form of govern I ment Five hundred guests. Christian | spirit of fellowship with pagan" peo- fl pie dominates. Viceroy Tuan. in his | address, bears testimony to the part I taken by American missionaries in i promoting the progress of the Chinese | people, by translattng into Chinese re- | lisious and scientific works of the | West, by establishing of hospitals and 1 schools. He says the awakening of I China may be traced to the hand of the missionary. Chinese prejudice against America not due to nission- I aries; on contrary they hnve done | much to ailay the same"
 I Of STA social-reform workers in as- | sociated charities and settlements, 753 found to be Church communicants. Be- I lieved that the increasing number of religious persons devoting themselves
 to these forms of work accounts for l decline iG candidates exclusively to | tho lead in social and reform work. Orr | ders of deaconesses re-established in I almost every Protestant denomination I Young Mems Hebrew Associatins' I buildings planned for San Francisco, | St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans,
 the latter to cost $250,o0O.
 l Four Chicago ministers enter into a | | for study of sermons. which are to be | the product of four minds instead of one ft.
 1 Eighteen thousand converts made in | the Philippines by six denominations I in five years; 100 chapels of cane and thatch built; 2o.0oo.O00 pages of re- i ligious literature in dialects circulat- | ed; seminaries for native preachers and | deaconesses built. 1 Dr. William S. Rainsford, twenty l years rector of St. Georges Church, | New York, resigns on account of im- | paired health. He transformed a de- l cadent Church by setting 1t to work. | Rabbi Wise declines call to Temple ! Emmanuel, New York, because trus- tees will not retract declaration that pulpit utteranceS must always be un- ! der control of board
 | Dr. Washington Gladden. reaches his | seventieth birthday; stands pre-emi-
 nently for humanizing of religion, and
 marks the passage for abstract the- | ology to practical ethics.
 Net gain communicants in all de-
 nominations in United States. 1905, 519,155. Lutherans advance from fifth | to fourth place among great denom- national families. Great Britain Con | gregational Church has nearly 5000 | places of worship, with a million and l three-quarters >sittings; 4S0.000 com municantS; net increase. 16.000, with q
 decrease in ordained ministers Of
 ,twen ty-two. The Baptist has 426,00O
 communicants, net gain of 31,7o0. ] Wesleyan Methodist. s,0000Oo com municants in the world; 1S,000 places 1 of worship in Great Britain; net, 954,- i 900: communicants: 1,s0O,OOO Sunday school scholars.
 The, commissioners of Congrega-
 tional, United Brethren. and Metho- dist Protestant Churches meet in Day ton, Ohio, and draft terms of organic
 union. Aggregate of communicants, a
 million and a half. United Brethren e concede loss of name and bishoprie;
 Methodist Protestant yield name; Con-
 gregationalists yield to the connec-
 tional system of government: New
 Church will probably be called the
 United Church of America, The re-
 port of Committee on Creed. as tacitly
 adopted. contains six paragraphs in
 simple language. presenting the doe
 trines commonly received by common
 ly called evangelical Churches. The
 subcommittee on vested interests re-
 ported that in it's judgment denomina-
 tional organizations. property, and
 vested interests present no !nsuperable obstacle to organic union. The Com