Evening star., 1907-06-23
THE CHURCH ABROAD.

The London Sunday School Union has
sent an additional worker to Moscow to
carry on Sunday school organization.
1t has been decided to raise St. Mary's
Episcopal Church, at Glasgow, to the
status of a cathedral, with a dean and
seven canons.
The Bishop of Exeter, England still de-
chnes to depart from his determination
not to license curates to churches where
incense is used for ceremonial purposes.
The $50 clergy of the diocese of ST. AL
bans England, have presented the Bishop
of Colchester with a golden chalice and
pattern in honor of his golden wedding.
One of the most important results OF
Gen. Booths visit TO Japan was the forma-
ton of an organization for the protection
c. oriental women, both at home and
abroad.
A wel,-defi1ed movement has been start
ed among the missionaries in southwestern
China to unite all the churches in the
fowery kingdom under the head of a
general Chinese church.
The numerical returns of the Methodist
Free Churches throughout England for
the year show a deceaSe in membership,
but there has been a great increase in
the foreign field.
The rector of Chettle. Dorsetshire,
England. calls on his parish for three
days week at intervals to keep the
churchyard trim and well cared for, the
bee nearly always proving a success.
The British Church Missionary Society
will try to float s750,000 in per cent
debentures, repayable at six months no
tice, to free the society from having to
borrow from bankers at per cent.
Rev. E. Schnadhorst, the pastor of the
Congregational Church at North Bow
England, has for fifty years worked with
out stipend, and his parish, in honor of
his jubilee. will present him with
splendid testimonial.
Rev w r FOOte ono of the Presbv-
terian missionaries in Korea, has con-
gregation numbering about 5000 every
Sunday, that has built its own church
and In one day raised S3oOO to eCdoW
native preacher.
The ancient Glastonbury Abbey, in Eng
land. the foundation of which was laid
in 1884, and now mainly mass of ruins,
has been sold al auction. the countless
historic associations of the place avail
ing naught in saving 1t.
Encouraged by last years success,
churchmen and non-conformists at Black
heath, London, are joining forces for
Sabbath open-air meetings in the early
evening. thousands attending both at
Blackheath and Greenwich parks.
Four towns in Essex, England, are
wrangling over which one shall have
the proposed new bishopric, among them
being Barking, which urges it's claims
on the ground that it has had thirty -one
abbesses, including two queens, within
its boundaries.
The Medical Mission Auxiliary Of the
London Church Missionary Society has
OTI, 40 out-patient attendances. with
$3.50 beds in the hospitals, and. besides,
has hospitals in West and East Africa,
| Uganda, Egypt. Palestine, Turkish Ara
| bia, Persia, India, China and Japan.
With the single exception of the Mo-
| ravians the Society of Friends has more
! missionaries abroad in proportion to it's
membership than any other denomina-
tion. there being 106 at work in all parts
! of the world. including Madagascar,
| Syria Ceylon, China and India.
! A monument has been unveiled at
! Llanihangel Towyn, Wales, to com,aemo-
| rate the deed of a Welsh girl Mary
! Jones, who in 1900 walked barefoot thirty
| miles to secure copy of the Bi5le-an
| incident that led to the founding of the
| British and Foreign Bible Society.
| The ecclesiastical commissioners of
| England, with fund of S1,250. 900 to
| draw on for the next three years, have
| announced a pension fund for facilitating
| the retirement of aged or infirm clergy
men holding poor benefices, the grants
! to start November l. and not to exceed
| $3.50 annually at first.