The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14
ceneraI Religious News.


 The lecture will begin at 7:so o'clock. General Religious News. The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Sabbath breaking among the iow- CT classes in England is due to the ex- ample set by the upper classes The Methodist preachers and laymen | of Nashville have formally requested Bishop E. E. Hoss to make his home | there He was for many years profes- | sor in Vanderbilt University and for | twelve years editor Of The christian | Advocate, and is at home therefore an Nashville.
 The National Congregational Council will vote on the proposed union with the United Brethren and the Methodist | Protestant Churches in October, 1907. ! the Methodist Protestant Conference an May. 1908, and the United Brethren | Conference in May. 1909. Tn 1895 Bishop Walden said: The I Chinese are the brainiest people in | Asia and the best heather on the | globe"
 | Mrs. Russell Sage has gwen s35o,ooo | to erect e headquarters building In | New York for the Y. M. c. A. Mrs. | William E. Dodge gave $135,0o0 for the site. The building will be eight sto- rfes, completed In May, 1903, and in addition to being headquarters Tor the Y. M. c. A. work in North America, will also provide offices for the Nation | al Board of the Young Woman's Chris- tian Association.
 The new constitution makes Ckla- boma the strongest prohibition State, as not only are alcoholic lqpors shut I Ia hut fnmn0rIattOn to the State is prohibited.
 The Census Bureau states that for twenty years, from 1887 to 1907 l. 400. 000 suits were filed for divorce, about two-thirds of the suits being | granted. This is seventy divorces Tor every 100000 population.
 The Christian Herald has sent $15c,- 1 900 cash to the China famine sunerers, and the government transport Buford has been placed at its disposal and will be loaded with 5000 tons, 1o000.0o0 pounds, of flour, costing $1oo,000 and clipped at once.
 If is said that of the s00,000 Jews In New York. only 2S.000 arc reported as I being connected with some synagogue or place of worship.
 There are said to be s0,ooo barmaids | in the public houses or liquor saloons | of England, 5000 in London alone. A bill before Parliament proposes to pro hibit the employment of women in this occupation. The bill is strongly op- posed by whiskey and beer sellers on the ground that to employ men instead of women would greatly reduce the patronage of public houses.
 Bishop James Atkins proposes . fed eration of American Methodism under four autonomous divisions, the North ern, Southern. Eastern and Western. to be called the United Methodist Church of America
 Acting on protests of the Roman Catholic bishops, King Alfonso has ab- rogated the law permitting civil mar riages in Spain without declaration of the religion of the contracting par ties
 In the Illinois Legislature a bill has been introduced that portions of the | Bible without sectarian comment shall be read in the public schools of Illi- nois." pr. Render Harris. "a friend. e lay man a great Bible scholar. a saint and A wit" has been elected president of the Free Church Council. which repre- sents all the non-Conformist bodies of England.
 Rev James Orr. D. D.. of New Col lege, Glasgow, will deliver four lect- ures on "The Virgin Birth of Our Lord at the Moody Bible Institute. Chicago. Aprfil 2e-27.
 Lately at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (John D. Rocksfellers,) in
  a Roman Catholic priest, spoke to the Mems Club on the significance of Holy Week.
 Rec. Arthur Mercer, pastor of the New Jerusalem Church, (Swedenborg), in Baltimore, thinks that the Old Tes- lament is a common ground for the re- ligious federation of Jews. Swedenbor- gians and Unlversalists.
 When Thomas Cogs. Who with Fran els Asbury, became the first Ameri- can Methodist bishop. was preaching in Jamaica in 17S9, his stern rebukes of sin aroused the audience. which began to threaten the preacher. woman with a pair of scissors in her hand took her place by Coke, saying. "The first man who lays violent hands upon him shall have these scissors thrust into his heart"
 Professor Mathews said of a certain preacher: He Is a good preacher and breaches well. but he needs to be struck by lightning"
 Pastor Thomas Sturgeon. son and successor of the great Charles Spur geon has resigned his pastorate on ac- count of i'll health. His congregation insists that he shall continue fin charge but take long rest and vacation.
 Professor Goldwin Smith makes tris comment on the large vote in the House of commons favoring disesta bl b hment of the Church of England: "So passes away old England, peerage and church together, leaving little of the vener- able fabric save a crown, the wearer of which reigns and does not govern"
 Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, tn which pr. c. F. 'ked comes from an English pastorate, practices open com munion.