Evening star., 1907-11-17
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.
A German mission Is maintained in Lon
don by the Wesleyan Methodists.

A German mission Is maintained in Lon
don by the Wesleyan Methodsts.
Four cities in Oklahoma have made
bids for the State Baptist University
Recent figures place the number of Prot
estant communicates in the United States
at 81, ,65S.
The publishing house of the American
Presbyterian Church did business OF
over $700, 600 the past year.
The church missionary society's workers
in Persia have in six years gained 1l9
converts from Mohammedanisn.
In Japan there Is one Sunday school pu-
pill for every 100 inhabitants. but in
Korea the proportion is one to every 270
The German Baptist Brethren of Iowa
or Dunkards as they are more commonly
known. have opened q home for the aged
near Marshalltown.
Moving pictures and songs, with social
science Glass; is a part Of the Sunday
services of the Theodore Parker Memorial
Church at Boston.
Bishop Of Eastern Oregon, Rev Robert
Louis Paddock of New York has decided
to accept the position.
The recent action OF the Bishop of
Dorkins in volunteering for work outside
of England has inspired number of men
to follow his example.
The next great convention of church
vember 10 to 21, when the Wesley
brotherhood meets in annual session.
The Methodist Episcopal ministers at
Boston are to send delegates to the Cen
trail Labor Union who shall have a voice
in the proceedings. but no vote.
Work has so far progressed on the Epis-
copal cathedral at Liverpool that the
plan is rapidly becoming visible, the walls
being constructed to about half their
height.
The British Mission to Seamen now has
three vessels engaged in its work, a SIX
teen-ton motor launch. to b, called the
Morning Star. having just been added 10
the fleet.
A large number Of Mormon missionaries
have just invaded Europe. seventeen OF
them going to Germany. despite the re-
cent edcts against them, and two nave
started for South Africa.
The woman's mission workers OF the
Texas Baptist Church raised S54, GOO dur
ing the year. but require 25 per cent moie
the coming year.
The Princess Of Wales has sent to the
church army Of England an order for
large number Of shirts to be made by the
wives Of prisoners who are under the care
of the society.
The articles Of incorporation OF the
American Friends board of foreign mis-
sions have been changed to show that the
missionary board is subordinate In every
way to the five years meeting.
The Baptist state missionary board OF
Michigan, which now has eighty-one
workers in the field. Is allowing some OF
the smaller churches to die out, so as to
devote more money to the ones of greater
promise.
The residents Of the Ladies' Church
House have been conducting a very sue
cessful mission among the woman naiil
workers of the Hume district of London.
addresses being made at the noon hour at
the factory gate.
The congregations connected with the
Anglican communion in japan. known as
the Nippon Sei-ko-Kwai. or Church Of
Japan, now has 81 japanese clergyman
29S lay agents and 1902 church mem
bers, Of whom $3.50 are communicates.
The Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge has found such tremendous
field in northwest Canada that 1t Is hav-
ing works prepared In the Ojtbway,
Chipewyan, Cree. Esquimaux and Tukudn
tongues, which will later be superseded by
books in English
A study clock which belonged to the
late Rev. c. H. Spurgeon and now the
property of Rev. John Hockey. Baptist
and an active passive resister. has been
seized by the authorities at Bexhill. Eng
land, for non-payment of the tax, ana VIII
probably be sold at auction.
The nine largest Presbyterian sunday
schools are located in Philadelphia, Min
neapolis New York Chicago. Roches-
ter, Plainfield, Buffalo. Harrisburg,
and Seattle, all having over 1.60i mem
bers, the first named having nearly $500
and the next two over 1000 each.
Thousands of Kanakas who have been
laboring on the. sugar plantations Of
Queensland have been forced by recent
legislation to leave Australia and return
to their homes in the Polynesian archi-
pelago, which will greatly increase the
work of the Melanesian mission.
An effort is being made to settle the diff
ferences between the two Baptist unions
of Hungary, the trouble not being theo-
logical, but in connection with the state;
one side having made some approaches
toward recognition by the state. which
the other side regards as fundamenta
departure from Baptist principles.
Toward the $441,ls2. which is the por-
ton of the total fund of $661. .4S2 that
churches and individuals must raise this
year to carry on the work OF the Amerl-
can Baptist Home Missionary Society,
New York must furnish $9S.1S5. Massa-
chusetts, S4S 1854; Pennsylvania, $36. 730;
Illinois. O,S27: Ohio. $l7.55O, and other
states lesser amounts.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
of New York has started a series Of Sun
day afternoon me etings to be devot d par
ticularly to the presentation of Christian
truth, high church authorities having
been secured to deliver lectures in this
line, headed by Prof. Hugh Black. who is
to answer Great Questions of Life" for
twelve Sundays.
King Peter Of Servia Is building hand
some memorial church at Topola to serve
as a burial place for his family. the egypt
extending the length of the building. with
space for sixty collins of the karageorge-
witch dynasty.
A three weeks campaign in behalf of
the foreign work Of the christian En-
deavor is being made by Rev. Francis E.
Clark. the president. and iiliam Shaw
the general secretary. their itinerary TAX
ing them through Cleveland. Indianapolis.
St. Louis, Kansas City, ST. Joseph ST