Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-30
Church Of Qooap.
Interesting Notes Concerning Christian Activity at
Home and Abroad

gates for ten days work. speakers being
present from all parts of the east.
The German Y. NJ c. A of Brooklyn has
decided to move from the historic Debevoise
mansion where 1t has been housed for
many years, providing the court will allow
the property to be sold.
The railroad branch at Troy, N Y. has
proved so successful that means are being
sought to extend its scope, especially in the
line of providing sleeping quarters, there
being less thai half what is required.
seven weeks summer school to open
July o. will be conducted by the mems as
soclation OF Grand Rapids, classes being
held hve days week for the sixth sew
enth and eighth grade work of the public
schools.
The association at Amherst College num-
bers over 400 men, the work being well
supported financially, and very varied in
character, not being confined wholly to the
college, but being carried even into a boys,
club in Holyoke.
The Church Abroad.
There are 26O denominational schools in
England. educating 42,174 pupils
The English Church Union has resolved
to do all in its power to prevent legalization
Of marriage with deceased wife's sister, a
bill that appears annually in parliament
At least s500,0 600 will be required to estab-
fish the new Episcopal dioceses contem-
plated by the subdivision of the archdiocese
of York. and it is being combated for that
reason.
Twenty minute services are held at $50
am. once week for WOrkingmen In All
Saints Church, South Lambeth, London
each workingman as he leaves the church
being given nosegay.
The Keswick missionary council Of Eng
land is sending two representatives to the
four great missionary conventions in China
one of them, Rev. F. S. Webster having
just started via Siberia.
Within the next year the congregation Of
Westbourne Park Chapel in London will try
ments, to be a mark Of appreciation Of the
golden jubilee of DIR. Clifford, its rector.
Rev. H. F. Tracy, vicar of st. Savior's
Dartmouth. England. declares that in a few
years curates will be as extinct as the dodo
because the chance of earning fair living
after passing into middle age is very re-
mote.
The London county council has decided
to terminate the tenances of the four social
list Sunday schools in the city and to in
struct the education committee to end any
others used for teaching political doctrine.
A special invitation to the church con-
gress at Yarmouth, England, next October
has been sent to all the unbenefced clergy
of the diocese hospitality and free admis-
sion to all the meetings being extended
with the tvitation
Father Philip Fletcher, the jealous mas
ter Ransomer Of the Catholic Church in
England. is putting forth the claims of
Canterbury for a national pilgrimage in
July, hoping to make it greater than the
GOO who now attend annually.
Rather than lose the services Of Rev. w.
B. Selbie as editor of the British Congre-
gationalist, his resignation having been
rendered because of enfeebled health, the
directors have given him additional help
SO that he may remain in charge
The twentieth century fund of the Wes-
leyan Methodist Church in England has re-
mission hall building, but has brought
about this year an unprecedented number
Of young ministers for ordination.
An appeal has been issued to the Church
of England to purchase from Ernest jar
dine for upward Of $4,000 the ruins of
Glastonbury Abbey. which he acquired at
auction and which it is feared may fall into
the hands Of the Catholic Church.
The first combined conference OF the
United Methodist Church In England. made
the United Methodist Free Churches, has
been set for September II in London. pro-
vided parliament sanctions the union.
Another English church placed in the
hands Of auctioneers Is the Episcopal
structure at Goodmayes. nford, which still
has large congregation but is to be dis
posed Of as part of the property of Major
Ibbetson, an octogenarian, who finds his
estate too large for him.
The Free Church council Of Merthyr
Tydfl, Wales has declined to receive Uni
tarians who desired to be affiliated with
the work, 1t being declared that united
work was impossible and that there was
not a single council in England or Wales
having Unitarians associated with It,
1t is estimated that an expenditure of
about 10 cents per capita for all the nom
Christians of the world would result in all
having intelligent grasp Of the gospel
inside Of thirty years, whereas at the pres
ent rate of missionary giving 1t would re-
Quire over a century to accomplish the
work.