The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

held Monday afternoon at o'clock Tn the lecture room of the church
 Mrs. L. A. Johnson,
 President Miss N. L. Randolph.
 Secretary.
 Notice. sunbeams.
 The "Sunbeams" of the Clayton Street Baptist Church will meet Sat- urday afternoon at a:so o'clock at the church.
 Miss Msddie McDonald,
 President Notice, woman's Missionary Society. The regular monthly meeting of the woman's Home Missionary Society of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church will be held Monday afternoon at s:So o'clock at the church.
 Mrs J G. sprueli,
 President. Notice, Foreign Mission Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of the Court Street Methodist Church will meet Monday afternoon at 3:30, o'clock in the Lofnax Annex. Elec- ton of officers will be the order of bers is urged.
 Mrs. W. " Brame,
 President. Mrs. T. W DeYampert
 Secretary.
 Notice, woman's Missionary Society. The wofnan's Missionary Society or the First Baptist Church will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. W. W. Burch. 224 Say,re street.
 Mrs. M. A. waller, Mrs. T. W. Hannon.
 Secretary.
 Notice, Board of Directors. The Board of Directors of the Young woman's Christian Association will meet Monday morning at II o'clock at the Association home.
 Mrs. Florence Harris.
 President, Mrs. Margaret Booth.
 Secretary.
 The Ladies Missionary Society wtil meet this Sunday afternoon at s:so o'clock.
 Miss De L. o'qwynn.
 President. Mi Lucy Copeland.
 Secretary.
 Special Services at st. Johns. During the Lenten season, Rev. D. E. cobbs. Hector of St. Johns Church. has arranged for services each Tuesday evening, especially for the convenience or men wno ~ eennot attsna Ss bne, 1ne oahis shis to secure several well-known ministers to come here and preach at these spe- cial serviSea The first of the series B. Brown of Eufaula was the preacher. The next will be Tuesday, March 5, when Rev. W. M Claybrook. the. State will preach; March i2, Rev. c. B. Winner of Atlanta; March 19, Rev. F. F. Reese of Nashville. and March 26, Rev. Fa%Sndi2 F6e paSio RsSTs E t6 eess services. AZ 44ea
 General Religious News. A methodist authority has just es- timated the total number of adherents and members of the churches of Meth odism throughout the world at 43,63S,- 25S, the total being based upon the following figures quoted for all Meth odist churches of the world: Ministers 50,6Os: lay preachers, 9S,4s3i church members. s.27s,043; Sunday school of- ficers and teachers, 817,723; pupils 7,- oO0.000. The Southern Methodist Church of this country had member ship at the close of 1906 of 1,s73,S47. with 5000 ministers and 5000 local preachers. It had something over l. 00O,OO Sunday School pupils and the contributions of the denomination to all missionary causes was $1.24s.o 900. In membership the Southern Metho- dists gained about three per cent in the year.
 A similar growth in the membership of the Methodist Episcopal church. which is the Methodist body of the Northern States, brought membership totals at the first of the present year up to s,2S6.661. This body has 1S.969 ministers, 14,02S local preachers and 100000 Sunday School pupils. The American Baptist Missionary union announces q critical condition n it's finances and asks the Baptists of the country to rally to it's support Its fiscal year ends March 31, and if it's year Is to be closed without debt nearly $500000 has to come in during the three months of January, Febru- ary and March. How much of that amount had been received up to Feb ruary has not been stated, but the statement is frankly made that the debt of the union when its books were closed a year ago. $t3.037, will be in- creased to at least $10O,0 at the close of the present year unless the churches and individual givers do much better in these closing weeks than they did last year.
 By arrangement with the Presbyter- ian board of home missions the broth erhood Is to have for a time part ol the services of Won ogden Vogt. a new secretary of the home board, who Is to act as corresponding secretary of the brotherhood and assist in the organization of local chapters. MT Vogt recently resigned the secretary ship of the United Society of Christian Endeavor to take up the Presbyterian work
 From statistics compiled by Dr. H K. Carroll the number of Catholics now in the United states is estimated to be 1O,sOO,OoO
 A national religious census is in pro cess of preparation. When completed it will contain. in addition to the tab ulated statistics, a statement prepared by a competent authority of the his tory, doctrine policy and work of each denomination. In it's scope this scheme is greater than any plan which has ever before been attempted in | this or any other country in the line l of a religious census.
 The bi-centenary of Charles Wes- ley, the great hymn-writer, will be celebrated December IS. 1907. It is pro posed that musical festivals shall bt held in which his hymns shall be the program.