Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-20
GENERAL RELIGIOUS NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROADs

| Mississippi Baptists have S96, 020 in.
vested in orphanages and $270,000 in
! college property.
| The bicentennial of the Presbyterian
church at Greenwich, N. j., was cele.
brated the past week.
| A handsome baptismal font has been
| placed in the Church of the Messiah at
Toronto as a memorial to the late re.
| tor, Rev. John Gillespie.
There are now $50 churches and 1872
Sunday schools of the Christian denom
nation in Indiana, which during the
year have gained 20,5S9 members
The Women's Missionary Confer.
ence, which has been in session at
East Mortified, Mass, has been try
ing to learn how to interest men in
mission work.
The 10000 members Of the Methodist
| Church in the Indianapolis district are
trying to raise $4,000 to complete the
Indiana Methodist Hospital In Indian.
apolis.
Congregationalists Presbyterians
Episcopalians. Christians and Baptists
on the Pacific coast have been conduct
ing joint summer school of theology
at Berkeley, Cal.
The pastor of the Rockefeller church
In Cleveland, Rev Dr. Charles e. Ea-
ton. has gone abroad and will preach
| at the famous Bloomsbury Church OF
London Aug. II and 18.
Rev. Francis e. Clark. who in 81
years has seen 10000 Christian En-
deavor Societies formed in the world,
has returned home from his six
months tour of the world In the inter.
est of his organization.
The New Hampshire Congregational
Home Missionary Society which COM
prises 1SS churches has secured Rev.
Edwin R. Smith Of Lowell, Mass, as Il
new executive officer and he will trav-
ell most of the time.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
purchased house near Lafayette,
Ind. to be used as sanitarium in con-
nection with which will be conducted
a training school for missionaries pre-
| vious to sending them to foreign coun-
tries.
The first Catholic missionary to the
Berkshires In Massachusetts, Rev.
Charles Crevier, now the rector of the
Church of the Precious Blood at Holy
oke, has just celebrated his ordination
to the priesthood.
On his 91st birthday, Rev. DR.. Daniel
March, pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church at Woburn, Mass,
preched to a large congregation. after
which ne held reception, attended by
a number Of parishioners as old as
himself.
Bishop John H. Vincent, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, in Chau-
tauqua address at Coffeeville, Kan, de-
clared his antagonism to the evange-
| listic system or revivals now so much
in vogue. believing that they produce
only temporary good.
Finding that Jewish residents of
| New York have not contributed suf-
| flciently to the maintenance Of Hebrew
religious centers in that city, Presi-
dent Albert Lucas 1of the Jewish Cen
tres association, proposes to accept
| Christian aid in establishing the work.
The Episcopal church, at Mt. Po-
como, Pa, one of the mountain sum-
mer resorts, has been turned over to
the Catholics whenever they wish 1t
for the celebration of mass for the
many servants who are needed in that
section during the vacation season.
AS result of the split in Presbyter-
ianism at Nashville, the Cumberland
branch refusing to unite with the
other. Grace church has rented quart
ers from Westminster church and
will hold its services in that house
of worship until it can again secure
place of it's own.
The Church Abroad.
The Methodist Free church of En-
gland has 4O5 ministers, S443 local
preachers, s0,870 members and 1885,
1874 attendants at its Sunday schools.
The Actors church union of England
has the past year gained so members
and has now 142 centers with III chap
lains.
All over the Great Britain from Aug.
2 to 10 the annual camps Of the
church Lads Brigade are held, each
being under military organization.
When the church army wished to
extend its headquarters in London,
ten men promised $4,000 toward the
work, and the Duchess of Argyll mas
Laid the foundation stone for the
buildings.
/ The Twentieth Century Fund of the
Free Methodist church in England
has now reached the sum of over $780,
600 while the silver wedding fund of
the same church amounts to over $780,
900.