Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-21
THE CHURCH ABROAD.

The Welsh Calvinistic Church has in
India 24Gl4 members and 2O,S67 Sunday
school pupils.
The nine foundation stones for Hexham
Abbey in Northumberland county England,
have been laid
The metropolitan of Calcutta has sent
three priests to work among the Nagas,
one of the hill tribes in Assam.
Popular gatherings may be held through
out the provinces OF England In connection
with the great Pan-Anglcan congress next
year.
The Monday evening services in Hyde
Park. London, under the auspices OF the
Bishop of London are to be continued until
into September.
The monks will do all the work OF build
ing Buckfast Abbey Church in Devonshre.
England, for which the corner stone has
just been laid.
The thousandth anniversary OF st. Peters
Church at Chester. Cheshire, England.
was made the occasion for great munich
pal ceremony.
In ancient England one OF the saints who
appealed most to the popular imagination
was st. Martin, from whom no fewer than
1GO churches drew their titles.
The Christian Social Service Union OF
England is expected to unite Anglicans and
Noncomformists in support of the farm
colonies and epileptic homes and schools
The ecclesiastical commissioners realized
$4S0,OOO from the sale of the ancient Church
of st. Peter lie Poer in London. and the pro-
ceeds Will be devoted to church extension.
The seven hundredth anniversary of the
conservation Archbishop of Canterbury
of Stephen Langton, the sturdy patriot and
head of the reforming party, was reached
early this month.
The Church Missionary Society OF Eng
land will issue per cent debentures in null
tipes of $50 to raise about 100000 required
for the expenses of the first third of tho
fiscal year.
One of the most successful but little
known organizations of the Church of Eng
land is the Scripture Readers Association.
founded siXtythree years ago, TO undertake
lay work for the church.
Because of the effiux of population from
the city to the suburbs, Whitefields Taber-
nacle, a Nonconformist Church in London,
is to be sold and the proceeds used 10 build
a large building in Alexandra Park road.
One of the most important Catholic pill
grimages was that under the auspices of
the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom to Cam
terbury where Rev. Dom Bede Camm the
author of In the Brave Days of Old
After preaching Sunday at West Green
Baptist Church, Tottenham, London, Rev.
John Edmonds vacated his pastorate and
the next day took up the dry goods business
with firm in which he had been a silent
partner.
The Bishop of Gloucester, England, has
promised to give one-tenth of his official
income annually to the maintenance of the
clergy of his diocese, thirty-three of whom
receive less than $1,000, while not more
81. 800.
Although In his Tooth year, Rev. Thomas
Lord of Horncastle, England, preached
twice in day recently to large Nom
conformist congregations. reciting long por-
tons of the Scriptures as his failing eye
sight prevents him from reading them.
Under the shadow of the fine old cathe-
dral of Southwell, England, Bishop Hos
kyns has taken up mis- residence in a house
built on the site of Cardinal Wolsey's
palace part of the ruins of that historic
structure being included in the new build
ing.
For the last three and half years Rus
slams have been allowed to unite with other
than their own national church and. though
few have yet availed themselves of the
privilege, the entering wedge for religious
freedom has been started.
AT the meeting of the international Mis-
sion for Miners in London, r. Glynn Vivien.
the founder. stated that he desired now to
build two mission halls in the united king
dom and ten abroad, toward which he was
giving $4,000. and asked for a like sum
with which to equip them.