Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16
THE CHURCH AT HOME.

The Salvation Army is negotiating for
two lots in Oklahoma City whereon TO
build large citadel.
The first Swedish church in Detroit.
bethlehem Swedish Evangelical Lutheran
Church has just been opened.
The MOrmons are negotiating for land
on Summit Hill. near Palmyra. y. Y,
where Joseph Smith. the founder, had his
boyhood home. and viii build tabernacle
there.
The new Christian Tabernacle in Kan
sas City. built in sixty hours by the con-
GregatiOn to replace the one burned, has
been dedicated.
A parish house is being built at Buffalo
by Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church.
to cost $4,000. and provide a meeting
place for all the church societies and the
Sunday school.
The nine Presbyterian colleges of In
diana have over S3.0n.Wn invested in real
estate and annually educating 200)
young men and women without expense to
the state
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract So
ciety. which meets from June II TO II. at
Indianapolis. has in the past year printed
and distributed 215OooOO0 pages of tracts
free
Twenty members of Eastern Avenue
Congregational Church. in Springfield,
Mass. gave a recent holiday to the paint
ing of the building. and completed the
task between dawn and sunset.
In Mount Washington Mass, little vii
lage of eighty-two Inhabitants. which has
Just celebrated it's 1J0th anniversary. was
organized the first Methodist Church of
New England.
The Episcopal diocese of Chicago has
started to complete the $1,000 fund re-
quired to make the diocese self-supporting.
and as $1,000 is in hand, the rest is ex-
pected TO be obtained within the year.
\ handsome marble slaft has been
erect I'd near MeTChaDtVillp. y. J.. mark
the site of the old Colestown Church, the
mother of all the Episcopal churches of the
southern part OF the state
To work among the silent people of St.
AIMS Episcopal parish. in New York Rev.
John Henry Keiser, deaf mute, has been
ordained a deacon. the whole ceremony
taking place in the sign Ia Iguage.
Monumental A. NJ. f. Church of Atlanta
with a heavy debt hanging over it. has Sc
cured Caddie Whiteman. ,he most gifted
colored woman of the south in the line of
raising money. to help it in lifting the
financial burden.
Each boy in the Sunday school of the
new Methodist Church. organized at Green
field. Ind. is expected TO bring ten boulders
and each girl five toward the new building.
the plans calling for a structure of rough
stone
All through the twenty-five years exist
encr of Oh. Noman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Meth Ddist Church in the dis
trict of Elrlra. y. Y. Mrs. Levi Coke and
Mrs. A. j. Sackett have been secretary and
Treasurer. respectively.
Daily Bible schools are to he established
in various parts of Philadelphia. under the
auspices of the City Missions and National
Federation of Churches. but instruction will
not he limited to the Bible, as many other
useful things VIII be taught.
Through the beneficence of the late Sam
ucI Elku. Mickve Israel CCnerega the
olGes, and most orthodox Jew, sh organiZa-
tion in Philadelphia will be enabled to build
p new synagogue. rabbits residence and a
house for sheltering poor. crippled or de-
formed children of the Jewish faith.