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

One person out of every five in Ohio is
member of some Sunday school.
The Fitch Shepard Bible fund of the
American Bible Society. which will be
available as soon as II reaches $1,000
now totals 500, 395
The Iowa State Sunday School Associa-
ton numbers 1852 schools. with an en-
rolment of 1855, 915, and an average at
tendance of 232 202.
$4,000 chapel is to be erected by St
Joseph's Hospital at Memphis. the plans
being drawn by one of the faculty of the
Christian Brothers College.
A fund of 100000 will probably be raised
for the centennial of the Christian Church
in the United States. the matter having
been already taken up in Iowa
The Jefferson County Sunday School AS
ISOLATION has determined to build n great
auditorium at Birmingham. Ala, for the
use of all church conventions.
One of the finest of the churches in the
south VIII be the new structure for the
Central Methodist congregation in Mem
phis. which is to be started at once.
Members of st. Johns Lutheran Church.
at Quakertown, Pa, have planted large
church lot with potatoes, the crop to be
sent to the Lutheran Orphans Homes.
A chapel to cost at least 500. 600 has been
planned by the faculty of Mount ST Mary's
College near Baltimore, the college alumni
having promised to raise the amount.
Eight rabbs officiated at the dedication
of the magnificent new temple of the Con-
gregation Shaarai Shomayim in Mobile, one
of the most beautiful of all the structures
in that city
The twenty-ffth anniversary of ST. Col
mans Home at Troy, N. Y, was also the
golden jubilee of the entrance of Rev. Will
liam F. Sheehan, founder of the home, into
the priesthood
The greater part of the twenty five years
spent by Rev. Florian Hahn, missionary
apostolic. in the ministry, has been among
the Indians of California, and his silver
jubilee was made a red-letter occasion.
The merger of the Northern and the Cum
berland Presbyterians has been carried out
in Portland, Ore, all the property of both
churches having been turned over to the
Portland presbytery.
The Church of the Intercession on Wash
ington Heights. New York city. has been
taken over by Trinity Episcopal Church as
one of its free churches, and Its $4,000
debt will be lifted at once.
The Free Synagogue organized in New
York by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise has rented
the church formerly occupied by the Uni
versalist Church of the Eternal Hope until
more centrally located structure can be
erected
The chapter Of the Episcopal Cathedral of
St. John the Divine, in New York, has fol-
lowed the lead of the Marble Collegiate
Church and provided chaplain for
strangers Rev. James b. Wassen being
elected to the position.
at Atlanta have been considerably broad
ened, the executive committee having decid-
ed upon q girls dormitory to cost $50, 900,
to be near the church and hospital and be
ryily part of the new institutional
church.
The work Of the national committee on
daily vacation Bible schools in connection
with the National Federation of Churches,
having strongly tablished itself in Phila-
delpha, has now moved on to Chicago, and
has also found two locations in New Jer-
sey.
In 1000 churches of the Christian de-
nomination collections are being taken for
rebuilding the eight churches of that faith
in San Francisco, four having been de-
stroyed by fire and earthquake while the
others must move because of the shifting
of their congregations.
Recent statistics for the United States.
compiled by church authorities. show TO-
$1,000 Roman Catholics. 6,257 641 in IL
bodies of Baptists, 8,552,s91 in II bodies Of
Methodists, 1,771,7s7 in IL bodies of Pres
byterians, 1854 33 in % bodies of Luz
therans, 1924. 7bS Disciples Of Christ, S37.O79
Episcopalians, with the other denominations
all smaller than these figures.