Evening star., 1907-06-23
7uF cHUSCH AT HOME.

Tho Wisconsin evangelical synod has
agreed to the appointment OF mission
physician for India.
Nearly s2ou.tu1 has been collected in
r,unies from the Jewish masses for the
zionist fund with which to purchase land
IN Palestine.
The hccntennial OF the establishment OF
Cnr!st Episcopal Church at Stratfora,
Conn. has just been celebrated, four
bishops attending besides about 400 other
ClerEymen.
The Salvation Army at Savannah has
established large laundry in connection
with the numerous other enterprises Wmch
/, carries on as a part OF its Christian work
one of the Oldest Sunday schools in the
state, that connected with the First Bap-
tist Church of East Providence, X. l., has
had but eight superintendents in eighty
eight years.
The Congregational Methodist Publishing
House. which is being established in At
lanta. has secured J. Stokeiy Hunt OF MIS-
sissippi as assistant business manager ana
editor of the Natchman,
A summer school for the children of the
poor TO be conducted by the dcaconesses
Of the parish house is planned by Rev
Floyd W Tomkins of Holy Trinity Episco-
pal Church in Philadelphia
The summer gospel campaign has started
ten large tents being held daily, some hun
dreds OF Christian workers having volun-
ttered their services.
Although the pastor Of a thriving church
at StGndish, Mich. Rev. l.. {. Frost OF
the First Congregational Church does near
l. all tke paperhanging and much OF the
painting for the town.
The New Jersey and Philadelphia confer
ences of the Congregational Methodists
have united, which gives the new district
i..!t y,7..r her Will on
country and three in the Holy Land.
In the two orphans homes one at Elk
horn. Neh., the other at Naupaca. WIS,
maintained by the United Evangelical Lu-
theraus. there are but forty-fOur children,
and in ten years there has been but one
death.
The southern Presbyterian synod has in
sight S31,pO of the SGn,oJO required to
claim the $4,000 promised by Andrew Car
ncgie toward the endowment fund of the
Woman's College at Danville, ky.
A 9o-tent camp meeting OF the Seventh
Day Adventists of the New York and
New Jersey conferences has just ended at
Elizabeth. n. j, the first held in seven
years. the last one having been at VIII
mington, Del.
The tenth annual gathering of American
Zionists at Tannersville, y. Y, from June
IS to July s, is expected to be OF unusual
interest because of the controversy between
the ZiOnists and the leaders OF reformed
Judaism.
To conduct campaign of his own
against industrial abuses and corruption
In politics, Rev. Eliot White, rector OF
fashionable and wealthy St Johns Epls-
coral Church of Worcester, Mass, has re-
signed a pastorate which he has held ten
years.
Eight new congregations were admitted
10 the fold of the United Evangelical Lu-
theran Church at its convention in Council
Bluffs. Neb., two being in Wisconsin and
one each in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa.
North Dakota, Missouri and Illinois.
AT the silver anniversary of the ordi-
,ation of Rev. John d. Biden of St. Jo-
seph's Cathedral in Buffalo, the sermon was
preached by Rev. Luke Grace OF Niagara
University who also delivered the sermon
at the first mass celebrated by tather
Biden.
The question of whether hats shall be
worn in church by the women has be-
come a paramount issue In several cohgre-
cations of Lynn. Mass, Catholics, Eplsco-
palians and Baptists all having joined IN
the controversy, but without reachihs
decision as yet
The Presbyterian ministers of Oakland
Cal will try to secure an advance IN IN sal @
airy for all who receive less than Si,uoo an an,
nually. and the Canadian general asseihpls
of the same church has agreed thdt IN no
case should the annual minimum stlpeho
be below $500.
One of the most important meetings OF
tre wear among coOred Baptists Will De
the four-day gathering, opening June "a
al New Orleans, of the National Bapust
sunday School Congress and Young Peo-
PIES ChautauQua, which Will prlhs tosethel
workers from all over the country
Weekly union gospel meetings for men
or1, and conducted on business principles
have been organized at Honey Grove ltN,, ~
and already an attendance Oh oNei ioO
ms been obtained at the Sunday afternoon
,,a+rrrinps leading to more pronounced
feeling Of fellowship among the various
denominations