The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-22
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 Rev. sfekenny wim Preach. The services today at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. colored, will be in keeping with the season. Sun day school at 9.30 a. m. and at f1:I5 a. m. the pastor. Dev. R. c. Judkins. will preach the Christmas sermon. At e:30 ?. fn., the B. Y. P. U will meet, and at night Rev. pr. A. W. McKenny of Mobile will preach.
 GENERAL CHURCH NOTES Four Mormon missionaries have just been banished from Lepsig, as "trou- blesome persons. and therefore undesir- able"
 tt took thlrty-nve years to build up a church of six members in China. but since 1900 there have been. s0.0oo na- lives converted to Christianity. The Central Trades and Labor Union of Rutland. Vt. has admitted as a fraternal delegate . member of the eonference of Baptist ministers of Cen-- tral Vermont. The old parish church of Honey church. Devonshire. England. Is to be
 
 than $l00. and no one can be found to take the place
 A new Anglican hymnai has been provided for use by the Canadians be- cause. owing to climatic conditions, they are unable to sing the high notes of the English hymnal. Laymen of the Baptist churches in Toronto have decided to raise t5O,000 during the coming year for mission work. which means a doubling of all previous subscriptions The Long Run Baptist Mission Board of Kentucky Is seeking to obtain . number of portable churches, 1t being found that for $70o each a number of mission churches could be started. For seventy-one years Rev. Henry Martyr Sherwood. vicar of White La- |dfes in Worcestershire, England. has been in holy orders, and for all but one year of that time has been at his present post.
 Fifty little wooden churches have been built in Northwest Canada by the Colonial and Continental Church So- ciety, which in four years has sent 2bo,e0o persons from England to the vast Northwest.
 The Central South London Free Church Council has in the past twelve years caused the closing of over 800 houses of doubtful reputation, besides doing vast work in other social pur- ity directions.
 A $s0.0o0 chapel. which Is & memo rial to the late John J Harbison. and is given by his daughter. Mrs. Alex fnf| AA nf the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Louisville.
 The Baptist. Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian churches at Norfolk. Va. have united to form a to be supported actively by the vari- ous religious bodies.
 If two missionaries were set aside to every 60.000 heather. the present work ing force of all the churches would touch but 325.0o0.ooo. leaving s75,0oo.- 900 of heather still unreached by any form of Christianity.
 The famous ruins of1f,.,., crn Abbey, Monmouthshire. Englan, f'. being re- stored so far as the four great arch es are concerned, and more excavations are being made around 1t In the hope Vh hhoihS nv" SNaNAoS
 very fruitful source of controversy In religious circles of England just at present concerns the advisabiiity of the clergy Following the hounds'' at the great hunts which are being held all oyer the United Kingdom.
 The workingmen's Club of the Church of the Holy Communion in New York, which. during the past week, observed It's thirty-fourth anniversary. has paid out in that time about t34,- 900 for sick benefits. physicians ser vice and burial expenses
 The Universalist Church at Giouces- ter Mass, has found in an unused portion of the building desk that turns out to be an almost priceless treasure. being no less than the one used by Father Murray. the founder of the faith in the United States.
 From 90 to 95 per cent. of the popu- latlon covered by the South African Railway Mission attends the weekly meetings, che itinerating clergymen travelling from point to point, finding a foreman's house about every fifteen miles where the meetings are held.
 The working class mother, contin- ually kept from church by the neces- sity of preparing the Sunday dinner, seems likely to have the problem solved in one town of Lancashire. England. by the serving of a simple ready-cooked meal from a central kitchen.
 During the three weeks starting Jan uary 26. there is to be a union evan gelistic campaign at Springfield, Mass, that will include a complete religious canvas of the city, every house In it be- ing visited by members of a tactful committee of men and women.
 The ancient crypt beneath St. Peters Church. Shaftesbury England. is used for beer and wine cellar but not with the consent of the church, which Is now trying to buy the lease that has been held by the present owners since the dissolution of the monasteries.
 From the time the Salvation Army was started in England up to October 1, last. 57.663.21s meals were supplied at the cheap food depots. 23,453.251 cheap lodgings were afforded the home less and 244739 applications of tn. un- employed were registered at the labor bureaus
 More than fifty years ago it was de- cided that there should be a now Epis- copal diocese in South Wales, but the necessary $35. 900 for the establishment of a Bishopric has only just been forth coming. and that through the death of A. Doyle, who bequeathed the amount.
 Sneuking of the poverty in which