The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

The additional diplomatic prepara. tions Japan has completed will be taken up in Paper VI.
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 THE WORLDS CHURCHES Four cities in Oklahoma have made
 bids for the State Baptist University. Recent figures place the number of | Protestant communicants in the United States at 32,2s3.s5s.
 | The Church Missionary Society's l workers in Persia have in six years gained i19 converts from Mohamma- 1 danism.
 l In Japan there is one Sunday sch ooi | pupil for ever 720 inhabitants, but in
 Korea the proportion is one to every l 270.
 I The German Baptist Brethren of
 Iowa. or Dunkards. as they are more 1 commonly known, have opened a home
 for the aged near MarshaIltown. | H
 Moving pictures and songs. with | social science class" is a part of the l Sunday services of the Theodore Par. | ker Memorial Church at Boston. l l Elected six weeks ago as Episcopal Bishop of Eastern oregon. Rev. Robert I Louis Paddock of New York, has de- cided to accept the position. 1 The Methodist Episcopal ministers at | Boston are to send delegates to the | Central Labor Union who shall have | voice in the proceedings, but no vote. vf<A~ rs-s | has three vessels engaged in It's work, ] Teton motor launch, to be called the | Morning Star. having just been added | to the fleet.
 large number or Mormon mission | aries have just invaded Europe, seven- teen of them going to Germany despite the recent edicts against them. and two
 have started for South Africa. The woman's Mission Workers of the Texas Baptist Church raised $54,000 during the year, but require 25 per cent more than that to carry out their plans
 for the coming year.
 The Princess of Wales has sent to the Church Army of England an order for a large number ot shirts, to be made by the wives of prisoners who | 0AO ob0SA ehO ~GAV VA SAtS 5S~ASNSe 
 The articles of incorporation of the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions have been changed to show that the Missionary Board is subordi-
 nate in every way to the Five Years Meeting. The residents of the Ladies' Church House have been conducting a very
 successful mission among the women
 mill workers of the Hulme district of
 London. addresses being made at the
 noon hour at the factory gate.
 ! Tine congregations connected with
 the Anglican communion in Japan,
 known as the Nippon Sei-o-Kwai, or
 Church of Japan, now have sixty-four Japanese clergymen, 2sS lay agents and
 13,012 church members. of whom 6,SS9
 are communicants.
 The Society for Promoting Christian
 Knowledge has found such a tremen-
 dous field in Northwest Canada that 1t
 Is having the works prepared in the
 Ojibway, VChipewyan. Cree, Esquimaux
 and Tukudh tongues. which will later
 be superseded by books in English.
 The nine largest Presbyterian Sum
 day schools are located in Philadelphia,
 Minneapolis. New York, Chicago. Ro-
 chester. Plainfeld, Buffalo. Harrisburg
 and Seattle. all having over 1,600 mem-
 bers. the first named having nearly
 $500 and the next two over 2,O00 each.
 Thousands of Kanakas who have been laboring on the sugar plantations of Queensland have been forced by recent legislation to leave Australia and return to their homes in the Poly- nesian Archipelago, which will great 1 ly increase the work of the Melanesian l Mission. An effort is being made to settle the l differences between the two Baptist l Unions of Hungary. The trouble Is | not theological. but in connection with | the State, one side having made some | approaches toward recognition by the State. which the other side regards as | a fundamental departure from Baptist | principles.
 Toward the $441.1S2 which is the l portion of the total fund of $661.4S | that churches and individuals must | raise this year to carry on the work Of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society. New York must furnish s9s. .1S5; Massachusetts, $4S.S64; Penn sylvania, $S6.73O~ Illinois, s20.S27; Ohio. | $17.550. and other states lesser amounts
 The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. of New York. has started series of Sunday afternoon meetings to be devoted particularly to the presentation of Christian truth, high church authorities having been secured to deliver lectures in this line. headed by Professor Hugh Black. who is to answer Great Questions of Life" for twelve Sundays.
 The Greek Orthodox church and the Church of England have formed an international society, to tN known as the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union, of which the Bishop of Gibraltar is president. with the Archbishops of Riga. Russia. and Nicholas. Japan, and the Bishop of Kissamos. Crete. and Fon-du-Lac Canada. as patrons.
 BARBARIsM OF POLICE.