The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02

tittoners state that they are guided solely by care for the health and souls or the future Catholic religion in France"
 Both of Kipling's grandfathers were Wesleyan Methodist preachers. fesFsa
 The Northern Baptist Convention agreed to raise s100,000 for the estab-
 lishment of Q theological seminary in | Russia.
 The Presbyterians throughout the world are preparing to celebrate the
 iooth anniversary of the birth of John | Calvin.
 The Southern Methodist Church Ex- | tension Board asks for q special fund | of s50,000 to build new churches in | Oklahoma, on condition that the resi- | dents there shall raise a similar
 amount
 | Rev. George E. Eckman. before the Methodist Social Union of New York;. I said that the Gospel should hereafter be dramatized. as we are now in the | day of action. not of preaching. | In The Independent a minister who | signs himself "The Cadte," severely | arraigns church laymen for requiring | the minister to meet s5 conditions with $1 pay" t"These hireling wages are | raised and paid under conditions that l are not only humiliating to an intel | ligent man of great purpose and high spirit. but positively degrading and ab-
 solutely fatal to the best that is in him. It has been estimated that s.7oo young men are needed annually to fill the vacancies in church rulpits In the | United States caused by death or re- | tirement Rev. Thornton B. Penfield | says in The New York Observer that this number is barely exceeded by the | total number of students now In all | the Protestant seminaries of North | America. There are many heresy cases in the | Protestant Church in Germany, the req son therefor being that "the theologi-
 ral professors are permitted to be het-
 erodox and are not molested. but ther students are not permitted to teacn these heterodoxies in the pulpits. The only cure for the evil is to appoint men to the univefsity chairs who are in
 harmony with the faith of the church at large"
 In the Methodist Review Dr. Charles
 E. Jefferson considers that class of
 
 branch out into other fields in addition to the pulpit. "Every man In the community except the preacher Is bound with hoops of steel to the task which Heaven has assigned him. but
 the preacher can leave, his work and
 fit like bee from field to field. gath
 erfng nectar from thousand flowers, and he himself may think he is making
 honey, when in fact he Is only buzz ing"
 Mir. George Dumas In The Revue des
 deux Mondes. Paris. suggests a scien-
 tiffc explanation of the stigmata or
 marks of the Lord Jesus" which ap- neared on the body of St Francis and other Christian mystics. They are ac-
 counted for on "neuronatholoeicaI"
 nrinoipies, "the effect of the mind on
 the body. and are paralleled Inv certain cases of hysteria and neurosis amnlv recorded In medical literature. "The
 stigmata are the result of fixed idea of the mind when concentrated on the
 vision of the crucifxinn of Christ un-
 der intense emotion"
 English Christians gre concerned over a notable decline In the. matter
 If Sunday observance and family wor- shfn. They say the cause Is in %'the
 nopu1ar weekend excursions offered
 hv the railroads." Tn many rural sec
 tiors the automohile is chsre>~d with
 seriously interfering with public wor- ship" t E % Church athletic associations hove so
 multiniied in Fnp1and that rAlieious
 journals propose their curtaiInAnt Tn
 America church athletics are inst be-
 "inning on a large scale, and eminent
 pastors are urging their organization.
 Mr. James Bryce. the new English
 Ambassador of Great Britain to the United States. Is a member of the Pres byterian Church.
 General William Booth. founder or The Salvation Arr,v. has been given an audience by the Mikado of Jaran, and has been photograuhed side by side with Marshal Oyama