The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23

late Rev. Charles Doria, pastor of St. Anthony's. Youngstown. and who usurped the pastorate after the priests death.
 It Is said that while one-sixth of Protestant Church members in the Uni ted States belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, one-fourth of the Sunday Schoo, membership of America Is In that church. the total enrolment of teachers, officers and pupils being S.290.9o5.
 Dr. Meyer, after a long motoring tour among the English churches, said :: The same general features character ize Baptists There Is everywhere the same tenacious loyalty to the old the ology. the same warmth of brotherly sympathy"
 It Is said that in the entire State of New Jersey, with a population of D. 100000, there is only one congregation of the Christian or Disciples Church. This Is small body at East Orange.
 The Cumberland Presbyterian says concerning church union: Tn union there must be mutual concessions, and the word mutual does not mean that all of the concessions must be on one side"
 The Baptist Church is making prog- ress in Sweden. In that Kingdom 1t now has an enrolment of 46,000 mem bers and 56.o0O Sunday School scholars
 The Roman Catholic pressmen of Belgium have collected and forwarded to the Vatican their contribution of Peters Pence amounting to 135,000 francs.
 The Methodist Episcopal, the Method ist Episcopal, South and the Canadian Methodist Churches have united In Ja- pan under the name of the United Methodist Church of Japan. Rev. Yoitsu Honda, D. D., has been elected the first bishop. Bishop Honda Is of the ancient Samurai class, has travelled much in. foreign lands. has been infu- ential in statecraft, and is President of the Anglo-Japanese College, Tokio
 Rev. c. M. Sheldon. author of Tn His Steps" and other widely selling books, is visiting in London, making many temperance addresses.
 Bishop Burgess of Long Island, speaking on ministerial lapses, says that the worldliness of the congrega- tion will affect the pastors spirituality, and lays down the rule. ''as the church Is, so Is the pastor"
 In answer to the question, Should the clergy continue to preach the sim pie gospel?" President Eliot of Har- yard answers. Ministers should preach not a new but the simplest faith" and John Mitchell, head of the United Mine Workers of America, says: Tell the preachers to get closer to the working people, know what they are thinking about love them, help them, attend their meetings. advise with them They respect you and want your help You can help them if you will"
 The Conference of the Worlds Stu dent Christian Federation which met in Tokio in May, produced a profound i'm pression on Japan. Marquis Ito de- clared the meeting to be "one of the most memorable events in the history of Japan" and accompanied his letter with gift of 5000.
 MT. William T. Ellis, the newspaper man travelling in heathen lands to study missionary operations at first hand, says Summing 1t all up, I am bound to say that the missionaries are a whole grade higher than even the ministry at home, the missionaries are credttable representatives of the best life of the Christian nations, and their efforts are bearing fruit which Justify the cost"
 German orthodoxy is strenuously op- posing the aggressive liberalism of many ministers in the Lutheran Church. pr. A. Stocker, the famous ex-court chaplain, says, Having broken with all the fundamental teachings of the church, the liberals should leave in peace and organize churches of their own. in which they can profess and teach what they preach"
 The Socialists in some quarters have established sort of Sunday School in which hymns are sung and lessons taught that refer to nothing but the blessings and liberties of the present life. Mir. Robert Blatchford, the az hostile editor of The Clarion, London, offers himself as a true yoke fellow of Rev. R. J. Campbell in his new the ology" He says: MT. Campbell is a Christian minister, and I am an infidel editor; and the difference between his religion and mine is too small to argue doOul' Illo HcW tHeOlOBy IS lnOmaS Paine in white tie-the Ingersoll fist mufhed in boxing glove"
 The services at the Clayton Street Baptist Church Sunday will be conduct ed by the pastor. Rev J. W. O'Hara. The morning subject will be True Worshippers" and that for the evening will be "The Sinless Son." All are in- vited to attend these services and wor- ship with us.
 The Sunbeams of the Clayton Street Baptist Church. Miss Meddie McDon aid. President, will have their regular meeting at the church on Saturday af ternoon as usual.
 Rev. S. A. Cowan of Atlanta, who has been called to the Southside Bap- tist pulpit will speak to q union meet ing of the B. Y. P. L. societies of the southside and Highland Avenue Churches.
 The Membership Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association will meet at the Association rooms Monday at 10 o'clock
 Mrs. c H. Thomas,
 Chairman.
 Rev John Bass Shelton will preach on Unanswered Prayer" at the morn ing service and will continue his dis cussion of Traps of He'll at the even ing service.