Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

For sixty-two years Rev. ]. c. Jones has
been pastor without interruption, of the
Baptist Church at Spalding. England.
The Prussian government has author
lied a great lottery to defray the cost OF
repairing the famous cathedral at CO.
logne.
With his congregation seated In the
churchyard Rev. c. Harrison preached to
them from the tower at Selston Church,
in England.
The Southern Presbyterian Church,
which has jurisdiction from Baltimore to
New Orleans. last year collected and used
about $3JO.OOO in the foreign field.
The use of the Presbyterian mission In
the kongo Free State has been rendered
President Roosevelt through Rev. Motto
Martin when the African hunting trip is
undertaken.
Forty years ago, when the first session
of the Lambeth conference was held,
there were seventy-six bishops of the An
glican Church in attendance, while this
year there are 241.
The new university in Dublin is to be
under Catholic control while the one at
Belfast is to have Presbyterian atmos-
phere.
1t costs upward of 100000 for tri-
ennial change of pastors in the Wesleyan
Church of England, when some 700
preachers. or about one-thrd of the whole
number. take up new charges.
Six former rectors of ST Marys Red
cliffe Church at Bristol England. are now
bishops of the Anglican Church, and all
of them recently returned to the church
TO officiate at one service.
For the next two weeks the general con-
ference for Christian workers will be I'm
session at Mortified. Mass. some OF the
best known churchmen in the country be-
ing on the list of speakers.
or the Pan-Auglican thank Offering
amounting to some S1,1OO,OOO, the F,pis-
copal Church of America gave but little
over $1,000. and of that 5000 was from
the diocese of Minnesota alone.
After an absence of many years at
Rome. Mgr. John Vaughan. brother of
the we'll known Father Bernard Vaughan
is TO return TO London in October to de-
liver four sermons at Westminster Ca
thedral.
4 relic of ST Anthony of Padua, con-
sisting Of small piece of bone from the
skeleton of the saint and inclosed in
circular plaque of silver. has been pre-
scented TO st. Anthony's Church. at Wor-
cester. Mass.
For fourteen years Rev. j. S. Thomas.
an evangelist of the Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society. has been travelling In
chapel car holding meetings from Min
neapolis 10 New Orleans, and has built
thirty churches in that time.
The second cabin dining room on the
liner Carpatha was converted into tenn
porary chapel for the 2O pilgrims of the
Catholic Church who sailed from New
York for Rome the other day. mass being
said each morning.
There are four Episcopalian congrega-
tions in Scotland owing no allegiance TO
the primus of the church. but they divert
a certain amount of funds TO pay such a
bishop as they choose to have exercise
episcopal functions.
Gypsy Smith. one of the most famous OF
revvalists, has returned to this country
To conduct meetings In Baltimore wash
ington. Cleveland. New York, Pttsburg.
ST Louis. Kansas City. Denver, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Toronto.
The Catholic clergy of Bavaria have
been ordered to proceed with the greatest
numbering 1900. which has for its OBJ
ject the suppression or alienation of the
rigors of sacerdotal celibacy
The evangelistic committee named
Gently by the Southern Presbyterian
Church to keep In touch with suitable
missionaries for home and foreign work
has organized with Rev. c. r. Nisbet of
Nashville, Tenn, as president.
One of the great questions being dis
cussed by the Lambeth conference has to
do with a proposed union between the
Episcopalians and Presbyterians in Aus
tralia. matter that has taken en- suffi-
cient form 10 suggest some startling COM
sequences.
Lindisfarne. where the Prince of Wales
recently planted some trees was the seat
of the earliest English Christianity. the
Benedictine priory established there in
1893 being the place from which the mis-
eionaries went forth to convert savage
Northumbria-