The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-06

to raise s75.ooo to complete the Eng fish Church at Khartoum on which some sso.ooo has already been spent
 In as years the number of teholosi- cal students in the United States has increased bpt q per cent. the last report showing about 74oo students.
 The West London Wesleyan Mission has engaged the Lyceum Theatre for Sunday services. the cost of the in- novation being about $io.ooo a year.
 Only IS of the original members of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Buffalo. which has just been celebrating It's hftieth anniversary, are now living.
 The Methodlsts, BaptIsts and Pres byterians will each have hotels of their own when contemplated Improvements at Winono Lake, Ind. are carried out.
 Teachers In the Free Metho Sem mary at Spring Arbor. Mich. are work ing for half pay because the denomin- ation Is at present unable to give them more.
 Until he started for a IS weeks trip around the World, Rev. George c. Adams. Congregational minister at San Francisco. had not missed preach Ing single Sunday in 33 years.
 Bishop Tucker. coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Southern vlr- ginia. Is to see his son ordained to the ministry at St. Pauls Church, Norfolk, where the father was for 25 years the rector.
 The grand. old Temple Church in London Is being renovated again, some- IA two or three years In the last three centuries. the recent changes inciud- Ing new altar.
 cardiai Coullie of Lyons has inter- dicted the use of the bicycle among the French cledgy on the ground that 1t is not in keeping with their sacred omce. a view which the present Pope also holds.
 The Episcopal Church of St Law renee Jewry in London Is over 1000 years old, there having been St Law renee Church on the site when William the Conjueror reached England and possibly ventury or two before that It has been consistently reported that the Palatine Guard of Honor at the Vatican at Rome is to be disband- ed but 1t Is not confirmed though it Is known that there has been discord through protests over promotions.
 The two synods of the Lutheran Church in Virginia may be united to facilities the administration work. the virginia synod having 64 congregations with 6200 communionants while the Southwes Virginia Synod has nearly as many.
 At the Dominican monastery of Van loo In Holland, Prince Charles Henry of Lowenstein-Werthei elmer Rosenberg. head of one of the two most illustrious princely families of Germany. has taken the vows of the Order and will be known as Brother Raymond. The Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland now has about l50 members and will. push their work with the hope that two years hence a Sansah or chapter of monks may be established which will then come to England from India to open monast- cry.
 It has generally been reckoned that the cost of church could not be much below $50 to $60 a sitting but the cost of the new Church of St. Paul. Man. chester. England, holding 500 persons was erected at only a little over $40 sitting and the one to follow in the same city will probably not rist above sS5.
 Despite the present condition of the ] Episcopal Church in Ireland, it being unable to meet its exposes without the aid of the London fund, the. Liberation Societylfis actively urging the separa- ton of the Church in Wales on even more drastic terms than those em- bodied in the Irish Church Act of 1889