Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09
NOTES OF CHURCH PROGRESS
in ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

tablish an everyday church for work
among the unchurched and TO carry out
TO some extent the ideas OF the Emnan-
uel movement OF DIR. McComb.
Two notable changes i'm the religious
neld recently made are those of Rev Jo-
seph l.. Peacock at Westerly. r. l.. Civ
ing up the ministry for library worR
while at Savannah w. II. Stubs has de-
termined TO give up his law practice To
become the secretary OF the Laymen's
Missionary Movement OF the Southern
Methodist Church
The first American decorated with tho
order Of the Rising Sun by the EMPEROR
or Japan was Rev. III. b. Johnson the
superintendent of oriental missions for
the Methodist Church.
In the last twenty-three wears members
OF the Episcopal Church i'm England have
given about S165O00.O00 toward church
building, but the contributions are fall
Ing on from the average this year.
During the recent visit of Winston
Churchill of England to Uganda he
opened the Mengo High School for sons
Of the chiefs, one of the institutions of
The Church Missionary Society.
A striking development in the attempt
OF the churches to reach the masses In
being organized at Whitfield's Central
Mission In London. where two plays
are being rehearsed.
The mission yacht Southern Cross in
Its recent five months trip made 1856 calls
at mission stations in the Melanesian
diocese. finding the women workers i'm the
Solomon and New Hebrides Islands doing
particularly well.
The cope, portrait and pulpit OF the
famous John Wycliffe are still preserved
In the parish church at Lutterworth.
where he preached and died but was not
buried. his ashes being cast into the
neighboring river Swift.
The fund which the ecclesiastical COM
missioners Of Great Britain may distribute
now yields annually about s2OOO.O0O. and
this amount goes to support clergymen
whose parishes are unable to afford them
q living salary.
One of the principal aids to Gen. Booth
on his motor tour which he is now maxi
ing through England. is a former noto-
rious jailbird, who has a record of Id
convictions, but who is now leading q
straight life.
cieties OF the Presbyterian Church Miss
Marie Brehms says that % per cent OF
the members refuse to sign the full abb
stinence pledge, and that most of the nom
signers are women.
An early bill to be taken before the
British parliament Will be one for the
appointment of comm issioners to visit any
church which has been the subject OF
complaint before the royal commission on
ecclesiastical discipline.
The bishop of London has travelled thou
sands of miles by motor in the last few
months and never missed an appointment,
as a result OF which he has given up all
his horses.
Ten years ago Rev. c. III. Fordsham left
a small parish in England to go TO Aus
tralia, and he now comes back for the
PanAnglican congress as bishop OF North
Queensland.
The province of which Cleveland is the
chief city. and which embraces five states.
is considered the greatest center OF Catho-
licity in the United States outside of New
York and Chicago.
At the present rate II is confidently felt
that Korea will be the first evanselized
Christian nation, as twenty years aga
there were not a dozen Christians In that
where now there are over o.
900.
The First Friends Church ofI.os Ange-
les has decided to admit to full member
ship any man, woman or child who is al
adherent of the church. and they wiz
have a part in the conouct OF
affairs.
The Albanans of Manchester. n. h.
have just formed a church of their own
and instead of affiliating with the Church
of Rome, as they generally do, have
placed themselves under tie care OF
Archbishop Platon Of the Holy Orthodox
Church in this country. Ivy
Enthusiastically the most distinguished
member of the Lambeth conference.
which followed the Pan-Anglican con-
gress. is the aged Archbishop of Ar
magh. Ireland who has been in Episcopal
orders for forty years having been con-
secrated to the See OF Derry in 1867.
One of the startling statements before
hsa .tona1 council the
gational Church AT Edinburgh was that
by DR.. Brown OF California that he had
seen more drunkenness in one day I'm
than he had for whole month
in wicked San Francisco.
One of the most interesting visitors to
the International council of Congrega-
tional Churches was Rev. j. w. Jones. a
Welshman. who is now chairman OF the
Union of Victoria, Aus
tralia, and who before entering the min
iStry was a Quarryman .ae famous
Penrhyn quarries.
The various committees Of the Lambeth
conference the great decennial gathering
of the Episcopal Church. are now i'm ses-
sion formulating the reports which will
be made to the conference as a whole
from July ~ 10 August >.
The membership of the Congregational
churches In Jamaica and British Guiana
is almost wholly negro. and IL has been
found that a mistake has been made in
giving these rather inperfectly developed
Christian church autonomy.
South Church in New York. which il
just giving up a downtown location on
" hich a 500 600 mortgage has been placed
to provide money for the new building. il
one OF the oldest ecclesiastical bodies its
legal title being THE Ministers. Elders
and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church. in Garden street. In tina
City of New York"