The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-05

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 Frosts are not recorded after the occur renee of killing. except in Florida and along the immediate coast of the Gulf of FRANK P. cHAFFEE.
 Section Director. Weather Bureau GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.
 The Christian Literature Society of China has appealed for funds for It's news business premises in Shanghai.
 The Archbishop of Canterbury is in i. such poor, health that he has been forced to go to the South of Italy for long rest
 great Presbyterian revival now in progress in New England will be kept up until March, after which Philadel- phia will be visited.
 The Non-conformists have won de- cided victory for religious equality by infirmary chapel at Newcastle, Eng land. Il
 The Baptist Union of Great Britain has sent a memorial to Emperor Wil- liam in grateful acknowledgment of the protection he has extended ito Baptists in sGermanys
 The fourth annual conference of the Student Volunteer Missionary Union, an international gathering. Is being held at Liverpool. the meeting to last until January 8.
 The centenary of the great evangeli- cal divine, Rev. John Newton, who died in 1907, has been especially observed recently at his own church, St Mary Woolnoth. in London.
 The Methodist Year Book for 1908 shows total membership in the church of s,3os,22l, an increase of sS.- 697 over the previous year and total gain since 1900 of s74.sss.
 The Church of England Waifs and Strays Society, of which King Edward is patron, has in twenty six years been the means of rescuing and making pro- visions for over 13,100 children. 
 Episcopal 1aymen in New York have founded what is to be known as the Church Workers Commons. being a school for the training of lay workers with three set courses of study.
 Benevolent contributions of the Lu- theran Church for the past year were a little over one dollar per member totaling s2,200.471. which is an increase of a quarter-milIion over the previous year.
 Mission work among the Zulus never had a better outlook than now. for the government of Natal is in har- mony with the missionaries and anx- ious to aid them in every possible way.
 The Churchman's Union, an association of moderate churchmen of all shades of opinion, has been formed in the Church of England. to combat certain teaching of the more radical fac ton.
 The German bishops are greatly aroused by the Pope's recent encyclical regarding modernism and feel that in- sufficient study of the matter was giv- en so far as the Kaiser's empire is concerned.
 Rev. Roland Allen, the vicar of Calfont St. Peter In England, has just resigned a living of about $1,S00 year because of scruples against the baptismal and burial services of the Church of England
 The Liverpool Free Church Council is making survey of that city from it's own standpoint with view to learning how well its churches are meeting the modern religious demands of the people.
 Since October 1 the Evangelistic Committee of the Presbyterian Church, fot, JOh n il- adelphia, is chairman, has done work that has brought 1000 converts into the church. l
 The First Presbyterian Church of New York has in ten years increased the ratio of congregational ,expendi- lures to benevolences from IF to IS to 22 to 39, the figures standing for thou sands in both instances.
 After fifteen years of exile, most of which time was spent in work among the lepers of India, MT. and Mrs. E. M. Gordon, missionaries of the Foreign Missionary Society of Cincinnati. have returned to this country.
 Episcopal Sunday Schools in New York city have fewer members now than year ago. but this Is true of several other cities, the total loss for the year having been over 4.0O0, leav- ing the total membership now 437,- 266.
 There are thirty-two rooms in the First Presbyterian Church at Seattle, which has just been opened as one of the great institutional churches in this country. Bethany Presbyterian. of Philadelphia. being it's only peer at present.
 The two Methodist Brotherhoods, the Wesley and St. Paul, are in fair way to unite. a committee having been nam ed by the first organization to secure a merger of the Northern and Southern branches of the mems organizations.
 Tn addition to the cyclists church parade held annually at St. Michaels, Folkestone, England. there has now been added a special service at Ro- chester Cathedral for football players, Canon Pollock, who started the idea. being both a barrister and footballer. as we'll as very eloquent preacher