Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. is trying
to establish Spanish institutional
church in the Spanish quarter OF that
city.
The Gideons. a Christian organization
of travelling men, has raised over 500 to
place Bibles In all the hotels of the
United States.
The summer evangelistic work in New
York Is now at its height, daily meetings
being held in nine tents and at seven
open-ai centers.
The Sunday School Union reports show
1895. 5s3 pupils in the Sunday schools of
the United Kingdom. with 1O7,3l2 teach
ers and AZ. 401 schools.
Plans are now being made for a series
of Observation-Disclosures home mission raj
lies in all the large American cities dur
ing the coming winter
Dr. Broughton of the Baptist Taber-
nacle at Atlanta while abroad will Sc
cure speakers for the great nineteen day
Bible conference in his city next March.
OF the fund of IS. $50. 900 raised by the
Wesleyan Methodists of Great Britain less
than 81, 600 was lost through failure of
promises by death or misfortune.
The Anglican episcopate at present is
composed of 332 bishops. OF whom !04
are in this country, log in the British
colonies and the rest in Great Britain
and Ireland.
For the first time in many years no
outsiders were allowed this year at the
retreat Of the eighty-three Dominican
nuns of Tennessee at the mother house
at Nashville.
The Moravian Church in England is
generally classed with the NonconformiSts,
but the Episcopalians are now making an
effort to effect a merger of the two
faiths.
Tha UasIavan conference of England
has already named a committee to con-
slider the details of the an-Methodist
conference to be held in the United states
in 1911.
III health has caused Rev. F. r. Elliot
for nineteen years chaplain OF the Enghsh
Church at Athens. to resign, greatly 10
the regret of the Greek princes whom ne
tutored in English.
After four wears Of practical inaction
york has been resumed with a rush on
the Catholic cathedral at Torreon, Mexico,
a little. old adobe church now standing
inside the new building.
Indians at the Fort Totten mission have
set up and printed 1000 PRAYER DOCKS IN
the sioux tongue for distribution at Pine
Ridge Rosebud, Cheyenne. Stephen and
Standing Rock agencies.
Lord Denbigh, who has been named as
the English representative of the order OF
the Holy Sepulchre, becomes the recipient
of an honor not often accorded even 10 SO
distinguished a Catholic peer.
The Chamorro language, which Is
spoken by four-f1fths OF the RESIDENTS OF
Cham had never been put In written
form until the American Bible Society
Translated a considerable portion OF the
scriptures.
The foreign mission board OF the Ma
tional Baptist convention OF America Is
building a six-thOusand-dollar church al
Cape Town, while the colored women
have undertaken to erect "A shelter for
the missionaries.
The Punket Testament League that
now numbers over l,OO0,000 members re-
Gently enrolled fifty-seven stewards on one
of the big Atlantic liners as the result OF
c. M. Alexander. the evangelist, being on
board
After teaching some years at Boston
College. Rev. A. A. Dinaud. 5. J.. is 10 re-
sumo his Indian work, this time exclus-
iyely among the Croix tribes located near
the battlefield where Custer made his last
stand.
At least 900 years Of history are sup
posed to be back OF the Church or 81
Nicholas at Plumstead. England, ana
twice it has been raised out OF IT'S runs
another restoration having just been &C
complished.
The Baptist assembly of Georgia will
decide about September ] as to site
for it's proposed summer camp. the choice
lying between Gainesville and Blue Ridge.
either of which is admirably suited for
the purpose.
The official languages of the Baptist
congress at Berlin the last week of this
month will be English and German. and
papers read in either tongue will be sup
piled in translated form so that all may
follow them.
So far as known, the only person who
has attended all the annual sessions of the
conferences at East Mortified. Mass. in
the last twenty-eight years Is George &.
Stebbins, who led the music at the first
meetings and is still doing 1t.
The Maine Seacoast Missionary Society
has 3, 169 members in its fifty-two parishes,
who are visited once each month by lit
tie missionary vessel, the Morning Star.
that goes along the coast 100 miles each
way for Mount Desert Island.
A good deal of the success of the Pan
Anglican congress Is said to have been
due to the early publication Of the pro-
gram and other large conferences in En-
gland are profiting by the experience. not
ably the church congress to be held at
Manchester, England, October s to 8.
There have been many notable pilgrim
ages from England to famous shrines,
Bruges and Lourdes. but the greatest of
all this year will be that to Rome in Oc-
tober when three parties start together.
The religion Of the Asaiantis is of a very
low order, but they are not idolatrous. ac-
cording to very recent reports. foy they
merely venerate certain inanimate objects
and do not worship them. which makes
the work of the missionaries doubly hard.
The passionate of the Universalist Church
at Livermore Falls. Me-, has been given
up by Rev. J. NJ. Paige that he may es-