Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
NOTES OF CHURCH PROGRESS
IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

! the language of instruction. all the for
e!gn-born pupils being taught English as
| soon as possible.
Summer conferences Of the young peo-
pies missionary movement have been
planned so far for Pertle Springs. Mo-:
| Whitby. Canada: Asheville. n. c.. and
SILVER Bay. y. Y.
| An early morning service for sportsmen
| is held at st. Andrews Church In Surrey.
England. to attract those who spend the
day in the open. cyclists. tennis players
golfers and motorists gathering in good
numbers for the services. which will be
continued until the end of July.
The forty members of the Christian En-
deavor Society of Bethlehem ConSrega-
tional Church at Braddock Pa an or
ganization of Slavs. though most of them
can speak English have compiled a hym-
nal in the Bohemian ard Slavic tongues
for use by the Bohemian Conversational
Church.
The secretary of the mems Bible class
at St. Barnahas' Church at Holloway.
England. has notified owners of fierce
! looking bulldogs which they take out to
| to walk Sunday afternoons that their
animals can be cared for by competent
attendants while they listen TO a straight
| talk from the vicar.
! The Womans Foreign Missionary So
! tends to expend about S200.C0o this year.
| an increase of :i3 per cent over last year.
The pastorate of Deer Park Presbyte-
| rian Church at Toronto has been resigned
By Rev. D. c. Hoosack that he may be
| free TO enter politics with tie hope OF
| wiping out the saloon.
One great difference between church
| work In this country and Great Britain 10
| the preponderance of meetings in the lat
| ter country conducted by laynlen, In one
! denomination alone. the Wesleyan. out OF
| $4,000 services nearly 10000 being in
| charge of laymen alone.
The Church of England. crying out
against the opium traffic in India. has
| been warned by the Archbishop of Canter
| bury that If il were prohibited il would
impose an immense burden on India which
Enslishmen would have to bear. but in
the face of this a resolution has been
adopted calling on the government of In
dia to stop the expectation as far as pos
sible.
land as the Staffordshire Sturgeon and is
but nineteen years of age. is one of the
most successful Baptist evangelists OF
that country this being his eighth year OF
Christian work in behalf of others.
The foundation having been laid both IN
| this country and abroad for a Methodist
brotherhood II seems probable that one
will be established in England its object
being to extend a helping hand to d Meth
odist Brother wherever he may be found.
At the end of the college year President
Charles Lincoln White % Colby CoIlec,
at Watervile. Me. will give up his posi-
ton to become associate corresponding
secretary of the American Baptist Home
! Missionary Society. with headquarters in
New York
The little town of krebs. Okla. rich
mining camp, about three miles from Nc
LOG has
churches In the new state
The Catholic Federation of Cleveland is
considering the establishment of a home
founding section To secure homes for the
child inmates of Catholic asylums.
One of the greatest trials of the mis-
sionaries in Persia is to find means for
icounteracting the gross superstitution that
exists there among the common people
The First Presbyterian and Prospect
Street congregational Churches of New
buryport. Mass >will probably unite and
retain the pastors of both congregations.
The annual state conference of Advent
churches Of Massao husetts expects To have
some 100 delegates In attendance at
Brockton the lutter part of this month.
Vicar General Bryan of the Diocese OF
Pa ma ma is at his former home in Garden
City L. l.. to stay until June. when he
will return to the isthmus with his family.
One of the features of the New York
Methodist Episcopal conference was the
twenty-first annual campfire OF the New
York Conference War Veterans Associa-
ton.
There will he more tent work during the
coming summer in New York than last
year. the committee OF loo from eight de-
nominations having resolved To push this
work harder than ever.
An Episcopal mission started al Spring
field. Mass. is not only TO bear the name
of All Saints, but its church building will
be AS nearly AS possible an exact copy OF
Ali Saints in Springfield, Eng.