The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES

The Church Building Society of Great Britain has exhausted its fund for mission buildings.
 The Church Army of England during its last fiscal year had an income of over $1.100,oo0. of which all but ss3 ,00o was expended.
 The Methodist Book Concern has in twelve years disposed of books worth $25,b5s.000, there being now a surplus In the treasury of s7o0,000. Returns of yearly meetings of rhe various synods of the wesleyan Metho- dist Church in England show serious falling of in membership. The diamond jubilee of the first church built in Chicago. that of St. Mary's Roman Catholic congregation, will be celebrated June 14. new offshoot of the Salvation Army is appearing in several sections of the country. being known as the Newly Or ganized American Salvation Army. When Canon Sir John Key goes from London to Zanzibar, he will be the 457th person sent out by the Univer- sersities Mission since L:vingstone's ap- peal in 1857.
 The National Congress of the Dis cip1es of Christ advocated closer rela- tions with the Baptists, but took no definite action looking to a merging of the two churches.
 The men of the Bible classes in all the Protestant churches in Indiana polls are likely to form strong federation Enra enns a. righteousness.
 The Epworth League and the Sunday Sch ool Association of Canada may send out jointly a chapel car to penetrate sections reached by railroad. but which have no churches.
 Grace Methodist, Church at Dallas Tex. has a band of twelve uniformed boys who are doing a unique work as messengers in bringing to Sunday school careless and indifferent schol- ars.
 For worship. preaching and Sunday school teaching the Nonconformists have organization and accommodation for five -sixths of the population :n Wales. there being ITO places of wor- ship.
 r Of the ss,ooo.ooo population of France. all but 100000 are nominally Catholics, but the attitude of 34.o00, 900 is one of hostility to clericalism aa voiced in the recent separation of church and State.
 The oldest priest in the Passionist Congregation in the United States Is Father John Baudinelli, of St. Mary's Monastery at Dunkirk. N. r.. the gold ofJ ord ttnn haVin q l just been celebrated.
 The Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England have set aside the first $50O.- | 900 toward a $1.250.00O fund, which Is
 to form a reserve for providing pen
 sions for aged and infirm clergymen of the Church of England. The personal support and backing of Mayor Johnson of Cleveland. made 1t possible for the Crawford Road Chris
 tian Church, of that city, to erect It's
 new building. the Mayor indorsins all
 the church obligations.
 The Quebec Legislature has refused l to allow the city of Three Rivers to
 take land belonging to one of the
 cemeteries, an act that will prevent
 the removal of the bones of St. Didace
 now lying under the Episcopal Church.
 A Nuremburg Bible. printed in 14s6
 containing 109 highly colored wood
 cuts has been presented to the library
 of the University of the South at Se- vance. Tenn, the value of the two volumes being set at about $lO'Ooo. A new sort of missionary work was undertaken at Savannah by Captain J.
 P. Savers. of the Salvation Army, who
 dressed as a tramp and attracted large
 crowds for his street meetings, some 1 of the work being most effective. There is a popular belief that wed dings during May in the little church of Absam near Innsbruck, Austria, as- sure unclouded happiness through lie, and scores are getting ready now to
 go to the old odd little place for the coming month.
 A forward movement started in South Wales seventeen years ago by the late pr. John Pugh. with view to reach ing the non-religious element. now has forty eight centres with average con gregations of 22.000. the buildings