Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

The first sunday ScnOOl IN " dies "os
started at Llanidloes In ITO
The Episcopal Church Laymen's Union
is planning a mission training schcol d
Pittsburg.
The fund for the building of the Liver
pool Cathedral now amounts 10 over
81. 100000.
The Record published in London and
founded in 1928 is the Oldest church news
paper now issued.
The Old South Church in Boston has
been engaged for four Sundays this sum
mer for religious meetings
On Easter Sunday there were 2.1OS9G'
communicates in the Church OF England,
or 81 per 1000 of population.
The proof of the perfect discipline OF
the Salvation Army In England was
shown when 1,2O ofncers ciidHseo s'o
tions without hitch.
great meeting of protest caused
Rishon Van de Nyver to withdraw from
the Vatican his resignation as Bishop OF
Richmond, and he will remain with MS
diocese.
The American Tract Society in its
eighty-three years of existence mas Is
sued aNOS separate publications OUTSIDE
of the periodicals, the latter dsslesa'Aiis
a7S. Ss6. stis copies
The synod of the Presbyterian Church
of England was able this year 10 report
a membership increase of but IL. while
the attendance in the Sunday sc -ools fell
off over GOO.
OF the $3.50. S74 communicates in this
country. the Methodist Episcopal Church,
which has been holding its sessions IN
Baltimore, claims 3o5b,oV,
The colonial committee of the United
Free Church of Scotland will send agents
| onrfS nf Africa
Canada and Australia to look after imml-
grants from Great Britain.
4 church pageant that shall depict most
of the interesting occurrences in the his
tory of the Church of England is being
arranged for July of next year at Brlgh-
ton and will be huge affair
The summer school of ethics under the
auspices OF the American Ethical Union
will be held this year at Madison. Wis.
instead of at Plymouth. Mass, as has
been the case for several years.
The Wesley Memorial enterprises at
Atlanta. for which more than S2no3o
has been raised, will include not only a
new church. but the present hospital VIII
be enlarged and a dormito-y -ult.
The Church Of ST Sophia in CONSTANT
nople one Of the most gorgeous III the
world. cost an equivalent of S3otVOUD
to build. ii having been started in the
The Swedish Lutheran Church from
which the remains of Swede nborg were
recently removed is to be offered for sale
June L. the probability being that d COM
mercial building will be erected on the
site.
The Bishop of Astrakhan has asked the
Holy Synod to sanction the institution of
floating churches to meet the spiritual
wants of the fishermen working in the
Caspian sea and DIT the mouth of the
NolSa river.
The actual desk prayerbook used in the
Church Of England before the abolition of
such books by parliament during the
commonwealth. a volume dated 1855, has
been presented To the Church of St. Ed
mund-the- king in London.
Archbishop Bournee of Westminster
Cathedral in England. who is shortly 10
be made d cardinal, is quite Young
man, for he was but forty-seyen last
March, but as far back as 1893 he was
made a member of the pCpe's household
Should the Methodist Protestants finally
decide to unite with the Methodist Epis-
copal Church ii would add about 1903,
members to the latter denomination in
Guiding some of the abest preachers and
theologians In this country.
One of the features of the convention of
the United Presbyterian Church at Pitts
burg was the display of Loo yards of
colored RIBBON covered with dimes
amounting to over $1,000, and collected
for work among the mountaineers of the
south.
The prosecuting operations of the .lor-
mons. Latter Day Saints. have been
so successful in London that TIE sect has
outgrown its quarters and purchased a
hotel in the Tottenham district. which
will be adapted to the needs of the or
ganiZation.
In urging the German Lutherans u
adopt English for their church services
it has been pointed out To them that the
Catholic parochial schools make English