The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

sachusetts, including some s5,oo0 of- ncers and teachers.
 Women missionaries have been driv- en From Belfast. Ireland.
 Of the teachers in the Massachusetts Sunday Schools. 26.s per cent are men.
 The British Baptist Missionary Soci. tions.
 At 20 centres in Canada. the work or the Laymens Missionary Movement has been organized.
 The Salvation Army has opened travellers inn, exclusively for women, at Zurich. Switzerland.
 The Presbyterian Church of Amer ica has s34 foreign mission stations and 5000 native workers. --
 In 17s4 there was one Baptist in this country to each 94 of population. where now the proportion Is to II.
 The corner stones of ttxee English Lutheran churches were laid in Chi cago on successive Sundays. new re- ~SAN ~0t
 The Church of England is contem- plating the organization of missions of help for. visits to the British colo~ nies in rotation s-' Interdenominationaf conventions of iaymen are to be held in Georgia, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota to consider missionary work.
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 At two farewell meetings in London leave was taken; of 1s0 workers who were being sent to various fields by the Church Missionary Society.
 Plans are already being discussed world by the Lutherans of the tooth anniversary of the reformation.
 American Lutherans are trying to raise ss,O00 before November 30 to purchase the small site on shil over looking Nazareth and establish there mission.
 A One church alone in Atlants gave S5,000 toward the endowment of 3500,- 900 which 1t Is hoped to secure for Em- ory College, Southern Methodist in- stitution.
 
 Church Workers of Toledo has decid- ed to start a4house-to-house canvass of the city November 21 in the inter est of g better municipality.
 The annual healing mission of St Marks Church in New York is now in progress, it being a part of the Emmanuel Movement" started by Dr. Elwood Worcester in Boston.
 
 The Primitive Methodists of. Eng land have voted to raise $200.000 to purchase Hoiborn town hall and turn it into church house as the head quarters of the denomination.
 The Lyceum Theatre in London has been engaged every Sunday for a year by the West London Mission at cost of oyer 912,00O, but 1t Is believed the results will justify the expense.
 over 200 lay preachers. a body pe- culiar to the Methodist Church, ate tended the ffty-first annual gathering from all over the United States.
 The inside of the tower of the par ish church at Clare. England, has been rebuilt but the outside stones which were laid in the fifteenth century were not touched during the operation. Many clergymen of the Church of England hold shares in the great brewing companies of that country but the recently published list does not show a single member of the Non. conformist churches. A formidable task awaits Dr. Cecil Boutfiower. the Bishop of DorkinE, who is one of the English volunteers | for work in Japan. as he must learn the language before he can be really successful. The Pacific Lutheran Synod, which now consists of fourteen pastors, nine teen congregations and 1.400 communi- cants. last year raised 4l6.409 for all purposes, a larger amount proportion ately than any other synod. The parish church at Widford, Hert- 1 fordshire, England, has window that 1
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