Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19
NOTES OF CHURCH PROGRESS
IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

Bedford. the centennial of the founding
of the present church society, and the
SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the building of
the present church.
Bishop A. Christian Bang, primate Of
| the Norwegian Church, has been in this
country for a short time. his mission be-
ing to present to Fargo. N. D.. bronze
statue of Heinrich Vergeland. the national
poet of Norway, the gift of Norway to
its people here.
The Catholic Church at Oxford, Eng
land, has just come into possession of the
magnificent collection of church relics
gathered by Hartwell de la Garde Grissell.
collection that Is unsurpassed either in
England or America.
One of the most interesting persons at
the annual meeting of the American Uni
tartan Association at Boston this year
was Mrs j. W. Andrews. president of the
National Alliance of Unitarian and Other
Liberal Women. now almost ninety years
of age, but able to deliver. as she did. Q
twenty minute vigorous address.
Two mfssioners of the Primitive Metho-
dist Church appeared in London in 1872
to work a field where now there are forty
four circuits and missions with more than
100 churches and 10000 members.
Business depression has seriously affect
ed the tent work which was to be done
this summer in New York $4,000 being
required to maintain it. and only a small
portion of the amount being In hand.
:. In one county of Wales the Noncon-
formist churches provide chapels. school,
rooms and preaching stations with seat
ing accommodation II, 769 in excess of the
actual number of communicates and ad-
herents.
There are about 1000 churches in the
missionary territory over which Rev c.
A. Woody acts as supe: ntendent. he
being an agent of the Baptists in Mon
tana. Idaho; Washington, California, Ore
gon and Nevada.
The Mormon Church is internally agi-
tated at the present time trying to de-
eide whether Joseph Smith, jr or Young
Joseph, as he Is commonly designated, or
Brigham Young is the legal successor to
the presidency of the church.
St Joseph's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of London, founded by the late Car
dinal Vaughan. has been definitely recog-
nized by the holy see at Rome and is do
ing splendid work T., India, Uganda ia
pan and the Philippines
Dr. Robert Laws. the first missionary
appointed moderator of the United Free
Church of Scotland. went to Africa when
he was twenty-four years old and there
trained himself for the work in which he
has been eminently successful.
One of the features of the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the Central Christian
Church at Indianapolis was an address by
DIR. P. H. Jameson, who was nine years
old when the church was founded. and
has always belonged to the congregation.
The canonry and chancellorship of Ban
gor Cathedral, In England, has gone to
Rev. Owen Lloyd Williams, who was al
ways the captain of the lifeboat in the
seaside parish where he had been sta
| toned, and has scores of rescues to his
| credit
The inner curtains of The tabernacle
| which was recently built in the chapel of
| the Blessed Sacrament of the Catholic
| Cathedral at Westminster. England. is
hung on fourteen we tding rings bequeath-
( ed to the church by as many persons, the
| name of the donor being inscribed on
| each.
| The parish church Of Melrose England,
| which has recently been destroyed by
| fire. was a church built within a church.
it having been erected within the ruins of
| the ancient abbey, fact which greatly
angered Southey when he was visiting
Sir Walter Scott in 1906.
| Consolidation and suspension have
brought the Episcopal Church regular
publications in the United states down to
three in number. one each in New York.
Milwaukee and Richmond, the famous
Church Standard OF Philadelphia being
the last to leave the field.
| One of the most interesting things about
| the little old town of Pudsey in York
shire. England, is its Moravan popula-
| ton. 1t having been one of the earliest of
the settlements in England of these peo-
the founders of this particular colony
sionist Order now at work In this coun-
try.