Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

The Religious Tract Society is raising
$50 900 to spend during the next ten years
for literature in China.
The United and Wesleyan Methodists Of
England have joined forces to compile
new hymn book
The famous Camden Church at Gambler
well. England, structure designed by
Ruskin. has been reopened.
All the parishes in the San Francisco
diocese will unite in celebrating in Sep
TENDER the silver jubilee of Archbishop
Riordan.
A $4,000 loan has been negotiated by
the Broad Street Presbyterian Church OF
Columbus, Ohio, to meet improvement ex-
penses.
OF all the shrines in Great Britain that
of ST. Winefride is the most popular. the
well having long been the one great place
for pilgrimages.
Missionaries from many lands are to
attend the tent convention on foreign and
city missions during tho week of July Il
in New York city.
Pope Plus always carries a well worn
watch that was given him by his mother
when he was but boy. and he says 1t
has never yet disappointed him.
The Cosmopolitan Church, which utilizes
a theater for it's ordinary church home,
has secured roof garden for a place in
which to hold its summer services.
The Baraca Society. which now has over
300, 600 members all over the world, hopes
to build $4,000 temple in Syracuse,
where its founder, Marshall A. Hudson,
resides.
been so maltreated by the soldiers that
they refuse to accept the kindness of the
missionaries until the men who ill-use
them have been removed.
The Wesleyan and Calvanistic Method
lists in England both decreased in men,
bership in the past year. while the Pres
byterian, Congregational and Primitive
Methodists grew less than GOD altogether.
Arrangements have already been made
with DR.. G. Campbell Morgan of Lon
don to visit New York for ten days dur
ing Lent of next year to assist other
famous preachers in a Bible institute.
Newspapers are the most potent mis-
sionares in this country, according to
Rev. Davis NJ. Helfenstein of the Chris
tian Church, and publicity the greatest
need of the churches of the present day.
A large legal practice has been relin-
quiShed at Toronto by Thomas Urquhart,
former mayor of that city, to give his
time without compensation to the work Of
the laymen's missionary movement.
The Archbishop of York. the author Of
some of the best known hymns of the
EplScODdl SUuICIl, 10 clSuty-iWO years VI
age, and is the oldest in point of service
and conservation of the English diocesan
bishops.
Summer meetings are being held on the
lawn of the old church at West Roxbury,
Mass, the purpose being to raise money
to repair the famous edifice. SO ii may be
used by all denominations alike for Sum
day services.
1t seems to be the belief Of the Ep-
worth leagues of the churches In the
Buffalo district that laymen have failed
to keep up the interest in the work since
the ministers withdrew and turned it all
over to them.
The bunker denomination. which has
reached its bicentennial with nearly all
a desire on the part of the younger MEM
bers for such innovation as organs In
the churches and a staff CT paid minis
tiers.
Another London church. that Of st.
Thomas Charterhouse. Is on the market
and. although $55. 900 has been offered for
it, no sale has been effected. as the prop
erty is valuable, that being why the con-
gregation moved to another part of the
city.
The statistical experts and ONCE force
selected by the Presbyterian department
of immigration to study this great ques-
ton at New York is turning up some ex-
tremeIy interesting matter. but nothing
will be given out until the whole sub.
ject has been handled