Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-16
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

The Episcopal bishop of Guilford. Eng
land, has Just celebrated his sixtieth mar
riage anniversary.
Alt religious teaching in elementary
schools has been abolished In Rome Dy
order of the municipal council.
The Sunday lay movement in England
has members in over 1900 towns and VII
lagos throughout the United Kingdom.
Since 1887 no fewer than 600 churches.
costing inward of $25. 900, have been
built within the metropolitan area OF
London.
1t Is probable that no bishop coadjutor
will be named in the immediate future to
help Bishop Greer OF the New York do
cese.
1t has been arranged to locate at Bridge
port Ala, the Baptist College Tor Whlcn
plans have been formed In the south.
A new lay organization. called the Chris
tian Studies Society. has been formed In
the Episcopal Church to delve into church
history and affairs.
The Southern Baptist Church has near
~ LOO workers distributed through the
south Cuba and Panama. one of It's fea-
lures being mountain school Work.
During September of each year about
2OO,UOO visitors are received at the Chapei
of the Virgin at Einsiedeln, II Delne the
finest church in Switzerland.
to the extent of about S25,OOO by the mis-
sonary exhibition which is conducted to
show the scope of its work
In ten London churches on recent
Sunday morning there were 2l3 worship
ers all told. and the rectors OF these ten
churches receive an aggregate salary OF
$4,000 annually.
Tucked away In little Fairhaven. Mass.
are the only churches in this country OF
the CONGREGATION of the Sacred Hearts,
second one being now about half COM
pleted.
Practically all the 800 delegates who
went to observation-disclosures for the meet
ing of the Welsh Congregational Union
were entertained in the homes of work
ingmen.
One of the most unique gifts to the pope
on the occasion of his jubilee will be 100
chalices which are now being made in
London. the idea originating with the
Duke Of Norfolk.
On the hillsides above New York city
there are held on Sunday afternoons out
door services. with preaching simulta-
neously in English, Italian. Hebrew. Ger
man and French.
Three thousand children attending the
13S missions and schools of the Ragged
School Union in London made up the au-
dience at one special service In st. Paul
Cathedral.
church within a church is that at
Covehithe, England, where the present
building is erected in the nave Of the old
structure. the latter being now a most
magnificent pile Of ruins.
There have been so many protests OF
late in England against the sale of eccies-
isastical plate by churches In need OF
money that number OF spienold pieces
have been withdrawn at the last moment
The only Americans in Northern Bull
COunt
have been visiting in this country. are
now ready to return to their posts az
workers for the Methodist Church.
One Of the striking things about the old
church at Creditor, about eight miles
from Exeter, England. Is its library.
which consists Of hundreds OF tones col
lected by a vicar about the time of the
Reformation.
Efforts are again being made to brin0
together the Methodist Episcopal and the
Southern Methodist bodies as the pre-
lminary steps toward a general merging
of all churches that call themselves
MethOdists.
The National Luther League. which has
been meeting in Chicago has about $780,
coo members. distributed through the
young peoples societies Of the Canadian
Icelandic, English. German and Scanda-
navian churches of this country
One of the missionaries recently return.
ed to this country Is Rev. Hiram Bling
ham. who has celebrated the semi-cen.
tennial Of hts landing at the Island OF
Apaiang, in the Micronesian archipelago
and expects to return there, despite his
seventy-seven years of life.
The new tomb for Cardinal Manning In
Westminster Cathedral is to be covered
In with marble, q deep red panel on one
side bearing the inscription with the arms
of the cardinal and OF the see OF west
xninsfer on either side.