The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29

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 The Executive Board of the woman's Missionary Union of the East Alabama Presbytery wiiI meet at the home of Mrs. J. A. Kirkpatrick on Friday. April 2, at 4.30 o'clock.
 Mrs. J. A. Kirkpatrick. 7
 President.
 Mrs. J. w.sJenes. Secretary.
 The woman'sa Missionary Union of the East Alabama Presbytery will meet at Alexander City on April Il-15. THE CHURCH ABROAD The average value of the ss,5zs Methodist Eplscapol churches in this country Is $5.423. while the 12.O7g Darsonages average ss.o51.
 The managers of the Methodist Set clement Home at Dallas, Texas, are trying to raise funds with which to build mission church near the home
  sary the Pritlsh and Foreign Bible Society gave q children's party in Lon don and cut cake weighing 1o4 pounds.
 The National Free Church Council of England has just sent Rev. F. E. Meyer, whom 1t regards as its travel ing bishop. to South Africa on mis- sion tour.
 . When General Booth returns to Lon- don early in April from a short preach ing tour -on the Continent, he will make arrangements for . long south African trip
 The Scottish Episcopal Church is a comparatively small one in point of numbers, but 1t has penny newspaper to keep its adberents in touch with the church
 The woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn has in twenty-five years contributed over s40.o00 for its work.
 The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension. in New York. now has $13s.5o0 of the $350.OGo endowment which it is hoped to raise to insure the VI N-@S ~ttNANAN' The First Presbyterian Church was organized at Atlanta in ls52, and in the past fifty-six years. twelve con gregations have been organized from 1t, with total membership of over 4,O00.
 A carved stone has been found in the core of the great buttress at Hex ham Abbey in England that is be- lieved to be the holy water stone ana date back Co the twelfth century
 The woman's Baptist Foreign Ms sionary Association, of Long Island has a Cradle Roll that amounts to something, for the wee mites gave nearly ss4o last year to foreign mis- sions.
 A merger of the Baptists. and the Disciples of Christ has been effected in Manitoba. and early in April there will be a conference at Seattle as to q like conSolidation in this country. Within the 5.O43 square miles that make up the Archdiocese of PhiladeI- phia there are Catholic orphanages that care for about $500 children and 122 pupils.
 The course of work which the Church Army gives evangelists and mission workers at it's Central Train ing Homes in London is free in every detail even board and lodging being given gratis.
 At St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh, has just been unveiled a memorial to the Royal Scets Fusiliers who fell in the Boer war, the flag used to veil the memorial being one that flew at Pretoria. t
 The sale at suction of the Church of Christ ,edifice at Waterloo, N F.. makes the fourth house of worship to be taken for uses other than those first intended, the former Methodist Church now being a bonded warehouse, the Free Methodist Church residence flats. and the Episcopal church, an office building.
 From humble Bohemian lad to the titular bishapric of Germa anicopolis, after a struggla beset with many diff faculties, is the reward of Father Koudelka, at Cleveland, his consecra- tion taking place in the church which he built and in which he had painted many of the statues. being an artist as well as, a beloved priest.
 
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