The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-23

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 GENERAL CHURCH NOTES. | -
 Of the ss7 recorded ministers of the Society of Friends in Great Britain,
 153 are women.
 Over s12.ooo.000 was given by the Church of England last year for phii- 1 anthropic work.
 | No fewer than fifty-two memorial l stones were laid at the foundation of a new Primitive Methodist Church at scunthorpe, England.
 The most recent church census of l this country shows forty denomina- | tions with 1s1,73i ministers, 210,199 churches and 52.9S3.I5e members. Over s2,000 natives are employed by the missionary societies of this coun- try and Europe in spreading the Cos pei among their fellows. Tn the last ten years over $20.O00,000 \ has been spent by the Wesleyan l Methodist Church of England on churches and halls for religious work Biblical students have hunted in every possible quarter for the origin | of the custom of carrying candles in | the Candlemas procession without find | Ing any record of it. s New York and New Jersey together contained about iB 900 Catholics q cen- tury ago, where now the New York | diocese alone has over 1,3o0,00O mem- bers with 1SO churches.
 
 While the Catholic Church member ship in this country reaches f1,371,s7O and the Methodist only s.OSS,66l, there | are more preachers of the latter de- nomination than of the Church of Rome.
 No clergyman of the Church of Eng land having a parish of 1000 persons is hereafter to receive less than 9l,000 year, while parishes of 800 and up to 1000 are to pay not less than $75O. From the public funds of England, 3S2 annually Is spent upon each child in a Council school, while only half that amount goes from the public purse to the education of children in the Catholic schools.
 The Utah Gospel Mission, which is supported from Cleveland, has three wagons in Central Utah, working among the Mormons. one wagon travelling 800 miles, a second 1,050 and the third 1,sO0 inside os a year.
 The sum of S15o,00O was left to Henry Baxendale in England by his father if he would return to the Plymouth Brethren, but as he had allied himself with fraternity vowed to the simple life, he refused to accept the bequest.
 
 s. tral Africa, himself a Christian, has written to one of the missionary soci- cities of the baptism of his father, Kab- arega, who was notorious in Gordon Pasha's day as the sIave-raiding King of Bunyoro.
 The street railway company at Co., lumbus, Ind, to show it's interest in the great revival being held there. gives half fare to those attending the ser vices, a return check being given out on leaving the church, which is accept ed as fare.
 F. L. Marston. who is known in England as the Stamordshire Sturgeon, and is but 1s years of age. is one of the most successful Baptist evangellsts of that country, this being his eighth year of Christian work in behalf of others.
 The foundations having been laid both in this country and abroad for a Methodist Brotherhood, it seems prob | able that one will be established in | England, it's object being to extend a | helping hand to a Methodist brother | wherever he may be found.
 The Madison Avenue Reformed Church in New York early in March | will start a new plan of work designed | to attract those who do not ordinarily | attend religious services and for this | purpose will use theatre for the even- ing services instead of the church.
 A large delegation from various sec | tions of the Church of England called | upon Sir Campbell Zimmerman, the | Prime Minister, to demand simple Bi- ble teaching in the schools as the best | solution of the educational dificulty, | but received no promises as to the Gov ernment's intentions.
 The Presbyterians will start March 15 a one-day publicity campaign ex- tending through at least twenty-five cities, the opening being at New York then swinging west as far as Detroit and back again through Baltimore Dr. William H. Roberts heading the force that will make this novel tour.
 It costs the 4.sOO members- of the Southern Methodist Church in Dallas Texas, about S15,O00 annually for their preachers.
 Tn 1866. when Trinity Church at To- ledo was built, number of pews were sold and have since then been retained by the original owners, or their heirs. no deed to this peculiar piece of nron erty having been filed until recently,