Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-28

About 1900 young people, delegates
| from three church societies of Cleveland,
Ohio, representing 1000 people, under
the direction of Rev. r. b. Wallace of
the East End Baptist church. pledged
themselves to live for at least two weeks
as they believed Jesus would live in their
| respective positions were He on earth.
The advice given by the pastor was as
follows: "Be honest in your religion and
in your business and social relations.
Jesus was a manly man. When you meet
a friend shake hands like a man. not
like a. giraffe. Jesus allowed no shoddy
work in his carpenter shop. Allow none
in your business. Be gentlemen and la
dies. Do not be loafers. Get to work.
Get to work on time. Read the Bible.
Pray. Be sunny. Bring sunshine into
the lives of others"
Rev. G. w. Heller of the Ithaca IN.
" Unitarian church has begun a series.
of Sunday night free entertainments
financed by the Law and Order League in
local theater. The object is to give
pleasure and occupation to non-church-
goers and to help the liquor men to en-
force the Sunday closing
Owing to the difficulties into which st.
Marys academy and the Spalding in
stitute of Nauvoo ILL.,, have fallen
through the troubles of z. J. Kieran's
Fidelity Funding Company of New York,
the Mormon church may regain posses
sion of the property which was formerly
owned by the founders of the faith.
The churches in the Hawaiian islands
number 101, and the membership is 6,9O3,
but the accessions last year were only
595-less than 8 per cent.
Dr. Carter, bishop of Pretoria, has. ac-
cording to a Reuter- telegram, accepted
the archbishopric of Cape Town, rendered
vacant six months ago by the death Of
DR.. West Jones.
Gypsy Smith has been conducting evan-
gelistic services in st. Louis. The meet
ings have been held in the Coliseum.
which has a seating capacity Of 1900
persons, and the expenses incident to he
meeting are about $4,000.
A remarkable address on Milton in re-
lation to the education controversy was
delivered at Birmingham by Sir Oliver
Lodge, principal Of Birmingham univer-
sity, who uttered serious warning to the
church, and declared that 'the squabbles
of ecclesiastics are propelling US straight
towards an era Of secularism."
The Rev. William l. Chapman of New
ark, n. j., thinks that the uplift move
ment should be extended to the kitchen
girl. "There is no one" he declares, II
sympathize with so much as the woman
who serves things upon dishes and then
has to wash the dishes again. 1t is the
most thankless job on the planet"
Methodists in the. United States and
Canada will erect memorial monument
to Barbara Heck, the founder of Method
ism in America. The monument is to be
erected on the Canadian bank Of the St.
Lawrence river, close to the spot where
the body of the founder is buried.
Christian Endeavor has been reaching
farther and farther into the remote places
of the earth, and has proved to be as well
adapted to the needs of the negro, Malay,
and Monaghan races as Of the Caucasian,
according to reports from its headquar-
tiers. The 1909 Christian Endeavor alma
nae reports 1896 societies OF Christian
Epdeayor throughout the world, In seven
ty-three countries and groups OF islands.