The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

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 The successor of Dowie, as head oi | the Dowieites, Wilbur voliva. il l spending six months in jail rather for islander. l The American Board of. Foreign Missions. went to It's annual meeting at Minneapolis, October 13-15, with its debt wiped out and a fifty y-thousand dollar increase in it's annual receipts The session of the Congregational Brotherhood followed Immediately af- ter the American Board meeting. and as practically a part of the same con vention.
 The reproduction of the great spec tacle. The Orient in London" which is scheduled for Boston. has been postponed, until the spring of 1911. II will be called "The World in Boston, It is the largest missionary exhibit ever projected on this continent. The new Turkish Parliament has de- creed that every subject of Turkey Christians and Jews. as well as Mos- lems. must bear share in military service. Hitherto. the army has been the strong arm of Mohammedanism. |
 The frequent aspersions upon the character of professional evangelists has led the Interdenominational Asso- citation of evangelists, at its recent session in Winona. to take action agreeing to guarantee the character of every member of the association No man is eligible to admission unless he gives himself entirely to evange- Iistic work, and has had his character carefully investigated. especially with respect to his finaneiaI honesty and social relations
 The Interior" points out that Afri- ca is fast losing its right to the title the dark continent" for within It's borders today are 2.470 missionaries assisted by 13,eS9 native Christian workers. There are 4,7S9 places of \ worship. 221,I56 commuHicants, and | 527,790 professed adherents. The A. 1 900 mission schools have more than 100000 pupils. In Uganda. which thir- ty years ago was pagan and unex- I plored country, one half of the 700,- 900 population are enrolled as Chris tians.
 l A magnificent library is being built in the Swedenborgian village of Bryr Athyn, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. This win house the most ex I pensive library of Swedenborgian lit erature in America, During the pas 1 eighteen yearsssaa million. dollars has been spent in equipping this educa. tional center of Swedenborgianism.
 The Methodist Episcopal Church North. is celebrating, by series oi meetings in the leading American cit ies, the seventy fifth anniversary o
 the founding of its missions in Afri | ca.
 The historic Marble Collegiate l Church, in New York. has increased | the salary of it's pastor, Rev. pr. Da I vid J. Burrell. to fifteen thousand dol lars year., @
 | From being a mere alliance oi churches to take advantage of oppor tunities for the promotion of tenn perance, the Anti-Saloon League ha' developed into a powerful nationa organization. It recently dedicated
 with religious services new print ing plant in the village of Westerville Ohio, which has capacity of 60O,0OO,' 900 pages of literature annually. Thii
 will be devoted exclusively to the pro motion of temperance and the suppress
 sion of the saloon.
 l The chief rabbi of the German Jewi at Jerusalem, Samuel Salant, died re gently at the age of ninety-three. H' had been blind since 1888. but his ac tivity has not been diminished. l Apropos of the renaissance of in' terest in missions throughout all the ] churches, 1t is of peculiar significance that just now the work of the London Missionary Society in the Island oi Madagascar, which was counted it' brightest achievement. has undergone
 A very serious recession because O 1 the anti-Christian propaganda carried on by the French government. sup pressing some organizations and pre- venting the meeting of others. This persecution of the missionaries ana their converts is due to the atheistiC views of the present French governor |
 Rev. Lewis at the Negro Baptist Churc | pr. J. s. Lewis. of Princeton Univer
 sity, will preach at the old First Bap i tist Church this morning at II o'clocl | from the suhtect "Temple Building