The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AM NJ Is.
So rapidly has home mission vor, .
the Canadian Northwest develoUa.
that there are At important Preen.
terrain fields for which no preaen..
supply is now available. WHEN it,
college students return from miss
work in the fail the situation Will
even worse. AS q result. the Ea.
Mission Board is sending its secra+a.
to Great Britain 10 secure re.r.
there for mission work in Canada.
During Lent a series Of -four IT,.
NGrsity extension lectures were dr..
cred in the fashionable Back BAY a..
trict OF Boston, by four pr0mlu..
professors of the Catholic Cutrer-
OF America, in Washington. The ill.,
was a comparison of the mOdern E.
the scholastic psychology; the sa
was on the educational DrincipI.
the organic activities of the cu-...
the third was OF the Book OF U
and the fourth was the relation
tween Buddhism and Christiar.
The lectures were self-suppOrtin- Z
we'll attended.
\ we'll known newspaper man, n
+. /. Dustman, for many years Hi.
aging editor Of the Toledo BLADE. Ri.
become editor OF The Issue. the AM
-ttCoAA 80 ~ VI u lie .H#
States. The Anti-Saloon League
decided to establish a mammoth ut
fishing house at WesterVille. ON
One hundred and fifty thousand Il
lars Will be spent in eQuipping t.
house for the publication OF tr.
perance literature.
April Is WAS the fftieth anniEa.
sary Of the first sailing for India .
Bishop Thoburn, OF the MethoU-
Episcopal church. The event ~.
celebrated by Allegheny College. Ill
Bishops alma mater.
Because ne stood for a seat in tn
Italian Parliament, and publicly crit
cised the political policy of the Vat.
can. Father ROmOlo Murri, & leader .
the Catholic liberals and social demo
Gratis. was recently publicly eXcom
muaicated at Rome and cast ont .
the church as we'll as out OF Il.
priesthood.
Organized Sunday school work ha
been done in Chicago for fifty years
and the Cook County Association he.
q Jubilee convention for four da<:
beginning April 10.
\ significant action of the recent jl
ternatlonal opium congress, in Shan
1al, was the resolution calling p
the christian governments having con
lessons or settlements in the treat
ports OF CHINA to take steps to clos
the opium dens existing in these. !
order that they might rise to tn
Y of Chinese sentiment and legs
iation. At present Opium and othe
vices are freely INDUCED in the for
elgn settlements, when prohibited @
Ihlnese territory.
More than 1900 men met in T.
ronto for the first four days in Apri
IN what is called the first nation
gathering ever held in the world I
discuss a nations missionary respOns
bllity. This was the Canadian Ma
The delegates came from all parts d
the Dominion, n many from aero
the border. Sir AndreW Frazer. Liz
tenant Governor Of Bengal, crossed I'll
ocean especially to address this con
Xentlon. The foremost speakers "
the continent We're heard during tn
congress, and both home and fOrtl4'
mission themes We're considered.
platform was adopted engaging tn
Canada churches to undertake al
adequate share of the non-Christlal
world for evangelistic purposes
Distinguished members Of the Pro
testant Episcopal communion -.
gather in Boston. May lila, for tH.
Church Congress, an unofficial boo
which meets annually for the discus
sion Of religious, social and industrla
questions. Among the noted speaker
will .be Canon Henson, of WestminstT