The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-09-25

country me recently at Colgafe Uni
ofsity with sixty students in attend
ance from various American colleges.
Upon the death Of Stephen Thcrry,
OF New York, recently, it was report
ed that he was the founder OF the
Holy Name Society in the Roman
Catholic Church. Therry did, on his
own initiative, and unaware OF the
previous existence OF similar socie-
ty, found a Holy Name Society which
has grown into enormous proportions
in this country, yet the movement
goes back to the thirteenth century:
and in 1883 the Pope erected the
Holy Name Society in a confratern-
ity
Queen Wilhelmina OF Holland CON
ducts service of family prayer
every morning, which every member
OF the royal household is expected to
attend
DR.. Rendel Harris believes he has
discovered a complete manuscript
collection OF the psalms and odes OF
Solomon. 1t is a copy of the Syrian
dialect. dating from the first century
b c, OF all the poems credited to
Solomon by the carly Christian
Church 1t also contains several
hitherto unknown psalms, which arc
in no wise inferior, as regards beauty
OF thought and style. TO those inClud
cd in the canonica1 Scriptures.
The lately issued Year Book OF
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of North America shows a mem
bership of 456o27 men, in 1914 asso-
Citations About two hundred thous-
and OF these young men are under
twenty-one years OF age. The asso-.
Citations property holdings are valued
at about 500, SOC, 900. The yearly ex-
penses of the associations are s., $780,
600.
The United States Census Bureau
recently issued religious statistics for
the year 1906. Out of a population
of something over eighty millions of
people there are 32,036445 communI-
cant church members, of whom the
Roman Catholic Church has I2,oz0,
I42
The native Christian EndeavOrerS
who live within two hundred miles OF
Agra, the scene of the Christian En-
deavor Convention in India, next No
vember, are planning to go to the
convention afoot, holding evangehs-
tic meetings by the way. The vice
roy has granted the use of a consid
cradle part of the viccregal camp and
furniture for the use of the delegates
of the convention.
The Presbyterian churches in Bra
I'll have been recently organized into
a general assembly. having two sy
nod and FIVE presbyteries. Secretary
Robert Z. Spear, of the Board OF
Foreign Missions. has lately been
visiting the Brazilian Presbytcrians.
The romantic seige which the Mo
ravan Church has laid to Thibet for
half a century is strikingly brought
to mind by the recent death of the
Moravian missionary, Heyde, who
died at the age of cighty-three He
worked from the year 1852 down in
to the present century, on the south
ern edge of Thibet, and for fifty years
he never left his field for the home
land. His hope and expectation was
that entrance would ultimately be
granted into Thibet, and he spent all
his time preparing 70 that event. He
helped trapslate the scriptures into
Thibetian and taught the peasants in
the valley many things, including a
better system of agriculture
An extraordinary action has been
taken by the British Government i'll
India forbidding definitely the dedi~
cation OF minor girls to Hindu tenn
pies, or their marriage TO the Hindt
gods. This practice results in their
being devoted TO life OF immortality
in connection with the worship OF
idols 1t is announced that the gov
eminent means TO enforce this law.