The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Swedish Free, the Swedish
-reeat and the Mission Cove
Mani Churches Of the United states
have agreed to unite as one chufch
body, called the Swedish Cnlted MIS-
sion.
The international convention Of the
Fnvorth League will be held at Seat
tie .Iuly 7-I2. This will give the
| delegates the advantage Of h special
rates of the Alaska-IukOn EXPOSE
ton.
An event Of notable significance is
! the closing of the great Mohammedan
University, Azhar, at CAIRO, by the
| British government because It was re-
sarded as q center Of political sedltlon
and revolt
4 church capable Of seating $50 per
sons, and fitted up with seats, was
built within So hours by some Seattle
Presbyterians. The church is a mis-
sion of the famous First Presbyterian
church of Seattle, Of which Rev. DR..
| Mark a. Matthews is pastor.
The "Congregationalist" reports the
t discover by DR.. Rendell Harris, of
Birmingham, England, Of Syriac man
uscript of the psalms or odes OF Sol
/ ONION. There are siNty-one psalms.
carbohydrates by Jewish and Chris
tan authors within q century before
and q century after the Christian era.
The name of Solomon was given III
accordance with a common custom.
Non-Conformist circles in Great
Britain are somewhat stirred by a
book, "Non-Conformity and Politics.
which charges hat the modern Free
Churches, have wandered far from
their true mission Of making saints,
and are now content with the lower
ideal of making politicians, or at least
men whose political activity is much
more in evidence than their spiritual
power.
The Presbytcrians Of C~anada-ap-
pointed, at q recent Genera Assembly,
a committee on moral and social re-
form. The other Canadian ~denOmina-
Moral and Social Reform Council
was established. This has lost its
strictly ecclesiastical character by the
addition Of the labor unions and the
oranges. says The Interior" whO have
joined hands with the churches in
pursuit of the object indicated by the
name of the organization.
A society has been formed in Eng
land among Established Church1nen,
and having also 4 connection with
Holland, for the purpose of promoting
closer relations between the Anglicans
and the old Catholics. 1t bears the
name of Willibrord. the Saxon mis-
sionary, who was the first bishop of
Utrecht, The society seeks to estab-
lish closer relations between the two
churches, looking toward ultimate
unity.
Three days before the assembling
Of the present British Parliament
there vas q solemn processiok of
clergy and ministers of all denomina-
tions. says the Record of Christian
Work" to historic Trafalgar Square.
xsl,n ~ n n-a a -, - -, l~ll
in favor of immediate legislation on
the pressing problem of the unem-
ployed. Established Churchmen and
Non-Confornists: Roman Catholics
and Protestants united in this great
mass-meeting, aroused by the fact
that there were fifty thousand per-
sons registered as out of employment.
The progress of Japan in charitable
and philanthropic work was illus
trated by a meeting q short time ago.
under government auspices. with six
thousand dollars appropriated for eS-
penses by the government, for the
consideration of such subjects as or
p~hanages. e~X-conVict homes. factory
girls, rescue homes, blind asylums,
leper asylums. education of imbeciles.
and so on. The conference continued
through fifty days, and the govern
ment gave certificates to members who
attended the sessions regularly. Bot.1
Christians and Buddhists were pres
ent.
The various churches in Wales are
reporting a notable reaction from the
revival of three years ago. English
RaptistS in Wales have q normal an
nual increase in membership of about
e1ght thousand. In 1905. the veal of
the revival, their gain was nearly 81
600. In 1907 the net loss was 1904.
and last year it was $500. saws the
"Con9re9ationalist."
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