The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-11-07
News Of the Religious World.

News of the Religious World.
Mrs Mary G. Baker Eddy has given
81 900 to the Boston Y. NJ c. A. build
ing.
twenty-five thousand persons partici-
pated in the celebration of the Lord :
Supper at the centennial convention Of
the Disciples of Christ, in Pittsburg
October 10.
The week Of prayer for young men,
which is internationally observed, comes
November 1921. The Laymen 5 Mis-
honary Movement has asked that No
vember IA be made special day for
the National Missionary Campaign
now under way throughout the CONT
nent
What promises to be an cxtraordi-
nsriIy large gathering of students of
North America will meet in Rochester,
y. Y, Dec. %, 1909. to Jan. ,, 1919,
on the OCCASION of the sixth interna-
~onal convention Of the tulent Vol
unteer Movement.
Somebody has called the educational
department of the Young Men : Chris
tian association Of America a Gas
Light university" Fifty THOUSAND
students are enrolled in the evening
classes of the Y. NJ g. \. 5 Of the con
tinent.
Several lea ling New York business
men. like Hon Seth Low, James q.
Cannon and Commodore Waiharns, have
undertaken to support county Young
Mems Christian associations in the
counties where they were born.
As a phase Of it's united work 10 I'M
press the country with the Importance
Of the religious problem of America, the
Home Missions council. which repre-
ents all the Protestant churches. has
agreed to enter upon an advertising
campaign with the first of the year.
The most northern church III the
western world, the Presbyterian mis-
sion at Point Barrow. Alaska, within
the Arctic circle. was burned lasS
spring, according to dispatches received
i'm this country The mission was built
in 1890 with funds given by Mrs. Eliot
f. Shepard Of New York
There Is possibility Of a ships be
ing chartered by the American dele
gates to the Worlds Missionary con
ference in Edinburgh next June THIS
conference will not be d general meet
ing for inspirational purposes, but a
close study by experts of the questions
involved in foreign missions. All por-
tions of Protestant Christendom will be
represented.
\ great sensation has been created
among Orthodox Hindus by the mar
riage of the widowed daughter of jus
tice Merkerji, of Calcutta. The father
is Il prominent Brahmin, and it is sail
that this is the first time inthe history
of India that widow of high caste has
hemarried. The woman who had Just
defied tradition was only ten years old
when her former husband died She is
but thirteen now
The Northern Presbyterian Church
made legal fight for the retention OF
the publishing house at Nashville, which
had come TO it by union with the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church. The de
cision of the court has been favorable
to the members of the CHAMBERLAIN
Cnurch who refused to go into the union
ana who. it was recently decreed. have
a right to the title and property of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the
State of Tennessee.
After having been deposed from TIM
ministry of the Presbyterian church fo'
conduct unbecoming "A minister, Rev
Harvey Graeme Furbay continued o:
his downward co~se until he was III
orally gutter bum. sleeping or
benches IN the city parks. Dr. FurbaN
man of brilliant gifts, was later con
verted in the Water street mission j
New York He entered into industrial
mission work and did conspicuous ser
vice Now he has been called as pas
TOR of the First Union Presbyterian
church in New York. and reordained.
Don It overlook the fact that collar
collars are made in quarter sizes, an'