Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-20
OLDEST CHURCH IN GOTHAM
COLLEGIATE Reformed Has Existed for
Quarter Of a Century.
EPIsCOPALs HAVE BIG PLAN
Contemplate New bishops and DE-
Vision Of the DioccHe of New
York. win Harlem A.
sec city.

..... .,b.re ar, few churches 10 this coun-
fl... which can Celebrate Che 2Joth tnniFefT
starry o. tneir establishment oa2 % lheui
has just done this IN this CITY. IT is me
rogsr{afe Reformed church ~ l-aIieiu
,tfep. as the Reformed Low Dutch church
OF iIafl.ai. YVES established IN 1850 ard las
bcer ecuvely at ,or.. ever since
u is nov in Che center Of population OF
Sow YorE city and is one Of the bis active
effective churches OF tho city.
tnisGopaIa Have Bix Plans.
l.ons irgt announced FOR The Episcopal
dlocrro 81 New York include the election
o. additional bishops. "a partiai rcoreanlEa-
tou Of diocesan administrative plans and
forces. and o. possible division u the do
cc.e by the creation o. diocese or iiuu-
son The OPENING Of The chO.~ and crossing
of tho now SIS OOo cathedral o. 81. John
tho Divine. ve,k prayer for rnl' Sons from
November q. 10 December 3. and a mass
meeting in Carnegie had, one aim which Is
TO brng Che leaders in the diocese Into
closer touch ana acquaintance, arc other
events announced.
These and other advances are made nee
cszary bv Episcopallan growth in the do
cese in the quarter century.
While there is doubtless no more difficult
field for preachers in the world than Man
haitian island, within ten years tho num-
Der of churches having $50 or more mem
beers has increased by eleven. and the num-
Der 60 give 10000 year or more has in
creased by fifteen. The number Of Eplsco-
pallans in the diocese is now $1,000 the
largest Episcopal jurisdiction In America.
story by John burns.
Hon. John Burns the noted English
statesman and labor leader, In a recent
speech told a story which is worth repeat
ing,
lie went once for the benefit II his health
into a building somewhat monastc in char
acter, with celebate population and cell
accommodation which enabled him TO be
all alone. There was book there called
the Bible lie noticed that his predecessor
In that particular place had utilized pin,
which ne got very probably in his oalKum,
TO prick a comment against a particularly
dismal passage in the Lamentatons Of
Jeremiah The comment Of his phliosophlc
predecessor was Cheer up, jeremiah"
Excitement In Missionary Life.
The life Of the missionary I'm Africa IS
not without its excitement and interest.
DR. Wilfrld McBarlane, one OF the London
Missionary soolety's representatives, who
has just gone back with his wife and
family TO Mpologoso, NORTHEAST Rhodesia,
writes in private letter:
Not long after we left the train and
had crossed our first big river, the
Luapula, we came into q country which has
recently become infested with man-eatng
lions. We we're going along quietly in our
usual scattered way, when we heard a
tremendous shouting behind us. The
natives were rushing out OF village.
calling out that we would be eaten by the
lions IL we wentiOn. Two people had been
caught and eaten that very day. We
lined up and held a council OF war. and
decided to go on, eli keeping close to-
Kother. These hons seemed 70 follow us
all tho way. One evening, just as we were
coming near Fort Rosebery, we came right
on two OF them; they had just crossed the
road in front OF US. and we're trotting
along only eighty yards ahead. We kept
very close and made for the government
house as quickly as possible"
ATethOdtsts Push Far Out.
The Methodists claim 70 have the mis-
sion farthest south I'm the world main
taining for years a mission in Punta
Arenas, Straits OF Magellan. and now
comes a letter from District superintend-
ent Gerhard ]. schnlIng. who is evangelE-
ing upon one OF the top shelves" of the
globe - Bolivia. A missionary OF seven
teen years experience. he Is opening up
new stations in the Interior OF Bolivia, at
tending at the same time 10 an English, a
German and Spanish church IN IapaE.
tho capital OF the republic lie says in
part;
Among the steep slopes the natives
cultivate COCO, coffee. and cacao. These
people are extremely ignorant. man
came 90 the town OF Coroico to sell five
baskets Of cacso at So each Said the
buyer. I take them. six times s. are $50 .
and forthwith he intended 20 pay him.
But the Indian did not agree with him as
20 the result OF five times six. He thought
Il ought to be more.
'so-and this was TO me a lesson in
pauence-the obligiug merchant took
grains Of corn. and made six heaps OF five
grains each. Then he put two heaps to-
gether and the Indian agreed as to the
sum OF ten. Having repeated the opera
ton three times the surprised vendor
acknowledged the sum total 60 be three
times ten, even thirty. This manifest proof
OF the merchants honesty made the Indian
buy some articles from him IN retaru."
Restoring Garden of Eden.
"out OF Eden came a river which Watered
garden. and from then II was parted
and became four rivers. Pison Gihon
ltlaoeAei ana BABY lon-theae -FOUR streams
were called in Bible times. All four stu
flow, but are known by modern Arab
names the present Euphrates. for exam
pie, Is tho old River Of Babylon"
The Garden Of Eden, though Ions
neglected, and now mostly a waste area
Is to be restored By great system Of IT.
figation. The Turkish government has en-.
Gagged the eminent Egyptian irrigation en-
slnecr. Sir william Willcocks 10 supern-
tend the reclamation OF over 100000 acres
OF Mesopotamia. Sir william. himself J
man learned IN Bible history says the Gar.
den Of Eden was undoubtedly located on
the Euphrates, west Of Bagdad, and just
below Hit OF the Utilities
New plan 60 ne Tried.
understand the ''catch-my-paI'
movement inaugurated by Rev. r. J.
Pattison, young Irish Presbyterian min.
lister less than two years ago and which
has swept that country Is 60 be brought
20 America. IL has been the most effective
practical. temperance movement Of recent
yCLra.
Christinu Ctttaenahtp Conference.
The Worlds Christian Citizenship con
ference convened in PhladelDhia ot