The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-13

9nscrupulous exploitation, as in the
Congo To the coming conference at
Edinburgh he felt that the missions of
Lutheran source had an important con-
trlbution to make. Their work, rs could
be seen especially in the Transvaal and
on the east coast Of India. has been to
build up Christian community life, Mis-
slonary interest in Germany, he said
was not as general or as strong as he
had found it in America and in Eng.
land, but he felt it was more homo
geneous, concentrated and thoroughly
trained If America would develop her
type Of missionary activity as consist.
emily as Germany had developed her
type. America would lead the world
Pensions for Fund Clergy.
Under the French Separation law q
large number of the clergy were to re-
celve gradually diminishing pensions, it
being provided that at the expiration OF
four years, beginning with 1906, the
pensions should cease. This law affects
all of the clergy under As years of
age. 1t is calculated, therefore, that
| the French church starts off the new
year with loss of over S1,500000 Of
income. A system of voluntary contri-
buttons has already been started by
the church TO maintain public worship
and to meet incidental expenses. The
associations which undertake this duty
have no legal status, because the law
recognizes the Associations des Cultcs,
which the pope declined to allow. These
| informal parochial associations send the
| money through the cure to the bishop
of the diocese. In addition there is an
| iDterdiocesan sustentatiop fund. pre-
sided over by four or five Of the arch.
bishops of richer dioceses, who assign
| to the poorer dioceses funds sufficient
| IN i1i ln os
The money at the disposal of this cen
! tral Organization IS, il is said, several
million francs, and this is applied en-
tirely TO the clerical salaries. The
French cure, it may be noted, is con.
| tent to live on about 5000 year. No
cases have been reported Of the closing
! of churches because of the inability
All of the parish churches have become
| the property of the cummune, and so
| far the local bodies have shown them
selves perfectly willing TO allow them to
be used by church members. Public
worship has been given up in but four
or five buildings. In the cities and
towns the municipalities have also
shown themselves generous in voting
sums TO maintain church fabrics, and
| the risk Of secularization seems only
TO affect churches situated in very poor
communes. The voting of money for
this purpose by local bodies is forbid
den by the separation law, but NJ.
BRAND has shown himself extremely
liberal in Interpreting this clause of
the act. In a test case he decided that
the commune might vote the money,
provided the expenditure was not for
the maintenance but for the prcserva-
tion Of the edifice. Moreover, he has
issued administrative regulations which
tend TO make the secularization of a
| Il,
II can only be done after attempts have
been made to keep it open by voluntary
subscriptions. II is commented on that
all the churches that have been sec
ularized are situated III two depart
ments-Yopne and Seine ct Marne.
Keeping Lenten Season,
We are so accustomed TO hearing of
the assembling of from one to FIVE thou
sand people in the interests Of religious
movements at the present time that the
wonder Of it all has ceased TO impress
us as it would have done barely year
apo Just think OF it, 5000 men gath
cred in the Brooklyn Academy of Mn.
sic recently with no other object in
view than a sort of mutual encourage
ment to keep the coming season of Lent
In the city Of Brooklyn ms 1T has never
been kept before. The meeting was the
result of the work Of a committee which
; has been seeking TO draw together
Christians of all denominations in or
der 10 bring about n real evangelistic
; campaign,
; II was proposed, first, that meetinga
; be held in every Protestant church in
Brooklyn during Passion week, in or
! der to utilize great eVangellstic OPP
! portunitv. Second, the conduct of a
; daily noon-day prayer meeting during
: Passion week, in such shops, factories
and business places as can be secured
for such services, Third. noon day
meetings during that week in business
: +he observance of Palm Sunday as "Ac.
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