The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29

been especially pleased with the Roman
Catholic church leaders. Cardinal GID
bons has expressed sympathy with our
aims and so have other eminent mem
bcrs of his church. -
The esprit of Missions says that
among the Injuries on traus-Siberian
railway lines are chapels attached TO the
principal expresses. Priests travel with
these moving churches. which are Clad
crate, pancled with beautiful woods.
layishly decorated and overland with
gold leaf. They are intended, not Tor
the passengers. but for the people nv,
ing near the stations. At an appointed
hour Sundays the train halts at way
side platform and the peasants flock 10
the service.
Baptists Are Reunited.
Baptists rejoice just now over an ac"
tual union, which they say really unltes,.
They refer to the coming together OF
BaptistS North and Raptists Free; the
last named body of 10000 members;
transferring nearly 5000 900 of invest ed
funds, and contributing hereafter TO the
! ombincd missionary work of ALL ne
separation of Free Baptists has existed
since 1850, and grew out of the doc
trinal differences that have now d'sap-
| pcarcd
Leaders in their rejoicing point out
| efforts Of PrcSbytcrians In Scotland ana
| in America, where respectively wee
! Free and Cumberland remained, with
suits at law not vet ended. They also
| point ont the widely hcraldcd union OF
| Congregatlonalists. United Brethren
and Methodist Rrotesiantsi which held
not "a few conferences covering two or
three, years, all of which came to
| naugbt.
Northern and Free Baptists arc not,
| like even the federal council. increasing
the number of organizations Instead,
they are markedly decreasing them
| Neither body asks the other to conform
| precisely 10 its standards The names
| Baptist. Free Baptist aud Union Bap
tst, arc regarded as equivalent. State
organizations arc free TO unite or re-
main apart. Local churches can do The
same. II is believed that in many vii
lagos two Baptist churches, rivals in the
past. and sometimes bitter ones. may
now come together, but that is left &c
them TO determine. The newspaper or
gan Of Free Baptists is TO be merged
with "A Boston Baptist paper This
union affects three great societies,
Cardinals Rosary Relic.
The golden rosary which was present
ed Cardinal Gibbons nt his Jubilee
shortly by the knights of Columbus
mas connected with VI story which VII
become a legend and last probably long
er than the rosary itself.
The rosary is made of forty nuggets
of gold from the Klondil5e, and its ma
ter,al value is estimated at $1,000 bu
now that the narrative connected Will
it which Is full Of romantic interest, Il
generally known. it is doubtful il !,
could be purchased at any price Th'
rosary is unique one.
Sister Clare, retired cloistored nun
who is an inmate of the Presentation
convent in st Johns. Newfoundland
was possessed Of the ambition To fouut
Il working girls home in that section, ;
place where girls would be protccte,
and receive every care. With this idc,
she began collecting bricks for th'
building. When an occasional visitor t,
the convent put in his appearance h'
was requested to donate the price Of
brick and the fund was started
y young man who had lately returne,
from the Klondike happened to fall ii
love with and marry young lady wht
was n dear friend of Sister Clare, anc
she acquainted her husband Of the need
Of Sister Clare 5 protective institution
After donating Il cartload Of bricks th
young groom made the sister prescn
of forty nuggets of gold which wcr
later made lato a rosary.