The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-09-06
Religious Work

A glimpse Of the poverty In which
many country clergymen live and worl
In England Is shown by twenty ap
peals which We're evoked by an adver
tisement by q Coventry doctor who Of
fered a bicycle to a poor clergyman IL
q country parish.
There Is a Welsh rector among the
applicants whose stipend has averaged
less than $720 a year during the las
five years and who has nine children
His parish is fifteen miles from a town
and it is over eight miles in length.
A curate OF ifty-six with three chill
dren on 5000 a year, a lay reader with
a family Of two and an income Of 1896
a year. a vicar Of fifty-nine who has
struggled to bring up a family of six
such are typical instances Of the hard.
working men who carry on the work Of
the church for a bare p~ittance and are
eager for the chance Of an old bicycle
to save them some Of the weary tramp
ing that their labors entail.
Mission Colleges.
In a statement regarding its higher
educational work abroad the American
board Of commissioners for foreign
missions says that nineteen colleges
and fourteen theological schools are be
ing maintained and that in a little
more than a year $1,112.OOO has beer
received toward the endowment.
Tho Chapel Car st. Peter.
The all steel chapel car st. Peter
the second church on wheels ever buih
for the Catholic church, which wal
placed on exhibition in Chicago and
then taken west and southwest through
territory where there are no churches
is equipped with everything necessary
for the celebration Of mass and Other
religious devotions. It has an altar
sanctuary, stations of the cross, comics.
sional and thirty pews. The car was
presented to the church by a Dayton
CO., man and cost $25, 600.
The st. Anthony, a similar car, wal
sent west five years ago.
laymen's Missionary Movement.
During the coming year regular lay.
mems missionary conventions will be
held in at least fifty cities. This Is
only a fraction Of the systematic mis-.
%sionary work that should be carried
on in the next year. In each Of a thou.
sand other communities there should
be a simultaneous campaign Of mis-.
sionary instruction in all the churches,
concluding wherever possible with an
organized personal canvass for sub
scriptions to missions at home and
abroad. Such a campaign should in.
clude a special series Of sermons by
Sunday school, selected literature
widely distributed, mission study
classes if possible and all pervaded by
private and public prayer. Camp
bell White. General Secretary.
Tho Eucharistio Congress.
The indications are that 10000 per-
sons will take part in the procession
of the host at the eucharistic con-
gress in Vienna. or the number men,
toned 1000 will be Americans. The
principal Of the procession will be the
Right Rev. Camillus Macs, bishop Of
Covington, Ky. There will be present
ten cardinals, including the archbishops
Of Westminster, Paris, Milan, Cologne
and Mechlen and the entire Auotro-
Hungarian e~piscopate. The Dominican
brotherhood building will be the place
Of assembly for the Anglo-Amer1cans.
AS usual, ancient st. Stephens cathe-
dral will be the center Of the religious
ceremonies, from which point the grand
procession will start.