Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

Japan has 53,872 Roman Catholics. Boston’s Christian Science churches have 10,000 members. During the-hwt year the Mormons hare made twenty-one converts in Milwaukee. The Christian Science churches of the country have 5,000 readers, lecturers and healers. The Iter. W. O. Carrier of Wansan has been elected president of the. Wisconsin Federation Of Reforms. V Seventeen Baptist missionaries sailed from Boston recently, the largest company sent at one time in many years. Mrs. Humphry Ward has made an appeal in the English press for the preservation of the standards of the Established lit l tjllitkiV 1 ll | Church Toronto, near'.y J3oftooo has been raised «*ion|dsa«r^re^ The Rev. Robert MacDonald of Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, is to be one of the preachers at Harvard University this year.

S. P. Thompson will 'sell his lajade in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or

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S. P. THOMPSON,

Rensselaer, Ind.

The Democrat and the .Indianapolis Weekly Sentinel one year ror $1.00; Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer, $1.50, cash in advance.

iWe private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Etwds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand’

W. B. AUSTIN.