Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

The national Baptist anniversaries are to be held in Detroit, Mich., May 23-2!). Some of the English clergy in the diocese of Natal uud I’retoria have been reduced to the humblest poverty, owing to lack of funds from England aqd the multitude of war appeals fqr money for other purposes. There are four Presbyterian churches in South Africa—the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, found In Cape Colony ami Natal, as well as in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal; an English-speaking Presbyterian church, organised two years ago with congregationa from Cnpe Town to Buluwayo by the missionary synod of Kaffrnria, in. connection with the Free Church of Scotland, found exclusively in Kaffroria; and the Presbyterian Church of Basutoland, the outcome of the faithful labors of the Paris Missionary Society. The Rev. M. Lafayette Gordon, SI. D., a missionary of the American board, now on furlough from Kioto, Japan, has been invited by the Hawaiian Evangelical Association to take charge of the work carried on in Honolulu for the mote than 50,000 Japanese now in the islands. The Baptist Standard says that Sir. Sheldon's paper was not a newspaper at all. being uninteresting, unattractive and well nigh stupid. However, the Standard gives him credit, because “amid abundant opportunities to make a fool of himself he well preser bb manliness and dig uity.”