Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — Religious News and Notes [ARTICLE]

Religious News and Notes

Thorp nro 2*J7 tlifforent religion* soots in Great Britain ami Ireland. Tho first I.oynl Temperance Legion in Mexico wits organized hy Miss Htlic l>uhmorc in Gnnnajuuto. The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Orcnt Britain reports during the 1 1 >t year the largest increase in membership for nineteen years. The Hev. 11. <!. Jackson, I). I)., writes in the Northwestern Christian Advocate that iiiMtitutlona 1 church work in Cairn 20 is accompanied by uiuny ditHeullies. More than 2.00;) men in the Cnited Ftates navy are members nf the Navy Temperance League,’ mid art? pledged to total abstinence duriii2 t!i»*ir term of service President Uonscv.lt’* address on the Bible lias been widM.v distributed by the American Bible Society. It has sent oat NU.OtKI copies in English and IU/HM c-iyi"s In Spanish. The railroad department of the Y.’ M. C. A. has erected forty-eight buildings In four years, or oue n uio.Y.h, with twothirds of the amount eootrihuted by railroad companies.