Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — PULPIT AND PREACHER. [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER.

The American church in Rome has a new organ. The old habit of distributing trats has been revived by the Methodists. Not until Martin Luther's time did black become the distinguishing hue of clerical garb. The Rev. Dr. Farkhurst is now in Ireland studying the vurious phases of the Irish problem. The Mormons claim to hnve now 2,000 missionaries in the field and to have made last year fully 20,000 converts. The old question of "alien immersion” has been stirred up again, not in Kentucky or Texas this time, but in Georgia. Nine hundred women have goDe out from the Chicago training school into active Christian service. Two-thirds ars deaconesses. There nre, it appears, in British JColumbia more Buddhists than Baptists, more Confucians than Congregationnlists, and nearly as many pagans as Lutherans. An advanced course in the Semitic languages lias been added to the curriculum of the Princeton Theological Seminary and will be opened next fall under I’rof. Robert Wilson. Bishop Turner of the African Methodist Church is the leuding spirit of the movement that has in view the exodus of the negroes to Africa as a solution of the race troubles in this country. One of twenty-eight candidates for ths degree of doctor of philosophy at Columbia University won the degree from that institution this year for a thesis on Sunday school movements in America.