Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

Two Methodist missionaries in Moroni, Utah, are the only Gentiles in the place. No converts yet. The Rev. Leon E. Ball, of Lowell, Mass., has resigned his pulpit and will become president of Voshon College, Washington. Archdeacon Bassett, of Nashville, Tenn., has resigned his position to return to England, and is succeeded by the Rev. E. J. Batty. The Baron de Hirsch school fund in Galicia maintains fifty schools. The number of teaobers amounts to 247 and there art 5,034 pupils. Mrs. Mary Rowe, a member of Fowler Church, Minneapolis, Is nearly 102 years old. She still attends the Sunday morning services occasionally. Francis Murphy, the famous temperance apostle, intimately known to thousands, has become a resident of California. He has a beautiful home. James N. Rogen, prominent In Baptist circles in Salinas, Cal., has, after much study and correspondence with learned Moslems, embraced Mohammedanism. The Rev. Dr. John N. Kerr, professor of Greek and New Testament literature in San Francisco Theological Seminary, and pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church there, is to become the secretary of the American Tract Society. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, in an Associated Press interview, criticises the clamor of certain sections of Catholics •gainst the government’s policy In the Philippines on the religious question. This expression grows out of the result of the Tsft mission, which th* archbishop believes to be satlsfactoi/ to American Catholics.