Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Most Rev. J. J. Harty, recently appointed archbishop of Manila, will be consecrated at Rome. Evangelist D. W. Potter was re-elect-ed president of the board of trustees of the Desplaine* Camp Meeting Association. About 300 Baptists in Los Angeles, Cal., have formed a new church. Many of the members come from the First Church. Prof. A. W. Berg, orgaoist of “The Little Church Around the Corner,” New York, and bis wife celebrated their golden wadding recently. The Rev. Benjamin H. Davie of Weymouth, Mass., one of the oldest clergymen in the Univerealist denomination in thq country, is dead. A Christian Endeavor Society with thirty members has been organized at Salonika, the ancient Tbessalonica, where Paul taught the Therealonians. The Rev. T. J. Bassett, president of the Upper lowa University, has been honored with the degree of doctor of divinity by Cornell University. Dean Samuel Cox of Garden City Ca•Bedral, Hempstead, N. Y., narrowly e# caped being killed recently while attempting to get on a train at Hollis. Elizabeth Lyons, the oldest nun ia the diocese of Connecticut, died recently in St Patrick’s convent. New Haven. She was a nun for fifty-one years. Bishop nartaell has been decorated a knight commander of the Order of the Redemption of Africa. The honor was conferred by the republic of Liberia. The late Bishop Thomas A. Starkey bequeathed his library to the trustees of the episcopal fund of the diocese of Newark for th<T use of his successor and the dergy. The Yoofig Men's Christian Association of Salt Lake City, Utah, is in a fair way of getting a much-desired building for its use. Mrs. Mary Judge has given SIO,OOO for the building fund; others, among whom Mr. H. H. Walker ia prominent, have subscribed $25,000 additional, and only $15,000 mere la needed to secure a gift of $25,000 promised when $50,000 has been raised.