Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The old St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore celebrated its golden jubilee recently. About 3,000 ministers took part in the consummation of the union of the Free and United Presbyterian churches of Scotland a few days ago. Trinity College, Washington, D. C., the first Catholic institution for the higher education of women, was recently dedicated with imposing ceremonies. Mr. S. M. Sayford has been appointed secretary of the New England Evangelistic Association, succeeding Mr. J. E. Gray, who had served for a long term of years. It is officially stated that the American board this year has not only paid its running expenses but has also paid the additional amount of $20,000, made necessary by the conditions in China and India, and has also reduced the debt of the board about SO,OOO. The Bishop of Liverpool has issued a new code of rules for confirmation. Lie desires that girls should refrain from the use of long pins in' as the presence of such pins frequently results in the bishop's fingers being lacerated during the ‘laying on of hands.” The Rev. Martin S. Howard has completed his thirty-second as pastor of the First Congregational Church nt Wilbraham, Mass. lie is 70 years old. During his pastorate he has preached more than 1,800 sermons, officiated at 350 funerals, and solemnized 117 marriages. The Rev. Ella Groeudyke, sister of the Ttev. Montgomery Groeudyke of Hartford City. Ind., has been sent to Sierra Leone, where the massacre of the missionaries occurred last year. She has already spent four years in Africa and will undertake to rebuild the destroyed missions.