Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools in tliis country have a membership of 2,Evangelist A. C. Jeffries, father of_ Janies J. Jeffries, the pugilist, is holding revival meetings. The Iter. Dr. Oren B. Cheney, for nearly forty years -president of Bates College, is dead at Lewiston, Me. Three graduates from the Toronto Training School liJve recently opened /v deneonness home at Hamilton, Otrf.' The Ber. It. J. Campbell recently exclaimed: "God help the man who boasts of a select or intellectual congregation!" Tito bishop of Trinidad, Dr. J. T. Hnyes, died suddenly iu Liverpool, England. lie was bishop of Trinidad since 1889. The factory girls of Fitchburg, Mass.,, have assumed the support of a .missionary in Shanghai of the World's Y. Wr c- a —; . A monument to IToiieh Ballou, the founder of I'niversalism in America, lias recently been dedicated at his birthplace, rtic)i|sond, N. li. A few days ago the Pope took a prapliic pen from a Protestant journalist's hand and pronounced a benediction. He returned the pen, saying: "No one lias a nobler mission than a journalist in the world to-day. 1 bles your symbol of office." Methodism in Stockholm, Sweden, has a suitable place f«r its activities. A building lias been ptiri-liased and Is now undergoing alterations to adapt it for ita new uses. It will contain an audience room, a room for the Workingmen's institute, and some apartments for rental purposes.