Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — Religious News and Notes [ARTICLE]

Religious News and Notes

The Rev. Thomas C. Campbell, rector of St. Stephen’s Church, Lynn. Mass., has accepted a call t-o become assistant at Christ Church, Cincinnati. The general synod of the Reformed Church in America completed its sessions at Grand Rapids, Mich., and adjourned to meet next year at Asbury Park.- 1 The Most Rev. Horsed Saradjian, archbishop and head of the Armenian Church in this country, will preside nt the convention of Armenians to be held in Boston. Mrs. Eleanor S. Woods has presented a new building to the International Y. M. C. A. Training school of Springfield, Mass., to be used as a dining hall and dormitory. The Rev. John Gardner Murray of Baltimore has been elected bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the diocese of Kentucky, succeeding the late Bishop Dudley of Louisville. The directors reported to the annual meeting of the Congregational Educational Association nt Boston that work iu Utah was retarded by the persistent opposition of the Mormon Church. The Rev. Dr. Thomas B. McLeod, who has just rounded out twenty-five years as pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, will resign on account of advanced age. A cable message received from Naini Tal, India, announces the death of Mrs. Annie Montgomery Briggs, wife of the Rev. George VV. Briggs, pastor of tho Methodist Episcopal Church at Lucknow. The Rev. Thomas F. Davies, Jr., who succeeded Bishop Vinton as rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Worcester, has declined his attractive call to become rector of St. Peter’s Church in Philadelphia. The Rev. Robert Coyle, retiring moderator of the general assembly of tha Presbyterian Church of the United States, is the son of a blacksmith, and worked his way up through college with his own hands. There are four men in Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal conference who entered that conference together fifty years ago. They are D. S. Monroe, Samuel Creighton, Richard Hinkle and George Warren.

The Congregational Education Society has received SI,OOO, part payment of a legacy of $4,000, to he used for student aid. The society will thus he enabled to aid young people who are studying for the Christian ministry. A great Christian temperance work is carried on in England in the Royal Sailors’ Rests. No fewer than 9,(158 pledges were recorded during the year, and of these 2,018 were secured by seamen themselves on their respective ships. Bishop Kelley of the Catholic diocese of" Georgia has mailed to each of the churches in his jurisdiction n letter directing that under' the recent order of the Fope the use of female voices in Catholic church choirs should cease. It is said that the Rev. \V. L. Wntklnson, who retires from the position of English Wesleyan qonnectionnl editor at conference, will go to Sottth Africa and "take up his residence tiiero for the benefit of his health. At preseut he is in the Holy Land. Negotiations are in progress in Canada -looking to the union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational bodies. Committees appointed by these bodies have consulted over the matter at various meetings, and now report that the union is desirable aud that they regard it as practicable.