Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — News of the Churches [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News of the Churches

The Atlantic section of the Council of Jewish Women lias severed its connection with the united charities and will continue as a separate organization. Cleveland is already arranging for the national convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, which is to be held in that city next August. Von Ogden Vogt resigns as general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor to accept a position with the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. Dr. Francis E. Clark of the Christian Endeavor Society is visiting the West Indies, Panama, and South American republics in the interest of that organization.

The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon has resigned the pastorate of Metropolitan temple, London, on account of ill health. He succeeded his father, the Rev. Charles 11. Spurgeon, In 1892. The dean of Westminster has refused to admit a memorial tablet which was dedicated to Herbert Spencer into the abbey on the ground that he was not an orthodox in his Christian belief. The federal government has put up four buildings on the canal zone and put them in charge of the Young Men’i Christian Association, yhey will be used as men’s clubs for the workmen on the Panama canal. Four other similar buildings are to go up in the near future. Dr. George E. Stokes, at one time a member of the ndrtbwest Indiana conference, will lake charge of a portion of the work of Dr. Edward M- Taylor field secretary for New England of the board of foralgn missions, until Dr. Taylor’s health will permit him to resume his duties.