Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — News of the Churches [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News of the Churches

Rev. H. Allen Tupper of the Fifteenth Street Baptist church in Brooklyn announced to congregation last Sunday that henceforth, with the help of God, he would never preach the gospel for compensation in money. The church bos prospered under his charge and he has a comfortable private income. Ilia salary will be added to the new church fund. The text of the recent syllabus promulgated recently by Pope Pius, which has now reached America and been published in the Catholic papers, defines as heresies sixty-five doctrines, mainly those held by liberal men within the church in Europe. The Literary Digest says that among the American Catholic journals acquiescence is general. Its reception in France and Germany is far less cordial, though there is no open revolt among the clergy. One important French weekly, the Lyons Demain, has suspended rather than take the responsibility of attacking the decree. Jts editors say that the task of reconciling religion and science within the church has been mad* impossible by these prohibitions against all the rationalistic methods of the higher criticism. The Evangelical general conference, at its recent session at Milwaukee, took a decisive step toward the union of tha Evangelical church and the United Evaty gel leal church, adopting the report of the committee on'revision, which recommended the appointment of a commission from each church to arrange details of th# union. It was also decided to open ne- 1 gotiations with other Protestant including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists, with * view to a federation on all lines of church wqrk into which denominational differences do not enter.