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10 THE OPEN CHURCH vice forty (40) members were received into full fellowship with the church. Tub Open Chubcb rejoices with Brother Haire and his people in their prosperous work. Bethel church, Kansas City, has secured the free use of good lots at Armourdale for its growing branch-work there, and now is watching and praying for $300. with which to purchase a building to put upon them. Five new members were received into membership during the month ending November Cth.

The McDonald church, although without a pastor for a long time has maintained two services each Sabbath, a Sunday School in the morning and a Bible study in the afternoon. Each member of the church takes his turn in leading the afternoon service. Just now they are studying the Gospel of Matthew in course. The work in Salina, Mentor, New Cambria, and Brookville, is in a healthy condition. The Bazaar that will be held by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Salina church this month, promises to be a social and financial success.

The Brookville, New Cambria and Mentor people, in fact the world is invited to visit the Great Church Bazaar that will be open on December 13th. The churches of Kansas will bear in mind that Rev. E. R. Drake, formerly of Manhattan, Kansas, is now located in Denver, Colorado.

He will assist in evangelistic work in Kansas or Rev. Waldrof finds the opportunities for hopeful gospel work increasing in the vicinity of his fields Buffalo Park and Collyer. The new churoh building in Seabrook district near Topeka, is approaching completion and will be an unusually attractive edifice. Rev. C.

E. Philbrook, who has been spending some weeks on the Pacific coast, has returned to his church at Western Park with improved health. White Cloud church comes to the front with a good Home Mission collection taken November 18th. The church is prospering and more members will soon be received. Bala church goes forward, helping the Home Missionary cause and having for its pastor the energetio and musical brother, Rev.

T. G. Jones, well known especially among our Welsh churches. The North Topeka Congregational church is moving bravely along institutional church work. Great credit is due to its aggressive pastor, Rev.

W. L. Byers, and to the church which is willing to be lead. Rev. J.

H. Stewart, pastor at Kensington, has been temporarily supplying the church at Athol of late, preaching on alternate Sabbath evenings, and his sermons have been much enjoyed by the church. The Stafford church has completed all payments on its church building except the amount granted by the C. H. M.

S. which is soon to come, and also has called Rev. Wm. Elwood to continue as its pastor. The church of Great Bond expects Evangelist Yeazie during the latter half of January, and is seeking to prepare the way, that much blessing may come to the church and community through the special services.

Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon is making preparation for this winter and The Open Chubch hopes that his work, whether as writer, reformer or preacher, will bring men and women into loving and permanent fellowship with God. A meeting for deepening the spiritual life is to be held at Smith Centre, Dec.

4-6, and Rev. Addison Blanchard, formerly superintendent of missions in Kansas, is to be one of the speakers. All who can attend will be well repaid for the effort. The church in Parsons will have the help of Evangelist Veazie early in January, and later in that month Rev. Alexander Patterson, evangelist, of Chicago, will conduct union revival services in the city, in which four churches, including ours, will unite.

The church at Anthony goes steadily on with its work, though just now without a pastor. Sustaining a live Sunday school and Y. P. S. C.

E. and a weekly prayer meeting. It is both wise and fortunate in having no debt that perplexes or burdens it. The church at Valley Falls is in a very prosperous condition. At the laBt communion ser the conclusion there is such a province.

Laymen as well as ministers are actively think tag along the line of Applied Christianity, and of the nature and place of Christ's Kingdom. Stiok to the work of prowing the Christ Spirit, through the Chnroh, into Society, until every department thereof will feel the Divine heart-throb of the Master because it is touched by the Church. You have been kindly sending me copies of the paper, but I want my name on your list as a paid subscriber. I therefore etc. Rev.

Albert Dushnell, St. Joseph, Mo. It may be that The Open Chubch has come to the Kingdom for a time like that which I have been seeing in a glimmering way for our churches. The Independent churches adopted the less negative name and practice of Congregationalism. The ruling idea of the latter is fellowship.

I have thought that some day we might adopt the name of "Fellowship" churches, and then give the practice of fellowship a reach that will sweep in everything that is Christian. It would be worth losing our Congregational name and distinctive life for a fellowship which should draw the whole Christian world upon a basis of brotherhood and co-operation. Here are Free Baptists waiting for fellowship with us, and now a body known as Christians, though not our Kansas Campbellites, and the seceding branch of the Evangelical body. The Mennonites will be with us in a body some day. It is a good time to raise the banner of "Fellowship," and let it grow and multiply and cover nil the armies of the Lord that it will.

I wish you success with the united papers, and hope nothing will break in the endeavor to cover the ground. You are quite right in rejoicing that we do not all see alike, and I rejoice in an "open paper" that lets us look in upon life from the many angles of vision we severally occupy. Here is my right hand of fellowship. Rev. Pearse Pinch, Emporia, Kansas.

KANSAS CHURCH NEWS. The Dunlap church is holding meetings every night and is encouraged in its work. Sunday, Deo. 2nd, has been fixed upon as the date for dedicating the new church building at Valencia. Rev.

B. Smith, of Pittsburg, has been using the stereopticon to good advantage in his churoh recently. Rev. George H. Perry has resigned at Good-land, Kansas, and accepted a call to Pilgrim church, Pueblo, Colo.

The Fredonia Church, though laboring under very serious difficulties, is doing a great work for the Kingdom of God. The headquarters and postofflce address of Dwight H. Piatt, pastorat-large for northwest Kansas, is Goodland, Kansas. Osage City church, though long pastorless, sends its contribution to the Kansas Home Mission Society with encouraging fidelity, elsewhere. Permanent address: Rev.

E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette Denver, Colorado. The word hns just reached us that a movement for a Union church at Milford, which started after recent revival meetings by Rev. M.

Rosewarne, evangelist, has culminated in a call to M. Rosewarne to become pastor there as a minister of the gospel and over a congregation without denominational name, but in which some Congregationalists and Methodists will co-operate. Rev. and Mrs. H.

E. Mills, of Strong City, enjoyed their recent three weeks' stay at the Moody Institute greatly, and are encouraged with the spiritual outlook in their field since they returned to it. It looks as if the five "dime banks" in the field would each gather in its full fifty dimes for Home Missions by April 1st, and the entire amount requested by the executive committee K. H. M.

S. of the church be paid. Bro. Mills preaches also at two country points, Upper and Lower Fox Creek school houses. Rev.

Dwight H. Piatt has been commissioned for ten months service as "pastor at large" in northwestern Kansas, beginning October 9th. He will care particularly for the churches in Goodland, St. Francis, McDonald, Middle Beaver and Lenora, visiting other points also as he may be able. His means of conveyance is a horse and road cart, which has been equipped for the service, with the "advice and co-operation" of Bro.

Piatt's father, Rev. L. H. Piatt, of Alton, who did much missionary service of this kind in the early days of Kansas,.