Kansas Church Tidings from Topeka, Kansas • 3

J.ilfy. wv. tfi, )J imi-v-ri t4 i.ig Infant w. fM 1 1 V1H jVW 1-y, id! -ift Mwr 1 V-. v- C--' y3 PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH Wellington Monitor: The Presbyterians of Conway Springs have let the contract for a 1650 parsonage.

Topeka Capital: The colored Methodist church, corner of Seventh and Topeka avenue, has advertised for bids for an extensive addition to their church, Another story will be added and improvements made that will cost about $8,000, Blue Rapids Motor: Work has begun on the Presbyterian parsonage. The house is to be frame, 26 by 42 feet, and will contain eight rooms, with all modern improvements. The entire Catholic congregation of Mergoxza, Italy, has been converted to Lutheranism. 120 persons made a confession of that faith, last week, in the old Catholic church. According to a recent report, the priests of the Roman Catholic church in this country number 9,332.

Of this number 2,217 only are members of religious orders. Six hundred and thirty-seven are Jesuits, 323 Benedictines, 231 Franciscans, 193 Redernp-torists, 96 Dominicans. 82 Capuchins; the remainder are divided among nineteen other religious orders. Peraonsla trom Epworth Herald. i Bishop Hurst is our greatest Methodist rellic hunter.

Bishop Joyce spends his happiest hours on the camp-grounds. BLhop Ninde is the well-beloved John of the Episcopal board. Bishop Merrill would have made his mark in the United States senate. Dr. J.

B. Young puts terrible realness into the portrayal of a battle scene. Dr. J. 0.

Pecks heart is full-grown. If you dont think so look at his face. Bishop Fosters great theological work will be a Methodist standard for a century. Bishop Bowman must have another degree G. A.

C. D. That means, great American church dedicator. Bishop Vincents fertile brain is not affected by the seasons. His crop of practical ideas is always worth harvesting.

Bishop Thoburn yearns for India's redemption, and when he makes a plea for dollars, the purse-strings forthwith loosen. Dr. J. L. Hurlbut puts in two months in assembly normal work.

AT TOPEKA, KAS. H. B. HARRINGTON, City Tioket 525 Kansas Avenue J. F.

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J. A. Swaney filled the pulpit of the First church, on the 8d inst. Bishop Newman is the first Methodist bishop to visit Honolulu. Rev.

0. H. Call filled the Kansas avenue, pulpit, Sabbath night. Dr. Hoss lectured at Newton recently, on What Can She Do.

Prof. Robinson of Baker University is spending some time in Boston and the east Rev. H. D. Fisher.

D. occupied the pulpit of the First Church, this city, last Sabbath. Pres. Quayle is one of the lecturers at the Nevada Assembly, and is visiting on the Pacific coast. Rev.

F. D. Baker, of Salina, is taking a vacation visiting Chicago, and the State of Wisconsin. Rev. Geo.

W. Browning and wife took advantage of the excursion rates ea-t, for a visit to Niagara Falls, Boston, etc. Rev. J. M.

Wilson lias been relieved from the Walnut Grove church this city and appointed to the church at Nevada Mission conference. W. R. Rolingson, who was thrown from his buggy last month, and had his collar bone broken, is getting along nicely and in ten days or so will be able to at tend to his work. Bishop Ninde preached a most excellent sermon at Lowman Chapel, the 3d and on the 4th went to Chautauqua, New York, to attend die Assembly for a few days.

Rev'. Dr. Jes.e Bowan Young appeals to have captured the Southern Californians at their Long Beach Chautauqua. Both on the platform and in the pulpit he rendeted entire sati-faction. Central.

Rev. R. M. Barns, some years ago pastor of Grand Avenue M. E.

church, Kansas City, has been transferred from the North Indiana to the Colorado conference and app tinted to Christ Church, Denver. Rev. Dr. J. A.

Lippincott delivered two lectures: A great witness in a Celebrated Case, and Some Educational Problems of the Nineteenth Century, at the Glen Park Chautauqua. Colorado. Sabbath, Aug, 3, there met in the pulpit of the Marion ehurch.three gen erations of preachers, viz: 1. Rev. Joseph Earn-? Yaudalia.

Ill, the of KANSAS METHOLISM of trustees. To talk about want of authority is to speak without regard to history accuracy. The most atrooious paragraph i i your article remains vet to be considered. In reply to my deniul that the University of Topeka has been started to boost the real estate interests of ary members of the board of trustees, you say we mean just that very thing, and our authority is good. On their map, published for them and circulated by them, we find land marked as owned by one of the trustees, adjoining the University, and nearly all the land controlled by tbe University belongs to a syndicate or to private parties that have taken this plau to sell their farms at oity prices, and if the endowment is ever realized, these men of wealth who have seen fit to purchase land and give it to the University will be made immensely wealthy by their donations.

In all the above there is scarcely a syllable of truth. The land marked as belonging to one of the trustees does not adj un the University, but lies from more than a half a mile to a mile and a half distant from the building now in course of ereotion, and the fact that that trustee owned land in the neighbor-hood was very far from determining the location of ths institution. No membsr of the locating committee had land in that vicinity and all but one had real estate interests in other directions, but they selected the site solely beoause of its superior eligibility. The tact is there was no possibility of so locating the building anywhere near Topeka that it should not promise to enhance the value of land owned by wealthy Methodists, so that it was impossible to avoid exposure to each ungenerous and unworthy criticism as that of which you are guilty, and of which, my dear brother, I hope you felt ashamed when you saw it in cold type. Most emphatically I affirm, having full knowledge of all the faots, that no private parties have taken this plan to sell their farms at city prices, and that nobody will or can be made immensely wealthy by their donations, or even wealthy with the adverb immensely, omitted.

The sole pur pose of the movement is to give Kr.nsas Methodism an institution worthy of its leading position among the churches, and so located as to make its future secure. It has originated with men who are devoting their tens of thousands of dollars to it without hope or possibility of personal advantage. That a preacher should so misrepresent their purposes and publicly so malign their motives does not tend to encourage other wealthy laymen to consecrate their money to the furtherance of church enterprises. -With much regret that yon have made i.iisoesgpvy fr me to writo, thus -plsis-ly, I am Yours Truly, R. Wake.

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DAGGETT. The material and furnishings for the Martha Ellen Stevens cottage at Unga (for which Mrs. Stevens of Iowa gave more than half the cost) were shipped from San Francisco in June. The Jesse Lee memorial home must be sent Sept. 1 or not until next year.

It must be sent than even if the lacking thousand dollais have to be borrowed, and with it must be sent a teacher whose support is aLo lacking. A talented, experienced, consecrated teacher stands ready to go, will leave a lucrative position for this far-away, isolated place, if only someone will provide1 for her support. How many individuals and auxiliaries will send ten dollars each towards this immediately? Or five, or fifty, or the entire $500? Prof. Tuck and wife oppned our school last October in a borrowed house. The school-room is small, and only a small part of those who desire to attend could be admitted.

So great has, been the interest of these children that they attend school all through the Greek church holidays, an unheard of thing. Some would stay until dark and then have to be sent home, so much happier were they here th? in ei r. I'eary a D9desN ow the one thing needed to provide room all who would come to day school, and a home for the homeless ones, is money and that at once as no mail goes after Sept. 1 until March or April of next year. Thick of this when you decide about your gifts.

Our new home will have upon the first floor the Eliza Jane Baker chapel and school-room, a recitation-room, industrial school-room, a small room for kindergarten work, sleeping rooms upon the second floor, and an attic that can be finished for additional rooms if needed. There are several rooms not yet named, and several others not yet finished. One hundred dollars gives the donor the privilege of placing the name of some dear one upon one of these unnamed rooms. Ten such would give us the lacking thousand dollars. Five dollars will buy a door, a window, or a beautiful desk for the school-room, upon which the name of the donor will be placed.

Are there not those who, this centenary year of Jesse Lees greatest work, will send a gift to the Jesse Lee memorial home and industrial school at Unalaska Alaska? AN OPEN LETTER. A. See, Tidings. Dear Brother: Iu the inters its of truth it is naoessary to reply to your second attack on the University of Topeka, but as your closing paragraph unceremoniously shuts the door in my loe, I am compelled to seek another medium through whioh to correct your persist, ent misapprehensions of the facts in the ease, You again complain that the University authorities have not corrected what you consider to be exaggerations concerning the degree of support Kansas Methodism wfil.give to the Topeka University made by the Capital and other papers. Assuredly we have something else to do beside attempting to reotify every error into which newspaper re.

porters fall in writing up a great church enterprise, and after all the statements objected to were rather technically incorrect than substantially untrue. Although no formal conference action has been taken, yet so many leading ministers, not to mention laymen, have signified their delight at the promise of a University worthy of the name, so located as to give assurance of success that the rtatements made are not so wide of the fact as you would have your readers believe. That we are not entirely neglectful of our duty to correct newspaper errors is shown by my effort to set the Weekly Tidings right, which I undertook on the principle of dealing with the chief culprit first. 1 confess, however, that my success iu this instance is not highly encouraging, for I ask myself, if a religious editor thus persistently dings to untruth after the faots have been clearly set before him, what can be expected of the unregnnerate secular press? You say The real reason for not asking for conference endorsement is the one that we stated, there were not enough iu favor of it to carry the measure through, hence they waited Excuse me, my brother, but is it not evident that just here you draw upon your imagination for your facts? How could you know tbit there were not enough to carry the measure tlircmgb? Have you polled the Kansas Conference on this question so as to kuow exactly how the vote would stand? You will uot pretend that you have. How then can you make the above averment? AgaiD, supposing such to be the case, whioh it is not, how oould you know that this constituted the reason in the minds of the trustees whioh induced them to defer asking for endorsement? Have the individual members of the board made you their father confessor? Assuredly not Therefore it is clear that you are simply doing some reokless guessing and giving it as ecber facts- You still insist that, because Conference aotion has uot been formally taken, therefore, the University of Topeka, is as much private institution as Knoxs bank is, both are private institutions Wliat absurd folly to write thus when the law of the state makes all the property and income of the University to belong to the Methodist Episoopal church.

This is fixed by the terms of the charter, as you cauuot but know, and therefore the t.ustees have no power to divert it to private uses or to any other purpose than that set forth in the charter I hope for the sake of your reputation, for at least average intelligence, you will not again repeat this foolish slander. You go on to say If not, why should the trustees hesitate about plans or details that they should be unwilling to stand by? If under the management of the ohurch, as the oharter comtemplates, the church, not the management, would attend to plans and details. To this I answer, 1. Plans for an enterpiise of suqh magnitude could not be hastily prepared, and to have gone before the Con. ferences with a crude and half-formed scheme would have provoked profitless discussion and only invited defeat of the Whole movement.

2. The law gives to the projectors of a corporation, control of its affairs for thefirst year of its existence and the mak ingot by-laws for its future government. 3. The originators of this enterprise have given to it too muoh earnest thought, and devoted too many thousands of dollars to its interests, to perpetrate the folly of Landing over to those who have given the matter neither thought nor money, the work of attending to all plans and details. They have too mueh practical common sense and are too good men of business to do a thing of this kind.

In fact it is just suoh suggestions and demands as this, coming occasionally from preachers, whichmake our laymen to feel a oontempt for the business qualifications of ministers. Be assured that men who put their money into an inatitution will have something to say as to its management. Allow me to oall your attention to fact you seem to have forgotten when you declare that this movement lacks proper ohurch authority. Several years go the several Annual Conferences in Kansas appoint ed delegates to a conven tion, which met at Emporia, to consider the educational interests of the church, and that body, after due deliberation, resolved in favor of establishing a great central University in such location as could be secured for that purpose. That action has never been lost sight of and the Topeka movement is an outgrowth of it, the chairman of the con VIA, Moundridge Leader: The foundation for the new Methodist church was completed to-day noon, and work will soon be commenced now by the carpenters." Bala City Advance: The German society of the M.

E. church have secured three lots here for the erection thereon of a church edifice and operations will commence in a few days. Rev. Menger, of Clay Center, will take charge as pastor. Tbe new church edifice at Larned is to be dedicated Sept.

7th. The result of the revival at Norwich was, 45 accessions to the English arfd 15 to the German Methodist church. The Ottawa district conference convenes at Yates Center, Sept. 26. The Everest Methodists believe in pushing things.

In April a subscrip-was taken to build a parsonage, before August came, the pastor and family had moved into the new six-room parsonage. The building cost $800. he society at Willis lias induced the debt on their church $450, since last March. I At Harwell, July 28, probationers were received into full membership, making 32 for the past quarter; 9 were received by letter. The parsonage is being improved.

Dr. Kelley dedicated the M. E. church, at Guthrie, Oklahoma 17th inst. The church cost about $4,000.

The entire indebtedness was provided The society has six good lots east front. Harpers Grove, Smith county Aug. 21, to continue 17 days. Burr Oak Grove, near Delphos, Aug. 20, continuing ten days.

The Elm Mills camp-meeting commences August 21. Camp-meeting at Robinson, Aug 28, to continue two weeks. Write to Rev. Tlios. Campbell for particulars.

Riley Times: The camp meeting at Stockdale has been a very successful one, there being about thirty-five tents all occupied, located nicely near the bank of the Blue river. The attendance has been good throughout, that of Sunday afternoon being very large notwithstanding the rain. A deep re ligious influence seemed to pervade the meetings. Several conversions are re ported and much interest manifested. Washington.

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Zion Herald says: Rev. S. Mc- Gerald, the able and very successful editor of the Buffalo Christian Advocate is a converted Roman Catholic, and therefore takes a lively and especially intelligent interest in the conflict with Romanism in this land. The sad tidings have been received the death of Mrs. E.

Kingman and Erank Gates, who left Kansas last winter, as missionaries to Africa. Appropriate memoral service were held in the First Congregational church, this city, last Sabbath evening. Hon. Ira L. Tabor, was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 20th.

He was a most respected citizen of Holton, on enthusiastic Sunday school worker and a member of the Metho dist church. He lived a lif worthy of imitation by the young men of the land. Rev. A. L.

Scott and wife are visiting Americus. Bro. Scott spent some time in Coloiado. Revs. Holman and Wake are visiting Oklahoma on official business Rev.

C. It. Robinson has been relieved of his charge, to attend school at Evanston. Rev. J.

H. Kevan'has been appointed to the charge. John Meyers, infant son of Rev. Edwin Locke died on the 28th ult. Bishop Newman has returned home from his visit to Japan.

Rev.T.G.Savin, of Wichita, is spending his vacation at Asbury Park, N. J. Bishop Wm. Taylor, on the 22d delivered an address on Africa, and plained the plan by which he and his co-laborers are endeavoring to Christianize Africa. Tne church was well filled by an interested audience.

Tbe address was forcibly illustrated by incidents connected with the African work. Truly God is doing a great work on that continent. The following notice appeared on the door of the Methodist church at Denton: N. B. Remove N.

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