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Show TO RAISE 00,000" DIFFICULT TASK IMPOSED UPON ntV. PARKIN. Tbe Reault .f Ilin 'urarcl" Movement In the MriljiKil.t I hur. li Tin Yrnr In YVtiltli l Iju U.o lorli Sluttn of Ilia Lite. Rev. Frank P. Parkin, upon v.-hen will fall the burden of the correoa-dence correoa-dence in the work of racing the $-J,-000.000 which the McthoCiiU are to secure during the next thiee years, i.; pastor of the First MelhoJi-t church i:i Cermantown, Pa. He has accepted tha position cf correspundir. z seeretaiy o' the movement, subject to the confirmation confirma-tion of the Philadelphia conference This "-twentieth century commission" was appointed by the bi:-hc.;s at the meeting at Providence, R. 1.. in November, No-vember, ana consists of six bishops and about twenty representative ministers and laymen. The battle cry. "Two million souls for Christ and $20,000,00) for the advancement of His kingdom." has been sounded, and throughout the next three years, lS'.J'J, 13C0 r.r.d 1001. the great wcrk is to go on. The vast sum Is to be cclirctcd in addition to the regular benevolences of the church. One-half, or C10.0C0.C00. Is to be de-I de-I voted to the universities, theological seminaries, colleges and other schools, and the other half for hospitals, orphanages, or-phanages, homes for aged and other charitable institutions and to the payment pay-ment of church debts. Bishop Andrews is president and Chancellor M. Dowell of Denver is secretary' of the commission. A Famous Chaplain. The Rev. Robert Brindle, D.S.O., who retired from the army two or three months ago, after having risen to the highest position it was possible for a Roman Catholic chaplain to attain, at-tain, Is, as was recently mentioned here, a Liverpool man, and is now in his 62d year. His Egyptian record is Interesting reading. He took part in the Egyptian campaign of 1882-84, and received the medal and the Khedive's star. He was attached to the Nile expeditions ex-peditions of 1SS4-S6 and was mentioned In dispatches no fewer than three times for his services at the battles of Abu Klea and Kirbegan and elsewhere, receiving also three clasps to his medal, med-al, and being promoted to the rank of chaplain of the first-class, equivalent to the full rank of colonel. He continued contin-ued to serve in Egypt, and was present during the Dongola affair, being awarded the Khartoum medal and clasp, and decorated by the Khedive with the third-class of the order of the Medejie. In the last affair of all, the Sirdar's successful advance on Khartoum, he was with the troops at Atbara and Omdurman, was again mentioned in dispatches, received two more clasps to his Khartoum medal, and wyas made a Companion of the Distinguished Dis-tinguished Service Order. Liverpool Mercury. |