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Show ' OHUHCH WOP.K AND WOEKEItS. The American Bible society last year 1 spnt forth nearly 2,000,000 Bibles, '' Bishop Warren was surprised on his birthday by the congratulatory visit of 68 Methodist praachers and their wives. ' The offlcjaj Presbyterian agent among ' the wprkltfgraen. Uev Charles Stelzle, ' has undertaken to establish In 500 cltM ' of lha country better relations betweon tho" ministry and organized labor. Prof. Benjamin Bacon, who holds the ?, chair of New Tostaroont criticism and r Interpretation In Yalo theological sem. r Inary, ha been made director of the " " Wherlean school of oriental research Jn Palestine. 1 Jn 8Vr clty al ,9R,t hn,f lh Popula- ' sP" u mHrt "f o( fordguars, "movirs" who rarely stay more than a yar In qno spot, und psoplo in ho never go to v church That Is one of ClirtUiinty'H $jy problem 'Blsliup Thomas U. Neoly. of thoMsth-qdist thoMsth-qdist Episcopal church, Is planning for the erertion of a Protestant church In Panama He linn almost complst&d negotiations for tho pundinw of the, ftilns of the church of Santo Domingo. Over two per cont of the membership of the rresbytertan church In Japan has gone to war. This Is moie than twice the proportion of onlIstmnt8 from the general population. Sixty-one Presbyterians aro otllcors In tho nrmy or nay The American Blhlo society hna recently re-cently received a number of Interest lng communications from Its agent In Japnii. Ilov Mr. LoomlB, who says: "We have douatod more than g2,000 Testaments and Coppola among tho 45,000 wounded Japnncso soldiers." |
