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Show TO" I.A1SE" .$20,000,0(JcC i DIFFICULT TASK IMPOSED UPON ftbV. PARKIN. the llnalt nf tha "rotttaM" Motaiat In th. slalhiHllal tharrh Till m In Whim to tlit Ilia Work Sheila , Ills Ufa. Itov Frank l Parkin, upon ht will fall the burden of the correspot. dence In the work of raiting the (, 000.000 which the Mcthodlstt nre t tecure during the next three yeats, t pastor of the Hint Methodltt cnurihl, (lermantown, Pn. He haa accepted la position of corresponding tccretary.ol the movement, tubject to the confirms, lion of the Philadelphia confer.'!!., Thlt "twentieth century commlsMc wat appointed by tho blshopt nt Ike meeting at Providence, It. l-t ln No-, veraber.tnu consists of tlx bishops ata about twenty representative ministers and laymen. The battle cry. "To million souls for Christ and J20.000.0W for the advancement of Hit kingdom," htt been sounded, and throughout the next three yean, 1899. 1900 and 1M1. the gretl work It to go on. The vast sum It to be collected In addition to the regular benevolences of the church, One-half, or (10.000.000, It to be devoted de-voted to the unlvenlllet, theologies! Seminaries, colleges and other schools, and the other half for hospitals, orphanages, or-phanages, hornet for aged and other charitable Inttltutlona and to the pigment pig-ment of church debts, lllthop Andrews It president nnd Chancellor M. Powell of Denver It tecretnry of the commotion. IlEV. KRANK P. PARKIN. A raiuont Chaplala. The Rev. Robert Drlndle, D80, who retired from the army two or three montha ago, after having risen to the highest position It wit possible for a Roman Catholic chaplain to attain, at-tain, It, aa waa recently mentioned here, a Liverpool man, and It now In hit C2d year, lilt Ugjptlan record It Interetttng reading. He took ptrt In the Kgyptlan campaign of 1883-11, and received the medal and the Khcdlve'a ttar. He wat attached to the Nile expedition! ex-pedition! of 1881-86 and wat mentioned In dispatches no fewer than three timet for bit tervlcet at the btttlea of Abu Klea and Klrbegan and elsewhere, receiving alto three clasps to bit medal, med-al, and being promoted to tho rtnk of chaplain of the flrtt-cltst, equivalent to the full rank of colonel, He continued contin-ued to tervo In Egypt, and wat present during the Dongola affair, being awarded tho Khartoum medal and clasp, and decorated by the Khedive with the third-class of the order of tho MedeJIe. In the latt affair of all, tbo Slrdar'a successful advance on Khartoum, he waa with the troops at Atbara and Omdurman, vsi train mentioned In dispatches, received two more clttpt to hit Khartoum medal, and wat made a Companion of the Pit-tlngulthed Pit-tlngulthed Service Order Liverpool Mercury, |