. Christian herald and signs of our times . out 140 missionaries and helpers. The Christian Endeavor Societies andSunday Schools give liberal sums onspecial days, to the foreign work. Lastyear, however, only about one-third of allthe churches gave anything to ForeignMissions. And while the per- 1 - centage is i n-creasing eachyear, the prob-lem with theD i s c i p I es aswith most otherchurches is how-to increase morerapidly thenumber of con-t r i b u t i n gc h thepast year hasbeen one ofsome grave dif-ficulties on ac-count of pro-tracted hardtimes and greatpolitical excite-ment
. Christian herald and signs of our times . out 140 missionaries and helpers. The Christian Endeavor Societies andSunday Schools give liberal sums onspecial days, to the foreign work. Lastyear, however, only about one-third of allthe churches gave anything to ForeignMissions. And while the per- 1 - centage is i n-creasing eachyear, the prob-lem with theD i s c i p I es aswith most otherchurches is how-to increase morerapidly thenumber of con-t r i b u t i n gc h thepast year hasbeen one ofsome grave dif-ficulties on ac-count of pro-tracted hardtimes and greatpolitical excite-ment, yet sub-stantial progress has been made. A Great Churchman Gone. IN the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of all Englandand Metropolitan, who was Striekerwith apoplexy w hile in Hawarden Churcfin company with the Gladstone familyon Sunday, Oct. 11, the Christian workhas lost a worker w ho w ill be difficult tireplace. Edward White Benson was borrnear Birmingham, England, in 1829, aniwas educated at Trinity College, Cam n. THE STATE CAPITOL, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Five new missionaries have been added to theforce, more churches and Sunday Schoolshave made offerings than ever before, moremissionary intelligence has been dissem-inated, and more money has been receiv edthan ever before in the history of thework. A month ago the receipts hadreached Sqo, special features of this conven-tion week, will be the ChristianEndeavor sessions pre-sided over by Rev. J.
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