The Deacon

New York city's Baptist churches have average congregations of 200. The Rev. Dr. Tai muge has an iucomn nearly equal to the salary of the president of ihe United States. Bishop de Goesbriand of St. Albans, Vt., at the age of 77 is the oldest bishop iu th ■ United States. He has been a prieso J7 years. Bishop Ashe of Astoria, Oi, recenüy drove frora that place to his old home ín Vermont. The trip, inuluding a stop at the World's fair, cousuuied nearly seven months. James Freeman Clarke said: "I believe that people will always go to cburcli because they will always feel. the need of it and the good of It. It will last, not because it is a custom or a duty, but because t satislies an everlasting need of the soul."