The Church Militant

Five new Methodist churches are being erected in the Mankato district, Minnesota. Dedications occurred at Albert Lea, Sept. 13, and at Alden, Sept. 20. Bishop Gaines, at the African Methodist conference in Richmond, Va., served notice that he would ordain.no man to the ministry who drank whisky, ehewed tobáceo or emolsed. Covenant church, Chicago, a branch of the' First church, is to build a twostQry brick and stone $80,000 edifica with an audience room for 850, lecture room for 250 and Sunday school room for 1,000. ' Thirteen missionaries have sailed for Manchuria, sent by the United Pres'byterian church of Scotland, which has a very promising mission field there. The work was interrupted by the late war between' China and Japan, and one young missibnary feil a martyr to Chinese bigotry, but it is being resumed under most hopeful conditions. The fifty-seventh annual seSston of the Rock river conference of the" Methodist Episcopal church at Freeport, 111., was, as usual, a notable gathering of devout, godly men. The opening sacramental service was led by Bishop Andrews. Oo of tiie special features of the sef-io:i is the course of lectures delivered by Profeesor Graham Taylor and Reverend A. C. Hirst, of Chicago. At the celbration of the twenty-second anniversary of the Chautauqua assembly recently, Dr. J. M. Buckley said: "I honor Chautauqua. I conaider it the greateet promoter oí religión that ean be found in this country. I was glad when permission was given to the Roman Tlatholics to hold their services here. It is the greatest promoter of sectional unity. Did you see that large number that arose from the south? Some of the best friends I have are in the south, and I was introduced io them here on these groundö."