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CHURCH INTELLIGENCE.
In consequence of tbe Rev. C. Tresise's
bereavement the Rev. W. H. Cann proceeded
to Kadina on Saturday, to complete collecting
in that locality and at Moonta in aid of the
Bible Christian president's missionary debt
extinction fund, and on his return the Rev.
J. Thome will go to the Snowtown circuit on
a similar mission. During the absence of
Messrs. Cann and Thome the Rev. C. E.
Schafer will relieve them of circuit) work. It
is expected that Mr. Tresise will resume his
work in connection with the president's debt
extinction fund three weeks hence, when Mr.
Scbafer will return to the Bowcen circuit.
The following personal items are taken
from the Christian Weekly of July 27 : — ' The
Rev. J. McNeill is attracting phenomenal
audiences in Melbourne. The Rev. J. W.
Mouland has had a successful lecturing tour in
Victoria. News has come to band of the
comparatively sudden death of the Rev. G.
R. Glasson, o£ the Liverpool circuit. New
South Wales. The report that Mr. Moody's
health has been seriously impaired by his
labors the past winter is contradicted on good
authority. He intends to visit England again
shortly. Mr. Ernest T. Bailey, formerly
society steward at East Adelaide, was
the successful prize essayist at a com
petition recntly conducted in connec
tion with the Victorian and Tasmaniaa
Wesleyan Methodist Sunday-school Union.
Tbe missionary world has lost a zealous
worker by the death of Bishop Smythies, of
Zanzibar and East Africa. He started from
Zanzibar on a trip for the benefit of his
health, but was seized with fever and died
on board ship. He was buried at sea,
Mr. Nathaniel S. Berry, a member of the
American Methodist Episcopal Church, died
lately at the great age of 97 years. He held
many positions of political influence and was
at one time Governor of the State of New
Hampshire. He was a class-leader for 30
years. Everyone in the state looked
upon him aa 'the perfection of sturdy
honesty, manliness, and independence.' At
a recent meeting of the London Mission
committee better news was reported both of
the Revs. Peter Thompson and EL Price
Hughes, who had to relinquish an engagement
owing to nervous prostration. Mr. Thompson
hae been most seriously ilL Regret was ex
pressed thafi the chief agents of the mission
persist in undertaking too muoh. There will
be no change this year in the staff of the
London Mission.9'
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