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Worship Journeys. To "know something about the channels through which others express the longing of their souls in worship," Dr. Ernest Bourner Allen of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park, III., has devoted recent Sundays to "Little Journeys in Worship," has presented to his truly tolerant congregation "A Morning of Russian Anthems," "Jewish Forms and Music," "The Episcopal Forms of Worship" and "A Jewish Passover Song."

Missionaries. "Your missionaries who come to teach us are generally of a type who could not earn a living another way and are unfit to teach us Christianity. Some of them are admirable men, but I speak of the average, mediocre in mental calibre and unequipped intellectually to carry on the work," said Amherst-educated Count Aisuke Kabayama, member of the Japanese House of Peers, last week as he prepared to travel, via the U.S., for the coming Parliamentary Congress in London. A baptized member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he finds good in both Buddhism and Christianity.

Conjugality. Because his wife went over to Catholicism, Bishop E. J. Bidwell, Anglican Bishop of Ontario, Canada, resigned his see, effective May 1.

Conversion. Queen Marie of Roumania, British reared daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring.