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ubite Cross Leagues To Be Formed and
the Work Pushed theoretically.
, pereeptible Increase in the Blackness OF
Passa's FrOWn-ImpOrted Tailors Who
Make Clothes for Women.
4 RELIGIOUS INNOVATION.
Work Which the Protestant Episcopal
Church Will Undertake.

work which the Protestant Episcopal
Church will Undertake.
Ill 70 the indianapolis Journal.
Nrw YORK, April Interpretations are being
4. for what will doubtless be a most remark
u. religious revival in this city. A strange
g. n begin with, is that the church to make
ia movement is the Protestant Episcopal, a de-
.,;nation which heretofore has not employed
.,4valistie methods Assistant Bishop Henry
q potter sanctions and actively promotes the
,-o;ect. and today one of the regular Saturday
.onferepces was held to debate means and meas
r,es The work is not to begin until next Sep
ssmber, when missions will be opened in a dozen
n more parts of the city where the population is
massed in tenement houses. Two r~ectors, re-
A~uarkable physically as well as clerically, are fore
most ia the planning. and are expected to prove
coteut as evargeiists. They are the Rev. ".
~Rainsford, of st. Georges Church. where he last
vssr succeeded the once famous but now
asmented Rev. DR.. Stephen H. Tying,
and the Rev. D. Parker Morgan, of
The Heavenly Rest, where he has
;ust taken the rectorship made practically va
4eapt by the mental ailment of the Rev. DR.. S. S.
Rowland, so long a favorite Fifth-avenue preach
er. Rainsford was ten years ago the stroke oar
Of the college crew at Cambridge, England, and
the strongest student of his day. At the same
lime, Morgan was the champion athlete of Ok
ford, and the best amateur thrower of the heavy
hammer in England. These two were frequent
" pftted against each other in trials of strength
and skill, and at least on one occasion in a deter
mined battle with boxing gloves. They are mag
nifeenr specimens Of burly build, being over six
teet in height and proportionately broai-shoul-
dered. Both are earnest in their work as rec
tOrs, they are excellent speakers, and great re-
suts are anticipated of them. But they are not
by any means the sole reliance. The rectors Of
~lourteen Episcopal churches have agreed to go
heavily into the campaign, a feature of which
will be the formation of White Cross Leagues.
modelled after the English associations similarly
named. The pledge to be taken by the men who
By the help of God to treat all
women with respect, and endeavor to
protect them from wrong and degradation;
10 endeavor to put down all indecent language
and coarse jests; to maintain the law of purity as
equally binding upon men and women; to use
livery possible means to fulfill the command,
Keep myself pure;' to endeavor to spread these
principles among my companions, and to try and
help my younger brothers." A large stock OF
eards and tracts are being printed, setting forth
she crying need for such reform in New York
and a good share of the preaching in the fall
viii be on this subject. The question not yet
sttted is how the revival meetings shall be con-
Quoted. Some are in favor of the methods
familiar TO camp meetings and Methodist re-
Egivals, while others discountenance so wide a
departure from the more dignified and formal
conduct characteristic of Episcopalianism. This
matter was the subject of discussion in today's
conference.
"Whatever methods are employed" said the
Rev. DR.. DeCosta, the secretary of the commit
tee, 'be assured that a telling amount and quail
ity Of work is going to be done. The Episcopa
Church in New York will put itself in sympathy
with the masses. with whom it's efforts hereto
fore have beer too much marked by class eonsid
~erations. We are too rich. Our committee is a
unit in believing that the solution of the present
labor troubles lies in the aggressive preaching
OF true Christianity, which will overcome the
seihshness of the wealthy. and introduce the
golden rule among them. The working people
are aheaated, and we mean to bring them into
the church. Both sorts urgently require
eTangelistic attention, and that is what they are
going to get next autumn, if our earnest work
can afford it.'