Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

May 26 to June i.
Baptist Annual Folkmoot Philadelphia
May 1880.
Presbyterian General Assembly. Portland
May 10.
Episcopal General Convention. Baltimore
October5
American Board. Chicago, in October.
QUADRENNIAL METHODIST CONFER
ENCE-This is now in session at Omaha
having begun May !. It will continue fo
a month. While this representative body il
not very numerous, consisting of $50 minis
tiers and 150 lay delegates, it stands for 8
membership of nearly 300, 900 commune
cants, and it is the authoritative law-makine
body of the Methodist Church. All other
bodies, great or small, are merely execu-
tive. The question of admitting women as
delegates to the General Conference is not
unlikely to come up again, as four years
ago A slight majority at that time was in
favor of admitting women, but two-thirds
vote was requisite to accomplish the change.
Several other subjects OF blazing interest in
side UNCONVENTIONAL lines will occupy the
attention of the conference.
| CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR CONVENTION
In point of numbers, the greatest conven-
tion or assembly of the season will be the
annual convention of delegates representing
the United Societies of Christian En-
deavor." The Christian Endeavor societies
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with evangelical Protestant churches of
various denominations. They have a simple
platform which puts far more stress upon
personal Christian living, and united ac-
tivity for the moral and religious welfare of
their companions and the young people
about them, than upon any merely theo-
logical propositions. The founder of the
Christian Endeavor movement is the Rev.
Francis E. Clark, D. D., who is now, and
| bo. Aaa fIoh ha~ Al
| OF the united societies. The membership is
said to be rapidly approaching 800, 600.
| The strength of the movement lies in the
fact that it adapts itself easily and perfectly
| to the local work and conditions of indi-
vidual churches and that it possesses no
ambition to become a religious order apart
| from existing church organizations Its
| great convention this summer will be held
| from July to July TO- in the wonderful
assembly hall of the new Madison Square
Garden, New York. 1t is expected
that $4,000 delegates from outside
New York City will attend. A num-
ber of hotels have been engaged in ad-
vance by the delegates, many thousands of
| whom are coming from the trans Mississippi
States. The convention will be an inspir-
ing sight. The blase New Yorker NAV get
some new ideas it he will take the trouble
to look upon these assembled thousands,
representing the tresh-faced and honest
hearted young manhood and womanhood of
America. The christian Endeavorers''
have quite outlived ali adverse criticism
whether from within or from without the
chu7ches-by their modest, steadfast, sensi-
BILE adherence to working rules of Christian
faith and practice. An organization work.
ing upon practically the same line as the
Christian Endeavor, but confined within
the Methodist denomination, is known as
the Epworth League 1t has membership
of several hundred thousands. 1t will hold
no popular gathering this year, but in 1893
it proposes to hold great national and in
ternational convention at Cleveland, o.
Y. M. c. A. CoNFERENCE-An import
ant undenominational gathering of religious
workers will be the National and Inter-
national Conference of General Secretaries
OF the Young Mems Christian Association,
which convenes on May 26, and continues
until the first day of June. The meeting
will be held at Providence, R. l., in the
homelike and.beautiful Y. NJ. C. A. structure
erected in 1890. General Secretaries re-
presenting at least 500 cities and towns are
expected to be present.
BAPTIST ANNIvERSARIES-The great
annual folkmoot of the Baptists of the
United States will be held this year
at Philadelphia, from May 19 to May So
The Baptists are sub-divided into several
organizations, but the leading one, to which
this notice refers, nov reports member |
ship of nearly 3,30O,O00 souls The So
called Baptist Congress" will convene on
Thursday, May 10, and sit for two days.
This will be followed by conventions of all
the great societies of the Baptist Church
the Woma1s Baptist H ONE Missionary So
ciety meeting on May % and %; the Ameri- |
can Baptist Historical Society on the 23d; !
the Missionary Union on the 24th 25th and |
Goth; the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mis- |
sionary Society on the 26th; the Home Mis- |
sionary Society on the 9th and 28th; the |
Baptist Educational Society on the 2Sth, |
and the Baptist Publication Society on the |
3Oth. The Baptist Young Peoples Union |
OF America will hold several conferences |
during the last week. The Baptists reap
great advantages from the arrangement by |
which their various societies and enter |
prises hold annual meetings together
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly OF the Presbyterian |
Church convenes at Portland, Ore, on the !
10Th day of May, and will probably con-
clude its sessions on May 81. Its two prin-
cipal topics will be, in common parlance,
Revision" and the briggs Natter The |
question of the rev ision of the Westminster
Confession will come up through the report |
of the Committee on Revision appointed bv
Final action will hardly be taken, as the
Presbvteries will have to be "overtured"
again on the subject. The heresy charges
against Prof. Briggs, of the Union
Theological Seminary, will recur on appeal
of a committee from the New York Presby-
terry against the action of that body in dis
missing the subject. This New York COM
mittee becomes General Assembly Com
mittee of Prosecution. 1t is expected that
particular attention of the Assembly, from
the TACT of its Western place of meeting;
but from present appearances the theologi-
cal questions involved in Prof Briggs
views upon the authorship and inspiration
OF the Bible will dwarf ali other subjects.
EPISCOPAL GENERAL-The great gath
ering Of Episcopalians during the present
year is the General Convention, which
meets at Baltimore on the first Wednesday
in October. This is the triennial conyen-
tion of the whole Protestant Episcopal
Church of the United States, and it prom
ises to have special interest this year.
THE AMERICAN BoARD-The Congrega-
tionalists have, within recent years, adopted
the plan of a National Triennial Council
but this year they have no denominational
gathering. Even the missionary societies
which they support hold separate conven-
tions and have none of the popular denomi-
national character that belongs to the
splendid May meetings OF the Baptists.
Unlike the other evangelical denominations
OF the country, the Congregationalst have
no foreign missionary society of their own,
but prefer to give their offerings for mis-
sionary work into the hands of the "Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, distinct, undenominatlonal
corporation, self-elective, which has always
played very distinguished part in foreign
work, but which at pres
ent attracts secular attantion chiehu |