Evening star., 1898-07-30


preparation for the corporate communion
The Sunday afternoon mass meeting Will
have industrial Ethics for its topic, and
one of the speakers will he Jacob A. RiiS,
the reformer, who made such a hit at Buff
falo last year, and another, Mr. r. Fulton
cutting of the Society for Improving the
Condition of the Poor of New York. the
evening and final service the topic will be
The Responsibility of the Church in the
Life of the Nation" Bishop Satterlee of
Washington win preside and the speakers
Will be Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts,
Bishop Doane of Albany and Mr.. George
wharton Pepper of Philadelphia.
Information has baen received in this city
that seven church mission boards purpose to
take up active work in Cuba Immediately
after the Spaniards are driven out These are
the Southern Raptists, who have long had
work in the islands; the Methodist Episcopal
Shurch, the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, the General Conference of Free
Baptists, the United Brethren in Christ,
the American Church Missionary Society
(EpiscopaD and the New York and Indiana
Yearly Meetings of Friends Three boards
will undertake work in Porto Rico and are
ready to go there just as soon as General
Brooke is in control. They are the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South and the Southern Bap-
lists. The last named will be assisted both
in Cuba and in Porto Rico by the Ameri-
can Baptist Home Mission Society, which
represents the white Bapfists of the north.
Three contemplate work in the Philip
pines. They are the Presbyterian Church
of the north. the Methodist Episcopal
Church and the American Baptist Mission
ary Union. Congregati9nalists will take the
caroline Islands as their field. An agree
ment has been entered into by which each
board Will appoint two commissioners for
each held 1t proposes to enter. Three COM
missioners are now collecting informal ton
ABOUT their respective fields. Such informa
t1on is to be common property among the
boards, and early in the fall another meet
ing oi the conference is to be held to def
nltely map out and assign different parts
OF each particular field. Their aim is to
send to these fields united and not a di-
V1ded Christianity
Reports from Camp AIger state that 81
great revival Of religion Is in progress
there This is due largely. it is believed, to
the efforts of workers from various organ
izations, among them the Central Union
Mission of this city and the chaplains of
the various regiments
1he o,UD members of the Lutheran
League OF America are to go for their tenth
anniversary to New York, where the league
started, and they expect the largest num-
per OF delegates in the history of their five
conventions. Not only So but there are to
De present Swedes, Norwegians Danes and
hai dozen other nationaities from the
northwest, where the Lutherans are strong
IL Is one of the purposes for which the
league exists to unite these many-tongued
Lutherans, now unhappily divided not so
Eiucn on doctrinal as on grounds of differ
ing temperament. The league also seeks
70 increase the number of English-speak-
ing congregations. not by converting Ger
mans and the rest but by heIpinp to or
game congregations for the rapidly in
creasing number of English Lutherans.
ihese conventions have had words to CEN
lraize the thought of the gathering The
WORD tor the approaching October conven
tlon IN New York is to be Labor" Com
hhttees are already at work upon details of
convention entertainment.
me uelegates who went from WASHINGTON
10 attend the recent convention of the
ioaptlst Young Peoples Union at Buffalo
have returned eio
Inc closing session of the convention was
W. W. SUNDAY night, Monday morning the
ashlhgton contingent. together with some
" tne baltimore people. left Buffalo for
Chautauqua. After spending some hours
Gnne. C,ieie thgy went on TO Geneva. They left
peheVa tuesday morning, coming down bv
boat to Watkins Glen At the Glen +be
party split into two sections, one of which
@unuer @ the care of Mr.. George Miller. came
tinn lrousn 10 Washington. The other sec
@ sloh returned by way of Albany the Hud
son river and New York city.
ne ueiesates agree that the 'Qs conven
or.a, eioii was one OF the most successful they
uetstood, to be invited to form a branch of
me ne" League. for Social Service of which
Ihe Key. Or. Josiah Strong, late of the
Evangelical Alliance is to he tho ba.d ~
league is to have DR. William n Tolman
recently of the New York Society for I'M
proving the Condition of the Poor as IFS
tieio secretary. 1t IS to have. also. in ad-
"a, hitoti 10 l's educational work, carried on
me eIstfiDution OF pamphlets, a bureau
- -, liioi nation on sociological subjects,
e l-on VIII hdicate sources of in
.,in o'ioh ror rgymen, editors and
IoIess students. some of the men who are
eniiiu . the new movement are Bishop Pot
C eHr oi view aork the Rev. DR. Washington
Gladaen OF Coiumpus Ohio, Rev DR.. Chas
~. raIkhurst ReV. Dr. Edward Everett
51aie' Alice Freeman Palmer, former presi-
uen' oi NeuesleE: Mary Lowe Dickinson of
me hlng S daughters, Margaret E. Sang
ster OF Harpers Ba2ar and r. W. Glider of
tie century Magazine. The league will lose
no ume IN getting into active work, in
"hlch 1t Is assisted much by members
OF the Christian Endeavor, the Epworth
League and the Baptist and Lutheran
young people.
The corner stone of the new ST Mary s
Catholic Church, Marlboro, was laid Sun
day last with impressive ceremonies Large
numbers of persons from Washington were
present. The visiting clergy were Bishop A.
A Curtis, Rev. Thomas ]. Kenney of st.
Marys Star of the Sea, in Baltimore: Rev
Charles Damer of Holy Cross Baltimore:
Rev. John A. Morgan of Loyola College
Rev. James Gardiner of White Marsh. Mr.
]. ]. Knel of St Mary's Seminary. Balti-
more; James r. Wheeler president of the
Catholic Society of Baltimore; Mr. Kennev
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