The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16

to Australia to personally inspect the work
in those countries These same men, who
earnestly desire that either the Army or the
Volunteers-reach the spiritually and worldly
poor of the great cities, greatly deplore the
persistence with which General Booth and
Ballington Booth rush into print with their
family differences, and they have many
times told them so. Ballington Booth
seems TO regard, they say, the Booth family
quarrels as things to be used in public to
further religious work, and he rushes to
the papers with details of them whenever
they arise. General Booth does the same.
Salvation Army and Volunteer work has
enlisted many warm friends here, as the
former has in England, but it is known that
as many as eight of these men have by an
informal meeting and acting as one man,
decided to go to General Booth Immediately
on his arrival and tell him that these Booth
quarrels must stop, or, if they cannot stop,
that the nauseating particulars of them
must cease to be paraded. General Booth
will have this information to take with him
during his Canadian trip. which begins i'm
mediately upon his arrival. If he does not
act on the advice, and if Ballington Booth
does not act upon it, for he has already
been told it, the present tour of General
Booth will be a failure. and both the Army
and the Volunteers greatly injured in the
eyes OF that better public opinion which
has thus far made both possible.
The attempt Of the Rev. Moses j. Cries,
of Cleveland. to substitute Sunday for the
old Jewish Saturday Sabbath has called
forth statement from the Rev. DR.. Isaac
H. Wise, of Cincinnati. DR.. Wise was one
of the pioneers of the Jewish reform move
ment in this country and is regarded as one
of it's foremost leaders to-day. He is pres
ident of the faculty of Hebrew Union Col
lege, the institution of the reform element.
Jewish rabbis who have Sunday lectures or
sermons, in addition to the Saturday serv-
ices, are chiefly graduates of this seminary.
However, the one minister in the United
States, the Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, of
Chicago, who has gone so far as to aban-
don the Saturday Sabbath altogether,
chances to be not a graduate. DR.. Wise is
minister of congregation, but does not
himself conduct Sunday service. Speak
ing of the agitation of the Cleveland rabbi,
DR.. Wise grows emphatic and declares that
any rabbi being licensed by Hebrew Union
College who changes from the Saturday
Sabbath to the Christian Sunday does so on
his own responsibility. A rabbi, he says,
takes on himself the duty to preach and
teach Judaism, not, as thought to be by
modern higher criticism, or by science or
philosophy, but Judaism as it was three
thousand years ago. IF he cannot do that"
says DR.. Wise, lit is his duty to step down
and out of the Jewish ministry. This mat
ter of keeping Sunday instead of Saturday,
or of keeping Sunday as well as Saturday,
is agitating Jews everywhere, especially in
the West. -
Ten years ago church mission boards were
calling for men for missions. Now more
men are offering than can be sent until
there is large increase in contributions.
The change has been in great part brought
about by the student volunteer movement,
which maintains secretaries who travel
from college to seminary and systematically
present the cause of missions. Now that
so many men are offering, attention is be-
ing turned to the subject of giving, and an
endeavor is making to increase gifts to
missions on the part of young people. When
the student volunteer movement was first
organized the total gifts by young people
who were also students did not reach S. 900
a year. Last year they amounted to SAC, 0O0
But the movement does more than give
money. 1t teaches systematic giving on the
part of others. And this system in beneh-
cence is one of the great questions before
the church of to-day. The student volun-
teers have had two international gather
ings, one in Cleveland and the other in
Detroit. A third one is to be held in Cleve-
land again Feb. 20 to n. Preparations
are making to entertain fifteen hundred
delegates who will come from colleges,
-.
societies. Methods are to be discussed and
enthusiasm aroused. Unlike most other
church organizations, the volunteers find
February the best convention month of the
year.
The Texas Presbyterian University is
planned for future centuries And" re-
marked President Clagett in speaking about
it the other day, 'its inception at this time
was made possible by a woman. record
this fact in order that that woman may in
future centuries when the Texas Presby-
terrain University shall be a venerable in
stitution, be accorded the credit due her.
The idea of the university had long been
in the minds and in the hearts of certain
Presbyterians OF the Southwest. One day
woman remarked that she intended rearing
a monument to her late husband at cost
VI @O,VVV. LIE SuDJSCI VI the university was
called to her attention by one who had no
official authority to do so. Before the SEN
tence was finished she said she would give
the $1,000 to start the university fund. She
did so, and her act was taken to mean that
God wanted US to begin active effort. We
began, and that is why we are now laying
foundations for an institution that shall be
for centuries to come"
The location in a, national sense is
sidered ideal. 1t is to be the great seat of
learning of the Middle South. Princeton
and Yale are the seats for the East. The
future may. President Clagett thinks, pro-
vide similar institutions in Minnesota for the
Middle North, and in California for the
West. The location in a state sense is not
to be decided upon until the endowment
fund reaches $100,000
DEBT COLLECTING IN INDIA.