The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-30

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named will be assisted. both in Cuba and
in Porto Rico, by the American Baptist
Home Mission Society, watch represents
the white Baptists OF the North: Three
contemplate work In the Philippines. They
are the Presbyterian Church Of the North,
the Methodist Episcopal Church and The
American Baptist Missionary Union. Con-
gregationalfsts will take the Caroline Is
lands as their field. An agreement has
been entered into by which ZACH board
will appoint two commissioners Tor each
field II purposes to enter. THESE commits
sioners are now collecting information
about their respective fields Such infor-
nation is to be common property anon
the boards, and early in the fall another
meeting of conference is TO be held to
definitely map out and assign different
parts OF each particular held. The aim IS
TO send to these fields a united ana not
divided Christianity.
1t has been decided to begin work on the
buildings OF Virginia Union University
| early this autumn, but to take plenty OF
time about completing them In order that
they may be substantial. They are to be
four in number, and to be located on
grounds adjoining those of Eartshorn Me-
| mortal College, in a suburb of Richmond.
The university is a development OF the
American Baptist Home mission Society,
| and is for the education Of colored pupils.
Tt is to be grouped around the Richmond
Theological Seminary, which is 70 become
the Biblical department. Famous old
Wayland Seminary at Washington is to
~ / - fAlA ~ $3.50
| institutions to become affiliated with the
| university are Spiller Academy at Hamp-
| ton and Virginia Seminary at L~ynchburg-
The library and chapel, the latter a room
| on the second floor Of the library, to seat
six hundred, is to be erected by contrt-
buttons from colored people, led by gradu-
ates of schools now to be animated with
the university. Colored Baptists of Viz
| ginia and white Baptists of the North
| work in as they do not in some
| States, and his splendid educational de-
veloprnent IS in part made possible by
that harmony.
The new League for Social Service. of
which the Rev. DIR. Josiah Strong, late of
the Evangelical Alliance, is to be the head
is to nave DR.. William H. Tolman, re-
| Gently of the New York Society for Inn
| proving the Condition of the Poor, as It's
field secretary. The new league Is to
have, in addition TO its educational work
carried on by the distribution OF pamph-
let's. a bureau of information on socio-
logical subjects, which will indicate
| sources of Information for clergymen,
| editors and college students. Some OF the
men who are behlnd the new movement
are Bishop Potter of New York; the Rev.
DIR. Washington GLADDEN., of Columbus,
o.; the Rev. DIR. Charles Fl. P~arkhurst,
| the Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, Alice
Freeman Palmer, former president OF
Wellesley; Mary Lowe Dickinson. OF the
| Kings Daughters; Margaret e. Sangster,
of ..Harper's Bazaar, and r. w Glider, OF
| the Century Magazine. The league VIII
lose nc time IN getting 10 active Noih,
in which it Is assisted much by members
| of the Christian Endeavor. the EpWorth
League and the Baptist and Lutheran
young people.
| que of America are to go. for their tenth
anniversary, to New York, where the
| league started, and they expect the
largest number Of delegates in the MIS-
| tory of their five conventions. Not only
| so, but there are to be present Swedes,
Norwegians, Danes and half a dozen
other nationalities from the Northwest.
where Lutherans are strong. 1t is one OF
the purposes for which the league exists
! to unite these many-tongued Lutherans.
now unhappily divided. not so much on
doctrinal as on grounds of different tenn
| permanent. The league also seeks to in
| crease the number of English-speakinS
congregations, not by converting Germans
| and the rest, but by helping to organize
congregations for the rapidly increasing
number OF English Lutherans. THESE
| conventions have had words to centralize
the thought of the gathering. The word
for the approaching October convention
in New York is to be Labor commit
tees are already at work upon details OF
convention entertainment.
Free Baptists of the United States hold
their riennia general conference this
year. 1t is to close an unusual series OIL
Free Baptist gatherings which open at
Old Orchard on Monday. The beginning
of the series will be a Bible convocation,
to be followed by a Chautauqua. TO con-
Jinu6 during the IlISl three WtGAS VI
gust. The United Society Of Young Peo-
| pies convention lasts three days, and the
general conference one week. The latter
| IS a delegated body, and plans fer all de-
| rtmen of the denominations Work,
, as missions. education. church extension
, and social reform. The session is a most
important one. The methods touching all
| departments of the denominations work
| are in a transition state, and demands for
| their settlement are pressing on every
hand.
The Brotherhood of the Kingdom is a
growing organization of young clergy and
| laity which strives for greater unity
among church people, a more careful
righteousness in social and political life;
| II holds an annual conference III a small
| Hudson River village. This conference be
gins on August l, this year, and among
of New Zealand; Henry D. Lloyd, OF
BB ealaToa Of Philadelphia. Professor
| Rauschenbusch, of Rochester Theological
dent of the State Union of the New York
Baptist Young Peoples Union. Trades;
Union" Social Work of the Church, !
"The Rural Population and the Social
Movement" and The Social ideas OF
| Paul. will be discussed !,
S-wedenborgians have recently organized
a S-wedenborgian Scientific Society for the
| purpose of translatihg and publishing the
! Scientific works of Emanuel ~SWedenborg.
These works, like the same reformer's re-
| iiejous works. are tremendously volum-
linous. Indeed, it is marvellous how many
books S~wedenborg was able to put to-
| gether. Members of the new Churcn
| maintain that the scientific training OF
works better. None hav even been pub
| lished by an American Society, and a few
| that have been printed in England are
| poorly translated.