The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-29
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San Juan.
EVANGELICAL LEADERS ACTIVE.
Catholic Missionary Union in America
Rabbi Gotthoil Eetires From
Emanu-El on Account OF
Advanced Age.

to plant i'm that city not q Presbyterian
Church but "a Christian one, cohauSle"
along the lines of a family church' IL
will be under control OF the Presbyterian
'Board Of Home Missions. which already
has one promising mission on the island
located in the city Of Moyaguez.
Missionary societies of the various re-
lleious bodies arc feeling the effects OF
I the improved financial times. The PreS-
byterian Foreign Board is no less IMAM
$4,000 ahead Of last year. and tnat gam
was made during summer months. Inc
Methodist Missionary Society is $NO'VV
'ahead of last year The Missionary COM
mittce of the last named denomination
..meets in Washington next month 10 ap-
! portion funds and consider new work
Among this new work will be some mis-
/, sious I'm Porto Rico, and perhaps some III
the Philippines
Concerning IT'S heavy debt OF ABOUT
$4,000 the American Board has decided
TO allow those which is responsible for the
debt 10 pay IT,, ~ not the coming year.
then the year after. The falling behind
this year is said 10 have been due wholly
90 decline On amounts received from leg
acies il is believed that these VIII IN
crease next year and When they DO 50
they will make good the deficit. Inc IN
come from the churches was ahead IoI
behind that Of last year and so It mas
been decided not to throw a new burden
upon the churches by asking them to pay
the large sum named. With the neNl
president, Hon. S. II. Capen, in charge
the hopes of the American Board have
risen with new courage. No one has yet
been selected for his place on the Com
mittee of Fifteen. and some Consrega-
tionaiists are wondering whether the
Committee is competent TO perpetuate
itself in the manner indicated
THE WEST MORE ACTIVE.
Leaders in the evangelical movement
now on have just had reports from careful
observers Of religious conditions through
out the country. These reports say that IN
ST. Louis. Minneapolis. Chicago and De-
troit the interest is very wide among
an classes. and that IN indianapolis, GIN
cinnati. Philadelphia and Brooklyn II IS
scarcely less so. THE Bible classes In
Chicago are half rs large again as ever
before. These evangelical leaders report
that while the higher critics are active
in and about the University Of Chicago
they are not getting a following outside
and that the tendency i'm all States from
Massachusetts west 10 Kansas rs most
decidedly toward the old Bible. The same
authorities say that although the Rev. g.
Campbell Morgan closed his phenomenal
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lyu before throngs of people. filling the
great Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
five times in three DAYS as il has not
been filled in years. the West is more
active than the East and is leading In the
present movement
The present plans OF Tnitarians and
/ Tnivcrsalists toward denOmnauOnal un-
joins are the outcome Of efforts covering
several years. and conviction Of even
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need for separate corporate existence.
/ Unitarian doctrines as commonly set
/ forth contain one clause that the doc
true just adopted 10y Universal
fists does not. and the Uniyer-
ealists principle mentions one
plank that Uniurians do not. These
uianks are. respectively. salvation b.
character" and 1.-THE certainty OF retribu-
/ ton for SIM" There "a said TO be little
| or nO opposition 10 union in any quarter
CATHOLIC MISSIONARY UNION.
The society OF st. Paul, Roman CATH
| Ole organization dcyotiug its energies
chiefly 10 missions 90 non-Catholics has
now eleven missionary priests. These
! have just concluded remarkable sue
cessful tour of the southern and South
western States. They report marked in
| tcrest in their services. The name OF
/ the particular organization under which
eheY labor is the Catholic Missionary IN
ion They have House Of Studies at
Washington which they are charging.
/ The plan Of their work Is exactly similar
! to that of the Protet1 missionary or
| ganizations. IN that they have a central
/ board and secure contributions from gen
eral sources The detail Of their work
differs I'm some respects, being diocesan
The eleven missionaries have Just
Returned 20 their headquarters for their
annual retreat. but at the end OF
November viii enter upon second Sc
! ries OF meetings 10 cover the Middle West
Most Of their meetn-5 are held In han
rather than in churches, In order better
! 10 attract nOn-chur- ers ana Protes-
tants.
Temple Emanuel the greatest Jewish
/ place Of worship in the world, Is now
without q rabbi IL located on Fifth
J Avenue, New York, Just above Forty
second street and is by no means as pre-
| tentious in appearance ass the more snowy
| temDle on the same avenue at Seventy
sixth street fronting Central Park. Its
prominence comes from the social posi-
| ton and wealth OF It's members. The
rabbi. the venerable Dr. Gustav Gottheil
retres ON account OF age. ana becomes
rabbi emeritus al a sa lry OF #o'Wo year
some time since Temple Emanu-El called
Rabbi Emil G.. Hirsch az Chicagos Tenn
pie Sinai Congregation but he declined
pWho will now succeed % this prominent
position cannot be c1ulectured. During
the next few months different men are TO
be heard. some of them from synagogues
in the West The Rev DR. Gotthen re-
tires at the end OF this current month
Last summer an opeu-air campaign pro-
secuted in Pn-ladelpha resulted IN the
conversion OF g3l persons and getting or
a large proportion Of tIe number into the
churches as members Presbyterians led
| In the undertaking. Tents were main
tanned in different parts Of the city. and
evangelists Of prominence conducted SER
vices in them. The ccs. was about 5000
but most inconsiderahe part or this sum
went for tents and other Outht that VIII
be available a second season. IL has Just
been decided to take Up the Work on lar
ger scale next year.
ST. ANDREWS BROTHERHOOD.
The Brotherhood Of S. Andrew has I'M
deriaken 10 raise funds 90 send as many
| chaplains as possible 20 the Philippines
on board the transports now leaving with
troops. The spiritual desttuuon OF Amer
lean soldiers IN the fell has been en-
phasized by Army Secretary Peytcn re-
Gently returned, and ED.sco9alans are
! 10 be appealed 20 for funds 10
send clergy there. Last summer there
were five Episcopal workers AT MAMMA
four Of them in orders. but one or them
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