The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20

land, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Aus
tralia and New Zealand. The presence
of foreign visitors was a notable fea-
ture of American conferences which
have just gone by. S. Nina, gener-
al secretary of the Toxic (Japan)
Young Mems Christian Association,
was present at Asheville and Northfield
and four student leaders from the con-
tinent Of Europe were present at Lake
Geneva and Mortified as the guests
of the conferences. These were Pastor
L. P. Larsen, of Denmark, who is soon
to go to India In mission work among
the students of Madras; L. E. Brandt
travelling secretary of the Netherlands
Students Christian Union; o. Ricard
of Copenhagen University, and Elaud
Bjorck of Upsala University, Sweden
The presence and cooperation of these
men attested the worldwide character
of the students Christian movement.
The Southern Presbyterian church,
through the report of a special COM
mittee on Christian education, present.
ed to its late general assembly, ex-
pressed satisfaction at the awakening
in that church and in other churches
to the Importance of the subject and
at the increasing number of schools
of various grades under church control.
The assembly adopted a constitution
maintained
by single congregations or by two or
more contiguous congregations. The
schools, called Westminster schools are
to be primary and secondary in grade,
for young men or young women or
both, and to be distinctively Christian
In character, having the Bible as a
text book and the standards of the
church as we'll The plan of organ
ization contemplates the appointment
If
education by the general assembly, the
synods and the presbyteries, the duty
of which shall be to gather and dissem-
mate information and stimulate inter-
est in the subject.
The Baptists are spreading in Ger
many. A new Baptist publication house
was formally dedicated at Cassell a few
weeks ago. The yearly sales of this
establishment have grown from about
$4,000 in 1879 to $4,000. Besides it's
book list, of which Surgeons sermons
is the most important item, it pub
fishes six periodicals with a total of
about 10000 subscribers. 1t sent out
in 1898 about 100000 pages of tracts
and $4,000 Bibles, Testaments and parts
of Scripture.
According to the reports made at the
recent annual meeting of the American
Unitarian Association, the number of
SoAiAAAbhtitlE ClluICI1SS IOSE QuTlUB laSl
year from 274 to 319 the largest num-
Der in the history of the association. A
resolution was passed recognizing the
intellectual agreement and the deeper
faith of the heart which bind together
the Unitarian and Unlversalist fell
loWships," and inviting the Universal
ist general convention to join with the
association in appointing a conference
committee to consider plans of closer
communion and greater usefulness.
The American Tract Society makes
an interesting exhibit in its annual re-
port of work done last year. OF new
permanent publications. there were is
sued 81, u Of which We're volumes. This
makes a total issued by the society of
1857 separate publications, 2019 being
volumes. The leading and unusual
work of last year was the distribution
of over 100000 pages of Christian liter
AZURE in the army and navy. Similar
literature in the Spanish language is
now being distributed through the
hands of Christian workers in our
newly-acquired islands, and in the Nor
mon homes Of Utah. So closely does
the work of our great religious organ
izations link itself with the solution OF
the most perplexing problems of states
manship.
The receipts for the year were $685.
414.S4. The aggregate amount of gra-
tuitous distribution last year was SCI.
27510, against $14,911.51 the year pre-
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