The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15
BAPTISTS IN THE LEAD
MAKING MORE PROGRESS IN CUBA
THAN OTHER DENOMINATIONS.
Marrying and Baptizing the Unregen-
Grated by acknowledgements
Church News and Religious Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK Jan. 14-In eastern Cuba, as
well as in Havana, the Baptsts are far in
the lead OF other religious bodies in the
new Protestant effort inaugurated since
the termination of the Spanish-American
war. A Baptist congregation has been or
ganized at Santiago with above ninety MEM
bers. Another has been formed at Guanta-
namo with forty-six members. Recently an
agent of the American Bible Society did
some preliminary work in the last named
town in the direction of getting a society
together, and invited the Rev. ]. r. O'Hal-
loran. of Havana, to come and preach.
He came preached in the morning and in
the afternoon immersed ffty-one candidates
In small stream which empties into Guam
tanamo bay. A condition of membership
was that men and women who were living
together should first be legally married be-
fore being baptized. The reason that they
had not been was because of the high mar
riage fees charged by the priests. The
Baptist ministers obtained proper civil
authority to marry, performed the ceremony
by wholesale and then baptized the people
in truly pentecostal fashion.
The American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety has just appointed the Rev. H. p. Nc
Cormick, of Virginia, to be its general mis-
sionary in Porto Rico, and the Rev. II. r.
Mosley, of Florence, S. c., to be general
missionary in eastern Cuba.
Christian brothers, who maintain colleges
in st. Louis, Baltimore, Washington, st.
Joseph, Mo-, San Francisco, Memphis and
New Mexico, are fighting against the mach
nations of an influential F'renchman, who
is an adviser of the superior general of the
brothers, whose name is Gabriel Marie, and
who resides in Paris This Frenchman, for
reasons best known to himself, wants the
Pope to order Christian brothers in Amer
lea to cease teaching Latin in their col
leges on the ground that the brothers were
organized 20 teach the children of the poor,
who have no need to acquire Latin. The
claim is made in opposition that conditions
here are unlike conditions obtaining in
France, and that to exclude Latin from the
st. Louis, the Washington, the San Fran
cisco and other institutions would mean
their ruin. The brothers are not priests,
but laymen, and their organization dates
from 1851. They have been at work in this
country about half a century, teaching in
parochial schools, as well as in distinct col
leges under their charge.
Methodists have decided to appoint at once
a general secretary of their twentieth-cen-
fury offering, who shall give his entire time
to the work Of organizing conferences, pre-
siding elders districts and Epworth leagues,
An executive committee, which has upon it
Bishops Andrews, Foss and Fowler, has
been named. The suggestion is made to
Methodist pastors that the day set apart
for prayer for colleges, Thursday, jan &c,
be observed by Methodist congregations in
connection with this fund.
The Parochial Missions Society, Protestant
Episcopal, has elected the Rev. Nelson p.
Dame, of winchester, Va, as it's general
missionary, and it will undertake the hold
ing of missions in various parts of the
country during the coming Lenten season
and afterward. Besides missions, it is the
purpose of the society to undertake what
it terms preaching weeks" For these it
will, upon application, furnish eminent cler-
gymen from Chicago, st. Louis, Pittsburg
Indianapolis, Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia and other cities.
Bishop Niles, of New Hampshire is at the
head of a committee which is considering
the practicability of establishing a seminary
for the better training or missionaries Tor
work in both home and foreign fields. A
meeting of the committee is to be held on
Jan. % to consider suggestions made to it.
The Congregational Church Building So
ciety helped to erect lightweight new
churches last year, and existing congrega-
tions gave it $4,000 more than on any pre-
vious year of it's history. Besides the new
churches, the society helped to erect forty
eight new parsonages, and 264 churches
cleared off their debts with the society dur
ing the year. DR.. Lucien c. Warner has
been elected president of the society, sue
ceeding the Rev. DR.. Henry A. Stimson.
The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions,
which reported a debt of $165 900 to the Cen
eral Assembly held at Winona, Ind, last
May, has raised $4,000 toward paying off
this sum. 1t is making the promise that,
out of debt this time. it will never get into
debt again. Several boards have made this
promise Of late years under similar circum-
stances, and all have kept it, The Presbys
terrain Home Board is the only one of the
large societies having a heavy debt still
remaining on its hands.