The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-07
RADICAL. CHANGES ARE PROPOSED BY
PRESBYTERIANS IN GOVERNMENT
Plans to Create Two Additional Episcopal Diocese
in New York State-WIlat Other Denominations
are Dolng-NeWs of Pulpit and Pew

manager of a score or more orgIn. alions.
AMONG THE LUTHERANS.
| Three years ago Lutherans OF the Cen
eral Council, the largest os Lutheran
| bodies in this country, be-;an a WORK in
tended to increase the familiarity ana
popularity Of the best sacred music among
| the people. In the list wds included all
music OF the first grade. The method
pursued was to interest musical persons
in the churches in the probes, and through
them to try to reach The average church
attendant. In PittSburg there was held
the first convocauon, in Philadelphia the
second, ana beginning next Thursday m
New York viii be held the third. There
are papers upon sacred music. which are
read and afterwards witle!y published,
ideal church services are rendered, ana a
concert is given on one Of the evenings.
In the ideal service the attempt is not
made to render difficult compositions, rlt
rather to give : ICh music as The average
church can give, and to 40 so in 4 manner
that is rs rea; perfection from musical
point of view as possible. 4 quactette or
gained Cor the ideal reneri:.:5 Of sacred
! music and coming from LE.pzly is TO be
heard at the coming convacauon.
Nearly all towns on Capt Cod are suffer-
ing from trr.ine in po21laion, anG this
decline affects not only business interests,
but the hope.Llness of the peon. in re-
lisious r.att":s. In order to revive enthu-
siasm the State Young Men : III stan
Association OF Massachusetts arranges
each summer a series Of meetings, FOR
which S3pi 81. eakerS are provided. This
, past summer meetings We're held in above
thirty .owns, generally beginning on
THURSDAYS ard lasting though sunday
Often simultaneous meetings were held,
and 4 Si.>al deal of new ir,2v2st Is report
ed 10 h,.a. Ecen put forth
METHODISTS IN ROME.
me cable announces the granting by the
Italian Government CT permission to es-
tablish in Rome a Methodist Episcopal
Cotiege- The work referred to is the Young
Ladies Institute, now some fifteen years
old: Funds for the new build ns were coll
lected by the Northwestern branch of the
Methodist Womans Foreign Missionary
! Society and il is to be named Crandon
Hail, in honor of the corresponding secre-
tary of the bTaHch-Mrs. E. p Crandon
of Evanston. The funds are liberal in
amount. and the college will be complete
in all things. \ former student of the
Institute was Miss Garibaldi grand,Iaugh-
ter Of TIE patriot She is now in the Wo-
mans College al Baltimore.
Women began work IN Rome under
Methodist Episcopal auspices. in response
10 an appeal from the mission there. sup
ported by HE missionary society of the
Methodist Church in this country for wo-
men workers and deacCuesses. II was be-
fore the day of Methodist deaconesses to
any extent. but that was the work de-
nanded. One q the women volunteers was
Miss Emma Hall. of CazenovIa, Y. Y.
! Acting as Bible woman. she gave her
work an educational bent, and soon had
applications from number of young
woman tc~ systematic instruction Almost
AT once the Northwestern branch of Chi
cago took hold of the work, and the
present splendid college is the outcome.
1t was not started upon an idea OF Amer
lean Methodism. but grew out of demands
coming from Rome itself. Most OF tie
punis are DAUGHTERS Of the wealthy class
and II Is SAID that = maio~itv now coming
10 ne Institute have little regard for
religion upon Their" arrival For the last
few years the applications for admittance