The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-13
LIBERAL LEADERS in. CHINA.

Union University is to be ,dedi-
Gated next Thursday and Friday
The institution is located Just. outside
oil Rchmond, and was formed by the con-
solidation of Wayland College. Washington
and the Virginia Theological Seminary,
Richmond, with the new expenditure of
about 100000. is under charge of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society.
and is for the education of male colored
youths. Its departments are academic,
normal, industrial, collegiate and theolo-
gical, and students attend from all over
the South, but chiefly from Virginia. Sit
uated in close proximity to it is Hartshorn
Memorial College for female colored youth.
The speakers at the dedication, which is
10 form part Of the commencement include
General Thomas j. Morgan, the Rev. DR..
II. L. Morehouse, New York; the Rev. DR..
John II. Mason, of Batavia, and the Rev.
Dr. Homer p. Gross of Boston. Colored
Baptists South are raising funds to erect
an Industrial hall to form an additional
building of the foundation.
The Luther League OF America, the
young peoples organization among all
branches of American Lutherans, meets in
biennial session in the First Lutheran
Church of Cincinnati May q, %, 81. The
watchwords of the meeting will be
Means" Methods and Men" The
principal topic of the convention will be
The Leagues part in Home Missions" and
the appointed speakers upon it are the
Rev. l.. r. keyser, of Atchson. Kan, and
the Rev. c. x. Hunton, of Columbus, o.
'Women's Work in the Church will be
outlined by Miss Magdelene 3. King, of
Buffalo, and Sister Jennie. Of the Lutheran
Deaconess House al Baltimore, the later
to present the cause of the deaconess.
Church Expansion will be discussed by
the Rev. l.. 3. Wolf missionary in India,
and the Rev. J. c. KunXman, superintend-
ent of Home Missions.
The closing session of the convention will
be held in Music Hall, with addresses on
"American Methods and Methods for
Americans by Rev. DR.. f. A. Kaehler.
of Buffalo. and Men of the Twentieth
Century, by the Rev. DIR. S. B. Barnitz,
of Des Moines, Iowa.
THE CHRISTIA NENDEAVORERS.
So many Christian Endeavorers are book
ing for tours abroad that managers of
summer schools and summer conventions
at home are beginning TO fear for the size
s Of their audiences. The number is
not less than three thousand at
this date, all booked to sail dur
ing the first week in july London
is making most elaborate preparations.
The Worlds Endeavor Convention is to be
held in the Alexandra Park and Palace
in that city. The big tent from this coun-
try has already been shipped, and many
small tents will transform the park into
grand encampment. The huge banquettinS
hall of Alexandra Palace is TO be used
for a dormitorN for women EndeaVorers.
On the Saturday before the convention
opens meetings are to be held in Exeter
Hail. ST. James Hall, and the Alexandra
Palace. The London committee, rather
more strict Sabbatarians than we Ameri-
cans, has issued circular urging Eng
Itch Endeavorers to arrange for visitors
to accompany them to religious services on
the Sunday just preceding the convention,
doing so at places reached without the
employment fer transportation OF tram
car, train or omnibus.
Efforts are being made to form in the
United States. England Germany and Rus
STA a Christian Lea gue-the name has not
vet been choser-which shall seek to pro-
tect those liberal leaders in China who adj
vocated for their Empire the adoption OF
Western and Christian ideas. The Emperor
who led them is in prison, and many OF
their number is in exile 1t is. said by mis-
sionary officials just returned from emma
that most of these liberal men are likely
to lose their heads unless Intervention is
made in their behalf. The appeal to form
the league puts these facts before Christian
people of this country. and asks whether
Christianity can afford to stand idly by
and see these progressive men suffer. The
purpose of the organization is to influence
united action on the part of the govern
ments named to save the lives and proper
ties of those prosecuted liberals.
LAY REPRESENTATION.
The action of the General Convention
now in session in Chicago, in declaring
against equal lay representatio in annual
conferences is said by. ethodist leaders to
be tentative only, in the sense that every
body recognizes that within a short time
there will arise in the Methodist Church the
same clamoring for lay representation IN
annual that there has been during the
last ten years for representation in the
general body. I1aymen cannot De kept
out of the District Conferences is the
almost universal opinion Furthermore,
change that is coming, and one even more
radical and unrelished by the ministers,
is the division OF the business positions.
Heretofore the BUSINESS of American Meth
o(lisrn has been conducted, not by btsl-
ness men, but by ministers. That anomaly
cannot. it is said, obtain hereafter. In con-
sequence some growing is already heard,
and the General Conferences, which admit
YET adjourned
The American. Sunday -school Union, which
celebra ted Its seventy-hfth anniversary last
wear did not rest oni is laurels immediate
w afterward Its report for the twelve
month lust closed shows remarkable ac-
tiyity. u IS workers organized no fewer
Ithan 1850 new sunday -scfools, having in
them almost T5,o09 teachers and pupils.
There were besides SIS schools recognized,
SO that there are. as the result OF the
Unions labors last year, ,395 schools in
existence. Aid was given for the first time
to 1857 schools, and 7,4s5 schools were
personally visited to supervise and encour-
age them Still further. 14S,075 families
were visited for purposes of religious con-
yersati ton and prayer, and Is, IA sermons
were delivered: Although reports of re-
suits are incomplete, it is given out that
no fewer than 6,315 persons confessed
Christ as the result of the labor of the
faithful Union men. The Union S receipts
were $1,000 in advance Of last year. and
for the first time the Union is now wholly
free from debt.
Bishop Whipple, the Episcopal Diocesan
of Minnesota, announces to his clergy
that lie VII not at resent ask for Blsh-
OPP Ccadjutor. The Bishop OF Minnesota is
seventy-eight years9of age, and has BEEN
until the last year or two, In quite feeble