The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-15

thu original, all arc in harmony in the MAJ
tor OF upiift work. There are no" tour
teen Chautauqua summer Schools a,lu
some OF the Cuban teachers now IN the
United States are to be given Tree tuil'oii
in them. TIE number of summer pupils
reaches about 3,GJ0-a larger number thaii
attend any other system of summer
instruction in the world
FLOCK TO NORTHF1ELD.
It is now quite clear that the admirers.
the ardent ones. of the late Mr. Moody,
are preparing to flock to Mortified next
month apparently TO show that Mortified
as q religious institution is not TO decline
in popularity ana influence because It's
founder is dead. Not a few of these adj
mirers are known to have foregone trips
TO Europe solely that they might be III
evidence at Mortified. The memory of the
elder Moody is being invoked TO the ut
most detail, in the preparations now going
forward. even to the prediction, made
familiar by the great evangelist Tor the last
two decades at least, that the country Is
on tn" eve of the greatest spiritual reviv-
al it has yet known. One thing is certain.
The success of Mortified is assured this
year, whatever may come TO 1t next Year
and the year after Beginning on August
d and for twenty days, it will be the ma
tional centre Of the evangelicals.
An innovation is made in the programme
of the first Brotherhood of st. Andrew
National Convention to be held in the
South. It is to have all morning sessions
devoted to business matters. The Brother
hood is developing work along many diff
ferent lines, and mas junior department.
army work Bible class lessons and the
rule of service TO discuss, and some of them
to dispose Of. The rule of service, which is
ot-., oct nYG o n
week to bring some other young man to
church, is held by many to be too strict
and too literal. and it is likely the rule will
be changed. The anniversary sermon this
year at Richmond is to be delivered by
the new Bishop Coadjutor Of Chicago.
Campaigners OF the Methodist Church.
South began their work this last week
in the Student Volunteer effort, in behalf
of missions The Church South took up
this form of work only Iast year, when
the students placed about one hundred lib
raries in as many churches. This year the
number Of campalgners is about twice the
number Of last year. and the system of
handling them Is better. Eighteen institu-
tons of learning are represented and in
vitations from churches in Virginia, West
Virginia. kentucky. Tennessee, Missouri.
Alabama and Georgia are in hand in large
numbers-larger indeed than it now seems
possible to fill. The aim of these campaign
ers is to arouse in the churches visited
a wider interest in missions: to place
libraries ON missions. and to organize mis-
sion leagues where such do not already
exist. Denominatto tons other than Methodist
South, which have campaigners out this
year. include Presbyterian. Baptist. Con-
gregational, United Brethren, universaist.
Lutheran, Disciples of Christ and Friends.
ABSTINENCE UNION.
The next meeting OF the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, which is to open in
Philadelphia on August Sth. will be the
thirteenth annual one. The Right Rev.
Manager Ccnaty, rector of the Catholic
University, is to give the annual sermon
this year, following the opening pontitical
mass The intended feature of the meeting
is new crusade against saloon men, who
hold a moro or less nominal membership
in the Roman Catholic church 1t has been
the practice Of the Union in its national
capacity to speak some plain language on
this subject, but it is said some even plain
er words are already in shape to come
from the Union as a national body. The
number of societies now is 9i3, ana the
number of members SO,34S
The treaty signed two years ago between
China and France was really, it is said.
framed by Cardinal Rampolla in Rome.
L accords special privileges to Roman
Catholic bishops and priests in China over
Protestant clergy. The two points OF 1t are
the relative rank of ecclesiastical and gov
ernmental officials, and the making OF 1t
possible for Roman Catholic prelates to go
directly to government officials and not,
as before through the consul OF the coun-
trv from which they come. The former Is
necessary owing to the peculiar social
notions obtaining in China and the latter
is an official recognition of the Christian
religion on nearly par with Confucianism.
t1- yaI missionaries standing,
and NAV well be believed to have aided the
Boxers in arouSing popular indignation
against Christians.
None of the Roman Catholic missionaries
in China and the far East are Amerl-
cans The headquarters for mission re
cruits is France, where young men ana
young women, despairing of preferment In
business and opposed to immigration from
national instincts, adopt the Church and so
forth as missionaries Many recruits are
had in Belgium, where much the same con-
ditiOns obtain as in France All OF the
clergy III China are regulars. Ihdt is,
they belong to some order. Roman CatA-
olic missions in Japan and in China were
started the second time by St. Francis
Xavier about four hundred years ago, and
from these efforts, one in each OF the coun-
tries named the present ecclesiastical sys-
fem has developed This system, while
in charge of different orders, is not I'M
like Roman Catholic development in other
parts of the world. The Apostolic delegate
~ China is the Right Rev. Mgr. Brau-
suere. italian by birth, who was appoint
ed in 1891.
PILGRIMAGE TO ROME.
Franciscians are TO make Their pilgrimage
to Rome in September and appearances
now ara, that the number from America
will; be about one hundred. The college oil
the Commissariat Of the Holy Land, opened
last October, succeeded in getting only nj
teen pupils last year, but about twice that
number are promised this year me IRAN
ciscans make an appeal to young men, even
to those not intending to enter orders 10
attend as lay brothers. and afterward to
serve in TIL Holy Land. Especially are
cooks, gardeners, plumbers, shoemakers,
taiors and bookkeepers desired. Support
is assured. but in the case of lay brothers
life service is not required. Applicants must
be we'll advanced in classical studies Inc
Commissarat exists for the purpose OF Sc
curing recruits for service in the Holy
Land where Franciscans have had charge
of all OF the shrneS for several centuries,
and where they also have many schools,