The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-22
INFLUX OF HARDY Films
ONE SAFE TO BE COMING
soon TIC FREE AMERICA.
Many Are Lutherans, Educated and
Thrifty, and All Want to Es-
cape Russian Oppression.
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NEW YORK, Dec. H.-Finnish Luther
ans are increasing in number in this coun-
try at the rate OF 1900 a year. and those
conversant with conditions say that prac-
tically the whole militant population OF
Finland. numbering 100000, will come to
America. The movement is to be a steady
one. they say, 5000 TO 1900 a year. BY no
means all affiliate with churches on their
arrival, but the Finnish Lutheran synod is
growing in strength rapidly. This synod
has missions in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Minneapolis and many smaller
cities, and is extending its work along the
continental lines of railway in the North
west, and across the line in Canada In 1889
the number Of communicates in Finnish
Lutheran churches in America was less
than 10000. Now the number exceeds $1,000.
This influx of Firms is to mean, so Luther
an leaders already here predict. the addi-
ton of at least 1000, coo Woodworking, WELL
educated and thrifty people Of a vastly
higher grade than the average immigrants.
Elev~en-twelfthS Of the Firms at home are
agriculturists, and no other region in the
world, located in such high latitude, is so
intelligently titled as Finland. There are
no fewer than twelve schools in which the
best farm methods are taught. Practically
al rims are LuLneTanS, n6nCS Ine ailSScQ
Russian pretensions that are sending the
Firms across the Atlantic. The best sailors
in the Russian navy have long been young
Firms. An agreement was made in 1908 be-
tween Finland and Russia, which has al
ways been kept till now by both parties
The year named was that on which the al
legiance of Finland passed from Sweden to
Russia. Conditions of the agreement in
cluced local self-governInent and religious
liberty. The present Gear is not keeping
the agreement, 1t IS said. Firms arriving
here recently say he wants their intelligent
youth for his nav and army. Heretofore
Firms have not been compelled to enter the
Russian army. The Russian language has
largely replaced the Finn in the schools,
and studies heretofore taught, including the
history of Finland, have been thrown out
and Russian studies put in. There are
growing Russian Church aggressions also,
so these arriving Lutheran Firms say, and
they profess to fear future methods more
harsh than those already realized. Hence
the Finnish Lutheran gains in Canada and
America.
The pulpit committee Of fremont Temple,
Boston, finds that most OF the men whom
it might have considered in connection with
a Temple call tied themselves up in one
way or another just before the late pastor,
the Rev. DR.. Lorimer, resigned. These men
include the Rev. DR.. McLaurin, who went
from Detroit TO Rochester; the Rev. DIR.
Henson, who went from Chicago to Brook
Ign, and the Rev. DIR. Dixon, who went
from Brooklyn TO another Boston charge.
The committee in question has been trying
to get the Rev. DR.. Macarthur. of New
York, and Rev. DR.. Cortland Myer, of
Brooklyn. Among the men whom it is
known the committee have had under con-
sideration is the Rev. DIR. T.. j. Villers, Of
Indianapolis. The pastorate of fremont
Temple is counted among the most impor-
tant in the entire Baptist denomination.
XXX
The FniscOnaI BOARD of Missions has
adopted the district secretary plan, and
has pamed secretaries as follows: For the
New England States, the Rev. James
Dew. Perry, jr., Fitchburg, Mass; the
middle States, the Rev. Richard c. Will
liams, Washington, d. c.; the Northwest,
the Rev. DIR. r. w. Clark, Detroit; Gulf
States, the Rev. DIR. Frank Page, Waco,
Tex; remaining Southern States, the Rev.
John G.. Murray, Birmingham, Ala; the
Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains,
the Rev. DR.. Campbell Fair, Omaha, and
the Pacific coast, the Rev. John A. Emery,
San Francisco. 1t is the purpose of these
appointments to educate the church on Civ
ing, and, incidentally, to collect as much
money as possible. The board has also
adopted an apportiOnment plan among the
diOceSeS. Here are some amounts the board
expects: From Chicago, $4,000; Colorado,
s., 400; Connecticut, $1,000; indianapolis, ST.
zoo; Iowa, $4,000; Kentucky, $500; Long
Island, $4,000; Massachusetts. $1,000; Mis-
souri,. 81. 200: New York, $92, 600; Ohio, $4,000;
Pennsylvania, $4,000; P~ittsburg, $12, 900:
Tennessee, s., 400, and western New York.
$12, 600. These figures are based on a total
of $750,00, which sum includes, however,
500. 600 from the Woman's Auxiliary, and a
like sum from the children OF Sunday
schools, to be collected during the APP
preaching Lent. An additional sum is to be
asked since the church decided. at San
Francisco, to try to raise s1,OOO,OO0 a year
for general missions.