The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-10

/ endowmenS day will be celebrated to-day
/ Mortified schools, Fhe seminary for girls.
/ and Mt. Hermon, for boys, are for daugh-
/ tors and sons of ministers VINO are getting
along on a few hundred dollars a year
/ Attendance at them was larger this year
than ever before. and many more students
are refused than can be accommodated.
Each pays 500, but the cost for tuition
and maintenance is 500. SO $3.50 900 IS
needed annually. The endowment is to
be the monument to Mr.. Moody.
Churches in many cities are Selling the
opportunity Of the obseques of Queen Vic
toria to suggest memorials OF many sorts
and kinds. In a score of cities already
churches are reported which have had Of
fers of new windows, new pulpits new
parish houses, new parsonages, all to bear
the name of the dead Queen. Especially
are churches in this country having large
English memberships being benefited.
Memorials of many kinds are being offer
ed to them and IL seems now not inn
probable that the name Victoria will be
almost as common in the churches of this
country as in the churches Of England
and Canada.
The latest thing in church work is
debt-payer, devised by Mr. Joseph W
Powell of Buffalo, n. Y. II has as its
basis a bond scheme which is worked
before the audience by means OF chart
and seals. so that the congregation can
sit and watch the heavy debt melt away
before their very eyes. Mr. Powell has
surprised the many churches where his
aid has been invoked, having never in
single instance failed to raise the entire
amount required, and usually neat sur
plus, as well, to meet contingencies. These
debts have ranged anywhere from 50 900
to $4,000 in many states, both North and
South.
Mr. Howard Doane. the millionaire Bap-
tist song writer, has retired as president
of the Central Trust Company, Cincin-
natl, and Will devote the remainder Of
his life to Christian work. He has been
known as a writer of sacred songs since
1862. Among his famous compositions are;
1.-The Old, Old Story" Safe in the Arms
of Jesus" More Like Jesus" Pass Ne
Not" Rescue the Perishing" Draw Me
Nearer" Tell 1t With JOY" "A Few
More Weary Marchngs" and 1.-THE Prod
igal Child" Asked what he regarded as
the keynote of his business success, he
said: II believe in work and in doing
with the whole heart whatever Is at
tempted The Lord has blessed me more
than I deserve, and / now propose to de-
vote my life to making the world better
Tor my having lived.
Lincolns birthday to-day Is to be made
the occasion of special offerings through
out the Methodist Church, North for the
cause of education in the South, through
the Freedmans Aid and Southern Edu-
cational Society. A special appeal has
been sent to all of the 50e0 ministers of
the denomination, urging an observance
of the day in the manner indicated. AS
the of an American Highlander I'm
the South, and as the emancipation of the
negro, Lincoln represents both phases Of
the great work OF this society among the
destitute whites and blacks. At its last
meeting the general committee of the
society appropriated 100000 as a special
new century thank Offering on the socie-
tvs debt. The Lincoln Sunday is devised
to help on this offering, and also to call
attention to Methodist work among the
poor whites and blacks of the South.
Women of the country are getting up
petitions affecting the two forthcoming
expositions, the one in Buffalo the coming
summer and the one in st. Louis to follow
soon after. Petitions are being circulated
in many states in the East urging that
the gates of the Pan-American Exposition
be kept closed on Sundays, and similar
petitions are to be started in the West;
praying the same IN regard 10 the st.
Louis enterprise In some quarters minis
ters Of the Gospel are said to have sug-
gested that exhibits be kept closed on
| Sundays, but that the gates be left open
and concerts be held This suggestion
! the women denounce as a compromise.
! The Woman's Sabbath Alliance, a ma
tional, body, is leading in the petition
movement and as affecting the Buffalo
Exposition 1t claims to be meeting with
enormous IF cfr
lures