Evening star., 1901-04-27
IN T HE CH URCHE S

Mr. E. o. Sellers Of Macon Ca has ac-
cepted . position with the Young Mems
Christian Association of this city as one of
the secretaries and will enter upon the
discharge Of his new duties May l. Mr.
Sellers Is expected to devote most of his
time to membership work. For some time
past he has been the general secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A. of Macon, Ga, where he
has made fine record. 1t is stated that
he took up the work there when things
were in an unpromising condition and has
brought their building to completion with
out debt upon 1t. He stands high in the
esteem of the people of that city generally
may be termed advanced thinkers in church
matters are considering the advisability of
establishing in connection with one of the
large churches nursery, similar to and
upon the plan of one recently opened al
Broaddus Memorial Baptist Church, Rich
mond, Va. In talking with a Star reporter
on the subject Mr.. B. F. johnson. the
founder of the institution, said: Surely
| If there Is any one in the world who stands
In need of the means Of grace which the
church services and the Bible school fur
nishes it is the mother. A good Scotch
woman used to say that she loved to think
OF heaven as place where she might sit
all the Sabbath with her hands folded on
her clean white apron and sing psalms to
her hearts content-those hands were SO
tired. There are so many mothers with
tired hands today because they need the
Sabbath rest for their hearts. 1t is the
want of rested heart that makes the bur
dens on our hands so heavy. and our moth
erS need a chance to sit with folded hands
| for an hour on the Sabbath day singing
| psalms. The Broaddus Memorial Nursery
has been planned to provide this oppor-
| tunity. and we are anxious that the oppor-
tunity shall be taken by every mother
| within reach of it. We want to Tighten the
! burden Of every mother in our neighbor-
hood and to bring more sunshine into the
lives OF the little children. and as the
| babes grow up We want to bring them into
our Bible school and into our church work
| and into communion with our common
| Father"
Professor Kerby of the Catholic Cniyer-
sity and Mr.. Carroll ID. Wright United
States commissioner of labor have accept
| ed invitations to attend the third annual
session of the Harvard School of Theology,
which will be held July . to L.. The school
will have for its broad theme of inyestiga-
ton The Christian Minister'S Relation to
Social Questions" Professors Taussig and
carver of Harvard and j. b. Clark of Co
umbia University will deal with the more
| strictly economic phases of the problem
President Eliot, Prof. F. c. Peabody, Prof
kerby, Mr.. Carroll d. Wright Booker T.
Washington, Robert A. Woods of the South
| End House Boston, and Dean Hodges of
| the Episcopal School, Cambridge Will lee
| ture on the more practical aspects of the
question. President Eliot's topic, THE Vol
untary Church and Its Ministry" being the
most notable. OF the lecturers on the ethi-
cal and theological aspects of the question
Prof George Herbert Palmer, Prof.-elect
w. w. Fem Of the Harvard Divinity
School. Prof. H. c. King of Oberlin. Presi-
dent Hyde of Bowdoin College and Dr. A
H. Bradford are the best known
The members Of the Episcopal Church of
the diocese of Washington are to be given
an opportunity, it is understood, to con-
tribute toward fund for Protestant Epis-
copal diocese in the Philippines. The move
ment has been started by the Church Club
of New York, at the solicitation of Gen F.
V. Greene. 1t has invited other clubs to
assist In the work and wants contributions
from all who are willing TO help in this
manner. Episcopal work was started In Ma
Mia by Rev. DIR. c. c. Pierce, an army
chaplain, who had no thought OF such a
course until a party Of Filipino men waited
formally upon him and asked him to give
I them celebration Of the holy communion,