The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26
METHODISTS DlSPLEASED
PROF. ATwATER's STATEMENT con-
CORNING ALCOHOL RESENTED.
Possibility that DistiiIers Will Put an
sAtwater CocktaiI" on the Market
An Oriental Legend.
speelaI 70 &c Indianapoais Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK. Oct; 25.-Methodist leaders
are stung to the quick. first by the Atwater
incident. and second by facts which they
have discovered upon investigation grow
ing out OF that incident Ministers meet
ings all over the country are expressing In
dignation. It will be recalled that Prof. w.
o. Atwater OF Wesleyan University, a
Methodist institution, is a food expert In
the employ Of the United States govern
ment at its agricultural experiment station
near Middletown. where the university is
located. Professor Atwater declares there
to be nutritive qualities in alcohol, and dis
tulers have seized the statement. which
has government authority, and il Is said
have now an Atwater cocktail. The incl
dent has caused these leaders TO look into
conditions in small towns. and they report
that. in proportion. conditions of intemper-
ance in them are worse than in the cities.
Especially do they find that sons of once
honorable families are being ruined by
drink Some figures at hand are appalling.
and loud calls are making To know what
can be done. That a. man receiving Metho-
dist money for salary could give distillers
such a handle 10 work with angers Metho-
dists. who are declaring that their church
has always been in the van of temperance
reform. Wesleyan trustees are having ire
mendous pressure brought 10 bear upon
them for the removal OF Professor At
water. The legal situation at Middletown
Is not known by these Methodist leaders;
they are merely clamoring that something
be done.
The religious world rings with cries for
j. men. Trustees OF institutions and of
churches say there is growing difficulty in
securing men competent TO fill vacancies of
the first grade. Time was when men were
imported from England, but sentiment is
against that course, save in few religious
bodies and under exceptional circumstances.
There is at the moment needed general
secretary for the United Society of Chris
tian Endeavor, a corresponding secretary
for the American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety general financial agent for the six
Congregational benevolent societies, dean
for the General Theological Seminary, and
q rabbi for Temple EMANUEL, New York.
the greatest Jewish place of worship in the
world. fremont Temple paStOrate, Boston,
IS vacant, and no one in sight for the place.
Discussion is already being had of names
for Methodist bishops. Since the removal
OF the pastoral time limit there is a de-
mand for greater supervision, and because
ministers who are located are determined
TO stay, there is decreased source of sup
ply for episcopal material Finally, there
are, in most of the large cities. pulpits of
the first grade in large numbers looking
Tor occupants. Salaries offered by these va
cant places are hardly in single instance
lower than 5000 year. and some of them
run as high as $4,000. Harder conditions
are coming TO be attached to these impor-
tant positions; conditions which make them
compare in ability requirement with the
great prizes of the commercial world.
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Still another attempt at missionary work
In America is to be made by an Oriental re-
hgion. There have been many such. but
either Americans do not take kindly TO the
Oriental. missionaries from the East
lack the staying powers of American mis-
sionaries to the East. 1t is a form of the
Vedas that comes this time. New York and
Chicago are to be the first centers Brinda-
band Is, as many know, a holy land of In
dfa, where dwell tha monks Of the Walsh
nava, one Of the many varieties of the We
GAS teachlng, for sects are not confined TO
Christianity. Bri K<ishna was incarnated
in this land several thousand wears ago
runs the Vaishnava tradition. There was a
maiden, not married woman like Eve nor
yet woman who got in league with a SCRIP
snt, put handsome girl who was all love
her love was so great, the legend runs
that she was able to create a lake Bri
krfshna, in recognition of her love blessed
the lake. This small body of water i'm
southern India, forms the center of this
holy land, and IL Is around II that the
priests live who hate sent to us the mis-
sionary: The name Of the missionary, who
Is TO labor IN the cities named and who is
already here, is Bahia Premandand Bhsrati
While the priests referred to live about a
lake. they are said 20 be exceedingly filthy
IN their habits, and TO be lazy as we'll
xxx
Although the money awarded in the Pious
fund decision has not yet arrived plans are
already making to use it. AS has already
been published widely. the Pious fund
amounts 10 about 81 100000, and goes to the
Roman Catholic Church for use among the
spanish-speaking population in regions for
meriy belonging to. Mexico, but now in
Guided in the United States The fund came
originally from Spain and was for mission
airy effort among Indians in our far South
west: 1t came through Mexico and because
or the Mexican war half a century and
more ago, It's payment was cut Off Now IL
amounts in exact figures TO 81 100000 and
according to the award made at The
hague. Mexico must now pay over tn the
United States. TO be transmitted to the
Work $43,O5l a year; 1t is said the matter
VIII be so fixed that the money goes direct.
10 reheNe our government of the appearance
or handling church funds. Work among the
Indians or the extreme Southwest has ex-
ssended. and the annual allowance will go
10 missions In the archdiocese of San
francisco and Santa Fe, and the dioceses
or sacramento, Monterey, Los Angeles and
10 tucson and very small section of
uexas, IN which the city OF FL Paso is situ-
ated. and which is curiously cut OFF from
the rest or the diocese of Dallas TO which
- peiohss- rams are already making for
improvements and extensions under the
award. ~
The Universalist Church has recently
been extending its work in Japan. A new
brick church is beirg built in Toxic. where
q large congregation has been gathered
Regular Universalist services are held st
six other points. most OF them strategic.
A leading institution in lamar a.
the Blackmer Girls" Home in which hrisbt
aative girls are received and trained 20
womanhood according TO Christian stand
ards. They are afterward sent ont as rois
sfonaries 20 women of their own race Iand
has recently been bought in Toxic For a
new girls home building within a few min
utes walk OF the Only Girls College In Ja-