The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-26
TO VISIT INDIANAPOLIS
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY MODER-
ATOR Is COMING FOR MONEY.
VIII Endeavor to Enrich the Twen-
tieth Century Fund-BishOp Brent
Trying to Raise s15O,OOO.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25-As secretary Of
the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, the Rev.
DR.. w. II. Roberts reports the membership
II the churches in the United States hold
ing the Presbyterian system to be. for 1901
1885. ass. with 1871 ministers and 1852
churches The largest of these bodies is
the Presbyterian North. which has reached
a membership of 1,O25.3SS. a gain of $4,000
over the previous year. Presbyterians
South number 227.ss1, Cumberland Presby-
terians 1s2,449 and United Presbyterians
130,01. The Reformed Church. German
branch, has membership of 100000, and
Dutch branch, 111,91. Sunday-school men,
bers reach total of 1923. 3S4, and mission
contributions s2,9SO,652, almost equally di-
vided between home and foreign. The mod
orator Of the General Assembly North is
now on a tour in behalf Of the twentieth
century fund. being in St. Louis Jan. %;
Louisville, 80; Cincinanti, 81; Indianapolis
Feb. 2, and at Wooster University 8. On
Feb. he will be in Philadelphia, where he
is to meet in final session the creed revi-
sion committee, adjourned from Washing
ton on Dec IA, when the tentative state.
ments of subcommittee will be taken up.
and il is expected the final form OF the
new creed will be agreed upon. ready for
report to the General Assembly, which
meets in New York city near the end of
May.
Bishop Brent, the first of the colonial
eoclesiastics. has undertaken to raise $780,
900 to take with him TO the Philippines. He
wants $4,000 to build church. a site hav-
ing already been secured, and 100000 to
endow the episcopate and to furnish funds
to provide clerical supply. He argues that
Protestant pretensions will be vain unless
a favorable material front can be shown,
and that Fiiiptnos will not quit a handsome
stone church TO attend service in a rented
hall. Such has been. ne says, the expert
ence Of all missionaries going into Spanish
countries. To secure this large sum he
proposes to speak in cities on his route from
Boston his former home. to San Francisco.
from which he sails at the end Of April He
will go to Pittsburg, Detroit. Cleveland
Chicago Denver, Salt Lake and perhaps
Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
Professional evangelists are in the depths
Of despair. The winter is we'll over and
they are unable 10 secure Work. Many or
them are men of families. Some have re-
ally suffered, and others are turning their
hand to odd jobs, hoping for better times.
They are saying in private that the rea-
son evangelistic methods fail is because
Of the present plan of making every pas
tor his own evangelist They declare every
pastor is not an evangelist. and that re-
vivals cannot be had without the proper
men to conduct them. Yet the spirit of
the times is emphaticaIly against the en-
gaging of outside evangelists II has been
four years since most of them, and the
number of them is not small, have had any
permanent employment.
The Rev DIR. Donald McLaren, a member
of the Presbytery of Brooklyn, has been
appointed by the American Bible Society
as it's agent in the island of Porto Rico,
and has already started for his new field Of
labor He takes the place made vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. Andrew j. Nc
Kim, who had for several years represented
the society there. DR.. McLaren formerly
was a chaplain in the United States navy.