The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-20

for personal use. The society announces
its desire to hear of collections of prayers
Of missionary character, or TO hear from
people who possess ability to write such.
General Wright, the new Governor, has
great variety of religious affiliations in his
family. He and his family have always
been Methodists. While never very active
as church member, he was reared in that
body, and regards himself as a member of
it. His wife is a Roman Catholic, and she
has reared her sons and daughters in that
faith. Mr.. E. L. Wright, Memphis law
yer. where the family reside, is one of the
substantial laymen OF the Roman Catholic
Church of his city. But the family of Mrs.
Wright is not all, however. Roman Catholic
in membership and sympathies, for two of
the brothers of Mrs. Wright are Episco-
palians. and one of them a quite active
member OF that church. The Methodists,
Episcopalians. Presbyterians and almost all
other bodies have work in the Philippines,
and are watching the conduct of the Gov
ernor with keen interest. Governor Taft
rarely attended religious services on Sun
days, but it is said that General Wright
usually does.
Methodists North are completing their
system of missionary instruction in the
holding in Buffalo, on Oct 20 TO %, of
Young Peoples Bble-study convention.
The Cleveland gathering of last year was
national. the Philadelphia meeting next
month is district, in that it is for Metho-
dists of New England and the Middle
States, and the Buffalo convention now an
nounced carries the scheme TO the confer
ence The Buffalo meeting is for instruc-
ton on missions, and to restrict it admis-
sion is to be by ticket only. 1t is under the
auspices of the Open Door Emergency
Commission, which was able TO increase the
income of the missionary society 100000
last year. An unusual feature of the Buff
falo gathering will be the bringing there
as instructors of the authors of the various
textbooks used. Bishop Fowler will be
at the head of the convention. An edu-
cational exhibit that was shown in part
at Cleveland is to be shown at Philadelphia,
and Immediately after the meeting ad-
journs it will be transported entire to Buff
falo and opened there. For system and
hustle, with method behind all, Methodists
are leading almost everybody else nova
days.
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The Foreign Mission Society Of the Bap-
lists North is making elaborate use Of its
departing workers. The Union is sending
out seventy of these workers this year,
about one-third of them going for the first
time. \ farewell meeting for them is TO
take place in Boston, on the Goth inst, and
two days later seven of their number will
sail from Boston for their fields. A large
party, including the Rev. DR.. Upcraft and
the Rev. Messrs. McKenney and Taylor,
sail from San Francisco early in October,
five of them going TO the Philippines. On
the party's way west members of it are to
be speakers at missionary rallies to be
held in Philadelphia, Sept. "a; Rochester,
Sept. %; Toledo, Oct. 4; Milwaukee, Oct.
IL; Chicago, Oct. II to IA. before the Indi-
ana State convention, Oct 10, and in St.
Louis on Oct. IS Activity in missionary
enterprises, all religious bodies, is unusu-
ally great this fall