The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
TO SAIL ON TWO SHIPS
PLANS OF WORLDS sUNDAY-sCHOOL
CONVENTION DELEGATES.
Great Steamships to Carry Workers
to the Holy L~and-Tent to BE
Pitched Outside Jerusalem.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Sept 5.-There are to be
two ships, not one as first planned, to carry
the delegates to the Worlds Sunday-school
convention, to be held in Jerusalem. Both
are to be large ships, the Grosser Kur-
fuerst and the Fuerst Bismarck, and one
will carry the American delegates, and
sail from New York on March IS next, and
the other will carry the English delegates
and sail from Liverpool on April 1 next.
Interest in the project increases on both
sides of the Atlantic. The American ship
is almost filled, but it is announced that a
few vacancies in state quotas are to be
had. The Canadian quota is filled. The
route of these ships, apart from the visit
to the Holy Land. is exceedingly attractive.
and sessions of the convention are to be
held on board. Outside the walls Of the
Holy City a tent will be pitched and here
will be held the regular convention of
Sunday-school Workers of the World.
X
The plans of the Presbyterian evangel-
istic committee are to be radically changed.
Last year its work, under the Rev. DR.. ].
Wilbur Chapman, was largely independ-
ent of control of local presbyteries. This
coming year the General Assembly commit
tee will confine 1t work to the large cities,
where it will hold evangelistic meetings,
presbyteries and Presbyterian pastors CO.
operating. while the work in the country
sections will be given under charge of
presbyteries wholly. P~resbyteries will have
their own evangelists, in some cases with
a synodical director. The Rev. DR.. j. Will
bur Chapman, the corresponding secretary
of the assembly committee, will go soon to
California 70 ~inaugurate the work, and it
is also to be taken up in Oklahoma, a new
one for Presbyterians. The Rev. DR.. ]. NJ.
Gray, of Boston, has been engaged to visit
all prominent cities and hold Bible confer
ences intended to lead up to evangelistic
services to follow.
Although plans are not yet ready, IL can
be stated as certain that a Baptist evangel-
istic movement will DE -inaugurated. Two
conferences of district and other secretaries
and leaders have now been held, one in
New York, and the other in Chicago, and
the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society, under which the work was placed,
has learned that Baptist sentiment is in
favor of evangelistic work. This senti-
Z 0OCS hObs IL 10 dih IdNOl lhC CAhPiOy-
ment of professional evangelists, but il
favors rather evangelism. The plans are
now formulating for this work, and will be
considered by the Home Mission managers
at a meeting to be held on the 18th. 1t is
said also to be certain that no elaborate
machinery will be prepared, but that
rather existing agencies will De employed.
X x X
1t seems to be settled that a coadjutor
to Bishop Potter will be elected. The con-
vention of the diocese of New York will
meet at the end of September. This do
cese is by far the largest in the Episcopal
Church in America, having $4,000
cants, and contributing $1,000, 900 a year, or
one-fifth of the sum contributed by all
dioceses per year. Efforts have been made
to divide the diocese, but sentiment is
found to be against this plan. 1t is con-
sidered likely also that division is impos-
sible without cooperation of the diocese
of Alabny, and nobody believes that can
be obtained. Indeed, it Is now held to be
out of the question even to recast the
diocesan divisions of the State of New
York. The salary of Bishop Potter is the
largest paid to any bishop in the new
world, namely. $4,000 a year. and with one
or two exceptions, the highest salary paid
to any ecclesiastic in any religious body.
1t is said to be unlikely that a choice will
be made of any man outside of the diocese.
Several names are mentioned for the coad-
j%utorship, but the one considered most
likely to be united on is that of the Rev.
DR.. David H. Greer, rector of st. Bar
tholomew's parish. the Vanderbilt one,
80 A. 5000 ---:-A <~1- A. IL -
financial income, of any in America.