The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
REGARDING 4 PROGRESSIVE
 CHURCH.

Reports at the Recent Annual Meeting. The Dwight Place church in this city is recognized as the center of infiu- ences felt in many directions and re- garding it many in the community will be glad to read more particularly. Diff ferent organizations connected with the church society reported at arecentmeet- ings and summary was presented to the church Tuesday evening of this week, from which we are permitted to make the following statements:
 The church closed the year with $50 members, 56 of whom were received during 1903. Of this total 99 are upon the absent list and to each of them a letter is sent every year by the church. By watchfulness and correspondence on the part of the efficient clerk, Dean William s. Todd, few of the absentees escape the notice of the officers of the church and are from time to time en- couraged to connect themselves with the churches in other localities to which they may have moved.
 The Bible school has made a decided net gain during the year under the re- markedly able management of Deacon Wells Campbell. Its enrolment is now 661, the largest in it's history, and the average attendance for the year was 362. The pastor Dr. Leete, stands very close to this and all other organizations in the church and the eight grades or departments are so arranged that no attentive child can pass through them and not graduate with the Advanced Bible classes or Teachers class with out some real attachments in religious knowledge.
 There have been eighty-two officers and teachers engaged week by week in this enterprise. Deacon George A. Kill born and Miss Cora B. Wetmore have been associate superintendents, with George T. Fffield as secretary and Har- Ty R. Sperry as treasurer. To these wise leaders as well as to the heads of departments and teachers no small part of the credit is due for the fine progress this Bible school has made for the past . two years. It is sometimes insinuated that the Christian work of the world is done for money, but where outside of the Bible schools of this country 'is there such an army of thinking em- pioyes, spending a fair fraction of ev- cry week in trying labor without sim gle cent of compensation 'The World Evangel' recently asked that question and it's statement cannot be gainsaid that the country is not rich enough to pay even fair wages to the hundreds of thousands of unselfsh Christian workers who are year in and year out training the young in the prin- ciples of truth"
 Among those things worthy of note in 1903 the superintendent in his excel lent report speaks of 'sthe new build ing which should mark a new era in our Bible school andythe departure from us of our 1dsyered and willing co-work- Miss Mary Page Wright of whom I know voice the feeling of many when I say we greatly miss her labors and the wisdom of her counsel. (Miss Wright has accepted the charge of an oFphanage of those children made homeless by the nassacres in Turkey and lis located now at Marsovan, Tur- key).
 'sIn the acquisition of the new and
 
 you have assumed new and larger re- responsibilities which you will accept with courage and cheerful zeal for, to quote another work, you are the heirs of men and women of faith, who through years of study and often self-sacrificing la bors, often without applause or out ward reward have faithfully stood in all weathers at their post keeping pace with the growing needs of a growing c1fnmunity
 The Young Peoples Society of Chris tian Endeavor has 124 members, active and associate, and not to mention sev- eraI other societies for work among the girls and boys makes an ever ready raIlying point for the social and relg- ious enterprises of the young.
 The Ladies Benevolent society with a membership of eighty-six has held twenty-five meetings during the year; given $1h2.SO to cases of need in the city and sent to Home Missionary families goods valued at $313.40. Mrs. A. J. Parmelee is the energetic and capable president of this society. The Ladies Foreign Missionary society, Mrs. Nj. F. Beach presiednt, has sent to the worlds work $185.2S through the Woman's Beach president, has sent to the world S organizations cannot be mentioned that add to the religious power and social Inlnistration of this aggressive church. We will, however, give a resume of it's financial contributions for the year:
 Foreign missions, including the salary of its foreign missionary pastor, Dr.. William $. Ament of Pekin, China, S87049.
 Home missions, S595.79.
 Church and parsonage building, $1,- 037s2
 Congregational Education society, $40.
 Disabled ministers and families, $55.
 Congregational Sunday School and Publishing society. $SSS4.
 The dark skinned races and mountain whites. $105.6S.
 Total, $2,74342.
 The above gifts are in support of the benevolent work which the Congrega- tional churches of the country have left in their hands especially to care for. But the work in the city is not neglected. Different guilds and organi- zat;ons, with Sunday collections gave to the poor and rich, the hospitals, and other undenomnational institutions, $9390S. In this statement no account is taken Of many unknown individual