Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-24
RELIGIOUS NOTES
AND COMMENT


Rev. Paul Jamarik CONGREGATIONAL
missionary among the Slovaks of Pennsyi-
vania, may not have descended from a
Yankee ancestry. but he has inherited
something of the Yankee facility In adapt
Ing himself to situation. He says:
I made 15T visits during the last quarter
My way of gaining access to the homes and
hearts of the people is In selling Bibles and
religious books. When / enter a home as
peddler am In hurry to leave It when
told that there is no need of books
watch for my chance and when 1 see the
least disposition or interest In the people.
sit down, and introducing the Bible brings
me, of course. Immediately into the sub
Ject of the religious Hfe. / often spend
twenty minutes sometimes an hour or
more. In conversation. and always get an
attentive audience. and my talk turns out
to be sermon, primitive and informal.
but often far more effective in its results
IMAM more elaborate one would be So
the peddier turns out to be a preacher or
an apostle II you please. before the people
nave found out the fact and Il helms husi-
ness, too. for in this way have sold three
Bibles. two New Testaments ard a thou
sand pages of religious literature of the
best kind within the last month"
A special summer term at the Moody
Btble institute, Chicago, for the purpose OF
helpang laymen and women to better serve
the churches TO which they belong IS being
held from May to September Among the
special lecturers will be Rev William CO.
vert, d. D.: Rev. Sydney F. Strong. d. D.:
KEY. John Urquhart. D. D., ard Rev Nyron
w. Haynes, d. D.
AT the recent annual meeting of the Brit
ish and Foreign Bible Society Il was an
nounced that six million Bibles and portions
mad been issued from the soeiety's presses
!ast year. Since the society was organized
II has issued 1872 100000. The list now in
cludes the complete Bible In 100 languages
the New Testament in ninety-four and at
Ieast one book of Scripture In 1876 more
some 31ooCo copies of the Russian and
japanese Scriptures have been distributed
among the belligerents in the far east.
A writer in the Methodist Magazine and
REVIEW (Toronto, Canada), Rev c. s. Ely
who has had long experience as n missions
airy IN Japan. refers to the yellow peril
as the greatest problem before Christian
missions. Christian missions have before
lhem, ne says, the task of combating the
unseen but very real forces which are
shaping the evolution OF Japan and China
one OF the greatest of these forces In Japan
ne nndS to be agnosticism Japan
Is breaking away from the old religions.
put is not, to any great extent substitut-
ing Christianity in their place. On this
point Mr. Eby says that ''the educational
mas wrought for the exclusion Of Christian
influences from the national system. and
when able, crfpples the mission schools"
A religious census of two schools which
We're typical of the whole, showed in one
school of 200 pupils, , Christians Bud
dhists, 140 agnostics and ~ atheists: and
IN another of 100 students, no Christians 3
Buddhists. % agnostics and 20 atheists
These schools contain g2 per cent of the
boys of school age and SO per cent of the
girls. China still holds to Confucianism,
says Dr.: Eby. but China is under the tutel-
age or Japan, and may be expected to re-
celve the mold of Japan in religion as in
other phases of thought and life at least
TO a large extent.
Mrs. Sarah J. Bird, founder and mother,
OF the Gospel Settlement 21l Clinton street
New York, assisted by the house committee
and workers, recently gave their annual re-
cepllon 10 the clergy of New York CITY
The school rooms upon the ground floor
were beautifully decorated with a wealth OF
rare flowers from Miss Helen Gould's con-
tory at Tarrytown. That lady herself
was present she being a warm friend OF
Mother Bird. and sympathzing with her
work among the poor and neglected peope
In the neIghborhood of White Door" 81
Rev Donald Sage Mackay, d. D. of New
YORK, IN an interesting speech, called atten-
ton TO the success which had attended the
work He spoke most feelingly of the
White Door, which was always an omen
door to the cry of distress and of the ef-
forts Of those in charge OF the settlement.
resulting in an influence reaching from this
nome TO hundreds Of others, through the
httle children who came there every day
to be taught the gospel of love the ham
plness OF clean hearts and the comforts OF
well-ordered home.
Mrs. George 1nniS, jr told the guests of
the work of the settlement and that no
matter how low the treasury might he
ana sometimes 1t was pretty IoW-MrS
Bird and her girls were never discouraged:
that II was a God-appointed work and as
such He would never see it suffer. TIE
rooms We're filed with friends of the set
Element.
Refreshments were served from a daiutilv
appointed table in the kindergarten room.
the ministers proudly assuming the task
OF waiting upon the lady guests The affair
was most pleasantly managed and was very
greatly enjoyed by all, who wished Moth
err Bird many continued years of useful
ness.
Important discoveries have lately been
made in the Valley of the Tombs of the
Kings by the well-known Egyptologist Mr.
Theodore NJ. Davis. He has uncovered the
tomb OF the parents of Teie, the wife of
Amen-hotep III. This ruler belonged to
the dynasty Immediately preceding that OF
Rameses II, the Pharaoh of the oppression
ana was on the throne during Egypt's
greatest glory. He was therefore a ruler
during part of the Israelitish sojourn in
Egypt. The tomb uncovered is filed with
the richest spoil of ancient Egypt Almost
every article found is enriched with gold
the mummy cases being heavily incrusted
with the precious metal, while the inside
was plated with silver. The royal con-
sort or Amen-hotep III had lavished treas
ure after treasure on this tomb-furniture
from the royal palaces, jewels vases great
jars of wine, oil and cooked meats and
articles she thought her father and mother
would need when they awoke. The tomb>
had been sealed up about $500 years ago,
and had evidently been guarded with the
utmost care. Prof. Maspero and the Duke
OF Connaught were present at the unseal-
ing. 1t will take some time before the
treasures can be fully examined but when
they are, they will throw much light on life
In the eighteenth dynasty--The Presby-
terrain.
A Methodist congress will be held In con-
nection with the Portland exposition July
1-2l Bishop D. III. Moore is the leading
spirit in this gathering of the followers of
John Wesley.
The Christian Herald says: IAN Sunday
school eyes are turned toward Winona
Lake, Indiana, where generous provision
in speakers and topics has been made by
the fourth international district conpris-
Ing the state Sunday school associations of