Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-05

the well-being OF the people, and its 1udg-
ments will have weight. Membership Will
ultimately be taken largely through district
centers. and all joining these centers will
thereby become members Of the general SO.
ciety.
Every thorough student of social problems
KNOWS that they are religious as well as
economic, and that they can never be set
tied until they are considered in their reli-
gfous character AS the Bible is the great
est and broadcast social text book, so is the
preacher who finds his message for men in
the Bible the greatest and most important
teacher. The preacher, therefore, and the
church, whose voice he is, should make the
social problems OF the time special sub
1ect OF study. Some people think these
problems should receive no notice in the
pulpit; but every careful student of the
Bible knows that in the preaching of the
gospel they have always had large place.
The organization of this Methodist So
Geological Society. and the appointment OF
commissioner by the Presbyterian general
assembly to represent 1t before bodies OF
organized labor, is an evidence that the
church is as 1t has always BEEN awake to
its duties and opportunity in relation to
these great problems. All churches might
wisely follow the example of these two.
Were they to do so, they might be able to
aid in the righteous adjustment of many
difficulties and lessen, If not remove the
bitterness of the strife between capital and
labor.
The annual report Of the local preachers
correctional committee of the English Wes-
leyan Church gives the number of fully
those trial 1,772 These figures show an
increase of $50 and a decrease of 1I2, re-
spectively. During the past year 992 have
been received fully accredited preachers.
ninty-five have been drafted into tn min
istry twenty eight have become ministers
in other churches. 1915 have resigned. and
2SS have died. These are local preachers,
not in name only, but in fact, and are ex-
a,tn TO ,fp-~ RI
The American Bible Society has made
special efforts to supply Scriptures for the
Japanese soldiers. 1t has now received
from the Japanese committee of the Inter-
national Young Mems Christian Association
letter stating that when their secretaries
with the japanese army in Manchuria call
for supplies the most insistent call is for
Scriptures and Christian literature; that
Rev. H. Loomis the society's agent, has
made them generous grants of Scripture
portions and that these portions of Scrip
ture sent to the front in large numbers,
have been received by the soldiers with
eagerness. In many cases. the letter adds,
these little books have produced noticeable
results in the lives of the men. This close
cooperation with the American Bible So
ciety the committee deems source of
Thanksgiving, and it formally expresses it's
deep appreciation of it.
A current publication says: One of the
with the results of the House of Lords de-
cision of the Scotch Church case was the
election by the Free Church, the victorious
party, of the professors and students of the
United Free Church from the New College,
Edinburgh. When the school started up
again under Free Church control there
We're sixteen students in attendance, seven
of whom were members of the Irish Pres
byterian Church. OF the other students
not one was bona fide legal Free Church
man. The Established Church, the United
Free Church, the Baptists, the Congrega-
tionalists, and the Jewish Synagogue We're
all represented. The teachers came from
the United Free Church, the Baptists, the
Original Secession Church, the Covenanters,
and the Irish Presbyterian Church. OF the
Irish students three were graduates and
three had gone through the college course.
Even that could not be said of the other
students. Academical training and dis
cipline We're, of course, impossible and the
proceedings were largely farcical. One of
the first steps that will undoubtedly be
taken under the provisions of the bill now
before parliament for the settlement of the
Scotch Church trouble will be the restora-
ton of the theological schools to the United
Free Church.