New-York tribune., 1908-07-11

wheaton OF the Rock River Conference. will sup
ply the pulpit during the summer Dr. wheaton
j ono Of the representative preachers of Chicago.
Tbs s,,,r,sr services will be one hour In length.
On next Sunday the Rev Dr. r. J. Cooke. book
EDITOR Of the Methodist Episcopal Church VIII
rreaeh at the morning service Dr. Wheaton will
occupy the pulpit In the evening.
r.a,i.tics recently issued by Baptist authorfts,
give the total membership of Baptist churches in
America as 524- There are SOSs ministers
a. 400 churches and the church property Is valued
A. s121 so 40 It is also stated that the number Of
hantfans during the last yeaT-1755ts-ts smaller
man for anv wear since 1901 Total contributions
for the year in all Baptist churches were s222ss So
of which ss 400 949 was for congregational expenses
s7s57Os for Sunday school purposes. s2'235d5 for
missions and s9s6s23 for education. The denoHina-
tio, has 10 theological schools 95 universities and
colleges and sss academies and other schools. with
% 80 students of whom it is announced that SD
are planning enter the ministry
For the third successive year a conference is to
he had by Sunday school leaders and missionary
officials for the purpose OF considering the means
for developing missionary interest among the
schools This years conference. IKE the two pre-
cedins was planned by the Young Peoples Mis-
sionarv Movement and is TO be held at Silver Bay,
on Lake George. It's dates July Is 70 3 II /,
MANNED 20 conduct classes during this conferences
that will serve to illustrate TO Sunday school Of
ficers and teachers the best methods OF mission
study and also to have addresses by noted speak
ers in which the principles and motives may be
set forth Each day Of the conference viii open
With an address on Missionary Education from
the Viewpoint Of Child Study to be followed by
a period IN which graded mission study classes
will be held. At the end OF each morning session
an open parliament will be held for the constdera-
ton of such topics The Organization Of a
Missionary Committee" The Missionary Library
Developing a Missionary Atmosphere System
attic Giving" etc The afternoons will be devoted
to recreation and the evenings to addresses lsct-
ures and denoninationaI meetings
The Rev DIT. william Wilkinson is on his way
home from the Pan-Anglican Conference in Lon
don to resume the Wall street meetings. under
the auspices OF the evangestic committee OF New
York City. In a letter written Just before sailing
DR. Wilkinson says that he has spread the fame OF
the Gospel tent ard open air meetings Throughout
England The Bishop of London was 50 I'M
pressed with the Wall street meeting which he ad-
dressed during his visit here that he has already
organized services of the same nature In London
The Rev. Dr. Reuben A. Torrey. the noted evan
seIist will preach his closing sermon in Tent
Evangel tomorrow night The convention on Cly
and Foreign Missions will open at the ?. m SER
vice July u. and continue nightly throughout the
week when returned missionaries and others will
speak. John A Davis begins on July y his Two
weeks campaign to be followed by the Rev DIS
Massie Broughton. Jenkins. Gray and Chapman
The Parliament of Religions. at Unity Church
MontcIair will hold it's second service tomorrow
at II O'Clock The subject will be The Religious
Message of the Orient-The Spirit of the East
The speaker is President s. c. Kanaga Rutnar.
NJ A. of Central College. Colombo. Ceyion- NJ
Rutnan is a high caste Hindu.
The General Synod of the Moravtau Church II
North America convenes at Latitz. Penn. ssptsfn-
ber . to be in session two weeks This is the arg
est and most important gathering OF this Cnnrcns
and there in attendance representatives rroni
all parts Of the United States and Canada
At the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Churcn ths
Rev r. A. Torrey, d. D.. the well known evan
Selfst and superintendent Of the Moody Bible n
stitute will preach. both in the morning ard a1'e
noon on why Believe the Bible To Be the Wors
OF God" This church is open all through the ye~R
and cordially welcomes strangers