The Washington herald., 1909-03-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

Rev. Dr. samuel +. Eliot. the president
of the American Unitarian Association,
has gone 20 Great Britain for q series OF
preaching and lecturing engagements.
Ninety-three ministers from other de-
nominations went over 60 the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the year 1sS. says
the Southern Churchman OF these the
Methodist Episcopal Church furnished the
largest number. twenty-eigb-; the Presby-
terian denomination was next ewith nine
teen: Congregationalism. thirteen. Baptist
churches. twelve and the Roman Cath
clio Church. eight.
On Inauguration day loo brotherhood
men met in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, and joined in prayer FOR the new
administration az Washington.
An important meeting representing all
Presbyterian bodies In the world-which
means a constituency OF 3Aoo0ooo persons
will be held in New York CITY June
I5-25 1903 This is the ninta council of
the Alliance of Reformed Churches
throughout the world holding the Pres
byterian system Meetings VIII be held
in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
There is in New York city a Gospel
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celebrated its foTtieth anniversary. The
chaplain gives HIS entire time % Chris
tian work among the prisoners in the IA
nous city prison Nearly 100o0 persons
were committed 20 the T0nbs last year.
A curious development OF chach work
allied 10 the psycho-therapeutic move
ment. IS the establishment Of "a silence
room in the Emmanuel Baptist Church
Chicago No one who crosses the thres-
hold will be permitted 70 utter a word
even I'm whisper The pastor. Rev
Johnston Meyers. declares that many
women are on the verge of a nervous
breakdown for the simple reason that
they have no place where tsey can remain
absolutely quiet
All the liberal religious bodies that
did not come within the scope of the Fed
Grafton of Churches which was perfected
in Philadelphia this winter have organ
ized a National Federation OF Religious
Liberals. a convention VIII be held in
one Of the Friends Meeting Houses OF
Phuadelphia April 27-$e. aud the speakers
include former Attorney General Charles
J. Bonaparte. former Secretary of Com
merce and Labor oscar :. Straus. Dr.
Booker r Washington John Mitchell
Curtis Guild jr., Rabbi David Philipson.
and DR. Edward Everett Hale.
The basement and first floor of Bethany
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, which
IS known throughout the country as
''Wanamaker's Church. were seriously
injured recently by the bursting OF a
water main which inundated the lower
part Of the building.
Carrying into effect the recommend
tions Of the recent National Federation
Of Churches. the Protestant evangelical
denominations Of Philadelphia have
united iu a city federation.
SOiicitude for a better observance or
Sunday In Great Britain has caused the
united organization by Catholics AnsH
cans. and Free Churches of the Imperial
Sunday Alliance The Archbishop OF
Westminster (Roman Catholic, the Arch
bishop OF Canterbury (Anglican). and
Rev J. Scott Lidgett. president OF the
Evangelical Council Of the Free Churches.
have issued a joint letter commencing
the alliance.
An American traveller, DR. Edward
Warren Capen, has just found in Su-
matra a monument recently erected to
the two American board missionaries who
were massacred and. eaten by The canRl.
bal natives OF that island in 1874 Ta7
German missions have worked in the
island Of recent years. and there are
tens of thousands Of native Christians.