Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-21
TELEGRAPhIC NEWS

DAN AI>iONiO, TEX, oct To-
President Taft spent busy seven
hours In this city today before leav.
ing for his brothers ranch near the
southern end OF the state where he
is to spend four days. Charles F..
Taft has had a golf course construct.
ed on the ranch. and between this fa-
vorite sport and horseb tck riding the
president expects to have a thorough
good time. II will be more of a rest
t''an the presidcnt had In the Yosem.
iie park and he expects 1t to put him
in splendid condition for the remain
ing three weeks of his notable trip.
The president with his party this
morning left 10 carry out the pro-
gram arranged for in this first really
southern city to entertain him on his
present trip.
LONDON, Oct 1S-The red flag
was raised in London yesterday after
noon and large mob moved upon
the Spanish embassy 10 make a DEM
onstration of its approval of the exc.
cution of Professor Francisco Ferrer
al Barcelona Several bodies of the
police stationed al the approaches to
the embassy drove off the crowds in
their usual bIsodless and effectual way
but considerable excitement and un-
essiness Dervaded the neighborhood
yesterday and today.
O
lists in London are openly threaten.
ing the life of King Alfonso. boast.
ing that he would not be permitted to
live the year out. Makesta and others
OF the more rabid anarchists are actu,
ally inviting reporters to accompany
them TO the secret meetings and listen
to firebrand speeches. Some have
shown reporters laboratories with new
ly devised bombs wherewith they hope
TO be able to take the lives of Euro
pean monarchs
PITTSBURG, Oct. lS.-The great
est religious gathering ever held in
this city, and perhaps in the country,
occurred at Forbes field here when
twenty-five thousand persons assem-.
bled al the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper, the event being the principal
feature of today's session al the con.
vention of the Disciples of Christ of
The Christian church
Elaborate preparations were made
for the meeting of this association for
the celebration of their centennial, the
opening exercises commencing Octo-
Der l1th and closing today. The
date was taken from the appearance
Of declaration di ii address by Thorn
as Campbell. Their first church was
organized in 1871 at Brush Run, Wash
ington county, Pa, but the year before
friends of their had established one in
New York City and In 1903 Barton w
Stone. who In 1882 formed coali-
tion with the Campbells. had taken
he same position in Kentucky.
From 1913 to 1929 the Campbells
were connected with the Baptisis. But
having been received without endors-
ihS 'ht toHltSHlOH vi ldllu
and evIncing no disposition to conform
TO its tenets their relation with regu-
lar ministers of the demonation was
increasingly strained. Originally The
Campbells, Stone and Walter Scott.
who soon became a man of might in
the movement. were Presbyterians,
either Seceder tnow United, or regu,
lar.
The Disciples have grown westward
with the progress of -the nation. In
the United States they rank sixth
numerically among religious bodies.
In Missouri they are first and nearly
Of quite so In Kentucky, Indiana and
Oklahoma. Throughout the upper Mis-.
sissippi valley their influence is pro-
portionate to their membership and
they are enlisted aggressively in the
cause of prohibition and other re-
forms.
Pleading from the first for Chris
tian Union and insisting that the
abandonment OF human creeds. de-
nominational names and post-apostolic
authority and restoring the primitive
church just as the Apostles left it
would give at once union. liberty and
truth. they seemed to be only adding
confusion to the sectarian strife of the
day.
For hundred years they have stood
Gamaliel's test In human frailty the
balance between liberty and union,
the centrifugal and centripetal forces
of church life, has wavered but has
never failed. Denounced by the other
denominations as heretics and Ish-
maelites in almost every new field, the
day of their success finds them in cor
dial fellowship. The Y. NJ. c. A., Y.
p. S. c. E., International Sunday
School association, Young Peoples
Missionary Movement and nter-Church
Federation council accord their rep
resentatives full place and power.
LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. 1s.-In a state
mpnt today on the action of the two