The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-28
N Fed BUILDINGS
IN FOREIGN FIELD
One Brewery in Cuba Gets More
Money Than All Churches
There-Says Bible Is Need
ed by People-Plan Me
mortal Fund for Bishop
Cranberry.

ttHaiplI lullOS " lie CllSuiiS rcdi
was begun yesterday by the board of
church extension of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, In session at
Centenary Church In this city. Prob
ably this task will not be completed
before Tomorrow morning.
Frequent natural differences of opin-
Ion arise among the forty members or
the board, twenty-fcur OF whom are
bishops. as to the disposition of the
funds. by loan or by donation. There
is not enough money to fill all de-
mands, and as each bishop, minister or
layman IS delegated to represent some
interest. there is not always unan-
Unity. Each board member is thor
oughly in earnest. and all are i'm
pressed with the Importance of the
work in hand.
Annual Report Itcnd.
The principal feature OF the busi-
ness session yesterday was the presen-
tation and adoption OF the annual re-
port of Rev. w. f.. McMurry. of Louis
Vile. ny. corresponding secretary of
the board of church extension. II was
a lengthy document, presenting in de-
tall the work of the past year. the
condition and growth of the various
funds used in fostering the erection
of buildings for the worship OF Coo.
and narrating the demands made and
the needs of the field.
Public meetings We're held in the
afternoon and at night. AT the former
Bishops Iioss and Gambler discussed
church buildings In the foreign fields,
while at night Bishops Hendrix ana
Wilson made powerful pleas for the
success bf the John c. Granbery loan
fund.
a Growing Work.
Remarkable indeed is the nature Of
thc work dana h,. tho sh,,rrb a = "a ~ cta,
loan fund, as explained by DR.. Nc
Aiurry. 1t never diminIshes, and Is al
ways growing. Unlike other contri-
buttons to religious work, where the
demands are constant. tho loan fund
gets larger. The total gifts TO the
fund in the southern Methodist Church
aggregate Se13,339.46, while the inter
est at 4 per cent. paid by the borrow
ing churches totals Sl06.7i2.l4. This
makes the present loan fund capital
S3SO.lll.60. Out of this capital there
has been loaned to S.062 churches sums
amounting to sl,077,162.03. The secret
Is. of course, that the same money is
used over and over again, with the in
terest inmreincnt, as churches repay
their loans.
Bishop IL. C. Morrison said of this
fund: 1T never wearies in We'll doing.
Ever giving, yet never ~hauste toll
Ing ever, yet never tired; q sort of
everlasting benediction, an Immortal
Good Samaritan. with wine and oil
ana bandages for the bleeding and
helpless churches of the land. Every
dollar that goes into its treasury be-
comes imperishable. 1t lives for ali
time. and lives for God. If you would
make your money immortal, cast it
mere. II Will work on and on after
you have ceased to work, and VIII
come to YOU with exceeding Increase
in eternity
Need More buildings.
The conversion of Korea was called
the modern miracle by Bishop Z. e.
Hoss, in his address on woman's work
In the Orient. at Centenary Yesterday
afternoon. The church was filled. most
of the audience being women.
Bishop HOSES plea was for better
church buildings in which to carry on
The work and for better housing for
missionaries. He told of the demands
on the mission workers. He has re-
Gently visited the East. and has be-
come convinced that a largo part of
the money contributed for missions
could be used to better IL
the work could be carried on with bet-
ter equipment.
Considering the density of the popu-
lation of the mass Of hcathcnism,
Bishop Hoss said he could not under
SNNNh ~ . IN ilISl missionaries i'll
ChinR ever got. n start. But now,
ne said, the p%enitential sigh and sob
the declaration of faith. and the shout
OF are heard up and down
the valley Of the Yang-Tsc.'
y prosperous business. argued the
bishop, always needs more capital. So
~ Is with missions. He would not re-
lieve the people from sclf-sacri6ce and
self-denial If he could. The Methodist
Church is not done with the heather
lands, and will not. he said, in his gem
GRAFTON, nor in the generation of the
chiidren's children OF his hearers.
Brewery In Field
Striking comparisons on the question
of money spent for buildings for mis-.
sionary work were presented by Bishon
w. a. Gambler, of Atlanta. lie had
been reliably Informed. he said. that
q W mpa had sent $500. OO0
to Cuba since the Spanish War, for
the purpose OF making beer. and Ice to
Keep 1t cool. Yet all tho money con-
tributed for church buildings In that
Island by all the denominations in
America since Columbus discovered
the continent would not reach he sum
invested by the beer concern.
Cuba and Mexico, he argucd. need
tho Bible, He did not mean to saw
that the priests nave not the Word of
God. or that 1t does not exist there In
some shape, but in a practical sense
he would say that these countries are
without 1t, And no one" he said.
Knows this better than the priests.
Then, too, in spite OF the fact that
there have been public school systems
for years. the people are left in igno-
rance. Not long ago. when DR.. Butler
made n similar statement, he was ohal-
1enged by a Catholic. l do not wait
to be challenged; L throw down the