The Washington herald., 1911-12-03

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of Portland, Greg.
Aims of the tour, which is unusual for
Presbyterian mederators to make, were
three: % To show to Presbyterians, and
especially to those of the Middle West,
the Coast, and the South, that the Pres
byterfan Church is national, not sec
tional; (9 to gain for the whole church
the views of an Eastern man concerning
Presbyterian conditions in the West.
Heretofore the church has had only the
| testimonies and judgments of Western
men concerning the West; CD to visit
Western colleges in the Interest of Chris
tan education, to encourage such as
need It, and to ascertain what help is
essential to REINFORCE these institu-,
'tfons.
Returning from the tour. the moderator
says he finds Presbyterian churches, COL
leges, and other institutions in the West,
the South, and on the Coast to be still
in need of assistance from the East, be-
eause Presbyterians in these newer local
tiles are struggling to erect their neces-
sary church foundations, their hospitals,
and their colleges. The East has set
standards which the West must equal.
There is to-day a competition which
at the time It built its churches and
/ hospitals. Hence the need Of assistance
| from the East while Presbyterians In
the West are anchoring.
Conditions in the West" declares Dr.
| Carson, have wholly changed in fifteen
years, as they have in the East. A
decade and q half ago, certainly quar-
ter of a century ago, the Presbyterian
| Church in common with others, was a
| field, and only in small measure forces
The concern of its members was to Sc
| cure and to insure salvation. Such their
| purpose they were in the churches on
| Sundays, and so-called church attend
ance was possible to be gagged.
| To-day church members, and espe-
cially laymen, are engaged in many
forms OF religious effort, as missions,
IY. NJ. c. A., brotherhoods, Christian En-
| deavor, Sunday school and social serv-
| ice, and PresbyterIanism is, like other
| bodies, a force rather than a field. Out
| at work as teachers and preachers, MEM
bers are not IN the churches, and church
attendance on Sundays cannot be gauged.
I am convinced" says the moderator,
| after careful study of conditions West
/ Coast, that if there could be n lineup.
as there could be when people thought
they did their whole duty by attending
| public worship in the churches, the show
| ing would be far ahead Of that of fifteen
| TO twenty-five years ago. Things have
/ not grown worse but better. The talk
about decrease in church attendance
| comes from those who have not STUDIED
the real situation"
Preceding holy communion service OBJ
served at the GuntonTemple Memorial
Presbyterian Church, six members were
| added.
The Catholic Church Extension So
ciety, Just closing its fiscal year, reports
receipts of $1,000 last year, or consid-
erably in excess of any previous year.
| Not counted in receipts are $4,000 worth
of church furnishings, some new and
! some old, which have been donated by
parishes no longer needing them, and by
| the society given to struggling parishes
! and missions. No fewer than So chapels
have been built in the six years that the
society has been in operation.
Report is made of the gift Of second
chapel car from an anonymous friend.
The society has one car, the st An
thony'' which operates on the railroads
west of the Missouri River, and during
the first six months OF its operation 4SS
persons received holy communion at its
miniature altar, and ten new chapels
have been founded from the interest
which it's visit aroused. Railroad COM
panies haul chapel cars without charge,
and allow them trackage at out of the
way stations as long as their managers
desire. Baptists have five such cars.
The societys new car will operate on
railroads in the South.
Promoters of this society, and helping
to plan Catholic extension work in the
lWest and South. Observation-Disclosures Quig'
ley, of Chicago. in which city the society
has headquarters; Archbishop Glennon
of St Louis, Archbishop ~Keane, the new
head of the church in Dubuque, and the
Very Rev. DR.. +. A. Kelley, who is &C
tive head of the society. Among other
new projects of the year is a woman s
auxiliary already we'll launched anC
growing. and devOting it's energies espec-
tally to work for Catholic children.
Cardinal Gennari, as project of TIT
CONGREGATION of the Council, and will
! the approval of the Pope and the Roman
curia, has just issued new instruction.
to Catholic bishops in the United States
in regard to the title to church ant
schol property The congregation rec
ommends the forms of title employed IL
the State of New York most nearly t.
meet the need. This form is known al
parish corporation and the congrega
ton recommends bishops in all States L
employ it. Where their State laws d.
not permit it, the, congregation recon-
mends securing the enactment of tn
l New York law.
Where laws in any State do not ALLOW
the parish corporation, and until enact
ment of the New York forms can b
secured, the style of tenure known a.
corporation sale is prescribed. Unde
this latter tenure bishops are particu