The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

sacred Scripture at the Catholic Uni
dent in this country and abroad led
to his appointment as the American
member of the present Catholic Bible
Commission. The Roman College Of
Latin America is similar in aims to the
American College, in Rome, and the
Irish, German, and others, located near
to the Holy See and in the Eternal
City, to which are sent young men OF
exceptional promise to be educated for
the priesthood It is from the ranks
OF these students that many of the
foremost prelates of the church in the
respective countries spring. The finan-
cial condition of the Latin American
College at present is stated by the
Pope to be desperate, with an increas-
ing number of students from South
America. Hence the appeal to North
America.
Students Alive on Missions.
The Student Volunteer Movement,
whose report is just out. furnished to
missionary societies last year, for
service on foreign fields, S6S men and
women, who went out under fifty-three
different societies. Up to the begin
ming of the calendar year the volun-
teers had furnished 4,7s4 missionaries
to all fields. That is the record for
twenty-five years.
Getting students in American coll
leges to form study classes in mis-
sions is one way adopted by the volun-
teers to spread interest in foreign mis-
sions and secure recruits for fields.
Last year $4,000 students were en-
rolled in such classes in 5s6 institu-
tions, gain Of more than 5000 stu
dents over the previous year. Getting
students in colleges to give money. and
inducing their friends to give through
them, is also a method employed under
stimulation of the Volunteers.
Last year students in American col
leges. and their friends acting under
their influence, contributed s133,700 to
foreign fields. No fewer than 1,477 in
stitutions gave at least something, and
large centers of missionary activity
like Yale, Pennsylvania, and Princeton
maintain whole stations.
Half a century ago American mis-
sionary leaders had great difficulty in
ducing governments of so-called
heather countries to permit their mis-
sionaries to enter. Next came diff
Guilty getting men and women willing
to go. Lastly, when fields were open
and volunteers many, came the prob
lem Of financial support. The Volun-
teers. organized by DR.. John r. Mott
at Northfield in 1856, have done much
to develop that part Of American mis-
sion effort in foreign lands which de-
pends on capable men and women to
go out to do the actual work.
Larger Trust for Laymen.
The Rev. DR.. J. r. Winchester, for
some years rector OF Calvary, the largest
Episcopal church in Memphis. but to be
consecrated bishop coadjutor Of Arkansas
on September cs next, reported while IN
New York the other day upon three lines
Gf religious work in the Middle West and
South as he saw them
- Speaking of his new work in Arkansas,
he said educational conditions there are
better than he had been led to suppose
before he looked into them following his
election. His conservation takes place in
Little Rock Cathedral, and he announces
his policy as bishop to trust laymen and
put as largelburdens upon them as he can
induce them to bear.
Concerning the negro and his problem
he believes, he said, that industrial edu-
cation is making substantial headway,
and that in time 1t will solve the negro
problem of America, IL 1t nave Chris
tianity and white mans sympathy along
with 1t. He spoke, he said, as a long
time friend Of the colored man as he In
IN the South.
Concerning laymen and missions he
praised the recent movement Of laymen