The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-03
ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST

Inc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES nave tnFSe
churches reporting more than two
thousand members each, and one of
these has more than three thousand
mombers All OF these churches are
la Brooklyn
Increased contributions for mis-
sions are reported not only by Pro-
testant bodies. but Roman Catholic
az well The Society for the Propa
CATION OF the Faith for the Arch
diocese Of New York reports receipts
of si0S.24S.09 fot, 1910, This IL the
largest offering ever made by Roman
Catholics in New York. and the larg-
est ever made by any diocese since
the beginning OF the work OF the So
ciety.
AT the close Of the fifth week OF
the meeting in Portsmouth. Ohio,
conducted by Billy Sunday. evangel-
list, there had been 3.3s4 conversions.
! The meetings have been held In a
| tabernacle seating sixty-hve hundred
people. and at every service very sat
has been taken.
OF the 93s prisoners In the United
States prison at Atlanta Ga. only l7S
( have mo preference" "a to religious
! belief. The BaptisSs lead all the
rest with 1872 representatives., the
Methodists have 1s1. the Catholics
l23.
The American Orthodox Friends re.
port 100.072 members. a net gain OF
275 for the past year
| Or. w. r. Grenfell. the Labrador
missionary, is now in London study
Cssxl,y A
BY vote OF 25s TO 90 the senior
class OF Yale favors continuing the
policy of compulsory attendance or
daily chapel services.
During the past few months four
| churches OF the Reformed church ir
America celebrated their two hun.
dred and fftieth anniversaries
Three hundred and fifty member,
have been received into Grace Meth,
odist church, New York. during the
nine months OF the passionate of DIR
G. +. Reisner
There are 1881 church member.
In the three Methodist conferences
scattering around New YeTk" City
the New York. New York East ant
Newark conferences.
While the increase In population
In this country for the past twent,
years has been forty-seven per cent
the increase of church membership
has been II per cent.
The womans Foreign Missionar1
Icasnpasgn will eliminate In n grea'
tnterd denominations rally at New
York March 27-so.
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan
who died February II at Philadel
phia, would have been eighty year.
old had he lived to February 20. H.
was born In Thur1es. County OF Tip
perary. Ireland, was ordained q prizes
in the Roman Catholic church In
1853, and In 1884 was appointed arch,
bishop OF Philadelphia.
There are 2.59S superannuats
preachers and 2,s6s widows who
share in the distribution of the con
ference claimants fund Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. 1t Is pro.
posed that the church raise this yeal
100000 for these claimants. oss.
half OF this amount for immediate
distribution and one-half for endow-
ment
The Lords Day Alliance In now
making a special effort toward the
closing OF postoffIces on Sunday a.
one means of defending the Amer
lean sabbath. Cities which have
tried Sunday closing find great ad-
vantage to the people in general The
churches might well become more
thoroughly and practically engaged
In this movement James r. Hutch
ison, of Colorado Springs Colo, Is
the field secretary of the alliance.
In the Chinese empire, as a whole,
there are 3s5 foreign missionary
physicians. of whom ISL are men and
ia are women. These do their work
In 207 hospitals and 292 dispense
ries. Their in-patients for the las,
year for which summary has been
made mum bered 5S,7bT. Their out
patients visited numbered 34.ss9; and
these. together wi1h the dispensary
patients brought the total number
Of patients to 1866 .s0S; and the total
Treatments teSf .74s,49s. Major ope-
| rations for the year numbered TO-
ia. The minor operations were
4O,3s7.