The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-07


The GathoAc Colonization society
has recently been organized. with
headquarters In Chicago Its purpose
~ to establish Roman Catholic colo
MES ia 'arious parts Of this country
both by bringing desirabl Immigrants
Of that faith from other countries and
10 SHIFT the Catholic population from
cities to farm and rural conditions.
Tho new days in the Church Cal
endsr are I" he September - and
April -, Rally Day. for Men and
Boys AMI Conservation Day" re-
speciiveiN The watchword for Raj
!y l'aS Is 10 he To Wan 10 Christ
and the church the largest possible
n|mter of men and boys by May !.
iSl2' Conservation Day viii aim
l." gather up The fruits OF the year
The MetA Gakuln, the leading
PRESBYTERIAN mission school IN Toxic.
has been destroyed by IRE The AGA
demic department. OF the Meiji
t'akuin. according to the statement
issued ia 1899. had $50 students in
attendance There WAS also g theo-
Logical department. with - students
"a attendance IN taht year.
il IS estimated that a hundred
Thousand men. women and children
participated saturday IA great re-
Hginus demonstrations in eleven dit-
f"rent city parks under the auspices
II the Philadelphia County Sunday
Sehoo! Association. The city was di
yl4ed into districts for the occasion,
and tho teachers and pupils of the
hundreds of Sunday marched
10 thelr meeting places. The para
ders carried banners inscribed with
~al m nnSiDK
showing waS made. The exercises at
tho parks consisted of singing hymns
~ praise and II addresses by Sunday
school ~orkera
lJr Arthur j. Smith superinten-
dent Of the New York CITY Evangels-
tie Committee, has reported that In
the seventh season Of tent shop and
open Air meetings just closed l.tZ5
meetings were held in ninety nine
centers. in nine languages. with an
attendance of 500 304. Of whom 7s,-
5Is were girls and boys. There were
$50 childreus meetings. The work
cost about $40, 600
The first Tucharistic Congress Of
the Roman Catholic church to ne held
in the United States takes place in
Cincinnati September IS to october
/,
Twenty seven Bible societies report
an aggregate output of lZ,sA3.sio
Bibies during last year OF this total
the American Bible Society distributed
2,l53,02s copies.
! The United Brethren Church has In
/ Porto Rico 007 members and l.bos
| arhnnia Tine
I tive church contributed last year Tor
/ seIf-snpport siT5 per member.
The Associated Councils OF the
churches of the British and German
Empires, for fostering friendly rela-
! lions between the TWO peoples. have
lately issued the first number of their
official organ. The PeacemaAer
| Rev. Robert Stuart Macarthur. d,
u. for torty-une years pastor OF the
Cavalry church In W. Fifty seventh
street New York City. resigned his
7 past0rate at the monthly business
meeting OF the church last Friday
( night This is Dr, MacArthurs hrst
and only passionate, entering upon II
Immediately upon HIS graduation from
the Rochester Theological Seminary
lie Will for the present five himself
10 the "oIA INV NSO AZ AIS NNN'4
election to the presidency OF the bap-
list " erld Alliance.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
! citation has twelve secretaries In ports
/ OF enbarhatiou in Europe, nine IN
ports Of landing in North America
/ and more than three hundred assocla
lions inland, which give Information
and assistance to young men coming
to America fom other countfleh
Rev Father Thomas L. sherman
son Of General William Tecumset
sherman. is an inmate OF the state
Hospital for the Insane at Agne"
CALIFORNIA; following an attempt an
suicide at the Jesuit Novitiate at Lo.
Gates Father Sherman Is accounted
one al the most brilliant orators ii
the Jesutt order+
Fey. John y esley HUI, president o.
= the International Peace Forum. ant
pastor Of the Metropolitan Temple
New York tity, lett New York FOL
Japau By way of California, He eX-
poets to sail from san Francisco DC
tohcr t. Or Hin departs in an ef-
fort to bring Japan into the peace
treaty between Great Britain, th'
( United States and France. He car
Z RES with NINA ielleFS from tHe Nhat'
Department, ana from the President
and has engagements to lecture beton'
/ the IapaIcse universities and TO preaci
IN several pulpits. Tho work OF TN
: international Peace Forum. of whic
President Taft Is honorary president
viii De In the hands of DC. W. A
fIunstergtr Nhu recently resigned
from the presidency OF Dickin
son College 10 accept the position,
r The l.aymens Association Of TIL,
Central ohio Conference. Methods
Episcopal Church, adopts the follow
y ing as it's program Every churGf
member a ~ SYSTEMATIC gNer, ever.
? conference claimant in comfort, eV
ev5 pastor receiving adequate sup
. port; every benevolent collection
taken in ruN, every charge to have
parsonage. every congregation L
! have a church, a Methodist period
| teal in every home. our own educa
| Uonal institutions properly endowed
| every church To haze a gracious re