The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST

The annual meeting OF the Tenn
perance Society of the Methodist Epis-
eopsl Church will be held at Chicago
On July J.
Rev Louis Albert Banks, u. D. Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. has
arranged TO enter the field Of general
eyangehstic work next fail.
The official statistics ~ the Welsh
Talvinisiic Church III America show
that there are l4S churches. los or
dained ministers. and 1879 commune
tants.
The University of the Pacific. at Los
Angeles. Cal. an Institution Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. enrolled
last session seventeen hundred stud
ents.
As one result OF the Billy Sunday
meeting IN Toledo, ohio. "a personal
workers league has been organized
with a, mesnbersip OF nearly two thou
sand men.
Bishop Nicely last week addressed
The New York Methodist Preachers
Meeting on our Supervisional Sys-
tenn, and the Sappers Who Would I'm
dermine H."
fhe Wai9ensian Church Of Italy has
seventy one pastors 2Q,5la memhers,
sad 1,1in pupils in Sunday schools
or the total membership. 7s,o62 are IN
Italy.
1stIp Swedish Lutheran churches O
America viii raise an endowment, fune
OF slso 600 for pensions for aged min.
listers by an assessment OF one dol
lar "a member
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in Ireland at its recent
meeting adopted resolutions indoors
ing international arbitration The
General Assembly of Canadian Presby
terians adopted similar resolutions.
During the past year the Northern
baptist Board OF Foreign Missions has
sent out fftv-one new missionaries
Sixteen OF these went 10 China. twelve
TO Burma seven to South India, sever
10 Japan. six 10 Assam, and three to tht
Philippine Islands
A Baptist lsvman in Pennsy ivana
whose name is not made public
agrees To give $50 400 toward a rune
fn~ snperannuated ministers. provided
she Northern Baptist Church raise
s2oo,ooe additional by December Is
1911.
The vote Of the London Conference
of the Methodist Church In Canada on
union with the Presbyterian and Con
gregationai cf1urthes Was 1870 FOR and
~ against, In the Toronto Confer
ence the vote WAS 2+l for and ~
AGAINST union.
Cars Lane congre ga tiouai church
birmingham. England, the church
from which Dir jonn Henry Jowet,
came To the Fifth Avenue Presbyter
terrain church New York, conducts
twelve Sunday schools IN Birmingham
There are 1900 scholars enrolled and
30 teaceTs,
sss ise, yssss al is,eAet4.ig a4shS Can &f e.
gationai Home Mission society held
in San Freneisco. Cal. the Trea surer
report showed that contributions for
the year were nearly s250.e0e The
fatal invested funds OF the socie,Y
amonnt to $53s,el5. an increase OF
s2t, 600 for the year.
Al meeting of representatives OF
theological seuinaries of the Congre-
gational Church, held at Cambridge
Mass. committee was appointed 10
aoaaaint college men. through suitable
literature and Otherwise. with the pres
ent opportunities for service In the
Christian ministry Prof. Calvin M.
Clarke. OF Bangor Theological semi
nary. is chairman of this committee.
The Northern Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society supported, wholly or in
part. during the year just closed 1913
missionaries and teachers. Among
the foreign populations there have
been 227 missionaries; among Tho
negroes 81 missionaries and los
teachers; the Indians, 20 and 9. the
Mexicans - and II, the Cubans 81
and r; fhe Porto Rfcans s.. respec-