The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-28
ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST

Among the requests of the late VIII
liam A. Grippen, a prominent Baptist
layman Of Bridgeport, Conn. are the
following; American BAPTIST Home
Mission Society, American Baptist
REORGANIZATION Society. and Memo
rial Baptist church of bridgeport. s25,-
0o0 each; Connecticut baptist conven-
Tion, First Baptist church, Bridgeport.
and y. Nj. G. A. OF Bridgeport. s1o,-
600 each Young Woman's Christian
Association of bridgeport and Bap-
list Ministers Home Society Of New
York. S. 900 each. An interesting
thing about these gifts is that while
Mr.. Grippen LETT no will his heirs
have follow ed TO the letter IL note
written shortly before his death IN
which he indicated his desires in the
matter
During the year fsI6 there were
Inearly 10000 additions TO the Baptist
churches in Russia. aud 1000 in Rou-
manla
! The National Association for the
STUDY and Prevention Of Tuberculo-
sig mas suggested Sunday. April 80 as
/ tuberculosis SUNDAY, and asks that
II b. observed in the churches with
sermons and addresses on the preven-
( tion Of the disease.
just been formed ia New York with
the aims Of developing Catholic men
on social and missionary lines, and
I training them for volunteer service
/ II ali Catholic tiiuetses in the eoun-
+ try. board Of twenty FIVE priests
aud iaymen has been formed
| The conference Of Russian BAPTIST
/ churches recently held at IT, Peters
! burg, appointed four delegates 10 at
! tend he World Raptist Congress- At
! Philadelphia. in June The conference,
! ,vas 'is+'ld Y4riyf severe restrictions. an
/ official Of tive Ministry of the Interior
being present N All the meetings. and
no foreign Baptists being permitted tn
attend
! The Oakland Sunday schooi has Just
completed n "Trip To Palestine" Con-
! test which has been running for three
months Though the Mauretania Kept
'Lusitanfa 'then forged ahead and ar
I rirGd al it's destination a week ia
/ advance of its rival The Mauretania
/ gave banquet on Friday evening
/. Ia sse passengers amt crew OF this,
victorious Lusitania. There were about
| so 1T the tables, The supper was
| followed by stereopticon lecture on
+
Sunday school orchestra made It's first
public appe aranee ut this time. and
added greatly to the pleasure of the
occasion. Sunday evening occurred
the Easter concert by the Sunday
school, The house was completely
flied with an appreciattve audience.
several years ago. Rev ESSEX W.
| Kenyon established at HilIsville, IN
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stitute. II school for young neu and
women who could not afford to go to
college. bur could enjoy the advan-
tsges OF this institute because OF the
opportunity to work in payment for
their tuition. a large farm, carried
on by the students, and IL printing Of
flee when published IA monthly maya
zine, were among tho industries of the
school. Mr. kenyon has been looking
about in Spencer for a building In
which to open shirt factory TO en-
pIov about fifty persons. and be one
Of tho industries connected with the
school. Belief IN prayer is the main
characteristics OF the Institute. and
Mir. Kenyon and his pupils believe
that whatever success comes to
them is through prayer. Each Thurs
day afternoon IL given over to a ses-
sion Of prayer and the pupils pray
according TO Mr.. Kenyon, for the sa
walton of the world. Mr.. Kenyon fire.
quently conducts evangelistic meet
ings in Maine and elsewhere
The summer term Of the Moody I'll
bile Institute of Chicago begins May
2 and closes August Is. II is claimed
-hy The Enhancement that while the
DIRK OF the summer term is practically
tho Same as that IF the other terms.
IT has special advantages along lines
Of practical Christian service, rs much
Isl ss,ays@ oF outdoor fyrsas chsng, 10 tents,
sl7o on the streets aud by means Of
!,pi wagons
Dr Sheldons book, In His Steps"
~ said To have larger circulation
il,an Uncle Toms Cabin" The sales
have, been estimated at three million
copies. The story has been drama
tized for the uses Of young pebple's
eocieties and Chantauqua circles. with
the provisa OF exclusion from the pro-
fessional stage
1t is said that in the old Water
Street Mission of New York. founded
by Jerry McAuley~ In 1879. more than
a million people have, wershisped
during the past thirty seven years and
over u hundred thousand of these