The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-17
ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST

hundred years to bring the average to
TWO years.
Mt r. A. Long, of Kansas City, has
announced that he will give 100000
for a hospital to be built by the Dis
ciples, provided they raise $4,000
additional. They have secured $1ls.-
600 of the amount needed. He also
proposes to give another 100000,
$50. zoe year for four years, provid-
ed they will add an average of $62,-
800 each year.
In @ communication to the Presby-
terrain of the south a missionary In
China shows from the last minutes
OF their General Assembly that eacA
member added to the Presbyterian
church on profession of faith cost In
the home field an average OF $20b.o4
while in the foreign field the cost per
member was Sl52.39. The ADDITIONS
at home were 1862 per ministerial
worker, while in the foreign field there
were 14.68 for each missionary.
The new financial. plan adopted BY
the benevolent boards OF the Aetho-
dist Episcopal church is briefly stated
ed educational campaign, followed by
CD u personal canvass Of every man.
woman, and child In the congrega-
ton for go weekly offering for mis-
sions and beneVoiences, 90 using the
duplex envelope as the most effective
collecting device; 90 emphasizing in
telligent. prayer subscription tnstead
Of the omnibus collections. In To-
rQnto. Cana Ga, where tho paasl has
been in operation for two years. the
contributions went from $21l, 217 to
S4le.1 and continue to increase.
The percentage of members of the
Methodist Episcopal church to popu-
lation in the cities of the United
States ranges from 10 per cent in
san Francisco, the lowest. to $50 per
cent! Ian Camden, n r., the high est.
In New York the percentage Is LOG,
in Brooklyn 1.b0. and in Chicago, 1.23.
In the corporate limits OF the city
of Atlanta there are $4,000 members
of the Methodist church, 5000 Bap-
lists. 5000 Presbyterians, 100 Univer-
salists, and about the same number
OF Unitarians.
william r. Wardwell. late treasurer
will 100000 to the Red Cross Hos
pitai. New York. on condition that 1t
continues to abstain from the use of
alcohol in treating patients.
The Presbyterian church extension
committee OF New York city has ex-
pended 100000 Of the money rsceiv-
ed from the John s. Kennedy estate,
and reports that every church in that
presbytery Is now out OF debt or able
TO provide for itself.
The Presbyterians report an in
crease OF 1,S00 members in the Philip
pine Islands.
The Evangelical Association of the
United States will enter upon active
evangelistic work in the Russian en-
pire.
February 26 has been appointed by
the Worlds Student Christian Fedora
ton for a universal day Of prayer for
students.
Protestant missionary societies in
CHINA have 4.2aa missionaries. 2,341
congregations. 1905 members, and
Il total Christian community of 27s.-
628.
North Dakota has an interdenomi-
national comfy commission now in
its second year. In its membership
the Baptist Congregational. Metho-
dist and Presbyterian churches OF the
State are represented.
The nationwide campaign of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement
viii be directed by committee OF
ninety-seven. of which James q. Can
non. President of the fourth National
bank, New York, lis chairman: Fred
Il. Smith, secretary OF the Interna-
tional Y. NJ. c. A., campaign leader,
and Fayette l.. Thompson. secretary
OF the Methodist brotherhood. asso-
ciate campaign leader. John r. Pep
per, OF Memphis is chairman Of the
committee for the Southern territory.
The thirteenth annual Tabernacle
BihiA Conference Atlanta Ga will