The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-26

Cal. June To.
Rev. Thomas r Davies, Jr., rector
of All Saints church. Worcester,
Mass. was last week elected bishop
of the Western Massachusetts diocese
of the Protestant Episcopal church.
During a recent tour in the North
west India Conference Bishop Warne.
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
baptized seven hundred candidates.
and reports two thousand more ready
for baptism.
Rev, John II. he Forest. d. D..
veteran Congregational missionary.
died at Sendai, Japan, May D. he
was graduated from Yale in the class
OF 1869, and for many years had been
In Japan.
On May / certain hospital property
in Baltimore passed into the hands OF
board of trustees representing the
Methodist Episcopal church, the Me-
thodist Episcopal church, South, and
| the Methodist Protestant church.
! OF the one hundred and eighty-six
pastors of the Baltimore Conference,
Methodist Episcopal church. one hun
| dred and nineteen are in their hrst
and second years in their present
pastorates. Only twenty have been in
their present charges more than four
| years.
The Moody Bible Institute and the
Moody church, Chicago, unite in an
/ invitation to Christian workers
/ throughout the country to. join in u
( conference on summer work in the
! churches and In the open air at Chi
cago June 6-s. Communications for
details of the conference accommo-
da tons. etc, should be addressed TO
Moody Bible Institute. 153-163 Insti-
tute Place. Chicago.
| The Presbyterian church (North)
has an endowment fund for disabled
ministers and the widows and cr-
phans of deceased ministers that now
amounts to a little over $4,000 900.
Ministers who are over seventy years
| OF age and who have been in active
service not less than thirty years re-
ceive $3.50 year Other disabled
ministers are paid from $500 to 5000
n year. The average amount paid to
widows is s170 a year.
The Sunday school of the First
Methodist Episcopal church OF Brazil,
Ind, which lays claim to being the
largest in the world. has grown In
fourteen years from membership
of 22S to +,sg7. OF the present total,
1,417 are in the home department.
and on the cradle roll. This enrol
ment has been reached without any
contests between classes or depart
ments. and no prizes are offered No
person who attends the theatre daoo a
or plays cards Is permitted to tea ch
III the school.
Through the Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary Societies OF America the fol-
lowing amounts have been given 10
missions: Union Missionary Society
In nifty years. s2,07S,I3s; Congrega-
tional Board in forty-two years. So
Sba.e32: Methodist women in forty
years. s11,71s.8s2, Presbyterian wo.
men In nearly forty years. $10,197.515:
Baptist women, organized a few
months later. s3.252.l14: Episcopal
women in thirty-nine years have given
s1.Sbo,0eo; the Christian Board In
thirty-nine years have given $3.50,
l6l: Dutch Reformed In thirty-sis
years. 81, 1911 the Lutheran wo-
men. about 100000 In thtrty-tw,
years. and other denominations small.
err sums.
In an article In the American Mis-.
; sfonary for May Rev. Herman F.
Swartz gives some figures showing
, the growth during the last ten year.
: of population and of the membership
OF the egational church In IF.
teen Of the larger cities OF the United
, States. these cities being of wide .gee.
graphical distribution. The popula
, tion Increase was thirty-six per cont
while the Congregationalists have In
I creased thirty-one per cent. In New
/ York, Philadelphia, Washington st
> Louis, Minneapolis and Hartford III.
, church shows q larger percentage OF
increase than does the population
T Nashville Christian Advocate
The revival campaign led by Dr. J
Wilbur Chapman and Mr.. Alexa nd q,
. IN swansea, Wales, last month wa,
/ most successful one. The total at
tendance on the meetings is estimated
! at more than 100000. and the mum
Der OF signatures to the covenant card,
, about 5000.
, Rev. William E. walcott. for TWEEN
ty-six years pastor of the Lawrenc,
, street Congres tional church Of Law
, renee. Mass. died May 10, at the agt
OF 50 years. he was the son OF ,
Congregations minister. Rev. DIR
Samuel Waleott.
, Rev. Jesse r. Baker .one of tn.
: Oldest members Of the East Main.
9 lMethodist Conference. Died at hi.
, home In Rockland Thursday, aget
: nearly 80 years, He retired from tn,
( Passionate number of years ago. hi