The Washington herald., 1911-06-18
ADVANCES BIZ COOPERATION.
Christian Co-operation I'm Bible Re
vfafon

Christian Cooperation I'm Bible Re-
vision.
Mr. j. Pierpont Morgan, of New York,
jealous Episcopalian. has contributed
money recently to the Catholic commits
sion for the revision of the Latin vulgate,
or Catholic version of the Bible. and has
entered into that commissions plans to
photograph pages of his THE Golden
Gospels" He has also presented VOL
ume of photographs of the collated texts
The commission, appointed by Pope Plus
X and now at work two years. is search
ing the libraries, cathedral records and
treasures, and private collections of all
Europe for documents to show the basis
of st. Jerome's translation. Oddly, the
Latin texts from which the present Cath
Ollie version of the Bible was made has
disappeared. Wonderful success has been
met with in a search for them. Just
now examinations are making in Eng
land, but libraries in Austria, Holland,
Spain, and France, following those in
Italy, have already been searched The
plan has been hit upon Of photographing
every page of these rare volumes and
portfolios and making duplicate copies so
that members of the commission and
scholars who are to cooperate with them
may have copies for separate and quiet
study. A Bible revision made with re-
markable care and with all of the learn
ing of the Catholic Church brought to
bear is to be the outcome.
CaroIina's New Problem.
Churches of North Carolina are con-
fronted with an important problem, So
cial as we'll as religious, in the cotton
mill operatives. These number 1250OO
the largest in any State. They are Amer
lean, not foreign born, and for the most
part came from the rural districts, small
farmers and artisans, to the mills which
have been erected in towns and by the
streams where is water power. From
rural to what is practically city and
tenement house conditions is vast
change. Churches and schools have been
left behind in the country, and 1t be-
comes necessary wholly to reconstruct
religious and educational plans. In many
cases church and school authorities are
cooperating, or at least co-ordinating
their efforts. Social service efforts, in
cluding instruction in housekeeping under
new conditions, care of children, amuse-
ments on holidays and evenings, and
sanitation have been given attention. Be-
yond these are the relations to employ
ers. for workers are almost wholly unor-
ganized, their hours and wages are at
the discretion of owners. and child labor,
the temperance question. and half a
dozen other new problems confront. 1t
is a white difficulty added to the black
one, and Christian men and women of
North Carolina who hold positions of
in their churches are asking
leaders in their respective bodies what il
is best TO do and where are the helpers
and money to do IT. Some progress has
been made. and operatives themselves
show willingness to do their part.
Gen. Booth and His Army.
Gen. William Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army, and now in his eighty
second year, sends word from London
that he will come to America this fall.
He writes that he is intensely interested
in and busily laboring for London social
conditions, especially among the extreme
" poor, but that he must once more in
spect his army in America. Less has
been heard of the army than in former
years, but late reports indicate that both
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