The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-09

Last year 9k6 patients we're treated
without charge,
The Zionist movement appears TO
be making progress Its tenth con-
Sress at Basel, Switzerland. was at
tended by five hundred delegates who
came from every portion of the globe
The Jewish element in the population
of Palestine now numbers 100000 out
of 100000.
The Baptist Yearbook Of 1911 gives
Il complete record Of the progress of
the various Baptist organizations in
tire United States. Some of the sta
ostics given are: Number Of BAPTIST
churches IN tho United States, 49,733,
an increase OF 70S during 1910; 3g,-
aGS ordained ministers, an increase
of i.458 and total membership OF
s. Ss@, ssi. an increase of i7.bTs. This
net gain IS the lowest for any yea.r.
IN the Last fourteen. The $4,000 sun
Gay schools have a mem Dership Of D.
eo3,aS7. The total gifts of the churches
curing the Year amounted to nearly
TIVE rfUT-~stx millions. or which almost
twenty millions We're spent on the To-
cal churches. and the remainder upon
su"h work as home and foreign mis-
sions, bible ana publication work, ed
.usatisn. .@ts. ssv'..9 7,e
At the closing exercises recently Of
the BoSton Vacation Bible Schools, I'M
Ger the national Organization. at the
pudley street Baptist church, 800
children from nine schools, with thirty
teachers, represented tho local con-
tngent. The total result OF this sea
son = activity is reported as l05 schools
IN III cities with 400 teachers ana
reaching $4,000 boys and girls so per
cent OF whom were foreigners.
The London correspondent OF the
CongregaLonalist SAYS that the Bril-
ISM House of Lords is responsi bio for
conditions IN England which deprive
Nonconformlsts OF fun religious liber-
". -Four years ago the lt3use OF
LORDS frustrated the effort I, repeal
Inc law which provides that no Nom
conformlst can hold the Easadmaster-
sstsga'uf airy ~ $500 parish day Schools
maintained by the State, Tree church
men In England have fought many
winning battles for religious liberty.
hut in every such battle they have
been opposed by the peers
Or, Edward I. Curtis. professor of
Greek in the Yale Divinity School
Tor The past twenty years. and until
recently dean OF the aehool, died OF
an acute attack Of heart disease on
the Bangor boat last Saturday night.
aged hfty~seven years.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has I'm Africa church, school. and
Hospital property valued al si27ooo.
In 1897 the total valuation Of property
u that mission field was less than
Rev William Wallace Atterbrrv n
d. who died recently at Bennington
VI, vas for twenty nfne years dSee-
sSl Secretary Of the New York Sab
bath Committee, and since 1895 has
been Secretary Enr>itns of
er'ft ''7y'7frTT'T 71Y- Xfterbury was
eiEhty~eisht years gli, and entered
tie Presbyterian ministry In fS4s.
The new Greek Orthodox chnrcb
BEING completed on I'3pe street sIar-
chester. n. II. IS bcing decorated hv
painter from Jerusalem who has Al
ready been TT work on It fer four
months. The entire aurface Of the
doine, ceilings and inside walls will be
covered with ell paintings, Including
many symbolic designs and scenes In
the life Of Jesus and the apostles
In the. dome ia u gigantic figure rem
resentinR the Father surrounded by
angels and cherubim. The work IL
about three fourths done.
Miss Gertrude Stewart. OF Rutland.
VT, who has been employed in dea-
coness work there for some time, has