El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-10
METHOD|STs MAY CHANCE ENTIRE
SCHEME OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT

time when English Catholicism was
at a low ebb But the Old Testament
remains at present in almost the shape
il was at the translation three CEN
turtles ago
sunday School Workers.
A small company of men select bible
lessons which 5000, 900 persons, young
and old, study every week. Behind
these men is a Sunday School associa-
ton. and it meets in a delegated con-
yention in San Francisco at the end of
,June-the goth to 9th is the exact date
While cooperating with men in other
countries, and especially men of Eng
land. and it's committees bible selec
tions are studied everywhere, this Sun
day school enterprise is in largest part
the product of American vision and
push.
It is nearly 40 years since the asso-
citation was formed. Later there was
formed also a world association. and it
holds conventions. The international
gathering, like the one in San Francisco
in June, meets once in three years. This
year the topic is IAN Open Bible and
the Uplifted Cross" and special empha-
sis is to be placed upon the spiritual
phase of Christian education.
WOmen's Campaigns Continue.
Women identified with foreign mis-
sions, just ending a series of conyen-
tions, have voted to make their cam
paign permanent. and have retained
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, of Boston. and
Mrs. Helen B. Montgomery, of Roches-
ter as leaders. Corporations Will BIZ
had with the womans foreign boards OF
ali religious bodies, as formerly, but
an unofficial board is now constituted
to act for all. This new board will
push mission study class work both in
summer conference and in local church
es. and organize a teaching force to go
from city to city and conference ID con-
ference in summer.
The foreign women will not stop, they
say, in their undertaking to raise ST.
600. O0O Not having Quite reached it
during their meetings, they wall con-
tinue their efforts TO secure the $780,
GOO still needed. Their final convention
in New York brought out the largest
numbers Of women in aid of any cause
ever assembled in that city.
Fisk and 100000.
Fisk university at Nashville. not .
local but a national factor in possible
solution of the negro problem in Amer
lea. was founded by the American Mis-
sionary associa ton, and is a mission
airy agency in every sense. The gen.
eraI education board has just granted
to it $50. 600 upon condition that a
further sum of $1,000 be secured to-
ward enlargement of facilities aad en-
dowment Trustees of the university
declare that not $500, 900 only but ;ialf a
million dollars must be had properly to
equip and advance the institution. FISK
has about 500 negro students, and since
its foundation Immediately following
the close of the civil war il has sent
out IT'S graduates. Most of these are
teachers in schools of the negro race,
and many are men and women Of in
ffuence in their communities. Fisk AND
the American Missionary association,
which Is Congrega tional home work,
cooperate in the largest sense with tus-
kegee. Hampton, LawrencevliIe and
other industrial training agencies Tor
negro youth.
Quakers Against Boy Scouts.
Quakers have joined in formai pro-
test to the promoters Of the Boy Scout
movement, and the American public,
against the military character of the
new efforts for boys. They declare that
such phase of the movement IS quite
unnecessary. and contrary to the sen
eral spirit of the time both in America
and England, where peace not War pre-
parations are on. In their protest the
Quakers say boys can be brought next
to nature, in outdoor life. without The
military feature