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The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
LUTHERAN NEWS.

The 100000 Lutherans in the United
States are getting ready to celebrate
the four hundIedth anniversary Of the
birth of Martin Luther. The three
hundredth anniversary. in 1917. gave the
start in America to Lutheran unity, and
the forming a little later, of such general
bodies al the synod and council. The
four hundredth, occurring in 1917, will be,
II possible, a time for further unity,
especially Of synod, council, and most
Of the new independent -synods that have
made English and not German their
service language.
A first step toward the celebration IN
1917 Is taken by the council, the second
largest single body, in an effort to raise
an endowment fund of 100000, the in
come to be employ ed for missions and
other advance work at home and abroad
The recommendation is made by a coun-
ell committee, but will, 1t is said, be
adopted by the council as q whole
Other Lutheran bodies are considering
money plans as part Of the celebration
OF the anniversary, and from now on
will come several announcements OF
them.
Lutherans Of :he United States give
to missions about 5000, 900, and this sum
will be maintained, doubtless increased,
while the anniversary endowments are
being raised. The council, Just announc-
ing its 1917 plan. has nearly 100000 COM
munIcants The synod. the Oldest OF the
general organizations, has $4,000, and
there are nearly 100000 in independent
synodJ, largely foreign speaking. The
largest single body is the Synodical Con-
ference, with 625,0Oo, still strongly Ger
man In It's life and language.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
CARIBOU COME BACK TO MAINE.
Small Herds Reported in the North
western Part of the State.

Small Herds Reported in the North
western Part of the State.
From the Boston Transcript
The Hon. John S. P. H. Wilson, chair
man Of the Maine fish and game commits
sion, states that IN the Dead River and
Moose River regions deer are more plen-
tiful than for many years.
Moose seem to be holding their own in
the same territory, which is bounded on
the east by the upper Kennebec River
and Moosehead Lake, and on the west
by the Canada line. The information
from lumbermen and forest fire fighters,
as well as from guides, is to the effect
that the wild animals generally escaped
from the forest fires which were numer-
Gus in July.
Mr.. Wilson also states that several re-
liable men have reported to the COM
missioners that they have recently seen
a small herd OF caribou IN the woolas-
took region of Northwestern Maine It Is
more than a dozen years since a carl
bou is known to have been killed in
Maine, and 1t was supposed that this
migratory beast had gone so far North
that II might never return.
This supposition was strengthened by
the opening Of more settlements IN Cam
ada, making It harder for the animals
to come into Maine by a purely wilder
ness route, The recent legislature passed
law establishing close time to caribou
until October Is, 1917.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

and conferences with local ministers,
take place.
This series Of conferences, the first ever
held, will begin in Minneapolis on No
vember Is, and go westward to Washing
ton along the Northern tier. Confer
ences are set for Fargo, Sheridan, Butte,
Boise. Spokane, Seattle, and Portland,
the last named city being reached on
December l.
The second half Of the month will be
given to conferences in San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. Colorado
Springs, Topeka, Omaha, and Huron, s..
Oak. In all conferences, studies are to
be made of rural districts, foreigners,
lumber and mining camps, Indians, pos
sible overlapping in cities, and, on the
Coast conditions among Orientals. The
societies making the survey state that
there is really a worse situation in the
overlooked fields than ever obtained in
the overlapped ones.
Religious bodies taking cart, through
their home agencies, in this comprehen-
sive survey include the Presbyterian
Methodist, Disciples of Christ. Episcopal
Reformed, both Dutch and German
bodies; Congregational in both of their
home organizations; United Brethren,
Lutheran, and Baptist. Southern So
cieties are in it with Northern. The
Federal Council and the American Bible
Society also have part. In all of the
States named, Christian leaders are now
making studies of conditions in order to
be ready to report upon them to these
survey conferences. Better direction OF
the $40 900 given by Christians in
America for missions at home is the OBJ
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
EXILED REMITTANCE MEN
WHO WON'T GO TO WORK
New York Filled with EngIishmen Who Live off
Relatives.

this custom is being done away with, for
these exiles are, as a class improvident,
and If several hundred dollars Is placed
In their hands at once It Is almost Ger
tain to go like water. Nearly invariably
the remittance man Is q persistent de-
votee OF the tables Of chance
In one OF the big hotels the other after
noon New Yorker suddenly wheeled
around sharply and walked a few steps
away.
81 thought 1t a little better" he said to
his companion. There's a man there
I'd rather not meet. His mother, sisters
and brothers over in London are close
friends of mine. I never fail to go to their
house. II they came here I'd get to the
steamer to meet them and show them
every courtesy.
This brother distinguished himself in
Africa He's a superb officer, and he had
great career before him. Now-well,
I suppose the family allow him SIS week
here. 1t would be quite useless to give
him any more. He'd simply gamble it
all away.
All Very Picturesque.
He's miles deep in debt in England.
completely discredited. No; he's not
exactly scamp. but utterly INSCRIPTIONS
in money matters. He hangs about here
spongtng and trying to raise little loans.
II he'd seen me now, within five minutes
he'd have woven together a story, Of a
great business opportunity and have done
his best to work me.
I've seen a good deal Of these fellows.
They're very picturesque, but they're to
be avoided like the plague. There Is one
characteristic they all have. None Of
them has ever worked a day in his life,
but every one is under the delusion that
he could be a great business man on a
large scale.
They dream up the most extraordinary
propositions you ever heard. One or two
have actually made money in this way.
They have fallen in with some get-rich-
quick geniuses, have made their person
ality useful, and have been shrewd
enough to carry of a fair share of the
profits.
But actual work is something these
men won't do. Out Of all the agree
able. high-class exiled Englishmen
drifting around the hotels Of New York
l have known of exactly two who ever
really worked. One put his pride in his
pocket after he had been over here a
couple of years. He found a pretty
American girl OF very ordinary class that
he wanted to marry, and he struck out
for himself
Il met that man eight years ago in
England when he was a captain. Now he
is waiter in one of the largest OF the
high-grade downtown restaurants He is
a capital waiter. too. and his revenue
from tips must be very neat A remark
able thing about him is that he is not at
all ashamed of his work. He even takes
a pride in it. He makes no attempt at
all TO hide his identity. He has gone
down in the social scale of course. but
/ think he is much happier''-New York
Sun.
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gone over, among the questions discussed
being the support Of the Catholic press.
1t was determined to place the official
Endorsement of the Aloysius Truth So
ctety on the Catholic Standard and
Times, of Philadelphia, and to promote
the circulation of this journal through
out the archdiocese. The society's regu-
lar annual meeting will be called next
month.
The Catholic Holy Name societies will
hold their annual convention in Balti-
more on October IS and H. 1t is an
nounced that masses will be said in all
Baltimore churches at o'clock on Mon
day, the 18th, and request Is made to
Holy Name men from unions outside OF
Baltimore to have made their confess
sions before quitting their home parishes,
since such cannot be heard by Baltimore
priests
There will be a parade. taken part in
by thousands, on Monday. Many visit
ing unions will take bands and banners
with them. The meeting at which Car
dinal Gibbons, Mgr. Falconio. the arch
bishops, and others will be present will
be held on Monday at II o'clock. Reso-
lutions formally approved by this meet
ing will be offered later to the Holy
Name unions and given out, II adopted
by them, as expressions of the societies.
Vespers will be said in the cathedral
on Monday evening. aud on Tuesday
will be held the business sessions Of
spiritual directors. delegates, and COM
mittees. Holy Name men, OF whom there
are many thousands, are pledged, as is
well known, to observe in terms the
third command OF the Decalogue.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
GOOD BIBLE TEACHERS MUST HAVE
PERFECT PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM

of a Bible group needs to be a specialist
in some department of knowledge related
to his subject. To know even one side
of his subject better than any one else
in the class may know 1t. gives a teach
er a certain prestige and makes him al
most respected for certain things he does
not know.
A great teacher once said that he
worked hardest upon things that he
never said In class. The consciousness,
however, that he had this reserve Of
actual knowledge to draw upon caused
him to move about easily in his subject.
He was not always teaching up to the
very edge of his reserve. II, for exam
pie, a teacher has made a speciality in
his study Of the life of Christ; II he has
filled his thought and imagination with
the life and precepts of the great Teach
er of Christianity, in a peculiar way
this man acquires a competency in other
realms of Bible teaching. A Bible class
can never be permanently effective
through plety alone. The true teacher
must have the love of his God, with all
his mind as we'll as with all his soul.
Furthermore, an effective Bible class
is one that joins Bible truth and action.
Bible study is not an end In itself. It
Is not for the sake of information simply.
Neither Is its objective fulfilled in giving
spiritual thrills and moral satisfactions
or selfish happiness, A Bible class Is for
the sake of life and service. The Bible
is a practical book. because 1t treats of
practice and conduct. Just as truly as
neither books nor sermons nor men abide
unless they are serviceable, 80 It Is true
that no Bible class possesses lasting
values unless it can relate men to tasks.
needs to action
The real discovery OF truth should
never leave a man inert ana passive and
disinterested. He must act and react on
what he receives, else the objective Of the
Bible Is lost. The Bible class Is not
simply a resort for curious intellectual
critics. It Is rather a creative center OF
vital life. II should be q dynamic force
impelling men toward new and active
ideals The Leader OF the group OF
twelve men in the FIRST century toiled
more than He taught.
toCpyrsht ~. b. MrccEuick Publishins cOl
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

Writing under the caption The Bible
Teacher-His Equipment and Aims Mr..
Clayton Sedgwick Cooper says in the
current issue Of the Continent:
The supreme and thrilling thought that
gives power to a Bible class leader Is
the realization that he has something
tremendously worth while to do for
other men. It is more than possessing
knowledge of the Bible. 1t is far more
than having a perfect pedagogical sys-
tenn. The teacher must be able and be
eager to get out of himself into the
lives of the members Of his class. 1t Is
not enough for him to get the truth In
his own mind and heart and get It ire
sistibly, he must then travel back along
the path up which he has come to re-
turn with the new disciple.
This is no mean task, swiftly to put
ones self in the other mans place and
to bear his burden. Prof. Palmer calls
II the "aptItude for vicariousness. It
was the ideal Teachers unique trait Do
to place Himself In the disciples circun-
stances as to realize how His teaching
must appear to the men hearing 1t for the
first time, No Bible class will be truly
effective unless this spirit Of mingled
sympathy and sacrifice unites in the LIE
OF the teacher.
A man Of my acquaintance, who sue
cessfully taught eight Bible groups each
week IN the city OF New York last year,
told me that the secret of his success ex-
listed not 50 much In the class hour as 1t
did In personal acquaintance with the
men outside the class. He confessed that
the first thing he did to make his class
successful was to arrange an hours
walk with each member Of his class. He
thus was able to secure personal knowl-
edge Of and Sriendly attachment with his
students. HIS, teaching and his discus
sion IN the class hour was upon the basis
Of his personal knowledge Of the needs,
ambitions. temptations and tempera-
ments OF his class members.
Some one In every Bible class must
have an accumulated wealth OF informal
ton concerning the subject IN hand, II
the class shall be effective The leader
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
CONGREGATIONAL.

The First Congregational Christian En-
deavor Society closed q notable years
work with q banquet on Wednesday
evening at the church. Eighty-six mem
bers and friends of the society sat at
the tables, which had been tastefuIIy
decorated in C. E. colors by Mr.. Leroy
c. Schantz, vice chairman Of the social
commiteet. The pastor. Rev. s. H Wood
row, D. D., delivered the invocation, and
Mr. Percy T. Chadbourne, the retiring
president of the society, gave the ad-
dress of welcome, to which response was
made by Mr.. Horace NJ. Gilman, presi-
dent Of the District Christian Endeavor
Union. Rev. S. r. Swift, assistant pas
tor, spoke on The relation Of Christian
Endeavor to the church." and Mr.. Clar-
ence E. Deyo on The benefits OF Chris
tian Endeavor to the Epdeavorer." Brief
reports summing up the past years
work were given by the retiring officers
and committee chairmen. after which
DR.. Woodrow installed the new officers.
The programme was interspersed by solo
numbers given by Miss Harriet E. Hard
ing, Miss Florence Steffens, and Mr.
William Wall whiddit. The new Off
GERS have taken for their motto, Eff
cheney" and have planned to make the
society's work for 19ll-1912 count for
The American Board. representing Con-
gregationalists in their foreign work,
closed its fiscal year on September with
an income of sl,O29. .ss9 for its current
work. In its one hundred and first year
the famous board. the oldest missionary
society in America passes the 81, 200, 900
mark IN receipts. Exclusive OF this sum
it received last year 100000 for endow-
ment OF its educational work in mission
fields.
In common with other societies, the
boards income has been increasing
steadily. For a decade or more its in
crease was $4,000. but from living givers
it received s65,OOO more It attributes
its success to the apportionment plan,
recently introduced, to a growing appre-
citation by the public Of the value OF
foreign missions, and to the Laymen's
Missionary Movement. Especially does
1t appreciate, says its formal statement,
the greater help through right publicity
of the daily newspapers. The board has
twenty-five foreign mis- sion fields, with
SIS churches and 1900 members on them.
Its native members on the field con-
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
SOME OF THE DETECTIVES.

To help find the million missing participation
inc
To o Aueric
the ntnent
of
To continue the emphasis
non-Ch world
To reveal
lives of the o the two
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR

Christian Endeavor has just announced
details of its efficiency campaign, which
begins now and is to continue until 1913.
During the last two years Endeavor So
cieties increased 10000 in number, and
Endeavor membership grew by loo, ,OOo
Now the task is to be entered upon of
training these recruits and starting them
upon worthwhile work.
The campaign makes no fewer than
twenty-eight suggestions for work by
young people, women and men, in the
churches, aud sets forth an elaborate
plan of percentages. 1t asks every En-
deavor society Immediately TO take stock.
That is, it prescribes methods by which
societies may get their present rating
Of efficiency. If the total of all lines of
work, conservatively calculated. be 30 per
cent perfect, then for that society the
efficiency campaign means the raising or
these standards to 100 per cent.
OF the twenty-eight lines, missions
prayer meetings. good literature, the
searching out and training Of leaders,
church attendance. evangelism, and So
cials are given special prominence in the
campaign instructions
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
A WOMAN's WORK.
Twenty-three Reasons Chosen at
Random, why 1t Is Never Done.

Twenty-three Reasons Chosen at
Random, Why 1t Is Never Done.
A year book published in Northheld,
VT, has the following rhyme on the
cover:
Men work from morn till set of SUM-
They do
But a woman's work is never done
Quite true.
For when one task she's finished some
things found.
Awaiting a beginning all year round.
Whether It be
To draw the tea,
Or bake the bread,
Or make the bed,
Or ply the broom.
Or dust the room,
Or floor to scrub,
Or knives to rub,
Or table set
Or meals to get
Or shelves to scan,
Or fruit to can,
Or seeds to SOW,
Or plants to grow,
Or linens bleach,
Or lessons teach,
Or butter churn,
Or Jackets turn,
Or polish glass,
Or plate or brass,
Or clothes to mend.
Or children tend.
Or notes indite,
Or stories write
But must stop, for really If I should
Name all the ors, take me a day it
would.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Influence OF "waverIey' in Franc,

Influence OF "waverIey" in France.
From the London Globe.
Prof. Maigron. lecturing in French on
Les Waverley Novels ct le Roman
F'rancaIs'' before the University OF Edin-
burgh, commented upon the prodigious
success achieved by the waverley novels
I'm France. and by way OF indication OF
that success he quoted from a number
OF the contemporary French journals.
The publication of the Waverley novels,
he said, had also a distinct effect on
French literature, and as a result OF
their popularity historical romance gain
ed strong hold among the French
writer's.
This influence was still to be observed
in current literature and could be traced
in the works Of the greatest and most
original OF the French writer's. He in
stanced Merimee and his ''Chronioua An
Temps de Charles TX" A. de BiRnv ana
cling Mars" and Victor Hugo ana
''Notre Dame de Paris Scott exercised
profound influence and occupied An
eminent place IN the development ~
French literature. VI
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
EPISCOPAL NEWS.

Rev. W. L. Kinsolving. a younger
brother of Rev. DR.. Kinsolving, rector
of st. Paurs, Baltimore, and of the
bishops of Texas and Southern Brazil,
has become rector of Mount Calvary
Church, st. Louis, which has just been
built at a cost of SIS, ,OOO
BY the death last Saturday of Rev Dr.
Mott, for sixty years a priest of the
church in Allegany County, a man Of the
greatest learning and Of great humanity,
there has passed from our midst a re-
markable character. AS a scholar he
had probably no peer to-day in our
American churches. A grandson Of the
founder Of Union College, he came by
his learning naturally enough. Many of
our Maryland and Washington clergy
on whose literary attainments he was
called upon to pass judgment, as a
bishops examining chaplain, will realize
that the master has been taken away
Rev. C. w. Whitmore, who delivered
an address at the annual meeting Of the
senior assembly of the brotherhood. urg-
ing greater zeal on the part Of the luke
warm, is very much run down and in
nervous condition, due to his incessant
anu AooHy IdDOIS dS pastor OF 81. agnes
Chapel. A few days rest, however, will
fully restore him.
Bishop Harding is expected home about
the 1st Of October from his cottage at
Haven. Me.
Epiphany Mems Club held it first meet
ing September p. at s p. m. At the
same hour, on September 22 the Social
Club Of Epiphany met. On the follow
ing Sunday, October l, at o'clock. the
children's evening at Epiphany will be
resumed, as also the morning and after
noon Sunday schools, at $50 and 3
o'clock, respectively
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
THE FOUR STORY STRUCTURE OF MEN
AND RELIGION"


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The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
HYPATIA.

The lady Hyratia. She dwelt in state,
A dame Of high degree.
Her charms they were many, her talents rare,
Her beauty fair to see.
Her rounded arms, so soft and white.
Melted the hearts Of her suitoTs quite
" 'Tis worth q dollar one glimpse to see
OF an arm perfect" they chuckled with Elee.
The lady Hypatia could do no wrong.
In thought or word, or deed.
She held aloof from sin with soon.
And that was her only creed.
And every day. with fervent heart,
She prayed on bendsd knee.
II thank thee, Lord, that pleased thou at,
To vouchSafe unto me
That / am not As others are,
Poor sinners low and vile,
But that apart from them l stand.
Where none can me defle.
"As far above their eToveling state
As are the stars from earth.
thank thee that untairted thou
y Hast made me from my BIRTH
She boasted loud Of high descent
From royal queens and kings;
From noble lords and danes came she.
And still their praises zngA
Her spirits high would oft hnd vent
In words like unto "damn?'
The reason asked. she'd say with scon,
"An aristocat am.
Let not the cpmmon people think
That they can thus transress;
What hagrant crime In them would Be,
! need no sin confsA
''As far aloof as pole from pole
IN hold from me Apart,
And ostracise foreTerInore
One who thus dares Depart
From rules conventional laid down
By good society,
Which only me and mine defy,
With all tmpunity."
OF Goddess fairl We thee adore.
In majesty august and lone;
With raptured gao we watch thee soar
Above u far as star from stone.
Ny country. 'tis Of thee We sing.
Equalityl Demo0aeyi
Fraternity may freedom bring;
Not Yaunttng szistoG7C.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Filtered Water in Bamboo.

Yapp, the English naturalist. who has
explored the mountain ranges OF the Ma
lay Peninsula, reports the fact, not gen.
orally known, that in several species OF
bamboo the hollow internodes-the parts
of the stems between the jointS-are
stored with large quantities of naturally
filtered water The knowledge OF this
fact might be of great service in an
emergency.
Mr. Yapp also discovered on his last
visit two species Of ferns growing on
trees whose thick fieshy stems are filed
with galleries tunneled by ants, the ferns
thus forming living nests for the ants.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

tribute $4,000 a year toward their own
work. Especially important is the
boards educational work In Turkey, In
din, and Japan. A characteristic of the
board is and long has been its ventures
into new and difficult fields, often open
ing the way for others. The board Is
Just now considering, it states, the vast
Importance Of help for Spanish speaking
peoples both in Spain and Spanish
Amerira
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
WHAT is THE MEN AND RELIGION
FORWARD MOVEMENT?

practical combination North
America cooperative oganiza
uons working especially 1911
M year OF special emphasis Christian work and by men
and
Gus effort during the follow bring the church
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

Every fifteenth inhabltant Of Graat
Britain uses a bicycle or motoroycIa sor
business or pleasure. the postal servic,
alone utilizing more than IIooO maohines'
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But I must stop. for really If I should
Name all the ors, take me a day it
would.