The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-16
D. d. Couud edy
n age ICVOlCQ ~ 1\CuSlOuS lVldlcIS Rev.

/ thought that the completed pr009
of the conference will be ready
publication at an early date.
The report of the London Mi66tp
airy Society shows a total members
of s4,i85 in its foreign mtA
churches. Ten years ago the
mem bership was 5s,059. The ave.
income of the society during tho
ten years has been $611.910. Ssz5
Rev. George J. Sanger, Of Danv14
Mass. celebrated his eighty-n1s
! birthday last Sunday by preaching
the Methodist church in that t0Ns
Work has begun on the new Bee
Israel Synagogue in Bangor. wn1M
| Is to be completed in February, ILL.,
! at cost of about $4,000.
Rev r. } Campbell, OF the L0M%
don Temple, successor to Rev. JosepN
PS@ker. il expected to arrive in No.
! York In October on his second whit
to this country. S
ciety for the Propagation of the FaitnsM
reported for last year an income ~
| SI3a2.00n. OF this total $600,000a
came from France, s2ss 900 from this
United States, s151, 900 from Ger
many, and $500 from Italy.
i Secretary Hfngeley. Of the Board8
| of Conference Claimants of the
/ Methodist Episcopal church, eayAsM
nh
| pays retired printers one dollar 28
/ day Less than one hundred retire0R
Methodist preachers out of total
I Of $500 receive that much"
! Professor Fl. G. Lyman has resign
I cd his position as instructor la1A
| Benedict College. and accepts the
! position of superintendent of SundAyrN
| school work in the negro colleges fOrs
the International Sunday-School As
sociation. Ho will have his heads
quarters at Atlanta, GA.
One of the fruits of Chrfstianify8
In pan is seen in the case OF Mr.
/ Ensho Ham, who for twelve years.
/ has been working with dischargenS
prisoners. 1t is said that in that times
/ he has cared for Lit criminals on
all kinds. in his home. some of whom
! have been convicted fifty and one A8
/ hundred times. and that five hundred
+ of them have been rescued and 4feN
/ leading moral lives.
/ The Northern Presbyterians have
! $4,000, 600 invested in theological
seminaries, and only seven hundred
| students enrolled last year.
! The United Presbyterian church has
| in India membership of 24.362, m
I increase or more than one hundreds
per cent during the past five years..
The cabinet of the Chicago North
ern District of the Epworth League
--cf-tte Methodist Episcopal church
/ sent a telegram to President Taft
protesting against James Wilson.
secretary of agriculture, accepting the \
honorary presidency OF the InternA-s
tional Brewers Congress to be held
/ in Chicago in October.
The two Presbyterian churches re-
porting the largest number of mems
bers received on confession OF faith
the past year are the First churcn.s
Seattle, Wash, SIS received. and the
Second church, Portsmouth. o., 452l
accessions.
School Association this year conducts
/ ed one hundred and five schools In
seventeen cities, with 400 teachers and
$4,000 boys and girls enrolled. Eighty
per cent. of the pupils were children
! of foreign percentage.
The trustees of Lake Forest Uni-a
Versity, Lake Forest. ILL.,. announces
the second decennial prize of $6.00uA
! for the best book on the connections
relation and mutual bearing of any
practical science. or the history OK
our face, or the facts in any depart
| ment of knowledge, with and upon
| the Christian religion" The scopS9
/ of the gift Is thus so comprehensive
that any phase of science, Of lyttefA~s
ture OF human history. or of moderMA
/ life, that may throw light upon this
/ Christian religion. or upon my
phase of the same, as il is received by@
| the great body of Christian believers
would be a fitting theme for book
offered in the competition for the
prize. The manuscripts must be pres
sented before Jan. /, 1915. FurtheRs
/ particulars may be obtained by I'D
! dressing President ]. S. Nollen. Lak4S
Forest, Ill.
The Temple Baptist church. Lo0!
! Angeles. CAL of which DIR. j. Whit
como BrOuEheF Is pastor, mas 1t4UX#
memb ers. The church budget for thin
year Is $4,000. OF which $4,000 ~
for missions. IN
/ Fifty-seven churches Of the Pres
hyterfan Church. North. have oye1kg
one thousand members each. eigAtz
have two Thousand and less tham#
three thousand, while two have 0y4gM
three thousand members.
/
/ Under the will of Hon. Edward 19~a
Shepard, of New York, bequeat 0f#
$4,000 Is made to the Rev. Edwin s
Hiscox. OF Boston, for many yoaTS
pastor OF the Regent Street Haptia
church OF Saratoga, and close parS
sonal friend OF Mr.. Shepard.
/ Rev. w. w. Adams, .. D.. who cdYA
August Is celebrated hts eighti&t1H&
birthday. has been for nearly aftxS
years pastor of the First Congrexap
tional church, Fall River, Maas.
A special meeting OF the Houne CT
Episcopal Bishops is called Tor c.
toher rs in New York. among O4Ma
things to create. if 1t then seemAN