The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-19

forcefu1ly says that insects never
swarm round a center where dark
/ ness and quietude prevail. They
gather by the thousand where the
arc light hangs in the open" The
! Advocate has been in the open. and
it's bright light has shown in the
! campaign. The saloon insects have
eongregated around 1t, and they have
buzzed against 1t to their death.
The Lutherans have in New York
f City thirty-three English churches, an
p. increase OF twenty-nne in the last
twenty years. During the twenty years
preceding this period the increase was
only one church.
The total enrolment In Sunday
schools Of the Methodist church of
Canada Is 3sl 42s, ar increase Of 90
$50 for the church year just closed.
The sunday school mem bership ex-
ceeds the church membership by 49,
338.
Mr.. Smith Ely, recently deceased,
one-time Mayor of New York city
and a Presbyterian layman. left more
than $1,000, 900 TO charity The
American Sunday School Union re-
ceives 100000. and a like amount
goes to the United Charities of New
York.
A summary OF the statistics Of he
thirteen conferences of the Methodist
church OF Canada shows Il total OF
S45,0bS members. a net increase of
1927 for the year. The annual ses-
sions Of all OF those conferences have
been held within the past three
months.
Nearly one thousand people attend
ed the NTH annual pilgrimage to he
famous historic Rockingham Old
Town Meeting House" situated near
= the little hamlet OF Rockingham "Oid
Town" and distant Ave miles from
Bellows Falls. VI, Sunday afternoon
July so. Governor Mead spoke OF
the function OF religion In the De-
velopment OF the State and Dr, A. ]
! Lyman. Of Brooklyn. on the clements
Of unity in New England religious
creeds The church where he cole
bration was held Is one OF The few
original meeting houses in New Eng
land kept In it's primitive condition.
both as to pews and pulpit. and Is
held by an association organized for
the purpose Of maintaining it intact
as a historical landmark DIR Fran
els ". Hooper. of the Brooklyn In
sfitute Of Arts and Sciences was ene
Of the prime movers In forming he
corporation and maintaining the an
nQal pilgrimage.
Rev Francis r. Clark. the head IF
The Christian EudeaYor movement is
spending the summer at his shore
homs at Sycamore. on Cape Cod. pre-
paratory TO leaving in the fall tor
foreign travel He will be accompa-
MED by Mrs. Clark and viii spend
the most OF two years abroad nc
cording TO present plans. Hts work
Will be- largely devoted 10 founding
! new societies and extending in other
ways the work Of the United Society.
The three churches in the United
States making the largest per capita
| offerings for foreign missions are:
United Presbyterian. s24S. Reform
ed Church in America, s1.Tf. Presby-
terisn fsouthl, $3.50.
, -Four hundred and thirty eight stu
, dents. representing eleven denomina-
, lions. registered during the session of
The Summer School for Women's For
. eign Missionary Societies held at
, Northheid. Mass. last month.
49, Nt%At4A - sIa~eAaE41lE VINO aItu re
, Gently a. Nagasaki. Japan. was one al
| the most prominent Methodist preach
} ers or Japan. Born III 1867, he was
: converted in early manhood came II
: THIS country. and graduated in 1891
; from De PAW University He return
ed to Japan IN 1888. and since that
: time had been "a teacher I'm Chinzei
} GekGin, the Anglo Japanese colleue at
Nagasaki. In 1905 he was elected
President or that college
Presbyterian Progress In 1910.
The largest Presbyterian body. that
Of the North, has just issued its re-
: port for last year. In membership II
has regaiued all II lost following the
, Cumberland Presbyterian merger. and
$4,000 members besides. In 1907 when
: the Cumberland people came in there
was an increase iu the memhershi
figures Of ls3.n00. followed the next
Year by a setback, of. al,0o0. ,-Sagsqs
| "unoerfands. notably some in Ten
nessee. refused to stay united.
Now the membership has reached
| l,354,a6S, much larger than ever be-
fore The net gain last year was 15
500. The whole number az churches
is ioo6l. the highest number ever
reached. The Sunday school enrol
ment Is now l.2o518o. In proportion
tn membership OF the church TINS Is
the highest obtaining in any OF the
large religious bodies. A few small
bodies have as many children in their
q sunday schools as members in their
: churches. but the larger bodies hav.
| often hardly more than half so many
: The proportion OF presbyterians is
l,-o5.I30 tn l354.S53,
Contributions OF Preshytersans las,
year amounted to s2s.soa, 900. or, next
; to Methodists. the largest OF any re.
ligtous body IN America. This is SIS