The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-07

ana mas over nIty rooms, hhiis. Si""9
rooms. etc. devoted to It's different
departments of work. Its main audi
torium seats $500 people. The organ
cost $4,000. and is said TO have but
two equals In the country,
Some time ago in the city of Tomsk
(SiberiaD was laid the cornerstone
of building which will be known
as the Peoples Institute. an institu-
ton somewhat similar 10 the New
York Cooper Institute. This build
ing Is the gift OF Mr.. Peter Maku-
shin. a local philanthropist, who gave
100. 900 roubles for the erection of
the building and 100000 roubles for
an endowment fund. The founder,
who has orga nized and supported over
200 libraries and reading rooms in
the province Of Tomsk. has stipulated
that the privileges OF the new ineti-
tuition shall be free TO all. irrespective
Of sex. nationality or religion.
pr. Guinness Rogers. who died re-
Gently ut Ills home In London. Eng.
had been for many years one OF the
leaders OF British Cougregationalism
1t Was at his suggestion that the first
Free church Congress was held, from
which a few years later the National
Council Of Evangelical Free Church s
vas evolved. DR.. Rogers was eighty
eight years OF age at tho time OF his
death.
Among the places and dates named
for campaigns OF the Men and Re
gion Forward Movement are the fol-
lowing Louisville, Ky. Novsm be r
IL. Kansas City, Mo, November 49,
~. 81 Louis. .Mo. and Oklahoma
City. okla, November 20-26: Little
Rock, Ark, ana Dallas. Tex. Novein-
Der u TO December 3, Houston, Tex,
Fort Worth, Tex, and Nashville
Tenn. December 4-l0. New Orleans
La. Charleston. w. Va. and Mem
phis. Tenn, December l1-17; Charles
ton, S. G. January 22-2S. Baltimore.
Nd. Chattanooga. Tenn, and Jack
sonVille. Fla. January ~ TO February
4; Atlanta, Ga. and Birmingham,
Ala. February sill.
The European public is greatly exer-
clsed by the effect OF detective Htera-
ture In stimulating juvenile Grim
fnaltty. The Durer League has start
ed travelling exposition, now in
Dresden. With which to fight this type
of reading, one one Of it's posters II
summarizes the statistics of mortality
in one of Karl Mays detective stories
"A book appearing In 1os parts with
2.612 pages In this book 1000 were
shot. 240 scalped. PIG poisoned. 1870
knitted, &c drowned violently, and
starved To death! In all there were
8 suicides. s cases OF body snatching.
70 assaults and II rohberies.
Rev Robert Henry Doiliver, who
died on September Is at Hot Springs,
: T., was one Of the pioneer Metho-
dist missionaries to the Black aiiis,
$ ., After six years spent in that
country. he came to the Northwest
! Iowa Conference. and later to the
Rock River Conference. Four years
ago he went back to South Dakota
as superintendent of the mission IN
the territory where his work as a
missonar ybegan. and held that ap-
pointment until few months ago
/ when he asked for the superannuate
rela ton. He was brother of the
late Senator Dolliyer, Of Iowa.
During the last three years the
board Of conference 6iaimants OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church dis
trihuted dividends TO the superan-
uuatss amounting To- s57 900, Invest
lnents throughout the church nave
Increased 100000. and $S5p,ooe more
has been paid to opportunities than
in any previous three years
Rev Thomas j. Drumm, master IN
81, PauI's school of Concord, \. Ii
for thirty-eight years. and secretary
Of the standing committee or the
Episcopal Diocese OF New ftaInpshife.
died Wednesday morning. ne was
born at Barbados, West Indies. DC
tober IA. 1s45. and graduated from
Trinity College.
Rev. r A craig. formerly OF West
brook. on account of insistent trou-
bic with his eyes, has resigned IN :
nastorate of the Rumford Methodist
church and Rev A. W. Pottle, of wa
1erville. who has been substituting for
him, has been appointed pastor by
District Superintendent. u HOMES
for the rest of the, Conference year
The annual convention of the Ma
ttonal city CHARACTERIZATION Union OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church vi"
be held in Philadelphia. Pa, Sn cc-
tuber 242T.
seventeen new missionaries OF the
TINTED Presbyterian Church left this
country last week for service in the
/
, foreign field. They go to lno'd
Egypt and the Sudan,
Trinity church. Boston, receives
$4,000 under the viii of MISS 1eor
giana G.. Eaton. which was hlen las
week In the Suffolk county registry
, of probate
, The forty sixth annual CONVENTION
: of the New England Christian mis-
; sionary Society Of the Christian churcf
began Friday in the First Cnurch o.
Christ. Worcester Mass and con
tinued through Sunday. The denoml
nation has IA, 260 churches and l.
$4,000 communicates; 200 forelgt
missions are maintained.
The sIxtleth university OF the IN
stallation Of Rev pr. Epher Whit
taker as pastor Of The Presbyterian
church at Southoid l.. L., was on'
Of the most Interesting OF Sunda.
events For forty ears he WAS III
active minister and for the past TWEEN
ty he has been It's pastor emeritus
record hard to equal in these Gays
when congregations are FOND o
change and clergy themselves are no
averse to frequent transfers TO new
fields. But perhaps the antiquity O
the church accounts for this conser
ivatiVe spirit in people and pastor !
is said to be the Oldest for Engllsh
speaking people. in the State of New
; York and the oldest F'resbyteriai