The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-26
ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST,"

rher reports 1884 members and t1&
litter 2Se.174. y2g
Nhe Northern Presbyterian chufG
reports for the church year In
closed 1905 candidates for tho m1d
istry.S This is a larger number thnN
this ohurch has had any year sino4
II was reported at the Zionist CONS u
gress at BaNle, Switzerland. last WaAl
that the capital of the Jewish ColonS4f#
Trust had increased from $40, 600, 0QMs
to $4f 800, 600, and that q dividdMA
Of six per cent. had been paid. Tho
Jewish national find for the purchases
of land in Palestine has been the
creased by 100000 since the lnotss
conference.
organs OF the Disciples OF Christ. d.
clares that the mode of baptism should III
no longer be made a barrier betwOQu u
Christians, especially on the foreign
field. -
On July rs was laid the corner.
stone of the new wing OF the MethOs
dist Hospital Of Indiana at Indian
apolis. This addition. which VIII
hoabA1 blit CdpdEANy Oh tn6
VIII cost sl26.ooo.
Uruguay. 1t now seems probable.
will be the first republic in South
America TO establish absolute freedom B
OF religious worship. The Uruguay To-
cation at the Vatican has been wlths
drawn, and II Ia the announced puf~S
pose Of President Battle to bring
about the separation of church and
state,
October all are the dates Of the
fourth session Of the EcumenicAl Cone
ference. Toronto. Canada.
The endowment fund for supera0~sS
nuates of the Methodist EpiscopAI
I church has increased ss73.54A during
the past three years,
/ DIR. w. IT. Fitohett, Of Austral1a "
/ has been selected to preach one of
( the official sermons OF the Ecumenica1s
Methodist Conference
! The second edition of the nine.
volume report Of the World Missions
airy Conference Of 1910 has been sold
out Each edition OF the report of
this great missionary conference NUM-.
The president designate OF the Brtt-
sh Wesleyan Methodist Conferences Il
Rev. F. L. Wiseman, B. A. Mr..
Wiseman, who becomes president az
the conference in 1914, is flfty-thrso
years of age, and entered the min
istry In 1881. He was elected to the
Legal Hundred in 1904, and hts pres
ent appointment is chairman yof the
Birmingham District.
Rev r. J. Campbell and his wife
and daughter. Of London, are expected
to arrive in New York on the Maure-
tania about October ~. The arrange
ments for his engagements In this
! country during his tour of two months
are in the hands OF DR.. A. s. Crap
sey, Of Rochester. y. Y.
The British Bible Society EMPLOYS
500 colporteurs and $50 Bible We.
men. and the American Society more
than half IS many. There is not I
corner OF the earth they do not pence
rate. The eolporteurs are the ad-
vance agents OF the missionaries
For the reason that the people who
pay for Bibles have been found "a
read them most. small price il
usually charged Payment Is &C.
copied in such curious mediums Al
eggs, butter. swords, skins, wool, ar
rowroot, nuts and fruits, shells ana
iFpAs, any lHiHSt III IaCt, which e00
people have and value. The patient
devotion and heroism OF the colpor-
tours exceeds that of any soldiers
Thousands OF them have calmly rub.
mitted themselves to every concetv~
able hardship. and many OF theua
have died with no other regard than
the knowledge that the Bible haa
been carried to a few moro hundreds
who otherwise would never hayN
known OF It's beneficent light.
An unusual case OF cooperation -
church work was seen at Milford. NJ.
H. last week when on ThurA&Ay w.
held the annual combined Mr. oe
fHa charlottesville. Baptist. C031aGne
tional. Methodist. Episcopal and Unie
tartan
For twenty-five years the First Ims
theran church. Portland. has bee
holding the morning service in NoRu
. wegian and the evening service II
English. Hereafter on the first anA
third Sundays OF each month tn
morning service will be- in EuRi1nn
. and the evening service in Norweg1Ans
As the Sunday school was establinhNH
} twenty-five years ago in English anH
has since been conducted a. uu0l
: these two additional services in Nne.
: fish will make the services Of the
church about equally divided betvonn
English and Norwegian.
, Tho Fourth World Convention a
Methodists Is to be held in Toronta
Can. October 1<-17, 1911. The -
sembly will be a delegated one al
number 500 members. OF these NJ
will como from Great Britain. H.
rope. Australia, New Zealand 80
: South Africa. There with 10 90
delegates from North America, TA1
Methodist Episcopal Church Will 60
$50 delegates. the Methodist Chu10
South, sixty-eight. and tho CAnaAfnG
Methodists twenty-four. The MAtho2
dist Protestant Church will send nfnn
delegates. the United EvanRolfo1f
three. and there will be nifty dele9nA@71
to represent the three negro MothoS
dist denominations In the Un1f6
; States. The topics OF addresses ~
. modern and concern practical cen
Germs OF the church. Topics Of sc6G1
arship and history will be omitted
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: Outdoor evangelism In New Y6&<
! city is at the height Of summer T.
vor. Layrnen and missionaries ~
serving together in q great intax6
nominational effort to reach the 1lI
churched by means OF tent and nN1
; and open air meetings of all sorts 81
collections are ordinarily taken q 4fiX
meetings the work being gene3SYI
supported by contributions from r.