The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-16


their scholarship remains SO unfruitfuI
He laments that the common people do
not understand these questions of crit
icism, while the elite do not care Il
rush for them. After twenty years the
Chrlstliche Welt, their chief organ has
but q scant five thousand subscribers.
Judged by pragmatic tests, nothing Is
/ more barren than the learning which
gives US "a larger Bible but a feebler
one"
The First Universalist church of
Nashua, n H, will receive about So
000 by the will of Mrs. Dorcas A.
Dodge, who died August :. the money
to be- applied to the payment of the
church debt. The church is made the
residuary legate.
At the opening Of the new dormi-
tory and Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION building at Waseda Uni
versity, in Tokyo. Count Okuma. the
head of the university and a states
man of great experience, in a notable
address said: THE springs of modern
progress are to be found III the teach
ings of the Sage OF Judea, in which
aloRe is TO be found the moral dyna-
mic which can raise man above his
sin anu RFetcneuneSS.
The average clergyman Of the
! Church of England does not fare bet
ter than the ministers Of other
churches in the matter of financial
returns for his labor. out OF about
twelve thousand clergvmen In Eng
! land. five hundred receive less than
1915. one thousand less than $500,
and over one-third Of the total num-
! Der receive less than $1,000.
Rev. Daniel McGiivary, who died
on August % at Laos, had been a mis-
sionary of the Presbyterian Church.
North, since 1858. In that year he
went to Siam, and In 1887 establish
ed the Laos mission, continuing in
that field until his death. He was
I born in Moore county, n. c., on May
/ l6, 1898. and was graduate Of the
/ University Of North Carolina and
/ Princeton Theological Seminary.
/ At the Marble Collegiate church,
Fifth avenue and Twenty ninth street.
New York city, printed copies of the
] Rev. David James Burrelfs sermons
! are gratuitously distributed at the
evening service every sunday usual
( ~ about 50 Issues per annum) from
october to June, inclusive. For the
| convenience of persons wishing to
receive the sermons weekly, q mail
I ing list has been established to which
names may be added ar any time by
the payment of one dollar to cover
postage and mailing for one year from
! date Of receipt.
| Rev. Farley Z. hartmann, D. d. of
Jamaica. y. Y. long associated with
Or. j. Wilbur Chapman and the
/ EVangelistic Committee of the Pres
/ nyterian Church, has accepted a call
10 the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
t For the present his work WITH be as
assistant TO the dean Of the institute,
Dr, James NJ. Gray, nut II is under
stood that later he will become the
! executive head of the extension de-
partment.
Inc Finland Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church was
organized by Bishop Burt on August
:. me Methodtsts began work In
that territory In 1854. and, according
to the statistics of 1910, there wara
IN the territory now embraced In this
new conference 1.1s2 members and
S34 prohatoners.
Five Methodist. bodies have ,,,s-
stonaries in China, the total number
including wives Of missionaries. be-
ing about six hundred Methodist
missionaries constitute about IA per
! cent OF the Protestant missionary
toree In that country, and in mum
1 Der OF members about 90 per cent
OF the total of Protestant communi
cants.
+ -.----. -.
christian Association In Shanghai
China, for the past three years hos
been from $50 to 1900 members, em-
playing thirty-five secretaries and
teachers. The wealthiest Chinese
merchant in the city has been largely
instrumental In the success.
Dr. Alexander Mann. rector of Trim
ity church. Boston, writes as follows
10 DR. Dillon Bronson, of the inaur
uraton of Presidential Murlin. ar
Boston University tMethodist): will
you say for me TO the trustees of Bos-
ton UNIVERSITY that 1t gives me much
pleasure to offer Trinity church for
this service, and that l hope 1t may
be one more tie which shall bind To-
getner more closely the two great
Christian eommunions which have so
much I'm common" The service viii
be held on October 20.
| The Missionary the foreign mis-
| sion magazine of the Southern Pres
/ byterian Church. published at Nash
VILE Tenn, viii on November / he
united with the Missionary Hesald.
published In Atlanta. Ga. The name
OF the new magazine will he the Mis-
sionary Survey. and 1t will be pub
lished in Richmond, Va
The largest mem hershtp' OF any