The Washington herald., 1911-05-28

land, Germany, and. to some extent, the
rest of Europe, have made plans TO-
gether but with other of its world
power advances the United States has
succeeded, within the last year or two,
in breaking into European religious plans.
The Rev. DR.. John Clifford, a foremost
leader of English Free Churchmen; Dean
Ede, of Worcester, representing the
Church of England: the Rev. F. b.
Meyer, active in education and many
other reforms; the Rev. Drs. Siegmund
Schultze, of Potsdam. and Rechtenwald
Won Simson, German court preachers.
among the clergy. and ]. Allen Baker,
NJ. P: w. H. Dickinson, M. P; Alfred
J. King. NJ P. and Sir Robert w. Perks,
among Jealous Christian laymen, are a
few of the visitors. Besides these are
delegates to Baptist and Methodist meet
ings soon to be held on this side. AS
never before the condition now obtains
that whatever big thing is on. the re-
ligious world as whole, declare the
leaders, is expected to be in it.
Increase in Number of Bishops.
Within fortnight the Episcopal
Church has broken all records in the
number of new bishops elected. Five OF
the seven new ones are coadjutors and
one is a suffragan-the second suffragan
bishop to be elected under the new law
One more, the eighth for one spring
series of conventions, is the new record
of growth. Four are chosen because do
ceses have grown larger and more helT
is needed. The new bishops are Penn
sylvania, the second largest diocese ir
America, where Prof. P. NJ. Rhinelander
of Cambridge. was chosen: West Texas
where the Rev. James E. Freeman, OF
Minneapolis, was elected; Arkansas
which chose the Rev. DR.. ]. R. Win.
chester. of Memphis, and Western Massa
chusetts, where the Rev. Thomas F
Davies. a son of the late Bishop OF
Michigan, was fixed upon. The new
suffragan is for Philadelphia, and is q
part of the plan to provide for cities
where the Episcopal Church is growing
additional leadership and avoid the crea'
ton of new dioceses. Others are CO.
adjutors for Virginia and Minnesota, tc
meet growing needs, and n little later
! a new bishop will be chosen for New
Jersey. In the Anglican world, the
church in America is rapidly coming tc
all other countries combined, the Church
of England in England included.
Racing Jockeys and Religion.
Christian people of England have gone
further afield than those in America ir
the organization of missionary societie:
! for classes and callings. Here almost
every attempt in the direction named is
met with the cry OF overorganiZation
A racing stables mission carries or
religious work among the hundreds o
English lads a Newmarket, Goodwood
and other English race tracks, and the
almost as many English boys who mi
crate to the great French training cen
| ter at Chantilly. Jockeys in England
and France run into numbers quite un
| known in America. At Newmarket there
is q Bible class attended by 100 jockey:
each Sunday At Chantilly what amount.
to parental care is exercised by th'
mission mothers over the English boy:
always there. Thirty thousand dollar!
year is given by English Christian
people to work among these jockeys, ant
by them.
CrowninE the English King.
Trinity Church. New York. the Rev
DR.. William T Manning. rector. viii
hold service on the day and hour OF
the coronation Of King George and
Queen Mary in Westminster Abbey, Lon.
don To this service will be invited dis.
tinguished men, not emitting representa-
tives of other religious bodies. In Eng
land the Bishop of Hereford has offended
the Catholic party in the Church o
England by inviting Free Churchmen u