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

church has suffered soreiv hx the re-
moVai Of many of its most substantial
members TO other and distant portions
OF tne city, and in some cases to other
communities, The conviction has been
growing among the membership that
some step ought tn be taken by which
the continuance OF religious work In
the community could be assured. and
I sailed on the Empress of Japan for
emma, where she Will supervise mis-
I sion schools for girls and w0plen. She
expects 10 stay in China five years be-
fore returning home on furlough.
The viii OF the late Bishop MALTA
7 lieu provides that after the death OF
/ his wife and their son, his estate
shall be equally divided between tho
F>reedman's Aid Society of his Church.
the Chartered Fund of the Church at
Philadelphia, Wesleyan Academy AZ
/ Wiibraham, Mass, and Greenwich
| Academy at East Greenwich, r. l.
Mrs. Elizabeth Akass Allen. uhe
author of Rock Me to Sleep, Mother!"
/ died on August S, at her home, IN
| Tuckahoe. N, Y. at the age of seven
/ ty-nine years. She was born in
Maine.
The religious population Of the
world is estimated as follows: Chris
tianity. 477.0o0, 600: ConfucianisIn,
100000 Hinduism, 20T,oD0. 900,
lslamism. III, 100000; Buddhism,
IAN, 600. 900: Polytheisin, lis, 900 900.
Taoism, $4,000. 900; Shtntoism, l4,00o,-
900. Indaisrn, 100000.
An interesting program is being pre-
pared by br. John +. Goueher for the
celebration of the one hundred and
twenty tifth anniversary Of the found
ing of the Baltimore Methodist Cir
cult. Representatives. of the Metho~
dist Episcopal Church, Methodist
Episcopal Church. South. and Moth
odist Protestant Church will take
part in this celebration.
Gypsy Smith IL to carry out another
big mission tour in the United States
lie opens his campaign at Spokane,
on September so. going on to Seattle
Portland, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los
Angles and Dallas. He hopes to
reach England again in March. Com
mittees are being arranged In each
town, and the keenest enthusiasm is
being displayed. Gypsy Smith has just
received an invitation from the sec
Rotary of the New Zealand Methodist
Conference, suggesting a mission in
that Dominion next year.
Rev. William Atchinson, pastor Of
the Locks Village Methodist church.
Wendell, Mass, has resigned and will
assume missionary work under the
auspices of the Bangor Theological
School
A cable from Beirut. Syria, an
nounces the sudden death OF Mrs.
William Jessup, wife of the mission
airy In charge Of the Zahleh station
on Mount Lebanon. and daughter in
law of the late pr, Henry H. JessHp.
Mrs. Jessup was forty years old and
had been married twenty years. She
had done n remarkable work among
the women of Mount Lebanon, and
her articles signed Faith Jadwin Jea-
sup" have been among the most popu-
lar features OF the missionary maya
zine. Woman's Work.
The entire Bible has recently been
translated into the Sheetswa language
for East Africa and published by the
American Bible Society.
The semi-annual meeting Of the
Board of Bishops OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church win be held In Ok
lahoma City, Okla, on November /.
Rev. William Bradfeld, who is at
the head OF the deaconess work OF the
british Wesleyan church, is now in
this country studying the American
phases of the movement
In Toronto, Canada. where the
Ecumenicai Methodist Conference will
be held in October. there are forty
Methodist churches and more than
F., 22,00o members. This city is count
ed the official center of Canadian
Methodism, there being located in TO-
ronto the Methodist Book Room, the
official Headquarters of the Mission
| Boards, the Educational Society and
/ the Sunday School and Epworth
League secretaries. There also Is To-
Gated the largest Methodist school
in Canada, Victoria College, with an
enrolment Of five hundred students.
The seventy sixth annual session OF
/ tho Maine Association OF the New
Jerusalem church was held In Port
land on Saturday and Sunday, the
/ program including sermons and adj
! dresses by clergyrnen and leading lay
men. There are three societies OF
I this denomination In the state. at
/ Portland. Bath and Fryeburg. Rev.
/ II. ". Stone. OF F'ryeburg. was made
general pastor" OF the Maine Assoc.
citation. an Office THAI carries the
privilege of ordaining to the minis
try and of officially representing the
church in various ways
-
Very wisely the pastor Of the Unity
Methodist church of Indianapolis,
Ind. put a stop to a boxing exhibit
ia the house of worship OF that
church. He made an earnest protest
against the action of the committee
which planned the fights and obtain
cd permission from the police to
stage them. The committee at first
stood out for the disgraceful exhibit
zion, but yielded whom the pastor
threatened to resign. There Is moth