The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
SOUTH'S RELIGIOUS PROMINENCE GROWS Churches Join in Interest
 of Peace LIVE CHURCH NEWS Methodists Putting Up New Men. Church Journalism Is Going
 Through Changes-Vati-
 can Is Reserved
LIVE CHURCH NEWS

Religious leaders are talking about the new prominence and service of the south. Within the past two years, almost within the past one, the south has developed,
 say some of these leaders at the north, l four special lines almost any of which
 outstrip any other one section. These four l lines are chiefly for the south, but in
 part because of them southern men are
 appearing on national religious commit-
 tees and commissions to an extent not dreamed of half dozen years ago. For merlv the east and middle west monop-
 olized memberships on committees of great
 religious undertakings. Now, to an extent
 that has made leaders remark it, south
 ern men are helping and are gaining
 national prominence as managers of big religious undertakings.
 The four lines that are attracting at tention are the handling of the mill work CTS problem in the Carolinas. the new Broughton institutional church at Att lanta, the endowment of the University of the South at Sewanee, and the found- ing of the Inter-Church college at Nash vile Mill operatives in North Carolina alone number 25,OoO and to their aid have come, as individuals, the public
 school superintendents. in some cases teachers, to such extent that social and in many cases religious work has been started on scale that promises solu- ton of one of the most unique but diff fcult problems of modern. times.
 The Atlanta church is one of the larg- est in the countrS, and most varied in Tits work. Northern leaders, going to | Florida this winter, announce their ln- 1 tention of going to Atlanta to study It. l The University of the South is putting l forth the argument that if it is wise to 1 establish Christian universities at Caleut- ia. Picking and Manila, in order that edu- | cation may have a religious basis. it is
 quite as wise to establish such univer- sity in America. A unique way to secure
 an endowment, and have it available l immediately is to guarantee by Christian people of particular states of certain sum per year. If $500 year be guar anteed for five years such guarantee IS In l effect an immediate endowment of sl00,- 000 Under this plan of late the university
 has greatly increased It's available funds.
 The Inter-Church college at Nashville is unlike any other institution north or south in that it trains religious workers, l all bodies for social service, sunday school work hospital visiting, and other 1 lines that the theological seminary IS
 unable to cover, and does this for work
 CTS in all religious bodies. Use is made
 of college faculties and libraries at Nash l vile, for which there are many, but l new foundation is being established. Among men of the south. who are att tracting attention of the north just now, i and are serving in national as they for merly did in local ways are Chancellor 1 James H. Kirkland of Vanderbilt univer-
 sity. Alfred M Shook, Esq, the Nashville | banker; John R. Pepper, Esq, the Mem- ] phis banker and Methodist laynan. long prominent in Sunday school and mission-
 ary enterprises; John A. Patten, Esq,
 the Chattanooga manufacturer; Bishop 1 Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee the Rev. Dr. Len G. Broughton of Atlanta, and
 Judge selden F. Spencer, St. Louis. Some
 of these are northern men by birth and training but they are helping to bring
 the south forward. it is said. into nation
 religious prominence it has never yet attained.