The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-19

New York. February 1S.-(Special)- Never since modern missionary movement came into being has there been so deep and active an interest in the work of spreading the gospel throughout the world. It will be remembered some weeks ago a conference was held at the White House at which 1t was decided to raise a s2.0j0.00o fund for the extension. of the work of the Young Mems Christian asso- oiaticn. Already nearly s1,500,000 of this fund hs been raised and it is merely a fund has been raised and it is merely a half million will be pledged.
 Messrs. Cyrus M. Mccormick John Wanamaker, James Stokes, William Brke, E. H. Wood and similar men are in the plan. Many cities. Chicago, Cleve- land, Montreal, Toronto, and New York among them, have entered into the idea generally, and have contributed. The plan is to erect in educational and commercial centres, where such headquarters do not already exist, in China, Japan, Korea, India, and South America, fine buildings not unlike those already found in princi- pal American cities. Manila, Shanghai, IIongkong, and some other cities that all ready possess buildings are to have new and larger ones. When men of great af- fairs enter into the work of mission ac- lively it means much.
 Evangelistic campaigns in colleges and univerities this winter are laying more emphasis upon missions than In previous years These campaigns are general, in- ciuding the Pacific coast universities, or most of them, most universities in the middle west and south and a few in the east. Teams of evangelists and Bible teachers with this years missionary spe- cialist go from one place to another three or four days at time. At the University of Washington a Bible class was quadru- pied in numbers.
 At the University of Minnesota book beer parade was brought to an end. At the University of Illinois a deputation went out to do social service among con- st-uction gangs in mining region. At Yale university new work was taken up teaching English to foreigners. At the University of Virginia it is reported that a Christian man was furnished for coach of a high school football team some evangeistic bands were formed among students to go into rural districts during holiday time, and permanent mission was authorized among the mountaineers. In universities and at government schools at West Point and Annapolis it is stated that larger proportions of students are in weekly classes than ever before.
 Some of the Australian churchgoers give liberally. Two years ago the Lydiard Street Methodist church, Ballarat estab- lished record in raising the sum of $o3oo on one Sunday That amount has now been exceeded by $3c00, a recent Sunday contributions-Teading $S400. The minister, the Rev. S. J. Hoban, announced to the congregation month ago that he was desirous of raising $70O0 this year, ana this sum, 1t will be seen, was exceeded by nearly s150O. When the result was an- nounced the congregation rose and sang "Praise God From Whom All blessings Flow" The highest contribution for the day was a cheque for $500.
 No one insthe field of religious journal ism writes more incisively on current movements in the world of the churches than Howard A. Bridgman, managing editor of the Congregationalisto of Boston He concludes a discerning interpretation of the recent gathering of leaders of the liberal wing of the American Hebrews in New York with these words:
 "When we think of the future Of the Jews we must remember a change among them almost as profound as their abandon ment of the sacrihcal system. We speak of the Jewish race, but Professor Fish berg has shown in his recent study that the unity of the Jews racially can no more be asserted than the uniformity of their religious history. They were once active in making converts but now are so no more. Yet prose1ytism has left its ineffaceable mark upon them. The Jews everywhere conform in physical type and cranial measurements to the people among whom they reside. They are blonds In the north, blacks in Abyssina and India, Chinese in China. The very