The Washington herald., 1911-01-22
IN RELIGIOUS WORLD.
DR.. lackin Heads Campaign.

S"uASH party, OUT auXIOuS " OTAn8 AUOuS
change In the name Of their religious
| body by the employment of tact and SYM
pathy toward those who differed from
| them. called q conference or round table
of leaders. The response to their call
| was generous. and so much progress was
made that, at the recent general conven-
| ton Of that church, the progresssts came
| within a small number of votes of being
able to drop the word Protestant from
the title page of the book of common
prayer. This was not precisely the legal
method for a change Of the name of the
church. but by common consent it was
counted an adequate method. On all sides
the best of feeling appeared to prevail,
although II was admitted to be one Of the
most prolific causes for probable differ
ence and dissension. Now there rises a
strong body of clergy and laymen of the
low and broad church schools who are
said to aim at q campaign that will seek
to prevent any dropping Of the word
Protestant" from the title page referred
to or from the constitution of the church.
President Randolph McKim. of the house
OF deputies Of the general convention, the
highest legislative body in the church.
was chairman of recent meeting called
for organization. and in the list of those
who attended are names of foremost low
and broad church clerical and lay leaders
A committee has been named and a cam
paign Of education has been entered upon.
Episcopalians Apply Business Ideas.
Episcopal Church laymen are taking
hold Of the task of digesting and adapt
ing the suggestions made by the laymen's
missionary movement to the present ma
chinery and needs of the missionary work
Of their church. Their general mission
board has a campaign to increase its
normal income by $4,000 this year. This
Is a growth Of 50 per cent With such
campaign many Episcopal laymen ex-
press a desire to include all missionary
work. not merely that in the West, COM
monty called home missions. but also
work among foreign speaking peoples in
America, Indians. and negroes, and ex
tension in suburbs Of American cities.
Laymen of prominence in the business
and professional worlds are taking hold
and are now studying the questions in
volved AS not in previous years. Epis-
copalians are cooperating with leaders
in all other religious bodies.
How Subway Helps Churches.
In and out Of New York it is the thing
to kick at and about the subway. But it
must be recorded. so church officials ad-
nit. that the subway has been a mighty
good thing for the churches. Downtown
churches on Manhattan Island have been
enormously benefited by the subway max
ing it possible for their members to reach
them quickly and cheaply on Sunday
mornings for public worship. A radical
improvement has been enjoyed by a score
of Manhattan churches, whose names are
fov na~
benefited, too. Its case Is
peculiar. In the routes laid out, and now
certain to be built upon, it happens that
the two lines, the old and the new, fol-
lowing parts of a circle come within four
short blocks OF each other. and continue
so for half mile. Halfway between
the lines, and right In the center of the
half-mile area, with stations within two
minutes walk in both directions, there is
a church fortunate in the ownership of
seven city lots, secured long ago for
$1,000. Within five years these lots have
advanced to 100000 in value, and the
officers of the church are now planning
to erect a big apartment house on part
of the lots to be paid for wholly from
rentals and eventually form an endow-
ment. Merely out OF land values. caused
to be possible to create within ten or
fifteen years one Of the best equipped
and handsomest church plants in Amer
lea. consisting of church. parish building.
clergy house, and apartments bringing In
for endowment $4,000 a year. The pecu-
liar fortune of the church in question
has attracted marked attention, as has
also its apartment house endowment plan.
In clecting DR.. George E Vincent
president the University Of Minnesota Is
said to have considered DR.. Vincent's
connection with Chautauqua Institute, of
which he is president, SO advantageous
that 1t was agreed that he should con-
tinue at the head Of the famous work.
founded by his father. Bishop John H.
Vincent President Vincent is said to
will make possible more attention to the
interests than his old one in
the University Of Chicago. Chautauqua
had its largest season this last year. and
its reading courses report increase of
Il per cent this year. Fifty new scholar
ships have lately been endowed and fifty
more are promised from the same bene- |
factor in the near future.
Something About the Quakers.
Quakers in America divide themselves |
into two camps. the Orthodox and the |
Hicksite- The division is on doctrinal |
grounds. and has obtained since 1S2s. The |
larger body. the Orthodox has just COM
pleted statistics of its membership, find |
Ing in the fifteen yearly meetings IN |
1oo,07c members. This Is a gain |
Of about 800 over the previous year. Al |
most all of this gain, small as Quakers |
admit it to be, was made in the yearly |
meetings in the West. notably in Cali
fornia and Kansas. with a small gain in /
the South. especially In North Carolina |
New England. Pennsylvania. and New
York meetings lost There are q total Of |
800 ministers, with the largest numbers
not in Pennsylvania, where Quakerism
n America had its birth. but in Iowa and
Indiana In the latter State are the most |
II all. the Quakers there numbering 20 us |
n membership, or more than one-fifth |
II an in the United States. While Hicks
ties are smallest in the total number.
hey are most numerous in Pennsylvania.
Quakers in Pennsylvania meet
ngs number only 4.e6S, a loss Of 121 last
year. The births last year were 768.
while the deaths were SIS. The latter
igure is said to he an average. but the
'ormer is Q sharp decline. The number
" ministers declined somewhat last year.
Il Is said there Is q slow movement Of
Quakers from East to West and from
he United States into Canada.
From West to East.
Within the MAST five wears and Aane.