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during these final days of the year
must be far larger than in former
years, else heavy deficits, greater than
last year, will result.
1t is stated that the American Bap-
fist Foreign Mission society, with
headquarters in Boston, must receive
$4,000 more than during March of
last year, and the Home Mission So
Getty, with offices in New York, ST.
600 more, if deficits larger than last
year are to be avoided. The secretary
states that if deficits occur they are
to be taken by the societies that Bap-
/ fist churches desire, or are willing to
consent to, retreats and retrench-
ments in work.
Highs Disturbed over Pulpits.
| Lent, and particularly holy week,
service cards in Episcopal churches
have given the high church people
Tn that body grave concern. The trou-
bic is the announcement on these
cards of Presbyterian ministers in
Episcopal pulpits. A few years ago
canon 10, becoming famous because
giving certain rights of interchange
Of pulpits on special occasions, Gre
ated great stir among the same high
element. The stir subsidized as sudden
ly as it came up, and nothing what
ever was done to change the law
I h. oh
have thrown over any semblance of
special occasion, and have openly in
vited Presbyterian ministers to occupy
their pulpits. The most conspicuous
| instance, one said to have the approx
al of the new bishop of Pennsylvania
the Ri. Rev. DR.. Philip Rhinelander is
the proposed series of sermons in St.
Stephens Episcopal church, Philadel-
phia, during holy week, by the Rev.
DR.. Charles Wood, pastor of the Pres
/ byterian Church of the Covenant,
Washington.
| Discussion of the incident is going
on and published protests are appear
| ing. Along with it is the preaching
in one New York Episcopal pulpit, al
most through the entire Lenten sea.
son, or professors of Union Theologi-
cal seminary, nearly all taking part
and all of them Presbyterian, although
the seminary is not IN regular stand
! ing in that church.
Unrest Among Ministers.
| A curious condition obtains among
Christian ministers of America, as re-
ported by one Episcopal bishop, who
| is among the best known of American
Christian leaders, but who must here
be nameless. There are applying to
him, he says, scores of ministers
from other religious bodies asking
him to receive them into. his church.
He is unable to do so, owing to lack
of rectorates for them, but he states
that they are so numerous and so in
sistent that were were dearth of
young men entering the seminaries
flor year or two, he believes he could
fill the demand.
Ministers who apply to him are resi-
dent in almost every state, and they
are in practically every religious body
Asked if any Roman Catholics apply
he replied that not week passes that
some do not, and that they are quite
as numerous in proportion as are
those applying from other bodies. He
does not assume, he says that his
church is overpopular, but rather thai
there is tremendous unrest among
ministers, and that others besides him
in positions where they might place
new men, are besieged as he says he
is with applicants for admission into
their respective churches.
Is Religious Faith Declining?
The Republican Club of the city o.
New York, of which Otto T. Barnard
member of Yale corporation anC
once candidate for mayor of New
York, is president, has done the un
usual thing of having religious lead
ers of half a dozen bodies before ont
of it's meetings to discuss the CUES
ton of religious faith, whether it il
advancing or declining, and in eithe
event what is the effect upon the re
public and upon the people.
Singularly, so the club members
thought, representatives of the Catho
lie church, which reports progress il
America as it does nowhere else, ven
tured opinions that religious faith is
declining, while Protestant leaders
whose bodies have been said to be not
supported as formerly, were without
exception hopeful. One gave signifi