The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-27
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ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST

i ITEMS OF RELl(
Adelphia College. Seattle, WASH.
Emmanuel Schmidt, president, has
| just had ninety six Chinese boys. from
twelve to twenty years OF age. sons
of wealthy merchants In Canton and
vicinity. entered for the years course
| This department will be maintained
and the college II thus doing an ex-
ceptionai and significant work.
Or. John e. White. OF the Second
church. Atlanta, Ca, received a New
Years gift In the shape OF a $4,000
life insurance policy. on which the
premiums are TO be paid by the
donors.
DR.. Griffith John, the veteran mis-
saonary In China. has returned TO
England because of falling health,
reaching the homeland on January
(. On the voyage home he attained
his eightieth birthday. ~
The Presbyterian church has in the
/. three States OF California. Oregon
and Washington a mem bership OF
1855. an increase of 64,5s7. or about
five hundred per cent, during the
past twenty-five years.
Rev. George W. Quick, d D., for
| six years pastor of the Second church
of Newport, r. J., resigned on sun
| day in order to accept q call to the
| t'nst church CT Greenville, s. G.
.
Rev. r. 7. Campbell will return to
| Enrlend in tine to occupy his own
| pulpit in the City Temple. London.
! on January 81.
| The white conferences OF the Metho-
| dist Episcopal church In the border
| South show a gain In memh ership
. during 1911 Of 4.457: In the lower
! South, q gain OF sol; In the South
! west, a loss Of 34e. The coiored
| conferences show a gain Of 2,253.
| In the home conferences OF the
| Methodist Episcopal church the
| smallest average salary of pastors
| is In the Alabama Conference, with an
average OF s2o0.54 per pastor. and
! the largest In the New York East
! Conference, with an average OF ST.
$500
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| For the past year the Methods,
| church of Canada contributed for
! foreign missions s1.s7 per member
/ Methodist Episcopal church was GO
/ cents. and of the Methodist Episcopal
| church, South, 4s cents. The Brit
! ish Wesleyan Methodist church gave
| $3.50 per member.
| The two conferences OF the Metho-
| dist Episcopal church having the
| largest number of Sunday-schoois are
| the Northwest India. with 1850. and
| the North India, with l.iSo.
Congregationaiists in England mum
| Der 4sas4s. according TO their Tear.
/ book for 1911. issued on January /
| This total represents loss of sac
members as compared with the 1910
/ figures.
DIR. wiifred 7. GrenfeH. the apostle
Il, Labrador. delivered the William
Belden Noble lectures for Is11-is al
Harvard University. His genera
! subject was The Adventure of Life.
! His lectures will ba published In
hook form by IIou ghton- Miffin Com
pany next spring.
! The Seventh Day Adventists claim
to give a larger amount per member
| fer missions than any other church
| of the United States. their per eapita
/ contribution for foreign mission:
! being s6.5S, and for home missions
! SAIL.
| Seven hundred and ninety-onf
| preachers were admitted on trial 10y
| the conferences Of the Methods
| Episcopal church the past confer
! ence year. The net gain In number
| OF travelling preachers was three hun
dred and forty-three.
| A cable message announces the
death January at Hwang-hicn
tChina- of Rev. Jesse b. Hartwell. ID
! D.. enc of the veteran missionaries OF
| the Foreign Board OF the Southern
: baptist Convention. He was on tbs
the first missionary to ShantEng Prov
ince In North China According tc
i his expressed desire his body was
buried In China.
| General Ii, one Of the leaders In
the revolutionary movement in China
is quoted as saying: Il am strongly
in favor OF foreign missionaries COM
Ing to China. teaching Christianity
and going into interior provinces. We
shall do all we can to assist mission
aries; and the more we get to come
to China the greater will the repur,
.ltcan. gorarnfnant he pleased.
Christianity Is fast taking hold IN
Uganda. Twenty-one years ago there
was one church with 800 members
Now there are i.fee churches with
10000 members with 1900 native
teachers Then there were vary few
children attending school: now there
are more than $4,000 children regis
tered.
| The Baptists OF Great Britain. ac-
cerainx 70 the Baptist Handbook fos
1919. number 4fs.tOs, decrease o,
seventy-two members for 1911.
The British government during the
present year win Introduce in Par
iiiament q bill providing for the dis
establishment Of the Anglican church
in Wales.
Rev. Dr. John n. Morgan. rectos
OF the American Church 81 the Holy
Trinity. Paris. France, since 1871. died
suddenly In that city Friday morn
ling. He was . brothar-in-law OF !
Pierpont Morgan,
/ ~~1t 4. vv,r - o.. ~ en- rhv4a.