The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-02

teers will find a vital mission TO chill
dren in these church schools. DR..
Robert f. Speer, OF New York, Is
president of the association.
The ninety-third annual convention
Of the Protestant Episcopal church
diocese Of Maine will be held In the
Cathedral, Portland, May 2123. The
most important business question will
be a proposition to change the basis
of representation by lay delegates, Al
present each parish IL entitled 10
three. with one additional for each
hundred communicates in excess or
the first hundred Organized mis-
sions have one lay delegate per hum
ldred communicates, each mission
being entitled to at leastone. There
being entitled to at least one. There
that under this system they are being
taxed without being accorded pro-
portionate representation.
The Northern Baptists have In
Cuba seven mission schools, forty
four organized churches, and 2.2ls
church members, while the southern
Baptists have twenty-five churches
and 1900 church members.
Newton Theological Institution
tBaptist) during the eighty-siN years
of its history has enrolled 1,643 stu
dents. of whom $50 are living. or
the whole number. one hundred and
twenty-six have been missionaries.
No better afterVath of the men
and religion campaign is evident JUST
now than the shop meetings going
on in the large manufacturing estao-
lishments in or near Boston. Some
twenty are taking place weekly-ah
average Of three a day--attended by
audiences of shop workers number
ing from seventy-fve to two hum
dred men. The meetings have been
under the general oversight OF Evan
eeiist Lawrence Greenwood, assisted
by other equally earnest workers. the
local. Y NJ c. association Will here
after assume the main responsibility
for these meetings. This Is the hrst
time shop work has been started in
Greater Boston on 80 large and sue
cessfui a scale.
I'm The foreign mission field of the
Southern Baptist Church there were
1900 additions to the Church dur
ing the past year. this being an In
crease OF 700 over the preceding year
In the present General Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
there are twenty-four women dele
gates. four OF the number REFRESHING
foreign conference. There are COLI
ored women.
The First Congregational church,
of Sprinfieid Mass, founded In 1887.
lis celebrating this week its 2I5th an
niversary with appropriate ceremon-
les
Rev. Henri L. Grandlienard, ID. D.,
for more than forty years pastor or
the French Evangelical church In
New York, and known in French coll
onies in other cities. died last week in
New York. He was born in Switzer-
land in 1912. and came 10 America
forty-five years ago.
or $50 candidates for the ministry
in the Southern Presbyterian Church.
1872 came from country churches, I'll
from towns. and 81 from city
churches. or these candidates, 81,
or nearly rs per cent, came into the
Church before they were sixteen years
OF age, and lis between fifteen and
twenty.
The public school teachers OF ILL
uois. iii their State convention re-
Gently held. went on record by a vote
of 207 to "a as favoring the reading
of the Bible In public schools. The
resolution adopted declared in favor
of an attempt being made to secure
reversal of the court decision
against Bible reading in the schools.
The Evangelical Alliance of Great
er Boston. has issued Its thirty-eighth
annual statement, which shows con-
tinued activity on markedly eco
nomical basis. With disbursements
of less than $4,000 it has carried on
its office work. sustained a secretary
and held a large number OF tent and
open air meetings. With more than
230 different services. conducted By
fifty different officials, both lay and
clerical. 1t has given the gospel TO
many Thousands on Boston Common
and In dozen other fields. totaiing
the most successful tent and opsn aiT