The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-14

ieges, Nhiie to-day tntfe are p f@os
The only Presbyterian parochiei
school in New York city has been
ronductea, for nearly 150 years. IN
connection with the Scotch church.
of with Or David O. Wyiie is pas
tor The school ia endowed and tut
fion is free ANY child can attend
whose patents are members or pew
holders in Scotch church
The watchman fBnstouA SAYS
chronological Senlinaries almost uni
formIy report larger classes gradual
4ng this year, and an unprecedented
num Der os inquiries FER catalogues
Indicating. SO the registrars thinh,
greatly increased enrolment for next
year.
WhAe lhe anglican ChsIea has
bern at 81 ork IN the Hawaiian Islands
.eF fifty years is greatest growth
has been during the zen years u.
American jurisdiction During that
fan-yesr period the membership has
increased fourfold the property more
than fvefold, and The offerings sew
enfolG.
A news stem from Africa tells ~
ferveut prayer being offered at one
Of me IN Ssjcus Of that colutry Tor
the spiritual baptism 81 the Bible
schools and semlnaFies OF America
Initiative petitions are being sent
20 pastors in California tn help in
securing 81. zoe signatures needed tu
insure a vote on the weekly rcst day
hiu at the November election. The
Seventh-pay Adyentists are active IN
gheir opposition 20 the biil-
TJsr Southern Presbyterians re
port 29&.s46 church members and
a45.4a5 enrolled in sunday schools az
compared with 2Z5,p00 members and
IA, b07 IN Sunday chooIs In 1900.
English Methodists have plnnned
en- extensive eyangelistic campaign
this summer at four Of the leading
seaside watering resorts thus carry
ing the gospel to the neglected rich
A memorial fund Of s33.oQ Ia being
raised by Burmese Baptists in graf
itude for this coming of Adoniram
JudSon To Burma one hundred years
ago.
During he past four years the debt
~ the Freedmen's Aid Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has been
reduced from S1o4, 208 to s3t,466.
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The disa hed ministers fund Of the
Reformed Church in America now has
an endowment of $4,000 During
the past year each beneficiary was
paid two hundred dollars
The statistics compiled by pr
are 23,676 Southern Baptist churches
and a421. 2O3 members in the South.
an increase If nearly 100. zoe over lag,
Georgia with 2T064z: Kentucky,
aa4b42 North Carolina. as3.SOG.
At.,h,.n,a 1g.-fe7 Missouri. J8g.935;
Tapreseee. 17S522. virginia. 15l. 500.
N,ssiasfDnt 14q SsS South Carolina.
lqsf9n' Arkansas 1os24S Okla
Ho'i'a ,n H,sr,,ia,t
~ ,.,-i,.,',,o 10,
,., . .at,,,-. 80 .t DE-
-. -, ln-,,..t, ,,.+,.. 90.
- " lail = .
...s,,,,s -, 49,
~ t.,,,.,,.e,,, 49,
s''p"'l % +N' ~ -, -, -.
customs ~ tIi'' :, 80.
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work among lui"l'S' "..tS '''"V' Va
i.TeS7ytef'nn l1efhe A'SSA"h o'''' ="
IheN are thf hfNt 3"ths MN 1" N"'
Themselves OF ftiloWShlps Wihrh "tf-
created few months as" %! me I'M
migration department. o. ne nome
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At the recent annual meeting ~ th'
General Synod Of the Reforme'
Church In America the report or IN
board cf foreign niisSinns showed '"tt
a S3S7T69. OF s2.}1 per InenheF
A. the result OF SPECIAL cF"Fr i''
thr sunday school Of the w mae Itel
t7H.l Presbyterian church TO ln"ur'
young men 70 attend the school IN
pastors class ef men has grown tr0a
n membership ~ t%entX-fqAr ~ 9HS
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Rev. II. a. StiWson, pastor o. IN
Manhattan Congregational chufch
New York, has presented to me breh
fei Labrador Mission boat called tbs
Fleur de Lys and II Is chartered p3
New York party 20 visit the Labra
s9or coast The C}uet', which has b' ~
l1 Boston for some days taking cargo
sailed Saturday. II has supplies To-
s. Anthony. Battle tarbor tntt'ai
Harbor ana Forteau, Rev Jesse ~ Il
Soy, who has had the Hppcllation q
the saint in 0Veralls with crew o.
six or seven college volunteers goes
with these vessels The volunteer