The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
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ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST,"

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lists have 1898 churches. ly7.soo -
| bers and l3s.132 pupils In Sam
schools. The number Of bapttomo T.
| year was $3.50.
The exercutive secretary Of the 34
Quarter Century Movement u
Methodist Episcopal church reports
| cash and pledges $205.190 for II
| Board of Foreign Missions: while
| Woman's Foreign missionary Soel4l
! has received S52.s79. making 3 to&@X
thank offering from Korea Of S7sS.1e
! At the eighth annual conferences n
! Eastern College and University 14m#
1 concerning the Christian ministry, -
under the auspices Of Andover. Unt15S
| and Hartford seminaries. 119 de)eGAe1
were present from twenty-thfee tA4eH&1
| tutions. The purpose OF these conn
ences ts to present to college men
are now deciding upon their life wo<
| definite and reliable information eeo33
| cernin~ the challenge a~d the 49,
| tunities Of the ministry. The moeD
was to give information rather
| inspiration; not to advise men. but e11
! help them internrct their own 0Vee&
and to show how tho ministry o.
/ golden opportunities to the men III
desire to make the most OF their ~
The WESLEYAN Methodist MisssosnEJs}
Society was established In 1915 -
! IL Is proposed TO celebrate tn -
tenary BY raising . fund OF 4L9oAMN
600. This sum II to be divides ~
| follows: For the erection OF ch0D
| and preaching halls. $c70.e0Ot
provide houses for missionaries -
native workers, $4,000: for 49,
eral educational work, &296,00yS 9Aa
| complete the equipment Of traan1nss
institutions and to establish othoeqS
$4,000; for medical missions. $1ees
900: for a special fund to bo -
| by the committee In various no0oUsa
sary developments during tho nex4&
| few years. $165.00o. series, "a
meetings has been arranged cov9t10E
practically every district ID BStt11Hz
| Wesleyan Methodism to prepare Co..
the effort Of next year.
The Fifth Avenue church, No. "
i York city, has called Professor C0T%i
neiius woelfkin, D. D.. Of Rocheoss
ter Theological Seminary. az the Suesa
cessor Of DR. c. r. Aked. now O9s
Easter service at the church -
the reading OF telegram from .Dgxi
woeifkin accepting the call. Th1M
action of the Fifth Avenue chufct
probably marks the end OF neg0oe~N
tions which have been in pro9r4o4
for some time looking toward unious
with the Calvary church.
! The Utah Gospel Mission. which
i il doing a good work for darkest
Mormondom, sends out plea for
help. The secretary Of this mis1ioM
SAYS: The MorInons have increase0S
from 1882 by the census OF 1855
until they now number about 40e,sss
900. A pamphlet issued by this HiE1a
sion tells US that to January. 1877
4 in the West 1t had made 100000 CALI
in homes, held 1873 meetings with
J 147.000 people present. ana used
1c.29s000 pages of special literature.S
In the East II had provided 52e a0-s
. dresses on Mormonism. and used -
: 000, 900 pages Of special literature. AT
at the cost OF only $30.35e.15: thougn1
' double or triple the sum should hAv0s
J been used. All who are interssts07
! and the world from this greas evtLT
are urged to help.
Rev. John Henry Jowett, d. d. pas
! tor of Fifth Avenue PresbytortaMs
} church, New York. Is to give the Ly-s
man Beecher Foundation lectures a4s
Yale In April. DR. Jewett's topic t1
seven lectures. This appointment -
made some years ago. DR.. JoweEf1,
predecessor. at Carr's Lane Church,
Birmingham. England. the late Ass5
w. Dale, once delivered the Heeche&2
lectures u. Yale.
The general conferences OF IT,
/. Methodist Episcopal church VIII Eo0M1
, vene on May 1, In Minneapolis. 4inAsa
} or the 500 Chinese students ix
, American schools, $40 are mcmherq
. OF the Chinese Students Christiana
Assoc ia ton.
April 1924 the Christian conssr-s|
/ walton Congress Of the Men and No.
fllgion Forward Movement will -
. held in New York City. ma
During the last decade the Chrtm
tian community in India has r.
creased FIVE or six times a. rapidly 49,
1.-The Hindoos and Mohammeda1
The Christians have grown from 3.s@
s23.241 to 3.S7s.1ss. OF the sosa1s
number 100000 are Eur0peA1
among whom there only 400 b.
lists or the native christians l.3eAssl
eco are Roman Catholics, 7S0.00c -
long to Syrian churches. S32.o 100 aSX
Anglican. $4,000 Baptists. 311eeN4
Lutherans. $4,000 Presbyter1p1
4 $4,000 Msthodtsts and $4,000 Ge
fist membership in the decade
been nearly 50 per cent. SMH
The Yearbook Of the New Jer11
Sunday School Association for l4tM5
shows that there are In that 6e4&N@
2,372 Sunday schools. 40.S4S odlceA
and teachers. and 1854 activs me1
bers. Tho membership OF Home
partments and Cradle Rolls hf1nG
1.-THE total to 417.41O. Tho nume
coming into the church from The aM
day achnl last year was l1.4te. sSNs3
Rev. DIR. Isaac x. Funk. toun04
and president Of the Funk and WAG@
nails Company. publishers Of mag
important theological and other woeM
died at his home In Montcialr n. IL
Thursday. In his 73rd year. He NN46
= Lutheran minister. holding pes3
ates IN his early life In Indiana, q
land New York. In 1875 hs beQ1n
publication Of The Metrcpolitan
pit. which afterwards became 1M
Homileti, Review. and Of whieA
continued a. edltnr.in-chief uutn
death. One OF the most tmpoSG
publications Of the urn waa
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