New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-25

| College ministry TO city -
growing This city began It. and plans FOR
the season soon to open are 20 per cent III
| advance of last year. The Vacation Biole
School movement spreading over the coun-
| try IS the better known name, but the ne"
| title aptly describes the central feature OIL
| H. In some cases it has been announced as
| the church ministry as well as the col
| lege. It is such In New York. AT the
Headquarters, in the Bible House. II was
! stated Yesterday that New York VIII nave
this season nearly thirty schools, or q
considerabl BILE advance In numbers as well
as enrolment
Several hundred college students spe-
! ciallv fitted for the work set experience
and earn money teaching these city chill
dren. The places where they teach are
! tba narish houses of the churches. Ana
! those whom they teach are boys and girls
! who would otherwise be in the streets
| Thousands of children go for vacations
! but most children Of the city are not away
| all of the time. And so for six weeks
| this college and church ministry to them
goes on
| Trinity Parish, this city, has authorized
schools for this coming season IN o.
Augustine's in East Houston street. III
| st Luke's, in Hudson street; In TRINITY
| Chapel and. for the first time, new centre
! I'm the mission house. I'm Fulton street THESE
| schools are a part of the activity or the
! ,,rish hut the Vacation Bible ASsocld-
| tiou co-operates the parish on It's part
following out the associations system
Other Episcopal churches that will nave
| schools this season are Heavenly Rest III
/ Fifth avenue; Calvary. In Fourth avenue
and its Olive Tree Inn, on the East Siue'
! -. Marks in its parish house. In Avenue
| \: the House of Aquila, in stanton street.
! All Saiuts'. I'm Henry street; the ltanah
J Chanel of San Salvatore, in Broome street
| oud II Cvprian's for colored children IN
| West SD street.
PRESBYTERIAN churches 10 have THESE
schools are the John Hall Memorial, on
tho East side; Spring Street Bethlehem
| Chapel, Faith Church and Mizpah |hapei
/ Of the Central Church, the last nance
memorial OF Mrs. George Munroe' Other
! Episcopal and Presbyterian churcheS are
! edoptinP the vacation school pian' WHO
J not directly connected with the assocld !
| ton. In Brooklyn, Wyckon HelSh's'
| Graqe Chaoel and Westminster Presbyte-
rian churches have schools. Judson Me-
mortal. Emmanuel and Marcy Avenue ba'-
list churches have schools. So Will Emouty
Methodist. Brooklyn, and Bethany CohsU
gational. Manhattan.
! This vacation school plan. with minis
try from the colleges, is spreading FOR
! example. this season Philadelphia ~ 10
! have 81 schools; Boston, II; chicago ~
| Pittsburgh, 10. Newark, 3; Hoboken' s.
! Jersey city 2. and so on, tho whole mum
her running up considerably above one
hundred. In some cases local committees
have taken charge.
Yale mon are raising funds 10 give poor
children Of this city outings OH this raca-
ton school plan Theological seminaries
are sending their men To conduct Inc
schools in order to gain the experience
/ The cost 20 equip a school Is about $40
| Sometimes II is less where parish houses
I are used that are already well proNioeu'
! Columbia New York University, Yale
Pennsylvania Harvard, Princeton I'M
cago and most principal universities nave
entered heartily into the plans.
closely allied with this vacation school
work is now one just projected. ana
growing out OF tho Men and Religion
Movement campaign II Is churcn
committee on boys work. with many OF
the same men composing II "a we're on
the Movement committee. There is the
same chairman, Judge Olmstead. and the
same secretary, William Albert Whiting,
! Tho new committee, organized FOR the
| summer work. is in close sympathy with
the continuing work Of the Movement, ana
IN the fall. when the Movement Is read'
n take I'D work NAV be the boys TorH
end Of II. Bronx churches under the
| leadership % one member Of the commit
tee. c. W Lohmann. Of the North Con
eregational Church. have taken hold. and
~ Pelham Bay Park on June ! Hin have
an outing.
Thr National Bible Institut" is Just
conpleting for its work "A new LtvinS
Waters Mission building in Third avenue
and II is raising $4,000 with which ~
provide a new building in the Tenderloln
When built II will furnish a new home for
the McAuley Mission and headquarterS
| for the institute There Will also he beds
Mills Hotel style. and rates down TO noth
ing NJ all II the case warrants, In order
IN carry OH its reform and relief work
Open-air meetings are held IN eleven
centres. the speakers being laymen almost
wholly. \ school is maintained whore
thcs, laymen arc taught 10 speak.