The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-21

4 p ses two Fillmore and
9 Taft. one T.iheraI--JeTerson and one
3 Disciple
The Montreal Conference ~ the
= Methodist church of Canada reports
a.fS0 members a gain Of seventy
thrre Ter the past yoar. ne Aberlh
Conference. with 12,N'@e members.
, reports gain ~ l.5"'
Ia Brooklyn. A. g. there is - coun-
6h composed II representatives Of the
TTErr01rsr- TeEITT7HHf7Et5 t-rFE'Ty-
terI..a and EpiAcopalinu t:hur' hes. and
hefDrs new church can he located
ian uay part Of the city by any Of
gb~g. denominations the appliVa alton
mu~t tc approved by this sHunci,
The Presbyterlars of New ors. city,
through the home mission committee
OF New York FreSbyttry. arr. building
ia "t3ttie Italy" a. church to cost
lfiS thousand dollars for the Italians
of the upper East SIDE ~ Nanhat-
tan There are now three ua1dred
members OF this Italian church and a
Surday-AchRol nearly as large
John L. no cttller was seventy
iu anticipation II hIs birthday last
Sunday ne gave the Euclid Avenue
church, If Cleveland -. of which he
Is a member. tne sum ~ $1,000 IL
complete repairs nu its property. IT
H3ts ANNOUNCED on SUNDAY that $4,000
had been pledged by thu church, and
Mr. Koekff"iler TfHWei1afcty duur4rtt
the amount. Thus making 10000
available tor this PURPOSE
The board ot home missions 81
ehe Methodist Episrop Church WAS
instructed by the general conference
IL consider some plan for tnstitntinS
and operating n department on rural /
churches. which shall seek s2'oEefy /
possible manner te furnish inspiration, +
Information. methods, and plans i'll
aid IF ha district eupertntendents ana !
country pastors OF Nicholson.
THE church census Of Australia 7!
shows that during the past ten years /
the Methodists Increased eight and !
two thirds per cent: the Baptists /
eight and two@thrds per cent. the /
Church Of England fourteen and one
fourth per cent: the Roman Catholics. +
sixteen and one half per cent, aud the I
i'resbyterians. thirty-one per cent. Tho |
population Increase Was eighteen per I
cent /
One milton dollars for the addi- +
tionat endowment ~ Wesleyan trni- i
versity Methodist. at Middletown. |
Conn. have been raised. and the In |
stitution will receive the $500 coo /
promised by the General Education
Board conditioned upon the raising .
e,f tht- foil atyt"uats /
The University Of California is the
first American university to receive
endowment scholarships for Hndus
The endow ments come from Sirdar
Jawala hnghi a rich Hindu farmer
Of California. students will be pro-
vlded for during their studies and
when they are graduated they Will
receive money for their passage
home.
The general assembly of the irish
Presbyterian church. which met last
month In Belfast. approved the action
Of the Presbyterian convention. held IN |
Belfast ON February list. IN declaring
It's opposition 10 home rule for Ire
land
Fred n, Smi;h. after his strenuous
Men and Religion campaign, is hav-
ing deserved holiday IN England
though program ma kers are not per-
Saws London paper, "fiis little
informal talk on Sunday afternoon
grtpp"d his audience and kept them
intensely Interested. /
The Increases in missionary giving
lay the' churches IN Canada during the
three years since the inauguration Of
the Laymens Missionary Movement
are reported IT'S follows. Methodist
from $500, }o2 to $7@9.G77; Preshy
terrain, from s496,afS 10 S354,l2&s
psiiGan, from S252.gI0 to s354.t2S; /
baptist. from s207,6fe to s29G,569;
Congregational, from S29. 94S t. sit,~
Doe; Disciples. from $9.u55 to S9.G1d,
Luther~1, from $500 to si5,46G,
The Missionary Review Of the World
says: "A decision has been reached
that the federal council ~ the
Churches If Christ In America shall
ACT IA "A clearing house for the fol
lowing organizations: The lnymcn's
Missionary movement, the MissiouarS
Education movement, the sunday
school council Of the evangelical de
nominations. the International com
nlttee Of the Young Mems Christian
associations Of North America the
International Sunday School assuCIa- l.
fton. the DeEominational Brother
hoods, the Young Peoples societies,
and the GiGeons. 4 conference Of
T+T7s rvrCUr1T-u ~rr-rrtrr tr'7r, TTrrFvrr7ttvTT
DENTS ard uiher "rerfese1TtstfYes ~ +
these organizations is called to plan
future work
seveu tous Of Bible, and none OF
them printed ~ English, was the ship
ineut record II the American Bible
society recently They went from the
Bible House la Astor place ana were
destined for south America. They
we're IN spanish and Portuguese, with
some In the indian and ether dialects.
TIL. Bibie sogety ~ getting ready
for WORK among the sailors who win
pass through the Panama canal. II
IL said that nfteen hundred new ships
are buildtng IN Europe for the canal +
traffic The society is already at
work mi Panama and the zone. but
WIN s-nlnrls4. ifa ,rnrk "a .ltNar fha.