The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
welfare Work Conferences.

ices of Fred B. Fisher. and the Board
of Foreign Missions the services of DR..
]. B. Trimble to serve as executive sec
retaries, the former to have general
charge of the administrative work and
the latter OF the field campaign.
The amount each of the benevolent
boards is to ask OF the church for car
rying on its work for the ensuing year
was determined at this meeting, after
presentation Of the present and probable
future needs Of each board was made be-
fore the commission. After viewing the
entire situation from many viewpoints
and after a prolonged discussion of the
problems involved. the commission fixed
the apportionments the same as last
year. They are as follows:
Board of Foreign Missions, 81. 500. 600:
Board Of Home Missions and Church Ex-
tension, $1,5s0. 900; Freedmen's Aid Society,
$4,000: public educational collection
discipline, paragraph 45s) (a), for the
Board of Education 20 per cent. s135. 600;
Oh for conference institutions or auxil-
the conferences. $40 GOO: Board Of Sunday
Schools, $4,000: American Bible Society,
10000; Church Temperance Society.
$4,000.
A recent writer furnishes this interest
ing note regarding the origin Of the halo:
"A halo is such a familiar attribute to
saint that, perhaps, few people know
or ever ask why the halo came into use.
Its origin is quite simple. In the eleventh
century. a period prolific in the church
and cathedral building, it was customary
to place images of saints under the caves
outside the sacred buildings. In course
of time the rainfall discolored the i'm
ages, and some ingenious soul hit upon
the idea Of protecting them by placing
wooden discs over the top of them to
catch and divert the rain drippings.
"Giotto, the famous Italian painter,
who introduced the halo into his pictures,
in his Sountry-bred ignorance. thought
that. the wooden plate represented some
thing unseparable from the saint, and,
accordingly painted 1t. His artistic
sense. however, revolted against its ugli-
ness and he gradually localized it from
a dark circle to the luminous rim which
now represents the badge. or rather SYM
Dol. of holiness"
The heroic conduct Of Father Byles,
who went down with the Titanic, will
not be forgotten by the present genera
ton. Future generations will learn OF
tn inspiring zeal of Father Byles from
the mural plate which has been set up
at st. Edmund's College. Old Hall
Green. The brass, which has been
erected in the college cloister, opposite
the tombs of the Wears Apostolic. tells
in graphic language the story of the
brave mans heroism. The following is
the inscription:
Pray for the soul of Rev. Thomas
Roussel David Byles, formerly student
and professor of this college, who, hav-
ing embarked for New York on the ship
Titanic, when that vessel struck an ice
berg and became a sudden wreck in the
midst of that midnight horror of April
a. 1872 he twice refused the offered safe
ty Of a ~lifeboat. choosing rather to COM
fort the Catholics aud other Christians
with the supreme consolation Of the
faith, and 30 to die with them too
numerous to be saved from the deep. but
not to escape eternal loss. Thus did he
follow In the footsteps Of the Good
Shepherd; thus did he lay down his life
for the sheep. R. ]. p.
Ibid Me come to thee upon the
waters.'-st Matthew. xiv, q"
Bishop Vincent, who Ii the guest of the
international Sunday school Association
at the Worlds Convention. In Zurich,
lead the opening responsive service Of
the convention. which was In English.
German and French. and addressed the
delegates last Sunday on The Sunday
School Of Four Centuries" Perhaps NO
one In the PAST century contributed a