The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-12

and east of Fifth Avenue and Forty
second Street, or north of that point IN
Lexington Avenue, where the new Y. W.
c. A. is already located and where the
new Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. is building.
Predictions are freely made that within
a decade the religious center of New
York will be out of its present Madison
SQUARE region and at Forty-second street
or farther north.
In Behalf of City Children.
Vacation Bible schools are being held
during July and August in many cities,
and most of the colleges and semlnarles
in the East will furnish teachers Tor
them from among their student body.
Leading cities in the movement are At
lanta, Baltimore, Boston. Chicago, Kan
sas City, New York, where are the head
quarters of the movement: Philadelphia,
Pittsburg Seattle, and Washington The
aims are to take children of hot streets
in vacation time to utilize otherwise va
cant parish houses to teach Bible, sports
and industrial handwork, and to give
Young men and women now in the col
leges actual experience IN teaching boys
and girls. There are at least 10 schools
in operation this July under the national
movement, and as many more under IN
dependent control. 1t is found that SIX
weeks instruction is possible at cost of
less than 81 per child. New features of
the work this season are a nauonal
school of methods, wherein teachers are
trained, and, which holds its sessions IN
April and May. and so prepares lnstruc-
tors for their work in July and August;
and an exhibition of handiwork OF the
children, the proceeds from which go to
increase the number Of schools. Work
made by children is returned to them
after the exhibition. Schools for colored
children are introduced for the first time
this season, and greater emphasis is lald
upon instruction in English for children
of foreign-born parents. Students or par
ticular colleges. in steadily increasing
numbers. are contributing money to pay
salaries of those of their number who
are working his or her way through col
Iege to teach in school
Colored Y. NJ. c. 4. Workers.
At Arundel on Chesapeake Bay, con-
ference for city colored Y. NJ Z. A.
workers has just opened with twenty-five
In attendance, the Washington branch be-
ing represented by Secretary Lewis +.
Johnson and Physical Director Beckett,
The conference will continue throughout
the month of July.
The Kings Mountains Students Con-
ference. held recently at Lincoln Acad-
envy, Kings Mountain. y, G.. was the
second ever held at this mountain re-
treat, four miles from the railway sta
ton. Nearly a hundred delegates were
present. The demand for competent
leaders in religious and social service
among colored young men makes such
conference a necessity. The conference
was under the management of the Col
cred Mems Department of the 1nterna-
tional Committee. Y. NJ. G. A, with the
iOf he mt
With a varied program, each day was
filed with health-giving activities. good
fellowship, study, and group discussions
Mission work in Africa received special
attention under the leadership of DR.
We w Sheppard. F. r. G. S. the pioneer
missionary to the Congo, West Africa
The afternoons were devoted to recrea-
ton under the direction of Mr.. John r.
Pinket Amherst. 1910, the well-known
half back of the varsity team. Each
evening at sunset a life work meeting
was held on the mountain side-a service
of inspiration and meditation which had
lasting results. The platform speakers
were the leaders in Christian work Of
both races.
While this student conference was IN
session in the mountains of North Caro-
lima, a financial campaign for a new
10000 building was in progress in Gin
j.
land. Success was due to the gift of
$4,000 by Mr.. Julius Rosenwald. The
work of the Student Y. NJ. G. A and of
the City Y. NJ. c. a. for colored men
and boys marks a new era in organized
Christian service.
Liberal jews Confer.
Liberal Jews of America have just con-
cluded their sessions in Atlantic City
under the name of Central Conference Of
Jewish Rabbis. While not so numerous
as the Orthodox, they are more given to
attending conventions and turn out in
larger numbers. They discussed mar
riage and divorce. including eugenics,
spiritual work in American universities
and modern racial theories. For more
than twenty years these liberals have
held these annual gatherings. The Or
thodox Jews have just held their six
teenth annual convention. The latter's
call for their convention set forth that
traditional Judaism alone is to save the
Jew as a spiritual force. and keep him
unchanged to a sufficient degree that he
be distinguished from other people.
The Union of Orthodox Congregations
of America has just voted to become the
American branch of the Agudas Israel of
Europe, a movement that started in Ger
many a short time since, vowing to save
traditional Judaism. The union has voted
also to form a Beth Din, or Biblical
tribunal for the settlement of doctrinal
disputes. and to favor the multiplication
of united synagogues in as many cities
as possible About 100 congregations were
represented in the Orthodox convention.
A large fund Of money was pledged to
prosecute a campaign for traditional
Judaism. Not little bitterness was
shown in the debates against the Liberals
and Reform Jews.