The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
NEWS AND COMMENT

one of a network of such agencies in al,
the large cities of America. This build
ing has been secured as a part Of the
scheme to honor the memory of Gen.
William Booth, founder of the organize
| tion and will be called The Salvation
| Army Memorial Hotel. Its height is ten
stories and the total floor space Is 49, 40
] square feet. The number OF rooms,
which are separate from one another, Is
| 63i. One-half Of these have outside win
| d6ws. There will be elevator service,
electric lighting, two separate stairways,
and two fire escapes. The institution
was formally opened on April IL.
Baptist Foreign Mission Society states
| that in a fire i'm Tokyo, Japan, the Cen
| trail Tabernacle-the finest Baptist church
| in Japan-was completely destroyed: The
Tabernacle was noble structure locat-
| co in. the heart of the business and STU
dent center Of the city. 1t was arranged
with social rooms, classrooms. and real
ingrooms, SO as to meet the many oppor-
tunities for widely varied service. II
was so arranged that al the rooms could
be thrown into one large auditorium,
seating 100 people. This building was
dedicated in 1908. and has been the GEN.
| ter Of an increasing work. 1t will DO
rebuilt at once.
The high moral quality Of the first ad-
dress which Mr.. Taft made after being
enthusiastically welcomed to New Haven
recently. impressed both citizens ana
students. He had before him an audi
ence of several thousand, and though his
| remarks were impromptu. they revealed
the ex-President at his best. it Is said.
One sentence that fell from his lips
might be carved in large letters upca
dormitory walls in many universities:
THE theory that a young man must go
through a little of hell in order to get
to heaven, men who have got to my
time Of life utterly reject
Prof. Taft began his first day of duty
at Yale by presenting himself at the col
lege chapel at S:10 o'clock. This seems
like genuine New England piety, de-
clares the Congregationalist.
Incidents relating to the controversy
ever change in the name of the
Protestant Episcopal Church have been
many and interesting in New York
within the past fortnight. Rev. A. G.
Cummins, d. D., of Pough<eepsie, who
is a member Of the standing committee
of the Diocese of New York, and chair
man of its social service commission. In
his parish paper invited the Order OF
the Holy Cross. Rev. ]. o. S. Hunting
ton, TO leave the Episcopal Church. He
also argued against inviting into Amer
lean pulpits representatives of high
church English orders. Being widely
published, marked attention was given to
the incident. Growing out of 1t there
was preached in Holy Communion
loo
mon by Rev. ]. G. II. Barry, d. d. The
church named is the extreme of low
and broad, famous as such and for many
good works besides, for generations.
DR.. Barry is rector Of st. Mary the
Virgin Church, long famous for its adj
vanced ritual and it's leadership In the
Catholic party within the church. The
sermon, while not in itself an answer
to DIR. Cummins. was intended to show
the oneness Of all parties in the church.
The rector of Holy Communion parish
is Rev. DR.. Henry Mottet, and'it is said
he has been asked to preach in st.
Mary the Virgin Church at no distant
day.
The church forums, Of which New
York has many, and from which the
idea is.spreading rapidly to other cities,
are leading in New York. to the organ
ization of a number of neighborhood as
sociations, and these associations are
steadily charging their fields of effort.
The largest OF these are the Gramercy,
the Harlem, the Chelsea, the Murray
Hill. and the West Side, together cover,
ing much of Manhattan Island territory.
A phase Of their work is to induce the
Board of Education to allow the use of
public schools, some not all as yet, for
neighborhood assemblies. Another fea-
ture is the organization Of blocks, all
residents belonging and all responsible
for moral. educational, and sanitary con-
ditions of their blocks. Upward of forty
blocks have been organized in one of
them.
Dr. Henry van Dyke. who has spent
the winter in California. delivered this
spring the annual founders day address
for Leland Stanford University He took
for his theme THE Liberty Wherewith
Christ Has Made Us Free He sd:
There are three kinds of law which
condition als-natural, social, and moral.
They are not contrary to liberty, but
essential to 1t. Liberty does not consist
in doing what what you like, but in
liking to do what you can. what you
may, and what you ought The neat
fitting of this last triple phrase to the
triple distinction of natural, social, and
moral law is bit of wisdom quite char
acteristic Of DR.. van Dykes luminous
mind.
What is known by Lutherans IS the
elmer missions" movement has from
time to time been explained by Lutheran
church journals, but something Of con-
fusion of ideas still exists about it, so
that The Lutheran of Philadelphia has
been moved to give added exposition in
regard to it. Timer missions" has as
its function a ministration Of a social
character, but with the evangelical dis
position and the redemptive motive. But
1t is not confined to social service. 1t is
given also TO individual services Of mercy
and help, lifting those who fall and re-
storing those who lapse. 1t is to be diff
from the ethical humanitar-
ian work round about it by its redemp-
tive motive and spirit.
1t is said to have its highest develop
ment in Germany and Scandinavia, but
in this country needs naturalization and |
to be adapted to American ways. Some
believe that in Inner mis-
sions'' they have the solution of prob
lens growing out of conditions peculiar
to the present time. It Is held that in
the enthusiasm of social service and
altruistic work the essential spirit and |
character of redemptive missions may be |
overlooked
1--WE are now in the midst of s social |
service movement that is carrying every
thing before it, says The Lutheran. |
There is much of the inner mission |
spirit and motive behind it, and 1t would |
be mistake not to recognize that fact |