The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
RELIGION. AND SOCIAL SERVICE
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The death last Sunday of Rev. Charles
A. Briggs, d. D., follows closely on tbs
completion of his fortieth year as pro.
fessor in Union Theological Seminary
New York, during which time he has
taught Hebrew and cognate languages
Biblical theology, symbolics and several
other important branches of learning. He
was the storm center of fierce theological
controversy in connection with his early
avowal of belief in the methods and re-
suits of higher criticism of the Scrip
lures He was tried before the Presby-
terian General Assembly in 1893 and sus-
pended from his professorship. In 1885
he Joined the Episcopal Church, becom-
ing first a deacon and then a priest He
was the author of many valuable books
in the sphere of theology and Biblica'
criticism.
If President Wilson persuades Dr..
Henry van Dyke to become United States
Minister to the Netherlands, says the
Congregationalist, he will secure as our
representative at that important post
one whose personal graces; as well as his
achievements in the field of literature
and his contributions to theology and
the progress Of organized religion should
HlIll pcISOUd eTdld III
Among the honorary degrees conferred
this week by Princeton University, that
of doctor of laws, the highest which the
university is able to confer, was be-
slowed upon Count Johann Won Bern
storff, the German Ambassador to the
United States, and on DR.. Francis Landey
Patton. who was president of Princeton
from 1855 to 1902 and whose resignation
~ - H., Drf,, 1eria a.aI
Seminary was recently announced
President Hibben announced yesterday
that Mrs. Russell Sage had promised to
give 100000 for a new university dining
hall, provided the university raised $780,
600 for the same purpose. Plans for the
new building have been drawn and ap-
proved.
The income of the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions last year places that
board fourth in point of annual income
of the world. The other three are the
Church Missionary of England, the
Methodist Foreign, United States, and
the Roman Catholic Faith. France. The
Presbyterian board had last year. ac-
cording to report, presented to the Cen
eral Assembly, at Atlanta, an income Of
81. ISL. SO. exclusive of the Kennedy leg
acy. There came from the Presbyterian
churches S2l,S0O more than the preced-
ing year, and from Presbyterian women
81, 100 more. these sums representing the
growth from the missionary campaigns
Of recent years.
The net increase of the contributions
from churches and women was, how
ever, more than offset by decreases
from young peoples societies and other
ha raraiyad Ia al
year was less by $4,000 than the pre-
ceding year. Anticipating growth, the
board made appropriations last year of
S1iS0O0 more, and in consequence must
report at Atlanta a deficit of SIS, 300 The
total income of this board. including
profits on its building in New York,
was last year s1,S4s. .3S3. For some years
there was criticism of the New York
Building, its expenses and
and former President Har-
rison served on an assembly committee
10 look into it. Now, as is claimed, the
increase of rentals from the development
Of lower Fifth Avenue more than justi-
fies the policy which created it.
The Congregational Sunday School and
Society. publishers of the Con-
has acquired the Arak-
elyn Press in consideration of a fifteen |
ears annuity to be paid the recent pro- I
1rietor Jacob J. Arakelyn. The Congre- |
the Well-Spring and other !
matters, has been printed |
Dy this plant for some time
From the London correspondent of the |
of Boston it is learned |
hat the Congregationalists of England |
Ind Wales have carried to complete con-
their hope of raising a CAPT. |
al sum of 81, 10000 as a central fund to
insure for all time that no accredited
pastor shall have a sti-
,end of less than $500 a year. The money
las been secured. The whole quarter of
million sterling has been promised and
veil over four-fifths Of the cash has been
,aid in.
The capital is being invested in trustee
securities, yielding about 4 per cent.
Eventually an annual income of EI0,00O
$4,000 a year will accrue from the cap
tai This income will be administered
" central committee whose grants in
md of locally raised stipends will be
made on the recommendations of the
,ounty Congregational Unions. This will
ct as check upon the peril that at
aches to endowments, of stipends being
aid without full Quid pro quo in serv-
&c.
The hero of the great national Congre-
ational campaign in Great Britain, by
fhich the central fund has been secured,
; Rev. J. d. Jones, of Bournemouth. For
our years Mr.. Jones has pleaded this
ause with all the persuasive eloquence
I his command. He has literally lived
Or the fund Half of his days ana
lany of his nights have been spent on
he railways, journeying from town to
own appealing to churches and to in