The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The u. S. A. Ccmmittee OF tne
Mission TO Lepers in India and the East
of which DR.. William Jay Schieneiin, OF
New York, is chairman. and Mr.. Fleming
IL. Revell, the New York publisher, is
treasurer. announce that Miss Bertha @.
johnson. formerly engaged In work uh-
der the Presbyterian Foreign MISSION
Board in India, has been appointed as
travelling secretary.
Twenty-seven of these asylums 1or
Iepers are managed by missionaries under
U, s. A. Foreign Mission boards. work
in these stations alone costs the Mission
TO Lepers $1,000 annually. or TINS
amount, less than half has been secured
in any single year from donors In our
own country, the balance coming from
contributors living in Canada and Great
Britain. The economy OF management Is
shown by the fact that gift of 80 Will
sr,pport a leper a year in one of the
asvlums and even a single dollar Will
support leper two weeks.
Although it is almost three years since
Dr. G. Campbell Morgan. of London,
preached in New York, the crowds that
greeted him 7 Carnegie Hall March 10
and in Fifth Avenue Church March ~
showed that he still holds the same place
as ever in the hearts of Protestant New
Workers He will be in this country again
to lecture at Mortified this summer.
Among the cities which are popularity
supposed to be able easily to pass in
spection, under any pure city and town
law" if there We're such thing, is
Los Angeles. Some of its admirers have
gone so far as TO dub II THE City With
out a Slum." 1t is, therefore. especially
suggestive TO know that it has just in
augurated a social survey in which 1t
will thoroughly investigate itself. Among
the factors of municipal life which Will
be looked into are housing conditions.
hotels, and apartment houses, dance
halls, motion picture shows. and the like
According to the plans as announced
through the municipal league, the home
and child life will receive special at
tention. Prof E. C. Beach, of the Uni
versity of California, has been made
chairman of the survey.
The Presbyterians of Chicago have
committee at work investigating the
feasibility of erecting a downtown head
quarters for all their interests. to cost
not less than a quarter million.
In a religious census of San Bernardino,
Cal. the investigators found forty-two
denominations including a number OF
Oriental sects, among 1000 people ques-
toned. This. however. represented only
half the population.
II is claimed according to report, that
the condition of Jews in Roumania and
other Balkan states. including Greece. Is
becoming intolerable. Poverty and dis
tress prevail In not even Russia, II is
said is the situation more desperate
Measures are being taken to organize
in Paris and London mass meetings or
protest in order TO gain moral support
and TO oblige Roumania to regard the
treaty of Berlin Full equal rights for
Jewish citizens is the aim of those who
are leading in this movement.
Unless the Berlin treaty is respected
il is felt that a grave Jewish problem
may arise in the reconstruction OF the
newly acquired territory of the Balkan
states. In Turkey the Jews have en-
joyed the fullest liberty. Unless condl-
tions for the better appear. a heavy emf
grafton of Jews from former Turkish
provinces to the United States is pre-
dicted.
The Zionist movement in Palestine Is
proceeding with gratifying success. VII
lagos have been established at forty CEN
ters. with schools, recreation centers, in
cluding athletic fields, public meeting
places and some manufactures, though
farming is the chief industry. Money
collected in synagogues in England,
America. and Austria is used to buy
large tracts. which are sold by officers
of the movement IN small acreage. and
the buyer is assisted in paying for It.
An agricultural institute has been estab-
lished in Jerusalem, and through II
American farming tools are finding their
way into every part OF Palestine.
The Jews who are repeopling Palestine
come mainly from Russia and Hungary,
and very. few from America and Eng
land A common language is being
taught in the schools. an educational
graded system. from kindergarten to
high school. having been put in opera
ton This leads to the agricultural in
stitute and another in arts and crafts
For nearly forty years the idea of re-
peoplinS Palestine with Jews has been
in the minds of Jewish leaders. The
Zionist movement was started in lSso
Next August a big celebration is TO be
held in Vienna, to let the world know
more of these successful achievements
in Palestine along the Zionist ideas. It
is not a part of the plan TO encourage
weI-to-do Jews to go to Palestine. but
rather the prosecuted poor of Russia
and other parts of the world. The whole
ambition is again to bring into exist
ence a Jewish nation, with its own ruler
and laws.
Two busy days have just been spent
by DR. &. Campbell Morgan in New
York, on his way from Atlanta to Lon
don ENGAGEMENTS filled every moment.
Carnegie Hall was occupied in every
part and heard him indorse the evan
geliStic summer campaign. Some said
New York takes little to religion, but
he thought differently OF it. Especially
did he urge summer propaganda. At
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian prayer
meeting usually conducted by DIR. Jowett
in the chapel, so many attended as to
fill the church and galleries. DIR. Morgan
was pleased with his visit to Atlanta.
The church there was filled every night.
He thought it well worth going from
London to Atlanta to conduct the insti-
tute Bible classes. He said that Dr.
Broughton formerly of Atlanta. is get
ting a firm foothold in London, and
already doing good work. In his own
Bible lectures. held In Westminster
chapel, London, on Friday nights, the
record of attendance has been broken
this winter. For eight years the num-
bers have been about l.5O. This year,
the ninth since the meetings were started,
numbers have averaged 2,Oo
DIR. John Roach Stratton pastor of the
Seventh Baptist Church. of Baltimore,
visited three of the ministers con-
ferences last Monday endeavoring to in
terest them in a proposed summer as
sembly or chatauqua on the Severn
River near Annapolis. To that end a
free excursion will take place for the
Protestant ministers of Washington and