The Washington herald., 1913-03-29

night in the lecture room Of the church,
Eleventh Street and Rhode Island Ave-
rue Northwest. The meeting was well
attended. and reports were read from
all the different organizations Of the
church. showing the work to be In a
fiOurishjng condition. Every organisation
reported a balance on hand, and the
past year the most successful in the
history Of the church.
The entire receipts Of the church for
the past year were more than $S, 100. Two
new elders were elected, three deacons,
and one new trustee.
lexington Church held the annual
meeting Thursday night. and showed in
the reports that decided gain had been
made in all departments of the church's
work. The financial reports and the rec
ord of accessions to membership exhibit
ed an increase over last year. One evil
dence of the progressive spirit of Eek
ington was the congregations vote to
increase the salary Of the pastor substan-
TALLY. Altogether. the condition Of the
church is reported most satisfactory.
Secretaries Joseph W. Cochran. Of
the Board Of Education, and George G..
Mahy, of the evangelistic committee.
have lately completed a tour of four
Presbyterian colleges-Hanover, Carroll.
Coe. and Manchester. They stayed from
four to five days in each of these insti-
tutions. DR.. Cochran conducting voca-
tional meetings. and Mr.. Mahy evan
Gelistic meetings. Both. however. de-
voted more time to personal interviews
than to public meetings
or students not previously connected
with the church large numbers professed
conversion. In Hanover. the brilliant son
OF Presbyterian minister. who. as AN
avowed unbeliever. has seriously depress-
ed the religious life of the school, sur
rendered to Christ. At Carroll College,
the night before the visitors were to
leave. students in the women's dormitory
besoUght their matron to prevail upon
the secretaries to remain day longer
in order that all the girls in the building
might confess Christ before the meetings
were ended. This ambition was COM
pletely realized.
In the vocational meetings. DIR. Coch-
ran presented to the whole body of stu
dents a new form Of VOLUNTEER pledge, Of
which the heart is an unlimited promise
to put ones self at Gods command for
whatever calling He NAV in His provl-
dence open up At Hanover. nineteen
girls and twenty-one boys signed this
pledge; at Carroll, forty-one girls and
thirty-nine boys: at Coe. about the same
number, and at Manchester, almost the
whole student body. After completing
this tour DIR. Cochran went to Madison.
Wis, and spoke in Christ Church before
an audience of about 600 students from
the University OF Wisconsin. whom Pas
tors Hunt and Allison had gathered to-
gether. After an inspiring address. IT.
Cochran presented this Christian pledge
to the audience of university men, and
forty of them accepted II.
In view of the great success of this
experiment among the COLLEGES the two
secretaries have determined to select
thirty evangelistic pastors from all parts
Of the church. call them together into
conference on methods for one or two
weeks, and then. after making arrange
ments with their congregations. send
each of them out for a months service
next winter in Presbyterian institutions
OF learning.