The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-29
RELIGION AND SOCIAL SERVICE

young women. has its gathering in
Mortified, July 20 Rev. j. Stuart
Holden. of England, DR.. Robert z. Spear.
of New York, Rev. John Mcdowell, Rev.
Francis S. Downs. Mrs. Helen B. Mont
gomery. Mrs. Dwight E. Potter, and
Miss Margaret Sherman are announced
as speakers. Miss Bertha Harlan, of
Wilmington, Del, has charge of ar
Engagements.
A business manager for a church
Why not? asks the Pacific. That is
what churchs need-business manage
ment. And how are they in most in
stances to get 1t unless some one is en-
ployed for 1t. Some churches have men
who can give their time to 1t without
remuneration. Others do not.
A California church taking this step
| is the First Presbyterian at Long
Beach. They have in view as pastor $
assistant a layman who has been an
! elder in the church. and who has been
in business. He is to be called "busi-
ness manager" preferably TO pastors
assistant" and is to have charge OF all
financial details. The church has a
membership Of 100; property valued at
$4,000: and a yearly expenditure OF
about $4,000
There was a stiff discussion over a
curious requirement put upon Reformed
Church ministers at the recent synod
of the Reformed Church in America
The Heidelberg catechsm presents fifty
two sections. one for each Sunday OF
the year. The old rule was that Re-
formed ministers must go through the
entire teaching each twelve months.
Later the requirement was heightened
20 four years. and this was the regu-
lation put into the new constitution. The
controversy at synod was whether the
four limit was TO be adhered 10, and
also whether ministers must take the
exact catechism question as a text, or
whether they might take the substance
of the question without referring TO the
catechism. Doctrinal sermons were dis
Outraged. and the plea for larger dis
erection by ministers was sought Steps
were taken toward securing a permanent
headquarters building in New York,
larger than the present one. A COM
mittee was named to consider such
proposition.
DR.. Nehemiah Boynton's address at the
national convention of advertising men in
Baltimore the other day is said to have
led all the rest in its grip upon the audi
ence. Indeed. the speech put Congrega-
tionalism on the map for quite a number
of the members of this lively organiza-
ton who up to that time were hardly
aware of the resources that denomination
Possesses in the form of popular orators.
The weaIthiest citizen Of Zurich, Swift
zerland. together with his wife, has Just
committed suicide because their union
was childless. Maybe, II the dreadful
deed had been postponed only a few
weeks, until the World Sunday School
Congress had reached Zurich. they might
have become interested in the children
round the world.
The American Seaman's Friend Society.
which has just held its annual meeting
in New York, reports more than 1900
loan libraries, the books relating chiefly
TO the sea, to be afioat. About 5000 sail
ors are afforded a home each year. and
last year 500 attended religious worship
and bible classes. About 5000 sailors,
wrecked. sick. or destitute sometimes all
three, are cared for. clothed. and sent to
their homes. A unique feature of the
society's work is the hunting up OF men
and boys who are missing. The number
OF missing men. reported in the port of
New York. is singularly enough greater
than in any other port in the world
About 5000 letters each year are written
at the home by sailors. There is a gen.
erous offer in hand of 81. OG0 for endow-
ment, on conditions that $4,000 be given
by other friends. The society does more
to maintain the New York home 1t sup
ports wholly or in part ffty-one chaplains
and missionaries in thirty-fve ports,
some of them in distant parts of the
world.
The institute for religious educa ton,
interesting to a considerable circle OF
Washington unitarians. is being held IN
Meadville. Pa. 1t is under the Joint
patronage of the MeadvilIe Theological
School the Meadville Conference, and
the American Unitarian Association
Prof. Francis A. Christie, or the Mead
willie School, gives a course OF ten lee
lures on The Story OF Professionalism. {"
Prof. Margaret E. Cross. of Tulane Uni
versity, New Orleans. gives ten lectures
on The Art Of Teaching" Prof. Edwin
D. Starbuck, of the department of re-
ligious education. five lectures on The
Child Mind and Its Religious Develop
ment:" Rev. Florence Buck, secretary in
religious education. five lectures on The
Bible and the Service or worship MISS
Mary Lawrence. in charge OF social rea-