The Washington herald., 1913-01-18
NEWS AND COMMENT.

NEWS AND COMMENT.
Calvary Baptist Church, of which the
Rev. DR.. Stuart Macarthur was pastor
for more than forty years, has called as
: his successor the Rev. DIR. William ].
Williamson. at present pastor of the
Third Baptist Church of st. Louis
A congress of the National Federation
of Religious Liberals and the Free Relig-
ious Association OF America, will be held
in Rochester, n. Y, January $3.50
Among the speakers will be Edwin d.
Mead, Prof Rauschenbusch. Prof.
Eucken, Rev c. w. Wendte, Rabbi
FIeischer. Rev. S. A. Eliot, and Rev. A.
w. Vernon.
The Foreign Mission Board of the
Methodist Church, announces a Christ
mas gift from an unnamed donor OF
$4,000 for the benefit of retired mission
aries, their widows and children. Secre-
tary F. NJ. North says: The entire
church will be grateful for this generous,
timely and significant gift"
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady author
of sea and Indian stories, after ten years
spent in literary work and a pastorate
in the West, has been called to the
Church of the Ascension, Mount Vernon,
\. Y, and is expected to accept soon.
He is at present rector of st. Georges
Church, Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. Francis G. Peabody. of Harvard
University, appointed special representa-
tive OF the American Unitarian Associa-
tion to visit Japan, on the Billings lee
tureship foundation, will sail in February
and remain in Japan three months, visit
ing the Unitarian missions and the
schools and colleges of the country.
The yearbook of St. Bartholomew
Parish New York City, bulky volume
of 2lS pages, made its appearance last
week, Chronicling the activities of that
busy and successful parish.
st. Bartholemew's has 205 paid workers.
including seven clergy, nine deaconesses
and one lay reader and fifty-one istruc-
tors and teachers in the clubs. Besides
these there are AS volunteer workers
Receipts from all sources for the year
aggregated S246,S2l, and the books showed
a balance, in Advent, Of Sll,s0S.
Beginning with the issue of the Biblical
World Magazine for January. 1913. the
editor is Prof Shailer Mathews. dean of
the Divinity School of the University of
Chicago, formerly editor OF The World
To-day, who succeeds Prof Ernest d.
l.
zine since the death of President William
r. Harper. Prof. Mathews is a graduate
OF Colby College. where he later became
associate professor of rhetoric and pro-
fessor of history and political economy.
He is also a graduate of Newton Theo-
logical Institution, and did special re-
search work at the University of Berlin.
Since 1894 he has been connected with
the University of Chicago, and is now
head of the department Of systematic
theology as we'll as dean of the Divinity
School He is also president OF the
Western Economic Society and of the
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
in America.
The liquor interests manufacturers,
dealers. and, of course their mail-order
houses-are said to have supported the
bill for the parcel post. Since the regu-
lationS were announced. they have been
amazed and indignant to discover intoNi-
eating liquors arbitrarily placed in the
undesirable and unpostable class.
, In A single county of Kansas. nearly
score of the sixty-five country schools
are reported to be utilized as social and
Sunday schools flourish for the benefit of
young people on the farms.
The Episcopal Church is very much
awake on the problem of social work and
social workers. Witness the news notes
Of Washington diocese on this page, then
this paragraph from the Congregational
ist of Boston:
One of the best uses to which the new
Episcopal Cathedral In Boston has been
put was IN connection with the obser-
vance of a quiet day for social workers
of the metropolitan district last week
1t was the first of the kind ever held and
dnuhtlPSE he ad In
years in view of the response made by
those for whom II was particularly de-
signed. Bishop Lawrence sent invita-
tons to seven or eight hundred men ana
women engaged in some form or social
service. They included settlement and
charity workers, members OF State COM
missions relating to social welfare, keep
ers of cooperative boarding-houses and
others connected directly or Indirectly
with the betterment of the masses They
responded to the number OF perhaps five
hundred, and from 1880 in the morning
TIL late in the afternoon the church was
well hlled, the services being divided into
nine periods and such topics as '.rr1le
Values silent Forces" and Reserve
Power being successively considered
instrumental music and seasons or
meditation added to the impressiveness
OF the occasion. At l O'Clock the Cathe-
oral chapter invited all present TO take
dVaIed themselves of this opportunity
One familiar with gatherings OF social
workers of Greater Boston declared that
II was the most representative assembly
OF the kind ever convened. Certain or
Eanizations. such as the Monday Even
ing Club, composed almost exclusively or
men and women engaged In reform work,
were there almost to the last member. II
vas happy demonstration OF the close
relation OF religious and social activities
1t costs lot of money nowadays to
carry on a big university success sfully
President Hibben is asking a new endow-
inent fund for Princeton of s4,oOoOoO.
promising new training schools for voca-
ticnal work and research and more DOR
mitories at reasonable prices for rooms.
The earliest Princeton endowment wa
largely solicited in Scotland. Now II has
great company of alumni to appeal TO
and hosts Of other friends in America.