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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
REACHED the far west after II
years in two churches in England

REACHED the far west after II
years in two churches in England
4 an ardent Congregationalist, be-
cause 1 loved the elasticity of the
organization, and the liberty within
its borders At once, thus biased. /
began to observe, on one hand the
churches and on the other the IN
churched. I have made II duty 10
converse with all possible, who seemed
10 be in a position to speak authorlta-
lively about external religion thus
today I echo to some extent the words
First as to the conditions in the
southwest. / find that in general there
i nor much KNOWLEDGE of our part CT
the United States. When set cut
some Of my friends sympaThized Win
me that I should have 20 i've IN a
primitive hut and be 12S Eren CIVIL
zation I was to be a rhOreau with
out Thoreau's loving adaDtlbiliIy; ard
1 received some peculiar eplstIes- one
man writes: Can large ships san up
the Rio Graude to FL PaSO- A lady
writes rs il safe TO 90 out at
night2" Another writes: rs il al
prairie and Wilds2' Ralph COnnor 5
descriptions seem better known than
the geography of Texas.
FL PasO is a good city with fine
buildings and streets, and inhabited
be civilized people Folks come out
largely from two reasons, 0Qe- IN a
search for health, and the other. I'M
PEELED by q pioneer spirit. the pioneer
spirit which seeks a new land away
from the old conventiOnalities.
Amongst these pioneers there is a
large admixture of deep thinkers.
We are in a land of great broad
stretches of wide clear skies, of won
derful starlit panOramas, Of gorgeous
sunrises and sunsets. and you remem-
Der that most likely the book of Job
was written under suuch conditions
Nature always has acted and reacted OF
mans thinking and so YOU often meet
men and women who have cOnversed
much with the sOlitudes. who have. like
the Scotch lassie. listened to the 81
lence" and heard its still. small voice.
The pioneer spirit, / notice, can be
approached in one Of two ways.
One way is by way Of the
from home the old ways have
a heartfelt attraction which none
who have not broken old Ties can IN
derstand- Old hymns and tunes sound
strong grip, old habits appeal the old
surroundings of the religion OF boy
hood and girlhood ut times irresisti-
bly, attract.
The most stalwart radical has a
strain Of conservatism in him. and
hence II Is that the churches that have
not changed appeal to some. The sec
ond way OF approach is py restating the
old truths.
The pioneer has broken from the old.
but he has not clearly seen the new.
He knows only too well that he has
moved but he cannot describe his new
position He is deeply conscious Of the
lnySllc power flooding his wide
stretches. but is that power God? He
has many. many thoughts, but they are
not in ordered sequence.
The old DlatitudeS do not appeal to
him. but if you happen to saw some
king which he himself has taught.
Hou are sure of his raDt attention.
He cannot speak IL the theological
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

EVERAL of FL Paso's ministers
have been sent to other stations as
- a result Of the Methodist church
conference at Albuquerque, y. NJ, sc
this morning will see new ministers
in their puiDits. Rev. z. c. Morgan,
who has been in charge of Highland
Park Methodist church, left SATURDAY
for his new charge in Deming, y N
Rev. w R Evans, from Clovis, N M,
will be in charge of this church ana
breaches his first sermon there tnlS
morning.
Before Rev. Mr.. Morgan left he was
rendered farewell reception by me
members of his congregation IN Lne
parlOrs of the church An informal pro-
gram was given. Mrs. H Griffin sang,
and Mrs. J. McCay played several piano
selections. c.. w Bretz was IN cnaFSe
of the affair The retiring pastor pace
farewell to his congregation with
few appropriate remarks
Rev. W. Howell, of the Alta Vista
Methodist church, goes &c Fort STOCK
ton Texas, and his pulpit VIII De
filled by Rev. W H. Duncan, from Fort
Stockton
To welcome Pastors Return
Thursday evening the members OF
Trinity Methodist church will give a
social to welcome the return of their
family to Trinity The congregation
was very much afraid that the con-
ference would send him away from Ell
PasO. There will be a short program
given
conference at Albuquerque viii be
given at the meeting of the WOman's
Missionary society of Trinity Methodist
church on Tuesday afternoon at $50
o'clock in the church parlOrs. An in
teresting program has been arranged
for the meeting
Church Secretary Here.
W F. McCurray, D. D. secretary OF
the church extension of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south arrived on
Friday and is the guest of Rec {.
Wesley Webdell and family for few
days.
At the Highland Park Methodist
church a Brotherhood is being organ
lied among the men, O. E Hendee was
elected president; A. Bailey, vice pres
ident; A K Griffith, secretary, and W:
T. TOlbert, treasurer A meeting OF
this brotherhood will be held Monday
night to complete the organization and
to arrange for work Fred w. Free
man and DR.. H T. Wright viii make
addresses on Fraternity"
Much Activity by Societies.
At the First Methodist Episcopal
church there will be number of or
ganization activities this week The
WOman's Home Missionary society
holds its monthly meeting at 1914
Il
Kitchens, on Thursday afternoon at
2:45 o'clock Miss Roe will be in
charge of the program
The Queen Esther society and the
Delta Alphas viii be entertained Fri-
dav at the home of the Misses keat-
ing. on West Missouri street Miss
Margaret Young, recently Of Mexico
City, viii talk on the Mexican prob
lem
To Give Halloween Party
The usual midweek prayer meeting
OF the East EI PasO Baptist church
viii be held Wednesday On Friday
night a Halloween party will be given
at 1927 Alameda street, for all the
people OF the congregation. The Aid
society will meet Thursday afternoon
at the church at 2:30 o'clock.
Building Committee to Meet.
At the Calvary Houston Square Bap-
fist church there will be a meeting of
the building committee on MOnday.The
Aid society meets Tuesday afternoon
at o'clock in the church. Regular
prayer meeting viii be held Wednes-
day night at 1880 o'clock which IS fol-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Japan Offers Great Field For
Successful Missionary Activity
More Workers and More Money Work Into
Fields That Ripe for Harvest "
By IDA CLYDE CLARKE

~ HE emergence of Japan as a
world force. the awakening of
4 China, the ferment of social and
political ideas in India, the quicken
ing of national consciousness in Per
STA and the remarkable political and
religious readjustment taking place in
Moslem lands, from the island of sum
atra on the east to COnstantinOpIe on
the west, are conditions which viii tax
to the utmost the wisdom and faith
of the christian statesman who prays
and plans for the extension OF the
kingdom of God in all the earth.
The task OF evangelizing the world
is one of gigantic proportions To
furnish one missionary to every 10000
heather the American churches must
increase their force from 1000 to 20,
zoe missionaries and their gifts from
$9,500.000 to 100000. OOO annually This
is assuming that the christians of
America are res pOnSible for 50O,OO9,0OO
of the unevangelized. This. large as
il seems. is less than One-fifth OF
what is spent on the churches at home,
less than a street car fare a week pei
church member
of these unevangelized millions as
signed to one denomination alone, 20
100000 are in China, within that Glib
raltar of missions at whose unyieldlnS
front missionaries have pounded for
more than half a century.
Great Work Completed
The Congo Reform association,
formed nearly ten years ago, having
finished the task for which il was
created. recently disbanded- 1t was
through This organization that start
charges were brought against king
Leopold of Belgium for his cam
paign of cruelty in Connection with the
gathering Of crude rubber by the ma
tiVes of the Congo basin. The aSsO-
citation focused the attention OF the
civilized world upon an intolerable
situation and brought TO bear upon
il all the forces of righteous public
Indignation.
The association had five objects.
each of which has been attained. They
were: The abolition of atrocities; the
abolition of the main features upon
which the slave system reDOsed; the
separation of the administrative from
the commercial element. direct tax
alton in places of irregular demands
for rubber; freedom of trade.
For twenty-five years the Congo
country was the scene of some of the
most ruthless saYagery ever pracuced
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
MANY GERMAN AND AMERICAN
MISSION ARIES TO PHIIIPPINE


Pope Plus y even wheR not we'll
Keeps Informed at all times about
catholic church affairs in the Philip
pines, and the action OF our government
in political and educational affairs af-
tectlng the Islands The Catholic Con-
gregation of the Propaganda has Just
decided to send from Rome ten addi-
tlonal missionaries TO Manila The con-
gregatlon receives reports encouraging
10 II concerning the prospects of the
church there under American bishops.
ana to some extent American priests
Mgr Petrelli, the pOpe's representative.
was warmly received a short time ago
when he went to the new diocese OF
L1pa, accompanied by the archbishop
of Manila, and he assured the pope in
turn that old bitterness against the
1rlars has wholly disappeared from the
islands
Germans are coming to the help OF
Italians in supplying missionaries for
the philippines. and they and Ameri-
cans are wholly supplantinS the old
spanish regime, even to the smallest
mission Ten missionaries and six Sis
tiers of Charity. belonging to the Holy
Name Congregation Of Germans. have
Just left Rome to work in the noun
tains of Abra. They took with them
equipment for schools In seminaries
OF Germany and Italy are now 80 ad-
dItiOnaI missionaries. who go to the
philippines before the end of this year.
II IS the understanding in Catholic cir
cieS IN Rome, Vatican official circles.
that the United States government
gives missionaries every encourage
ment, and from this fact the Vatican
DelleVeS that the, time is not distant
when paganism will be driven from
every part of the islands. The pope is
known to be lending the CONGREGATION
OF the Propaganda all Of the help he
can to this end.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
student Work in Japan.

There are 100000 students above the
primary grade in Japan A committee
OF missionaries has been formed to
reach these young men and women
with Christian literature and a little
sheet called The Morning Light is
being widely distributed. One of the
committee SAYS; I'VE believe we can
reach 100000 students and that we can
influence three times that many We
viii soon be distributing 10000 pap
ers."
Fourteen student hotels In Japan
have been made possible by an Ameri-
can gift of $50. 600 When secretary
Kim entered on his office two years
ago there We're but two Korean chris
tians in this student community and
now there arc eighty.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
GREGATIONALISTS THINK
CRITICAL PERIOD Has ARRIVED


congregational leaders are speaking
out concerning things their national
council. just assemble In Kansas City,
ought to do before il adjOurns on Oct
81 next All Of them seem to regard
the time as critical TO their religious
body; a time when decision must be
made whether old WavS, diSunctively
Congregational. shall be retained or
discarded forever. Rev. Dr. Washing
ton GLADDEN. wonders why the council
may not induce Christian EndeavOr and
the score of other societies in COngre-
/ gatiOnal churches to put through a
crusade for old fashioned church at
tendance William Shaw of the same
Christian EndeavOr. reminds leaders of
the average size of churches-Only a
few more than 100 member S-Sa.vS ma
chinery won't take the place of young
people, and prays for relief for some
years at least from tinkering with mis-
SiOnary machinery
Lucien c. Warner, the 7. NJ. C. A.
leader, who is also a COngregatiOnalis
demands that there be a stop to the ire
mendOuS waste. duplication, overlap
ping, and gross 1neniciency- Rev Ed
ward A George OF Ithaca deprecateS
the proposal 10 elect a secretary with
unusual powers. and says that If Con
gregaJiOnal methods have failed let the
fact be frankly confessed, and every
body turn Episcopal with an elective
presiding bishop John r Rogers, the
Brooklyn layman who is treasurer OF
the appOrtOnment commission. calls
upon IAe cuuFCneS themselves 10 pay
administrative expenses, and cease tax
ing money out of benevolent funds con-
tFibuted to the missionary societies.
Finally. Rev. Henry A Stimson. New
York, pleads for the adoption of the
report of the committee of 19 entire
and demands that COngregatiOnaIist
get together and stay together. as he
says members of other religious bodies
do The council has just got itself into
working shape and during the next
seven days is expected to make over
Congregational plan in many important
respects
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
PASSES THE MILLION. MARK
IN MEMBER SLID rHIs VI

PASSES THE MILLION MARK
The Episcopal church passes the
100000 mark in its membership this
year. and the So. 0OO. 900 mark in its
gifts since its last general convention
three years ago. This amount is. Of
course, for all causes. and is a trifle
above $50 per member, or the highest
individual giving of any religious body
There are, according to reports just
made. 567I Episcopal clergy and S1s3
places of worship. Almost all bodies
have more churches than clergy, but
none have such discrepancy as the
Episcopal There are so more candi-
dates for the Episcopal ministry then
there were three years ago. but this
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
EP|SCOPlL|lNS SHELVE CHANGE OF
NaME PROPOSITION WITHOUT FIGHT
Group Dioceses Into Provinces and Pass the 100000
Mark in Membership; Congregationalists Plan I'm
portant Changes at Kansas City Council; German
and American Missionaries for Philippines.

growth is not up to the growth of the
church itself, and the shortage OF
clergy is even more acute now than
then.
According to the same report there
are 5000 fewer children in Episcopal
Sunday schools than there were three
years ago, when a similar report was
made and this on top of the fact that
the Episcopal already has a smaller
portion of Sunday school pupils to
communicates of any church. Vast
fields of work at nome. so these Epis-
cOpal authorities say, are not entered
upon from lack of clergy, and they
add that the neglect of Episcopal par
ents to send their children to Sunday
school may cost US our very existence
as a church in this nation"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Eighty Million Untouched Chudreu.

There are over 10000 coo NIoslem
children in the world and Miss Won
Mayer. writing from Samarkand. says.
Il shall gather information as to num-
bers. education and morality of chill
dren here. but I cannot contribute any
thing as to the religious work done.
half million MOslem children in this
field. a any time or anywhere comes
into contact with Christianity" 1t is an
undeniable fact that Moslem childhood
has had pitifully small share in the
ministry of the christian Sabbath
school
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Great sunday school Army.

The Protestant Sunday school army
or the world now numbers 2S.zO1. 4S9
or equal to One-third of the population
OF the United States. This is a gain
over three years ago of go. 295 mem
bers- The most notable gains are in
Asa, where reports show S.113 new
rolled than there were enrolled three
years ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
ADDS BY PHONE.

The ordinary cost OF a Want Ad in
The Ell Paso Herald is 25 cents. It
reaches an average Of about 10000
readers each issue
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

} pie.
L is said on good authority that
/ during the Leopold regime the Congo
population was reduced from 90 600 600
TO 5000, 0O0
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
NEW MINISTERS CONE To ASSUME
PASTORATES Of FL PASO CHURCHES

Trinity Methodist Congregation Welcomes the Return of
Rev c. W. Webdell; Brotherhood Is Organized at
Highland Park Methodist Church; the Build
ing Committee OF the Calvary Houston
Square Baptist Church Is at Work
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
The Congregational Church In the West

Countrywide
in NeWG arb
PasO Trn Council
Of the Congregational Church at Kansas City,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
GATH, Hope, Love and Scriptures Abide,
Thong All Else May Change or Pass
While Old Foundations Seem Be Sinking Things
Are Lasting
he First nstanC Church

By Rev PERRY j. RICE Pastor CT First Christian
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

- EVERAL Of Ell Paso's ministers
Z, have been sent to other stations as
= a result of the Methodist church
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-26

lots on West. Sixth street. purchased
last year from. p. m. Parton. The ,buttd.
ing will face the south's on Sixth. the
depth Of tsssssSesidence, lots next to
the alley. For the balance OF. the year
1913. the Swahey Auto Company, will
maintain offices on Fifth street, but 1T
Is their Intention in the spring Of 1914
to enlarge their quarters on Sixth to
twice the proposed size Of the new
structure. The new building will be
used exclusively for repair work. for
the present. . which will be ready for
occupapeys!hy not later than the hrst
OF July. Besides the Swaney. garage,
George Seller & Son have announced
that they will erect building 50x1es
feet on the lot recently acquired from
the German Bank Of Carroll county.
This building. will'fac oflAdsnps.' > -The
Knights Columbus contemplate
erecting 1fnfee STORY building on the
corner of Main and Sixth streets also.
With the proposed new city hall and
the possibility OF iHeider Manufactur-
ing Company: enlargins their quarters,
there nwill be plenty doing in Carroll
this summer s,g
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-26
PROPOSED lNcREAsE OF FREIGHT
RATES FORBIDDEN ~ COM.
MERGE DoARD.
AFFECTS COAL IN CARLOAD
LOTS FOR DAKOTA POINTS
Aat;,lra Interests Of state Win Notable
Victory in Rates to Northwest-Iowa
and souta Dakota Commissions Ap.
psarsd 70 Plaintiffs in Action Do.
eidsd at Washington.

Washington. Feb. 26.-In an opinion
handed down by the Interstate COM
MERGE commits sion yesterday lowans
won out in both instances affecting the
proposed increase of rates on coal in
carload lots from the mines in Iowa to
stations in South Dakota, North Da-
kota and Montana. The commission
held these increases were unreasona BILE
and the Chicago. Milwaukee & st
Paul is ordered to withdraw the pro
posed increases. The Iowa and the
South Dakota state railroad coTlmis-
sions were the. compla nants.
In the matter of the proposed ad-
vance on soft coal in carload lots
from certain mines in Illinois, the So
called Springfield district to Clinton
and Lyons, Iowa, increases are forbid
den on the ground that the railroad
companies are not justified IN making
ncrea ses. The defendant companies
We're the c., B. & c., and the Chicago
& Alton. -.
: The compliments were the Clinton
Manufacturers and Shippers AS
sociation and the Clinton Sugar Re-
fning Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-26

the position Of foster parent, but the
Makers adopted it themselves.
Remssn. 80
A petition Is being circulated among
| the citizens OF Plymouth county which
after 1t bears the required signatures.
win be sent to the committee on
school and text books at Des Moines.
It is circulated for the purpose of
furthering the bill known as the Hal
stead bill, designated as house file No.
IS. which proposes to create text
book commission empowered to select
uniform text books for all the common
schools Of the state Of Iowa up to the
twelfth grade, including the lower
and all intermediate grades.
Fort Dodge.
For the death Of Miss F'lossie Mericle
which occurred at Duncombe. Jan. ),
1913. Simeon Thomas, administrators of
the estate of the deceased, has brought
suit against the Illinois Central rail-
road for $4,000. The plaintiff in the
petition claims that box car obstruct-
ed full view of the track and that the
auto was running at a slow rate OF
speed and was not warned Of the APP
prcach Of the train. Two young men
were also killed in this accident, as
will be remembered by people of this
vicinity.
McGregor.
A haul of fish was made Saturday
under the ice in the Mississippi river
five miles above McGregor of such pro-
portions that even the fishermen are
half afraid to tell the truth about it.
| Just. how big it is will not be known
probably for a week. but there seems
no question but that it is the biggest
single haul OF fish ever made on the
upper river The first estimate put
upon the catch was $4,000 pounds: then
Saturday 10000 pounds at least the
fishermen say. got away thru a sag in
| the net. and now it is believed that the
Eoriginal estimate was SO much smaller
than it should have. been that $4,000
pounds are still left,
Webster City.
Two places of business We're broken
/, into some time Saturday night. the
Burleson dry goods store and the Scriv
! en- grocery About IS worth of small
change was stolen from the cash draw
err at Burelson's, the thief having
entered in the rear OF the building by
breaking hole in the window and
thrusting his hand thru, thereby un-
| locking the door Aside from the change
taken, nothing else was disturbed. The
Scriven store was also entered from the
rear. one of the panes OF glass having
been removed. Nothing. however, was
taken from the Scriven store. The thief
| evidently had been unable to find the
\ money draw er
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-26
lowa Falls News Notss.

Special to Times. Republican.
Iowa. ;FalfS. Feb. 25.-The annual
school election Cones March 10. The
term 81 e. Il. Virgins as director ex-
pres this spring. The board Will be
petitioned to call an election to vote
on the. proposition for a new high
school building.
Early matches of spring fries are noH
being reported and among others noted
is u hen in f.. Il. >Fosters Black Or
pington flock that came off Tuesday
morning with six chicks. Matching six
out of ten eggs.
Houses are at premium again this
spring and the indications are that un-
til some can be built this year that
camping out will be II necessity, If not
popular.
Jay Bennett. of the grocery depart
ment of the eden store. has resigned
needy. Gardner & Co, succeeding +
.. Whiting.
John King has sold his farm in Min
nesota and will return to Iowa to live
He has rented the Henry Smith farE'
north of town for a year.
Mr. and Mrs. p. S. laughlin. of Hub
bard, will move here March l and oc-
cupy the S. W. Wright place they re-
Gently purchased, on the south side.
Mrs. Nellie Carleton Buttolph ac'
companied the body Of Mrs. Buttolpf
from San Diego.
i a. f. Wright is packing this weei
preparatory to moving to Traer to TAKE
charge of hotel on March l
Lloyd Killius and Miss Ruth Jack
son were married at the home of thu
brides parents, MIR. and Mrs. +. \
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-26
Wedding and Death at Arlington.
special to Times Republican.


Arlington. Feb. ga very pretty
wedding was asolemnized Yesterday at
high noon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. DeBoer. when their youngest daugh-
ter Annas was united in marriage to
Mr.. Chester Clay Ross. of>Waterloo, IN
the presence. of few intimat e friends
and relatives. Rev. Ed Waudby,
brother law of the bride. performed
the ceremony. Those from a distance
who came to attend the wedding, were
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Waudy, and son.. Of
Dickens: Mr.. and Mrs. p. Laipple and
children. Of Faulkner; Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross and two daughters. of Oelwein.,
The funeral of Mrs. Lydia Nash, q
former resident. of this place. was held
in the Presbyterian church Sunday
afternoon, Mrs. Nash was sick only a
few days. She was past 81 years old.