The Washington herald., 1914-05-10
Churches and Churctmen
Here and the World Over

The bequest of $4,000. made by q
lawyer and manufacturer to Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, in New
York City, with the condition that bread
line should be founded. and that each
loaf of bread distributed to the suppli-
cants for food should contain the donors
| name in raised letters, has been declined
by the Trinity corporation. The ground
| of rejection Is that, since the will pro-
vides that in case II is declined the be-
quest shall be divided between several
philanthropic institutions in New York
1t is, in the Judgment of the Trinity
Church authorities, more likely in this
way to accomplish good than II It were
administered in the fashion suggested by
the testator.
Bishop F. d. Leete. presiding last week
at the eighty-second annual session of
the Troy, N. Y. NJ. E. Conference, at
Saratoga Springs, called to the altar the
wives Of eleven young ministers who
to kneel beside their husbands, saying
that the husband and wife should be
recognized as equally important.
The friends of Bishop Daniel s. futile
are planning to erect in St. Louis. in q
part of the city where II Is much needed.
| a Tuttle Memorial Church. and to conse-
crate it at the next general convention.
which will be held in st. Louis. October.
1916. the year of the fiftieth anniversary
of DR.. Tuttle's bishopric.
Rev. C. Sylvester Horne, Of London
has arrived to deliver the Lyman Beech
| er lectures at Yale, and by May /, Rev,
j. D. Jones, of Bournemouth, England
an ex-moderator of the Free Church
| Council one Of the leading Congrega-
tional ministers of England and a dele
gate to our National Council in 1910. will
be here. He Is due to preach at North
field and Mount Hermon. May 8. He
has been appointed to serve on a deputa-
ton of the Free Church Council tc
Australia, so his stay in America, or
his way thither, will necessarily be brief
Rev. Horne sits for Ipswich in Eas,
Anglia, and is one of three Congrega.
tonal ministers who have a seat in the
4 House of Commons. Ten years ago he
was the minister of a wealthy congrega.
| ton in the West End of London Then he
resolved TO yield to his passion for social
reform. whiteheld's Tabernacle in Totten,
ham Court road needed a man with q
| big heart and a clear brain. He decided
ito man the deadly and imminent breach. "
For a decade he has held the fort. The
4 drain upon his vitality has been terrific.
Now he must go softly. like the waters
| of Sloan. He is in the front rank OF
| Free Churchmen.
| Daily Journalism secures the services
! of an able minister in the person Of Rev.
William RAIDER. who has just connected
himself with one of Philadelphia's best
| papers, the Public Ledger. He Is to take
I lot odtf o1d will IN
addition fill engagements on the lecture
| platform in the interests of the Pacific
| Panama Exposition. Mr.. RAIDER was
formerly a Congregational pastor in San
| Francisco, but of late years he has been
pastor of a leading Presbyterian church
there. He has always done much effec-
tive newspaper work in connection with
4 his ministry.
| 1t is the testimony of leaders IN public
school systems of fully a dozen cities.
recently consulted, that more and more
public schools are cutting out everything
that savors N any manner Of religious.
spiritual or even Biblical instruction. and
leaving the burden of MOI al and spiritual
teaching to the churches. Hardly a
speaker is now heard who falls. IL any
where near the topic, to declare the pub
lie school instruction inadequate for the
children of today Roman Catholic men
and women, chiefly women, who are pub
lie school teachers. have been formed
into teaching bands charged with the duty
of finding out what scholars in their
classes are of Catholic parentage and are
not attending Sunday schools in their
own parishes. Such being discovered
they are urged to attend schools in their
own parishes, or else schools are opened
for them, the public school teachers TAX
ling the classes
Protestan.s are now taking up the idea
Leaders in several cities are org AIMING
teachers who ere Protestants to look
after children of Protestant parentage In
the same manner. anc either to placs
them in church Sunday schools OF to es
tablish Sunday schools for them. Officers
4 Of education boards are deciding tina,
50 long as teachers 90 such work outside
To- public schools hours they have nj
JuI isdiction and no permission from then
is necessary. In many cities 1t is found
that from 30 to 50 per cent of the children
in day schools do not attend upon any
religious instruction on Sundays.
The Council of North American Student
Movement, composed of the Yount
Women's Christian Association and tn,
Young Mems Christian Association o.
the United States and Canada, called
together a conference of seventy secre
taries and social workers at Garden City
Long Island, N. Y, April II to 20. The
object of this conference was to enable
leaders of the student movement Of tn,
United States and Canada to take coun
sci with an important group of recog
nized authorities on social questions from
the point Of view of the church. in order
to determine more clearly the part which
Christian students should have In help
ing to solve the social problems of oui
day. Various aspects of these problems
particularly in their bearing on student
life. were presented and discussed Such
questions as child labor" 1.-THE church
and Industrial life. the women's move.
ment. ''our corporate and personal re.
sponsibility as Christians for the non.
Christian elements In our civilization, .
.unsocial attitudes and practices amone
students were brought before the con.
i ference by such speakers as c. r. Hen
derson, Walter Rauschenbusch, Prof
Graham Taylor, II. 8. CONN, Prof J. W.
jerks, Edward Devine, Robert w. Speer
Miss Vida d. Scudder, Miss Helena bud.
ley, Owen r Lovejoy, and Robert A.
Woods, of South End House. Boston
was represented by Mr.. Woods, Mis-.
Helena Dudley. Of Denison House, and
Miss Katy Boyd George, secretary fol