The Washington herald., 1914-11-22

the board Of foreign missions, New York
at a banquet to the general committee
opened the after-dinner speaking with {
reply to the question, What is Chris
| tianity Worth Today?" "Our practica
answer" said he, sis to be given in tht
deliberations Of the general committe,
| and the convention. We are not setting
aside the task we have undertaken. but
are resolved to hasten on the coming In
! of the kingdom The church is saying
that II believes nightly in God and IN
Jesus Christ. Methodism has a more dis
| tinct, a more definite and a more care
fully wrought out program than 1t evei
had before"
Dealing broadly with the present state
Of Europe, Bishop w. F. Oldham, speak
ing in a Sunday school meeting in Bos'
ton, said: I'm this chaos of the nations
America should be the helper and friend
of all. The time is ripe for a new brand
of American patriotism-a patriotism
that carries American sympathy and aid
| to the farthest corner of the world.
America is not bounded by the Atlantic
and the Pacific. America is a world
spirit, the spirit of liberty, diffusing Its
healing influence throughout the globe"
There are over 1900 young people and
children enrolled for the fall term of the
Go-tO-Church Band. and striving to at
tend preaching service at least once each
Sunday without failure for the four
months up to the first of February. The
churches using this simple means for
gaining willing and persistent attendance
are scattered through twenty-seven States
and comprise twelve denominations. Last
spring a pastor OF a Massachusetts Con-
gregational church heard the movement
explained by the founder, and decided to
introduce a band into his church with
the first Sunday in October. He followed
the directions and told the young people
that he was asking them to do a hard
thing, and they responded SO cordially as
to increase the congregation by 40 per
cent.
Publicity, through reputable newspa-
pers is the best method of church adver-
tising today, said the Rev. Samuel G.
Neil, district secretary of the American
Baptist Publication Society, at the clos
ing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist
School Of Methods, in Philadelphia last
week.
Mix brains with printers ink and get
the right results. Use your brain, turn
out good copy, place it in papers that
reach the people, and when they come to
your church, deliver the goods. The proof
Of work is when a visitor comes the sec
ond time.
Cultivate the newspapers, understand
their viewpoint, and get them to under
stand yours. Cut out the injured tone,
that so many use. Stop knocking and
start boosting Think more about your
daily press is not designed for the regu-
lar congregations, but for those that do
not go. The only shots that count are
those that hit the mark"
Among the recent additions to the
parish organization of the Episcopal
churches is the Young Peoples Christian
Association" which includes both young
men and young women, the work being
planned somewhat along the lines of the
Christian Endeavor Society, the Epworth
League, and similar groupings among the
Protestant denominations.
That denominational bonds are becom-
ing weakened is seen by the vote OF a
large United Brethren Church at Canton,
Ohio, with 500 members, to change its
UNCONVENTIONAL affiliations and become a
Congregational Church. Rev. C. W.
Rickard has been pastor of this church
for ten years. Some years ago there was
movement to unite the Congregational
lists, United Brethren, and Methodist
Protestants, which evidently prepared the
way for the church's action.
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, author of
The Herald'srweekly study of the Sunday
school lesson. is i'll Of typhoid fever, and
the issue of the disease is not yet ap-
parent This news will be received with
sorrow by American Christians for G.
Campbell Morgan is perhaps the best
known among them of any Of the British
preachers.
The Church Peace Union, the one heav-
lily endowed by Andrew Carnegie and
planning next year in spite of the war
to hold a peace conference in London,
has named a committee to see that in
struction on the subject Of peace is given
in the churches, Bible classes and Sun
day schools of this country On the COM
mittee, among others, are Rev. Peter
Ainslie, Disciples of Christ, Baltimore;
Bishop Wilson, Methodist, New York;
Prof. Shailer Mathews, Divinity School,
University of Chicago; Rev. William P.
Merrill, Presbyterian, New York, and
Rev. Charles E. Jefferson Congregational,
New York.
Courses of study on the subject of
peace have been prepared, and it Is an
nounced that 5000 Bible classes have al
ready adopted one of them. Efforts are
now making to induce Bible classes ev5
erywhere to study and discuss the hor%
rors of war and the reasons why there
need be no such horrors. The union CO.
operates with the Federal Council of
Churches.
A new Kentucky institution is the
Farmers ChautauQua and Movable Ag-
ricultural School" The one which was
set up in Jefferson County, chose
Sunday as the opening day, with particu-
10 annhaGfG the OH rr-ffl
addresses by experts and with a modern
and completely equipped Sunday school
going full tilt in the main pavilion. When
one considers that the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, the State De-
partment, and the State university were
all cooperating in this institution, II
rather gives semi-ofiicial sanction to the
importance Of the country church.
Beginning December l and continuing
the BILLY" Sunday campaign
in Philadelphia, $500 group prayer meet
ings in which petitions will be offered
for a great revival, will be conducted in
all parts of that city. In December the
will be held three evenings each
week, and after the campaign opens on
January 3, they will be conducted three
times each week for a half-hour in the
Rev. H. A Musser, secretary Of the
prayer meeting committee of the Sunday
estimates that the city, with
ten times the population of Scranton
should be able TO organize ten times the
number Of Scranton's prayer meetings.
Scranton had 20 groups. The city has
been organized into twenty districts, fol-
lowing the lines used by the PHILADELPHIA
County Sunday School Association. and
prior to November TO- meetings were held