The Washington herald., 1914-07-12
Current Comment Concerning
Church Men and Measures

byterian preacher. Is exported to have
| expressed himself in a .:=nver paper on
the subject OF Christian unity. His words
are as follows. If l were just beginning
my ministry. instead OF ending it, would
strive to unite all Protestant faiths into
ono great catholic church. united and all
embracing Creeds and dogmas nre reIa-
lively unimpOrtant II does not matter
whether a man believes in foreordination
or immersion or infant baptism. IL he be-
lieves in Jesus Christ he is A Christian
and he should be in the church. and it is a
crime TO keep him out OF the church sim
ply because he refuses TO accept all the
doctrine
The Methodist Episcopal Church. Chi
cago. will build a Sl.6D0.O OoO skyscraper at
Washington and Clark streets, in the
heart Of the downtown business district
The building will be on the site OF the
historic First Methodist Episcopal Church
and will contain a new First Church. a
book store and Offices OF the Methodist
Book Concern. Two hundred thousand
dollars additional will be expended in the
erection OF printing plant in one OF the
manufacturing districts OF the city.
A general movement is under way
among Southern Baptists for the estab-
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pital plant has been built in Dallas. Tex.
Col Slaughter has recently added ssOO.-
90 to its property. second Baptist
hospital is operating at Houston. Tex,
and another is projected for San An
tonic. The Baptist Tri-State Senatorium
at Memphis serves Tennessee, arkansas
and Mississippi Its plant is valued at
10000 Jackson, Miss. has its Bap-
tist Hospital. The Georgia Baptists have
purchased DR.. Broughton's Inirmary-a
plant valued at SljO,-.. \ further move
ment is now on foot to raise 100000 for
a Georgia Baptist Hospital
The First Baptist Church. Chicago,
claims to be a church melting pot of
the first class. The pastor. Rev. Myron
E. Adams. states that in the membership
OF the church. or in some way affiliated
with it, are the representatives of twen-
ty-hve nationalities. They are: Japanese
Chinese. Kore.l, Hindu. Cuban. Negro
Jewish, French. Hungarian. Polish. Swe-
dish. German. Norwegian. American,
Indian, Spanish. Bohemian. English,
Irish, Scotch. Greek. Italian Danish
Dutch. Austrian and American. Out OF
the 269 children enrolled in the kinder
garten there are sixteen nationalities
These children all come from within one
half mile of the church
1t is reported that tentative arrange
ments are being made for the introduc-
ton of a new plan OF ''neighborhood
evangelism into twenty American cities
The plan comes from London. where II
has been tried out. and its supporters de-
clare II means a new era. 1t completely
reverses the city-wide campaign idea used
by the Laymen's Missionary Movement
and the Men and Religion Movement
Instead OF spending much money for
halls, expert workers, and attempting to
reach a whole city, this plan selects
city neighborhoods and holds meetings in
the local churches very largely under the
direction of the workers already regu-
larly on the field. Not merely evangel-
ism in the narrower sense, but all sides
of the work of the Church of Christ are
given a hearing. The result is a far
greater number OF people reached at a
much decreased expense.
A series of questions put to 100 pupils
of public and parochial schools of New
York City brought answers which show
that the average youth knows as little
of many other things he ought to know
as he knows OF the Bible. As reported
in the Survey. of these 100 pupils from
fourteen to sixteen years Of age, ninety
did not know the name Of the mayor Of
their own city, fOrty-eight had never
heard of nor had any clear idea OF what
the governor OF their own state mad TO
do. Seventy-four had never heard OF the
Constitution of the United States. These ,
citizens. who will be OF age
from five to seven years hence. had no
Of the fundamentals Of
Sunday school teachers who
have long had 1t dinned into their ears
that their work is imeamsureably inte-
rior to that of the public schools may
find in these facts some ground for en-