The Washington herald., 1914-12-20

possible use in encouraging. stimulat-
ing, or demanding future governmental
action for the permanent solution OF
the problem;
|. To cooperate with governmental au-
thorities in the establishment and de-
velopment OF public employment agen-
cies by State and city. and with other
relief measures;
To cooperate with business. labor.
and charitable organizations. by means
of special committees. and to prevent
duplication in dealing with the unem-
ployment problem:
To treat the unemployment problem
as u problem of applied religion.
Rev. DIR. Nehemiah Boynton. chair
man of the clerical conference of the
New York Federation OF Churches, is
chairman of the administrative section,
and Rev. Charles Stelzle is the eXecu-
tive secretary.
Good Fruit from Stony Ground" an
illustrated address on rescue work by
Superintendent II. W. Kline, OF the
Gospel Mission, will be given Decem-
Der - at the Dunbarton Avenue Meth
odist Church, for the benefit Of the re-
lief work of the mission.
Five years ago the Gideons, an or
SdHlLdllOu VI Nll Il d
conceived the idea of placing Bibles in
hotels. The idea came from England
where an analogous organization had
been at this work for forty-two years.
though they had distributed only 1900
Bibles in that time. In America. up to
July, 1914, $4,000 Bibles have been
placed in the hotels. 1t is said that
only twenty hoSelkeepers have refused
the Bibles and some of these have aft
erwards asked for the books. The or
ganization claims that only three or
four of the books placed have ever
been stolen. A negro elevator boy,
who stole one of the books, testified on
the witness stand that he took IL be-
cause it was such interesting reading.
1t won't be the fault OF the agencies
concerned II the average foreign mis-
sionary of the future is not better
equipped than the average missionary
of the past. Representatives of forty
three theological seminaries and thir-
ty-one missionary societies conferred
in New York the other day with view
20 standardizing the education of those
who go in our name to the foreign
field. The movement suggested at the
Edinburgh Missionary Conference was
inaugurated by the Foreign Missionary
Conference of North America, which
has asked DIR. Frank X. Sanders to act
as director. 1t will help TO lift the en-
tire level OF missionary achievement.
Emperor YoshihitO has given $2J,-
600 toward the foundation of st. Luke's
International Hospital in Toxic. which
will be conducted under the auspices OF
the Episcopal Mission represented by
Dr. Rudolph Teusler. This is very
unusual act for Japanese emperor
and il is thought will insure the sue
cess OF an enterprise which involves
the raising of half a million of dol
lars. The emperor spoke of his desire
of solidifyinG international under
standing, and mentioned with special
praise the Iabors for peace of President
Wilson.
Fifteen years ago the Norman
Church began a systematic campaign
to make effective their principle of
tithing their members. 1t is now we'll
that a Mormon who does
not tithe is not a good Mormon unless
for a special reason he has been eN-
cused by the church. This organiza-
ton recently erected one of the great
hotels of America at a cost of $4,000
600 and paid for it with one years
tithes. The hierarchy is said to be in
terested heavily in the sugar beet