The Washington herald., 1914-08-02

noticeably double that Of the previous
| year. At the same time the number of
churches reported as at an entire stand
/ still is entered as over 1900 The aver
Il age salary Of the Congregational minis
ter has reached sg70 The problem OF
church work among people OF other
tongues" shows an emphasis in the Con-
gregational statistics. The denomination
has S65 churches distributed among nine
1 teen different nationallties. South Da-
kota has IS; Nebraska and Ohio. each
30; Connecticut, IS; Hawaii, "a: Minnesota.
| and North Dakota. each p: Washington
q; Colorado, Is; Massachusetts and ILL.,
nois, each 10; New York, Is; PennsylA
vanis- 9. and so on down through thirty
| two States. The German churches pre-
ponderate. with l54 churches. Swedish, IS:
Welsh, q; Japanese, p; Indian. H. etc.
| While the foreign element in New Eng
land is so rapidly increasing. the West
ern States also appear to have a like
| problem.
Chicago University is now rivaling
Harvard in drawing UNCONVENTIONAL d.
vinity schools into cooperative afilia-
tion." says the Outlook. in editorial COM
ment on the consolidation Of Chicago
| Theological Seminary-a Congregational
school-with the University Divinity
School. which afiliation has already been
referred to in this column.
The circular OF the divinity school al
ready includes about 80 separate courses
With the accession Of the seminary II
will be possible to carry to immediate
execution the plans already formed for
Graduate School of Religion and
Ethics'-a new thing in this country-for
graduates OF theological seminaries. This
will offer to men Of unusual ability. COM
petent for highly specialized work in
! some field of religious activity. courses
leading to the Ph. D. degree Courses
of a more vocational character will be
open to men aiming at high vocational
efficiency in the pastorate or the foreign
missionary field. The University Divinity
| School is now q favorite with mission
| aries as q resort for study while on fur
Tough.
The faculties OF these two institutions
stand in the front TX OF scholars. The
|
| a noteworthy supply OF professors to
many UNCONVENTIONAL seminaries. The
Chicago Theological Seminary, with its
distinguished teaching force. will derive
| as well as impart fresh vigor In a wide
range of varied activities-the schools
| three journals in the fields Of theological
Biblical and Semitic study: its cor
respondence course, in which several
thousand are enrolled; its complete series
of textbooks for Sunday schools: the
4 work Of its students among the Chicago
churches, and its work in connection with
the Chicago Commons and the Jniver-
sity Of Chicago Settlement. Other SEM
inaries are not unlikely to fall in. sooner
or later, with this marked tendency of
our time exhibited at Chicago and other
| such centers in the United States and
| Canada. Religious leadership demands
that the resources Of frst-class univer-
stiles be accessible to men In training
for it,
Edward Percy Gates, who with Mrs
| Gates, is now visiting his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Gates.
Is former Washington boy whose friends
are watching with great satisfaction his
| successes in Christian work. AS a Gen.
trail High School boy. a graduate of
! George Washington Law School, an ac-
tive member of Temple and later Of I'm
| manuel Baptist churches, and Sunday
school worker in the latter and as presi-
dent Of the District of Columbia Christian
Endeavor Union. Mr. Gates became wide
" known to washingtonians who were
especially attracted by his skill as a pub
| lie speaker and debater.
In 1910 Mr.. Gates accepted the offer
OF the Illinois Christian Endeavor Union
and became Christian Endeavor field Sec
retary for that State. To this position
| the State convention at Peoria has just
| reelected Mr.. Gates for the fourth year
Reports made Of the States work for
the past two years showed thirty-four
new county unions and twenty-five city
unions organized: the state paper. Chris
| tian Progress, of which Mr.. Gates Is
editor. has grown in circulation from 800
| to 5000; "Go-to-church Sunday" the
''Help-our-church' campaign, and a
Statewide fight against the saloon were
among the movements started during the
term.
Mr.. Gates is chairman Of the Worlds
| Christian Endeavor convention promotion
committee which is already organized and
engaged in distributing literature con-
cerning the convention to be held in Chi
cago, July T-12. 1915
The trustees Of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor. including DR.. Sam
uel II. woodrow. DR.. Floyd Tompkins
and other churchmen well known in
WASHINGTON, in session at Sycamore
Beach, Mass, in July, devoted parts of
| two days to the work of the field secre-
taries. OF one Of these sessions the Chris
tian Endeavor World says: TN outline
addresses the field secretaries demon
strated how they presented the efficiency
! campaign" and how IN general they ap-
proach Christian Endeavor audience
E. P. Gates, OF Chicago, and R. A
Walker. Of Indiana gave a dialogue
which they often present at conventions
In an irresistibly amusing way Mr.
Gates shows his companion the value of
the efficiency chart and arouses his in
terest in the scheme. So realistic was
the scene that Mr.. Gates and Mr. Walk
er had to repeat It in a public meeting
in the evening"
Experts have figured that Ecuador. by
the application of scientific methods