The Washington times., 1914-01-12
CHURCH EDUCATORS
TO MEET TOMORROW
Representatives Of IA Denomi-
nations, With 100000
Communicates, Opens Here.

REPRESENTATIVES of fourteen evangel-
icaI denominations, embracing a con-
stfruency of 100000 in the United
States, will gather at the Raleigh Ho-
tel Tuesday morning for their third an
nual meeting.
This organization is known as the
Council of Church Boards OF Education
in the United States. The Rev. ]. G..
Gebhsrd, secretary of the Reformed
Cku. CHI Board of Education, is pres
ident.
TIE gathering will open at 1880
o'clock with devotions. followed by
greeting from Commissioner P. p. Clax-
ton, of the Federal Bureau of Educa-
ton. DR.. Gebnard will respond. The
session from Il o'clock until the noon
recess will be business session
Addresses by the Rev. Thomas Nichol-
son and the Rev. Richard c. Hughes
will be made at the afternoon session,
anu at 4 o'clock addresses by Henry L.
Smith, of Washington and Lee Uniyer-
sity, and the Rev. z. 8. Capen, of Hart
ford, are sched lled.
Vice President Marshall and Senator
Stcl iInE OF so Ith Dakota will speak at
q night meeting to be held in the First
Congregational Church. The topic will
he Education for Christian America"
White Slave Topic.
Some figures on the white slave traffic
in the United States were submitted
to his congregation by the Rev. C.
Everest Granger, pastor of the Gunton-
Temple Memorial Presbyterian church,
In a sermon Sunday morning.
1T is estimated" he said, that q, 900
girls and women are annually procured
for the white slave traffic in this coun-
Ny-rr hot an
and women are engaged in procuring
and living upon the earnings Of these
unfortunates."
II am inclined to say that this crime
should be placed in a category with
nanslaughter, and there are many here,
/ believe. who would agree with me II
l said 1t should be placed in a class
with murder. 1t should be made a
capital offense."
Congressman Towner OF Iowa and DR..
Wilbur F. Crafts were the principal
speakers at a meeting called at the
First Congregational Church Sunday
afternoon TO discuss the Kenyon red
light" bill. Mr.. Towner spoke of The
effects of similar law recently enacted
In Iowa
Reports on three subjects--An Inter
denomination Propaganda for Chr s.
tian Education" THE Efficiency Move
ment in Education" and An Inter
church Clearing House Within a Uni
versity be made at morning and
afternoon services on the second day.
The speakers will be the Rev. James
F. Clarke, Ralph D. Kyle, the Rev.
Frederick G. Gotwald, Commissioner
Claxton, and Thomas Evans.
Immersed In Worldh1ess.
People are so immersed in worldli-
ness" said the Rev. DR.. John T. Hud-
dle at St Paurs Lutheran Church on
Sunday, that they haven't come to a
realization of what it means to be a
Christian. For decades the motive of
Americans has been to get money; in
the new religion If patriotism, this
must be changed"
The relation of the gospel to radium
was brought out in a sermon by the
Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church Sun
day night. Like radium, the gospel
has been a long time getting to the
knowledge and relief of humanity" he
sGid.
The Rev. John Van SchaIck. jr., pas
tor of the Uniyersalist Church of Our
Father, sharply criticised the recent at
tacks on DR.. Eliot, OF Harvard.
Had the ministers who attacked
President Eliot a week ago, taken the
trouble to read the address, they might
have modified their views" he said.