The Washington herald., 1914-10-25
Church Conventions Present
Evidences of Great Progress

erence made to IL by Secretary Bell in
the Survey Of the Field. Mr.. Rowland
was inclined to upbraid the churches for
pouring men and money into distant fields
while giving scant attention to our near
est neighbor. He claimed that the pres
ent catastrophe in Mexico would not have
occurred had our Professionalism in the
last half century made there such efforts
as it has for Turkey, Japan and India,
Secretary Bell told Of the conference on
Mexico held at Cincinnati last July,
where sixteen different mission boards
considered a realignment of the Protest
ant work in that country SO as to secure
greater efficiency.
FUN reports from the convention of
, the Disciples at Atlanta show an increase
in the receipts of the foreign missionary
society for the year Of $4,000, the total
being s464,149. The number of native
helpers on the field is sos and native con-
tributions for missions amounted to ss1ss.
for self-support, $16.1s2.
DR.. L. B. Kline, OF Washington. a
graduate OF George Washington Medical
School, is in charge of a new Bible col
lege and dormitory at Vigan. Philippine
Islands, recently completed at a cost of
$4,000.
The home mission board Of the Disciples
reported a falling OF in receipts Of some
, 81, 0O0, the total income for the year be-
ing $l69.19S42 The Christian Women's
Board of Missions with a financial aim
for the year of S4OO 900, succeeded in Sc
curing 1854 a gain over the previous
year of $1,000 The Disciples ministerial
relief fund also showed a considerable
gain in receipts.
Many changes are making by the Epis-
copal Church in its administrative affairs,
most of them due to growth and more
efficient plans, says the Boston Tran
script. The house of bishops, just meet
ing in special session, have elected new
bishops: For Cuba, Rev. Hiram R. Hulse,
a New York archdeacon; for Spokane.
Rev. DR.. Herman Page, member Of the
famous Page family Of Virginia, and
rector Of a big Chicago parish; for
Nevada. Rev. George c. Hunting, now
secretary for missions of the Pacific
Coast province: and for Utah, in place
of the late Bishop Spaulding, who was
killed by an automobile, Rev. Paul Jones,
of Utah.
Rev. DR.. Walter T. Sumner, the social
service leader Of Chicago. accepts his
election as bishop Of Oregon; Rev. DR..
William Cabell Brown, long connected
with the Brazil mission and the leader
in revision of the Scriptures in Portu-
guSSe, accepts MS elecUOn 10 Ine CO
authorship of Virginia: and II is ex-
pected that Rev. DR.. Paul Matthews, q
son of the late Associate Judge Mat
thews, and dean Of the Cathedral at
Fairbault, will accept his election as
Bishop of New Jersey. A new bishop
for East Carolina, to succeed the late
Bishop Strange, is yet to be elected.
Organized work for religious education,
for social service and for missions has
just been in part overhauled, and in the
first named many advances are making
In different parts Of the country, notably
Chicago and San Francisco. Alabama,
Connecticut, Harrisburg, South Caro-
lima, and Tennessee have under con-
sideration plans for larger administrative
forces, either a division into new dioceses,
with new bishops or additional bishops
to care for work as at present organized
Social service plans are rapidly maturing
in more than twenty dioceses, and
Episcopal laymen are banding together
for better business methods in material
work OF all descriptions.