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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
CHARLES EMORY SMITHS
WIDOW SEEKS TO BE A NUN
Enters East Side Convent as
NOvitiate-TO Devote Her
Life to Poor.

Mrs. Henrietta Nichols Smith. widow
Of Charles Bmory Smith. former Post.
mastor-0enerai and Ambassador TO Russia
and editor Of the Philadelphia Prcss, has
entered the Institute Of Our Lady OF
Christian Doctrine at 17S Cherry street. al
a novitiate preparatory TO taking the veil
as q nun.
Mother Superior Marion Francis said
yesterday that Mrs. Smith had begun the
customary two years Of study and meditS-
ton = few weeks ago She will b pr
United to withdraw AZ the end OF that time
" shs chooses. bu her friends say she has
decided b devote her life TO work among
the poor Of the lower East Side
Mrs. Smith lie the daughter Of DR..
Washington Roma.ns Nichols and . sister
Of Mrs. James Il. Clews OF this city and
Of Mrs. James r. Sullivan Of Phil sdeiphia.
Her mother lives In Bernardsvilie. n. j..
and has q home also at Eiberon. where her
daughter. Miss Henrietta Nichols. was
married to Charles Emory Smith on Oc.
tober .. 1907. Mr.. Smith then lived q,
300s Spruce street. Philadelphia. Mrs
Smith identified herself for many years
with Charitable and religious work and
was prominent In the affairs OF the Associ-
alton Of Catholic Women of America With
Mp. IF Burial Hoffman. the Countess
Leary and the Countess lseiin Her hus-
band died on January 10, 1908.
The Institute Of Our Lady OF ChriStian
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
CHURCHES FOR SALE,
| TOTAL $12,0O0,OOO
Eighteen Big Manhattan Bodies
Bending TO Changed
Conditions.
EMANUEL REFUSES OFFER
First Reformed Episcopal Wants
100000 for It's
Property.
EMANUEL REFUSES OFFET

Another Manhattan church was added
yesterday to the long list Of church build
ines either openly for sale or known to
be considsring changes and receiving Of.
fers for their properties.
Announcement was made ~ the First
Reformed Episcopal Church. Mt Madison
avenue and Fifty NTH street, by the Rev.
w. ID. Stevens. pastor. that It's property
10 in the market AZ 100000. Or. stevens
said that the members are scattered over
the greater city and that . property in
some less expensive neighborhood would
answer as well and would make possible
an endowment.
II became known yesterday that an
offer Of ss.6oo.0oo has Jus, been received
by Temple Emanuel for its property on
Fifth avenue. Just north Of Forty-third
street. A trustee said that the property Is
not on tho market, but that offers for 1t
are frequent. The Rev. DR.. Joseph Silver
man said ne aid not believe IL would ever
Be sold.
The South Reformed Church at Madi-
son avenue and Thirty-eiehth street. the
United Presbyterian Church, in l0sth
street, near Central Park West Ali Souls
Unitarian Church In Fourth avenue and
Twentieth street. and two Disciples Of
Christ churches, one on the West Side and
ore In Harlem. are others which are not
openly In the market. but which. II 10
said. can be bought II the right offers are
made. OF large churches alone eighteen
are known to be In the list.
The total value Of the properties In
volved Is estimated at nearly $4,000. 900.
One OF the men who have spent two
years studying Manhattan conditions In
order to know what to do with the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church said yesterday In
regard to the unprecedented number and
market or to be bought for a round sum
The public must not get the idea that
churches In New York are failing. Mem
bership OF churches increased last year
az rapidly as did the population. and New
York shared in the Increase. II is simply
that the same upheaval is going on with
regard TO church property that Is going on
with regard to commercial property The
building OF subways Is changing business.
A world demand for space OH Manhattan
Island is being met. The same men are
In charge OF churches who are In charge
Of much other Manhattan property. They
In commercial AFFAIRS Thee changes.
unheard OF In any city In the world be-
fore. SO far from showing failure indi-
cate UP TO date efficiency methods-the
changing Of churches TO meet needs OF
| the people. As there have been UNI
dreamed OF changes in manufactures so
there have been In Christian methods
and church visions"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
3 SCH00NERs IN DISTRESS.
Revenue Cutters 90 70 Assistance OF
Disabled Vessels

SoRroLK, Va. Feb. l5--Three revenue
cutters. the Onondaga, the Seminole and
the Pamlico. are helping schooners in
distress tonight on the Atlantic Ocean
and in Pamlico Sound.
The onondaEa picked up the four
masted schooner Mary Il, Palmer tonight
hfty miles south of Cape Henry and liz
now trying TO tow her 10 this port The
Palmer encountered the severe north
west gale which swept the Virginia and
Carolina coast last night and to-day,
She has lost most OF her rigging and Is
reported to have taken In some water.
She carries n crew OF ten.
The Seminole, which went to the as
sistance OF the schooner Bayard, Hopkins
last night sighted the vessel twenty-fi
miles southwest OF Diamond Shoals light
ship. but At last reports had been unable
to get line to her because OF high seas.
The Hopkins had all OF her sails carried
away and lost an anchor. She Is reported
to be leaking slightly, but In no Immediate
danger.
The little schooner Lucretia, ashore of
Middleton. in Pamlico sound ~ss c!c!:rd
up by the Pamlico. Capt. Sewall and
two men. composing her crew, were
rescued after spending some hours in the
rigging. The schooner had lost her rudder
and was almost wstsrloggsd. ..s.s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
INCOMING LINERS
DELAYED BY STORMS
Big Vessels Due Last Saturday
Will Get In To-day or
Tomorrow.

Al .L,.. - -. -, -
s"1p' fo'" .as' anu sou'" aHiV'hs
yesterday Drought tales OF 'rosty tern
pests.
Tho Red Star liner Sanlaud frot, Ant.
war, MA, ,vo a. It, CT. 'r
-. - 20. "'
e'ee' UT BIO" s'orTn OF coInoihat'oHs ="
the three on every one OF the fifteen ta.S
she took for the trip. She passed ca
Thursday, about $50 miles ees. of SANDY
uook .y. est. AVID a,,,,,,. -.
.n.Iv had no., "a, -, ,n'' 80 -
,a 80, -, 80. -, 80 -" ~ -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16

amusement gayety as not inimioal bat
helpful and necessary TO a religious life.
But never were these 80 intertwincd with
seductive worldliness ~ now.
Another cause 10 the prominence Of
scepticism among scientists and In our
great undenOminational universities.
Science Is not hostile to religion When
the father OF botany. Linnsus. could say.
as he saw the exquisite ioveiiness Of an
unfolding orchid: y bowed my head in
worship AS ] bcheld the glory OF God
passing by and as We note the pious
reverence OF an Agassiz. We should not be
influenced by the sceptical scientists; yet
these are those whose views are exploited.
But when the famous ex-president Of
Harvard pronounces definitely against
Christianity. and proposes to substitute
a blind natural life force for the God Of
revelation, We must not wonder II gradua es
Of such universities are indifferent to the
Church.
THE compromise Of the faith by Chris
tian ministers ] take to be vital factor.
Wrote Emerson: All great ages have been
ages OF belief The clergy make a fatal
mistake when they think to nj their de-
pleted pcws by preaching ethics instead OF
religion and indulging In excellent moral
or literary lectures instead of preaching
the great Christian thcmes--the absolute
divinity OF the Virgin born Christ. justin
cation by faith alone, resurrection and
eternal life.
another cause Of religious indiffer-
ence is the failure to insist upon the neces-
sity OF IN. Church. Christianity holds that
Christ founded the Church that through
her word sacraments and worship the
spirit OF piety might have body, a
visible organization. Without the Church
Christianity would long since have ceased
to be. 49, Hallam cOnclusiveiy shows In
his Middle Ages We love and honor the
noble people-wno owe TO the Christian
Church their fine ethical characters--out.
side the Church, but II is simply suicidal
Tor us. therefore. to admit that the Church
10 but incidental. and that Christians and
Christianity can live regardless Of Il.
"Our remedy. then. for the prssen,
somewhat depressing outlook Is not q
pairing down Of Christianity. or a TWEEN.
tieth century church bereft OF the historic
features OF the ono holy Catholic and
Apostolic Church. but "a holding forth OF
the vital doctrines, the supernatural truth
OF Christianity---the divinity, atonemen,
and resurrection OF Christ and the
Church as His visible and working organ
in all their evangelical power.
"And then, A Prof Eucken says in hi
Problem OF Life Transient phases Of
thought are ever under the control Of uni
versal forward forces SO. the dissent ol
the modern period cannot keep reiigio,
from ever recovering iron, its tempor,.r,
depression and making the spiritual III,
OF man richer. deeper and growing iowa n
| the infinite"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
20 RESCUED ON FLAMING BOAT
The Cynthia Was Submerged "a
/ Water Line on Cape Race,

GLOUCESTER, Mass. Feb, i5,--DriftinG
rapidly on Of Cape Race, arame from
stem to stern, the Gloucester fishing
schooner Cynthia Is tonight being rap
idly destroyed. while her captain. An
drew Grimes, and his crew OF nineteen
men are safe after they believed that
death was certain.
The frail little vessel. battling against
"A heavy northeaster. was submerged al
most to the wsterline and was begin
ming to take IN water through her seams,
which opened up. when the Western
Union cable ship Nina sighted tho Stars
and Stripes flying union down. With full
speed the Nina raced toward the sink.
Ing A:he-;uan and succeeded In rys.'u,Ts
the crew. She backed away just AS tho
flames began 10 break out simulsnto usly
from all parts Of the vessel The Gym
thia was owned by sylvanus Smith 4
Co
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
ANOTHER ATTACK ON DIR. ELIOT.
"His FOible IL Omniscience, says
Dishep Cssaler.

ATLANTA, Ca. Feb. l5.-Dr Charles
w. Eliot and his twentieth century re-
ligion' were attacked to-day by Bishop
Warren A. Gambler OF the Southern
Methodist Church. Quoting Sydney
Smith. Bishop Gambler says OF DIR. Eliot.
His forte is science and his foible is
omniscience."
1.-The former president Of Harvard Uni
versity has fallen into this folly in his
old age" says Bishop Gambler. "Evi-
IDENTIFY his judgment Is impaired with the
weight OF his eighty years. DIR. Eliot
In his palmiest days was never qualified
10 pass on theological question. His
studies have never led him in that direc-
ton. He Is IL member OF dying
church. the Unitarian. and his new re-
ligion' will die with his church.
Or. Elio, IL utterly Inconsistent He
belittles the divinity Of Jesus and yet
Dr., Eliot Is what he Is because OF Jesus
Tho church OF Christ will be the one
great force when DR.. Eliot and his
church are dead"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
CHURCH MERGER OPPOSED.
Calvary Baptist Leader Objects q
Usios with Fifth Aveaue,

From a quarter wherein nobody looked
for trouble there came yesterday stout
opposition TO the merger Of Calvary and
Fifth Avenue Baptist churches, two Of
the most famous and the largest Baptist
congregations In America.
Immediately after morning service the
Calvary congregation held "A business
session. Since the Fifth avenue people
are to come TO Calvary. and perhaps
eventually bring 100000 or more with
them, everybody expected Calvary to re-
ceive them gladly. but John d. Marshall.
not an official. but long an active member
Of Calvary, objected on grounds Of Baptist
responsibility to New York and TO the
nation.
When he heard that Mr.. Marshall OBJ
jected To the merger. Frank l.. Froment
OF the Fifth Avenue Church said: Sem
sible man"
Asked II he intended goir K to Calvary.
he replied that he would not. He also
stated that others whom he knew among
the Fifth avenue congregation would not
go. Then he said:
II don't see why the Fifth Avenue
Church should abandon one OF the best
fields for Christian work in New York
and all America. Why should It run
away from It's job? Why should il 20 up
to Ffty-seventh street and help another
organization?''
Mr.. Marshall IT Calvary's meeting yes
terday said: I'm some things union
means strength. In this thing It means
weakness. Five years hence "A combined
church will be no larger than either or
them now"
Trial union services will begin in Cal
vary Church. in Fifty-seventh street, on
Sunday. March !. Practically the entire
Fifth Avenue Church organization will
migrate-pastor, choirmaster, choir, ush-
ers. sexton, Rockefeller Bible class. Young
Women's Bible Glass and Young People 5
Society.
The Fifth Avenue Church will be closed.
but will not be offered for sale, pending
the one year trial OF union services with
Calvary.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
SUNDAY SUFFRAGE MEETINGS
W0w~n's Political Union Res rs
Evening ConvOcatiOus.

The first SUNDAY evening m,errF
the Women's Political Union was held -"
night in the ballroom OF the Hotel McAlp.n
The union meetings heretofore have lec0
held in the afternoon. II IS hup,d IT,,
evening meetings will draw large aVt
more representative audiences
Last nights meeting was the urs' % OBJ
series Of monthly ones and Was In ,srt'-.
Of the Seventeenth Senatorial d!stri,r geo..
mitt"o. Mrs. Harriet StanIu. l,,.
president Of the union. presided. rr. ...
speakers were Beatrice Forbes Ru...
Hale and Max Eastman III, a.tr.
wss large one.
The name OF rhc Rev Dr. Ana. ~f'
WAS loudly chcer,d,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
STATE SUFFRAGE TEA TO-DAY.
1000 VIII Attend Affair ~ B,it.
mOre-Actress<s VIII Pour.

The accommodations of the Hotel Elit.
more VIII be put 10 test this Afternoon
when the 1000 people who have tAa.n
tickets for the New York stat SUI :"
Association tea make their appes
The entire nineteenth floor has bc.rl r-c-
empted. the ballroom to serve e. 70 t7".
atre and the four or five parors -.
rooms. FLORENCE Fleming No,,-. l,.I =
Lopoukowa and Edith Wynn" Mat,u'su1
are included In the programme .ll y
score or two of well known ACTRESSES " u
pour tea, including Lillian Russell. G-ars
George, Blanche Bates Bite Buri.c, Gov.
stance Collier. Dorothy Donnelly Mary
Lawton. Isabel Irving. France S's--.
Laurette Taylor Mabel and Edltg Tai.
ferro and Margaret Wycherly.
The debutante ushers win We" i'r
little Dutch frocks Mrs. Vernon Caste
has made popular
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16

Firsman Dives Through Porthole-
Cut by (su00o.

Jersey shore. sprung a leak OF Edgewater
last night and the captain blew the yes
sells whistle Tor help. The tug Cleary
ran alongside and took on the skipper
and three members OF his crew before
the Canine sank.
Patrick Malone. the fireman. caught In
the engine room by the thrush OF water
dived through a portfolio into the sea.
He was rescued by the Cleary. His
right arm was cut BY glass and he suf-
fered from shock. lie was taken to the
Manhattan shore and thence To the Knick-
er0ocher Hospital. Malone IN - years oid
and lives At i5i East Ninety-seventh
street
isadee st Cdsswstss. .
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16

Harold o. Prentiss came to New York
three years ago from North Adams. Mas,
with his wife and one child. They lived In
a furnished apartment At l27th street and
Lexington avenue. He met Mics Van
Elke at the theatre and became infatuated
with her. His wife tried to get the girl To
10 give ,ssf w few days hsfors he dis
appeared. His wife and the giri's mother
sWpre out warrants for him and the girl
. wesh ago charging him with abdvction
snA hsr With tnonSvigibllity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
Printed - lie Wrote II.

THE SUN is glad to print what Or.
Remensnyder has to say AS he wrote IT,
as follows
1.-The carefully prepared church stats
tics OF the year 1913 do not bear out the
current opinion OF large religious de-
cline
1.-THE net increase Of members, $751;
900, says the ofYical report, is at the rate
nj 20 per cent. decade. or quite equal
70 the phenomenal growth OF the country.
Never. were the churches more active in
home and foreign missions, which show
Q good increase and which are q real test
Of vitality
"Nevertheless. it Is evident to the mos.
indifferent observer that there Is a marked
decrease In church attendance and growth,
In our great cities at least Our young
people, upon whom the future OF Chrit-
tlanity depends, do not have tho strong
people. upon whom the future OF Chris
tian beliefs and the churchgo!ng habits
~ old
I'VE may apply the beautiful words of
Bahrdt In his History OF Professionalism
% the contrast we zee: During almost
the greater part of the seventeenth CEN
fury In all the evangelical countries OF
Germany. from the prince to the beggar
II was thought to be Of paramount neces-
sity TO know In whom one believed and
to walk In accordance with this faith
In the houses Bible and hymn book were
the first and the last, the most faithful
advisers In life, tr.bulatlon and death
In the higher as well as the elementary
schools the confession OF the fathers was
considered as the chief knowledge to be
regular In attending the house Of the LORD
and In coming to tho table OF the Lord
formed part Of the family lives. In short
religion was the ruls of public and domes.
tic life
And this was certainly much more
largely the condition In our own country
surfing the nineteenth century than that
which now confronts us in this twentieth
Change of Esvirsaaeas.
What are the causes OF the decline
One ID the notable change of environment
The great increase IN wealth. the fasci
mating forms OF temptation. the aliurinl
pleasures which now meet youth on ever,
band We fully bslisvs In recreation
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
THEATRE MAN AND GIRL HELD.
II. u. Preatiss Avrestea n Philadel-
phis % Abduction Charge.

PHiLApELPhA. Feb. i5.--Harold o.
Prsntiss. 20 years old. formerly assistant
manager OF Proctor's 125th Street Thea
tire. New York. who disappeared on Janu-
airy ~. the day Wilhelmlna Van Elke, a
seventeen year-old salesgirl, left her home,
sos East 122d street, New York. was ar
rested last night in an apartment house
at Fifteenth and Mount Vernon streets
charged with abduction.
The police say that Premises father
heard that the girls mother had taken
legal steps against him and came here 10
induce her to 20 home. Prentiss was held
without bail BY Magistrate Pennock in the
night court to await ext-adition to New
York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
LOSS TO CHURCHES
GREATEST IN CITIES
Drs. Boynton and Remensnyder
Concede That Things
Are Askew. 80
CALL PROSPECTS BRIGHT
Lutheran Pastor Points TO In.
crease in Wealth, Tempta-
tons and Pleasures.

Two striking interviews with Protestant
clersymen OF national reputation form
the second Of THE SUNS discussions OF
hay.
Below will be found what DR.. Nehemiah
Boynton, Congregationalist, and Or.
Junus r. Renenspy der. Evangelical
Lutheran. think Of the church's situation
Both concede that thinks are asksw In
spite Of figures Of growth In church
membership.
Df. Nehemiah Boynton OF tho Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church In Brook
lyn. moderator OF the assembly OF hig
church IN America. noted for his fearless
ness and optimism In the pulpit admits
The ''high seriousness" Of conditions. but
appeals from the spirit Of the time to The
spirit Of the age and says the church will
go to the front in the near future ~ II
never has done before. This 10 Dr.. Boyn-
IONS summing up for THE SUN:
Prom the standpoint OF tho ideal moth
ng actual can be satisfactory. but from
he STANDPOINT of making good up to the
levei Of our means many unsatisfactory
situations may afford reasonable ground
for respect and appreciation.
The Protestant church grows both In
numbers, which Ia incidental, and Ia
spirit, which is essential.
The high seriousness Of the present
religious situation IL an occasion not 0i
iespair but of buoyant confidence.
when once the appeal II taken from
the spirit OF the time to the spirit Of the
age and the apparent 10 summoned b..
fore the judgment Of the real, then the
tea1 M stsx,.l IN. s,A Nhr
comprehensive situations are disclosed
then one discerns that the prospects OF
religion were never brighter than to-day
and apparent recessions, due to the sur.
prising changes Of the day. are like the
lntermission between the acts necsssary
prosaic. but by no means resctionary The
blay proceeds
THE freedom OF the truth " positive
advance OF Professionalism.
'sTo substitute znathema for argument
% imprison straight facts. to discourage
aeoate is to court the archaic. Modernism
vii have none OF 1t. We know more
though we know little and the fearless
ness with which the truth IL sought and
disclosed Is a testimony no cross-Ques-
uoning can shake Of the progress of the
church.
THE organization of the churches elm
mates much of the rumble and the ros,
which erstwhile was identified with re
ligion. The growth OF civilization may b
measured by the decrease OF noise. W.
10 not hear 80 much about the churches
perhaps, as formerly, but they were neve,
20 well organized or so effectively ad
busted 10 the business Of saving the work
rs to-day.
The projects of the church. both phil
anthropic and missionary. are Launched
to-day upon n constantly increasing seal,
'f expense. OF venture and OF sacrifice.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
rho.sands Invested To-day.

Thousands are invested to-day where
hundreds held the record but u short time
$50. The religious business Of tho church
to-day Is not financial with nickels and
Hines but requires and receives millions
from men Of affairs whose religious sen.
.inent may be at low ebb but whose re-
gious sense inspires them to attempt
great things for God
There II big business trsnsacting In
the religious world to-day.
The attendance upon religious wor.
ship II far from dlscoura9ing. Certainly
The country house and the automobile
have had an influence upon some city
shurches. but II is by no means certain
that the churches throughout the whole
country share the experience Of some city
rhurches Very possibly readjustment OF
services may be necessary to NEE,
changed conditions. but II Is to he evei
remembered that readjustment is very fai
from being occasional.
80 long as men have souls, so long AZ
they bin. suffer struggle, succeed and sue
eumb, go long Will the depths la them de
mand the church. from 1t they may wan
der. but to 1t they will return. TIL,
church is an abiding and an advancing
institution. The world without the houss
Of God every man knows would be intol
srable,
THE past is secure. the present Il
~holesome and prophetic; the best Is ye
b. be-"
DR.. Junius b. Remensnyder. president
Of the General Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in this country and pas
tor OF ST. James's Lutheran Church. a
500 Madison avenue, writes to THE SUN
AS YOU ask me II possible for n fairly
extended statement and as ] value tn,
medium of THE SUN, have stolen tim,
to give you u somewhat elaborate anG
carefully prepared expression. I hope 70,
will not make II incoherent by truncatinl
10 II is the company ] am TO be In tina
invites me"