The Washington herald., 1915-08-01
With the Washington Churches

pledge Of $1,000 each. 1t is intended
that the building shall cost $4,000 Gum
furnished), and it is estimated that
for thorough equipment the cost will
be $4,000 more, making a total Of
$4,000. 1t will be interdenominational
in character and will form part of the
teaching equipment of Kwansei Ga
kuhn. Friends and co-workers of DIR.
Hamill, since his death, have decided
that this shall be a memorial to him,
and the building has been planned for
that purpose.
The second Sunday in September
has been designated by number of
organizations as the Day of Prayer
for public schools. In view of the great
number of schools and pupils which
we have in our public school system.
this day assumes large significance. In
1913 over nineteen million children
were listed as attending public schools
of all kinds in the United States. The
elementary grades contained 1900, 900:
the secondary grades. including high
schools and preparatory departments
of higher institutions. contained about
100000, while public universities and
colleges contained about $4,000. In
1912 the average daily attendance was
13,300,00o. which was 73 per cent of
the total enrolment. The total num-
Der of teachers was 547,2S9, and the
estimated value of all public school
property was about s1,26S, 100000.
The Methodist-C ongregationalist
Presbyterian merger in Canada seems
to have gained impetus from the unity
of feeling produced by the war. The
Presbyterian General Assembly re-
Gently favored it 3eS votes to "A. and
the other two denominations are al
ready committed to il. The govern
ing argument for union has been its
necessity in order to Christianize the
population which is streaming into
the vast western domain of Canada.
Westminster Cha pei. London. will
not after all lose the services of the
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. d. D.. who
had resigned. He has been prevailed
upon to withdraw his resignation,
which, it is rumored. had been occa-
stoned not so much by his physical
manage the financial affairs of the
chapel
An intercollegiate Zionists' Associa-
ton of America has been formed at
meeting held at Harvard University.
The object of the organization is to
further the Zionist movement among
HELL SOllCSSo NcIc lcp-
resented. Addresses were made by
Louis D. Brandeis. of Boston. Prof.
Felix Frankfurter. of the Harvard
Law School, DIR. Horace NJ. Kallen, of
the University of Wisconsin. and Prof.
l. Leo Sharfman. of the University of
Michigan.
The cathedral of ST. John. the Di-
vine, Episcopal. has received from a
rnh nf Thnrcb nf tho
ton, New York. the sum of 100000
toward its endowment fund.
In San Francisco workers Of the
Saliva ii On Army met two thousand one
hundred prisoners last year as they
were discharged from the jails and
found employment for over four hun
dred of them.
The Rev. DR.. John F. Goucher. presi
dent emeritus of Goucher College. who
has spent the last ten months travel
ing in China, Korea, Japan and the
returned to his Maryland
home near Baltimore last week.
Since leaving Baltimore last Sep
TENDER DR.. Goucher has travelled ap
proximately 4l,00O miles. Most of his
time was spent in China, where his
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Goucher, is |
engaged in missionary work at the |
Methodist Episcopal Mission in Wuhu. !
Except for his visits with this daugh- |
ter, DR.. Goucher was without the COM
pany Of any member Of his family !
on this trip. His journeys were en-
gagged principally in visiting the mis- !
sion fields of the Eastern countries, |
in many of which his name is indel-
IDLY imprinted through his generous
philanthropies.
DIR. Goucher declared that he could
discover none but the remotest quivers
Of the war during his travels in China
and Japan.
The chief effect of the war observed
by him was a general slackening up
in the contributions of money made
by Christian countries to the foreign
missions. and resultant delay in
The advance of Christian education.
The $4,000 mission institutions of
earning formerly maintained has been
decreased to 5000 This is not en-
-irely due. however, to diminished
financial funds. DIR. Goucher pointed
,ut, but partly to the amalgamation OF
many of the mission schools for the
purpose of efficiency and avoidance of
duplication.
DR.. Goucher's journey, which COW
,red many provinces of China, Japan
md Korea, as well as the Philippines.
vas made for the purposes of for
the work of the American
;ducatio Committee of the Worlds
Missions. formed five years ago at
he Edinburgh World Conference. with
he object of getting al much data as
possible on all institutions of educa-
ion of all Protestant faiths. The re-
ult of the work of this committee, of
which DR.. Goucher is chairman, is an
invaluable supply of information, sys-
ematically filed in New York, which
, available to all who desire it. The
acts as a sort of advisory
,oard. possessing no legislative. ad-
or financial powers, but
,eeping in intimate touch with all
he mission work done by the churches
( the United States. Great Britain and
rance.
THE churches are uniting more and
,ore in their efforts to forward Chris
ian education" said DR.. Goueher.
The problem of the differences Of
'hristian doctrines enters far less into
he institutions than you would be-
Ieve. In one of the universities there,
hiefiy supported by Methodists. Bap- ,
he difference Of doctrines is observed :
) in the theological school. in which
ach of the three doctrines has its
Exponent. That even this is sometimes
onfusing. though, Is shown by the
emark Of one of the Chinese students !
7ho, after getting a peep into the I
hree faiths remarked in puzzled
ray: Some say little washee, some ,
ay much washee and some say no
'ashee at all"