The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-15

have a mechanic who looks 1t over and
fixes II. Now, a man is much more i'm
portant to Mr.. Ford. He wants to see
that each man has every possible OPP
portunity Of lettering himself"
Rev. Robert S. Macarthur. who re-
Gently resigned the acting pastorate Of
the First Church. Baltimore, after
eighteen months of service, hopes to go
to England in September in the interest
Of the Baptist World Alliance.
AS to DIR. MacArthurs future the
Watchman-Examiner says: During his
remaining years. and We hope that they
may be many. DR.. Macarthur ought to
be heard in all the cities of our land As
president of the Baptist World Alliance
he has right to speak for the Baptists.
and he can do it as few men can. What
a blessing would result if in all our
larger cities the Baptists would arrange
for series of three or five lectures by
DR.. Macarthur on some such subject as
The Past. the Present. and the Future
of the Baptists.'
Rev. Thomas ]. Cross. Atlantic City,
occasionally offers a certain number of
boys and girls an educational trip to
Philadelphia for the best synopses of
his Sunday sermon. The successful con-
testants are taken to Philadelphia by the
pastor. who with them makes visits at
points of historical interest.
Rev. Lemon L. Uhl. of the General
synod branch of the Lutheran Church
who has been in this country for a little
over two years on a vacation sailed re-
Gently en- route to Guntur. Madras Presi-
dency. India. where he has spent forty
two and onehalf. years as a teacher and
evangelist under the auspices of his
church. The vacation which Mr.. Uhl has
just closed is only his third in the over
forty-two years of his missionary service
Under present arrangements he will be
entitled TO another vacation in seven
years (f not earlier). when he will il
living, have attained the age of 10.
MIR. Uhl has very positive ideas con-
corning the attitude of the people of
India in the present world upheaval. He
dstrusts all reports of any uprising of
Mohammedans against the English, say
ing that the Mohammedans of the Ma
dras Presidency. q section of India hav-
ing 100000 inhabitants, are outnum-
bered four to one by the Hindus. and
have been treated so well by the English
IN the matter of representation in coun-
ellis and in other ways that they are very
loyal Their religion leads them to at
tribute divine qualities to their human
ruler and they recognize King George as
something more to them than a king.
Dr. E NJ. Gallaudet son of Rev.
Thomas H. Gallaudet and founder of
Gallaudet College, this city. gives an
the Congregationalist the history of
The Gallaudet statue at Kendall Green:
The satatue of Rev. Thomas Hop
kins Gallaudet. LID, was erected on
the grounds of Gallaudet College in
the year 1889, to commemorate the |
lets birth and to honor him as the !
founder of the education of the deaf
n America.
The statue represents Dr. Gallau- |
let as teaching a deaf child the man.
lal alpha bet, and records an incident |
which led him to undertake the es-
adjustment of a school for deaf chill
iren.
DIR. Gallaudet visited Europe for the
purpose of fitting himself to teach the
leaf. and organized the Hartford |
school for that class of persons in
America
Gallaudet College at Washington. so
FAMED in honor of Dr. Gallaudet, is
he only college in the world for the
leaf. and was organized fifty years
go by son of DR.. Gallaudet.
The statue, by Daniel Chester
french, is regarded as one of the fin
st public memorials in the capital
rom an artistic point of view.
The cost of the statue was borne by
he deaf people of the United States,
having come from every
tate and territory of the country. in
luding Alaska.
DR.. Gallaudet was principal of the
Hartford School for fourteen years, re-
igning on account of impaired health.
lie was invited to organize and take
barge of the first school for the blind
n the country. He was interestd in
he establishment of the first normal
chool. and was offered the princi-
alship.
Several professorships in colleges
rere rendered him, but he declined
hem all. and for several years devoted
imself to the preparation of books for
ne young. Many of these had wide
REGULATION and were translated into
he language of Europe and Asia. no
a bly, one entitled The Child's Book
n the Soul
DR.. Gallaudet was the first to con-
uct religious services for the insane,
nd the last fourteen years of his life
e was the chaplain of the Retreat
Or the Insane in Hartford, Conn. The
lperintendent of the Retreat at the
me Dr. Ganaudet was chaplain has
.stified to the great value of his serv-
.es from curative point of view.
Swedenborgians of the world are to
ave a religious home in a cathedral
ow building at Bryn Tthyn. near
1t is to contain only
aterials fashioned by hand, and will
,st almost 100000 Estimates place e
$ completion at least two years
ence.
In dedications of s.ss1 Episcopal
lurches in America. names of apos- -.
es and evangelists have been used
s45 times. according to compilation
ade by the Living Church. Next in
der of frequency are dedications to
I'D the Son. zoos. "and TO Our Lords
fe. 76l. The names used more than
o times are:
St. John, sos: st. Paul. 554; Christ. a
8; Trinity, Az; Grace. 40: st. James, .
8; St Andrew. 256: st. Luke. 254; st. $
ark. $50: st. Mary, EOS; All Saints, IL
=; ST. Peter. 1913: st. Stephen. 1872;
BOD Shepherd. Isl; Emmanuel (Im- II
anueD, 13S, and St. Thomas, 49,. II
Louis H. Levin, secretary of the Fed cl
ated Jewish Charities, has returned o.
Baltimore after a four months abb
nee devoted to conducting the Jewish Il
lief ship TO Palestine and then or S,
MIXING its systematic distribution in Il
e country among the famine q
ricken Jews. m
DR.. Levin brings a vivid mental pic
re of the blight that has swept over h
Llestine, first through the misery n
used by the shutting down Of most Iii
dustries on account of the war, and II
en- the, additional trouble which. in 50