The Washington herald., 1915-07-04
IN THE REALM OF RELIGION

Richmond. Va; Sacramento, Kansas
City, Lexington, KY; San Francisco,
Des Moines, Nashville, Fresno. Cab; Los
Angeles. Indianapolis. Memphis. Little
Rock. Ark: San Diego. Columbus. Ohio;
Ell Paso. Oklahoma, Fort Worth. Wor-
cester. Mass; Harrisburg, Pa: Scran-
ton. Pa; Binghamton. N. T.; Syracuse.
N. Y. and New York,
Each convention will last two or three
days. some Of them overlapping in date.
No financial appeal is to be made at
any time during the campaign. but the
work Is to be educational along the line
of the main detectives of the Laymen's
Movement, namely:
To consider new world conditions and
Americas enlarged responsibility. To
study the missionary progress of recent
years. To project plans looking toward
the accomplishment of our whole mis-
sionary duty. To emphasize the ade-
quacy of the gospel to meet modern So
cial conditions. To increase the spirit
ual power and efficiency of the local
church. To secure the general use OF
the best methods of missionary education
and finance. To inspire the laymen to
take their part in the extension of the
kingdom of Christ
Many of the best known business and
professional men i'm the country arc
VI CONN SBuoH ColitIilttctS
will be delegates. While men only will
be allowed to register as delegates, wom-
en- as we'll as men will be allowed to at
tend the convention as visitors.
The few observers of Christian condi-
tions venturesome enough just now to go
to England and come back again say the
war is having upon England and Scot
land three visible effects. One is pop
ular wave of enthusiasm for family pray
er. Another is better observance of Sum-
day as a day of rest. And the third is
such measure of cooperation between
Established and Free churches and
churchmen as was not dreamed possible
one year ago. The family prayers cru
SADIE started with well-known Free
Church newspaper, but was at once TAX
en- up by half dozen bishops of the
Established and of the Episcopal Church
of Scotland. Sunday observance was
started by the bishop of London, and
Rev. Dr. Clifford, Rev. DR.. White and
other Free Church leaders took 1t up at
once.
Within the fortnight a great meeting
has been held in London, attended by
Free and Established churchmen in
about equal numbers, and having for
chairman a Free Church layman and tor
principal speaker the archbishop of Can
terbury The subject was family wor-
ship. and the archbishop pointed out that
England on her knees at home can ac-
complish more perhaps than England
fighting in or out of trenches abroad.
1t is reported that national movement
has sprung UP in the churches of Eng
land and Scotland in favor of family
prayers in the home. 1t is said that Free
ano Established church people are inter
ested i'm about equal numbers, and that
speakers are setting out to the provinces
to talk in its favor. The argument IS set
forth that war will help England to re-
turn to practice once common, and still
common in Scotland. Rev. ]. Stuart Hol-
den, known to some extent in this coun-
try, having just assumed the editorship
of a well-known Free Church newspaper
OF London. mentions in his inaugural
announcement these movements toward
family prayer and better Sunday obse-v-
ance now sweeping all religious bodies in
England.
The advance enrolment for the Sum-
mer School of Sunday School Methods,
which will be held at Mortified from
July Il to 50, is unprecedented, being
more than 81 per cent over last year at
this time. The average registration at
the school for the past four years has
increased Al per cent annually. VI the
increase this year over last is the same
as the average for the past four years.
the total registration will reach 1.091. In
any case tine prospects now are for a
much larger school than ever before,
and the school has outnumbered any
similar school in North America and
equaled the enrolment of any other two
or three schools