The Washington herald., 1915-01-31
What Church People
Are Saying and Doing

Rev Dr. G. c. F. Bratenahl, Mis-
sionary Secretary of the Province OF
Washington, Protestant Episcopal
Church, has sent out from his head
quarters in Washington the past week
his final report as secretary of the
Missionary Council of the Third De-
partment, together with the call Of the
standing committee on missions of the
recently organized province of Wash
ington. comprising the States of Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, and West Virginia, and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Setting forth the greater need be-
cause of the inability of the churches
of the warning nations of Europe to
keep up their contributions to work
heretofore supported by them, the
committee in its call for 1915 urges
the desirability of securing as this
years Offering the sum of S1,OO0,OOO,
or double the amount given during
the previous missionary year.
AS to means for reaching the total
asked for 1915 it is pointed out that
a 2-cent postage stamp given each
day by each of the 100000 communi-
cants of the province would total
100000 within the year. The power
of small sums given systematically is
presented and each diocese is asked
TO work out a plan for bringing the
matter into every home by personal
visitation of interested workers.
Asked concerning the work being
done by the local churches-members
of the diocese of Washington-Dr.
the woodward Building near that
used for the general work of the
Province of Washington, and there
pointed out a door marked, Central
Missionary Committee of the Diocese
If Washington" Here is evidence, -
he said, ''of the activity of the splen-
did local committee. This room is
rented and used for their meetings.
And they are reporting encouraging
progress"
The motto of the Washington COM
mittee is Efficient Christianity, and
their plan to make every man, wom-
an and child a systematic subscriber
TO parish and missions" The members
of the committee are the bishop of
Washington, president; Admiral
charles H Stockton, vice president;
Byron s. Adams. secretary; Rev.
Charles +. Buck, DR.. Charles DiedeL
and William Waller.
In preparation for the celebration
on Sunday, February Il, of 100 years
Of peace between the two great Eng
speaking nations, Rev. DR.. II. h.
carroll, of Washington, chairman of
the Peace Centenary committee of
The Federal Council of the Churches
Of Christ in America, is sending to
5J.Vc0 pastors of churches eXtrats
from THE British Empire and the
United States" by william Archibald
DunninE. reviewing the relations be
tween the two countries during the
century of peace following the Treaty
of Ghent.
The officers of the centenary COM
mittee thus state the purpose of the
UbservanCeS:
Peace has its lessons more potent
than war, and never were they more
prominent than now. Europe, insist
ing that peace could only be insured
by great armies and armaments, IS
suddenly. in its preparedness, plunged
into the greatest war of history and
has broken boundaries and broken
peace to show for its faith in the
sword The United States, trusting in
international law and good will, pre-
serves inviolate it's defenseless from
tier of nearly 1000 miles for hun
dred years. There are no better
ueiGhbOrs than the Canadians and
ourselves.
rs not this the moment to point
to war as an unmitigated curse and
an unnecessary and barbarous expe-
dent? It is manglinE and destroying
the flower of Europe's manhood,
breaking up homes, razing cities, raw