The Washington herald., 1915-05-23

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The annual Sunday school convention
Of the Baltimore Conference, NJ. e
Church, South. will be held at Shepherds
town, W. Va, June is to IS. The openinl
sermon will be preached on the evening
of Tuesday, June Is, by Rev. II. P. Ham
| i'll. d. D. Dr. George A. Miller, pasto
Of the Ninth Street Christian Church. o
Washington, and one of the leaders il
| adult class work In the National Capital
| VIII speak on the work of the adult de
partment, Tuesday evening. June IL
| There are eight districts in the Balti
! more Conference, containing 20 pastora
charges apd approximately $50 Sunda.
| schools.
The philanthropic committee of tn,
social service department of the Noun
Pleasant Congregational Church recent,
gave a gymnasium party to fifty-on,
children from Neighborhood House. Thil
is the committees last indoor party fol
the season, but from now on at every op
portunity there will be trips into thu
woods and fields. Week vacations to the
coast for ailing or tired mothers will bs
arranged again this year. similar to tn,
very successful excursions carried ou
last summer.
At the annual business meeting OF
Emmanuel Baptist Church encouraging
reports were given by the officers ant
committees of the church and of the
various auxiliary organizations. The
membership OF the church is SO. a ne,
gain of thirty-nine since the annua
meeting in 1914. The financial secretary
has received $5OeLso for current ex.
penses. and a total of sI.s3i1s. The re.
port TO the financial secretary of benev.
olences shows that there was contrib
uted for benevolences $.404.5s The
Woman's Missionary Society raised
s36S.os: the Ladies' Aid. s1.s7e.es: the Y
P. S. c. E., s246.04, and the intermediate
c. E.. so for benevolences.
DR. John r. Mott, who because of his
leadership of the Christian students OF
the world. has exceptional insight into
the minds and hearts of the collegians
says that he has never known a time
during his connection of nearly q quar-
ter of a century with the student move
ment when SO serious a spirit prevailed
in so many institutions, according to the
Congregationalist. He himself has seeil
the good effects of campaigns at a num-
Der of American and Canadian colleges
and at preparatory schools like Exeter.
His associate G. Sherwood Eddy. helped
to lift the moral and spiritual level of
Yale University through his meetings
there several weeks ago. Other interna-
tional committee workers, Rev. r. H.
Edwards and Raymond Robins, of Chi
cago. have been warmly received at the
Indiana State University. At the Uni
versity of Kentucky Arthur Rugh aINl
C. H. Mercer induced 10 young men to
express a purpose to lead a Christian
life, and their meetings were character
lied as without question the most sue
cessful meetings of the kind ever held
there. In the Middle West that success
full worker among collegians. A. ]. FL
lott, has found this past season an uh-
commonly quick response to his appeals.
These are but few illustrations of the
present attitude of college men and wom-
en- toward the things Of the spirit Those
who go about among the colleges, as
well as members of the faculty who
keep at their tasks year in and year out.
and who believe that a part OF their
business as instructors is to arouse and
feed the deeper life of their students.
unite in this cheering diagnosis. It is
but another indication of the world wide
revival expressing itself in many differ
ent ways.
Because this mood of seriousness is so
prevalent there is all the more incentive
and encouragement for parents with
children in school or college. for teach
ers. trustees and alumni to pray and to
work in order that many now wavering
may commit themselves resolutely to the
Christian life, that many whose zeal has
grown cold may consecrate themselves
anew. This opportune and propitious
season may not last forever.
Tho Church Of Iasrro icf IF he Tat
ter Day Saints has made public the
financial report which was submitted to
the annual conference of the Mormon
Church in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, and
which shows that the 1.-THE collections for
1914 were sl.S7,92o OF this sum s731 900
was spent for church buildings. SS31 900
for schools, $4,000 for church temples,
s2Ss, 600 for missionary work. $685. 900 for
the church hospital in Salt Lake City.
$l1s.0o0 for poor relief. and $4,000 for
church offices. The increase OF member
ship from 1901 to 1914 is said to be 12s 900.
Lutherans are reported to feel that
celebrations of the Forthcoming Refor-
nation quadricentennial ought to center
in Washington and New York. says the
Boston Transcript There is some talk
of applying to Congress for a site In
w ashington upon which a erect a Luther
arch. that shall commemorate, not so
much the Luther fame. nor even the be-
ginnings OF religious liberty. but the
start on an era in which Christian edu-
cation. Christian morals. and an open
Bible were parts of awakened lives.
The Lutheran Society Of New York is
considering a plan by which II may
have. until the celebration year is over.
a national scope in so far as helping
Lutherans in other cities to plan cele-
brations, and especially to secure able
speakers, is concerned. The society will
also undertake. in the name Of all
American Lutherans. to invite all other
bodies to unite to celebrate Reformation
Celebrations are to have, II present
plans go through. two parts that are
quite distinct One will be the religious
side. These celebrations will be gotten
up by ministers in different synods 1t
is admitted that. in matters of doctrines,
there are so wide differences among Luz
therans that religious celebrations had
better be left TO ministers of the differ
emit Lutheran bodies This plan had been
agreed upon.
The other and larger part put through
chiefly by laymen. will have the co-op-
Grafton of all, and will be devoted to
civic emphasis. The Reformation start |
ed modern education. especially higher
education. and SO celebrations will have |
emphasis. II started new
civic. new moral, and new social life. |
and SO these are to be emphasized The
present plan Is to invite Christians of all |
bodies to have, in Washington and in \
New York 0reat utr>o< .A~~,