The Washington herald., 1915-01-24

| OF Home Missions. Will give a. this
meeting an illustrated lecture on The
! White Mans Book and the Indian" :"
| The sessions are open 10 all women
| interested in missions.
I The Christian Endeavor Union has
| prepared and given out this week TO
| the officers and visiting members OF
! The unions extension department a
! report sheet" on which will be gath
| cred complete informa tion concerning
! the condition of the societies of the
! city. The purpose is to enable the
/ union 10 give efficient aid to the diff
, ferent organization where it is most
I needed The blank was devised by J.
q G. Graham. superintendent OF the eX-
tension department, assisted by =. E.
Medium. vice president Of. the union.
; The following officers OF Shiloh Baptist
/ Church for 1915 were installed last week:
+ Trustees. James r. Moss, James A.
! Payne. Frank s. Reid, jr, A. a Poole,
: William +. Smith. and Minor Williams:
! finance Comittee. ]. r. Moss. Arthur r.
! Brown. T. \. Banks. q. a. Pinn. and
. Elmer COlsOn, treasurer. Thornton Lewis;
clerks William II. Scott, Miss Maria
! Morgan, and 4. F. Brown: auditing COM
mitteN. J. ". Williams. John E. Harris.
! and George ". Milford; treasurer of
7 l'tlleNO4tlttr NndIltS neaQ USneT,
Minor Williams. Officers of the Sunday
| school; Superintendent. Miss Mary Z.
! Roy: assistant superintendent John A
! Fisher; secretary, Miss Rosa johnson; as
! sistant secretary. Miss Viola Davis; treas
/ urer, John A. Miles: pianist Mrs Mary
| J. Tignor: assistant pianist, Miss Fannie
| Butler; chorister, Albert D. Gilmore; as
! sistant chorister. Mrs. Mary Kinslow:
! superintendent for visitors. Madames
7 I v,Tr-
I tendent primary department, Misses Alice
and Josephine Carroll; pianist, Miss Eva
/ Pitts; Librarians, George Ross and Henry
I Lewis. The new officers of the Christian
/ EndeavOr Society are: Frank s. Reid jr.,
| president; Mrs Mary z. Overton. vice
| president: Miss Eva Pitts recording sec
retary; John D. Fisher. treasurer: John
| \. Miles. corresponding secretary. and
Mrs. Mary F. Roye, pianist.
Il have just held the annual meeting
~ our Russia mission" writes DR..
George A. SimUns, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. from Petrograd.
We had a blessed session which. like
Gaul, was divided into three parts: the
first Gay in one village. the second day
in another, and the third day in our
/ Methodist headquarters. Ten breth-
rem and oar head deaconess were pres
ent al this itineratinG dinner party. I
doubt if any other conference in world
wide MethOdism was ever held in this
way. The official designation OF our
gathering was Annual Prayer Meeting
Of Methodist Preachers That word
. Conference is regarded as a mischie-
yous term, and had to be Stunned OF
course. the Methodist preachers in Rus
sia attend more than one prayer meet
ing n year.
In spite of trying war times, our
bencvOlences amounted TO 5000. We
are glad to report that our eight prop
critics are still intact"
\ conference Of Univcrsalist ministers
was held in Chicago recently and plans
were laid for a campaign Of evangelism
for their denomination in the Middle
West. A slogan was adopted, ''Cniver-
salism Is the church that put the smile
into religion" In the days gone by the
I niverSalist church has been inclined TO
discount evangelism. but lately there is
z n awakening interest In this phase of
the work of the church. Five hundred
new members were indUcted into the New
York churches last year through evan
=clistic effort. Rev. II. L. Haywood. who
l. pastor Of the Jniversalist church of
Webster city. Iowa. defined the program
Of tho movement. lie said: The doc
frinc Of tho now J-niversalism is to make
happiness. culture and freedom from pow
"rtv universal In proportion as we
preach the gospel and lift up Christ Tni-
vorSalism will grow. Some say that t'ni-
versalism cuts the nerve Of missionary
effort. ! say that it is the very essence
Of missions and no true Jniversalist will
rest until the last man in all OF the world
Is saved"
1t was recently noted that Rev. Charles
u -. Il
Of relieving unemployment in Now York
under the Federation Of Churches. Fol-
lowing this is the announcement that
Mayor Mitchers civic committee on un-
employment has engaged him its
executive director for relief and emer-
scncv measures" The chairman OF the
mayors committee is Judge Elbert II.
Gary. with whom is associated number
Of the leading men of New York. Mr..
StelzLe has accepted the new duties on
condition that they shall not be made to
interfere with his work with the Fedora
ton of Churches.
Archbishop ireland. the well known
Roman Catholic ecCIeSiastic of St. Paul. |
MINI. is being freely mentioned as a
candidate for the rcd hat the next meet
ing OF the cousistory in Rome. His
friends suggested him frequently for this
honor during tho lifetime OF the late
Pope. Plus y. but he was not appointed.
There are reasons 10 believe the ap-
Dointmcmt will be made by the new
Pope
Disciples Of Christ have discovered and
entered upon wholly new mission field.
one in which conditions are such that
American missionaries cannot be sent
to work Il. Disciples claim that in some
European States. notably Russia Poland, !
the balkans. Austria-Hungary, and Ger
many. millions OF Christian people have
broken away from State churches, more
or less openly. In Russia alone il is
claimed. there arc 20,O90 of such people |
These Christians are accorded the right |
to assemble fuv worship if they do so
not too openly. Their position In 1910 is
not unlike that OF certain Christians in
Scotland a few centuries ago.
Disciples believe that these Christians !
do not want American denominationaI- |
ism. but prefer to I've left alone with their |
Bibles 10 work out their own organiZa- |
uons. Missionaries may not be sent from
America. because to do so would cause
offcnsc. Evangelism is desired. but most
Of these peoples are, well supplied with !
evansclists- Socialism is breeding in |
many quarters, due. il is claimed, TO 4 |
suppression of religious fervor.
A disciples commission on foreign rela- |
tons has been formed. and an office has
been opened in New York to gain finan- |
cial support from disciples and others |
in America who may be interested in /
this new missionary proposition. to help |
make possible natural and loyal de-