The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-28

five years. A union budget has recent
ly been agreed upon, and leaders re-
port 1t to be working well.
Methodist circles have been much
agitated about L controversy over
jurisdiction which has arisen between
the Northern and Southern bodies in
the city of Atlanta, Ga. The Northern
Methodists have started to establish
a church in the parish or Southern
congregation. The committee on arbi
tration called the federal council has
declined to assume Jurisdiction in the
matter and give as their reason the
fact that their council had been call
cd into being for the ends of peace
and good will and not for the increase
OF discord.' The incident is regretted
by many large minded people in each
communion on account of it's tendency
to delay the union of the two bodies.
The twelfth annual convention Of the
Religious Education Association will be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, March 81. The
thirty different meetings of the conven-
ton will focus attention on the topic of
The Rights of the Child" About 100
papers and addresses will discuss the
place of <the child in the family, the
churches. the state, the schools and the
ting the child for the needs of modern
life.
These conventions constitute one of the
notable features Of modern religious and
educational life. The speakers include
leading representatives. of practically ali
the different religious communions and
of the different types of schools and col
leges. Usually the speakers come from
many parts of the world, as the organ
Al + ,-s -. ,I.ar
ship and field. but the war prevents
many foreign speakers from being in at
tendance Some of the notable persons
who will participate are Bishops VIII
liams and Mcconnell. President John T.
Finley. Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, DR..
Walter Rauschenbusch Charles T. Stel-
zle. Hon. Philander p Claxton, Rabbi
Abram Simon. Mrs. Ella Lyman Cabot.
Graham Taylor and President Charles F.
Thwing.
The association recently adopted the
policy Of alternating types Of conven-
ton. The one held last year was OF the
specialized type" consisting OF reports
and conferences on higher education; the
one at Buffalo will be of the popular
type" with large public meetings, IN ad-
dition to the many conferences and re-
ports OF special commissions.
\ Jewish home mission society is a
new venture. The Union of American
Hebrew congregations. made up OF about
20 reform synagOgues, has organized a
synagogue and religious school extern
sion society. and fixed upon Cincinnati
as headquarters, where is located He
brew Union Seminary. The secretary Of
it is Rabbi George Zetin. year ago
the first step was taken in the form of
q ,ry,iyt .a.a Hayht cd o
the year in founding twenty new syna-
gogues. Out of its temporary work has
grown the new society.
The union has in II a very few Ortho-
doN congregations. although Orthodox
Jews have a similar extension work. A
difference between the old and the new
is that the new. now just formed. has in
it laymen as We'll as rabbis. \ commit
tee on cooperation between rabbis and
laynnen has been named, and it Is plan
ned that the two work separately but
cooperate on general work. It Is the
up to-date plan OF both the official and
the unofficial
The new society will aim in particular
to establish Jewish congregations in
small towns, usually those near to large
cities. and into which Jews are going in
increasing numbers. The vicinities of
New York. Boston, Baltimore. Pitts
CINCINNATI, New
st. Louis and Chicago are to be given
first attention. Plans are also being con- |
sidered for large extension work in
Texas.
In Canada the lesson of var times |
is being used as an argument for intro |
ducing some of the aggressive spirit of
the combatants into the campaign OF the |
church against apathy and stagnation,"
says The Churchman. It continues:
The new challenge placed before |
church leaders today is TO place the
Canadian church on war footing for
the sake of the worlds peace. The state i
protects itself against disun9on, for dis |
union would spell defeat. Its whole pur-
pose represents singIeness Of aim in Sc ]
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