The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-25
IN THE REALM OF RELIGION

speakers and teachers a. on previous
years becaue OF the war. according to thu
Boston Transcript All English and Scotch
missionary societies report their work
bers being at the front, and therefore
unable to send any men or women t.
American conferences. These societies
report that their own summer work will
be crippled for lack of speakers. At the
same time American conferences lool
for far larger numbers in attendance
this season because few can 60 abroad
and because many will be travelling
across the continent and may be In
duced to stop at summer conference re-
sorts.
Conferences in charge Of the missionar,
education. movement start this year al
Blue Ridge, North Carolina. on June
g.. take in Silver Bay. on Lake George
July SIS. and conclude at Ocean Park
Me. July 2-3o. Another series begins
IN California July ., transfers to Estes
Park, Colo, July 1915, and concludes
at Lake Geneva. Wis. August SIS. A,
all OF these conferences church efficiency
is to be presented, this year with great.
or, prominence than ever.
American speakers and teachers drawn
upon for these conferences this year
| some of them for the first time, and to
ers, include Bishop Nelson, of Georgia
Prof. r. E. Gaines. Of Richmond Col
| lege; Bishop Rhinelander. Of Pennsyl-
vania; Rev. Arthur J. Brown. of the
Presbyterian foreign board. and Bishop
Stuntz. Of the Methodist church, sta
| toned at Buenos Aires.
Rev. q. Campbell Morgan, OF West
minister Chapel, London, has just cabled
to W. r. Moody. SOM Of Dwight L.
Moody. the evangelist. his acceptance oil
an invitation to be ono Of the speakers
| at the General Conference for Christian
Workers at Mortified, July 3o-Augus,
10. Owing to q severe attack Of typhoid
fever DR.. Morgan was compelled to
abandon his proposed visit to India and
| the far East in October, but on the
first Of March he was able to resume his
pastoral duties in Westminster Chapel
The announcement OF his visit to Amer
lea this summer will be welcomed by
q large circle Of friends. 1t was In
Mortified nineteen years ago that DR..
Morgan first became known to the
Christian public Of America.
Along with this announcement Mr..
Moody also has given out the program
Of the thirty-third season Of the North
field conferences. Contrary to the usual
ence will this year precede that Of the
students. coming June 1913. The dates
for the Student Conference are June 20
July 4. 1t is expected that the attend
ance at each of the other July confer
ences will exceed that Of 1914 which was
the largest of any July. The dates for
these are: Summer School for Woman s
Foreign Missionary Societies. July Sis;
Home Missionary Summer School. July
1873; Summer School for Sunday School
Workers. July 17-24; Sunday School Field
Workers Conference, July A-30. The
General Conference for Christian Work
ers comes July 3-August 1b.
Among the teachers and speakers al
ready secured for the coming summer
are: Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin. Right
Rev. Arthur s. Lloyd. DR.. John r. Mott.
Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, Rev. G. A.
johnson Ross, Nolan Rice Best, and
George Sherwood Eddy, New York City;
Prof. Charles r. Erdman. Princeton. n.
J.; Rev. A. T. Robertson. Louisville.
KY; Rev. William Evans and Raymond
Robbins. Chicago; Rev. John r. Davies.
Philadelphia; Rev. Charles Cecil and
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan and Rev.
Charles Inslis. London, England: Rev.
Charles r. Brown, New Haven. Conn;
Rev. W. d. Mackenzie and Rev. john
Douglas Adam. Hartford. Conn; Rev.
II. E. Fosdick, Montclair, n. J.: Miss
Margaret Slettery. Fitchburg; Misses
Martha X. Lawson. Mamie Lee Frayser.
Laura White and Mrs. Helen Barrett
Montgomery. Rochester. N. T.. and Miss
Emily S. Strong. Pittsburgh. Pa
Two hundred thousand children in
American Sunday schools, for the most
part Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap-
tist, UP to April /, had contributed a
nickel each to buy a New Testament to
send to men in trenches and on battle
ships in European wars. The plan Is in
charge of the Worlds Sunday School
Association. and contemplates similar ac-
ton by one million children, furnishing
one million nickels to buy one million New
Testaments for one million enlisted men.
In q very short time a fifth of the stint
has been accomplished.
Within the week the $4,000 20 contrib
uted has been forwarded by the Ameri-
can Bible Society to various nations en-
gagged in the wars. In these. countries are
Bible societies or agencieG The money
sent to these societies is invested In New
Testaments printed in the languages that
enlisted men spesA A portion of this
first $4,000 OF American money has gone
to almost every nation now at war, and
by arrangement with Bible distributors,
every soldier speaking any language is
to be served with q New Testament in
his own tongue.
Scotch. British. and French societies
have already furnished thousands o. such
New festaments. Usually those 80 fur
nished contain also the Psalms. An ex-
ceIlent book, bound in cloth and we'll
printed, Is provided for the nickel. In
side the front cover Of Testaments SO
furnished Is placed q statement giving
fact that tho book came from an Ameri-
can Sunday school boy or girl.
the Arch Diocesan Union of the Holy
Name Society of the Sec Of Baltimore
and . part of Virginia have been COM
pleted. and tho local committee are san
guine that it will be the most suspicious
held since the society was formed In
the diocese.
President NJ. d. schaefer Of the union
has been personally directing the ar
of affairs. aided by the local
committee.
Tho convention will be opened with al
solemn high mass at st. Mary's Church
on 8 street, when Right Rev. Bishop o.
B. Corrigan, coadjutor to Cardinal Glib
bons. will occupy the throne inside the
sanctuary and direct the service. Thel
celebrant Of the mass win be Rev. Faith
er Wheeler. of the Holy Comforter
while Father Leopad Ripple. Of
Baltimore, and Father Otterbein. Of st.
Mary's. will be deacon and subdeacon.