The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

as well as the uniting of the Home
Missionary Society, the Church Building
Society, and the missionary and educa-
tion functions hitherto carried on by the
Congregational Sunday School and Pub
fishing Society in one group. 1t should
be remembered that this was a purely
informal conference and that the COM
mission on missions is still free to make
whatever propositions it deems wise to
the denomination. Its final report will be
eagerly anticipated.
Local Sunday school workers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South will
noon and evening. February 10, in Mount
Vernon Place Church. Rev. II. p. Hamill.
d. D., will preside in the afternoon, when
the program will be as follows: las, de-
votional. Rev. F. ]. Prettyman, d. D.:
? 100, address, An Inventory" w. w.
MILAN; 2:3O. The Teacher Problem -
Rev. F. NJ. Richardson; 2:55, prayer, Rev.
X. L. Fultz; $50 to 400, four conferences.
pastors. officers, and teachers. elementary
, department. by Mrs. c. H. Gray, as fol-
lows: Cradle roll. Mrs. NJ. Z. Morley; be-
Ginners' lesson, Mrs. William r. Potter:
hymn, third-grade primary lesson, Mrs.
II. B. Moulton; temperance lesson, Miss
Esther r. Woodward; temperance song,
Miss Elizabeth Townsend and Miss Mary
NrlBnts SlOTN. MIS- JOTn bd"SOnT So
''Children's Day Opportunities, DR.. A. L.
Howard; 500. benediction, Rev. II. l..
Hout.
In the evening meeting at 40 W. w.
MILAN will preside. The program in
cludes: Devotional. Rev. E. X. Hardin:
music. solo. Mrs. ]. !. Burton; address,
Signs that Never Fail" Mr.. Way; mu-
sic. solo. Miss Emma L. Krehbiel; bene-
diction, Rev. J. ]. Ringer.
For the committee of one hundred from
the Federal Council of Churches Of Christ
the chairman. Bishop Hughes. has ap-
pealed to the churches for support of the
religious work at the PanamaPacifc Ex-
position. He says:
The exposition at San Francisco will
open February % and close December
4. The proposed religious work will be
great feature. What an opportunity for
evangelical Christianity! Forty foreign
nations, together with forty-fOur States
and Territories, will participate in the
exposition. Recently Franco wired for
more space. The attendance will be large.
The conservative estimate Of the eXposi-
tion management puts the estimate at
10 $4,000. During December alone over
$40. 600 persons visited the grounds. The
European war win turn the tide of Amer
lean travel that annually goes to Europe
to San Francisco.
The need for our work increases. Evil
will do its worst. Only such work as our
committee has planned will offset the
work of the evil forces. 1t is therefore
the opportunity of Professionalism TO do
this work, and we should rise to the oc-
casiOn.
The Methodist Foreign Board reports
the very unusual experience, just as il
was about to close its 1914 books. of the
receipt OF IeGacies amounting to $4,000
in value, and coming to it i'll the form
Of invested stocks. The board reported a
gain of $lo 600 for 1914, but its corrected
figures just issued. are 2,000 ahead, the
larger sum including the late arrival Of
the stocks.
The same board reports receipts TO date
of sgOUIO for its European war relief and
an increase on its 1915 budget of 5000 as
compared with the previous year. Meth
odsts have extensive missions in Italy,
the Balkans, Germany. and even in Aus
tria- Hungary. and this war relief fund
is for Methodist missions in Europe. The
board regards the outlook as favorable
at this time and is leading in the new
crusade about to start in South America.
Baltimore Baptists have closed their
simultaneous eVanSelistic campaign con-
hutI'l lOl twenty Two ldAS III LlOIt l4lhil
thirty churches. and report gain of more
than LOO new members and 2lO0 converts.
EvanGclists and gospel singers of the
southern Baptist Home Mission Board
conducted tho campaign. under the di-
rection of Rev. DIR. Weston Bruner and
with the help of the local pastors and
many active committees Of each church.
Gypsy Smith. the famous English
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the Christian Advocate for a sermon for
publication. made the following charac-
teristic and suggestive reply:
Il have never written a sermon in my
life. I think. 1 pray. 1 read. Then 1
speak to heart, conscience, will and brain
of those who will listen, TO win verdict
for God. Preaching to me is nothing un-
less We open blind eyes and turn men
from darkness to light and from Satan
to God. I regret / cannot send the SER
mon you want; my life is so full"
The day Of prayer for colleges in the
institutions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is set this year for Thursday.
February II. 1915. The corresponding sec
retary of the board of education. in his
call addressed TO students, parents, and
pastors. SAYS:
We call upon all Christian students in
purity and to realize the transcendent
opportunity they have to bring their fel-
Iow-students to Christ and to help them
10 develop consistent Christian charac-
ters. We call upon all parents, first. TO
consecrate their children to the Master.
and then to follow them in all the period
of school and college with prayerfuI in
terest for their spiritual welfare and TO
leave nothing undone in the way OF CO.
operation with the authorities of our
Christian colleges which can possibly help
to assure this Christian life and develop
mcnt in our student youth. And We call
upon all our pastors to make this an
earnest subject of prayer. to emphasize
these things in the church prayer meeting
the week before this day of prayer. TO
call attention to these things from their
pulpits on February Z the Sunday before.
and to use every means to bring this
matter before our people"
The twelfth annual convention of the
Religious Education Association will be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, March 3 to Z, 1915.
The general theme of the convention will
be THE Rights of the Child" Among
the well-known speakers at this coming
convention will be Bishop Charles d.
Williams, Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell,
DR.. Henry F. Cope, DR.. Walter Rauschen-
busch, Rabbi Abram Simon, Rev. Charles
Sickle, Prof. Graham Taylor. DR.. George
A. Coe, Dr. William B. Forbush, DR..
Charles F. Thwing and DR.. S. T. Batten.
There will be an important exhibit set
ting forth advanced methods in religious
education. The organization thus states
its purposes: THE threefold purpose of
the Religious Education Association is: