The Washington herald., 1915-03-14

thank Offering last year and is asking
for $1,000 in 1915.
The new chapel car. ST. Paul. de
signed exclusively for the mission
work of the Catholics in the South. il
to be dedicated today in New Orleans
by Cardinal Gibbons. who is making
his annual visit TO that city. After
the dedication the car will start on 81
tour of the South.
! \ portrait Of Christ called Tho
Master" by tho American artist. Oar
Jus cobb. OF Boston. was exhibited "A;
Noun; Pleasant congregational Church
ON Tuesday evening. Mi. cobb spent
forty !cars on this portrait. which has
startled and deeply impressed New
/ En2 land art observers and is now on
its way to tho Pscifi.' Coast. Mr.. Cobb,
tn. artist. and MIR. CraIhrrn Spok" III
Interpretation OF the picture.
When | was q young man ! deter
mined /" paint a Christ before / died.
the artist declared. AT 20 my twin
brother and I were introduced in Bos-
ton and We might have taken thing
easy. But ] knew that ] could not
paint a Christ out of life OF ease, and
| resolved that if my life should be
spared that | would complete the pic
ture when I was between 20 and 81
years old: that is. after | had had eS-
pericnce and had known adversely. My
brother and l went to war and 1 then
with PRAYER and Suppliration deter
mined /" paint In" Christ even II my
legs aud arms Were shot on.
'ThirIy-f wears ago I was asked
to paint the Christ. but ] realized that
II had not had enough experience.
did. however. paint Christ Before
Plate and eight years ago ] painted
i'Christ Sitting the Tempest The
Master was begun thirty years ago
and was completed last year"
The interdenominational committee
Of twenty eight has provided a new
set Of mission study books for the
coming year. The watchword select ed
by the committee for 1@lJ-16 is The
Church and In. Nations-Thy King
dom Come. Thy Will b. Done on
Earth" The individual books in the
"our.+" which are 10 nc published May
u are as follows: The Rising
'Ihulchcs " Asia aud Africa by A. }
Brown. T.. u. Of the Presbyterian
beard Of foreign mission; Tho Church
and IT. Task in America. by Z. L.
! " hit". II. D.. Of tn" Baptist board OF
, nom. missions: The Kings Highway
10! Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery
Home Missions in Action" by Mrs
John Allen. The committee is already
formulating plans for the year 1aI6-17
Tia" general subject for that year will
be The Two Americas" This is made
opportune because of the proposed
: I4Htin-AmeTica mission conference al
Panama. and Of the new attention
turned toward Mexico and Central and
South America by the Mexican trou-
; hles, the opening of tn" Panama Ca
nal. and the new relations created by
! the war in Europe. Since 1917 marks
the a00th anniversary OF the beginning
Of the Protestant Reformation under
Luther. the studies for that year will
turn upon the great fundamental Pro
| 'cstant ideas and the present position
! OF Professionalism in the world.
| TIL. board 0r control 81 tn. Wash
Iingtuu District Epworth League has
approved tn" plans Of thu summer in
. stitut- comrnittee, reported by Ralph
! Williamson. chs irmen.
I Registration will begin Immediately
and it is expected that between two
and three hundred Epworthians Will
leave Washington over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad on Monday morning
. July IS, for Mountain Lake Park. Nd.
! where the institute will be held. While
tho institute will b. controlled and
0 arranged by the Washington Distric.
. Epworth League. all other Epworth
! Leagues, Christian E.ndeavorers, and
I uth"~ young peoples church and social
service crganizat ions will be invited 70
send delegates. The early part OF each
day during the institute will be de-
Z voted to conferences OF the four de-
partmentS OF Epworth League work
{ special speakers being secured by II. S
iomohundro. who will have charge OF
that branch Of the work. Registration
and other details will be in charge OF
| w. A Jump, institute secretary, and
Charles o. Arthur. financial secretary
Each delegate to the institute will pay
Il fee Of s1s.4a. which will include eI-
penses of the entire week, the league
making all arrangements with the
railroad and hotel companies. II is
planned TO start an Epworth League
Institute Savings Club in one of the To-
cal banks which will make 1t possible
for the Epworthians to pay for their
vacation by that plan.
! canvass for new members to the
auNiliaries of the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church has just been COM
/ pleted.
The campaign was inauEursted by
the conference officers, Mrs. W. L.
Mcdowell. president, and Mrs. Clara
| Roach. secretary. anG was conducted
under the leadership OF Mrs. ]. ID. Van
| Scotch, efficiency secretary. Their
aim was Thirty new members in thir-
! ty days." won by each auxiliary. One
| auxiliary. that of Hamline Church. Sc
cured seventy-five members; the united
efforts of the senior auxiliary and the
young woman's auxiliary of Foundry
| Church added eighty-one members TO
| their rails: Trinity Church won sixty
| five members, and 555 members We're
secured by the united efforts of all the
auNiliaries in Washington district.
The number thirty Of the slogan,
| Thirty members in thirty days" re
ferred to the thirty years since the
| ia ltimore Conference W. II. NJ. S. was
/ inaugurated, and to the thirty years of
service by the conference secretary,
Clara J.. Roach.
The women Of this society cclt-
brated their successful campaign by a
victory fest held at Foundry Church
on the evening of March IL, when Rev
J. ". Henry, pastor Of the Church ci
speaker
The province OF Washington Protcs-
this year double the usual amount Sc.
cured for missions with the view OF
assisting the English missions stricken
by the war.
: The editor of the Living Church
communicated with the authorities OF
the leading English missionary socie-
ties. telling them of the noble visions
which some American churchmen had
| seen but also telling frankly of the