The Washington herald., 1915-02-14

speedily be established among all the
peoples Of the earth
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York, Rev. John Henry
Jowett, pastor, found on its collection
| plates on a recent Sunday the sum OF
| Sl0,59i. This amount was given for
| foreign missions, and the same COllcC-
tiOn, taken last year on the corre-
spending Sunday. amounted TO $4,000
| This Year there was Self-dcnial fund
| included, amounting to $4,000 but the
balance of the increase is said to rep
| resent growth in interest. and larger
Willingness to give this year over last
| This sclf-denial fund is for the pur-
! pose of removing debts on Presbyte-
rian boards. which debts exceeded
more than s45O.O0O last year. The
Fourth Presbyterian Church. Chicago.
gave $4,000 as its share of denial, and
it is now calculated that the week will
net S15O,0O0. To date about a third of
the debt has been provided.
With all of these large gifts. the
Presbyterian foreign board admits
| however, that its receipts this year
compared with last are twenty per cent
behind. and that with two months only
remaining of its fiscal year, its debt
for 1915 will exceed that of 1914 un-
less there is an increase of 100000 at
al demands at home are given a.
causes for the unfavorabIe outlook
The report of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church for the year just past
shows that there are in the city OF
New York twenty-nine churches of
that denomination of more than l 900
members each. The Episcipol diocese
of New York increased ) per cent in
membership last year making 983.42i
Episcopalians IN that diocese with 3d.
600 more in Brooklyn and Queens. In
the whole country there are now
ciEhty-fVe Episcopal parishes with
memberships exceeding 1000, and fifty
six others not far below the 1000
mark.
Much favorable comment is heard on
the admirable way in which Rev. Otis
\ Glazebrook. ID. D., rector emeritus
OF St. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church. Elizabeth, y. J., is filling the
post of United States consul to Jcrusa-
lem. Tn" cables from London give
him much credit for rescuinE a party
of British subjects from the hands of
the Turks. Rev. DIR. Glazebrook was
appointed TO his present post by Prcsi-
dent Wilson about one year ago.
4 S9L 4~ASal 1 ais NIlllu OeIenQ-
cd the compulsory chapel attendance
at the University of Pennsylvania and
lauded Evangelist BILLY" Sunday re-
Gently in an address in Philadelphia
He said that chapel attendance among
the rank and file of the student body
had shown improvement since Sunday
was heard. According to him. Sundays
sermon 10 the students left deep and
wholesome impr6 esion on them, He
said that h.-fnra l.
ncction with the university had he
known tho students to be so deeply in
terestcd in the Bible as at present He
Is quoted as follows: Il freuucntly oh
serve them not only reading the Bible
but engaged in earnest discussion of
Scriptural Passages. 1 feel that at no
time in the past have the students AT
the university shown such an uplfft as
has been manifest since they listened
to Billy Sunday"
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, which is located at Louis
vile. KY, furnishes many of the lead
crs among the Southern Baptists. hay-
ms trained 135 missionaries. and 1850
breaches for the home field. The
seminary is now fifty-four wears old
and continues to be one of the leading
Theological schools of the Southern
branch OF the denomination.
Friendly rivalry is found among tho
Southern Baptists as to which conEre-
Satlon IN tn" South gives the largest
percentage 10 mission work First
Baptist Church. of Dallas. reports their
total receipts at S93,324. of which sis
SSH went for local expenses and tbo
rcSt for missions. First Baptist
Church. Of Shreveport, La, CHALLENGES
This record
tai collections were $5S,OOO for ali n,,r-
poses of which $4,000 went for local
expenses The Texas church gives
81 per cent to missions while the
Louisiana church gives 81 per cent.
The home missions council has in
Vestlgated the Western country some
Nhat ana has come to the conclusion
that the country is not everywhere
overchurched. in one Western STATE
there are 1873 towns of from $50 to 900
inhaOtants without any Protestant wor-
ship, 100 of them being also witbout
Roman Catholic care.
More than ten thousand of the Brit
ish and Canadian soldiers on S.IIs
bury Plain, near the Druid remains AT
Stonehenge, have joined the Pocket
Testament League, agreeing to read \
~-'APNSA NIiAg- anu over 3,UOO have de-
clared their acceptance of Christ.
The movement was begun when
Charles NJ. Alexander, the gospel lead
er, with staff of singers and a rem
resentative of the Pocket Testament
League, visited the Young Mems
Christian Association tents. holding
evangelistic meetings. The soldiers
thronged to the tents to hear and
Join in the songs and to listen TO Mr..
AlcNandcr's straight talk on the man
lincss of living a clean Christian life
The Testaments, special edition. in
waterproof covers, were offered to any
soldier who would sign the pledge in
the Testament and join the league. In
some places the eager signers literal
ly stormed the platform. Later DR.. l.
Wilbur Chapman, with Mr.. Alexander
held three thrilling services for SOL
dters at the Crystal Palace and Wend-
over, where hundreds of troops COM
fcssed Christ. The Young Mems Chris
tian Association workers in the camps
report the conversion of hundreds of
men. Henry J. Lane, one of the work.
ers, says that in many sections of the
camp swearing has been changed to
Bible reading and habits which had
cursed the toughest sections of the
battalions have been cropped.
For weeks" states Mr. Lane, I'VE
have had a stream of men coming to
join the Pocket Testament League,
and at the same time acceptinr Christ