The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07

a card and send them TO the platform.
| The names received represented all types
| In the student body. including many lead
ers in classroom work. as well as those
who are socially prominent and leaders
| i'm athletics. Mr.. Eddy came to Yale
fresh from his wonderful work among
| students in the universities Of China,
| where he had tho Joy OF seeing thousands
of the choicest young men or the empire
turning with seriousness toward Chris
| tianity in such numbers and with sucn
earncstness that the missionaries on the
ground will have all they can do during
the next year to instruct and guide these
| awakening minds.
| At Yale the ground had been prepared
| to an unusual extent for the seedsowing
| through the Influence and efforts %:
| Christian leaders like Prof. Henry p
Wright and others who have long stood
at Yale for the earnest and the conta-
! cious Christian life. and whose Bible
classes and initiation Of practical Chris
,isn activities in the city have doubtless
| helped much to make hundreds of STR
dents ready for the simple, searching
message of Mr.. EDDY. Tho present -e-
suits arc also due in considerable meas
| urc not simply to large platform gather
| inGs. but TO quiet group meetings in dor
mitories and fraternity halls. especially
| those connected with the Sheffield Scion
\
questions OF practical Christian Twins
were informally discussed. Moreovc-. a
large number OF workers among the stu
| dents took upon themselves the duty or
\ visiting systematically their FELLOWSHIP
! dents in th"ir rooms in order 10 interest
| them In personal religion.
| Not since the revival in Horace Bush
| nelrs day sevcnty-fiVc years ago, say
some competent judges has Yale Uni
versity been SO powerfully moved May
tho influence Of this revival extend TO
other New England colleges of the type
! of Yale and ne felt, also. In educational
| institutions all over the country.
A st Louis delegation went to fhi'a-
deiphia reccntlv to induce Mr.. Sundaf
| to conduct campaign in their city
They were told that St. Louis would
have to wait its turn. Or. s. ". Wood
| row. Of Pilgrim Church, was tho chair
man Of the delegation and he felt that
st. Louis which is the fourth city IN the
! Union was entitled to an immediate re
! sronsc Dr. Woodrow. who was formcrii
! in charge o: First Congregational
| Church this city said of the evangelist:
| .'Bfiv Sunday is officially sound. lie
makes moral distinctions with great
! clea-nrsa. with forcefIl illustrations. He
| &; lis Tor a definite choice for Jesus Christ.
! II would he impossible for any man 70
make himself understood in Bible teach
! Ing III ten weeks.
The Congregational Club Of Chicago
held a banquet in the La Sale Hotel re-
Gently and among the speakers was Re-.
Charles W. GiIliev. of the Hyde Park
| BAPTIST Church His topic for the even
! ing was Tendencies Drawing Us To-
| gether.' He said in part: ''CongreSa-
tionalists and Baptists are alike in every
| thing but baptism. We Baptists are be-
: ginning 10 discover immense value in
! tho form of your method of baptism. ard
are seeking to secure FOR ourselves that
value. But we are also discovering anew
| the immense value Of our own attitude
! as to the outward expression OF con-
| fesson uf faith l clearly toresee the
! time when We shall get together on the
! basis OF some method which shall secur,
| TO Us all both that recognition of the
| solids rity OF tn" family which you have
so firmly maintained and that confession
| Of faith in adolescence and adult Ii"
which Nc have manifested. and shall
! leave to Ca"h home and each individual
! the precise form OF the administration nt
| the node of baptism
The neui,' formed Church Peace Union
| IL issuing pamphlets, and the third OF
| this series l. a ten-paEe document by
Rev DR.. Peter Ainslie. Of baltimore, on
The Sroursc Of Militarism." Mr.. A'nslte
| heads the list uf trustees for this organ
| iZation.
! The America l:lblc Society Is to estab-
| Ii.h new station in which to distribute
Bibles TO sailors This viii be located on
the Panama Canal. Every sailor passing
| through the canal will he given Bible,
and 1t will be his own tongue, since this
| society has Bibles in l2I different Ian
s,ilagcs The station will he at Balboa,
at the Pacific end NJ the canal.
American and English Jews have unit
ed to lay a plan before the British gov
eminent by which. if the allies win in
the war. Jews of Poland may be trans
| ferred to Palestine These Jews hero
| and in England state that half Of all
Jews in the world live in POLAND, Gaiicia
| and other parts Immediately devastated
! by the armies of Russia, Austria and
Germany. They say also that the con-
ditIons of most of these Jews is far worse
than is that Of the BeleianS. because
| they have 10 hope for the future. and
nothing whatever by way of relief Is be
ing done for them Poland. assured or
its autonomy by Russia. is declared to
! pc doing everything in its power to COM
pei Jews in Poland three millions IN
number. To quit the country because they
are undesircd in the new nation that is
to be.
Thousands OF Jews are fighting for
Russia, compelled to do 50. knowing that
| their success NJ arms means their ban
ishmnnt from their homes. Jews here
and abroad argue that if the allies WIN.
England viii IL. in position to demand
control of Palestine and at liberty, II so
inclined, 10 turn Il over to these Jews
Of Poland ant other parts OF tho war
zone. They point out that these jews
have now here else TO go, and that Paies-
tine needs them. The probable fall OF
Constantinople encourages these Jews to
believe that such outcome may be pos
sible. Hence the activity at this time.
Tho Panama Pacific Exposition took
the initiative in the holding of the first
World Bible Congress ever planned. Its
management asked the American Bible
Society to take i'll hand details OF such
congress. and the dates Of August IA
were fixed upon. The British and foreign.
the Scotch. the French and the German
Bible Societies have agreed to take part
The American Society promises to bring
in Bible representatives from China,
Japan. Siam. South and Central America
Speakers from Europe are to be secured
II possible. and what is claimed to be
the finest exhibition of Bibles and manu-
scripts will he displayed.
Part of tho congress plan is the show
ing. through exhibits and addresses by