The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-28
What Church People
Are Saying and Doing

taught what reverence means; his the
: ology is incredibly crude, his ideas OF
| the Bible are impossible. and his naive
! egotism is simply funny; but. after
all, he is terribly sound on the Ter
Commandments. and his assaults upon
the moral laxity and indifference OF
! our generation do impress people and
| compel them to define more clearly
the moral issues which they have
shirked or Ignored in the past.
have talked with a good many per
sons who have this conviction, and
have heard of a number of cases where
men have been compelled to face moral
questions and duties as they had
not done before. L see this possible
result of the movement therefore. He
will not convert many persons to
Christianity, for he does not know
what IL is, but he will convert them To
a new morality, and make them con-
scious of a need both in themselves
and in society. which will prepare the
way in their hearts for the Gospel In
its fulness We must face the fact
that a large element In the population
of n city LIKE this is just pagan, and
such folks need a lot of educa ton
before they measure up to the level
even Of an earnest Israslitc of the time
of Elijah. ] think Billy Sunday may
harm, and he certainly has made the
work of the clergy harder than it was
before he came.
Il strongly suspect. that the ma jor-
ity of ministers of all kinds in the
city feel about the same way concern
ing il, though they will hardly say SO.
One hears murmurings now and then
which make that seem possible"
More than $4,000 women have al
ready enrolled in a cause that aims to
erect Catholic shrine in Washing
! ton. This shrine is to be in honor of
| the Immaculate Conception, in papal
affairs the United States being under
: the patronage of the Blessed Virgin.
IL is purposed to continue the enroll
menc until il reaches 100000 Chap
ters are being formed. Washington and
Baltimore chapters lead in date, and
New York as yet in point of mem
bership. Catholic women of wealth are
! taking hold, and chapters are in pro-
cess of forming in Boston, Chicago,
St Louis and San Francisco. Some
preliminary work has also been done
in Cincinnati, New Orleans, Minneapo-
lis and Louisville.
The plan for this Catholic national
shine originated with Bishop Shahan
! president of the Catholic University In
addition to the character mentioned,
! it is to be the chapel of the univer-
/ sity, and is to be located on a COM
handing site in BrookIand. The church
7 Is to he so planned as to be capable
of accommodating pageants and elab-
! crate services, such as are to be fea-
I lures OF the university.
The style of French Gothic of the
fourteenth century has been decided
upon for the structure. the most OF
! which may reach 100000 or even
more. White stone is to be used, and
i n feature is to be vast dome that
will add 10 the number of imposing
. domes of the National Capital Many
J memorials are to be part of the plan
the aim being 10 make in reality d
shOre such az obtains in many coun-
! tries of Europe. Hence the large num-
Der Of contributors. Ion,rH, that it is
| aimed to secure.
! \ correspondent of the Congrega-
| tiona!ist and Christian World asks and
| answers an important question con-
corning the religious reading of grow
! ing boys and girls.
Can we during the years from six
TO twenty give to our young people
fundamental organized knowledge of
the Bible and church literature?
am sure that we can, provided We
have the mind. the method and the
| material We will all agree to pre-
sent the Bible first as Il story book.
From six 10 ten. each child shall own
read and tell the stories edited by
Dean Hodges in The Castle of Zion"
When the King Came The Garden
| of Eden" "Chiid's History of the
| Bible also Fosters Story of the
| Bible" and the two volumes of stories
in the Modern Readers Bible Series
From ten 10 twelve we will blaze
Tr1 l. Ia,,
citation. marking variously the pre-
ccpts, the promises, the prayers, the
prophesies, the parallels. They shall
know the great chapters of the Book
ana Its songs, Odes and wisdom liter
allure. Let .us have a mission study
class in every department above the
junior. combined with the reading of
the Acts and EplStes. And shall we
not insist on having concert recita-
ton of the Biblical masterpieces in
all of the departmen.sy
The Literature OF the Bible" by
Prof. 6. F. Moore, used as a textbook
with our youth of high school age
should convince them that the Old
Testament is not discreditcd, but es-
tablishcd by the critical study of the
last century and half II will also
give them much upon which to build
u reasonable faith. With the Modern
Readers Bible in hand. and Prof,
Noulton's brilliant volume, The Lit
erary Study of the Bible as a guide,
each constellation and separate star
of epic, history, philosophy, prophecy.
poetry and rhetoric can be made Iumi-
nous for them. We will stiFl have a
year each for the study of church his
tory and comparative religions
Shall the church give adequate re-
ligious instruction or continue TO with.
hold it? With a trained paid superin-
tendcnt our large churches could more
readily enlist teachers of exceptional
ability and set the standard The cur
riculum itself. and 1 would have IL
printed and distributed. would, L think.
draw both teachers apd scholars.
United Brethren report that applica-
lions for admission to their Otterbein
Home already come from sixteen
States. New York and Pennsylvania On
the east and Oregon on the west. Even
Florida has wanted to send children
This home, unique in any religious
body in America, is an Ohio farm of
1900 acres. bought by the United
Brethren two years ago, but for
serenty-five years the property of
Shakers. 1t is the largest farm in
Ohio. and largest tract in the United
States devoted to Christian phiian-
thropy. The purchase price was $685.