Evening star., 1916-08-05
ADDITIONAL CHURCH NOTES

OF sixteen pieces
DR.. R H Pitt of Richmond. Va. will
address the school and preach at IL am.
at the church service.
The following musicians will compose
the orchestra: Miss Edith Beatty. How
Carr, Miss Carrie L. Cellender. Miss
Elizabeth Dickinson, Miss Evy NJ. Dick
inson. Miss Lucille NJ. Ehling. A. B.
Haunemann. John 7. Hafford, F. G. Mac
Donald. J. N. Neely. Miss Flora Nichols.
Mrs. Annie Painter Miss Mariana Spei
den. Prof G. o. Claus. Winslow Whitlock
and Miss Lillian Whitaker.
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This is a very needy country"
writes DIR. H. w. Irwin from TIE
chow. west China. in recent letter
to the Methodist board of foreign
missions. II have been greatly de-
pressed by the abject poverty of the
poor and their fatalistic view of what
seems to them inevitab able Accustomed
as I am to extreme forms of misery.
l often come back from our dispensary
fairly sick with the thought of it all.
The great middle class is missing
here. Only the rich and pitiably poor
are found. When the latter become
sick they speedily drift into beggary.
Among this class free medical work is
greatly needed. The temporary dis
pensary that I have opened on the
street is miniStering to large number
Of patients.
"Tzechow is more heathenish in its
ways than other cities I have seen in
china Sin is so open and brazen.
There are more beggars and street
gamblers. Even the beggars in rags
gamble with their little pieces of
money and often show as much in
terest as do those with hundreds Of
dollars at stake. Striking, indeed, Is
the contrast between the dominantly
heather places and those where Chisti-
anity has become a factor in the lives
OF many people"
THE open door set before us here
gives US a field of vast proportion"
writes Mrs. J. " Dawes Southern
Baptist missionary In China Each of
the five country churches is from sew
enteen to thirty miles away and at
varying points of the compass Leav-
ing railroads. street cars and automo-
biles out of consideration-supp in
their stead manpushed, man-pulled
Wheelbarrows, man-lei donkeys or
mans first mode of travel presumably
walklng)-yo will readily see we
modes the average is three miles an
hour. so that much time must be used
In slow travel from place to place One
longs sometimes to be caught up as
ported without physical fatigue or
waste of time"
The Mexican agency of the American
Bible Society, which for the time being
has its headquarters in San Antonio,
Tex, is particularly active at this time
and is finding a surprising demand for
the gospel. Tens of thousands of copies
In Spanish have been sent forward for
this purpose. and the society's agent,
Rev. w. F. Jordan, writes that the
eagerness of the people for the Scrip
lures is unprecedented. They have
little to read. The war has practically
stopped the circulation of papers mag
azines and books in the Spanish lam
guage. and the gospel and the New
hungry for something to read Many
are il1iterate, but there are in every
neighborhood those who can read and
the others gather about them and
time for the ministry of the Word
than the present. The only hindrance
is the lack of sufficient resources.
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The Foreign Society of the Disciples
Church will have twenty-eight mis-
sionaries home on furlough this year
1t is the plan to engage in a strong
series of missionary rallies all the fall
and winter 1t is hoped these will be
the strongest ever held and a number
of missionaries will be with each team
Churches desiring these meetings should
apply early to the Cincinnati Office.
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Mrs. J. V. Dawes, missionary in China,
Surrounded by score of women who
had listened intently to the story
of the rich man and Lazarus. l paused
came from the brightest-looking wom-
an in the crowd: Can a beggar be
saved?' The answer of the Word was,
revelation to all of them that God
is no respecter of persons number
of them said: Then there is hope for
all of us
Lutheran young people, who long
formed into a Luther League. are to
make their convention this year. to be
held at Toledo. fortnight hence, a
preparation for the celebration next
year of the 400th anniversary of the
beginning of the German reformati ton
This celebration begins in January
and is to cover the entire year 1917
The motto at Toledo is to be Lutheran
interpreted by the speakers to mean
not only cooperation with other
bodies in celebration of the reforma-
tion anniversary, but also to bring di
vided Lutheran bodies into closer
union.
Speakers at Toledo include Judge
Henry w. Harter of Ohio. Judge Bald
win of Pennsylvania. President Harms
and Rev. Luther NJ. Kuhns, the execu-
tive of the league. In it's convention
announcements, the league reports To-
ledo to be of the strongest of
Lutheran cities Lutherans there are
said to exceed 10000 in number, or
more than three times the combined
memberships of the next three Prot
estant bodies. English Lutheranism
started there as late 1880.
The present president of the Luther
Leag que of America is E. Aug. Miller
of South Carolina, "A son of former
well known Lutheran minister and
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For the first time, so far as can be
learned, there is being given this sea-
son, at a few summer conferences,
courses of lectures on scientific man
agement of men and things in relation
to God and His cause, and issued with
these courses are text books the sub
ject of such management. The lines
agement in industry. and relate solely
to the material part of Christian work.
Laymen are leading. A conference OF
these leaders, few in numbers as yet,
is to be held in New York in October.
The argument is put forth that there
ought to be church engineers to man.
age the material side of Christian af-
fairs lust as there are mechanical and
industrial engineers to manage the
material side of many forms of worlds
work.
Authority for the scientific manage
ment of church affairs is said to be
found In the gospels. taught by Christ
in word and act. One of the instruc-
tors on this new science puts forth a
creed of the material, based on Christ's
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