The Washington herald., 1916-01-16
WHAT CHURCH PEOPLE
ARE SAYING AND DOING

city Rev. John N Mills. D. D. of
Washington.
Hard times are facing everybody
In this land" writes Miss Anna E.
Hall, of the Methodist Mission at
Cape Palmas, Liberia. IN a letter dated
November .. to the Board OF Foreign
Missions.
This morning asked that all the
children in our school who had had
rice for breakfast should raise their
hands. Rice, by the way. is their
chief food. Not a single hand went
up. Then I inquired how many had
had cassaya--for that is rated next
best to rice. Still no hand was raised
Think of it, Our school opens at 10 a
m. Nand up to that time the children
had had nothing to eat except a few
palm nuts and seeds found on the way
from home. A few of them had
brought some very small cassavas for
their lunch.
"our school numbers III. Just now
owing to the busy farming season
we have an average attendance OF
about eighty-one. These Kroo children
are alert and eager to learn. Many of
them could not speak a word of Eng
lish when they came to u.s."
The Federal Council of Churches
announces that DIR. Henri K. Anet
delegate from the Protestant churches
of France and Belgium. has come to
America to plead the cause of the i'm
poverished mission stations in those
countries.
The Church Peace Union, the organ
ization endowed by Andrew Carnegie
In the sum of two million dollars, has
initiated a campaign in which church
members of all denominations are
urgently invited to cooperate in the
interest of q world peace. The move
ment, begun IN Philadelphia. Is intend
ed to carry through the month of Jan
uary in that city. The plan Is to
spend the month of February in Bos-
ton, March In Cleveland, April In Chi
cago. May in Pittsburgh. and then to
cover the entire country during 1916,
utilizing the central cities as head
quarters from where the propaganda
will be expected to radiate through
the lesser cities and surrounding
country. An international League OF
Peace" and a World Supreme Court"
are the two problems which will prob
ably receive more attention in the dis
cussions than other themes suggested.
Bishop David H. Greer of the Episco-
palians. Cardinal Gibbons representing
the Roman Catholics. Rabbi Hirsch, of
Chicago, the Hebrews, and Rev. Fred
erick Lynch, of New York. for the
Congregstionalists, are announced as
leaders in the movement
The board of education of the United
Presbyterian Church is striving to
raise 100000 for the establishment
ments in each of its four colleges
They have raised over $4,000 to date,
and have just received an offer of ten
thousand dollars form an estate to
be applied to the endowment of such
a department in Monmouth College.
So nightly were the leading busi-
ness men of Syracuse, N. Y, stirred
by the Billy Sunday campaign
which closed December 10, that they
organized the BILLY" Sunday Business
Mems Club. On the Sabbath following
the close Of the campaign they asked
the evangelist to come back and help
them get organized for efficient serv-
ice. Much to their delight and surprise
and contrary to his former practice
the man who led them to a consecra-
tion Of their lives to Christian service
came back with Ma" Sunday and
Rodeheaver. the musical leader, from
the Sunday home at winona Lake, Ind
L hS CNdhS cllSl . welcome IN SYRACUSE
evidenced the fact that the city had
been wonderfully stirred and that a
deepening appreciation OF this fact
was growing upon the more conservs-
tive element of it's citizenship. The
leading local paper of the city said
the reception committee that greeted
Billy" Sunday at the station repre-
sented many millions of dollars. 1t
was group OF men who had come to
a new realization of spiritual and ma
terial values and had consecrated both
life and money to Christ's service.
Billy" didn't have to hire a taxi to
take him to his hotel. The president
of the company manufacturing the ia
nous Franklin car, II. H. Franklin, a
trail hitter, was there with his auto
to carry the evangelist anywhere he
cared to go and bankers and merch-
ants WED to do the porters work with
the baggage of the party.
This was the first time Rev. Mr.
Sunday had returned to a city in this
manner. He was urged to use the tab
ernacle again, as it had not yet been
torn down. He consented, provided
the services were arranged so as not
to interfere with the regular church
services of the day. Twenty-six thou
sand people crowded the tabernacle to
hear the evangelist who had returned
" BlNc ucNll TWO parting
punches" Ten thousand attended the
first meeting and 42O hit the trail; 2o,-
900 sought admission to the second
meeting, but only 1900 could crowd
in, 535 hit the trail. The final figures
give the totals as follows: Attending
for the campaign, s36, 5000; trail hitters,
22,070. No collections were taken, the
BILLY" Sunday Business Mems Club
paying the expenses. When they en-
deavored to pay the evangelist's ex-
penses he said: Not one cent! came
here because 1 wanted to. If my COM
ing did any good am glad. That is
remuneration enough for me. If you
fellows have any money to spare put
1t into the churches and Young Mems
Christian Association. I don't want
it."
The Missionary Review OF the World
makes the following comparison OF
conditions a century ago and now.
One hundred years ago. nearly every
country in Asia and Africa was closed