Evening star., 1916-07-01

tanned close relations to his church and
often took up personal Christian work.
He is said to be especially interested IN
Sunday school work While in the Sou
dan twenty years ago and later IN the
Boer war in South Africa he kept up his
close connection with Presbyterian Sun
day school work in Scotland, and became
officially connected with foreign mission
airy work carried on by Presbyterians OF
Scotland He was also manager for
time of the Scottish Bible Society. His
wife. a daughter of the third Lord VIVIAN.
is also an active Presbyterian Church
worker and identified with many philan-
thropic and missionary societies
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Just now young men and women are
being examined and accepted by mis-
siouary societies to be sent to China.
Japan. India and the near east, and
from now on to South America. The
statement is made by the societies that
recruits for these difficult and often
DANGEROUS fields are coming in largest
numbers from the middle west. The
states of Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee.
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas and
Missouri are furnishing, IT is said,
81 per cent of these men and women.
Never were requirements of education
and health higher. and the societies
report that never were better candl-
dates offering.
A member of the Presbyterian TO-
eign board which is just now send
ing into the fields named seventy-eight
new workers, and will send twenty
more before the season ends, gives the
following explanation:
1.-The change from the New England
states, the Atlantic seaboard of the
south, and from states Immediately east
of the Alleghenies. has come within
the past few years. In the south it
is the southwest and not the southeast
that is furnishing these workers There
is no authoritative opinion on the sub
ject held by the societies. but my own
explanation is that the spirit Of ad-
venture, of leadership, of taking hold
of new tasks. is in the middle west.
Men and women now offering for the
heroic service on foreign fields are sons
and daughters, grandsons and grand
daughters of those men and women
who laid the foundations for the pros
perity of the middle west.
MANY of these pioneers have not
remained in the middle west, but have
gone to the coast and the Canadian
northwest. Their children and grand
children move on as well. 1t is in the
blood and bone. New England and
Pennsylvania are staid. Our new work
Chicago is the commercialscapital"
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United Brethren in Christ. a body of
m1QQle west pfOpie oI oo,uVV, anu
sought to be gathered into the new
unity by Methodists and Congregation
alists. have just announced some new
plans of their own. The announcement
is made by the publishing agent. w. R.
Funk of Dayton. Ohio, and relates
chiefly to money and education. About
$1,000, 900 is to go to colleges. includ
ing Otterbein, York, Indiana Central,
Kansas City and Philomath. Theolog-
ical education has been established on
big farm just out of Dayton. and
here will be attempted the training of
a least 100 men each year to go into
the ministry and mission fields. An
equipment costing not less than $780,
900 is to be provided
United Brethren recently took hold of
a big Shaker proposition, the Shakers
giving ii up, and upon large tract of
farm land they are creating homes for
the aged and for children, and, 1t is
declared, demonstrating practical char
ity combined with education. Within a
short time 100000 has been put into
the plans, and Mr.. Funk reports that
nv the next meeting of the Brethren
General Conference the plant will be
worth $325.000.
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The Aloysius Club will give an excur-
sion to Marshall Hall August 1.
The novena to the sacred heart, which