El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-03

appeal are bishop Brewster, OF Maine ;
bishop Williams, OF Michigan. Rev.
DR.. Eliot White, OF the fashionable
St Marks church, Philadelphia; dean
Ladd. Of Berkeley Divinity school.
Rev DR.. J. Howard Melish. OF Brook
lyn. and Prof Scudder, OF wellesley
college. The signers say they wish
TO affect economic, political, national
and International life. and to make
EniscopaIans 10 be in closer touch
leaders is called for NAY 2 and 8, TO
be held in the Church Missions house,
New York
Presbyterians for Wilson.
Prominent laymeu are being elected
py the Fresbyteries, both north and
south to 20 TO general assemblies to
be held next month at St Louis and
New orleans The reasons are that
Presbyterian issues are TO he deter
mined in both assemblies OF sucn
prime importance as were never con-
sidered ny Presbyterians before These
include vital issues OF B0lshevism-
capital and labor and the league Of
nations Presbyterians are wei nigh
unanimous. IL is stated on authority.
ln support Of president Wilson. not
holly because the president IS an
elder In their church. but because
Presbyterians and others regard the
league OF nations as a missionary
them 10 endorse f.
There viii come before both assem-
Giles q proposition TO create a federal
general assembly, IN which both
churches. north and south. viii be
represented, and in which the United
Presbyterians viii come II these
prominent laymen have their way.
such federal assembly is 20 be the
initial step toward organic union and
finally the merging OF all educational
and missionary work under the Pres
byterian name II IL be possible, the
Reformed bodies. Dutch and German.
are 70 be brought in the federal as
semblv. and then into actual union
Another unusual plan among those OF
the north is the almost certain cleo
ton OF a layman as moderator This
is a decided innovation, but Il VIII
probably come about. II is said Among
1avmen already elected. and from
whose ranks the moderator VIII be
chosen, are John T. Manson Of New
Haven. prominent in the New Era
movement A. A. HYDE OF Kansas
who is giving 100000 TO Presbyte-
rian plans and forgetting &c: Nelson
II. LOOMS. general solicitor OF the
Union Pacific and resident at Omaha;
Robert Dollar, the big steamship man
Of the Pacific coast, and others
BOTery Started Missions.
American Methodist missionary ef-
fort got its start IN the famous Bow
cry. New York. That was 100 years
ago this April, when the Methodist
church, then in the BOwery, was sur
rounded by the homes OF the well 70
do Plans are making now for the
celebration Of the centenary Of the
event TO be held in the John street
church. the oldest Of American Meth
odist churches. The celebration is the
central one. historically. Of the pres
ent Methodist centenary. which Is
raising S40,00O.000 and planning quite
the biggest religious gathering in Co
lumbus this summer that America
ever saw
Methodists Of the south dispute the
right OF the John Street church. New
York. 70 the honor OF being the old
est, and say that a church in the sub
urb Of Baltimore, long since gone. but
succeeded by the First church. in St
Paul street in that city. is the Oldest
of Methodist churches Il Is a curious
fact that two Irish ministers, coming
TO America as missionaries. started
these two churches. the dates Of which
are in dispute Methodist missions,
the centenary Of which is now on,
were organized first as q missionary
and Bible society. but a little later the
Bible was left out Of the name, the
avoid conflict with the American
Bible society.