El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

e on. Much credit IS given the men
] and millions movement for this show
! ing, and in a slightly changed form
I that movement is 10 be continued.
The report shows that Kansas City
Z IS the one strong disciples city, Il
/ having twice as many members as
I any other city.
To Help German Lutherans.
A million and a half Lutherans
] reckon themselves called upon TO help
Lutherans Of Germany 70 Withstand
Bolshevik influences. and 10 get
right principles OF Christian ethics.
l Even before the war ended. and in
spite OF being misunderstood. these
patriotic Americans OF German an
cestry began making plans to rebuild
the German nation after IL should
be thrown down by the allies No
people, Il IS known, were more earn
est in throwing down the Huns but
they planned Immediately TO help
them up again on right lines. Now
they are holding meetings IN IS prin-
cipal American cities. 70 cement the
Increment at its base. and to secure
$4,000 TO pay expenses OF the work
to be done in Germany itself.
There IS. or was. a Prussian state
church, whose chief member was the
kaiser. but Lutherans in Germany de-
clare this church is not Lutheran.
The strength OF Lutheranisn in Ger
many Is in the north. ard that Of
Catholicism IS in the south. but bar
ring the state church, II that be Lu-
theran- Germans in Germany was not
split into factions as are Lutherans
here. The plan is 70 educate the
young people OF Germany in Ameri-
can ways. not 70 make Americans Of
them. but TO make them understand
democracy. No effort Is planned to
bring Immigrants TO America, and so
Lutherans say their efforts VIII not
be interfered with. II the four year
ban on Germans IS set Up. as congress
proposes TO do. The Lutherans lead
ing in this plan are the bodies that
lately came together; the most Amer
lean in thought and language here.
Deaeoness Cult Declines.
The deaconess movement popular
a few years ago, seems 20 be on the
wane- One Methodist deacOness train
ing school has been closed and Il is
said the only remaining one viii be.
One Episcopal training school IS re-
ported as having small attendance.
The reason seems TO be that while
many women desire to DO the work
involved in the deacOness movement, /
they prefer not TO be ordained. or to
wear a uniform. The rule has OBJ
tanned In an bodies that women be-
coming deacouess. and being or
daired or set apart might quit at
pleasure.
Methodist educational people say
that the decline In deaconess numbers, !
II there prove 10 be such decline. does
not indicate any falling off in inter- Z
est in education. OF in disposition TO !
support colleges under church con-
troll Methodfsfs say the old notion l
that church colleges are TO be things I
Of the past has been exploded. and 4
that the movement TO back them up,
which was on a year and a half ago.
resulted IN endowment and equip I
nent Increases OF fully S35. 900 900.
Speaking Of the colleges as affect |
ed by the s a T. c. OF the war end /
period. a foremost Methodist educator /
says he believes the influence viii ]
be small Colleges viii remake their
curses, and make them more voca-
.ional, but he says they would have I
lone so had the government not sent
he young men into them He looks