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TTIE ATLANTA (TFXVRfiTAX AND NEWS, MONDAY' MAY If). 1010
T UNION OF ALL PRESBYTERIANS
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]>r. W. B. .Jennings, of Germantown, Pa., formerly of Macon, Ga.
LEPER COLONIES
lit II. S. ILL
America, However, Helps Million
Victims in Orient Little, As
serts Woman Missionary.
Although thorp arc several hundred
lepers in the United States, they are
well eared for and leprosy is not apt
to spread, according to Miss Bertha
G: Johnson, of Chicago, who, as field
secretary of the mission to lepers in
India and the Far East, addressed
■ church workers Monday morning in
the Central Congregational, Church.
The occasion was the annual meeting
of the central committee of Presby
terian women for foreign missions,
representing the six women’s boards
of foreign missions in connection with
the Geperal Assembly of the Presby
terian Church U. S. A.
“Out of several hundred lepers in
the United States," declared Miss
Johnson, “there are only two colonies
officially designated as such. One of
• these is near New Orleans and the
other in Massachusetts, at Penikese,
both of which are well managed.
Small Fund Raised in U. S.
“There are perhaps 1,000.000 lepers
In the world, chiefly found in the
Oriental lands, They are, of course,
very plentiful in India, where my
work has taken me. Lepers receive
little assistance from the other na
tives of India, since they are consid
ered outcasts. Barely more than
Si;,.(itiii was raised in the United
Smtcs in 1912, but $35,000 is expected
to be raised this year. Leprosy is
both contagious and incurable, ac-
cording to the latest in science, but
clinical Investigations give hope that
a cure mav be discovered."
Mi.-s Margaret E. Hodge, president
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of the Philadelphia board, presided.
Prominent among th«- speakers were
Mrs. D. E. Wald, of New York, of the
Woman's Board of Home Missions of
the Presbyterian Church U. S. A.:
Mrs. W. C. Winsborough, of Kansas
City, of the Woman’s Council of Mis
sions of the Presbyterian Church U.
S. A„ and Mrs. H. C. Campbell, of
Pittsburg, of the Women’s General
Missionary Society of the United
Presbyterian Church of North Amer
ica.
Welcomed by Mrs. Ottley.
Mrs. J. K. Ottley welcomed the mis
sionaries to Atlanta; Mrs. Halsey L*.
Wood, of New York, reported for the
central committee; Mrs. W. B. Jen
nings, of Philadelphia, introduced the
missionaries, and Mrs. E. Boyd Weit-
zel, of Philadelphia; Mrs. H. R. El
liott, editor of Woman’s Work, and
Miss K. M. Birdsall, editor of Over
Sea and Land, contributed to the
program. Mrs. George S. Moffett and
Miss Mabel Moore took charge of the
delegates for the committee on ar
rangements.
At the conclusion of Miss Johnson’s
talk on lepers a collection was taken
up to further this work.
On the program for Tuesday after
noon is a discussion of problems
which the Christian church finds in
China, as presented by the Rev.
Frank W. Bible, of Hangchow, China,
a talk on womanhood and its possi
bilities in Persia, by the Rev. Robert
Labaree, of Urumia. Persia, and a
general discussion by Mrs. C. H. Ban
dy, of Fatehgarh, India,
Banquet to McCormick
Alumni Commissioners.
An enjoyable social feature in con
nection with the Presbyterian Assem
blies will be the banquet at the Ponce
DeLeon Baptist Church on Monday,
beginning at 5:30 o’clock in the aft
ernoon and continuing for two hours.
The Rev. George H. Atkinson, pres
ident of the Albemarle Normal and
Industrial Institute, Albemarle. N. C.,
will be the host upon this occasion.
He has extended to all members of
the alumni of McCormick Theological
Seminary. Chicago, of which semi
nary he also is a graduate, an invita
tion to be his guests.
The Rev. Mr. Atkinson desires it to
be understood that all commission
ers of the Presbyterian Assemblies
who are McCormick alumni are cor
dially invited to be present at the
banquet.
There will be a number of other
specially invited guests present, the
whole party to number more than 100
New Comet Pale;
It Has No Tail
Miss Kssi Roberts, of Fairburn,
and Commissioner Miller, o
I’ittsbnrfr.
Photograph taken at the Agnes Seoll campus when the Pres
byterian delegates were entertained by the college girls
ew Moderator Tells His Plans
CAMBRIDGE, May 19. — The
Schaumaese comet, the latest visitor
from the inter-stellar regions, Is
rather disappointing, to the ordinary
j star gazer, according to a report of
observations received in the Harvard
i observatory. Prof. Barnard, of the
Yerke»«Obsorvatory a t Lake Genev..
I Wis.^uas been unable to find any
fcemblancfv-nft*the usual fiery append
age, commonly mown as a tail. The
comet’s (illuminating powers have
I reached? only the tenth magnitude.
Astronomers hope the comet’s bril
liancy will increase in the next few
weeks.
White City Park Now Open
Warren H, Wilson Stirs Assem
blies by His Address at the
Tabernacle.
Agitation among Presbyterians at
tending the three great Assemblies!
reached a high pitch Monday morn
ing in discussions of the declaration
Sunday by Warren H. Wilton that the
church faced a serious crisis.
Mr. Wilson spoke before the Coun
try Life mass meeting at the Baptist j
Tabernacle. His statistics, presented 1
before the gathering to prove his as- j
sertions thfft lack oLreligious interest
throughout the country was rapidly
precipitating a general abandonment
of churches, have brought the matter
forcibly before the commissioners.
From the results produced there ! s
little doubt that prompt action will
be taken in an effort to remedy the
existing condition.
Discussions on the subject were
heard everywhere among those at the
morning sessions of the Assemblies.
Committees probably will be appoint
ed before the close of the week to
confer with Mr. Wilson, whose activ
ities throughout the rqgal church field
have given him a wonderful insight
into conditions there, and remedial
steps will be taken.
At Sunday’s meeting Mr. Wilson
analyzed farm life from its religious
aspect. While in some sections he
ascribed church abandonment to
proper causes, he declared in general
that it was due to lack of evangelistic
work. Evangelism, he averred, was
l what was needed, and he urged that a
| strenuous campaign along this line be
inaugurated immediately.
“We are facing a very serious crisis
in the country, and church people
generally realize it.” Mr. Wilson said
“That the Presbyterian Church should
have more than 300 abandoned church
houses is itself very s»orious. Hy»
more serious than this is the fact that
every Sunday of the year there are
3,323 Presbyterian Churches closed.
“These churches are not abandoned,
but on the Lord’s day they are not
opened. So irregular is the worship
of God in these church house?' that
more than 3,000 of them, 50 per cent
of all country churches, stand closed
and silent when the Sabbath comes.
Of another great denomination in the
South 6,000 country churches are
closed on each Sunday of the year,
and of a third great communion 10,000
country churches when the Sabbath
day comes do not open their doors.
There is something wrong.
“Now, in this situation the remedy
is of profound importance to all. 1
believe in evangelism, in increasing
the number of members and in in
creasing the number of our churches
in the country.
“Let us open the church also to
every form of better farming. Let
the minister be the agent, the secre
tary. the representative and the
scholar of good farming.”
Dr. Stone to Dodge ‘Itinerating’
Chicago Pastor Describes His
$1,000,000 Religious ‘Plant’
and Social Service Ideals.
By REV. CHARLES STELZLE.
John Timothy Stone, irtoderator of
the Northern Presbyterian General
Assembly, will not spend the year
“itinerating”—he will remain pretty
close to his great chureh enterprise
in Chicago. His touch upon the na
tional life of the church will be
through his leadership in the execu
tive commission, which is the Gen
eral Assembly’s official active agency
during the interim of the yearly
meetings, and of which the moderato'r
is chairman.
Dr. Stone also will retain a sym
pathetic relationship with the various
boards of the church, advising with
their officials In the matter of great
er efficiency. If there’s any time
left beyond these tasks he will give
it to some of the functions which
are of a more social character. This,
in brief, Dr. Stone told me to-day, is
his program for the coming year.
It was in this connection that Dr.
Stone spoke of the duties of a min
ister:
“The first duty of a minister is to
his pulpit and the message which
God gives him to deliver. His second
duty is to his parish and to the
people which make up the communi
ty in which his church situated. His
third duty is toward the city and all.
(’hristian and philanthropic influences
which make for human betterment:”
Thinks Work Is Scattered.
It is Dr. Stone’s 'conviction that
the influence of the church to-day is
lessened by too jjiuch scattered ef
fort—too much abstract discussion of
theories and philosophies of what
may be done, but which never lead
to anything definite and constructive.
The thing that has marked Dr. Stone’s
ministry has been his remarkable
concentration upon certain definite
tasks and then driving them through
with all the force of a fine physical
and mental endowment.
The great Men’s Club of Fourth
Church in. Chicago, of which he is
pastor, which has an enrollment of
900, bears testimony to this fact.
But th* significant reason of the
modpr^fiy’* success is his ability to-
make othei incu work- He believes
in the philosophy* of Dwight L. Moody,
the greatest evangelist of this gen
eration: “It is better to put ten men
at work than to do ten men’s work.”
“The greatest obligation of a pas
tor is not, in my judgment, to win
-ouls to Christ, but to train his mem
bers to be soul-winners,” said Dr.
Stone. And here we have one of the
reasons why there are to-day hun
dreds of people on the “waiting list”
of Fourth Church, eager to become
members of the church.
“However,” Dr. Stone quickly add
ed, ‘‘’’every pastor who so seeks to
train his members is constantly and
always preaching a soul-winning gos
pel 1n bis pulpit.”
Noted Men Assist Him.
The group of men who are stand
ing by Dr. Stone In his Chicago
church are among the most'promi
nent in American business life. Here
are just a. few of them: Cyrus Mc
Cormick. president of the Interna
tional Harvester Company: E. H.
Smith, president of the Oliver Type
writer Company*; Richard R. Sears,
of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Alcxandci
Revell, president of the Revell Fur
niture Company; Howard Kiting,
president of the Chicago Association
j of Commerce, which lias 4.000 m**m-
j bers; Frank J. Loesch, the Western
! attorney for the Pennsylvania Rail-
! road Company ; Henry P. Crowell,
president of the American ( ereal
Company, of Quaker- Oats fame—but
the list might be continued indefi
nitely.
These men are loyal to their min
ister in the great plans which have
been maturing under Dr. Stones di
rection during the past four years.
When he was called to Chicago from
his Baltimore church, Dr. Stone waa
frankly told by his friends that there
was no field in this district in C ht-
cago for the building up of a reli
gious enterprise. But Dr. Stone has
amply demonstrated the fallacy of
this prediction. Fourth Church is
crowded at every service. It is often
impossible to secure a seat.
“What should be the attitude of the
church toward the people the poor?”
I asked Dr Stone, and this is about
what he said:
Outlines Community Ideal.
“The church should care for all the
people It should minister io the needs
I of the entire community. Its service,
should be so arranged that, like those
of the Roman Catholic Church, they
suit the convenience of all grades of
workers. The church building shoulfl
be open all day. so that the poor
workingwoman as well as her richer
sister may come in to rest and pray.
“But the church itself should he
used only for worship. In our new
church building we shall put in the
best organ that it is possible to build.
It is to be given by Mrs. Emmons
Blaine, who is greatly interested ir;
social work in Chicago. She has given
orders to Skinner, the famous organ
builder of Boston, to spare no < -
pense in building it. Thin organ w Uj
Hov. John T. Stone, new mod
erator of Northern Chureh.
be dedicated for the purposes of wor
ship.
"Our new* plans, which will cover
an entire city square, costing nearly
$1,000,000. will be so arranged that
we shall have buildings for every le
gitimate purpose in connection with
church work, including gymnasiums,
club rooms and the various other or
ganizations. Facing Lake Shore Drive,
the church itself will be of pure-Gothic'
structure, seating 1.50U persons. The
plan of the group of buildings will h* 3
much like that adopted by many Eng
lish colleges. In the center will be an
open fountain court, a cloister in front
separating the buildings from the
street. There will be a fine manse
for the minister’s family, but which
will really be the ‘people’s house.’”
Building Fund Paid In.
“I am glad to say,” said Dr. Stone,
“that every dollar of the amount nec
essary to erect this magnificent se
ries of buildings was paid in before
we began to build. The chairman of
the committee of eight having the
entire matter of the construction of
tlie buildings in charge is Thomas B.
Jones, who was president of the Uni
versity Club of Chicago and chairman
of its building committee. The plant
of the University Club is said to be
the finest of its kind in America. Mr.
Jones is the type of man who is giv
ing his time to the work that we are
doing in Chicago.”
It must not be imagined that our
fine equipment is to be used only for
the rich," said Dr. Stone. “The sur
vey recently made of our parish—the
Twenty-First Ward of Chicago—re
vealed the fact that we have every
conceivable problem which confronts
the average downtown city church.
We shall mak<- every attempt to get
at this situation.
“Fourth Church field was once
characteristically residential. It had
within Its area some of the finest
residences and best families in Chi
cago. But the other night within a
few blocks of the church a murder
was committed in one of the worst
saloons in the city.
Has Dance Hall Problem.
“It is said by the social workers
who are familiar with the conditions
that many of the worst dance halls
are found in this district. These are
visited every night by young people
who live in the boarding houses and
apartments mar by. It is quite ap
parent that one of the most impor
tant groups to which Fourth Church
has to minister is found among these
young men and women. Rather un
usual is the fa- t that while the popu
lation of the ward is growing minors
are rapidly decreasing, while adults
are increasing.
“In the two public schools found in
this district the enrollment has de
creased in the- past ten years from
1,7-21 to 1,196. Indeed, out of a total
population of 47,906 there are only
8.274 persons under 21 years of age.
It is striking also that of this total
population in th*- ward 26,831 are
Americans, and the principal groups
consist of Americans. Germans, Irish,
Scandinavians and English.
Ninety saloons are battling against
five- churches, and the saloons are
among the most demoralizing in Chi-
“Hidden away in the cheaper lodg
ing houses and housekeeping apart
ments in this district are many per
sons who are trying' to forget their
past M ay of them are making an
honest struggle toward better things.
They need to be sought out and given
encouragement and cheer. They have
h strong pn judice against the church.’
NOW LED BY
Country Is Undergoing Great So
cial and Political Awakening,
Says Missionary.
Thp day w*hen masterful, resource
ful missionaries—men who are able to
lead and who find their natural
sphere In leadership—were needed in
India is past, in the opinion of D. J.
Fleming, of Lahore, in the Punjab
district of India, one of the most
noted of the foreign missionaries who
are here attending the Presbyterian
Assemblies.
"India is undergoing a great social
and political awakening.” Mr. Flem
ing said Monday, “and the Indian sees
in Christianity hie salvation both
spiritually and In a political sense.
The church of Christ is now organ
ized in India, and the kind of mis
sionaries we need are not the ones
who want to lead and who have the
power to lead, but men who are will
ing to step Into the background and
let the natives lead.
“The missionary who goes to India
to-day should not lead the native jo
much as he should teach the native to
lead himself. If there are commit
tees to be formed, the missionary
should not put himself in the fore
ground and take the chairmanship,
but he should allow a native to be th?
head of the organization. If there is
a moderatorship in the church to be
filled, the missionary should not fill
it; the post should be given to a na
tive.
“The present unrest in India grew
out of the embracing of Christianity
and the organizing of the church.
The English Government has been
forced to give the people a certain
voice in their government, and the
government and the church are now*
working hand in hand for the better
ment of the Indians.
“A full-blooded Hindu, Rev. Mr.
Azariali, was recently ordained a
bishop in the Church of England.
Within the past ten years the church
of Christ has increased in member
ship 30 per cent, just six times as
fast as Hinduism and Mohammedan
ism. One out of every four native
Christians can read, one out of everv
20 Hindus and one out of every 27
M ohammedins.”
Mr. Fleming is a member of the fac-
u’ty of Foreman Christian College, at
Lahore, which has about 500 native
students.
SMALL ARMY0F OFFICERS
TAKE 7 OZARK DISTILLERS
ALTON, MO.. May 19—The big-
gtst round-up of moonshiners made
in Southern Missouri in fifteen years
was completed yesterday by a party
of eleven Federal officers, six deputy
United States marshals and five rev
enue agents, who captured seven “hill
billies" distillers in central Oregon
County, In the very midst of the
Ozarks.
Miss Olivia Bogacki, of Mont
gomery. one of the charming Ag
nes Scott girls.
MODERATOR HITS
AT NEIW THEOLOGY
Stone Has No Patience With
Doctrines That Detract From
the Divinity of Christ.
A mammoth crowd heard the sermon
of Dr. John T. Stone, Moderator of the
Northern Presbyterian Assembly, Sun
day afternoon in the Harris Street
Church. When the main auditorium
w*as filled, the class rooms adjoining
were thrown open and quickly crowded.
Dr. Stone emphasized the supernatu
ral characteristics of Christ and dis
played plainly the fact that be was not
in sympathy with any doctrinal move
ment which would detract from the di
vine attributes of the Saviour.
Speaking of the proposed merger of
two of the Assemblies, Dr. Stone said:
“Christ will attend to that in due time
and to His glory.”
Dr. George H. Mack, of Nashville,
Tenn.. one of the founders of the church
and' its first pastor, offered the first
prayer.
Dr. J. S. Lyons, of Louisville. Mod
erator of the Southern Assembly, proph
esied in his sermon in the North Ave
nue Presbyterian Church that this de
nomination whose three Assemblies are
meeting in Atlanta will some day be
come the most powerful religious influ
ence in the world. “I don’t believe that
the great Presbyterian Church is going
to be false to God in a day like this,
he said. “God is going to make all of
us fall in line for the kingdom of
Christ.”
The Moderator said that there is a
growing disposition about the country to
dedicate money and influence to the
church.
WHEN YOUR LIVER
GOES WRONG
Nearly Everybody Needs a Liver
Stimulant at One Time
or Another.
Nearly everybody now and then
Is annoyed with a sluggish, lazy
liver or by constipation or by bil
iousness.
It is for this reason that Dod
son’s Liver Tone is such a good
medicine to keep always in the
house.
Either children or grown-ups can
take Dodson’s Liver Tone without
bad after-effects and without re
striction of habit or diet. It is a
vegetable liquid with a pleasant
taste, but a reliever of constipation
and liver troubles, and entirely
takes the plaxie of calomel. AH
druggists guarantee every bottle
of Dodson's Liver Tone they sell.
It costs 50 cents per bottle, and
if you are not satisfied that it is
worth the money, they will hand
your half-dollar back to you with
a smile.
Don’t be fooled by preparations
Imitating the claims of Dodson's
Liver Tone. Just remember any
dealer will give you back your
money if Dodson’s Liver Tone fails
you. That is a guarantee that
guarantees.