Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 321, 25 September 1911 — Page 8
PAGE EIGHT.
CHURCH
GROWTH OF
TEXT F0RSERM0N tRev. McNary Tells Congregation of Increases in Presbyterian Church.
MUIICIE GETS READY
Convention in May.
The Rev. Thoma McNary, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, Sun'lay gave a ntatlBtical report of the growth of the Presbyterian church in
this country. His sermon in part lot lowi:
While Christ was able to gain only a
! handful of followers during three 'years of his ministry and only had a ! hundred and twenty that could wait 'ten days In prayer In the little upper W-oom, that had faith in the "promise tof the father" yet Peter was able to add to this following three thousand souls on the occasion of his first serinion. And later again two thousand louls lu addition to the former and Land so on until all Asia heard the
hword of God, wherever this condition lof faith of the text was complied with, lit was repeated under the preaching of other apostles and evangelists from khat day to tho present time. Ililly fBunday has held more than one meetling where he has eclipsed even the lapostolic statistics and has recorded ixuore than five thousand conversions.
But these are the unusual demonstra
tions of grace under extraordinary efilorta and conditions.
The Largest Church.
But we wish to present for your consideration today an examplo of a rnodkrn church which la able to accomplish the same result from a wise 1 land energetic working of the ordinary rulan and system of an every day
church work. We present the statis
tics of the largest Presbyterian cnurcn kin the world, the First Presbyterian church of Seattle, the Uev. Dr. Mark LA. Matthews, pastor.
There are 27 elders and 9 deacons,
1655 were received on examination and p22t by letter, 198 were dismissed by (letter, 93 were suspended and 32 died, 'the total membership is 4,576, 98 adjults and 155 infants were baptized, ithere are 2,755 Sunday school scholars, the congregational expenses were
t61,640, the girts to the boards were: fciome Missions, $11,552; Foreign Missions, $4,625; education, 450; Sabbath school work, $963; church erection, 4,300; relief fund,$225; Freedmen, ifllO; colleges, $650 and temperance, "$212. While the denomination has 57 churches whose enrollment Is over a thousand each, she has only 32 churches that have added one hundred or 'more to her Hat of membership from - conversions. Three of these churches are those where Billy Sunday held revival services. Two of these churches are found In one llttlo city, Portsmouth, Ohio, where the First Presbyterian' received 453 additions and the
Second 229, while other churches of
other denominations also received their proportion. The other church is
at New Castle, Ta., where Billy Sun
day visited and as a result 290 was added to the Central Tresbyterlan
church alone, while churches of all
other denominations received a like
uroDortlon. Is not this a fulfillment of
. the promise of the text, "greater
works than these shall ye do" if ye
ionlv believe in me. Many sigh for
jthe good old times but the church is
Ipurer and stronger and doing more toiav than in all her Dast history. In
1800 there was only one church menv her out of every 14 of our citizens un
itll at the present time one in everyj
three of our citizens are proressing ichrlstlans. Statistics show that the
proportion of Increase of church membership has three times the percentage of growth of the population. The kingdoms of this world will yet become the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ through the power of the Truth and .Spirit of God, the Father.
THE RICH3IOND PAL"LADIU3I AND SUN-TEIjEGRABI, 3IOXDAX, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911.
MASSACHUSETTS TO
TEST PRIMARY LAW
(Palladium Special) MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 25. Although the annual state convention of Indiana division, T. P. A., will not be held until next May. Post It,' of Mun-
cie, which Is to be host of the con
vention, has already set about making arrangements for the gathering which
Is expected to be the largest and most
pretentious ever held by the Indiana
division. Post It will publish a commercial history of the state in advance of the state convention. The history will be published in book form, handsomely bound in gold embossed covers. The volume will contain a history of the association, together with a complete history of the banking, wholesale and
manufacturing industries of the state,
also a history of the state of Indiana,
its many cities, villages and historical places, beautifully illustrated, thus
making it a work of art, as well as a valuable buniness publication.
A conv of this work will be present
ed to every delegate attending the convention in Muncie next May, while the two hundred and forty posts of the T.
P. A. in the United StateB will be turnished with a copy free of charge as will every delegate attending the na
tional convention which will be held
in Peoria. 111., next June. This circulation alone will be a splendid ad
vertisement for the state and its com-1 ... . i V, i
First Election in the State Under New Statute Is Held Tomorrow.
grand thing for the people, it is an ef
fective barrier against the average man running for high office unleses he is well supplied with the world's goods. Representative Norman H. White does not suffer from lack of funds and if his candidacy is unsuccessful it will
not be because he has not conducted J
(National News Association) BOSTON', Sept. 25. Tomorrow Massachusetts faces her first election under the direct primary law a step in the direction of more direct government by the people, which the politicians and the citizenship in general of the Commonwealth are watching with interest. The old time conventions, sometimes machine-ridden, sometimes bossdominated, art a thing of the past and
it is to the voters themselves that the choice of who shall represent them in the state government is directly presented. What they will do Is the moot question.
Much of the interest In the coming caucus is destroyed by the fact that Governor Foss, who will undoubtedly be the Democratic nominee has no candidate to make him spend any great effort in order to again become his party choice. "Honest" Tom Hisgen of Springfield is a candidate against Foss, but his campaign appears to be entirely local, and whatever votes he receives in the vicinity of the Berkshires will be cast rather for his devotion to a principle than a belief that he has a chance to become
the Democratic standard bearer.
i irwiiistrieR. aside from tne
many thousands of copies that will be sold and sent all over this country and Kurope. Post U has elected the convention executive committee composed of the following gentlemen: F. D. Haimbaugh, president Post R; chairman, J. C. Crilly, Karl A. Oesterle, George J. Brooker, Charles W. Galliher, John U. Hickman, Charles F. Skinner, Celts. Charles W. Lock-
wood, Vincent W. Jones and Kiser, with T. Edgar Harvey, man publicity. it la the intention , of Post
make the Muncie convention excel any
previous convention ever held in the
state by the T. P. A. The committee hope to be able to entertain the guests in Muncie next may in such a manner that will leave a warm spot in their hearts 'for the city.
J. F. chair-
It to
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A Lively Campaign.
On the other hand the Republican
campaign is both lively .and interesting, and the three cornered fight for the nomination has stirred up political nnta that have not boiled for some
years. It is rather an unusual thing to see three Republican candidates for
the state's highest office, and it is most unusual to see them all go before the people. It was fashionable in
the oast to fight it out before the con
vention, and the voter had the choice
of accepting the candidate of the lead
era or boltins the ticket.
It has been a long fight and a hard
fieht for all three candidates. It has
offortivelv demonstrated that while
the new direct primary law may be a
the most systematic and thorough
campaign that money can make. The
Brcokline representative has been constantly on the move since the closing of the legislature. His agents have
canvassed the large mill cities and in Essex county particularly an effort
has been made to line most of the rough and ready members of the party for the anti-New Haven champion. That Is where Candidate White's insurgency begins and ends. While he has posed as the arch enemy of the corporations and an ardent supporter of progressive policies and principles, he has not deparfed from the beaten Dath that machine candidates trav
erse enough to make him obnoxious to any of the big leaders.
Pet of the Machines.
Lieutenant Governor Louis A.
Frothingham is the pet of the state
and city machine. While machines
were supposed to have been put down
and out by the new direct primary
law, there is evidence that they still exist though whether they are as po
tent and. effective a force as in the past, is yet to be demonstrated. Froth-
insrham is being given all the support
that the state machine can give him
in the open and his personal machine is doing effective work besides.
Speaker Joseph Welker plods along
constantly working and supremely con
fident. He is more of the type of in
surgent that Washington developed
and he has advocated more progres
sive legislation and measures that the machine , disliked, than any of his rivals. In more ways than one the present Massahcusetts campaign is unusual. In the first place it appears that per, sonalities rather than issues are to be discussed, and again the Republican aBniranta rather han discuss the
shortcoming of their rivals, have all
directed their batteries toward Gover
nor Foss. An the Governor is extremly confident of re-election is taking
things easy "and does not propose to j make any campaign until after the primaries. Governor Foss feels that the high cost of living and the tariff are yet live issues. He feels that the public is satisfied with his administration as far as it has gone and is ready and willing to return him to Beacon Hill
to continue the work he has started. There will be conventions this year as in the past but they will be merely part of the necessary legal formula
that the' parties must go through with,
They wil merely adopt the plattorm and elect the balance of the state com-,
mittee. It will be a chance for oratory, nothing more. Those who urged the passage of the direct primary law argued that it would wipe out the bosses in Massachusetts. Whether their reasoning was sound will be determined tomorrow. For the answer to this question as well as the outcome of the various candidates the public is awaiting with interest.
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