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Show It is interestiug to note the simultaneous durational movements now in progress by the three moat numerous Christian bodies in the United States. The Methodists, the Baptists and the Catholics comprise something some-thing like 15,000,000 souls, or three-fourths of the total number of professed Christians In this country. Each of these denominations denomina-tions is pushing its educational and missionary mis-sionary iaterests as never before, and they are spending very little time In debating creeds and dogmas of theological literature. The Methodists entertain a plan for a unt-Yersity unt-Yersity at the country's capital which shall be national In its scope, and organized on a scale surpassing anything hitherto attempted by the denomination. They believe that by locating it at Washington they will be able to neutralize the national eifects of the Catholic school situate there. It is the idea to raise not less than $50,000,000 as an endowment en-dowment fund, and this will be collected by general denominational offerings. The Raptists, who during the past two years have been engaged iu a general endowment movement by which many of their educational educa-tional institutions have been put ou a solid basis, have selected not Washington as their great university but Chicago, the metropolis of the mighty west and the highway of the continent. Its total endowment fund already al-ready reaches pearly $4,000,000, though its doors will not be open until next October. These three overshadowing denominational schools are destined to exert a powerful in-l:i:e:icc in-l:i:e:icc in shaping the religious thought of the future iu the United States. |