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Show ILIMISre ElfEl PRAISE erelt Pays Tribute to Work of the Army in Maiiy Lines. IT SERMONS IN CHURCH ARE BECOMING POPULAR rfous Societies Pian for nventions During the Summer Months. BY D. V. PRANOIS. iged Wire to The Tribune. f YORK, Jly 22. There may be a lore effective organization than tho on Army, but I am frank to say know what it Is. In season and cold weather and hot, it goea on y taking the light, of the gospel rk places and lending the helping f Christian sympathy to fallen hu-, hu-, It Is gratifying to sec the work aplendld organization receiving the tlon it has enrnod. lore Roosevelt pays a very glow-npllinent glow-npllinent to the Salvation Army cidentally to .Rider Haggard, the :, in the Outlook. Concluding his of Mr. Haggard's recent work Mr. lt said: Salvation Army has done socln.1 i England in many different lines, has met the well-nigh Infinitely needs of those among whom It has with an equally varied resource-and resource-and a singular combination of d sanity. Men, women and chil-e chil-e all alike cared for. The mii-recelvlng mii-recelvlng homes are among those ncct especially desperate needs In that is really Christian, that Is following the teachings of tho ; of Christianity. Yet. great the good is that is done by theso great the achievement they roprc-thb roprc-thb rescue of poor creatures not iclous. but far more often victims all this Is equaled by tho work many other ways, very Interesting feature brought Mr. Haggard, incidentally, is that :-a sense which Is more literal than irstive; tho work of regeneration often &ns such a complete change In a man's ure as Is equivalent to the casting out 3eils. Few people who read his book i' fall to be almost as much Impressed VMr. Haggard acknowledges himself lave been by what ho witnessed of this d. Mr Haggard's accounts of the d and industrial colonics, small -hold -settlement and similar works give almost startling inside view of tho e:-ordlnary e:-ordlnary combination of loflv dlslnter-cdness, dlslnter-cdness, intense zeal and understanding I first rate business ability, which have tbled General Booth and those asso-Led asso-Led with him to accomplish so much directing what otherwiso would be the ste forces of benevolence to national H." A Polite Bible. Jducatlonallsts who desire a refined ilo for use In schools need only reprint New Testament issued by the Rev. irard Harwood in the eighteenth cen-y, cen-y, This version was tho clergyman's Binpt in his own language "to dlf-e dlf-e over the sacred pages the elegance modern "English." Accordingly XIco-huh XIco-huh is referred to as "this gentleman." t daughter of Jarius is raised from the A with the command, "Young ladv, se!" and at the transfiguration St. Jtr remarks, with painful politeness, Mi. sir, what a delectable residence we IHfrt Ax here." 'Wermons are not bo lengthy as they Id to ba, and one seldom sees In tho uIc papers the joke, so familiar In oth-nmes, oth-nmes, wherein the minister was chld- ed for his "fourtccnthly" remark, which was supposed to mark a porlod In his sermon ser-mon somewhat towards Its close. It is said that Thomas Hooker thought his duty ill performed If his sermon did not consume three hours. Once It Is related re-lated that the famous divine diK deliver a really short sermon, preaching exactly fifteen minutes. He sat down, but, after I a brief rest, was up and at It again for two hours more- TSvery one of Gran-mer's Gran-mer's sermons was a small volume In Itself, It-self, and Bunyan, Calvin, Baxter and ICnox are all said to have been only a little more merciful to their hearers. In striking contrast with these long-wlndcd long-wlndcd discourses may be mentioned some startllngly brief sermons of late years. Perhaps the shortest of all was that dellverod by a clergyman at Ocean Grove, Is. J., who, after announcing his text, impressively surveyed his congregation congre-gation and then paid; "Don't worry; It's wicked." It would be difficult to exceed this in brevity and effectiveness, but a north of England vicar in the last centurv closely close-ly approximated it. He gave but tho text. "God so loved the world," etc.. to which ho added this observation: "My friends, did I speak an hour I couldn't make that message any 'plainer. I'll just leave It with you." Another clorgyman had been requestod to deliver a charity address on behalf of orphan children. His sermon consisted of the text, "Whence shall -we find bread that those may cat?" So impressed was the congregation that the collection was the largest ever taken in that vicinity. Catholic Editors Meet. For the first time in connection with a convention of the American Federation of Catholic societies, to be held at Columbus, Colum-bus, August 20 to 24. there is to be a convention of editors of Catholic periodicals. period-icals. The alms aro personal acquaintance acquaint-ance and discussion of methods by which such periodicals may bo improved. The apostolic delegate at Washington. Monsolgneur Falconio, will be the celebrant cele-brant of the mass at the Columbus convention, con-vention, and principal speakers will be Archbishop Uessmcr of Milwaukee and Bishop McFaul of Trenton, two of the founders of the federation, and Archbishop Arch-bishop Mueller of Cincinnati. Former Secretary Bonaparte of Baltimore will be another speaker and principal guest at tho banquet. There is to be a parade on Sunday, August Au-gust 0. at which it is expected 12,000 will bo in line. In this federation, among others, are the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Hiber-nians, the Knights of Columbus, tho Foresters For-esters and Knights of St. John, tho great bodies of organized Catholic laymen whose combined membership run Into tho hundreds of thousands, Mission Conference. The "Women's Board of Domestic Missions Mis-sions of the Heformcd Church holds Its Home Mission conference at Northlleld, MiLss,, July 21-27. The alms of the conference con-ference at Northlleld are thus stated: To provide a place where all women desiring desir-ing a deepor spiritual llfo and clearer knowledge of how to best work for the spread of Christ's kingdom In North America, can spend a part of their summer sum-mer vacation; to present the newest and best plans of work lor homo missions in Sunday schools, women's clrclcu, and among young people and children; to train leaders for mission study classes; to make definite the call to service for Christ and ills kingdom Jn the individual Ufa. At the opening sosslon, addresses were made by W. It. Moody of Northlleld and John G. Brady, ex-governor of Alaska. Tho morning ocsslons will begin at 0 o'clock with a Bible hour conducted by the Rev. Dr. James A. Francis of Boston. The mission study class will meet at 10 o'clock; leaders, Miss Elizabeth Venn J I ya and Mrs. Florence 1-1. Wlbcr, who will use the next textbook, "The Cons urva tlon of Our National Idoals." After tho mission study class there will be half hour discussions of mlsslonury methods, led by Miss Sallle M. Protz-man Protz-man of Baltimore. At 11,20 o'clock short addresses on various phases of home mission work will hu given by missionaries mis-sionaries of the different denominational boards. Each evening a devotional service will be held at Round Top at 7 o'clock, followed fol-lowed by a sorvlec In the Auditorium, At these Auditorium meetings thu speakers will be Miss Ijlly Corwln of Reno. Nov., Mrs. John S. Alhin, the Rev. Dr. W. II, Griffith-Thomas of Toronto, tho Rov, Dr. C, Li. Thompson. |