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Show RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS OF WEST ADVANCING PHILADELPHIA, Nov 25. Rapid! H advance In tho instruction of religious education has been made during the last few years by schools of the west, i Pr. Charles E. ermilya of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, told members of tho board of homo missions and church extension of the Methodist Episcopal church at the annual meeting here today. "For years the west has been sending send-ing its young women and young men j cast for their trallng," he said, "with) MB the result that they were lost to the: west where their leadership was needed "It was once thought that the un-Wm un-Wm trained man could get on In tho w est. J ! but not bo In the east. The fact has I been that he was less able to get on , there than in the east. ( "'Men and women who have had en-j ergy enough to fac the trials and problems of a now country arc not the; kind that are mentally asleep. Tho business men and women of these m.v, .settlement generally havo been exceptionally ex-ceptionally wide awake and keen. "Tho great need of the west is a better type of leadership. If we would have tho better grade of leaders to appoint ap-point to our churches we could reduce ! the missionary expenditures to an al most Incredible amount. "Our schools rightly equipped and motivated are our hope. A fine beginning be-ginning has been mad- and we must EKjlj carry on In a more extensive manner in the future than we have in the KjM past." |