Lima, O., churches received over 900 members following the Chapman-Alexander meetings. Union tabernacle meetings are to be held at Santa Paula, led by French E. Oliver. D. D., of Kansas City. The assembly room of the proposed $250,- 000 administration building of IVJoody In stitute when built will be dedicated to the memory of H. Clay Trumbull, for many years editor of the Sunday School Times. The lecture hall of Moody church is be coming badly crowded with the large num ber of students now in àttendancé. Freeport, 111., on April 7, 1914, voted it self free of fifty-two saloons. Fourteen days afterward, 2800 citizens pledged $110,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building to take their place. A lot was bought May 1, plans approved August 17, contract let September 24, ground broken the next day, foundations begun October 12, and enough money is in hand to furnish and equip, and allow $13,500 for a reserve fund. The new army which Lord Kitchener has drilled through the last six months in Eng land has been so thoroughly evangelized that it goes into the field with almost the same Puritan spirit that pervaded Crom well’s regiments. And it is said that like religious feeling has spread among the reg ular troops already at the front. Not only are men learning to pray individually, but incidents are reported where companies and regiments have insisted that their com manding officers shall lead in audible prayer before they go into battle. In six months, March-September, 1914.
the American Sunday School Union in its southwestern district established 311 Sun day schools in needy places, into which 12,374 scholars and teachers were assem bled. Agents" for the society in this same district further visited and assisted 667 other needy Sunday schools, made 10,550 family visits, distributed $1069 worth of Christian literature, and 4865 Bibles and Testaments. , They reported 1285 conver sions. D. L. Moody considered this the greatest instrumentality’ for the evan gelization of American rural districts. The society is undenominational. _ Of an anniversary meeting at Pyeng Yang we read: “The 1500 people in the audience represented, in this northern section of the Korea mission, a constituency of enrolled adherents numbering 80,702 last year, where twenty years ago there were less than 100. The baptized believers about a year ago numbered 35,787, and as the rate of in crease continues rapidly the figures will be largely augmented if brought up to date. Just last week a little country church near here, at Chungwha, reported as a result of eight days’ meetings a list of over 500 new believers. Other districts bring in good reports showing an advance like that of former times. A correspondent in the London Christian speaks of visiting the parents of a boy who went down in the torpedoed warship “Cressy.” A good brave lad, he entered the Way of Life just before going to sea. His last letter stated that “We (Christians) are sixty strong, including the captain’s steward, who permits us to use his cabin each night for reading and prayer.” For bidden to indicate his whereabouts he sig nificantly remarks: “I am still in Romans
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