nominations in the United States and from all parts of this country.

President Lowell spoke the first word, welcoming the brethren. Every great war, he said, gives rise to serious moral and religious conditions. Along with that spiritual exaltation which appears in so many letters from the front, and which promises so much for the future, there will be inevitable counterbalancing difficulties. This is the warning of history, which reminds us that the Napoleonic wars were followed by an ambition to get rich, one of whose ugly manifestations was the factory system, and that our Civil War, which brought forward so many men who were willing to die for their country, brought forward also a discouraging number of men. who proposed to make as much out of their country as they could, and who went into politics for that purpose. This present war will have two perilous consequences. It will be followed by a period of material occupation, in which the people of all the belligerent lands will employ their energies chiefly in building up that which has been broken down; and by a period of emotional reaction, a descent from the heights of our moral enthusiasm, in which our swept and garnished chamber may be invaded by seven devils worse than the first. These are consequences which must be met by the endeavors of religion. They are moral and spiritual evils which need moral and spiritual remedies. These remedies must be prescribed in the classrooms of theological schools, and administered by the men who have been thus instructed.

The shortage of students was discussed and the various hindrances to the ministry. No one seemed to possess the common sense or courage to tell the truth, that the ministry, notwithstanding the drains made by the war, is still a very much overcrowded profession.

The situation in the seminaries next fall was faced. There will not be many students. Here again no one seemed to

realize that this will be more than offset after the war. Yet such has been the experience in the past. The conditions of military service make many young men think seriously about life and lead them, after the war is past, to enter the ministerial calling.

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Summer schools and conferences have been held everywhere, more or less as usual. Under the auspices of the Synod of the mid-West, a conference of Church workers was held at Racine College in July. The Bishop of Fond du Lac was one of the leaders at this conference. Mother Eva Mary and Bishop Burleson were also present. At the Oregon summer school, Bishop Sumner and Dean Christian of Juneau, Alaska, were among the speakers. A conference of Church workers of the Second Province was held at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. An Indian "mystery play," "The Great Trail," written by Mrs. Henry L. Hobart, and presented by some sixty players, was a feature of this conference. Bishop Stearly, president of the conference, preached daily.

The Board of Christian Education of the Diocese of Los Angeles, held a summer school at Santa Monica, July 16 to 19.

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The Rev. Dr. J. Stuart Holden, rector of St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London, editor of The Christian, and one of the prominent leaders of the evangelistic forces of England, arrived in New York in July, to spend July and August in America. He preached on the first Sunday in July in Trinity Church, Boston, and, during the month, in New York, at St. James' Church and at Columbia University.

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To give greater effectiveness to the work of the navy chaplains in the Atlantic fleet, Secretary Daniels has just appointed Chaplain Matthew C. Gleeson, who has been stationed at the Naval

Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island, as Fleet Captain. He will serve under Admiral Mayo, who is the commander of the fleet, and will have oversight and direction of the work of all chaplains in Atlantic waters on the American side.

Chaplain Gleeson, who is a Roman Catholic, has been in the service for fourteen years and has been highly recommended by both Protestant and Catholic chaplains. His duties will be to inspect all chaplains of the fleet and their work, to advise them of matters that may be for the good of the service, and to call meetings of all chaplains in the fleet when necessity arises. He will also arrange for services on board the ships that do not carry chaplains and for the interchange of chaplains of different faiths, so as to provide services for all.

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The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, estimate that there are 75,000 communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the service.

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The Dean of St. Paul's, Erie (the Very Rev. A. R. Van Meter), has received the following letter from Dr. Watson, who for many years has been rector of Trinity Church, Paris, and has lately returned to this country.

"I am sending you this hasty note to tell you the news of Bishop Israel. He is well and doing the work of a great apostle. His personal service to the cause of the Allies is worth that of a whole regiment of men. Your diocese can give nothing finer than the service its bishop is rendering to the boys in France."

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The Bishop of Pittsburgh held a Confirmation service for the churches of Erie, at the Cathedral, on the evening of May 29. The Bishop's chair was placed near the chancel steps and the different clergy presented their candidates in turn. Then the Bishop entered the sanctuary and each class was confirmed. The Bishop spoke beautifully of Bishop Israel, to whom he had been a spiritual

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In the Boston Cathedral they have been following a custom, which is growing widely in this country, of five minute daily periods of prayer exactly at noon, for the men in the service of the country.

Harold Colthurst Mills, Second Lieutenant in the National Army, who was killed in France in July, was a student in the Berkeley Divinity School, and the son of the Rev. S. A. Mills, rector of St. Luke's Church, Troy, N. Y. He graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, in 1915, and entered Berkeley in the fall of the same year. In June, 1917, he volunteered for military service. He was the first Berkeley man to go and the first Berkeley undergraduate to have given his life for his country in the present

war.

In the death of the Rev. William P. DuBose, D.D., D.C.L., who died at his home in Sewanee, Tenn., on Sunday, August 18, at the age of 82 years, America loses one of her leading theologians. Dr. DuBose was born at Winsboro, S. C., April 11, 1836. He was graduated at the South Carolina Military Academy, Charleston in 1855, and at the University of Virginia in 1859. He began his theological studies at the old theological seminary of South Carolina. The Civil War broke out before his ordination. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and became Adjutant in Kershaw's Brigade. He became more determined than ever to enter the ministry, as a result of his experiences in the war. In 1864 he was ordained deacon and returned to the same brigade as chaplain. He was advanced to the priesthood in 1865. He was rector in his native town after the war, at St. John's, Winsboro, S. C. Then he was rector of Trinity Church, Abbeville, S. C. In 1871 he went to the Uni

Professor of Ethics and New Testament and Old Testament language and interpretation. He became Dean of the Theological Department in 1894 and retired as Dean emeritus in 1908. Even since then, he has produced scholarly books and been a power in the Church.

"The Soteriology of the New Testament," published in 1892, was his first important publication. Perhaps his greatest work was "The Gospel in the Gospel," published in 1906. Other books by him were: "The Ecumenical Councils," "The Gospel According to St. Paul," "High Priesthood and Sacrifice," "The Reason of Life,” “Turning Points in My Life."

To all Sewanee men, Doctor DuBose was the living embodiment of the Sewanee spirit. Over those graduates his influence was very great and throughout the Church it was everywhere felt.

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The Rev. Samuel N. Watson, Rector Emeritus of the American Church in Paris, has issued an earnest plea, which deserves publicity.

"I am deeply concerned for our American Church of the Holy Trinity, in Paris. I do not see how we can continue to maintain it without large and immediate help from its friends. I send you some notes on its meaning and its necessities.

There are two reasons why it must not fail:

1. Its ministrations to the soldiers and war workers who are in Paris now; and

2. Its meaning to France, and to the French people: it is a part of America encouraging France, that ever-open, beautiful American Church, in the heart of Paris: it will have its even larger message to France, once the war is over.

Nothing must imperil its continued service now.

Beyond all that meaning, which anyone can appreciate, is this further fact: This great American House of Prayer has for a half a century been offering its welcome to all who had need of its services, without regard to condition or form of religious confession. It has been above all a Spiritual Inn for strangers in a land which was not theirs-but the Church was theirs, and they loved to find it there. Perhaps it has been a hostel for a day or

a night for you, or for some one you loved, who found there shelter and peace. If it be so, then think of how many others will have need of it and, in gratitude, remember its needs now.

Some day we must have an endowment, but I only ask for temporary help now-it is Emergency Relief for the Church in Distress that I ask for.

Can you will you-send a check, a gift, a pledge for either one year's maintenance of the Church in Paris, or so much yearly for the maintenance of the Church in Paris while the war lasts?

Will you let me hear from you as quickly as possible? The need is urgent!

Address, to which replies and gifts may be sent: Church Mission House. 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City, or National City Bank, Akron, Ohio."

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The General War-time Commission of the Churches will hold its second annual meeting in Washington, D. C., on Tuesday, September 24. The sessions will be held morning, afternoon and evening, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York Avenue and 13th Street. There will be a number of reports and addresses, covering the various phases of Church work in war time, the new problems confronting the Church as a result of the war and the religious outlook for the future. President Wilson, the Secretaries of War and of the Navy and other government officials have been invited.

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In the long list of distinguished clergymen and laymen who have crossed the Atlantic to interpret the sentiment of the Allied countries each to the other, there arrived here in September a distinguished member of the English episcopate, the Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Oxford. Bishop Gore will speak in many places in this country, where he is well known by his writings.

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After a lingering illness, the Rev. William H. Vibbert, D.D., vicar emeritus of Trinity Chapel, New York City, died at Morristown, N. J., on Tuesday, August 27, aged seventy-eight years. Doctor Vibbert was born in New Haven, Conn.,

and was a graduate of the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, Trinity College, Hartford, and the Berkeley Divinity School, where he later taught Hebrew. Racine College, in 1883, conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Bishop Williams ordained him deacon in 1862 and priest in 1863.

Among the charges held by Dr. Vibbert were St. Luke's, Germantown, Penn., and St. James', Chicago. In 1883, 1886, and 1889 he was deputy to General Convention from the Diocese of Chicago. He had been Vicar of Trinity Chapel, New York, since 1891, and Vicar emeritus since 1910.

Among the war activities of the City of New York is the Social Department. of the New York War Camp Community Service, in charge of Mrs. James Madison Bass. Madison Bass. On one night the organization housed some 2,500 soldiers and sailors for the night, dividing them up among various places, including units furnished by St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas' and Grace Church. In addition to this work of housing there are various amusements prepared for the boys in various parts of the city and attractive circulars issued for them giving what's doing in New York City for soldiers, sailors, and marines, under proper auspices.

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The third Synod of the Pacific, which was scheduled to meet in Trinity Church, Seattle, Wash., on Thursday, September 5, has been indefinitely postponed, as no quorum could be secured.

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Berkeley Divinity School, Berkeley. California, has been legally incorporated under the laws of the State.

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The colored convocation of the Diocese of Southern Virginia, held its 26th annual meeting in St. Mark's Church, Bracey, from August 7 to 9. There were eighteen lay delegates and twelve.