Meetings

With summer upon them, with vacations imminent, various groups met last week.

Christian Scientists. To Boston went 6,000 Christian Scientists from all parts of the world to attend the annual meeting of the "Mother Church." They heard Retiring President Charles E. Heitman declare that their church was "fulfilling its mission as a healing church"; elected him business manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society; elected Mrs. Ella W. Hoag of Bropkline, Mass., new president of their group. She is a disciple of Mary Baker Patterson Glover Eddy.

Reformed Church. The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, at Asbury Park, N. J., for their 121st annual session, learned that they had had but $455,345.71 to spend for foreign missions last year. That was $15,406.05 (nearly 4%) less than the missions got in 1925, although they had asked a 20% increase. Grieved on this score, the General Synod was glad to hear Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed and underworked youths who should be steered into the path of religion and the church, and who should be saved from the beliefs preached by H. L. Mencken and his ghoulish crowd."

Missionaries. It was considered most appropriate that Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism. . . ."