The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-13
ONWARD MOVE AGAINST SIN
Grand Crusade in All Churches Planned
for Year After Next.
CHRISTIAN UNITY IN FACT
One Of the Most Far.Reaching Carniyals
Of Evangelistic Effort Ever Con.
templated Is to BE Inaugurated
in This Country Soon.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Speclal 10 the Scranton Tribune.
New York, Oct. 12-Year after next
Will witness one of the grandest "carni-
walls of religion" that the world has
ever known. 1t will be nothing less
than a sweeping revival in simultane-
GUS progress in 5000 Protestant churches
In the United States. Originally it was
decided to hold these common reyiyals
Just before Lent, 1895, but the many diff
nculties that arose and the Vastness of
the movement have made it necessaryto
postpone 1t until just before Lent, 1896,
put Just before this coming Lent a pre-
nminary movement will be held in all
churches which have indorsed the
movement in every city of the eastern
seaboard states from Washington to
Boston.
The inception of this big religious
movement had its birth at the monthly
meeting OF the Parochial Mission soci-
ety OF the Protestant Episcopal church,
held last May, Of which Bishop Henry
u Potter Is the president, when there
was discussed question of a general
mission for the seaboard cities of the
United States. The discussion grew
into the appointment of a committee
composed of three clergymen, the Rev.
E. A. Bradley, of st. Agnes church,
near Riverside, New York city; the
Rev. George r. Vandewater, rector of
st. Andrews church in Harlem, and the
Rev. d. Walpole Warren, rector of Holy
Trinity, Madison avenue and Forty
second street. 1t was decided at this
conference to hold this mission if pos
sible, just before Lent. 1895.
The Plan Is Enlarged.
The committee after month of earn
est consideration reported plan for a
movement rather than mission on the
part of the Episcopal church alone. It
was proposed by this committee that all
Christian bodies should be respectfully
invited to undertake evangelistic work
at the same time, but along their own
special line. The committee drew up
circular embodying this idea in detail,
and submitted it first to Bishop Potter
1t met with his hearty approval, and at
the request of the committee he issued
a confidential circular to all the bishops
of dioceses in which it was proposed
the mission should be held. His letter
met with the heartiest endorsement.
The circular had hardly reached the
hands of the ministers for whom 1t was
intended when replies came quickly
back; in all cases heartily approving
the movement. Among those who IA
Vored this magnificent crusade against
sin were the Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix. Of
Trinity church, and Rev. Dr. William r.
Huntington, of Grace church. While the
letters were doing their silent work
among the ministers of the Protestant
church, Dr. Bradley, the
chairman of the committee, was busy
IN Ia tnp ggf Of flaA t.,..s,
tian bodies in regard to the synchro-
nous movement. The proposition was
most cordially received by such men as
William L, Dodge, president of the
Alliance, and the Rev. Jo-
siah Strong, secretary Of the same So
ciety: by the president of the Young
Mems Christian association, by Colonel
S. Bacon, vice president of
the New York Young Mems Christian
association; by Commander Ballington
Booth. of the Salvation Army, and the
Rev. Father Doyle, editor of the Ca
tholic World, the leading Roman Ca
tholic paper of this city.
English Church Army Idea.
Through the aid of several other gem
tlemen, leading Presbyterians, Bap-
fists, Methodists, Lutherans and Con- /
gregationalists We're interviewed and
expressed themselves as willing and !
glad to cooperate in this movement. |
William u. Dodge had long interviews /.
with Moody and Sankey, and they were
delighted with the idea. Plans are not
yet fully matured, but the revival is a
and 1t will be the largest sin 1
gle religious movement of the century. /
The English church army idea will /
be followed largely. This church army !
takes into its training home in London .
plain men of Cody character, we'll re-
by their rectors. and trains
them to be captains of bands in various
parishes. These bands do evangelistic
work among the masses and the lowest
orders of the people, using musical in
struments and many of the best Saliva
lion army methods. In a similar house
The church army trains women to be
teachers and co-workers on
evangelstic lines. They attempt 70
solve the question of poor relief by very
wisely conducted and successful labor
homes, going step beyond the charity
woodward idea, by not
,nly giving men work, but keeping
hem under contract for four months at
east in the home, and surrounding
hem with the most urgent and direct
svangelistic influence.