New-York tribune., 1900-12-24
NEW CENTURYS REVIVAL.
PROTESTANT MINISTER'S TO UNITE IS
EFFORT IN REGULAR CHURCHES
HERE AND ABROAD.

With the watchnIght meetings December % tns
active work in the endeavor to open the new een-
tury with a great religious revival VIII oesin-
Dwight L. Moody for some time before MS oedln
was much interested in bringing about sucn re-
vival and his enthusiasm so impressed William
Phillips Hall that Mr.. Hall took up the work arter
Mr.. Moody's death
About two months ago letters were sent 70 Pror-
estant ministers OF all denominations asking them
TO cooperate in the work and COMMITTEES or asso-
citation OF ministers and Iaymen formed which
will endeavor by organized effort to arouse religious
enthusiasm all the country. Similar reVivais
will be undertaken in England and Scotland.
AL denominations are work together and TO
afford mutual help. There will also be developed
the belief of the ministers that independent revtvas
undertaken outside Of regularly organized churches
not of lasting benefit. and work at least tenn
porary injury to the churches because they draw
from the churches portions of their congregations
This time the work is be done by regularly con-
stituted ministers in the churches themselves.
The first and object is to arouse religious
enthusiasm. After This there four subordinate
purposes To demonstrate the essential unity OF the
Protestant creeds separated though they may be
by doctrinal differences to show that the destruc-
tive so-called higher criticism has not destroyed
faith OF the people in the Bible; TO give new life
and strength the churches. and to bring those
who are now without the churches within their In
fuence Committees have already been organized.
and the preparations for the work been begun in
Boston Philadelphia. Providence and Chicago
of the work for the whole country The National
Committee includes: William Phillips Hall. OF New
York. chairman the Tev. Drs. Francis e Clark
president of the United Christian Endeavor Society:
George T. Purves of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church; Daniel 5. Gregory Robert s. Macarthur.
of Calvary Baptist Church; Asa Blackburn, OF the
Church of the Strangers; Henry Mottet rector OF
the Church of the Holy Communion; J. Wilbur
Chapman of the Fourth Presbyterian Church; John
BaIcom Shaw, of the West End Presbyterian
Church: s Parks Cadunan. of the Metropolitan
Temple: Theodore S. Henderson, of the Simpson
Methodist Episcopal Church. Brooklyn; A c.
Dixon. of the Hanson Place Baptist Church.
Brooklyn; Cortland Myers. of the Baptist Temple,
BROOKLYN Cornelius WoeIfbin, of the Greene Ave
Baptist Church. Brooklyn; J. F. Carson OF the
Central Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn; James L.
Vance of the First Reformed Church, Newark. N
i, and James B. Ely OF Philadelphia, secretary OF
the Presbyterian Evangelistic Committee. and Mrs.
Margaret BOttome. president of the International
Order of Kings Daughters; Miss Mary McElroy, OF
the Young Women's Christian Association, New
York; F. H. Jacobs. Brooklyn: John H. Converse.
of Philadelphia president OF the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works; William R. Moody. son of the dead
or the United Society of Christian Endeavor: John
r. Mott secretary of the International Young
ton; d: w. McWilliams. of Brooklyn: James Tai
s. f9tf MewT9rk; S John M nj CSnps Ne%York j.
l. L. Doggett of Springfield Mass. president Of
Vt; General o. o. Howard New York and George
The plan Of work is to divide the citv into sec
tons eaeh Of which will be under the direction Of
mulate plans of acton for their districts and
where necessary will apply to the central commit
for aid either for speakers or money or for
aid which may be needed in any other direction.
Letters are TO be written 20 ministers all the
country. and it is hoped finally extend the sys-
tenn into the most remote districts
DIT Macarthur SAYS that the committee believes
that the movement will he joined by almost
church in the United States. He does not believe
that the EpiscoDalIans will cooperate as a body
because of the feature q their creed that teaches
that their ministers directly descended from the
Apostle While a fnaru min