The Washington times., 1902-02-02
CHURCH WORKERS
TO CONVENE HERE
National Federation Meets in
Y. M. {. A. Hall Tuesday.
TO CONTINUE FOR TWO DAYS.
Programme for the Different Ses-
sions Has Been Completed and Is
Given in Full To Link Local
Bodies Into State ORGANIZATIONS.

The second annual conference of the
National Federation of Churches and
Christian Workers will convene in this
city Tuesday morning. in the assembly
hall of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation. Three sessions will be held
on both Tuesday and Wednesday. On
Tuesday evening the session will be held
In the Foundry NJ. f. Church.
The programme to be carried out at
the several sessions of the conference fol-
lows:
Tuesday Morning Session.
Tuesday. morning session, hall of
Young Mems Christian Association.
lo a. m.-Devotional exercises.
io:5o-Opening of conference: Address
OF welcome, John G. Butler, ID. D.. pastor
Oh Luther Memorial Church, Washington.
d. C. Response and address, Mr.. ]. Cleve-
land Cady, New York. president of the
National Federation
u-Report Of the general secretary, Z.
B. Sanford, d. D.
II ;So-Address. ''The Possible and I'M
possible In Church Federation" L. C.
Barnes. D. D., pastor First Baptist
Church, Pittsburg. and president of the
Federation of Churches In that city
-Discussion-Opened by Rev. Charles
II. Small, Springfield. Ohio. Secretary Of
the ohio Federation of Churches
Tuesday Afternoon Session.
2;15 to 2:3O p. m.-Devotional service,
led by Frank Mason North. d. D.. New
York
2:So-General topic. Local Fedora
tions and Their Work" House Vista
tion, Mr.. Hugh Cork. Pittsburg; 1.-The
Recent Canvass in Toledo" William A.
Powell. d. D., pastor First Presbyterian
Church, Toledo, Ohio. and president of the
federation in that city. Discussion
Among those who will take part are Ed
ward G. Seiden. d. D.. pastor of the First
Reformed Church. Albany, n. Y, and
president of the federation in that city;
William C. Webb, D. D.. Philadelphia
and H. H. Stebbins d. D., Rochester, y. Y
3:30-"How the Churches Can Unite in
Social Work. E. Walpole Warren, d. D.,
rector OF st. James Protestant Episco-
pal Church. New York; Alfred Tyler
Perry, d. D., president of Marietta Col
lege.
i:30-Reports from local federations.
4:30 to 5-"Church Federation and the
Poor" John Bancroft Devins, d. D., edi-
tor of ''The Observer" and founder of
the East Side Federation, New York.
Tuesday Evening Session.
Evening session-Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church. Devotional exercises
John F. Hurst, d. D., LII. D.. resident
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.;
Charles L. Thompson, ID. D., secretary of
the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.
General topic-"Church Federation in the
Interests OF Social and Civic Righteous
f-t,.
Satterlee, D. D.. Washington d. c.; Dom
aid Sage Mackay, D. D.. pastor of the
Collegiate (Reformed) Church. Fifth Ave
nue. and Forty-eighth Street, New York:
George C. Lorimer, D. D., LII D.. pastor
of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church,
New York.
Sessions of Wednesday.
ednesday.-Morning session--William
Hayes Ward, DID, LID, New York,
presiding.
$50 a. m.-Devotional service, led by
jeremiah Zimmerman, pastor First Eng
lish Lutheran Church, Syracuse, n. Y.
10 to 10:30.-Business.
1890 to 11:30-General topic, THE
Work of the State Federations." Among
those who will take part in this discus
sion are J. w. Bashford, ID. president
Ohio Wesleyan University and president
of the Ohio Federation of Churches;
Charles H. Richards, DID, pastor of the
Central Congressional Church, Philadel-
phia, and president of the Pennsylvania
Evangelical Alliance.
u:45.-By request of President Roose-
yelt, a delegation representing the Ma
tional Federation Will call at the White
House.
Afternoon session-General Charles W.
Darling, Utica, n Y, presiding.
2:S0 p. m.-Devotional service, led by
Rivington d. Lord, DID, pastor First
Free Baptist Church. Brooklyn. y. Y.
2:45.-"Why New England City Needs
Federation" S. NJ. Dick, ID. rastor OF
the Mathewson Street VI. E. Church. Prov