The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-01
ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Meats Here This Week.

The nth annual meeting or the Con
gregationaI Home Missionary society. a
national organization with headquarters
In New York. will be held in this city
this week, the convention lasting three
days. beginning tomorrow.
This will be a great occacion for the
centennial OF the Rhode Island Mission
ery society will beobserved The Educa-
ton. the Church Building and the Pub.
fishing societnies of the Congregational
Home Missionary society will hold single
sessions Rev. Charles ii. Richards. the
new secretary Of the Church Building
society, will be heard for the first time
in this city, az will the Rev. II. s. Tead
secretary of the Education society.
The program is as follows:
Tuesday afternoon conference with the
state auxiiiaries of the society. which
exist in every New England state and In
New York, Ohio. Wisconsin, Iowa, I'LL
nos. Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota.
North Dakota. Colorado. Conference OF
the young people In the afternoon. Don
o. Shelton. assistant secretary. leader.
In the evening the subject will be The
Young People and Christian America"
and the speakers Secretary Don o. Shell
ton, New York: DR.. +. +. Clark Boston,
and Secretary John Willis Baer of New
York.
Wednesday morning there will be an
address OF welcome by Rev. A. f. Krom
OF this city and response by the presi-
dent. DR. Newell Dwight Hills OF Brook
iyn. There will be a womans meeting.
Mrs Washington Choate of Greenwich,
Conn. presiding. The addresses will be
by Miss Mary Zoltak. Slavic Work.
Mrs. NJ. Hammond Cole, Alaskan Life"
Mrs. II. s. c. Broad OF Kansas and Mrs.
Frank J. Goodwin of this city. The Con-
gregational Church Building society will
claim attention Wednesday afternoon.
and THE Church Home" will be the
theme of the address by Rev. c. III. Rich
ards, ID. d.. the new secretary of the so
ciety The centennial aDhiversary OF the
Rhode Island Home Missionary society
will be observed There will be an ad-
dress by Rev. T. Calvin McClelland. Ph.
D.. of Newport, relative TO the work from
1903 10 1859. The new eastern secretary
OF the national society, Rev. II. :. Beard,
ID. D., will speak on THE New East
IN Its Relation 10 the New West" The
annual sermon will be delivered Wednes-
day evening by Rev. ~. ID. Hills OF
Brooklyn, president OF the national So
ciety.
Thursday morning the annual business
meeting of the society will be held. The
Congregational Education society will be
represented by the Western field secre-
tary, Rev. Theodore Clifton. ID. d, OF
Chicago christian Education will be
his theme The Foreigner IN New Eng
by Rev Joel 3. Ives secretary OF the
Missionary society OF Connecticut The
Congregational Sunday School and Puo-
ed THE Chruch and the Sunday School
will be the theme OF It's field secretary.
w. A. Duncan. Ph. D.. % Syracuse. -. \.
Thursday afternoon the annual secre-
tarial paper will be presented by Wash
ington Choate. D. D.. corresponding sec.
retary. New York. The New England
OF the Northwest will be the theme OF
Rev. w. W. Scudder OF Seattle. Wash.
Rev. A. w. Wray. II. D.. OF Carthage,
Mo. will deliver an address. Rev. J. u.
Kingsbury, ID. D.. OF Utah. will represent
the work In New Mexico, Arizona. Utah
and Idaho Rev. II. n. Somelllan. Cuba,
will make plea for the Cubans" Tns
closing session will be held Thursday
w. q. Puddefoot of south birmingham.
Mass: Rev. Nehemiah Boynton. ID ID, OF
Detroit. Mich. and Rev. II. W. Lockhart
OF Manchester. " II.
Delegates viii be present from all parts
OF the country.