Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-04
CONGREGATIONAL COUNCIL.
Weeks Session at Des Moincs, Ia, d:
October.

The sessions of the National Councii
of congregational churches in the UNI
| cd states, will be held in DcS Moliles
Iowa. oct. 1870. All the Home MIS-
sionary societies including the 'oh-
grcgation;l Home Missionary socic'y
| technical, 50 called, the Congregations
| nj Sunday School ard Publishing Socle-
| tx. the American Missionary assocla-
| tor, and the congregational chufci'
| Building society, Will meet WIN tHe
| council. assigned to special SESSIONS lof
| their reports, addresses and business
| respectively.
Sectional meetings will be held. TINS
| is Il new feature and is made necessary
| by the extended program. The Ameri-
can Board, whose meeting Will be hcio
at GrinmcIl. Iowa, oct. 10, will adjourn
Thu sday noon, oct. Is, in order that
| the delegates may go by special tram
Immediately to DcsMoincs, and the
opcning session of the council will be-
gin promptly at o'clock =. M. The
| theological scminaries will be officially
rcurcscnted and such colleges as Wcr'
| CONGREGATIONAL in origin and history
Will be represented also, some Of whose
presidents ana professors have been as
| igncd to the program.
! No such representative Congregations
| al body has ever before been held. TIE
situation is therefore an entirely new
| one to Congregationalism The council
ana it's cooperative organizations will
approach quite nearly in many respects
| to the general assembly of the Pres
Dyterian church, the general confer
encc of tho Methodist church and kin
drcd national organizations, more 50
Than any delegated Congregational
body hitherto held.
The American Board the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary society and the
American Missionary association, US
ually hold very large meetings seper-
atcly.
A prominent feature of the council! Will
he discussion of the proposed plan OF
union Of the Congregational Methodist
Protestant and United Brethren churches.
The dominant theme of the popular adj
dresses will be THE True Revival OF Re
lision in tho Churches as it refers to the
Individual. the community the nation and
the world. The program progresses to-
ward q climax. and the various mission
airy societies are fitted into the arrange
mrnt Of subjects in logical relationship.
Industrial problems will he considered.
not only by specialists from among Con-
Grcgntionaf teachers. but by representa-
tivcS also of labor organizations, the
United Garment Workers and the Rail-
way Conductors. being represented by
their secretaries.
The council sermon will be preached by
the Rev. Alexander Mckenzie. ID. D.. OF
Cambridge. Mass. The list OF speakers
so far arranged includes the Rev. A. Il.
Bradford. ID. D.. the retiring moderator
of the council: the moderator-alect. Pres
lcgc: President w. ID. Mackenzie. ID. d.
of Hartford Theological Seminary; Prof.
J. w. Platner ID. ID. OF Andover Theo-
logical Seminary: Rev. Charles r. Brown,
D. D. of Oakland. Cal: Rev. II. H. Proc
tor of Atlanta Ga; Rev. Oliver Huckel
of Baltimore. Md; Rev. Dewitt :. Clark.
ID. d.. of Salem, Mass; President George
A. Gates. d. D.. Of Pomona College. Clare
mont Cal; President W. F. Slocum. d.
r. Colorado College; Rev. Lyman Alb
hott y. d.. OF New York: Rev. Henry
A. Stimson. u. d. of New York: Rev.
John s. Penman. Bangor. Me; Rev. AL
bert H. Plumb. d. D.. Boston. Mass;
Rev. Sydney Strong. ID. D.. Oak Park,
III Rev. II. G.. Herring. Omaha, Neb:;
Roy. Washington GLADDEN.. ID. D.. presi-
dent OF the American Missionary ASSo-
citation ana President Cyrus Northrup of
ciety. and president of the Minnesota
state University. Minneapolis.
Rcports o. Tho provisional communities
and publishing committee will be given
III Secretary Anderson and of the treas
,,ror NV Roy 8 r. Forbes Hartford, CT.