Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-08
MEET AT GRlNNELL.
REV. p. A. JOHNSON WILL AT.
TEND SESSIONS OF AMERl.
CAN BOARD NEXT WEEK.
Splendid Program Arranged-speeiaI
Train Will Carry Delegates to the
Meeting of the National Council At
Des Moines.

Train Will Carry Delegates to the
Meeting of the National Council At
Des Moines.
| Rev. P. A. Johnson, pastor of the
First Congregational church, will at
| tend the meeting of the American
Board to be held in the Congregational
church at Grinnell October lib. It
| is expected that at the close of the
board meeting special train will be
made up to convey the delegates and
others to the opening session of the
National Council which meets in Des
Moines October 1920.
The provisional program as arranged
for the board meeting at Grinnell is as
follows:
Tuesday, October II.
$3.50 a. m.-Devotional exercises.
Address of welcome-President Dan
F. Bradley
Response-Pres. Samuel B Capen,
LII. D.
Minutes Of last meeting,
Report for the home department, re-
port of the reasurer-Franlq H. Wig
gin.
Address from the Prudential com
mittee-Rey. Francis E. Clark, D. D.
"Deputation to Africa--Rev. E. e.
Strong, D. D., Rev. Sydney Strong,
D. D.
Appointment of committees.
2:30 p. m.-Survey of missions
Rev. Judson Smith, D. D.
Address by missionaries.
Special paper from the Prudential
committee. "The Abiding Kingdom
James l.. Barton, D. D.
Address by missionaries.
Address-"Debt of American Board
Gregg, D. D., Colorado.
1880 p m.-Sermon-Rev. Reuen
Thomas, D. D., of Massachusetts.
The Lords supper.
Wednesday, October IL.
900 a. m.-Reports of committees.
Home department-Rev. Rockwell
H. Potter. Connecticut
Addresses by missionaries.
Missions under the care of Secre-
tary Smith-Rev. j. E. Mcconnell,
Minnesota.
Address by missionaries.
Missions under the care of Secre-
tary Barton-Pres. S. B. l.. Penrose,
Washington.
Addresses by missionaries.
$3.50 p. m,-Reports of cooperating
committees.
Address-Rev. Harlan P. Beach,
D. d.
Open parliament.
Business meeting.
Election of officers and Children's
meeting simultaneously.
1880 p. m.--Address-Pre
Henry G. King, D. D.. Ohio.
Address-"The New Pacific and Mis-
sions"-Rev. Charles r. Brown, D. D.,
California.
Presidents address-"Disloyalt and
it's Remedy"-Samuel B. Capen, LII.
ID.
Thursday, October 10.
900 a. m.-Reports of committees
Unfinished business.
Addresses by returning and outgoing
missionaries
Closing address-Rev. Edmund NJ.
Vittum.
Response-President Capen.
| Adjournment at IL m.
Meeting Of National Council.
| The program has been completed for
the meeting of the National Council
and Cooperating societies to be held
at the Plymouth Congregational
church at Des Moines, and embraces
addresses by a number of speakers of
! national reputation. Governor Albert
B. Cummins will deliver the address OF
welcome. Some of the subjects of
special interest to be discussed arc as
| follows:
"The Essential Elements OF True
Revival'-Rev. Henry A. Stimson,
New York, N. Y.
THE Principles of Christianity APP.
j piled to Industrial Problems" -Prof
Graham Taylor, Chicago, H.. and
| Henry White, secretary of the United
| Garment Workers.
Church Building as factor in
Christianizing America Frank
T. Bayley, Colorado.
1.-THE Place of Our Congregational
Churches in the Evangelization of the
South'-Rev. A. c. Garner, Washing.
ton, D. C.
\ EducatlCIlal WORK III tue ft!ShlanQs
and Lowlands Of the South" --Pres
John G.. Campbell, Demorest, Ga.
Life of the Colored Race"-Mrs
j Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala
THE Spiritual Life and the Mod
ern Intellectual Developments
! Dewitt S. Clark. Salem. Mass.
"rhe Characterization of the World
! President Douglas Mckenzie, Hart
ford, Conn. Rev. H. c, Herring
Omaha, Neb.
1.-THE Spiritual Life and Religious
Education Lyman ABBOTT, New
York, N. Y.
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