Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17
SUMNER MEETINGS
EPISCOPAL WORKERS TO CONFER
AT RIcHFIELD SPRINGS.

RICHFIELD SPRINGS N. Y. June IT,
1t Is now certain that there will be b FOOD
attendance at the Episcopal conferences to
be held here during the last two weeks in
July and throughout the month of August.
Registrations to date have SO far exceeded
| those of last year that a tent seating 500
| has been. secured for an auditorium and
will be formally dedicated on the evening
of July 10, when the sermon will be
preached by Bishop Burton of Lexington.
A feature of the conferences viii be illus-
trated lectures. some of them given out Of
| doors, if the weather prove fine. One Leo
ture will be on Manila, and will be given
by Mr.. William B. Millar. the Y NJ c. A.
| secretary, who induced the Mikado of Japan
| to adopt Y. M. c. A. methods for work
among the Japanese troops. He has Just
come back from a tour of the world. An
other will be on New York city as a foreign
| mission field, to be given by DIR. Thomas
Darlington, health commissioner of New
YORK. No city in the world, certainly mono
outside of China, compares in extent with
New York such foreign field.
Some Episcopal Church workers. espe.
cially some men, have expressed themselves
unable to attend conferences In August be-
cause that Is the month for their vaca~
tons. They are learning, however. that
| these conferences offer an ideal plan and
place for the vacation outing. Indeed it is
that fact that furnishes the secret of the
| remarkable growth of summer religious CEN
tiers during the past decade or two.
Secretary Taft to Speak. -.~
The Secretary of War, Judge Taft; United
States Senator Scott of West Virginia Rep
resentatives Longworth and Grosvenor Of
Ohio and some others who are going to the
Philippines this summer with the Taft party
| have promised to look into missionary and
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Philippines, if their time permit, with the
view OF speaking upon the subject next VIM
ter upon their return. They will not be able
to speak at Richfield Springs this year OF
course, but they may be able to do so next
year, and perhaps at some meetings to be
held In various cities next winter.
Efforts are made to bring to these confer.
ences some of the great preachers of tho
Episcopal Church. the aim being to
strengthen the spiritual life of church work.
ers. Those to be heard here this summer
will be Father Huntington of the Order OF
the Holy Cross; the Rev. DIR. Floyd w.
Tomkins and the Rev. Cassius NJ. Roberts,
Philadelphia; the Rev. Dr. John Henry
Hopkins and the Rev. DR.. James S. Stone,
Chicago the Rev. John R.. Matthews, Ohio,
and the Rev. w. Northey Jones, Williams
port. Pa. Bishops who will be heard are
those Of Georgia. Ohio, Harrisburg, Cuba,
Porto Rico and possibly of Tennessee and
Delaware.
In the beautiful park in the center OF
Rfchfield there were held last year some
Sunday afternoon mass meetings, at one
of which $500 people were present Cow
ernor Higgins of New York has promised
to visit these conferences, and II is expected
that he will preside on one of these Sunday
afternoons, besides speaking next day at
the regular meetings. 1t Is not thought
likely that q special session of the New
York legislature will interfere with his
visit.
Some other prominent speakers will be
Booker t. Washington, United States In
dian Commissioner Leupp. Capt. A. II. Ma
han; Mr.. Sadazuchi Uchioa, japanese con-
sui general at New York, and Mr.. James
S. Sherman, chairman of the House commit
tee on Indian affairs. About thirty re-
turned missionaries or recent travellers In
mission fields will be present.
The various conference dates are: Wom-
ans, July 20 to 30; mems, July 30 to Au-
gust 6; workers, August to 20; Sunday
school, August 30 TO 81 and church singing,
July 20 to August 20. The last named aims
to improve the singing in the pews In con-
nection with ii some concerts are to be
given on Friday or Saturday afternoons,
eminent singers from New York being on
the program. The organization in charge
of New York, which aims to increase the
number of men who take active interest in
all forms of church work.