Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-18
THE APPEAL TO RUSSIANS
To Be MercifuI to Jews Adopted by
Inter church Workers at New York.

New York Nov 1.-THE closer unity of
churches was the subject of today's ses-
sion of the Intcrchurch Conference on
Federation at Carnegie hall. Several
speakers said that the easiest first step
toward such unity lay in cooperation in
foreign and home missionary work. The
appeal to Russians to be merciful to the
Jews, which was drafted, yesterday, by
Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN., was adopt
ed by the convention. The speakers, to-
day, were Rev. ]. S. Mills, bishop of the
United Brethren church, Annville, Pa;
Rev. Samuel ]. Niccols, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church of st. Louis,
and Rev. Henry L. Moorehouse, CORE
spending secretary of the Baptist Home
Missionary Society. New York.
The negro question was discussed by
Right Rev. c. B. Galloway, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal South of Jackson,
Miss.
Other speakers at the early session were
Rev. Charles R. Watson of Philadelphia,
corresponding secretary of foreign mis-
sions of the United Presbyterian church
Moravian church at Bethlehem. Pa !;
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Michacl's Protestant Episcopal church of
New York, and Rev. VIM. Clark, field sec
rotary of the board of domestic missions
of the Reformed church in America.
The report of the committee on fedora
ton was not ready, this afternoon, and
will not be presented until tomorrow.
Present practical workings of fedora
ton" were discussed at the afternoon ses-
sion. the first speech being by Rev. Ed
ward Talmadge Root, field secretary of
the Federation of Churches and Christian
Workers Of the state of Rhode Island
who spoke of the conditions in smaller
cities.
Rev. Alfred Williams Anthony. profess
sor at Cobb Divinity school, Lewiston,
Me, and secretary Of the inter denomina-
tional commission of Maine. told of the
work of the commission that was formed
by the Methodists, Congregationalists,
Baptists, Free Baptists and Christians
Financial strength and fraternal strength
he said. resulted among these denomina-
tions.
Rev. ]. Winthrop Hegcman. field sec
rotary of the Federation of Churches and
Christian Workers of the state of New
York. was the next speaker
Rev. Walter Laidlaw, executive secreta
ry Of the Federation of Churches and
Christian Workers in New York City, read
paper on the work of his organization.
Then followed addresses by Rev. VIM.
I. Haven. secretary of the American Bi-
BILE Society of New York; Rev James B.
Rodgers, senior missionary of the Presby-
terrain church in the Philippines, and Rev.
Jas. L. Barton, corresponding secretary
of the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions. Boston.
At tonight's session various resolu-
lions We're referred to the business
committee. DR.. Henry Kirk Porter
of Pittsburg. spoke on 1.-THE United
Church and the Fellowship Of Faith"
Our Faith in Christ and Christ the
Center of Christianity" was the sub
jcct of an address by Rev. VIM. II. P.
Faunce, president of Brown Univer-
sity, of Providence, r. |. The speaker
reminded those present Of the contro-
versy that had arisen over the excIu-
sion of the Unitarians from the con-
ference by allusion to ten of the most
famous of that denomina ton. and said
that he himself never wished to be a
candidate for any heaven from which
William Ellery Claiming and James
Martineau were excluded.
Rev. A. l. Willett of the University
of Chicago, followed with a paper on
our Faith in the Holy Scripture"