New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-01

OF One Hundred was one Of great enthusiasm. |
Inc church was crowded and every person present |
ple0sed himself or herself 20 the active support |
OF the work Several of the leading clergymen OF |
the city spoke. There will be another meeting |
next Monday at the same church. The purpose OF |
these meetings is to the church people OF the
c4Iy 10 an active interest in the movement before
the work Of the summer is actually begun.
The Bible Teachers Training School at No 81 |
Lexington-ave.. has been made headouarters
Here the Rev. Dr.. ]. B. Ely. with a well organized
army OF assistants, is experimenting the work |
unoer the direction Of the executive committee. |
AS 1t stands now. dozen sites for tents have
Deen selected in Manhattan and negotiations are
being made to rent them. In Brooklyn plans are |
oeang made for eight more. Il is hoped a little
later to extend the campaign into the other Dor
0uShS' Several large churches have already |
k4eoseo support to a tent part OF tent OF the
$4,000 the COMMITTEES expects to raise $4,000 Is al
ready IN sight The committee is in correspond
ence with large number Of well known evangel-
lss whose services it is hoped to secure for the
summer. Through all possible channels every ef-
1OFI IS being made to stir up church people ana
get them In line for what will be the greatest
evangelical movement OF this kind the country
or the world has seen
THE WORKS DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
In the first place. this work Is not to conflict With
the churches. 1t Is intended as a bridge over the
vacation season from June to September. Like the
salvation Army, 1t will take up a work not covered
oy the churches in the ordinary way AS DIR Flv
says. TT win be a taking Of the churches to the
people instead OF trying to bring the people to the
churches
Then it is not in itself an institutional v,orl II
may be spoken OF as supplementary to that form
OF activity. It supplies the MISREPRESENTATION
which, as pointed out In these columns some time
ago. much OF present day institutionalsm lacks.
AZ furnishes the same appeal OF open air and APP
pEoachable informality; then goes far beyond the
purely Institutional and supplies the spiritual long
Ing which the promoters OF this work believe the
everyday nottingham outside the church really
feels
While there will DO a large corps Of helpers from
the Training School. Union Theological Seminary
and the local churches the principal speakers win
be evangelists OF worldwide reputation Each OF
these will FIJI engagements Of two and three
weeks at a time through the summer. The star at
each tent will include a speaker, q student as
sstant, who viii give his whole time to the gen.
eral organizing Of the work Of the tent; musical
department, including an organist, a cornetist a
precentOr and q volunteer chorus; worker for
children to conduct childrens meetings and visit
homes, and 3anitor.
The tents viii be placed In congested sections.
and servtoaS win be carried on in the language OF
the residents.
Additional open air meetings will be conducted
On Sunday nights theatres and
number Of halls will be open to the work
Any church that will take the support Of a tent.
estimated $2.500 $500, Will be invited to
point three men to the managing committee.
support of one-third or one-half tent will entitle
church to one and two members, respectively
Not one cent of collection will be taken up. The
amount of work done this summer will depend en-
tirely the amount Of money received by the
committee before May l. Every person in the city
and country at large who wishes to contribute to
this great work Is invited to do
SOME DETAILS OF PROGRESS.
The Session OF the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church has agreed to support at least one tent in
case ten tents are provided, and has appointed
the following committee to cooperate in the man
agement OF the campaign: Edwin J. Gillies,
James Talcott and George Taylor. The Calvary
Baptist Church has agreed to support one tent
This will be Tent Pencil. which has been running
all winter at l1Oth-st- and Sth-ave.. and has been
described IN The Tribune
Eight Congregational churches in Brooklyn have
banded together and agreed support tent
The Brick Presbyterian Church has already CON
running which win cooperate with the gem
eral work. is the Tent Evangel at 57th-st. and
Broadway. This tent is run by an interdenominao
tional committee. In the last two years 10000
persons have ateno a inc p o Raye
q. w Mcpherson, took charge OF this movement
but in 1904 the work widened in it's scope and in
fiuence until ffty-four well known pastors and
laymen constitute the board of managers for this
in Broadway favors the gathering Of large numbers
OF people In addition to this central tent there
will be under the same management a large open
air work Five preaching stations viii be CON
Quoted at points near by and also F Ettereopteo9
sth-ave. A floor will be laid accommodating fifteen
hundred persons, where this service will be con-
% assist IN this tent work: The Rev Thomas
Houston (the blind evangelist. the Rev. DIT J. g.
loon League, New-York State the Rev. DR.. John
led in the recent Schenectady revival: the Rev Dr.
George Pentec9st stated supply OF the hen M RGn
men. This tent viii be- conducted independently
OF the tent movement. but 1t Will cooperate
spiritually with the latter.
Many other churches have pledged their Easter
offerings to the movement, and 1t mas Deen sus-
gested that all churches interested should do the
Among those who have agreed to Join in forward
ing the work J. Ross Stevenson, Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church; William r Richards, BTick
Presbyterian Church; David James Burren. Col,
legiate Reformed Churchi W w. WhIe P ESE
Bible Teachers Training School; A F. Schau1uer,
Hail. Union Theological SemiIa X. s. MacAT-
thur Calvary Baptist Church, Howard AgneW
r p Johnston Fifth Avenue Baptist Church; w.
w Coe, representing the Presbyterys evanseIistic
COMMITTEES Reformed churches: Ezra S Triple.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church secretary or the
North corresponding secretary Of the New-York
Extension Missionary Society OF the MethodlSt
Episcopal Church; Henry s. Coffin. Bedford Park
Presbyterian Church; George Alexander; University
Place Church; David G. Wyle scotch FTesPy te 4{
ten I nj executive secretary Church Fedora
Ter 1ho conn9itee Of Reformed churches for New
YORK A 10 Kittredge David James Burrel. James
WiIi,eIn Pbiliips Hall F. Francis Hyde and Harvey
~ Div acting treasure. and treasurer Homo Mis-
sion Board of the Presbyterian Church No $50 3ta-
ave and Henry Nottet, Of the Church of the Holy
Communion
DIP. ELY AND HIS WORK.
rau+ what of the superintendent OF this vast
,,raartaking? II one were to ask DR.. J. B. Ely
that question he would answer as he did the
o+her dav: IT am nothing but the hubble super
intendent. This is Gods work under the direct
snfta Of this modest assertion, DR.. Ely is a re-
markabIe man The committee was fortunate
General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. MS
services were obtained. Unu+r y d nS az hIrtb ~