The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-12
BROTHERHOOD 0F KINGDOM TWELFTH CONFERENCE Rev. Dr. W. H. Gardner of This City Among the
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 Marlborough, N Y, Aug. 9.-With to-day the thTtcenth annual conference of the Brotherhood or the Kingdom closed a series of meetings of interest and profit. This conference was or ganized in 1893 and with an exception of year or two has mad meetings regularly on farm about six miles from the Hudson river. The loca- ton is a beautiful one revealing a view of the hills far distant on the one side and the river winding it's way on the other side. The farm is owned by q clergyman, Rev Leighton Williams, pastor of Amity Baptist church of New York city. The old building or the church which used to stand on West Fifty-fourth street, New York, has been removed to the Marlborough farm where 1t serves as meeting place for the yearly conferences.
 In infusing the Christian spirit in various social questions of the day these conferences have been useful, as they are composed of clergyInen, pro- fessors, editors and business men in public position who carry elsewhere the inspiration got by discussion of the problems of the time. Beside the annual conference similar meetings are held occasionally in different cit ies. Chapters of the Brotherhood are organized in some places and those in New York city and Rochester are es- pecially Aourishing. Tho latter chap ter has during the past winter accom- plished much in municipal reform.
 Tine main effort of the Brotherhood Is to further the general spirit of fra ternity that is more and more mani fcsted in human activities and to em- phasize the fact that Christianity con- tcmplated the establishment of the kingdom of Christ more than pure- ly ecclesiastical institution. Some of the members of this Brotherhood have published books on social and relgi- ous questions of the period that ap- peal to. the more intelligent and in- vestigating public.
 In the program of the meetings just closed The Need of the Kingdom Idea" was discussed by Rev R. M. Binder, Ph. D., New York, and "Dif- iiculties in Presenting the Kingdom Idea was the subject of an address by Rev, A. s. Cole of Bridgeton, N. J. The Gospel of Labor or the Messdge of the Labor Union to the Church, gas presented by Rev. Laurence A. Wilson, ffardwick, Vt "The Problem of the Country Church. was the sub jcct of Rev. E. T. Root of Providence, R, l., secretary of New England Fed lcration of Churches Rev Riley A. Vose, Owego, N. r., discussed the New Idolary or the Money Power in the Churches, and MT. George Williams, an official of the controllers Iofllco, Rochester, N Y., spoke on Municipal Reform and the Changes in Rochester"
 The rest of the program was pre- Isented in full as follows:
 Address, The Relation of the State ito the Individual, Rev. w D. P Bliss, New York.
 Address, New zealand Tho Land land the People, Hon. Hugh II, Lusk, New Zealand.
 Address, Christianity and the Social Order, Rev w. H. Gardner, Ph.D., New Haven Conn.
 Address, The Present Ecclesiastical Situation in France, Prof. Jean Char lemagne Bracq., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 Address, The Reign of the New Hu- manity, Rev. Leighton Williams, D. D., New York.
 Address, Social and Educational Work. of Port Royal, Rev. Paul Vim cent, Rochester, N. Y.
 Address, The Common Aims of Re- form Bolton Hall, Esq, New York
 Address, Social Work of the Salva- tion Army Col, Thomas Holland, the Salvation Army, New York
 Address, The Relation of Agricul- ture to the Prosperity of Our Coun- try MT George T. Powell, President Agricultural Experts Association, Ghent, N. Y,