The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-10

Rex. r. E. NeighboT conducted de-
xotiCsnal service during the half houE
before the business session. The theme
for lis remarks was The Blessing or
Sonship." The service closed with
season of prayer, in which quite q
number of those present joined.
President Carlyle took the chair at
$50 O'Clock and called for the readlns
OF the minutes of yesterdays session
Secretary Hight c. Moore read the
same, which after reading were cor
rected and approved.
Miscellaneous business was the spa-
ciaI order for the first half hour Of the
session. --..-a4 g.: 49, y. p
U51 1rution of N. 3. Broughton, with
the hearty approval of President car
lyle, the convention voted in favor of
holding no afternoon session, but that
when it adjourn at the close of the
morning session, it do so to meet
aga5n at 7:30 at night, leaving the af-
terHcon for rest and recreation.
On motion of Rev. Livingstone
Johnson, the secretaries of the conyen-
tiOn were authorized to publish this
year four thousand copies Of the mill
uteS of this session, instead of three
thCnsand copies published for the past
several years.
Mr. Johnson also offered a resolu- .
ton on entertainment Of delegates at
the state convention, which was adopt
-e0. This resolution recommended that
Al all future sessions OF the convention
the delegates to attend notify the COM
mlttee on entertainment at the place OF
meeting themselves, and not through
the church clerk and that this notice
be given at least three days before
the meeting of the convention, and
that entertainment De furnished only
for those giving this notice.
President carlyle announced the
committee to arrange for the holding
OF another pastors conference to be
held next year just before the session
of the convention, similar to the con-
Ference held previous to this conven-
d. ticE-
The special order for 10 o'clock was
the address Of Mr.. J. Harry Tyler, of
Baltimore, on the "Laymens Mission
ary Movement" He spoke earnestly
OF the origin, purpose and work of
the movement, and III this connection
gave the following interesting facts:
The Laymen's Missionary Move
ment" originated in a prayer meeting
which was called to be held in New
York City, November 1915, Rev. Man
1y H Williams, a Baptist minister is
suing the call. At this meeting the
crying need was felt to be the Coop
Grafton of business men, and three spe-
cial things were emphasized at this
time: "a
L The need of an educational cam
paign.
2 The need to Investigate missions.
B. To make the honest attempt to
evangelize the world in twenty-five
years
TIE effort was then begun to get the
nen of the different denominations to
STUDY the conditions to be met in car
.-rying on the work Of home and for
tEisr missions, and to study on the
forefgn field what additional men and
money are needed to accomplish this
org2niZed movement is: CD To con-
duet a campaign of education in home
and foreign missions, giving people
inf 10 moods of
the yyCrk. CD To visit the foreign mis-
sion fields and find out the conditions.
(31 Within twenty-five years to give
every man the chance to accept the goS
peL The method to bring these things
to pass that will be tried by the Lay
mems Movement is that the men will
binG themselves together, signing {
pIeSaEe card that they will pray, study
and work to have the gospel preached
to a3l people in this generation. They
will organize through the denomlna
tionsI mission boards and fix the def
Eite amount to be given to hom
and foreign missions. They will us
every effort to get men to believe II
the movement, and wnen this is dom
they believe the eyes of the men vii
be open to the needs of the unsave'
portions of the world. They believ
when the eyes are open the heart viii
scor open, and that within shor
time one missionary to every 25,O0
of the heather will be placed in tn
foreign field. By this method iMr
TYLER said the need would be mad