New-York tribune., 1908-06-27

The Presbyterian missionaries are asslsneo "
various fields. including China, Japan, india' the
Philippines Africa and South America
Once year the various Episcopal Church ciuu9
OF this country send representatives TO come
ence in which subjects of common interest AZ
discussed. This years conference was recen.s
held in st. Louis. and it was there declded ,he' ~
members or the clubs should take larger lnteres'
in the affairs Of the Episcopal Church. lhese
clubs, 1t should be said, not parish orgahiI'
tions. but usually are representative OF ieaune
churches in particular cities Some OF the ciupS
largely social in character, maintaining cruz
rooms and libraries giving dinners ana haNl,s
stated meetings, when prominent speakers iii"Ne
addresses.
1t has been felt that the individual members uo
not keep themselves fully Informed as to the az
fairs of their Church so that it has been p'ao
ticaly impossible to secure from them coiioei 'eu
action on any great questions that from 'iiio "
time confront 1t. IT is to remedy TINS coiu
that the action Of the conference was taken. AS
result Of that action the executive cornHh''e
the conference has sent circular letter 10 .n'
local clubs suggesting subjects on whfch the nie
bers should be encouraged to inform thennseNe'
Among the topics suggested are: Is the mission
work of the Church worth while! IL So, uo -
receive adequate support? Does the Church III
your diocese pay adequate attention to oPpo
ties offered by the colleges and other educa'io"
institutions? What is being done In your dlocese "
reach immigrants? is the Church doing WAat -
should to hasten Christian unity? Can TINS ciuo
do anything maintain special services Ior hhei'
Several matters that before the conference
were referred to the several clubs for dlscussioi'
Among them were social or settlement work IN the
churches, the provincial system and church music
Large plans are announced for the assembly to De
held this year at Winona Lake, Indiana, summer
centre where for several years religious leaders VI
the Middle West have gathered in conference Inc
conference season at Winona begins on July o. anu
while the principal religious gathering, the blpie
conference does not occur until August To- the re-
ligfous features will be paramount all throush
the season. A Young Peoples Institute for the
teaching of motives and methods in church outS Is
to be held during the week beginning July O. IL
will have as speakers and teachers Amos H. Wehs'
Won Ogden Vogt, Robert E. Speer and John WINS
Baer A Sunday school conference Is to De heio
from August to a. under the auspices of the In
ternational Sunday School Association. A feature
of this conference will be a number Of teacher
training classes led by some of the international
secretaries including Marion Lawrence W. Z.
Pearce Mrs ]. Woodbridge Barnes and X. Il.
Dinendorfer.
Throughout the assembly season the Sundays will
be marked by the presence of great preachers, some
of the names announced being those Of the Rev
DR.. Charles l.. Goodell, the Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur
Chapman. Bishop C. B. Galloway, the Kew. Dr-
George B. Stewart the Rev William A. Sunday,
the Rev. DR.. Edgar P Hill, the Rev. DIR. Madison
c. Peters and the Rev. DR.. Ira Landrith
The Bible conference at Winona, from August 10
to 26 will be in charge of the Rev. Dr. j. Wilbur
Chapman. It is TO have as preachers and speakers
a long list of religious leaders of this country ana
England, including the Rev DR.. William j. Daw-
son, "Gpsy' Smith. Commander Eva Booth and
the Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked
Unitarfans and Universalists will both take part
in summer conferences at two centres. The earlier
will be at Nantucket, July 5 to II, and
the later at Isle of Shoals, July Il to "a At
the first named a number of papers will be pre-
sented by leaders of the liberal religions. some of
the topics being Immortality in the Light of Evo
lution,'' The Gospel Of Ibsen" and Liberal Re
ligion in Germany"
The first week of the Isle of Shoals meeting will
be given over to miscellaneous programme, many
of the addresses being made phases of the gem
eral topic The Ministry of the Church Outside Of
the Pulpit These addresses Will be made by Uni
tartan leaders and will discuss many different lines
of Church effort. The later days of the meeting
will have courses of study follows The Back
ground of Old Testament Study" Bible Read
ings with Interpretations and Sunday School
Methods"
Congregationalists of the West will gather for
recreation and conference at Frankfort, on Lake
Michigan, the date Of the gathering being July q
and its duration three weeks. The assembly
grounds at Frankfort planned and con-
trOlled by Congregational leaders, many or WhOm
make their summer homes there. A feature of the
conference is the Bible class, held every morning.
leaders of which this to be the Rev.
Dr. Frank K Sanders and Professor Edward 7.
Harper of Chicago Theological Seminary. An
nounced speakers for the other conference meet
ings include President Richard c. Hugues of Ripon
College the Rev. DR.. Ernest B. Allen, of Toledo;
Professor J. D. Stoops Of Iowa College; Professor
James A. Baisdell, of Beloit College, Professor
Theodore G. Soares, of Chicago University, and the
Rev. DR.. Francis L. Hayes, of Topeka, Kan.
The Rev. DR.. John n. Goodman. of the most
eloquent preachers of London and fraternal dele
gate from the Wesleyan conferences of England
and Ireland to the recent General Conference at
Baltimore, will preach tomorrow morning at II
o'clock in the Washington Heights Methodist Eps-
copal Church, 153d street and Amsterdam avenue.
The distinguished Member of Parliament Mr.
Berks is a member of the church in London
where for five years DR.. Goodman has been the
pastor
The Rev. DR.. John Wesley Hill, pastor of the
Metropolitan Temple. has returned from Chicago
occupy his pulpit tomorrow morning and evening
In the morning he will speak on Faiths Ad-
venture" and in the evening he will resume his
series God in Nature" taking for his special
subject Lessons from Mammoth Cave
At the Church of the Messiah CTntarian) Gath
street and Park avenue, the minister, the Rev
John Haynes Holmes. will preach at II o'clock to-