Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-08
liYMEWS CONVENTION DATES
SESSIONS BEGIN THURSDAY AT
CONTINENTAL HALL.
Meetings to Be Held Throughout the
Week at Various Churches
and At Theater.


sionary convention has been completed.
The convention will be opened Thursday
morning at 10 O'clock in Continental
Memorial Hall and continue until Sum
day evening At the opening meeting
President Taft Commissioner Mcfarland
and Robert r. Speer. secretary of the
board of foreign missions of the Presby-
terrain Church. will deliver addresses. Rt.
Rev. Alfred Harding. Bishop Of Wash
ington. will conduct the devotional SER
vice. Clifford Pinchot. chairman of the
general committee of the movement, will
preside over the session.
The balance of the program and the
various places OF meetings follow:
Afternoon session-New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. Henry b. F. Mac
farland. presiding: 3 PM. devotional
service: 3:l5 pm. Men and Missions"
Lieut.. Col. f. W. Halford. l.. s. A; 335
pm. The Laymen's Missionary Move
ment and the Mission Boards Samuel
b. Capen. LID. Boston. president
American board of commissioners for for
eign missions: :i:55 pm, address. William
Jay Schieffelin. New York; AIS p.m., ad-
dress. Robert +. Speer. New York
Evening sessiOn-Con,lnental Memorial
D. A. r. Hall. John W. Foster presiding;
40 pm. song service, led by Percy 3.
Foster: pm, The Work: Whatever
rsdor: s:2a pm. THE Law of the Family
of Cod" Silas McBee. editor the Church
man. New York; $50 pm, America 8
World Responsibility. J. Campbell
White. New York.
Friday, November IL.
Morning session - New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Mornay Williams,
New York. vice chairman executive COM
mittee Laymens Missionary Movement,
presiding; 10 am, devotional service;
1918 am. us the Church Interpretation
of the Great Commission Correct" Rev.
John T. Stone, Chicago; 10:45 am, For
eign Missions and Christian Unity" Rev.
DIR. r. l.. II. Pott. president st. Johns
College, Shanghai: Ills am, The
CHARACTERIZATION OF China Rev DR.. A.
P. Parker, president Anslo-Chinese Col
lege, Shanghai.
Afternoon session-New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. J. Campbell White,
New York. general secretary Laymen's
devotional service: 3:15 pm. "India's
Need of Christ" Rev. DR.. John p. Jones,
Madura mission: 3:<5 pm, THE Organ
ization Needed to Enlist the Church" s.
Earl Taylor. New York, secretary Lay
mems Missionary Movement, Methodist
Episcopal Church; 4:15 Pm, Systematic
Missionary Education" Rev. DR.. d. Clay
Lilly, Nicholasvile. Ny: 4:45 pm, "Busi-
ness System in Missionary Finance
Matthew Parkinson. Toronto.
Evening Observation-Disclosures Memorial
D. A. r. Hall. Henry b. F. Mcfarland,
presiding go pm. song service. led by
Percy S. Foster: pm. The Pastor
Rev. Dr. Arthur s. Lloyd. Bishop Co
adjutor of Virginia: $50 pm. The
Awakening Orient" George Sherwood
Eddy. India: the Rev. s. n. Zwemer. F.
r. q. S., Arabia.
Saturday, November 10.
10 am. meeting of the general COM
mittee of the International Laymen's
Missionary Movement. parlors Young
Mems Christian Association. Samuel 3.
Capen, LII. D.. presiding. 2 Pm, meet
ing Of the executive committee Laymen's
Missionary Movement, parlQrs Young
Mems Christian Association. Denomi-
national rallies. Saturday afternoon and
evening. Definite announcements later.
Sunday, November II.
II am, pulpits of the city occupied by
visiting speakers. New National Theater.
3 pm. closing session Of the convention:
greetings from other cities. reports from
UNCONVENTIONAL rallies, address. Alfred e.
Narling. New York: address. John r.
Mott. New York. First Congregational
Church. $3.50 pm. meeting for women.
under auspices of the Young Womens
Christian Association: speakers. S. Earl
Taylor, New York. and George Sherwood
Eddy. India. True Reformers' Hall,
18th and Z streets northwest, $3.50 Pm.
meeting for colored men; speakers. the
Rev. Samuel NJ. Zwemer, F. r. G. S.,
and the Rev. DR.. John p. Jones, 7:Sv
pm or 8 pm. services in churches: in
some cases sectional denominatiOnal
services for both men and women will be