The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-11
GREAT WORK
 FOR MISSIONS To Launch Layman's
 Movement. HUNDREDS OF SPEAKERS Conventions to De Held in Many
 Cities. President Taft Will Take Part and Meetlsgs Will Extend Throughout
 All Parts of the
 County.


 New York, Oct. 1o-Unique in the his tory of religious movements is the Ma tional Missionary Campaign which will be launched this week by Che Laymen's Missionary Movement. representing the laymen of all the Protestant churches | in the United States.
 In seventy-five principaf cities East and West. North and South. mems mis- sionary conventions will be held. at which an aggregate attendance of more than 100000 men is expected. Ten thousand men are now serving on local committees in preparation for the meetings. President Taft heads the list of over 200 speakers who will be heard throughout the winter. This list includes prominent public men. officers of the Army and Navy. newspaper men. bankers. business and professional men. ministers. mission board secreta- ries and missionaries.
 The announced object of the cam paign is to arouse the Protestant churches of the United States to a real ization that the opportunities for mis- sionary work all over the world are greater than ever before and secure especially the cooperation of the men of the churches in a great increase of support for the missionary boards and societies. The Laymen's Missionary Movement does not raise any money but seeks to stimulate men of all the churches to give more generously through their regular church chan nels.
 Starts in Buffalo. The campaign will open at Buffalo. N Y., on October Is. The meetings du- ring the first two weeks will include Cleveland, and some of the cities of the East and South. In November. the cir- cult will swing along the Eastern Coast and include Providence. Boston. Washington, Baltimore and Phliadel- phia. It will swing as far West as Detroit In December.
 Three or four days will be spent In each city. The Washington Conven- tion will be of national importance. It is there that President Taft VIII give his testimony to the value ana as he has seen 1t in the far East. Chief l reste. Pinchot Is chairman or the Washington Convention Committee | Amuassador Bryce and other speakers 1 of national and international repute Mir he on the program.
 l A whole week will be devoted to | Ne. .o.k city uuring the first part or January. The promoters expect that the greatest aggregation of mission ary speakers ever assembled VIII unite in the campaign in Greater New ork After this meeting. the work will be divided between two teams of sneakers and simultaneous conventions | will be held South and North. the double series eliminating In great National Missionary Congress in Chi cago, May 3-6 This meeting Will De held in the auditorium and i've thou sand representative laymen and minis- ters will be present. Speakers from all over :he world will be heard Local committees which in most cases numbr from one hundred to two hundred men have been working az gressively for some months. In many of the cities the preliminary arrange ments are practically completed. Each city will care for its own local ex- penses.
 Ministers Will Help.
 The ministerial association of prac- tically all the cities have given their hearty approval to the movement and many churches will give over their services for several weeks to con sideration of missionary subjects. The conventions themselves will last about three days coming in the midst of this
  in the churches of a city. In most cit- les the convention will open with dinner or supper at which an average of A thousand men are expected to be present Meetings for the considera- ton of plans of missionary finance will also be held and great mass meet ings of men arranged.
 Besides the local committee. the Executive Committee of the Lay mems Missionary Movement, with headouarters in the Metropolitan Life building. in New fork M husily promoting the campaign. In addition to the corps of secretaries and clerks at work in New York, there are four field secretaries in various parts of the country, and executive secreta- ries are employed for at least two months, in each convention city.
 Among those who will take part Tn the camDaign as speakers besides Pres ident Taft, are Chief Forester Clifford PInchot, Ambassador James Bryce from Great Britain, Henry 8. r. Macfar- land of the District of Columbia, tor- mer Secretary of State John w. Fos- ter, William Jay Schlenelin. president of the Citizens Union or New fork; John R. Mott General Secretary of the Worlds Student Christian Federation; Rear Admiral A. T. Mahan. Lieut.. Col. E w. Halford, Robert K. Speer of New York. George wharton Pepper of Philadelphia, Joshua lowering and John Timothy Stone of Baltimore. former Governor Northen of Georgia. John R. Pepper of Memphis Tenn, Judge Sell den P. Spencer of St Louis E. W. stevens of Columbia, Mo-; William J. Bryan. Samuel B. Capen of Boston, William H. Lewis of Seattle. George Sherwood Eddy of India. and J. Camp bell White, General Secretary Of the I,avmen's Missionary Movement.
 Convention Cities.
 The complete schedule of cities where conventions will be held Is as follows:
 october l6-19-Buffalo.
 october l9-2l-Bristol, Tenn.
 october 2l-24-Cleveland.
 october 23-26-Richmond. Va.
 october 2s-31-Worcester.
 November 5-7-Providence.
 November 6-7-Boston.
 November 1l-l4--washington. D. C..
 November 16-is-Baltimore
 November 1s-2l-Philaielphia
 November 22-2+-Harrisburg and
 November 27-sO-Hartford. Conn. and Portland, Me.
 December l-3-ReadinR. Pa. December 4-5-7-Detrot.
 December s-10-syracuse. N. r.
 December Il-14-Newark. N, J.