Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-12
NATIONAL MISSIONARY CAM
PAlGN BY LAYMEN UNIQUE
IN RELIGION.
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL AID
BY MAKING ADDRESSES
Mems Missionary Conventions to Be
Held in Seventy five Principal Cities
of East, West, North and South
Object is to Arouse Churches to Ae.
ton.

New York, Oct. 12.-Unique in the
history of religious movements is the
national missionary campaign which
will be launched this week by the lay
mems missionary movement, repre-
senting the laymen of all the protes-
tant churches in the United States.
In seventy-five principal 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 more than 200 speakers who
VIII De heard turnout the winter This
list includes prominent public men,
officers Of the army and navy, news
paper men, bankers, business and pro-
fessional men, ministers. mission board
secretaries and missionaries
The announced object of the cam
paign is to rouse the protestant
churches of the United States to real
lzation 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
churches to give more generously thru
their regular church channels
The campaign will open at Buffalo,
n. ". on Oct. Is. The meetings during
the first two weeks will include Cleve-
land 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. WASH
ington. Baltimore and Philadelphtia IA
viii swing as far west as Detroit in
December
Taft to Speak at Capital.
Three or four days will be spent in
each city. The Washington conven-
ton will be of national Importance II
is there that President Taft will give
his testimony enterprise as he has
Of the missionary enterprise and he has
seen in the far east. Chief Forester
Pinchot is chairman Of the Washington
convention committee Ambassador
Bryce and other speakers of national
and international repute will be- on the
program.
A whole week will be devoted to New
York City during the first part of jan
uary. The promoters expect that the
greatest aggregation of missionary
speakers ever assembled will unite in
the campaign in Greater New York.
After this meeting, the work will he
divided between two teams of speakers
and simultaneous conventions will be
held south and north, the double series
eliminating in great national mis-
sionary congress in Chicago May 3-6.
This meeting will be held in the Audi
forum and 1000 representative lay
men and ministers will be present
Speakers from all over the world will
be heard.
Local committees. which in most
cases number from 100 to 200 men,
have been working asgressively for
some months. In many of the cities
the preliminary arrangements are prac-
ticaly completed: Each city will care
for its own local expenses.
The ministerial associations Of prac-
tically all the cities have given their
hearty approval to the movement and
many churches will give over their ser
vices for several weeks to a consider
alton of missionary subjects. The Cor
ventions themselves will last about
three days, coming in the midst of this
period Of general missionary agitation
in the churches of city. In most cities
the convention will open with dinner
or supper at which an average of a
thousand men are expected to be pres
emit. Meetings for the consideration
of plans of missionary finance will
also be held and great mass meetings
of men arranged
Besides the local committees, the
executive committee of the laymen.s
missionary movement, with headquar-
tiers in the Metropolitan Life building,
in New York, is busily 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 secretaries are employed for
at least two months, in each convention
city.
Eminent Men to Speak.
Among those who will take part in
the campaign as speakers besides Pres
ident Taft are Chief Forester Clifford
Pinchot, Ambassador James Bryce
from Great Britain, Henry B. F. Mac
farland, president Of the board of COM
nnissinners of the District OF Columns:
former Secretary Of State John w.
Foster, William Jay Schieffelin, presi-
dent of the Citizens Union of New
York, John r. Mott, general secretary
Of the Worlds Student Christian Fed
GRAFTON, Rear Admiral A. T. Mahan,
Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Halford
Robert E. 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 Selden p. Spen-
Ger Of st. Louis, e. w. Stevens of Co
lumbia, Mo-, William j. Bryan, Samuel
B. Capen Of Boston, William H. Lewis
of Seattle, George Sherwood Eddy OF
India, and j. Campbell White, general
secretary Of the laymen's missionary
movement.
The schedule Of cities In the north
west where conventions will be held Is
as follows: March 15-17, Lincoln;
March 1920, Omaha; March 1924
Sioux City, Iowa: March 1881, Port
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