Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-30
.LAYM[A To TALK
ON MISSION WORK
Convention to Be Held in Wash
ington Next Month.
CHURCH MOVEMENT FOR
WORK IN FOREIGN FIELDS

Who viii Speak at the Sessions
President Taft VIII Also Address
the Convention.
Washington. Oct. 27.--World IA
mous missionaries from india. Arabia,
China and Korea are among the
speakers scheduled to take part In
the laymenis missionary convention.
10 be held here November IL to14. &C
cord ng to the provisional program
which was announced yesterday by
| the executive committee In charge OF
! the convention. In addition, some of
the leading missionary workers In the
! United States, religious editors Of ma
tional reputation and retired naval of
icers OF distinction will grace the
! program. The President OF the Unit
ed States has honored the convention
by conserving to be listed for the
opening address Thursday morning.
Clifford Pinchot will preside over
the first session. which will be held in
Thursday, November IL, at 10 O'Clock.
Devotional exercises will occupy the
! first half hour, after which Commits
sioner II. b. f. Mcfarland will intro
duce President Taft for the opening
address. At 11:45 O'Clock Robert N.
Speer will give an address, and the
convention Will then adjourn until
o'clock AT the afternoon session
MEN and Missions" will be discussed
| in twenty minute talks by Col. E. w.
/ HaIsord. United States Army, re tired;
Edward b. Sturgiss, Scranton, Pa;
Samuel B. Capon, Boston, and viii
liam J. Schieffelin of New York The
afternoon session will be held In some
| large downtown church, to be select
ed later. Commissioner Macfarland
will preside.
The evening session will be pre-
sided over by John w. Foster. Fol
lowing the song service at 1888
O'Clock in Continental Hall two ad
dresses will be given THE Law OF the
Family of Cod" by Silah McRee, edi
tor of the Churchman, and Americas
World Responsibility" by John r.
Mott, of New York.
Provisional Program.
The following arrangements have
been made for subsequent sessions:
. Friday morning at 10 a. m. In a
down town church. Morney Williams
ND, oh,
committee Laymen's Missionary Move
ment, viii preside. There will be
three addresses by John r. Stone. Bal
timore; Dr. d. Clay Lilly, Nicholas
vile, KY, and DR.. f. l.. II. Pott,
Shanghai. China.
The afternoon session will be pre-
|ssided over by J. Campbell White, OF
New York, general secretary Lay
mems Missionary Movement. S. Earl
Taylor of New York, secretary Lay
mems Missionary Movement, Meth
odist Episcopal Church. will begin the
program with an address, 1.-THE Organ
ization Needed to Enlist the Church"
There will also be addresses by Chas
A. Rowland, of Athens, Ga, president
Laymen's Movement, Southern Pres
byterian Church; NJ. Parkinson OF
Toronto and others. AT the evening
session, 7:30 o'clock, in Continental
Memorial D. A. r. hall, Admiral A. T.
Mahan, U. s. ~, presiding. there will
be a song service, followed by talks
on "The Awakening Orient" by Rev
CT orgs Heber Jones, Korea; Rev. s.
NJ. Swemer, +. r. G. S.. Arabia, and
George Sherwood Eddy, India
Saturday will be given up to meet
ings of committee OF the Laymens
Missionary Movement in the Y NJ c.
A. building studen's' meeting and
wonens' me,h g to be held at 81
O'Clock in the afternoon denomna
tional rallies in prominent churches at
5 o'clock, and demon national suppers
in the evening at $50 o'clock.
Pulpit Service Sunday.
Sunday the pulpits Of the city will
be occupied by visiting speakers.
John r. Mott, OF New Yak will ad
dress a mass meeting for men at 81
O'Clock in the New National Theater, |
and in the evening a number OF sec
tlonal denominational services will be
held in prominent churches about the
city.
The details of the program have
not yet been entirely worked out.
November 5 has been selected as a.
date for church rallies ia the interest
of the missionary convention by the
Episcopalians, the Baptists and the
Reformed Church. The Episcopal lay |
men will meet with Bishop Harding, |
the Baptists at Calvary Church and
the two Reformed churches will hold
a joint meeting. The Methodists will
meet at Wesley Church November 81
and the Lutherans at ST. Paups |
Church October 2S. The Congrega |
tionalists will take the matter up sep