Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-14

:. mittee of the National Lay !.
mems Missionary Movement, II
+ which will open in Washington j.
4 November II, with an address +
i by President w. H. Taft. y
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Washington, D. c., Aug. ia ma
tional campaign in the interest of mis-
sions will be opened in Washington on
the evening of November II, continu-
ing here for four days. President Taft
will make the opening address and
every evangelical denomination in the
district will be represented by dele
gates. The sessions of the conven-
tion will be held in Continental Me-
mortal hall and a score of the most
prominent speakers in the country are
on the program for addresses. The
local pastor will preach missionary
sermons the Sunday preceding the
convention, and many Washington ana
Baltimore pulpits will be filed by
prominent lay speakers on conven-
tion Sunday.
From Washington a group Of the
most prominent speakers will start on
a tour of IS of the principal cities of
he United States, in each of which a
hJosl campaign will be conducted, the
y jrG Gire movement eliminating in a ma
/, .ional missionary congress to be held
in Chicago in May 1910. In prepara-
tion for the national campaign six sum-
mer conferences will be held as fol-
lows: Hot Springs. Ark, Aug. 1912:
Monteagle, Tenn, August 1915: Mon
treat, N. c.. August 171a; Winona
Lac, Ind, September 1-3; Mount Gret-
ma, Pa, September AS; Silvar Bay, N.
conferences hundreds Of missionaries,
laymen and pastors will be present to
consider methods of work to be used
in the campaign, and to complete gen
eral arrangements for the various To-
cal conventions.
"The object of these gatherings is to
bring the men of the churca to larg-
er realization of their responsibility
and opportunity In connection with
world gelization," said j. Campbell
White, general secretary Of tile lay
mems missionary movement, under
whose auspices the national campaign
| is to be conducted "The movement
is educational and inspirational work
/ ing by affiliation and cooperation with
| present societies In the church, thus
calling into being no new organization.
The plan has the Endorsement of the
organized foreign missionary agencies
Of America, and will have their active
cooperation. A similar plan has been
used in Canada during the past win
ter, eliminating in Canadian ma.
tional missionary congress, attended by
over 1000 commissioners, representing
/ all Protestant churches Of the Do
minion. The movement has aroused
the Christian men of Canada to an
appreciation Of the power and posi-
bilities of combined and cooperating
/ Christianity to q degree not hitherto
witnessed in this generation.
/ "The churches in the United States
/ need new baptism of power. They
need to be saved from materialism
from commercialism, from rationalism
from formality, from selfishness and
narrowness and from Indifference tc
the will of God. We hope this cam
4 paign will do the work. 1t should
mark a new epoch in the history oi
Christianity"
The plans for the opening meetings
of the campaign to be held in this
city are in charge of a general com
mittee, of which Clifford Pinchot is
chairman Commissioner H. B. F. Nc
Farland is the chairman of the ex
ecutive committee. w. B. Robinson
secretary, and Bert 7. Amos, treas
lIrar