The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-04
MANY CHURGHMBN
OF NOTE COMING
LEADERS OF DENOMINATIONS
AT LOUISVILLE.
Remarkable List of Speakers for
Federal Council Executive
Committee.
N FIVE PUBLIC MEETINGS

Louisville, Dec. 4.-The Official
program for the annual meeting of
THE executive committee of the fed
eral council OF the church of Christ
in America, just released for publ
cation, shows that a remarkable list
Of speakers will be heard. The list is
remarkable because of the many lead
ing denominations represented, the
variety OF important topics TO be con-
sidered, and the numerous high posi-
tons held in the various denomina-
tons by their representatives. In ad-
dition to the several dozen eminent
churchmen on the program, there will
be in attendance many other denomi-
national leaders of wide influence and
prominence, whose names will be
forwarded soon to the local commit
tees, as well as the representatives of
those constituent bodies of the fed
eral council who will have a voice in
, the executive sessions at Warren
Memorial Presbyterian church the
mornings of December and Q. The
public sessions will be held the even
ing of December and the alter
Moons and evenings OF December s
and 3.
Workers I'm All Fields on Program.
Representatives of a majority of
the thirty-three denominations hav-
ing members on the committee have
places on the program. The list in
cludes pastors OF large metropolitan
churches, secretaries OF Sunday
schools and mission boards. char-
men of oenominational and interde-
nominational boards and organiza-
lions. seminary and university pro-
lfessors and presidents, officers of
large societies for departmental work
of various kinds, officers OF state
church declarations, bishops, editors
lof leading religious periodicals and
experts on problems confronting the
church in its coordinate existence
with various phases of American life.
Some Who Will BE Heard.
Among the men who will partici-
pate in he meeting, and the list is
not yet complete. are the following:
DR.. A. ]. McKelway, Washington,
secretary national child labor COM
mittee; DR.. Smaller Matthews, dean
of the Divinity school, University of
Chicago; DR.. Herbert Welch. Della
ware, o., president Of Ohio Wesleyan
university; the Rev. r. ID. Lord, pas
tor First Baptist church, Brooklyn,
and recording secretary of the coun-
ell; the Rev. S. c. Breyfogel, ID. D.,
bishop of the Evangelical association,
Reading, Pa; Bishop E. r. Hendrix.
OF the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, president of the council; the
Rev. ]. U. Schneider, pastor German
Evangelical church, Evansville, Ind.
the Rev. J. c. Scouller. pastor of theI
United Presbyterian church, Phlladel-
phia; DR.. r. X. Miller. secretary of
the Sunday school board of the Re-
formed Church in the United States
and chairman OF the council commit
tee on temperance.
Others are: The Rev. Edwin c. |
Dinwiddie, of Washington, chairman |
Of the permanent committee on tenn
perance of the Evangelical church;
the Rev. Harry G. Hill. pastor of the |
First Church OF Christ, Indianapolis: |
the Rev w. II. Babcock, associate
pastor in charge of religious lnstruc-
tion in the First Presbyterian church.
Buffalo; Bishop Earl Cranston, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, Wash
ington; the Rev Charles whitney,
secretary of the Home Missionary So
ciety OF the United Brethren church,
Dayton; the Rev. Martyr Summer
bell. president OF Sharkey seminary,
n. Y; DIR. II. G. Herrin,
secretary of the Congregational
Home Missionary society, New York:
DR.. Robert Forbes, corresponding
secretary Of the Methodist Episcopal
home mission board, Philadelphia;
Or. Edgar p Hill. professor in Nc
Cormick Theological seminary, Chi
cago; the Rev. l.. G. Barnes. field
secretary of the American Baptist
Home Missionary society and chair
man of the council committee on
home missions; the Rev. j. II. Garri-
son, editor of the Christian Evange-
list. st. Louis; Bishop George M.
of the uniteed Brethren
church, Chicago: Charles K. Tebbett,
secretary American Friends Board of
Foreign Missions, Richmond, Ind;
The Rev. George w. Clinton, bishop
Of the African Methodist Episcopal
church, Charlotte, n. c.
The list that is given here does
not include the local speakers. Still
others are: DR.. william Henry Rob-
'rts, chairman of the council execu-
i've committee; the Rev. Levi Gil
pert, editor of the Western Christian
ADVOCATE, Cincinnati: the Rev. z. b.
sanford. corresponding secretary OF
he council, New York: the Rev. AL
rod Williams Anthony, secretary OF
he interdenom.national commission
II Maine; the Rev. c. d. Spencer,
ecretary of the church federation at
Kansas City. and editor of the Cen
raj Christian Advocate; DR.. S. T.
ford, president of the Chicago feder-
ton; DE-. F. T. Rouse, president of