The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-08-06
Northfeld, Mass.
GENERAL CONFERENCE BEGUN.
First Meeting Held Saturday Evening
Many Great Speakers.

Many Great Speakers.
The 9th general conference for Chris
tan Workers began with an opening
in the auditorium last Saturday evening
attended by large audience, the usua
large number of delegates being present
from all parts of the country. On Sun
day morning visitors drove in in carriage.
and automobiles from all the nearby
towns The morning meeting was the
largest Sunday audience this year. Meet
ings were going on nearly all day, At
the sunrise prayer-meeting for the success
of the conference was conducted by the
chairman, w. X. Moody, and attended by
a large number of the faithful" The
camp council came at s with AN address
by Charles r. Studd, the interesting
.Englishman who has proved so popular
here during the past month. This is one
of the most unique OF the many North
field meetings, and is held at Camp
Mortified under the pines of Notch
mountain, beside the council rock where
ID. L. Moody was accustomed to conduct
the morning meetings of the camp. Al
the new Sage chapel was well filled
with women for service conducted by
Mrs. c. T. Studd. Long before the hour
announced for the morning platform meet
ing people came. TO secure the CHOICE
seats so that an impromptu praise service
was conducted by George G.. Stebbins.
The morning address was given by Dr.
John Henry Jowett, pastor OF Cars Lane
chapel, Birmingham. Eng, the famous
English nonconfolmist divine, who Is now
making his first American visit. spe.
cal childrens service was held on Round
Top for the little people while their elders
were hearing DR.. Jowett's message, In
the afternoon Mrs. +. G. Gibbnd OF
Springfield conducted an open-alr praise
tba buuJpalS M npOnIp who
came here just for the day. The Round
Top service was addressed by Rev. Al.
berto Clot of the Waldensan church, and
in the evening the speaker was DR.. Jow'
EFT.
Music was a special feature OF the
morning r. f. Mitchell of Oberlln, o.,
assisted Mr.. Stebbns in leading the sing
ing. The Hemon quartet sang Remem-
her Now Thy Creator. and the children 5
choir. led by Miss Clair Chapman, also
sang. Prayer was offered by Henry II.
Proctor of Boston. president of the
Mount Hermon board of trustees. Dr
Charles Sleeper of Philadelphia led the
congregation in the apostles creed. The
scripture lesson, taken from Luke u. was
read by Dr. Jowett, who took as his text
verse ,, When We pray, say our Father.
The sermon was fine and very scholarly
The work, as is usual on Monday, was
light for the delegates at the general CON
ference. An unusual feature was the
fact that all the speakers came from for
eign lands The camp council at Camp
Mortified had DR.. 5. NJ. Zwemer as h1s
speaker. At II, Dr. Zwemer spoke again
at the auditorium, giving one OF the
strongest missionary appeals heard here
this summer. He spoke on The Call OF
the Moslem World, Henry H. Proctor OF
Boston. president OF the Mount Hermon
trustees. presided at this meeting. He
stated that Dr. Zwemer was one of the
best known authorities on the Mohamme-
dan world, as he had been missionary In
Arabia for 20 years and had written
MANY books on this subject At the close
of the address and after the Hermon
quartet had sung Speed Away, Mr. Proc
tor spoke briefly of the work of the mis-.
sion board that he is connected with, and
re-echoed the note of hopefuness. that
was expressed by DR.. Zwemer. In the at
ternoon large number of delegates
watched the tennis matches at the Hotel
Northfield which were very close. 1T
looks now as though G. T.. Studd, the
popular speaker from Cambridge, who
held the English cricket title for some
time, and p d. Moody, would meet IN
the finals Mr.. Studd spoke at the sun
set meeting on Round Top. Mr.. Moody
spoke of him as the one whose going to
the mission field had done more for mis-
sions than that of any other one man
that he knew. At the evening meeting
DR.. Charles E. Brown of London, promi-
nent in the British Baptist union, was
the speaker. =,
In contrast with Monday, Mortified
Tuesday had full program of meetings,
eight in all, including two praise services.
1t is seldom that speakers of such ability
have all been heard in one day. DR.. A.
T. Pierson of Brooklyn began his course
of daily Bible lectures on the books OF
the New Testament, supplementing his
course of last year on the Old Testament.
The daily series of meetings for ministers
only began also, being held in the chapel
under the leadership of DR.. G. A. John
ston- Ross. formerly of Cambridge, Eng,
who has just accepted an Amarican call.
This will be feature of the conference,
aimed to promote more usefulness IN the
ministry for meeting the social and rellg-
ious needs of the community The three
other chief speakers Tuesday We're also
Englishmen. DR.. j. H. Jowett of Biz
mingham preached in the evening, Rev
J. 4. Hutton of Glasgow in the morning
and Rev. j. Stuart Holden of London at
the afternoon meeting. Speakers at the
other services were Mrs. Whittemore OF
the rescue mission work in New York
and DR.. F. r. MacNaughton, for 10 years
a missionary in Turkey.