The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-20

July 2z-29; Summer school for Sun day school Workers. July 22-2S. and a General Conference of Christian Work CTS, July sl-Aug. IS.
 Some Conference and Their Programs.
 At Winona. Ind. the season opens on June 2S. with a summer school of missions. This Continues until July 3. From July 5 to Augusi l3, the prin- ciple feature of the Winona program the summer Bible school convenes. This brings clergymen and church workers from all parts of the Middle West.
 Some AdnmIess Edens.
 Silver Bay. on Lake George. N. Y. has secured the allegiance or the Y. M c. A. people. and they have institutes and conventions during the summer. Thither also go the Young Women's Christian Association of the Eastern Central District. representing such colleges as Wellesly, Smith, Radcliffe Barnard and Vassar. Although the delegations are strictly limited. more college girls try to attend the confer ence at the end of June than can be re- ceived. Mountain Lake Park in Mary | land, well known ChautauQua, is ths | scene Of the college girls meeting from the States of Pennsylvania. Ohio Delaware, West Virginia and District of Columbia. Other conferences arc | held at Capotila. Cal, by the student Young Women's Christian Association Asheville, N. C., Seaside. Ore. Cascade Col, and Lake Geneva. Wis. At a num- Der of these points. notably Lake Ge' neva and Northfield. the college Youna Mems Association will meet also at . different date.
 Series of conferences are also helo | by the Young Peoples Missionar, Movement, and these attract many del egates from Christian EndeaUor socie' ties. Christian Associations. Epworth Leagues. Sunday Schools, etc. This years conference will be at Whitby Ont, July 2-e; Lake Geneva. Wis, July 2-11; Asheville, N. C., July 2-1i; Silver Bay, July 23-August l.
 The Laymans' Missionary Movement ] has planned summer conferences fol the training of speakers for It's nex'
 winters national campaign. when more than sixty cities in the United States are to be visited by simulta- neous inter -denominational missionary crusades. Those training conferences
 will be held at Hot Springs, Ark, Au- gust 10-12; Monteagle, Tenn. August l3-15; Montreal. N. C., August 17-19 Mt. Gretna. Pa, September 4-6. New Resorts for Church Folk. | Of the newer religious conferences
 which are all practically vacation | SCHOOLS IL ib ulIHculI to Hlhhe A Fun record. Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey, the well known evangelist. has established a conference which Is modelled on North l field lines at Montrose. Pa. This year
 1t has a Bible conference from August | 20 to 29. with Rev. Samuel Holden oi London, Rev. pr. James s. Gray of Chi cago. and other well known Bihls | teachers as leaders.
 | Montreal, N. C.. has been establish ed by the Southern Presbyterians, and 1t is to have a series of conferences | throughout the summer. The Grove City, Pa, summer school has continued for a number of years. ,Dr. Isaac Ket- | Ter, the president, having featured dis. tinguished foreigners. The Northlano | summer Bible school and conference is | to be heldsat Lake Galilee, Ashland County. wis, July 10-August 1.
 Pocono Pines, Pa, gets an appro'
 priation from the State which strongth'
 ems its summer school for teachers
 Judy 5-31 This is followed by a Pres
 byterian conference of young people
 August 2-s; Bible conference. Augusl
 s-16; Sunday School conference, Augus
 1920, and Sunday School conference
 especially for Eplscopalians, Augus l 22-2s.
 So many men are attracted to these
 summer conferences, especially those | in connection with the Y. M. C. A., that
 by an applicable coincidence these hava
 come to be very popular resorts witF
 mothers and their daughters. Possibly this Is a touch of human nature whici one would not at first thought asso'
 ciated with strictly religious gather
 ings, but "as it was in the days O
 Noah so it will be to the end.