Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-26
LAYMEN TO DISCUSS MISSIONS
CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN
WASHINGTON NEXT MONTH.
Movement Among Churchmen for
Work in Foreign Countries.
President Taft to Speak.

World-famous missionaries from India.
Arabia, China and Korea are among the
speakers scheduled to take part in the
laymen's missionary convention. to be
held here November lila. according to
the provisional program which was an
nounced today by the executive COM
mittee in charge of the convention. In
addition, some of the leading missionary
workers in the United States. religious
editors of national reputation and retired
naval officers Of distinction will grace the
program. The President Of the United
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 Con-
tinental Memorial d. A. r. Hall, Thurs
day. November II. at 10 o'clock. Devo-
tional exercises will occupy the first half
hour. after which Commissioner II. b. F.
Mcfarland will introduce President
Taft for the opening address. At II IA
o clock Robert n. Speer viii! give an adj
dress, and the convention will then ad-
journ until :; Of clock. At the afternoon
session Men and Missions will be dis
cuSsed in twenty-minute talks by Col.
E. W. Halford. United States Army, re-
tired: Edward B. Sturges, Scranton. Pa.
Samuel B. Capon. Boston, and William J.
Schieffelin of New York. The afternoon
session will be held in some large down
town church, to be selected later. Com
missioner mcfarland will preside
The evening session will be presided
owed by John W. Foster. Following the
song service at 100 O'Clock in CONT
mental Hall two addresses will he given
The Law OF the Family of Cod by
Silah Mckee, editor 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 am. in a down
town church. Morney Williams of New
York. vice chairman executive committee
Laymen's Missionary Movement, will
preside. There will be three addresses
by John 7. Stone, Baltimore; DR.. D. Clay
Lilly, Nicholasville. Ky. and DR.. F. L. II.
Pott. Shanghai. China.
The afternoon session will be presided
over by j. Campbell White of New York,
general secretary Laymen's Missionary
Movement S. Earl Taylor of New York.
secretary Laymen's Missionary Move
ment, Methodist Episcopal Church. will
begin the program with an address. The
Organization Needed to Enlist the
Church There will also be addresses
by Charles a. Rowland of Athens, Ga.
W Idly men MONeUleHl. southern
Presbyterian Church: NJ. Parkinson of
Toronto and others. At the evening ses
sion Z 30 o'clock. in Continental Memorial
D. A. r. hall. Admiral A T. Mahan.
L. S. n, presiding, there will be a song
service. followed by talks on The Awak-
ening Orient, by Rev. George Heber
Jones, Korea: Rev. S. NJ. Swemer, F. r.
G.. s.. Arabia. and George Sherwood,
Eddy. India.
Saturday Will be given UP to meetings OF
committees of the Laymens Missionary
Movement in the Y. NJ. G.. A. building.
students meeting and women'S meeting
to be held at :; o'clock in the afternoon,
at ) o'clock. and UNCONVENTIONAL suppers
in the evening at $50 o'clock.
Pulpit Services Sunday.
Sunday the pulpits of the city will be
occupied by visiting speakers. John r.
Mott of New York will address a mass
meeting for men at ) o'clock in the New
National Theater, and in the evening 4
number of sectional UNCONVENTIONAL serv-
ices will be held in prominent churches
about the city.
The details of the program have not yet
been entirely worked out.
November has been selected as a date
for church rallies in the interests of the
missionary convention by the Episcopa-
lians, the Baptsts and the Reformed
Church. The Episcopal laymen will meet
with Bishop Harding. the Baptists at Cal
vary Church and the two Reformed
churches will hold a joint meeting. The
Methodists will meet at Wesley Church
November > and the Lutherans at ST.
PaufS Church October %. The Congrega-
tionalists will take the matter up sepa-
rately in each of their churches.