The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
CHURCHES UNITE
in MOVEMENT
OPEN WORLDWIDE MIS-
SIONARY CAMPAIGN TO
BE CONDUCTED.
Laymen's Organization Will
Hold Big Convention in In
dianapolis Next April.

the history OF religious move
ments is the national missionary
campaign which viii be launched
this week by the Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement, representing
THE layinen of all the protestant
churches in the United States.
In seventy-hve principal cities,
East and West, North and South,
mems missionary conventions
will be held, at which an aggre-
gate attendance of more than
100000 men is expected.
Ten thousand men are now
serving on local committees in
pre- paraltion for the meetings.
President Taft heads the list of
more than 200 speakers who will
be heard throughout the winter.
This list includes prominent pub
lie men, officers OF the army and
navy, newspaper men, bankers,
business and professional men,
ministers, mission board Secre-
taries and missionaries.
The announced object of the
campaign is to arouse the prot
est;nt churches of the United
STATES to realization that the
lopp Drtunities for missionary work
all over the world are greater
than ever before and secure es-
pecially the cooperation OF the
men of the churches in a great
incc ease of support for the mis-
sion ary boards and societies. The
Lavmen's Missionary Movement
docs not raise any money. but
seeks to stimulate men of all
churches to give more generously
through their regular church
channels.
Taft One of the Speakers.
The campaign will open at Buff
falo Oct. Is. The meetings dur
ing the first two weeks will in
clude Cleveland and some of the
cities of the East and South. In
November the circuit will swing
along the Eastern coast and in
clude Providence, Boston, Wash
ing.on, Baltimore and Philadel-
phia 1t will swing as far West as
Detroit in December.
Three or four days will be
spent in each ty.,The Washing
ington convention will be OF ma
tional importance. 1t is there that
| Pre- srdent Taft will give his testi-
mony to the value and success o.
the missionary enterprise as he
has seen it in the far East. Chic
Forester Pinchot is chairman o.
the w ashington conv ention com
NIT zee. Ambassador Bryce anC
other speakers of national and in
tern ational repute will be on tht
program.
A whole week will be devoted
to New York city during the frs.
part of January. The promoter.
expect that the greatest aggrega
ton of missionary speakers eve
4 assembled will unite in the cam
paign in Greater New York. AT
ter this meeting, the work will b.
divided between two teams o
? speakers and simultaneous con
, ventions will be held South AM
t North. the double series culmin
, atir,g in a great National Mission
= AIRY Congress in Chicago May 3
5 6 This meeting will be held n
! the Auditorium and 5000 repre-
4 sentative laymen and minister
r will be present. Speakers from
Y all over the world will be heard
!. Local committees, which il
Y most cases number from 100 t
4 200 men, have been working az
r excessively for some months. ID
t many of the cities the preliminar
h arrangements are practicall
completed. Each city will car
for its own local expenses.
;. Prominent Men on Lists.
e Among those who will TAX
/ part in the campaign as speaker
II besides President Taft are Chic
e Forester Pinchot. Ambassado
r. James Bryce from Great Britain
If Henry B. F. MacFarland, pres
y dent of the board of Commission
:, ers of the District of Columbia
If former Secretary OF State Job
5 w. Foster; William Jay Schie
5, felein, president of the Citizen!
S Union OF New York; John !
r Mott, general secretary OF III
l. Worlds Student Christian Fedei
n alton; Rear Admiral A. T. M
1t ham, Lieut.. Col. Z. w. HalforC
l. Robert E. Spcer OF New Yorl
George Wharton Pepper of Phi
adelphia, Joshua Levering an
John Timothy Stone OF Bait
n more, former Governor Northe
= OF Georgia. John r. Pepper {
n Memphis. Tenn; Judge Selden !
r Spencer of St. Louis, Z. w. Ste,
o ems of Columbia. Mo-. William
e Bryan, Samuel b. Capen of Boz
n ton. William II. Lewis Of Seattl
r George Sherwood Eddy of Indi
is and ]. Campbell White, gener;
secretary of me Laymen's Mi.
sionary Movement.