The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-18
lsynea's Mssieaary Movement.
Great Meeting Organizing To Be He'd AT
Portland, November 27-3O.

Great Meeting Organising To Be Held At
Portland. November $780,
The Evangelixation of the World in
this Generation" is the motto under
which the Church Federation of Portland
and vicinity have authorized call for
the Laymen's Missionary Convention in
Portland and have elected city CO.
operating committee to carry out its
wishes in this respect They invite the
churches throughout the State of Maine
and contiguous territory to send dele
gates to the convention and join in this
national uprising of Christian men to
push forward worldwide evangelization.
The national campaign involves the
holding of Laymen's Missionary Con-
ventions in about seventy-five of the
most important cities between Portland
and San Francisco. 1t is expected that
one hundred thousand of the leading
Christian laymen of the country will be
IN attendance at these conventions. Into
other cities and towns Populations of law
men will carry the crusade to secure
from Christian men in America a recog-
milton of the nations religious response
bility to the world. The campaign will
eliminate in National Missionary Con-
gress in Chicago, May 3rd to 9th, 1910,
at which 5000 representatives from all
the churches will determine a national
missionary policy. The call is direct, the
object is definite and vital
The campaign is wholly educational
and insplrational. No attempt will be
made at the conventions to secure sub
scriptions; no collections will be taken.
The Laymen's Missionary Movement
does not send out missionaries. Its OBJ
ject is to assist the churches in charging
their missionary work more adequately
to meet the spiritual needs of mankind.
The Laymen's Movement has received
the hearty endorsement of the organized
Foreign Missionary Boards Of North
America. The campaign promises to give
the most striking evidence of co-opera-
ton on the part of the churches in mod
ern times.
The Portland Convention 1.-THE only one
Saturday, Nov. 81, with men, supper.
Accommodations are limited and seats
will be reserved in order of receipt of
application with price of plate. The larg-
est hall in Portland is being secured for
the meeting, at which fully 1000 regis
tered delegates are expected. On Sun
day the pulpits of the city will, as far as
practicable, be occupied by the visiting
speakers, and great Mems Missionary
Meeting will be held in the afternoon and
on each week-evening following to the
close. During the day, on Monday and
/ Tuesday, UNCONVENTIONAL gatherings and
( institute sessions will be held
/ The convention will be self-entertain-
ing. A registration fee of one dollar,
opening supper ticket extra, will he
charged all delegates, in order to meet the
necessary expenses of the convention,
and delegates should register at once,
using the blank furnished for this pur-
pose.
How may churches secure the largest
permanent results from the convention?
First, the committee calls upon each
pastor of Maine to bring the matter at
once to the attention of his congregation
and the officers thereof in order that they
may officially decide to be represented
and have delegates chosen, and mission
airy committee of men appointed. In
many cases the churches will want to
defray the expenses of the delegates.
Second, they call upon every Christian
man who is interested in extending the
Kingdom, to pray and do his part in
j planning for the success of the move
ment in our State and Nation
Third, they call upon the busiest men
of our State to so arrange their business
engagements, that they may be present
in Portland TO consider the Kings bust
ness, November q to 80.
The spiritual power and enduring re-
suits of this campaign must depend on
the degree to which people of faith in all
parts of the world claim the fullness of
Gods blessing upon this effort to extend
His Kingdom. 1t is the most extensive
educate project undertaken by com
bined Christianity in modern times. 1t
constitutes an imperative call to prayer
1t should mark a new epoch in the his
tory of Christianity.
For literature in connection with the
Laymen's Missionary Movement, or for
furthur information, call on or address
Louis Heb, executive secretary, Y. NJ
c. A. Building, Congress Square, Port
land, Ne.
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