The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-06
GIVE IT A BOOST.
Layman's Convention Considered by
Commercial Club.

Forty men met at the Commercial
club this noon to make preliminary
plans for the big Laymen's convention
which will be held in Topeka Feb 22-24.
The attendance at the gathering repre-
scented the various interests of the city.
The men included city dads" judges.
real estate dealers, printers, ministers,
school teachers, merchants and other
business men, and the chief of police.
The convention will represent the
northern half of Kansas, and will fol-
low Immediately after the Wichita
convention. The Topeka convention is
one of about 20 similar conventions be-
ing held throughout the United States.
about Is having been already held to
date.
j. B. TrimbIe. who has charge of the
meetings to take place in the west
central portion. of the country-14 of
them-was present this noon, as was
also John q. Moore. an executive Sec
rotary, who will remain in Topeka until
after the convention is over Mr.
Moore's home is in Ohio but he has
Travelled extensively in the Orient hav-
ing at one time been a missionary in
Korea He will assist the local COM
mittees in handling their work and will
have his headquarters on the fourth
floor of the Commerce building
i have been intimately connected
with one or two of the conventions
which have taken place. said Mr.
Moore this noon. 1T was the opinion
in Detroit that the convention there
was the most remarkable religious
meeting ever held in the city There
was a bigness about the convention
Lnat appealed to the big business men.
The testimony has been that after these
conventions are over there has not only
been an increase in the enthusiasm for
MISSION work, but all departments Of
the church have been more active
up to this time the men have left
the missionary work largely to the wo-
men. II this convention in Topeka lifts
US out of our localism and gives men a
world view 1t will accomplish much
nave been over the world to a
considerable extent. having been in
CHINA, Korea and other countries. A
great business man said to me that
the big ambition of every business
man was TO establish trading sta
tlon IN foreign country. It would
pay the business men to support all
the missions on account of the revenue
II would mean to them. The mission
airy opens up the way for commerce.
But the point for which we are
working is not for commerce but it is
for the spreading of the religion of
Jesus Christ. The convention will give
the men of Topeka a world wide view
, of conquest
great object of the laymen's mission
airy movement is to evangeIize the
world in our generation.
The Commercial club agreed to give
/ 500 Immediately as a starter for the
work of arranging the Topeka con-
vention
Among the prominent speakers who
will be in Topeka are: George Sher-
wood Eddy, national secretary Y. NJ.
c: A., Indiana; Dr.. M. d. Eubank.
China; DR.. ]. c. Robbins, Manila; S.
Earl Taylor New York city; DIR.
Charles Edwin Bradt, missionary sec
rotary, Chicago; Dr. Malteer, China;
DIR. George Heber Jones. Korea; DIR. H.
China; Bishop j. E. Robinson, India !;
DR.. E. w Allen, Cincinnati; DR.. W. b.
Anderson, India; DR.. E. H. Richards,
Africa: DR.. F. B. Ray, Richmond, Va. !;
DR.. John F. Goucher, India; DIR.
Clancy, India; DR.. Isaac Taylor,