The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-06
CONVENTION OPENS
WITH BIG BANQUET
Expected That Over Four Hun
dred Delegates Will Be
in Attendance.
WILL LAST FOR TWO DAYS
MANY NOTED SPEAKERS TO ADJ
DRESS GATHERINGS.

With upwards of 400 delegates in at
tendance, and with speakers of national
prominence in church and missionary
work secured to deliver interesting talks
( and addresses, the layman's convention,
the first of its kind ever held in the state
/ OF Utah, will convene at o'clock to-
morrow night with banquet in the First
Frespyterian church. at which Judge NJ.
l.. Ritchie will preside. For weeks, perp-
aratlOnS Tor the big conference have been
| IN progress, and on the eve of the gath
erlng the prediction is made that il will
De the largest convention if its kind ever
| held in the intermOuntain country
The business sessions will continue
throughout Tuesday and Wednesday be-
ing held in the First Methodist church.
at each of which interesting talks and dis
eussiOns will be the program. Laymen
VIII ADDRESS the congre cations in the vari-
Gus churches of Salt Lake today, and at
O'Clock this afternoon a mass meeting
OF the convention will be held.
Al the banquet tomorrow night the in
vocation will be by Rev. w. NJ Paden
pastor of the First Presbyterian church
of this city. There will be a discussion
on The Significance of the National Cam
paign," led by Bishop Nathaniel S. Thorn
as OF the Protestant Episcopal church of
Montana; DR.. NJ. d. Eubank of China
Will speak on Men and Missions" and
George Sherwood Eddy an Indian mis-
sonary, will talk on THE Call of the
Non-Christian World"
a.
demand and the outlook is for every
qualined delegate to be in attendance.
Ogden. alone. will be represented bv over
50 laymen delegates. and every district
in the state will have large representa-
ton.
Opening Session.
The first business session will convene
at $50 o'clock Tuesday morning I'm the
First Methodist church. This session will
be devoted to survey of the world field
by missionaries from the front, the sub
ject being discussed by the following
speakers, all of whom have had prac-
teal experience in foreign fields: India
Rockwell Clancy: Korea" George He
Der Jones; Turkey John Z. Merrill;
Africa" Thomas Needy; China" Bish-
Oh W. S. Lewis
Luncheon Tuesday will be taken in the
new and attractively appointed private
dining room at the Wilson hotel, which
will be opened for the first time since
the building was remOdeled
At the afternoon session on Tuesday.
there VIII be a discussion of how to enlist
the men of the church In the work OF
evangelZing the world. S. Earl Taylor
of New York will preside, and the prin-
cipaI speakers will be DR.. ]. B. Trimble
of Kansas City and DR.. NJ. D. Eubank of
China. Among the subjects to be dis
cussed will be: 1.-The Pastor as Leader
The Missionary Committee" Definite
Missionary Education" Missionary Lit
erature.' Business System and THE
Every Member Canvass"
At 8 o'clock there will be dinner for
the cooperating committee and invited
guests at the First Methodist church.
In the evening, at 7:45 o'clock, Prof. I.
T. Headlund of Pekin, China. will give
an address on "a New Force in an Old
Empire" followed by a talk on The
Awakening of Asia by George Sherwood
Eddy.
Wednesdays Meetings.
Wednesday mornings meeting will be
devoted principally to a conference on
stewardship. speakers and their subjects
being: Rockwell Clancy, Prayer Our
Most Effective Method John F. Geu-
cher, 1.-THE Principles of Stewardship" s
Earl TAYLOR. 1.-THE Practice of Steward
ship" an open conference: Charles z.
Bradt. "a Call to Stewardship" The CO.
operating committee will report at this
session.
A luncheon. in the nature of a denom-
national rally, will be held at the Wilson
hotel at 1890 on Wednesday, for men only.
In the afternoon there will be mass
meeting for women. and at 7:45 at night
the closing session Of the big confer
ence will convene. At this gathering
Bishop w B. Lewis will talk on '"The
Spiritual Awakening of the Orient" and
George Heber Jones will speak on THE
Ownership and Lordship Of Christ"
Salt Lake pastors and laymen are man.
Testing no small amount of interest in
the convention. and predict Ii viii be re-
sultant of much spiritual good. The con-
vention IS being held along lines sweep
ing broadcast over the country, in cam
Daign to make every layman a special
minister Of God and religion.