The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-09-08
MISSIONARY DIFFERENCE
HELD At Mt. LAKE PARK
World Wide In Its Scope and Plans
Formulated to Carry on the Work.

The executive committee of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, together
with representatives of the Board of
Foreign Missions and returned mission
aries of the same denomination, held
conference at Mountain Lake Park,
September to 6.
The object of the conference was to
study the successes and problems of the
Laymen's Movement and to project
plans for the field work during the COM
ing months. Three sessions a day were
held, the deliberations centering around
reports presented by committees and
subcommittee appointed to deal with
various questions. The conviction of
all those in attendance at the conference
was that during the coming year the
best methods of cultivating the lavmen
of the churches, with respect to mis-
sions, was by dealing with smaller
groups of churches than We're made the
ulliI VI OulIiN dCiOIi III ILlC great SERIES VI
conventions during the years l909-1910.
Large and lasting success, it was felt,
lay in the promoting of an every-mem-
Der canvass in each church, well in
structed canvassers going two-by-two,
and calling at every home, by way of
promoting weekly offering for mis-
sions. Selected annual conference dis
tricts, throughout the Church, will be
chosen for special cultivation by return
ed missionaries and secretaries Of the
Laymen's Movement during the year.
1t is hoped that during the year per-
haps one hundred strong district con-
ventions will be held, followed by dis
trict wide church cultivation. A COM
mittee was appointed to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of having national con-
vention Of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the autum of 1911.
A fine spirit of cooperation and uni
fed purpose pervaded the conference
from the beginning to the end, the
missionaries present agreeing to throw
all their energies in missionary meetings
and church services in the direction of
the promotion of an immediate advance
in the general gifts of the church for
foreign missions, and for the time being
laying aside the public appeal for special
enterprises aboard.
Among the laymen, missionary lead
ers and returned missionaries present
were: Bishops j. W. Bashtord, of
China; J. E. Robinson, of India; NJ. C.
Harris, of Korea and Japan; divisional
secretaries J. B. Trimble and J. C.
Floyd; members of the executive com
mittee of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement, j. Edgar Leaycraft, chair
man; 1t. Col. E. W. Halford, vice chair
man; John T. Stone, treasurer; S, Earl
Taylor, general secretary; c. V. Wick
rey, convention secretary; F. B. Fisher,
deputation secretary; Geo. Warren
Brown, of St. Louis; B. C. Keagy,
Frank A. Horne, Samuel R. Smith, of
New York, and Chas F. Laughlin, of
Cleveland; Revs John F. Goucher, Geo.
F. Sutherland and W. Z. Young, of the
Young Peoples Department of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev W.
A. Brown, Of the international Sunday
School Association; Mr. Chas Fahs,
editor for the Board of Foreign Missions;
Rev. F. H. Sheets, of Chicago; Rev. J.
Sumner Stone, of New York; Rev.
Ralph W. Reeler, of Brooklyn; Rev. S.
X. Arbuthnot, of Wheeling; Rev. G.
Gilbert Stansell, of Paw Paw. Michigan;
returned missionaries: Africa, Rev. E.
H. Richards; Peru, Rev. Vernon Nc
Combs; Japan, Rev F. n Scott; Korea.
Revs. Geo. Heber Jones, John H. Moore.
and Geo. N. Burnick; China, Revs.
Marcus l.. Taft, Karl F. Kupfer, J. F.
Peat, F. B. Caldwell and w. S. Bison
nette; Philippines, Revs. William H.
Teeter and Harry Farmer; MALAYSIA,
Rev. Kingsley f. Pease; India, Revs.
Rockwell Clancy, w. F. Bancroft, ].
Benson Baker, Frederick B. Price, w.
A. Mansell and c. w. Ross de Sousa.