The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN CHURCH CIRCLES Hughes Will Address Brother hood of Andrew and Phillip ON CHRISTIAN DUTY Presbyterinns Have Unique Plan 10 Utilize Abandoned Church Build
 ings In Downtown District
 of New York
ON CHRISTIAN DUTY
By D. V. FRANCIS

New 1ork, March o.-tSpeclal.) )-Ine question Of what od-fearing men should do between elections to bring about sound political conditions will probably be dis cussed by Governor Hughes before a meeting of men in this city within the next few weeks.
 The Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, an interdenominational organization, has invited the governor to make such an ad- dress at the earliest date he can con- veniently do it and while he has not defi- nitely accepted the invitation there is every reason to believe he will do so and that the date will not be later than April.
 The Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip has chapters in practically every evan gelical denomination except the Episeo- palian which has a similar organization in the Brotherhood of St. Andrew
 The Laymens Missionary movement, which is just now taking in hand with large success the securing of millions for missions had it's beginning at the Student Volunteer conference in Nashville in 1906. Two of the delegates present were John
 
 Washington. who had been for 10 years secretary of the Washington Y. M. c. A.. and J. Campbell White, who was one of the original 100 student volunteers, and had been for 10 years general secretary of the Y. M. c. A. in India. At the Nashville conference more students ported ready to go to the foreign fields than the mission boards could finance. Then they began the laymen's movement, which is putting LID to the men of 75 cities the financing of missions as "a mans job and so successful has been the campaign that in city after city, the gifts of the churches have been largely increased, sometimes doubled and trebled Business men have taken hold of this as their job. One Pennsylvania man said that he had made money enough and ell he made hereafter would be devoted to missions. The vice chairman of the movement, Alfred E. Marlng. who is also vice chairman of the international com mittee of the Y. NJ. c. A., thus chal- 1eneged the Rochester delegates: "If we business men supply the money, will you supply the lives, until death do us part?"
 
 laymen's movement in pushing these cam paigns Half of its field force are men who have worked as association secre- taries or are now on leave of absence from foreign posts.
 The question of what is to become of the abandoned churches in the great down town section of New York is being solved Axr chx-ta -ia in, mi, manner. The Presbyterians are going to provide for an entirely new and novel departure in their church work They intend to take up. one after the other. the church buildings which have been vacated by the uptown tendency of the people and adopt a special line of church work for the people who remain. The first experiment will be the building now occupied by the Fourteenth Street church, which recently voted to consolidate into another church.
 It is the purpose of the department to begin this enterprise early in April the formation of the plans of work and their execution being in charge of the Rev. Charles Sickle, superin- tendent of the department who will be assisted by corps of workers, both paid and volunteer.
 The Presbyterian board of home mis- sions at its last meeting voted an ini-
 
 rying out of Mr. Stelzle's plans. IL is MT. Stelzle's purpose to make the en- terprise peculiarly a workngman's in- stitution most prominent among the features to be inaugurated being workingmans mass meeting on every Sunday afternoon with speakers of tn 9 broadest sympathies-economic social and religious.
 The building will be open all day and every night, not so much for the carrying on of so-called Institutional work, although some such work will be done, but for the study and dis cussion of the vital questions which concern workingmen and their fam flies.
 MT. StelzIe was born on the East side of the city and for 25 years lived in the tenements of lower New York He was for eight years a machnist then, after securing the equivalent of a college education in the night schools of New York and through private study. he became a regularly ordained minister in the Presbyterian church, or Eanizing in Minneapolis and in St Louis successful workingmen's churches. Seven years ago Mir. Stelzle was requested by the Presbyte-ian board of home missions to establish . church and labor department, the outcome Of which has been the setting up of some significant movements hay ing for their object closer relation ship between the church and labor. MT. Stelzle is still an active member of the Machinists' union.
 The prospect of a journey afoot from San Francisco to New York, of sleep ing where he could and eating when ever he was able to find food, facing death from exposure in mountain and desert--all this was not sufficient to dampen the ardor of W. B. .Aarye a preacher. who owns no particular creed but has devoted his life to the task of bettering the spiritual condition of the people.
 He set out from San Francisco in 1903 and. preaching as he went, trav- oled from one city to another, often