The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-28
AROUSE INTEREST
IN BIG GATHERING
Special Church Meetings to
Advance Cause of Lay
mems Movements.
NOTED SPEAKERS COMING
REV. c. c. M'INTIRE EXPLAINS
PURPOSES OF CONVENTION.


With a view to creating an interest in
the coming convention OF the Laymen' s
Missionary association in this city,
March Z 10 8, and also with the object
OF informing people Of the great Dur-
pose OF the movement, special meetings
We're held yesterday i'll Salt Lake, Ogden
and Provo.
Reports from Ogden are TO the effect
that there is great enthU siasm over the
convention. 4 mass meeting was Eeld
there at / o'clock yesterday afternoon.
j. NJ. Pape, of Salt Lake, and number
CT Ogden speakers, gave stirring aC-
dresses. r. J. Lucas, of Salt Lake, and
number of local speakers addressed
mass meeting at Provo at $3.50 p. m,
and acquainted a large audience with
the great purpose of the convention.
Part of the morning services of St.
PauiS church yesterday was taken up
by Prof. George Marshall. who outlined
! in clear and f0rCible manner the Won
derful work Of the L9ymen's Missionary
association in the evangelizatiOn Of the
world. w. II. Tibbals spoke at the
morning session of the Liberty Park
Methodist church, and at the morning
session of the Third Presbyterian
church, Prof. George b. SWeazy being
the speaker.
comprehensive sermon on the origin,
the purpose and the results Of the move
ment was given last night at the First
Methodist church by Rev. Charles Cur
lis McIntire, executive secretary for the
local district. Rev. McIntire said in
part:
Origin of Movement.
AT the Worlds Student Volunteer
convention i'm Nashville four years ago
there sat a young business man from
the city of Washington, and as he OBJ
served the tremendous power Of the
speakers over that great asSemblage of
1000 students, ne thought what might
he The result if these same great speak
ers would present the same views with
the same inspiration to the Christian
Laymen of America, as well as to the
students of the world. This thought
was in reality the origin Of the move
ment, which is considered by cOnserVa-
tive thinkers as the most wonderful
movement of the church of Jesus Christ
iii the world. There was conducted last
year campaign across the Dominion of
Canada, IN which a group Of eight or
ten of the same WOrld-VisiOned, con-
structive' men spoke in convention in
the tWenty-fOur leading CeuterS of the
dominion, from the Atlantic to the Pa
tillts WITH SUCH dSlbtliSLIIE. results lttdI
Immediately a similar campaign was
outlined for the United States. This
campaign began in October last in Bur
talO, and sweeping westward, will con-
Clu1e next May i'm a national Laymen'S
congress in Chicago.
There will be from ten to fifteen Of
these men at the Salt Lake convention
These men are the greatest platform
men in the religious world. Every one
of them has been on the program of one
or more of the Worlds Student Volun-
teeT conventions, which meets every
four years, and which are the strong
est religious conventions of the world.
Come From All over.
Hundreds of business men have left
their business for ten days or two weeks
travel at their own expense over 500
miles to hear these men. Students have
crossed the country at their own eN-
pense from California to Massachusetts,
and others have crossed the Atlantic
from England TO America to hear these
speakers.
Eight years ago at the Toronto Stu
dents convention your speaker had the
privilege of listening 10 :. Earl Taylor,
one of the men who had the most pow
erful influence over the students in the
convention. When l saw his name four
We're to make a tour of the country, I
determined then and there that this
convention must come to this city. Mr..
Taylor is one of the small group of men
who held the high distinction of having
an international reputation because of
his power over men.
George Sherwood Eddy. of India, a
tower of a man. who graduated twenty
years ago from Yale, and after spend
-
New York, left for India. returned to
this country at three different periods
10 address the students in the great uni
VersitieS. He is now on a six months
leave of absence, and is one of the num-
her of brilliant speakers who are max
ing the campaign from city to city in
the United States.
Bishop W. 5. Lewis. elected to the
bishOpTic of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and who has been engaged for
the past fifteen years in the educational
work of the Methodist church in China
and one of the group Of six or eight
men who have the most comprehensive
grasp of the situation in the Chinese
empire, is among the speakers who will
be heard at salt Lake.
Never in the history Of Salt Lake, or
the intermOuntain west. has there been
scheduled such an army of Intellectual
and spiritual giants TO address the
Christian men of the community
THE convention here will be one of
those rare occasions which happen few
times in any mans life. 1t viii mean
TO every individual there a vast spir-
itual gain. I do not see how any one
could attend such a convention with
out being greatly benefited"
During the coming week the two gen.
eTal committees, the executive COM
mittee, comprising fourteen representa-
tive men. and the cooperating COM
mittee. which consists of from three to
five men from each church. and whose
specific duties are to conduct the edu-
cational campaign, win work untiringly
10 arouse general interest in the great
convention.