The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06
MISSION MOVEMENT
 |S WELL UNDER WAY
Big Mass Meeting to Be Held
 This Afternoon
QUESTION OF METHOD
n. NJ. Archibald Discusses Plans for In- teresting Laymen In Work and Put ting Missions on . Systematic
 and Business-Like Basis

Things are happening at the headquar- ters of the laymen's missionary movement in the Hood building.
 Several thousand copies of the policy of the organization were sent to all the churches of the city yesterday and will be distributed to the congregations today. The enthusiasm which first started with the handful of men at headquarters has now spread and is beginning to envelope every pastor and congregation in Birming- ham. There was a conference of leaders in the work and pastors of the different churches yesterday at the headquarters, when plans were made and policies adopt ed which will be carried out in the cam paign.
 Associate Secretary R. M. Archibald of the local organization, in speaking of some of these general policies yesterday, said: 'The laymen's missionary move ment is going to cope with the present. day missionary problem in a business like way. The missionary idea has long been question of duty to church mem- bers, but it is now d question of method.
 
 world will not be evangelical in this or any other generation. In order to fur nish one missionary to every 25,000 heathens, the American churches must increase their forces from 4o0O to 2o,O0e missionaries, and give 4o,sOOo,0Oo annually to the cause instead of a little over ss, ,00O,- 900, as at present.
 "This Is less than a street car fare a week for each church member and less than one-fifth of what we spend on our home churches. This Is the task that the laymen's missionary movement has un- dertaken, and the one we are going to ac- compish by logical, systematic and up-to- date methods"
 Mass Meeting Today
 There will be mass meeting this after noon at the First Baptist church at 3 o'clock. This will be a general rally meet ing. and several prominent men will de- liver short addresses. pr. A. P Mon tague, president of Howard college, will speak on "The Worlds Need of Christi" J. w. Minor on ''The Layman's Part in the Worlds Congratulations" J. w. Sibley OH DuSiiitoo 4hctlOuS, anu IIOl. II. Burruss on "The Every Member Can- vass.' There will be other interesting short addresses by Secretaries Archibald and J. H. Finch.
 There will be meetings at the headquar- ters every day next week and other meet ings in the churches of the city, which will be announced later. The bylaws or i.l, 1,uc adn od Ivy he sociation, and which were distributed yes- terday, are as follows:
 Policy of Organization
 Resolved 1. That we recognize it to be the duty of the Church of Christ to give His gospel to the whole world, and that by every token He is calling now upon the church to enter upon the speedy ac- complishment of this supreme work.
 ''2. That we are glad to unite our efforts with the laymen of America who are taking such active interest In the work of organizing and devolping these splen- did forces that have in too many cases lain dormant.
 "s Realizing that the amounts we are now giving are wholly inadequate to meet the crying demands upon the church, and that they do not really express our interest in the cause of Christ, we pledge ourselves to larger things and to great CT forward movement
 "4 As this work can only be accom- pished as we ally ourselves with the forces of the Kingdom we call upon all of our people to make 1t their rule to pray for the extension of the kingdom and especially that God may lay upon each church and individual member just the work He would have them respectively to do.
 '.5. That Sunday, March 20. be set apart as a day of general agitation and that so far as practicable, we have our pull pits filled on that day by representatives of our denominational missionary inter ests; and that on next Sunday, the 9th, all our pastors be requested to lay this great cause before their congregations and thus aid in the preparations for se- surfing large returns in the canvass.
 '6 That there be appointed at once in every church a missionary committee which shall make thorough preparations and on the week above named make complete canvass of the entire member ship, endeavoring to secure creditable contribution from every member of every church for the cause of missions.
 ..7 That we recommend that the week following the third Sunday in March be set apart for making canvass. The funds raised by each church will, of course. 20 to the support of their denoninational work and be handled in the usual way.
 ..s. That on Easter Sunday, March 27 each committee report to it's respective
 A GOOD CHANGE