Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-25
WANT CITY SHADE IREES R lcEn
Proposition Be Pfesented to Court Of con,rnon cizDr. Stackhouse Addresses Central Baptist Men on Laymens Missionary Movement.


 Raymond Of the league called the an- nuai lAssiness meeting to order: and after the minutes of Secretary Joseph s. Adams har. been read and accepted, several new members were proposed and voted in. For a @commlttee ap- pointed some. time ago and comprising Frank L. Arnold, MT. Brown reported on 3 plan of cons iderable public jnten- est touching upon the matter of shade trees on the streets or the clty-S He read petition which is tq be present. ed to the common council asking that 9, plan be formulated to replace trees where they have been taken down, or shall be taken down, on city streets of the residential class. It is also pro- posed that young trees shall be plant ed on the slopes of the Fairview wa tershed, serving at once to conserve the watershed and forming a supply from which shade trees for the city streets may be drawn. MT Brown explained that it was the :comrnittee's plan to forward this matter aF fast as possi- ble. so that S400 balance from $1,- 5GO aI1propriation may be used now to purchase and set out young treeS The committees report was accepted.
 Officers Elected.
 The following officers, as named by the nominating committee, were duly elected: President c. c. Treat; vice president, F. H. Cranston; secretary treasurer, A D. Gherry:s members of and Adams F. Carroll for six months, John. H. Barnes and Edward Y. Mes singer for one year. The nominating committee was W D. Tilsen, N. Eu- gene Smith and A. Thatcher Otis.
 To Frank l.. Arnold was assigned the duty of thanking the ladies for the supper, and the new president, Mir. Treat, took the cf,air, accepting the office in a pleasant bur brief speech. The retiring officers were thanked by a rising vote. =
 Revs pr. spaIdins Heard.
 After song, Rev. P. c. Wright brief ly explained how Dr. Stackhouse and Dr. Spaldins had been secured to come to this meeting and he presented Dr. Spalding, who is the retiring New Eng land secretary of the American Bap- tist Publication society. Introducing Dr. Stackhouse with brief but telling mention of the missionary spirit which been before. Rev. Dr. Spalding gave way to the speaker of the evening
 pr. stackhouse speaks on Laymen's
 Movement.
 Punctuating his masterly address upon the Laymen's Missionary Move ment with concrete illustrations of it's influence in different churches he knew of, Rev. Dr. Stackheuse presented the subject in a vivid and graphic way that made powerful impression upon ms hearers, as indicated by the close at tention they gave him and the applause which greeted his closing words.
 The speaker said that he was to speak upon theme which is stirring the hearts of men as they have never never been an hour when the forces of Christianity were stronger or the doors of the nations swung Sso wide open on their hinges With such open doors, open hearts and open purses. to talk of failure now is cOWardty and criminal. This missionary movement is demanding three specific things: 1. Greater concentration on missions. 2. Greater comprehension of missions. g. Greater contributions. not of money alone, but of men in the service of missions. In the fact that it was en- listing every class of men was req son for the highest optimism and he predicted that if the same splendid measure of progress was made for the next 35 or 40 years as had been achiey- ed in the past three years, the object set before the Christian world, viz: The evang gelization of the world in a generation, would not be too high.
 Denominations United.
 He went on to show how the de- nominations were united. in the effort to reach the 1000 million who have not yet been reached by the gospel, and in this unification the task is go- ing ito be achieved Showing that in 1910 the United States and Canada contributed S11.9GS,O06 for foreign mis- sions, Great Britain $n,055.0o0 and other countries $3,927, ,0a0, he spoke of the international relationship of the movement and said that if Great Brit ain, the United States and Canada would stand with locked arms in mis- sionary consecration, they would make war impossible between the nations, and if they would spend more millions for planting the gospel of the king dom of God on foreign shores, they would need to spend fewer millions in dreadnaughts. to protect their home shores.
 Standard Missionary Church.
 These united relations obtain also between congregations, spreading the mantle of responsibility over every man. woman and child in the Chris tian church, and making every church the standard missionary church. To such chuach the blessing, material and spiritual, is bound to come. He emphasized strongly the individual re- sponsibilfty in the world. eyangelization movement, and said that 10 cents per week per member from the -Baptists will enable this denomination to evan gelize it's proportionate part of the heati1en world. The work is work for the whole church and if the responsi- bility rests upon us as it should we shall move the territory that rests up- on us.
 The benediction in closing the meet ing was pronounced by Rev. MT. Gun ninghan. and after the close a social half-hour was enjoyed before Dr. Stackheuse left to catch the boat