The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-05
ID LAUNCH GREAT MOVEMENT FRIDAY Give New York Men and
 Religion Plans RALLY IN THE FALL Simultaneous Movement Throughout All North America Is B.ginn-
 ing to Assume Enormous
 Proportions

New York, June 4-(Special )--There will be formally inaugurated in this city Fri day night at the Hotel Astor one of the most remarkable religious revival move ments of a generation.
 The plans for the Men and Religion forward movement will at that time be announced to several hundred of the best known church men and laymen of all Pro- testant denominations in the United States. Frederick B. Smith. q high of- ficer of the Young Mems Christian asso- citation. will be the campaign leader of the movement. MT. Smith today said to a representative of the Publishers Press:
 Some of the greatest leaders of the business. commercial. political and re- ligious world say of the approaching Men and Religion Forward Movement that 1t is without doubt the greatest religious movement of the character in history, at least in modern history.
 James c. Cannon. president of the Fourth National bank of New York; Rob lert Fulton Cutting a national leader in tie work of oivie progress; ]. Pierront Morgan, the New York financier; Cyrus Mccormick of Chicago International liar vester fame; President Judson of Chicago university; Justice MacLaren of the SUI preme court of Ontario, Canada; Benja- min F. Edwards, president of the Ma tional Bank of Commerce of St Louis, Mo; William Jennings Bryan of Lincoin. Neb.; John Wanamaker, the merchant prince of New York and Philadelphia, William M. Ladd of Portland, Ore, one of the largest bankers of the northwest; Lewis A Crossett and George Keith ot Boston, both of whom are the largest manufacturers of shoes In the world; Bishop c. K. Nelson. bishop of Atlanta, Ga. Rev. John Timothy Stone, one of the most prominent clergymen of Chi cago; John NJ Glenn of the Sage Founda- tion and hundreds of others whose name it is impossible to give, are types of the men who are putting the best of their genius into the effort. While, for the mo- ment. the movement Is confined to the United States and Canada, yet 1t is ai- ready attracting remarkable attention in the British isles, Germany and Australia.
 While much of the organization and preliminary work has been going on, and is going on, many strong events will oc- cur during the summer months. The req! initial event will be what is known as
 rally day on September "A. At that time it is expected practically every mems church organization throughout the whole North America will have a simultaneous service in their various localities. Froru that time the movement will have been formally inaugurated and the campaigns will be pressed with the greatest possible vigor up to May, 1912. When It closes it will do so with four great conventions, to be known as Congresses in Behalf of World Brotherhood, one to be held on Canadian soil, one in the south, one in the east, and one In the west, all at points
 not yet determined.
 'It should be thoroughly understood | that this movement Is not born of a feel
 | ing of despair or hopelessness. The fact
 is, the very presence and volume of it
 is an indication not of failing religious life but rather the vigorous one
 l "'The North American public men have
 been accused of q good many moral short comings but it should be sharply remem- 1 bered that they also have a good mary virtues Pre-eminent among these are the attitude of the benevolent and the charlt- able organizations and institutions of all chara cters I venture the assertion that the buisness men of North America give away as much to these forms Of phil anthropy in year as all of the rest of the world in a decade.