New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-09

A religious college, with a faculty that
goes from city to city. Is modern thihs'
! To New York belongs the credit OF De-
ginning such innovation. The initial ses-
sion Of the faculty is to be held IN the
Broadway Tabernacle, seth street. at l
O'Clock on September IS. and Immediately
the faculty starts in a body TO open its
first college institute In st. Paul. From
that time until May. 1912. this college. with
a travelling faculty. is to be IN operation
The aims OF this college are to spread
information about the various lines or
Christian effort. and TO increase. II posi-
BILE, the membership in Protestant churches
by three million men and boys. II Is not
OF course called college, although II In
effect is one. but men and religion cam
paign. Entered into It are the Young Mems
Christian Association and the Sunday
School Associations and the Brotherhoods
in all o, the Protestant bodies There Is
a committee OF prominent men In Its
charge, and two forms Of work, both OF
the institute type, are TO be followed.
The first form will be the holding OF in
stitutes in upward OF one hundred principal
cities These will last one week each. and
the faculty Of trem will be provided from
national sources, including some Of the
ablest men 70 be had. The second form
VIII be subsidiary Institutes. held in smaller
cities. and these will run into the hundreds
IN number. a company Of men having
charge OF one Institute In one principal
city binds itself TO hold thirty Institutes
IN smaller towns all about the district. IN
this manner. more perfect than any re-
Igious campaign ever devised before VIII
be reached an enormous number OF men
and boys. such IS the up-to-date feature
What are IN effect chairs in this college
are evangelism. boys work. Bible study.
social service and missions. The evangel-
ism faculty will cooperate especially with
the social service one. and the two VIII
hold meetings in shops and mills at noon.
In missions. both home and foreign Work
will be covered The Bible work Will re-
late solely 10 men and boys. With these
and others the whole range OF propaganda
effort will be covered. making H. as has
been said, a college In its working out
Institutes held one week IN one city VII!
he DUPLICATED the next week in the next
city. the same faculty moving on with no
loss Of time. no expense for buildings, and
very little cost In transportation.
The faculty or team. which Will meet
for final conference in this city on Sep
TENDER IS includes about twenty men,
some Of them laymen. They are experts.
One or two have been brought from FOR
eisn countries Others represent the very
best contributions that organizations can
make. Many matters are attended TO IN
advance, just as in any well run college.
Among the men are Charles A. Barbour
Charles R. Drum and Frederick 5. Good
man, who are furnished with others by the
Young Mems Christian Association the
Rev. Charles stelzle, the labor man. FUR
nished by the Presbyterian Church. J. l.
Alexander. who was lately with the Boy
Scouts W. c. Pearcei who comes from the
international Sunday School Association;
William A. Brown, Roy 3. Guild James
A. Whitmore. A. II. Bruner. John Dean
Warren Z. Bunger, d.. l. J. Lansing the
Rev. ". E Beiderworlt ". r Lane and
David Russell