The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-18

have been requested. by the general chair man, MT. Cosby, to make the plans of the Men and Religion Forward Move mert so plain that every man would un- derstand them. If I could do that I would accomplish in one-half an hours time what will take six of the best experts of the American continent one week to accomplish. 1 will, however, attempt to give you an outline of what is expected Of you men at this time, so that you may have a clearer understanding of your duties as keymen in the churches.
 Six Key Men
 I've have requested that the pastors appoint, and a number of them have ap- pointed, six key men, one for each de- partment of the work. Now the question comes, what do you want these men to doo Well, first, take, for instance, the keymen on social service. Their duty in the lccal church is to form the nucleus of men in his church interested in social ser vice. and when the expert comes he is 1 to use his best devices to get these men to attend the institute on social service. I will not tell you what is to be done after 1 this. The experts will tell you that 1 will say, however, that before the open | ing of this campaign we expect to have the name, the home address. the home tel ephone, the business address and the busi-
 ness telephone of every keyman, and | every department of the work in every
 church in Birmingham, so that when the
 campaign is on we can in an hours time call a meeting of these workers and get | them on the job.
 Now the pastors say to us, What do l you want us to do? Just tell us Well, | one week ago we sent to every pastor in | the city a number of survey blanks and | the very first thing we want the pastors | to do is to fill out these blanks and | get them to the headquarters of the Men 1 and Religion Forward Movement This l will enable us to complete our survey, | send 1t to New York; and in return | get our six colored charts, which will re | used during the institute. This is of | greatest importance, and wish that |
 could impress on the heart heart of every pastor to comply with the reasonable re- | quest at once. Then, too, we want the l pastors to read up on this question of
 men and religion. We are going to ask
 all churches and all denominations be-
 twen now and the coming of the experts
 to set apart one or more of the midweek
 prayer services to pray for the men | and boys and for the work of the insti- ute. Also we are going to request every pastor of every denomination in the city | to preach at least one sermon to his con- | gregation on the question of the Men and Religion Forward Movement. I have | had a great many ask me what are these I experts going to teach us? What are
 they going to do when they get to Bir-
 mingham? Well might tell you some of i the things that they are not going to do, | and one oil them is that there is nor
 going to be any excitement during the | time of their campaign. They are goin; 1 to come here, quietly, gather together
 the Christian workers and pastors in this
 community; deliver their respective mes
 sages and go. After they have gone they will leave a great many more Christian
 men, who have before been simply pas
 sive Christians, now active in the ser
 vice of Christ, and their church. Some 1 hava asked me, What are these men | going to talk about?
 | l might give you a short outline show | ing what will be taught in these insti-
 tutes.
 1 The Boy Work
 "The purpose of the boys work in the | local church is to lead the boys into IChrstian manhood through the physical | social, mental and spiritual appeal; 'u l lead them into clean habits, clean sports and clean thoughts A strong Christian | man must be found in each church |, assume the leadership. The existing o. Ganization must be used if possible, bu, the organized boys Bible class, the boys club. and the church brother'ey 9t fa