Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-22
The Laymens Movement.

There was q meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Laymen's Move
ment at the Offices of the Clinch Valley
insurance Agency on last Monday night
to hear the report of the committees.
In the absence of the chairman Rev. S,
U. Hal was elected temporary chair
man.
The committee on arrangement and
entertainment reported that it had been
decided to make the banquet a paw al
fair and had agreed on fifty cents as
the price per plate of each one attend
ing. This and the transportation
charges will, however, be the only ex-
expense to which those attending the
banquet will be put as it is expected to
provide entertainments at the homes. for
the delegates and others attending.
The committee further reported that
they thought they had too much on
them and the entertainment was taken
off this committee and given to a COM
mittee consisting of J. Powell Royal,
John S. Bottimore and VIM. E. Peery.
DR.. John E. jackson advised that he
would have to be away during the early
part OF July and J. N. Harman, jr., was
elected as an additional member of the
committee of arrangements.
The publicity committee reported that
each of the papers had carried an ac-
count of the meeting of the committees
and placards had been printed and
were being distributed over the county
and that this work would be continued
Asked, however, that some one in a
position to do it and who was familiar
with the objects and aims of the Lay
mems Movement prepare a statement
for the papers of the county to give an
authoritative statement to the public of
the objects to be accomplished by the
movement. On motion Rev. S. o. Hall,
Rev. E. E. Wiley and MIR. Geo. w. st.
Clair were appointed to draft the state
ment.
The finance committee reported moth
ing done as yet but would be ready to
raise the money for the expense and
entertainment, other than banquet
which is to pay for itself, in two days.
Asked that the secretary, the publicity
committee and others pay such expense
as necessary cut of their own pockets
to be vouchered after the funds raised
The committee adjourned to meet
Tuesday, June 9th, at $50 D. M, with
the request that everyone be there
sharply at the hour.
The Laymens Missionary Movement
is the indirect outgrowth of the famous
Haystack Prayer Meeting, where the
first organized foreign missionary work
in North America was inaugurated in
November, 1906. and the direct out
growth of The Student Volunteer Move
ment born at Northfeld, Mass, in 1886.
which has swept through the colleges
with its inspiring watch-cry: "The
Evangelization of the world in This
Generation" familiarizing students
with world conditions and leading
thousands of strong men and women to
live with a dominating missionary life
purpose.
Every four years there is a great con-
vention of the Student Volunteer Move
ment bringing together some thousands
of the students of North America to
consider the progress of the Kingdom
throughout the world. At the one held
In Nashville in February March, 1908,
the thought of the Laymens Mis-
sionary Movement was planted by the
Spirit in the mind of a young business
man OF Washington City. AS he saw
over three thousand students consider
for days their relation to the evanoeli-
cation of the world, the thought come
to him If the laymen of North Ameri-
ca could see the world as these students
are seeing it they would arise in their
strength and provide the funds needed
for the enterprise.
The opportunity to test the idea come
at the centennial celebration of the Hay
stack Prayer Meeting held in New York
City on November Is, 1906, in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church, and out
of long and serious discussion, with
much prayer, a series of resolutions were
adopted calling into existence the Lay
mems Missionary Movement.
The objects and aims of this move
ment will be presented by the commit
tee appointed at the Monday meeting
and will be published next week.