The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-06
IMPORTANT DAY
FOR CAMPAIGN
Executive Secretary Of Layman's
Movement win Speak in
Honolulu.
iron Thursaayla Advertiser.l

One Of the "Htations" in the lay
men g missionary movement In Homo.
lulu, which is campaign now under
way in the United States and Canada
for interesting young men and old in
the work Of the churches, took place
last evening when Major A. NJ.
Davis addressed an interested gather
ing in the Central Union Church on
this movement in general and the plans
for Honolulu in particular.
Probably the most important day Of
the campaign will be that Of Monday,
October %, when an address will be
made in the Central Union Church by
the Rev. Charles A. Gum, executive
secretary Of the laymen's missionary
movement and one of the successful
missionaries Of the world, who will pass
Though here on the Manchuria on the
way to new fields of effort in the Philip
pines.
On that day Mr.. Gum will speak in
the church at one clock, after
luncheon in his honor at noon. In the
evening at the Central Union Church
will be held a mass meeting at which
Mr.. Gum will speak upon 1.-The field
is the World.'' There win also be
three short addresses by those best fit
ted to speak on China, Japan and Korea
as fields for missionary work.
Every Church to Act,
Tuesday afternoon, at half-past foar
O'Clock, there will be a UNCONVENTIONAL
meeting in each church of the city by
the members OF the various churches to
decide upon their individual work to be
accomplished in connection with the
movement.
Tuesday evening, October "a, in eth
er the Central Union Church or the
new Y. M. c. A. building auditorium,
the convention will be concluded by
great missionary mass meeting at which
a number of interesting addresses will
be made by prominent men worthy to,
be heard.
Altogether about one hundred dele
gates to this convention have been in
attendance from all the churches and
much iterest has been excited in the
work under way IN this city and all
interested are sanguine of success in
bringing scores Of young men, who have
heretofore give little thought to re-
ligious subjects or the practical re-
ligious work of their churches, into
touch with this higher interest.
Nation Wide Move.
Financed by business men of national
prominence whose combined wealth
runs into the hundreds of millions and
who will conduct it as they would
private business affair, the United
States and Canada are on the eve of
common sense religious crusade such as
is not recorded in the previous history
of the human race since the Reforma
ton, and which, its promoters proclaim,
will be further reaching in its effect
than the crusades of history, says the
New York Herald announcing the
movement in which Honolulu is to play
part.
1t is to differ from all previous re-
ligious crusades in that the supreme eff
fort will be to take the church to the
people rather than the people to the
church, and it will be characterized by
spirit of broad humanity, by the per
sonal contact of the workers with those
: needing uplift, rather than by the mere
preaching of the gospel to gathered
thousands.
In the chain of big cities extending
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast
IN this country, and in the big cities
of Canada, extraordinary efforts are to
be made to reach all of the people. In
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincin
natl, Denver and San Francisco, and
cities to the north and south of this
line, large stores and big corporations
have agreed to give to their employees
from one to two hours day in which
to listen to the addresses that will be
made to them in their stores and work
shops
There is no sectarianism, no sensa-
tionalism and little or no evangelical ex-
hoFtation in the work. The plan is as
far as possible to take every man by
the hand, to help him in material things
If he needs help, and thus enfold him
in the Christian faith.
While these gigantic plans are about
to come into being, there sits on the
veTanda of DIR. Trudeaux g sanitarium
in the Adirondacks Harry Arnold, lay
man, in whose mind the plan original
ed,y with one of his lungs pierced and
unable to take even the small part in
the work.
A Stupendous Undertaking.
Mr.. Arnold conceived this great relig
ions move while associated with the
work of the Young Mems Christian
Association and in furtherance of fhe
plan called several meetings of the
heads of the organization. All of them
discouraged the idea as being so stu
pendous as to be impraeticable, but
finally he enlisted the aid of Frederick
b. Smith, religious worker of note,
and through him reached with his idea
practically all of the leaders of the
Protestant faiths in North America,
and work was begun.
Now, with the preliminary plans
practically completed, there are more
than eight thousand prominent men in
this country and Canada actively en-.
gagged in the cause, which Is known as
1.-THE Men and Religious Forward
Movement Special effort Is 10 be