The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-29
BIG MoNlED MEN START CRU
SADIE TO WIN MEN ONLY
TO CHRISTIANITY

I A special from New York says that
FIVE hundred ministers and many in
terested laymen attended the meet
ing of the Mems Religious Forward
Movement in the Broadway Congre'
gational tabernacle last Sunday af
ternoon. Some of the clerical dele
gates came from as far as Australia
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has for it's chief aim a
campaign of revivalistic nature, in.
tended to convert men to the cause
of Christianity and to enlist them in
active church work. The promoters
of this movement feel that the. time
is now ripe for such a campaign.
Its working machinery. has been
as carefully organized as a modern
business institution, and modern
methods of working will be employed.
1t has been put in funds by men of
prominence in the financial world
J. P. Morgan. Cyrus H. Mccormick,
R. Fulton Cutting, Samuel G. B. Nc
Cook, Cleveland H. Dodge, DR.. D. H.
McAlpin, William H. Sloan, and Jas.
H Post being among the heaviest
contributors.
From the headquarters at No. 124
East Twenty-eighth street, the work
of the campaign will be directed by
a committee of ninety-seven, headed
by James G. Cannon, president of the
Fourth National Bank. The field
force for the present will consist of
thirty trained Christian workers, who
will take the middle west for their
first battlefield The beginning will
be made at Minneapolis on October
2nd.
The movement will sweep eastward
and on November 18th will reach
New York The speakers will invade
all places where men are to be found,
Into the store and the shop and the
mill and the factory; into the office,
the church and the home, these thir-
ty earnest seekers after men will
carry the summons of their organiza-
ton: THE church has something for
you that you need. and you are some
thing that the church needs"
A unique feature of the movement
is that in it there is no place for wo-
men. 1t has become a stock saying
that the women are at present the
Gus supporters. Inasmuch as the
movement is to gain men, it has been
decided that men must do the work.
AS the Rev Fred B. Smith, a prime
mover in the work, said: "All this
sweet gush about a sweet woman
influence on a man-there's nothing
to it. Put real man after him and
he'll be more likely to reform"
1t was of this movement, it's aims
and its prospective ends that the
speakers on Sundays program train
ed all their eloquence and fervor.
They were well fed at a luncheon
served at the church just before the
meeting, and this may have had
something to do with the great wave
of optimism and enthusiasm that
seemed to fill the very air.
Boiled down, the burden of the ad-
dresses was this:
That the churches need strength
ening; that this work of rehabilita-
ton must be done by men; that this
movement was the most effective
means of reaching the men and Sc
curing them to the church; that mod
ern methods must be employed.
The speakers were the Rev. Fred
B. Smith, the Rev. John Pearce, the
Rev. Dr. Adelaide, (South Australia,
the Rev. Charles Stelzle, the Rev. DR..
Arthur Brown, the Rev. Fred S. Good
man. the Rev. DR.. John Alexander,
the Rev. David Russell australia,
the Rev. Raymond Robbins, James G.
Cannon, and Evangelist Gypsy
Smith (England).
In the Metropolitan Club Monday
night Mr. Cannon gave a banquet to
the departing corps of thirty work
ers.