The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-19
FIGHT GRAF 7
WITH GOSPEL
Laymen's Movement to Apply
Business Methods TO Nation
Wide Revival.
SALT LAKE INCLUDED
IN CAMPAIGN PLANNED
Speakers on College Extension
Plan Hope to Work Relig-
ious Revolution.
BY D. V. FRANCIS.

NEW YORK, March Isl have writ
activity among Christian laymcn for
the spread Of the gospel throughout the
world. The same activity is manifest
ing itself for still greater work, the
revivifying Of the church in this coun-
trv: a revival of the old-fashioned gos-
pei religion, which will mako of the
church the living, vital force in the life
of the nation 1t once was and still
should be.
A campaign will be weged through
out the country within the next eigh-
teen months the influence of which it
would be hard to over estimate. Sixty
of the one hundred millions of Ameri-
cans and Canadians belong to no
churches. and even more, say the pro
moters of this campaign fail to take
real part in religion. The alarming
prevalence of divorce. jobbery III af
fairs Of business combines, graft in pub
lie contracts, disputes between capital
and labor, with attendant strikes; cor.
ruption in politics-thcse and other
widespread sins cry for cure. This cure,
saw these promoters, lies in personal re-
ligion.
Leaders in this new campaign are the
Young Men s Christian association, the
and the brotherhoods. The associations
are we'll known, but in this case de-
tails are in the hands of the religious
department of the international com
mittee. The Sunday School association
is the one that issues the international
or uniform lessons that are studied by
fifteen to seventeen millions of boys and
girls each week. The brotherhoods be.
CaL with that of st. Andrew, but have
extended now to Congregationalists
Presbyterians. Methodists. Disciples.
Ba"tists and most religious bodies, small
as well as large. Some of them limit
their aims to spiritual work. A few
include social work and missions. Hun
dreds of thousands OF men belong to
these organizations.
Big Men Take Lead.
Men of large affairs, all laymcn, are
in charge of this unique campaign
al bank, New York, former Mayor
Beardsley of Kansas City. R. A. Long,
lumber1nan. of the same city; Presi-
dent English of the Civic Federati of
Pittsburg, William J. Bryan, Marion
Laurence, F. w Parker of Chicago,
former Commissioner MacFarland Of
this city, Charles T. Thompson of Min
neapolis and Fred B. Smith of the in
ternational Y. NJ. c. A.-tbere are
ninety of such men, foremost in bust
ness and the professions, often men of
wealth, who give themselves as well as
their money, and identified more or less
closely with spiritual and educational
work of the churches.
Conventions will be held in no less
than eighty.four cities in the United
States and Canada. In many of the
cities committees representing all Pro-
testaut bodies here have agreed to get
TO work on convention details and in
fully half the cases similar conventions
are planned in smaller cities of which
the one named is a central point. The
convention cities just decided upon are:
Salt Lake, Boise, Reno.
Albany. Atlanta, Baltimore, Bangor,
Ne; Billings, Mont; Birmingham,
Ala; Boise, Ida.: Boston, Brandon,
Man: Brooklyn; Buffalo; Burlington,
Vt; Calgary, Alberta: Grand Forks, n. |
D.; Grand Bapids; Halifax, n. S.; Ham
ilton, Ont; Hartford; Houston, Tex;
Indianapolis; Jackson. Miss; Kansas
City: Lincoln; Little Rock; Los Ange.
les; Louisville; Memphis. Tenn; Min.
neapolis: Milwaukee,; Montreal; Nash
York; Oakland, Cal: Oklahoma City;
Omaha; Ottawa; Philadelpha; Pitts.
burg; Portland, Me; Portland, Or;
Providence; Pueblo, Richmond; Reno,
New; Rochester; Salt Lake City; San
Antonio; San Francisco; Seattle;
Sioux Falls: South Bend; Spokane:
Springfield, Mass; st. John, n. B.; st.
louis; St. Paul; Sydney, N. s.; syra-
cuse; Toledo: Topeka; Toronto; Van
couver: Walla Walla. Wash; Wichita,
Kan; Winnipeg and Worcester.
Plan Active Campaign.
The methods to be employed in this !
hnf ,ol
date. Speakers will go as teams, los
ing little time between cities. Lunch
cons at noonday. dinners at night with |
mon when they come direct from work, |
Bible study in shops, parlor confer,
ences with leading men-all are covered |
in the method. and the teams will be in |
effect colleges with travelling facul- |
ties. There will be experts in Bible !
teaching, evangelism, shop addresses, |
street preaching, social service and |
work for boys
Billboards, restaurant bills Of fare,
laundry lists, newspaper display adver-
tising-all these proper schemes for
publicity are to be made use of Get |
ting ready work is to be done between
now and then up till next September.
Then the real campaign is to cover
September of this year TO May, 1912. |
But churches are now being enrolled
in a list of those pledged to five
year campaign straight with no let up. !
Results sought include greatly in
creased memberships in Bible classes
100000 men and BOYS on church rolls |
of membership, new missionary enter.
prises at home and abroad. organized |
efforts for civic and social betiermens |
and possibly the foundation of a real |
college whose faculty may 90 about the
country all the time, reaching numbers
compared with which the college 10 |
Gated in one place has but small
field.