Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-09-21
BIG RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN.
Movement Starts in N. Y, will EN-
| brace Whole Country. m
AN APPEAL TO MEN, \

New York, Sept 18.-Further plans
for New York's part in the men and
religion forward movement were dis
cussed this afternoon at special
conference in the Broadway Taber-
nacle. There were more than 400
ministers present, representing prac-
tically every Protestant religious body
in the city. About so laymen attend
ed. 1t was decided to make next
Sunday a rally day for the men and
to put before them the plans of the
movement.
A feature of the religious campaign.
in New York, which is scheduled for
the middle of November, will be
great street parade, in which men and
boys will take part. The exact date
for this was not decided upon, but
left to the discretion of special
committee of representatives from var
ious denominations No pains will be
spared to make this parade, which it
is planned to hold on Saturday after
noon, elaborate and imposing.
PROPOSES TO USE UP-TO-DATE
METHODS.
James G. Cannon, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Man and
Religion Forward Movement, one of
the speakers of the afternoon confer
ence, said that he believed that the
time has come when the churches
must use up-to-date methods in the
presentation of the gospel if they are
to reach the people Business meth
DDS have changed in the last so years,
he said, and the churches must change
their methods with the times. The
purpose of the new movement which
is to embrace the United States and
Canada, is not to foist another society
on the church, but to send trained
laymen to the individual communities
who will build up the churches they
find there and leave behind plans for
further development, which will per-
petuate themselves after the move
ment officially goes out of existence OIL
May l..
Various phases of the religious cam
paign were explained at the meeting.
Charles Steizle, special service leader
of the movement said that the trained
workers will make complete charts of
the towns which they visit, showing
religious and social conditions as they
find them, such as nationalities, the
number of saloons, how many labor
organizations meet in saloons or on
Sunday. and whether the schools seem
to be adapted to the 95 per cent. of
boys who don't go to college. The
Rev. Arthur Brown, who followed him
said that the consideration of foreign
missions had logical place in the
new movement, and Fred. S. Good
man pointed out that Bible study
would be one of the things empha-
sized by the workers. Tonight Mr..
Cannon gave dinner at the Metro
politan Club to the trained workers
who leave New York tomorrow and in
about a week will start the active
campaign beginning in Minneapolis.
THE MOVEMENT IN WOODBURY..
On Sunday, October 8, this move
ment will be opened in Woodbury..
The meetings will be held in the
Court House, the leader being Mr..
Landmaster, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The
singing will be led by large choir,
led by a competent musician.
The following committees have
been appointed
Speaker and Music-H. L. Hustled,
H. B. Diverty, Howard S. Davis, Ru-
dolph Benezet, William LaDow
Publicity-C. A. Brown, S. P. Spie-
gle, James w. Milford, H. v. Rogers,
Meetings-Andrew R. Baines, Theo.
F. Burkett, Joseph Morgan, NJ. Ware
Scott, Rowland N. Cloud.
Finance-T. Dowdney Clark, VIM.
LaDow, Daniel S. Steelman, John
Boyd Avis. H. v. Rogers.
The Executive Committee-Rev
Walter E. Reynolds, Rev. John Ed
win Triplett, Rev. j. K. Manning, H.
C. Dixon, Geo. H. Allister, Robert
d. Hughes, Thomas Yourison, Frank
Pennington, and the officers of general
committee, John Y. Dobbins. chair
man; John Boyd Avis, treasurer; Ro-
land N. Cloud, Secretary.
Real Estate Sale.