Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-27
Dayton, o. Ministers and
Laynea Ceiling Together.
New Grip on Oily Work and
Near by Giles Aroused.
Cooperative Program Of flaming
Schoois for Teachers.

Dayton. o., Dec. 26.-At the next
meeting of the Dayton Ministerial
Association Dayton ministers repre-
sentins go churches out Of IS English
speaking Protestant churches in this
city, will recommend:
That Z city vide interehureh work
be undertaken and that each church
in the city take steps 10 develop boys
leaders: each church to undertake to
furnish speakers. singers, and lead
e,rs for at least one shop meeting per
week: TO furnish number Of men
who win assist in the maintenance
Of dozen or more eVangelistie bands
that are to Immediately book engage
ments throughout this city. this coun-
~ and adjoining counties and neigh
boring cities; IN enter into great
cooperative plan of teachers train
ing for mems and boys Bible classes:
10 Institute a church council Of so
cial agencies to prosecute the work
recommended as a result of Or. Ian
sings survey of the city and his 50
ciaI service Institutes; To plan and
set in operation city-wide plan OF
interchurcii weekly offerings for mis-
sions; to organize in shops, office
classes that will reach out and extend
one or more Invitations each winter
10 every man and boy residing with
in the bounds of Dayton.
This is only partial list of the
Recommendation, but 1t Indicates in a
slight way some of the results of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement
eight day campaign in Dayton. Co
~. ;,,ft. he
members of the Committee of One
Hundred This committee took steps
at it's last meeting previous to the
campaign to resolve itself into Con-
serxation Committee retaining its
sub committees on Bible study, Boys
Work. Evangelism, etc, to he sub
committees in the conservation work.
1t was refreshing to hear the min
listers and the leading laymen of the
CITY confess, frankly and freely at the
end nf the eight-dav campaign that
they had never had sufficient faith
in the Movement, or else they had not
sufficiently understood il, to prepare
themselves for the things which de-
veloped.
DR.. Ira Lansing's great sermon in
Victoria Theatre to a crowded audi
enee on the opening Sunday must be
mentioned as one of the features.
There was a depth to the spiritual
phase of that meeting that is rarely
eqnalled. His subject was "The
Lord's Prayer: A Social Interpreta-
ton" When he had concluded he was
asked by the secretary to lead the POO,
men in repeating that great prayer,
and SO full was he of the subject he
had helm discussing that it was with
the greatest effort that he controlled
his emotions That meeting gave the
Men and Religion Movement new
standing in the minds of hundreds
j who had been skeptical
3 All three of II the great meetings
should be classed together. Dayton
did, in its Thursday meeting, the most
phenomenal thing of the continent
wide Men and Religion Movement.
Fred B. Smith was advertised to ar
rive Thursday Thanksgiving morn
ing. All of the theatres were ehanG-
ing their shows that day, so nd thea
ire was available. The only large hall
was Memorial Hall with such great
capacity that unless nearly three thou
sand men scatter over it 1t seems
empty. Only u few of the men con-
nected with the destinies of the adj
vance preparations for the movement
had faith enough to believe Memorial
Hall could be filled with men and
women. At last the venturesome
leaders persuaded the cautious enes
that a union mass meeting Thanks
giving morning would he. possible
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