The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Topics of Mems Campaign

| The Men and Religion campaign, which | begins its conventions in Minneapolis in | October continuing them in Omaha and South Bend in order, announces the sug-
 gestions which 1t makes to men and
 boys of individual churches, and also as | Christian men of cities, for personal and aggressive cooperation. To the men of each church 1t lays out seven lines, as l follows.
 l. Getting men into church member | ship, Into organizations within the church and developing them Into workers. 2. Boys, their interest and influence. | Providing summer camps and club rooms for them looking into and after their amusements.
 3. Study of the Bible, in Sunday school and Bible class where men are to be held, | and in the family circle.
 4. Eyangelism-the conduct of special | meetings, house to house visitation and calls on brotherhood lines. 5. Special service, including the main | tenance, if needed, of an employment bureau. and studies in labor problems 6. Mission study classes and training of 1 men for service on mission fields. Work at home and abroad Is given equal em- phasis
 7.-Taking part In Christian work of the city, in cooperation with men from other churches.
 Ine SuRBeSllOHS 1Or general WOrk III lne city cover the same as in the individual
 churches, with proper enlargement of them, and with two new ones added These two are: s.
 1. The use of the daily newspaper to secure Christian publicity, reporting for religious papers and the publication of a church periodical if needed. g. A staff of preachers and speakers,
 ministers and laymen, to go into facto- f,,tA
 the streets.
 The campaign to be followed by the campaign itself will be that of speakers sent out In teams, six or seven men in each team Up to December there will be only two teams, but in January a third one will be added. for service
 chiefly in the east. These teams cover | in their makeup the special things to
 be taught. as Bible social service, Evan
 gelism, missions and boys work, and a
 team concluding an eight day institute in one city will go at once to the next
 and so on, until about 30 cities will have had conventions
 The campaign will have in its teams of Ievangelists the Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, the Rev. w. R. Lane, MT. David Russell, who comes all the way from Australia.
 and the Rev. Dr. c. A. Barbour, who is
 with the r. M. C. A and will be a spe cial preacher at some of the conventions. The others will give all of their time.
 In the teams representing social ser
 vice will be the Rev. Charles Stelzle of the Presbyterian Home Mission Board, the
 Rev. pr. I. J. Lansing, and Mir. Raymond
 Robbins, whose conversion while in the
 Klondike was widely heralded. The Bible work will be conducted by MT. Fred S. Goodman of the Y. M C. A., MT. W. c. Peirce. who is furnished by the
 International Sunday School association,
 and MT. William A Brown, who is q fa-
 nous Bible teacher of Canada and comes from Toronto.
 | On the team to speak for work among boys will be, among others, MT. J. I. Alex
 ander, formerly with the Boy Scouts. In
 the shop meeting team speakers will in clude MT. c. A. Drum, furnished by the Y. M. c. A, MT. A. H. Bruner, who has had successful experience in Y. M. .. A. work In Illinois, and MT. John Dean who comes from San Jose Cal.
 The 1.aymens Missionary Movement will furnish the team members for missionary instruction. The plan is that the Y. M. C. A. the Brotherhoods, the Sunday School association and others taking part in the campaign will lend their men in so far as they have them. The respective organi- zations loaning their men on this rlan VIII cOullUue IHelT Sdldrl6S the same as If they were working as formerly. New men drafted into the teams will be paid salaries by the campaign. Everything IS on business basis, support guaranteed without unseemly appeals. Committees in cities where conventions are held will assist with travel expense, and take care of entertainment of members of the teams.
 As has been widely published The cam paign will reach upwards of one hundred principal centers, chiefly the largest cities with conventions and subsidiary conven- tions will be held in other 100 smaller cities. Each convention will last eight days, and consist of institute and study work rather than mass meetings The campaign is to open in October and con tue until May of next year, but plans for permanent work are being perfected Practical Christian unity is exempl!fed, since the whole range of Protestant or ganizatons. all bodies, are joining in the campaign.
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