The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
Wisconsin Members of Chris
tian EndeayorMe at Lake
Geneva This Month
NOTED men AS SPEAKERS

Ihe seventh annual rally ana CONFER
ence of the Wisconsin Christian En-
deavor union will be held from July 81
to so at Conference Point, Lake
Geneva.
The rally is held for those who could
not attend the international convention
held at Atlantic City this summer.
While the attendance at last year s
rally was 263 workers, it is expected
that a larger number will attend this
year. For this reason the number of
young people from 16 to 20 years of
age who will be allowed to attend has
been limited to fifty.
In case sufficient Wisconsin delegates
can be gotten together a special train
will be chartered, running from Mil
waukee to Lake Geneva. Tt is expect
ed that 100 workers will attend from
the state, twenty-five of whom will be
from Milwaukee. A delegation Of 200
will attend from Chicago.
The dean of the conference will be
DR.. Fred P. haggard of Boston, secre-
tary of the American Baptist Mission
airy union. Harry Wade Hicks, general
secretary of the Y. P. M. M, will pre-
side land J. E. Crowther win be secre-
tary.
The following workers will attend
the rally:
DR.. E. Ell. Richards, who spent thirty
years in Africa; DR.. J. K. Greene, who
has been working in Turkey since 1859
and who was associated for many years
with Cyrus Hamlih; DR.. Isaac T. Head
land Of the University of Pekin: Prof.
E. M. Hursh, Sierra Leone, Africa; the
Rev. Sam Higginbottom, India; the
Rev. W. L. Ferguson, D. D., South In
dia; L. G. Barnes, d. D., Mexico; S.
K. Dong, native of Korea; Francis
Bates Patterson, who went through the
siege of Tientsin, China, and the box
err uprising in 1900; Ida A. Olsen,
Green Bay, now working among the
mountainers; w. G. Pearce of the In
ternational Sunday School association;
the Rev. Lynn Howard Hough, Brook
Ign, N. Y, the Rev. Ernest f. Hall,
San francisco, for many. years a mis-
sionary in Korea; W. Z. Douglas, New
York, who will supervise the devotion
al life of the conference; DR.. Lucius
G. Baird, DR.. j. Z. Atchison and Miss
Abby Fl. J. Upham, representing the
home missionary work, J. Edward
Kniff, Dayton, o.; Miss Susan Menden-
hall, New York; Miss Marian L.
Woodbury., New York; the Rev. W. E.
Witter, D. d., Boston and the Rev.
Lewis B. Hills, Milham, N. ].
Open parliaments will be conducted
on the following subjects: Missionary
meetings, prayer and missions, the
missionary committee, education in Civ
ing and service, practical home mission
airy activities, and missions in the Sun
day school.
A special department to provide grad
ed mission instruction for the Sunday
school, will be started this summer
under the supervision of George Ell.
Trull. New York, considered the best
authority in America on missionary ed
ucation in the Sunday school.
A special training class for young
people who have had no experience in
teaching will be given on the theory
and practice of teaching. 1t will be
conducted by Prof. Nathan Wilbur
Helm, principal of the academy of
Northwestern university.
Conference Point is considered one of
the choicest and most beautiful spots
on Lake Geneva. It is heavily wooded
with natural forests. Nearby is the
famous Ierkes observatory. It is a
quarter of mile from Inc Information
al Y. NJ. @. A. camp and the same dis
tance from the fashionable Williams
Bay colony.