The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-22


the local evangelistic campaign.
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Clergymen and business men of the
city to the number of eighty dined to.
gether in Cooke Hall at the Y. NJ. C. A.
last night and heard Harry N. Holmes,
advance representative for the Men and
Religion Forward movement as repre-
sented by the Smith.Robins combina.
ton, explain the purpose of the pending
visit to Hawaii of these two famous re-
ligious workers among men.
When Mr.. Holmes had concluded, the
assembly enthusiastically adopted a res.
olution endorsing the action of the in.
ter church federation in arranging for
the coming of Messrs. Smith and Robins
and pledging support to the campaign.
l.. Tenney Peck was unanimously elect
ed as president of the movement, and
he will have charge of the work of pre-
pairing for the coming of the latter day
evangelists. Other officers and commit
tees will selected later.
Bishop Restarick, in presenting Mr..
Holmes, alluded to the benefit the
churches of Honolulu will receive from
this visit of evangelists who are past
masters in preaching masculine Christ
ianity.
Emphasis Upon Men
Mr.. Holmes explained what the Men
and Religion Forward Movement stands
for, and said that in the title of this
endeavor emphasis is put upon "Men. "
Religion, he said, made men as it made
nations. He declared that without re-
ligion a moral code is useless, and that
religion is useful to the state as great
police power, inasmuch as one policeman
in a man is far better than dozen po-
licemen on the outside. 49,
He reviewed the history of the, move
ment from its inception EARLY in 1910
to the beginning of the great campaign
in October of the same year. The sue
cess of the movement, he said, had been
due to the fact that it created no new
organization, but used the local church
as an organ, supplying it with new
equipment to carry on its work. The
organization of the Men and Religion
} Forward movement no longer exists, he
| said 1t delivered its message and the
churches are now carrying on the work
| Mr.. Holmes said that of the s1
} planks constituting the platform of the
} movement, that of social service had at
) tracted the most interest, and he reat
: letters from John Mitchell and Doctor
Lyman Abbott in which appreciation
was expressed of the impetus given 10y
, the movement toward a change for tn,
l better in social conditions and in teach
l ing the brotherhood of man.
t The plank on boys work had proved
t of much value to those interested il
J. boys, because it taught them to under
Q stand boys.
t The community extension work, h
said, had brought thousands of men int,
the church, and he cited the case o
Wichita, Kansas, where he said on
: thousand one hundred men were adde,
to the church in few weeks.
The platform of the movement is s
d wide, he said, that it is easy for ever.
man to find some one feature in it o
: special interest on which he can work
Plans for Honolulu.
= As to the meetings in Honolulu, Nj
q Holmes said it is planned to hold tw
= daily, one under the leadership of Ere
: Is. Smith and the other under Raymon
Robins. The first win handle tn
planks of evangelism, Bible study an
community extension, and Robins thos
" of social service, boys work an
Christian publicity.
He said that in Fred B. Smith an
Raymond Robins the people will see an
O. hear the two strongest men of the grea
. campaign waged on the mainland, an
u closed by saying that it rested with tn
men to make the campaign memorabl
I in Honolulu.
a. Doctor Seudder, in few words, we
= coined the movement as one abreast tn
spirit of the age, and one which I'll
, present atmosphere of the city favore,
"a The social appeal he considered I'll
strongest point of the movement. I'll
n country is crying for change fro
ID present conditions. where the rich al
=; getting richer and the poor poorer, /
A said.
ne awe are sick of it all" he averre
and any political party that can civ
O. us this change win get our votes. -
Others of the clergy and laity voice
lr their appreciation of the coming Wis
u, and of the good which it is believe
IT, Messrs. Smith and Robins will aceor
plish by their mission.