New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-25
HOLD MANY MEETINGS
Brooklyn Men and Religion For
ward Movement Active.
SERVICES WELL ATTENDED
Elaborate Plans Made for Con.
servation Congress in New
York Campaign in April.

The BROOKLYN Men and Religion Forward
Movement conducted nineteen regular
meetings Yesterday, and many special SER
vices we're also held in various churches
The biggest meeting was held Al the Acau-
emy of Music at o'clock i'm the afternoon
More than two thousand men attended
The speaker was Fred r. Smith. Music
was furnished by the Association Quartet
and the male chorus Of the Brooklyn Sun
day School Choir. This meeting was held
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association.
Yesterday was one Of the red letter days
Of the eight-day campaign which started
last Tuesday. Many churches conducted
special prayer meetings at $3.50 o'clock in
the morning. The nineteen regular meet
ings came at o'clock in the afternoon
Meetings for the older boys were held in
each of the thirteen districts into which
! the workers have divided the borough.
! At the same time mass meetings for men
were held at four branches Of the Young
| Mems Christian Association. The Rev. Dr.
! S Parkes Cadman spoke at the Bedford
! branch. the Rev Or. Francis Drake spoke
! at the Eastern District branch, Robert
| Elder spoke al the GreenpOnt branch and
| W r. Biederwolf at the 18th Ward branch.
| Another mass meeting for men was held
al the Bridge Street African Methodist
Episcopal Church. There W. r. Lane
spoke.
| At O'Clock in the evening many Of the
churches held special prayer meetings and
the pastors conducted services for men and
boys aftcrward. The meetings all over the
borough were we'll attended
| Much work is planned for to-day and to
morrow. great number of meetings will
! he held in the thirteen districts and at va
rious schools to-day. Tomorrow the work.
ers will hold several conferences, the final
| one to be held at the Central CongreCa-
/ tlondI Church. at O'Clock i'm the evening.
when all the workers will get together for
the last time.
| 4 conservation congress viii be held IN
| Carnegie Hall at the end Of the New York
campaign of the Men and Religion Forward
movement. The dates set for the event are
! April 70 to a, inclusive. The object Of the
congress, which will be national in scope,
| is to sum up the experience of the year,
work in the various cities OF the United
States and to plan for its continuance in
other parts Of the world.
! 1t is hoped that President Taft VIII
| sneak at the opening session Of the con
gress. Others who have already consented
10 deliver addresses at one or more OF the
| sessions are Archdeacon Thomas J.. Nc
| Fadden. Of Liverpool; j. \. Mcdonald. OF
Toronto. William Jennings Bryan, Bishop
| David II. Greer, Bishop William i. Mellow
! ell the Rev Or. Nehemiah Boynton the
Rev. Or. John +. Carson, Of Brooklyn John
Mitchell. Robert Il. Speer, John X. Mott
Professor l.. A. steiner, Booker 7. Wash
| ington. Professor George L. Robinson Miss
Jane Adams, Of Chicago; the Rev. Or.
James T.. Freeman, William T. Ellis and
Ex-Governor Northern.
The first day Of the gathering Will be
given TO the presentation Of the work Of
the allied organizations which have par
tlcipated in the movement and to confer
ence upon the formation Of practical forms
of international, national and local So
| cietes.
That New York itself may profit to the
fullest degree, and that any special Visitors
may hear the platform speakers, series
Of meetings for the presentation OF the
various topics will be held simultaneously
with the congress- at which all the regular
sneakers on the original programme viii
appear. The places set apart for these
meetings al present include the fltth Ave
nue. and Central Presbyterian churches,
! calvary Baptist Church and the Broadwa%
| Tabernacle.