The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-16
RELIGIOUS
MEETING IN APRIL
It's Promoters Think it More
important Than Either OF
National Conventions

A NATIONAL CONGRESS
TO MEET IN WASHINGTON
1t Will Number Among Its
and Participants in Its Deliberations
Many Men Representing All Evan
eclistic Denominations From All
Parts of This Country-'Masculine
Religion and "lnsursency in Re-
lision' and 80 Forth.
tBy the Religious RamhIer.)
While the general public Is talking
of the national political conventions
an important proportion OF church
men throughout the country are ar
ranging for a national congress in
Washington, April 1924, which some
Of them ARE enthusiastic enough to
say will mean more to the nation
than either Of the national political
conventions.
These optimistic representations
dlt pdScG Id 10y upOh hc SiL LIN
representative character Of the con
vention which will bring thousands Of
men, representing all evangelical de-
nominations, from all parts of the
land; but more particularly upon the
fact hat this will present
the first systematic general study Of
the churches efficiency that has yet
been made. h experts who have
! 800, ~ ~ w. -~-
throughout the country are all pre-
pairing for this congress. to make q
showing Of what they have discov-
cred about the actual working Of re-
llglOn of q masculine sort in America
!, Religious insurgency.
Widespread publicity has beer
; given that }. Pierpont Morgan ane
WALL street are behind the Men anc
Religion Movement, using it as a pal.
liative to make the public conten'
with present conditions. The cam
paign leaders. when approached OF
this subject. smile grimly and So,
t at befOre they get through the.
ale likely to be accused Of espousin;
insurgency and socialism. 1t is tru'
that MIR. Morgan gave five THOUSAND
\ dollars toward the national fund. an,
other rich men have given gener
ously. The bulk OF the none use,
in this expensive campaign has beel
raised in the cities visited, each max
ing it's contribution to the nationa
fund.
The teams Of experts have don
: unconventional things In variou
cities. They have stood for new an
progressive forms OF church worl
They have been practical to the ey
tent Of making many staid churc
workers gasp. That the enterpris
really means business is indicated b
the thorough surveys it has made E
~ social, civic and religious condition
III the cities visited. Now the essene
=. Of all is to be presented at the Wash
~ ington congress in April.
" The Biggest of Mems Congresses.
During The past tive years the,
have been several great religious cor
ventions CT men. some nun1hering ,
many as three thousand delegate
The present outlook is that the Was1
ngton congress will eclipse all
these records It is on a broad,
basis: making a wider appeal ar
uraWlng It's delegates from a lare,
constituency. In nearly q hundr.
al cities OF the continent local con
mittees Of one hundred ]lavrnen ".
re nave peen at work during the pa
"a winter, and each OF these will be Il
er. nucieuS Tor q propaganda for Il
IDS washington congress. The complet
:or ness n efficiency Of the machine
under the direction OF the nation
pt~ wen and Religion Forward Mon
er. ment, IS something entirely new
zee Religion, It is enough TO make Il
est politicians envious.
BILE Ihis congress closes the Men al
en-. i>ellglon campaign. The commit
in OF nlnety-seyen, which has direct
nd the winters work, will go out of e
ley lStence. Some of the experts m
per accept Invitations already received
not go abroad to continue their servit
but the American movement. as q II
uld tional movement. Will be finished.
work will remain entirely with
local churches and local mems /,
or. CARNATIONS. The stress which t
Men and Religion leaders put on u
500 would seem TO indicate a reb.k.
OF other movements which have c,ae
to move, and have settled dow !,
to permanent organizations to be $,
hat ported by gifts Of church p.,n
waa The Test OF United (ap.co-