The Washington herald., 1912-05-05

Proposals to conserve fruits Of the Me-
and Religion Forward Movement ar,
numerous. The Federal Council o
Churches, the Laymen's Missionar,
Movement. the Missionary Education
Movement, and the brotherhoods in vari
Gus religious bodies are putting forth
plans. Some Of them are insisting loud,
tnat they are the logical benefclaries
ana ought TO be utilized rather thar
The Federal courciI. with an -alertnesu
not surpassed in the commercial world
held meeting before the conservation
congress adjourned. brought together
representatives OF the brotherhoods, the
Sunday School Associations and Others
composing the Men and Religion For
ward Movement. and elected its own pres
ldent, Bishop Hendrix OF the Methodist
Church South, chairman Of what Il calls
joint COMMITTEES.
This Joint committee, with the council
secretary as its own. voted itself clear
ing house. and decided to call a confer
ence Of all organizations almost at once.
The three men empowered TO arrange
such conference are the Rev. DR.. Charles
S. Macfarland, Of the council; the Rev.
DR.. Clarence A. Barbour. of the Inter
national Y NJ C. A.. and Harry Wade
Hicks, Of the Missionary Education
Movement II Is stated that such con-
ference win be held next month, prob
ably TO open the season at Silver Bay
on Lake George.
The Iaymen's Missionary Movement,
over the name of its general secretary.
]. Campbell White, issues a call Tor one
million men who shall enter upon an
adequate missionary campaign in the
churches OF North America. 1t declares
such number to be not too many to COM
pose the 300, 900 missionary committees
and II calls upon missionary leaders
everywhere to ally themselves with the
movement
Reversing its position in the past, the
movement says these one million men
can lead the churches 70 evangelize
America and the world in this generation.
Before the Men and Religion Movement
came in the Laymen's Missionary Move
ment had not included the evangelical
tioa of America In It's programme. It
now announces that fully fifty conven-
tions are TO be held in the United States
within the next few months under its
auspices. It urges that the summer be
not allowed to put on organization. but
rather that ii be utilized. 1t thinks
Christian men OF North America never
so ripe for effort, and states. that within
five years s25.00 1000 has been added to
contributions to home and foreign mis-
crease this growth by twice the amount
during the coming five years.
Summer schools East and West are is
suing invitations to laymen aroused by
the Men and Religion Movement TO at
tend them, and prepare for larger all
around service Key men in the seventy
cities where conventions have been held
within the last eight months are being
sought ont, and circulars of all sorts
are goin9 TO them. Concerning new in
terest on. the part of laymen a test made
during the late Conservation Congress
is in point.
On one day show Of hands was made.
whether delegates were ministers or lay
men, and 1t was found that two-thirds
of all present were ministers. Asked
further about their status. IL was found
that not all of the congress delegates
were in the active 2astorate of churches. |
Many were educators, Y. n. c. A. sec
salaried Sunday chool work |
ers, missionary secretaries, and others |
whose profession is religious work. In |
deed, the showing of volunteer laymen. |
from the business ranks or the learned |
professions, was smaller by far than |
had been expected.
Andrew Carnegie. departed from his
rule against contributions to such causes, |
and gave S2,500 TO the expenses of the |
recent Men and Religion Congress. |
These expenses were handled in the same /
budget with the New York local cam
paign. 1t was the size of this budget, |
national and local, that caused the /
change OF the congress from Washington 1
to New York. The budget in question /
was $4,000. but so liberal was New York
that it subscribed, including the under