Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-08-23
uNDAY, SEPTEMBER s, TO BE
SET APART FOR SPECIAL
n OBSERVANCE IN INTEREST
OF MOVEMENT.
L. MINISTERS TO HELP
eCOnd Worlds Citizenship Confer
ence and It's Objects to Be Made
Theme For Sermon and Prayer;
Prominence of Movement Told by
Local Clergyman.

M COM Ofmlng to q movement set on
foot by those in charge of the Second
Worlds Christian Citizenship confer
ence to be held in Portland during the
Simmer of 1913, it is proposed to set
aside Sunday, September s, as a day
upon which the ministers of all de-
Nominations, Protestant and Catholic,
will take up the question and employ
1t as a subject for discussion and
prayer. Rev. Edgar w. Miles, of the
First Presbyterian church of Dallas,
has already received the suggestion
and will make the conference and its
aims and objects the subject of his
sermon on that day While the other
local clergymen have not yet received
Similar suggestions it is probable that
they will receive them, they say. but
at any rate they will probably decide
to make a special address on the con-
Ference and its work
Will Be a Great Gathering.
This coming worlds gathering in
cortland, from June 30 to July g.,
1913, inclusive, will be the second one
of its kind and is already attracting
considerable attention throughout the
world. In speaking of the matter re-
Gently, Rev. Edgar w. Miles, of Dali
ais, who is very enthusiastic over the
movement, said:
This conference will be an assem-
bIage of leading representative
Christian statesmen from practically
ali the great countries of the world.
Missionaries, ministers, educators,
sociologists, moral
reformers, and all other leaders of
christian thought and action. On
the program of this conference there
will be from rs to 100 of the worlds
leading thinkers and actors for the
uplift of humanity, one or more from
each of the countries of the world.
"All churches, missionary societies,
young peoples societies, Y. W. c. AS
and Y. M. c AS, every organization
In the world having a distinctly
christian and patriotic purpose, is in
vited to send one or more represent
atives. The aim is to have a total of
from $4,000 to 10000 in attendance.
To Consider World Problems.
THE purpose of the conference is,
to consider from a world viewpoint
those great moral problems which are
world problems-emigration and i'm
capital and labor, the
weekly rest day, marriage and di-
vorce, the relation of public educa-
lion to morality and religion, peace
and war, vice and crime, society's de-
linquents and dependents, civil service
and prison reform, political corrup-
Hon, social. conscience and personal
and other kindred topics.
The discussion of these topics is not
to be confined to the problems them
selves It will also have to do, and
hat especially, with the Bible or
christian principles of civil govern
ment in their application to these
prOblems.
Nor is the discussion to be theo-
retical, or i'm the abstract merely
but practical The conference is de-
signed to be a sort of worlds clearing
house for the mutual exchange Of
practical ideas of leaders i'm Christian
thought and action the wide world
over
The time is auspicious for such a
There is everywhere great
social unrest. The world is fast be-
coming one. Men are today thinking
ii world thoughts. speaking in world
terms, and acting in world deeds
There is at length a worlds public
dpinion and 2 worlds conscience. And
an nations, at least all civilized ma
Hons, hold themselves more or less
amenabIe to these world tribunals.
The list of speakers for the con-
Ference contains the names Of Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson. Hon. William
J. Bryan, Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
David Starr Jordan. Booker T. Wash
ington. Justice Charles =. Hughes.
Dr. Charles Merle D'Aubigne. Paris.
France; Prof. Alberto Clot. Palermo,
Rally: DIR. Carl Fries. Stockholm.
Sweden: Raron Nicolie. St Peters
burg. Russia. And many others
euually prominent. who will speak on
topics in the knowledge Of which
they are specialists.
Day Of Prayer.
Those in charge OF the confer
ence. moved by a deep sense of the
many dangers and difficulties which
beset our public schools. especially In
heir bearing on the interests Of NOR
slity and religion. have recommended
.hat Sunday. September s. be observ-
ed as a day for special and united
prayer in behalf OF the public and
private schools Of the United States
The magnitude of the moral and
spiritual interests Involved In this vast
work Of education. or effected BY g.
rommend this suggestion 90 an Chris
ian citizens
The general Observance of the day
bf PRAYER suggested VIII afford %
pastors a natural opportunity to sTeeak
bn the work of education. ard ifs re-
.atiOn 10 the moral and spiritu-l
,-e1fara ~ rHe child and 20 our ra-