The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21
Summer Conferences Are
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NEW BISHOPS NAMED
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 The summer conferences next July and August expect greatly increased numbers growing out of the larger ac- tivity of men in religious affairs. To meet this new interest they are having difficulty in arranging programmes. Few save workers attend these meet ings and these are women for tho most part but the semblance of rest and vacation is maintained. Glasses are to get into these few hours social serv- ice. missions. Sunday school work. Bible study, evangelism and some other lines is the problem before the confer ence programme makers.
 Northfield is to have again this year the Rev. F. B. Meyer of London: the Rev. Dr. c. H. Patton of the Amer the Women's Jubilee campaign: Rob- ert E. speer of the Presbyterian board, and Dean Brown of Yale Divinity school. The dates of the general con- ference are August } to IS, but much Is again to be made this year of the Sunday school workers meetings which are held July 20 to 27.
 The missionary education movement conferences will number seven this year, three of them being in Canada The Blue Ridge, N C., begins on June 25, the Silver Bay. Lake George, July 12, and the Lake Geneva, Wis, August |2. It Is announced that into these meetings the new subjects of social service community extension and evan gelism will be put as far as time per mits. At Silver Bay each year about 150o are trained and much emphasis Is placed upon personal work The vol unteer who Is willing to give some spare time Is urged to select definite tasks and prepare herself for them. Lead ership is the topic oftenest suggested 1t being stated that therein lies the greatest need.
 Educational System
 Presbyterians are developing an edu. cational system in behalf of both home and foreign mission work They will have. under the leadership of their boards, five summer meetings this year beginning at Winona, Ind, on July 16 and ending at Pocono Pines, Pa, Au- gust 22 to 29. Between these dates they have conferences at Lebanon, Tenn storm Lake. Ia, and Hollister Mo Their aim is to raise up missionary leaders in Presbyterian churches. Their numbers are steadily increasing at each conference, while to the number of (conferences one is added each year. Chautaqua will much enlarge its spiritual work this year. beginning with the first week in July. The Hall of Christ will be utilized as the cen | ter and the director will be Prof Smaller Matthews of Chicago. Chau- tauqua has always stood for religious propaganda, but during the last few years strictly educational subjects have developed greatly through large enroll ments. This year will see the strength ening of the spiritual side, in part to meet the demands created by the Men and Religion and similar movements
 New York laymen, the younger ele- ment among them, all Protestant bod fes. inaugurate new conference this season, beginning In June and contin- uing until September. There are 10000 young men in the working organiza- . tions of the churches of the metropol- itan district, including northern New Jersey and there has been until now no summer conference within their reacn+ 1De experiment IS to be tried of barring women, save as they accom- pany their husbands or brothers. It is the first in America to limit attendance to young men exclusively, and it's ex- periences will be keenly watched, it is said. It's hopes are based chiefly upon the larger interest of laymen as shown by the Men. and Religion Movement.
 Summer Conferences
 The Secretaria1 Council of Laymen's Missionary movements plan three sum mer conferences for missions this year One Is to be at Lake Geneva Wis, for Chicago section; another at Niagara | Falls for Ohio. New York and Can | ada, and a third at Mt Gretna for the east. These conferences are for the education of mature men as mission | ary leaders in the churches. Last year about 100 such men were trained ant went back home to teach missions T classes and to speak and plan as lead lers in communities. In these confer. ences the Laymen's Missionary Move ment, the general one of the cam paigns of two years ago, appears as 2 co- operating agency.
 | The Secretarial Council is somethinf lnew. It represents the movements 1T the principal bodies and Is officeret | by them In some measure it super cedes the general missionary move ment and 1t radically changes tha movements aims, In that it includ .. home as well as foreign missions. IT some instances 1t welcomes city mis sions The forming of this council while 1t attracts little notice. reall, marks, 1t is said, an extraordinar, change in emphasis, in that 1t puts Ii federation, and leaves out move ment that only two or three years sine, was all powerful and all prominent I is said that the movement in question did not include the men who were doins the missionary work of the churches md that the new council does includ' them.
 Presbyterian Prospects
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