East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-13
"a BOYS TO ATTEND
RELIGIOUS MEETING
PENDLETON TO SEND A
DELEGATI TO WALLA WALLA
Contributions To Fund to Cover EX-
pense, Are Liberal and Many Faith
ers VIII Send Their SonS-Call Has
Been Issued.

Fully twenty-five boys of this city
will be sent to Walla Walla to at
tend the convention of the Men and
Religious Forward Movement worker
next week, so generous has been the
response of individual citizens to the
request for financial aid. According
| to Supt. j. S. Landers. one of the
members of the committee appointed
| from the Commercial association for
the purpose of soliciting funds. con-
tributions have been made quite free
ly while a number of men have sig
nified their intention of sending their
own boys to the convention.
The convention will be divided in
to two parts, the meetings on We'd
nesday and Thursday of next week
being devoted to men and those on
Friday and Saturday to boys.
Pastors of local churches have re-
ceived copies of a call just issued by
John Gibson. chairman of the Walla
Walla committee which is taking
charge of the convention. 1t reads
as follows:
"As Chairman of the Committee of
One Hundred of the Men and Religi-
of the committee. it is my privilege
to extend a "call" to the Christian
men of southeastern Washington and
eastern Oregon, both ministers and
laymen, to meet in Walla Walla for
two days, Wednesday and Thursday
February 81 and %, to launch the
movement in the district allotted to
us. This gathering already promises
to be one of the most notable in the
religious history of the Northwest.
THE movement has taken tremen.
dous hold in other parts of our coun.
try. Cities and rural communitie.
| all over the country are organized
, and at work. The Northwest botf
needs and deserves for her men ant
boys the best the movement can af
ford. Let us get together during tn,
days of this convention and organic
and equip ourselves to personally pre-
sent the claims of Jesus Christ an,
His church to every man and boy il
our territory during the comin
months.
| 1T is our hope and prayer tha
every church to which this cali /
sent will be represented in this con
vention by from five to twenty-fiv
OF its strongest men"
| This convention will be a part O
the nationwide Men and Religio
Forward Movement. Walla walla /
one of the seventy-six centers in tn
United states in which convention
Will be held, and from which the in
fluence of the movement will radi
L ate.
| In these centers eight-day cam
palgns will be conducted by leader
OF national reputation in churc
work. The two convention days ar
part of the eight-day campaign
and a special program. complete 1
| itself, is arranged for there days.
ii Among those who will address th
convention are the following:
Yutaka Minakuchi, a distinguishe
japanese orator of remarkable abil
ity on Missions.
| James A. Whitmore, active, aler
| man who has been remarkabl
successful in boys work.
| Chas. r. Drum. the business-ma
| type Of evangelist. Stands next [
| Fred b. Smith as a speaker to mer
| isaac j. Lansing, active in reforr
| work; municipal and civic exper
| Dr. Lansing represents the socis
service phase of the work.
w. c. Pearce of the Internationa
h Sunday School association. A sue
: cessful lawyer, but who recently ha
r devoted himself to Bible study.
, David Lathsaw, a man who ha
It oeen remarkably successful in Com
munity Extension work.