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Programs For Summer Meets;
What Is in Store.
CONFERENCES EAST AND WEST
Religious and Educational Movements
During Months Of IuIy and
August.
From Wednesdays Daily.

organizations during July and August
expect greatly increased numbers
growing out of the larger activity
OF men in religious affairs. To
meet this new interest they are hav-
ing difficulty in arranging programs.
Few save workers attend these meet
inSs, and these are women for the
most part, but the semblance of
rest and vacatio is maintained
Glasses are restricted to a few morn
ing hours. How to get into these
few hours social service, missions,
Sunday school work, Bible study,
evangelism and some other lines is
theT problem before the conference
program makers.
The Work at Mortified.
Mortified is to have again this
year the Rev. f. B. Meyer of Lon
don; the Rev. DR.. c. H. Patton OF
the American board Mrs. Helen
Montgomery of the woman's jubilee
campaign; Robert E. Speer of the
Presbyterian board; and Dean Brown
of Yale Divinity School. The dates
OF the general conference are All-
gust2 to Is, but much is again to be
made this year of the Sunday school
workers meetings, which are held
July 20 to q.
Missionary Education Movement.
The Missionary Education Move.
ment conferences will number seven
this year, three of them being in
Canada. The Blue Ridge. n. c., be-
gins on June 25; the Silver Bay,
Lake George, July II; and the lake
Geneva, Wis. August 2. II is an
nounced that into these meetings
the new subjects of social service,
community extension and evangelism
will be put as far as time permits.
At Silver Bay each year about 1,50D
are trained, and much emphasis is
placed upon personal work. The
volunteer who is willing to give some
spare time is urged to select def
mite tasks and prepare herself for
them. Leadership is the topic often.
est suggested. it being stated, that
therein lies the greatest need.
Presbyterian Educational System.
Presbyterians are developing an ed
vocational 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, August % to 30 Be-
tween these dates they have con-
ferences at Lebanon, Tenn; Storm
Lake, Iowa; and Hollister, Mo.
Their aim is to raise up missionary
leaders in Presbyterian churches.
Their numbers are steadily increas-
ing at each conference, while to the
number of conferences one is added
each year.
Spiritual Work of Chautaugua.
Chautauqua will much enlarge it's
spiritual work this year, beginning
with the first week of July. The
Hall of Christ will be utilized as the
centre, and the director will be
Professor Smaller Matthews of Chi
cago Chautauqua has always stood
for religious propaganda, but during
the last few years strictly education
al subjects have developed greatly
through large enrollments. This year
will see the strengthening of the
spiritual side, in part to meet the
demands created by the Men and
Religion and similar movements.
New York Laymen.
New York laymen, the younger
element among them, all Protestant
bodies, inaugurate a new conference
this season, beginning in June and
continuing until September. There
are 10000 young men in the working
organizations of the churches of the
metropolitan district, including north
ern New Jersey, and there has been
until now no summer conference
within their reach. The experiment
is to be tried of barring women,
save as they accompany their hus-
bands or brothers. 1t is the first in
America to limit attendance to young
men exclusively. and it's experiences
will be keenly watched, it is said
Its hopes are based chiefly upon the
larger interest of laymen as shown
by the Men and Religious Movement
For Education Of Mature Men.
The Secretarial Council of Lay
mems Missionary Movements plan
three summer conferences for mis-
sions this year. One is to be at Lake
Geneva, Wis, for. Chicago section,
another at Niagara Falls for Ohio,
New York and Canada, and third
at Mt Gretna for the east. These
conferences are for the education of
mature men as missionary leaders in
the churches. Last year about a
hundred such men were trained, and
went back home to teach missions
in classes and to speak and plan as
leaders in communities. In these