New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-10

ARRANGEMENTS are now complete Tor the
most Commemorative use Of laymcn In mis-
sionary Sunday school and social service
work OF the churches I'm New YORK ever
known in this city These plans are 10
30 into operation with the opening OF &C
tive work I'm October. PTesbYterians. Fps
copalians. Baptists, Methodists and other
denominations have Joined In the move
ment
Primarily the idea is educational. The
Federation of Churches will carry out the
institute plan started last spring by the
Men and Religion campaign and VIII IN
Guide Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well
as Manhattan and the Bronx In the work.
4 chief aim Of these institutes Will ne the
instructinC Of mature men. SUCH AS
make W sessions and vestries. The insu-
tutes will be held IN central locations. and
men Of different churches asked to unite
in them. Well known leaders In missions
Bible work evangelism and social service
will give lecture courses.
Another part Of the plan as now agreed
upon nearly approXimates school This
school will be in two parts, and there VIII
be one normal training school for teachers
in all boroughs. When teachers have been
trained they viii go into the churches 10
give courses Of instruction. This inStruc-
ton will he more particularly for young
men and emphasis will be laid upon the
training Of young men 10 teach Sunday
school classes. Missions and social ser
vice and Christian history Will he covered
in the courses
Students enrolled in the classes Will be
asked to pay tuition. aud certificates Of
efficiency will be awarded. especially 10
the salaried instructors Already large
number Of local schools have been de-
termined upon. The normal school Will be
an enlargement Of the one that has been
in existence at Christ Church, Broadway
and list street for three winters
In Brooklyn. and 10 as wide an extent
in Manhattan as possible, Bible classes
are 70 be formed in churches and Bible
teachers provided for them This Bible
work will be in charge OF committee
on Bible study. The effort is to be made
to establish at least one hundred new
Bible classes in as many churches this
winter and supply trained teachers for
them.
As FAR as at present planned the work
covers official and unofficial effort. The
official is represented by the organization
already described and the unofficial by
the Montenac movement, whose Green
wood Lake project has been carried 10
success this summer.
A distinct part Of the plan is the using
Of laymen after they have been trained.
The old way was 10 arouse man and
leave him 10 find his own work. Usually
ne found nothing to do. and his interest
tagged. In London thousands Of laymen
are employed in Christian work, always
as voiunteers-thst is, without salaries.
IN Wesleyan Methodism alone fully 1--WE
thousand laymen go out annually from
London into the southern part Of England
10 preach the Gospel
Behind this New York awakening OF
Christian laymen, helping it in person and
IN money. are J. Pierpont Morgan Fran
els Lyndc Stetson. James Il Post. Ar
telnas Ward. Dr. Samuel Murtland, Frank
Harvey Field William :. Bennett. General
Horatio {. King. Judge T. Z. Crane, Pro-
fessor McIane. of Columbia; Colonel Will
lis J.. Ogden William jay Schieffein. X.
Fulton Cutting James N. Speers Eben
r. Olcott. and others. Organizations OF
young men enlisted in the work include
the Methodist and Presbyterian brother
hoods. the Christian Endeavor, the Ep-
worth League the Brotherhood Of 81. An
drew, the Seabury Society. the Baptist
Federation. the Lutheran Inner Mission
and the Disciples Missionary Union.