The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-07
First Methodist Church Was Packed to the Doors by
 Audience of Men
EACH OF LEADERS
 SPOKE T MINUTES
Auxiliary Towns Convention Begins Today at Presbyterian Church. Czolgosz Used as Example
 of Wrong Training

Men from all parts of Birmingham gathered at the First Methodist church last night at 8 o'clock to give grand send off to the various district meetings that will be held the remainder Of the week. The auditorium of the large church was crowded to the doors with an audi ence made up entirely of men. Prac- tically all of the crowd that had attended the institutes at the First Presbyterian and First Methodist churches attended the meeting while a large number of men who arrived too late for the institutes, stayed for the union meeting.
 II was announced at the opening of the meeting that each one of the seven ex- perts would address the assembly for seven minutes, speaking about his own particular line of work. Dr. Charles Sickle. dean of the visiting board, pre- sided and introduced the Rev. Allen A. Stoclxdale of the Union Congregation 5 church of Boston. Mass, as the first speaker. The Rev. Stoekdale explained l that he was not 8 regular member of the team, but was sort of a utility in- fielder" He spoke about the necessity of the movement and called for Big ger, Busier and Better Birmingham" He called on the ministers of the city to get behind the campaign. He said that the Men and Religion Forward Movement did not offer a more efficient salvation than the gospel of Jesus, but that it offered larger programme of service than the average church did
 Goodman Speaks
 The next speaker was F. s. Goodman who outlined his plan for conducting the institute Bible study for the rest of the week. Mir Goodman explained that his classes would be instructed on the Bible and pointed out how closely his branch of work was allied to the others
 The next speaker was H. F. Laflamme, instructor. of the institute on missions, who gave a brief outline of how the work would be carried on and issued a call for enthusiasm and interest in the different meetings.
 A. M Brunner, lecturer on "Commun- fly Extension,' made a plea for the working man. explained how some men could not. possibly attend church and
 
 these men and talking to them at their places of employment.
 Dr. Stetlze introduced R. A. Waite as former member of the American track team that competed in the Olympic games at Paris. MT. Waite came within one fifth of a second of tying the worlds record in the 22O yard dash. He is in- terested in Boy Work and made an eloquent plea in his short talk for the public to take more interest in the boy
 MT. Waite gave the case of Leon Czol- gosz, the assassin of President Mckinley as an excellent example of the stret boy who had received seant attention from the right source He stated that there were a great many atheist churches in America told how Czolgosz had attended one of these schools and had received the idea that there was no Christ. A boyhood ohum of the assassin attended a, small Sunday school and at the present time ls pastor of church in the Bohemian sec ton of the city of Cleveland Q,
 The Rev. w. E. Biederwof outlined his plan for conducting the institute on Evangelism" gave definition of the different kinds of evangelism and called for more individual evangelism"
 Biederwolf on Evangelism
 Rev. Biederwolf explained several methods of work. He said that the world could never be saved to Christ by the pro- fessional evangelist or the pastor unless the element of individual evangelism was given a chance. He stated that th church had not gained a particle in the last 10 years, while the rest of the world has been progressing rapidly.
 In introducing the different speakers Dr. stelzle said that the leaders of the Men and Religion Forward Movement had often been called insurgents. lie further said that the leaders were insurgents, striving for a modern and proper and q wider programme of service than the churches of today had. He also stated that it was impossible to blun socialism out but that the only way to get rid Of it was to destroy the foundations upon which the socialist faith is laid The audiece displayed great deal of enthusiasm at the remarks of the differ ent speakers and it is expected that the district meetings tonight will be well at tended
 The auxiliary towns convention com mences this morning at o'clock at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church and the | leaders are expecting about 200 out oi | town men to attend the convention. This convention will last all day today and tomorrow.
 The seven experts and about 100 con- mitteemenf met together yesterday after noon in the basement of the Methodist church and discussed plans for the re- mainder of the campaign.