El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
PLANS FORMULATED To PRESERVE
FRUITS OF RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT
Many Church Organizations Unite To Push General
Church Work Along All Lines simultaneously
Present Status Of Unity One Of Leading Themes
Archbishop BonzanO, New Apostolic Delegate,
Arrives In The United States For Duty.

Proposals to conserve fruits of the
men and religion forward movement
are numerous. The federal council
of churches the laymens missionary
I1ovaroent the missionary eQucaLoA
movement. and the brotherhoous ~ . a. -
1ious religious bodies are put1lu5 -
plans Some of them are Llis- te e.--3
IoudIv that they are the Logical Dsile-
ficiaries, and ought 70 De eliii-S1
than some others ,7,-.,,es.
not surpassed in the CVlLililS- -
world held a meeting before the Coll.
-servatiOn congress ADJOURNED, ~ -
together representative OF lie 49,
erhoods. the Sunday schooI ISSUE 80 Is
and others composing tue tusH 90 - -,
gion movement, ana elected us -,
president. bishop Hendrix OF the sLe 5.--.-1
odise cnur5h. south. chairman % " '-'
IL calls q Joint committee 49,, -,.-,,
The joint committee win LHe +se,r a
ell secretary as its own, Yo!eu ilse-- a
clearing house. and decided 10 co. e.
conference OF all organizations dllliOS1
at once The thee men enpo We 81 - ~
arrange such conference are lHe --S
Dr C6as ( mcfarland, o. the council
the Rev Dr. Clarence A Barbour, "a
the InternaslOna Y NJ {. A. anu = =
~ Wade Hicks OF the missionary yc~-
cation movement It IS s,atS0 -
such a conference Will be held next
month, probably TO open the season -
Silver Bay on Lake George .
The laymens missionary mo NeI.4ellL
over .he name Of its general seer tals
J. CamnbeU White, issues cali 1ot
1000, 900 men who shall enter upon a
adequate missionary campaign il- ~
churches OF North America It ueClal =
such number to be not loo laAs ~
compose the 200. 900 missionary com
mlttees. and il calls upon missionary
leaders everywhere TO ally themselves
with the movement
Reversing its position in the past
the movement says these lOOO,eov men
can lead the churches to evanSeII1e
America and the world in this EeheI-
alton Before the men ana Le4le IN
movement came in the laymen mis-
soinary movement had not Included Jne
evangelizatiOn of America IN us pro-
gram 1t now announces Jnal IdllS oo
conventions are 10 be held IN the mt
ed States within the next few months
under its auspices
Summer schools east and west are
issuing invitations to layInen aroused
BY the men and religion movement 70
attend them, and prepare for larger ali
around service. Key men IN lle tY
cities where conventions nave peeh
held within the last eight months are
being sought out, ana circulars OF an
sorts are going 10 them
One day a show OF hands was made
whether delegates were ministers or
laymen. and IL was found that two
thirds of all present were ministers
Asked further about their status, Z
was found that not all Of the congress
delegates were in the active DaStOrdIe
Of churches. Many were educators Y.
NJ c. A. secretaries. salaried Sunday
school workers, missionary secretaries,
and Others whose profession is religious
Work.
Andrew Carnegie departed from his
rule against contributions 10 sucn
auses. and gave SZ.500 10 The expenses
OF the recent men and religion CON
eress. These. expenses We're handled
IN. the same budget with the New Y ork
local campaign. It was the size OF
this budget. national and local, that
caused the change of the congress
from Washington to New York. The
budget in question was $4,000, but so
liberal was New York that IL sub
scribed, including the underwriting
guarantees, $4,000. The New York
Capalgn cost $1,000. the congress S16,-
OO0 ana there was spent in newspaper
advertising and Illuminated signs on
the top OF tail buildings, a little more
than SO, 600.
John D. Rockefeller. r.. not only
gave literally Of this expenditure him
SELF but he entered upon the active
work OF the finance committee and in
duced others TO contribute. The out
come is that the congress came through
with all bills paid
During the campaign that began last
October at Minneapolis and ended last
month IN New York, 1852 meetings
were held. There we're $3.50 addresses
given. Upon all meetings there at
tended Sl4es.000 persons