The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-20
THE PASTORS UNION PLANS B|G REVIVAL Committee Appointed to
 Confer on Matter UNION MET MONDAY. Lively Discussion Caused by Resolu- ton Introduced by Mir. Cosby
 Asking That Interchurch
 Council Be Created
UNION MET MONDAY.

The Pastors union has, named a com mittee of Il ministers to confer with the evangelistic committee of the Men and Religion Forward Movement concerning the advisabiilty of holding a great re- vival meeting here next April. This acton was taken at the called session of the in- terdenominational confederation held yes terday morning in response to a request from w. NJ. Cosby chairman of the com mittee of 100 of the Men and Religion Forward Movement.
 The committee was nominated by trio composed of pr. l.. C. Branscomb, Dr. Preston Blake and Dr. J. s. Foster and was unanimously adopted by the general body as the official representatives in this matter. The following is the committee from the Pastors union: pr. A. R. Moore, Dr. J. T Phnket, pr. George Eaves, Dr. w. NJ Blackweder, pr. l. D. Steele, Dr. U. b, Mooney, pr. J. w. Johnson, pr. b. C. McVoy, pr. A. J. Dickinson, and Dr. S, r. Slaton. The general request to have the name of pr. l.. c. Branscomb was so insistent that it was so done and the union committee made a body of eleven.
 The session of the union yesterday morning at the First Methodist church was consumed for the main part in warm discussion participated in by the many pastors present and in the ruling on the letter of recommendations submit ted by MT Cosby. The president, Dr. L. Branscomh presided, and the secretary, the Rev. J. D. Ray, recorded the action of the assembly.
 Committee of Ten
 The following is the first section of the Cosby resolurion which was adopted:
 "Q) Relative to evangelistc meetings, would recommend that the Pastors union appoint a committee of ten to cooperate with the evangelistic committee of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, which committee is composed of ten, 10 arrange for any meetings that seem de- sirable."
 This was immediately acted upon in appointing a committee as given above.
 The second section, which follows, was also received with unanimous approval and a called meeting of the union was set for March l at the First Methodist church:
 v. Inat the PaStOrs union please take notice that it is the desire of Mir Fred B. Smith, manager of the Men and Re- llgion Forward Movement. to have a full meeting of the pastors of the city at 10 o'clock a. m., March 1. MT Smith will be in the city on March 1 and wants to meet with the pastors at 10 o'clock in their union meeting and we are arrang- ing for a luncheon to be largely attended at the noon hour and then at night MT smith will hold an evangelistc meeting at one of the theatres, to be announced later.''
 The third section, which furnished the cause of one of the liveliest cross de- bates indulged in by the ministers for some months past, because of the diver sity of opinions expressed, reads thus:
 '3. Relative to church council or inter- church committee, I would suggest that the church council inter-church com mittee be composed of the pastor and one layman from each church in the district, and two men from the Young Mems Christian association, and that these two from each of the churches in