Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-05
RALLY FOR BIBLE STUDY,
HCHT-DAY WORK PLANS
Features Of Men and Religion
Forward Movement in Prot
estant Churches.

A Bible study rally. generally increasing
| attendance in Washington Sunday
schools and a wide distribution Of pro-
grams for the eight-day campaign to
| begin shortly made up the chief activi-
| ties Of tho men and religion forward
movement yesterday. Leaders Of the
| Bible study committee last night said
that the objects for which the day was
set apart had been attained.
Rev. II. 8. Pinkham, chairman of the
| committee, stated that although no re-
ports showing actual attendance figures
had been received from the churches.
there had, nevertheless, been very con-
siderable increases in the Sunday school
attendance of men and boys. particularly
in the Mount Pleasant section. The after
! noon rally at Calvary Baptist Church
was well attended, number OF large
| classes being present and seated to-
gether, and the distribution of the pro-
grams was carried on so expeditiously
| that it was complete by the time the
morning church services began.
Strive for Record Breaking Total.
| Churches and Sunday school classes
everywhere throughout the District CO.
operated with the men and religion for
in Bible classes a record-breaking total
Had the day been warmer 1t is believed
| that the general attendance through the
| city would have been doubled. In spite
of the unfavorable weather conditions
excellent results were obtained. Imman-
uel Baptist Church. Second Baptist
Calvary Baptist Church showing espe-
cially creditable gains
The church last named was we'll filled
| at the afternoon mass meeting, when
! Representative Dick Thompson Morgan
| addressed the classes on the Importance
| of church and Sunday school work. Mr..
| Morgan. who is now serving his second
| term In Congress as representative
from the second Oklahoma district, is
president Of the Oklahoma State Sunday
| School Association and member OF the
executive committee Of the State Y. NJ.
c. A, and has taken part in many re-
| ligious and social service activities in his
| own state. He stated that the great
progress Of the United States i'm the last
| fifty years was due In large part to the
industry of it's citizens. and said that
the church could not share in the gen.
| eral prosperity of the country unless its
members were to work in its behalf with
| the same industry that they display in
| their commercial activities.
| Plans for the eight-day campaign Of
| the men and religion forward movement,
to be held February IL to IS, were an
nounced at the afternoon rally by Will
liam Knowles Cooper, vice chairman OF
| the committee in charge of the arrange
ments. Programs announcing the va.
rious meetings and speakers were also
| distributed by twenty volunteers in auto
mobiles during the morning to every
Protestant church in the city, many or
the workers assembling at the head
quarters of the movement at daybreak to
| unpack the programs and make them
ready for the automobile parties.
Features of Eight-Day Campaign.
Institutes dealing with the various
phases of the men and religion forward
movement will be among the chief fea-
lures of the eight-day campaign. Social
service authorities and religious leaders
will give talks from 4:3O to 6 o'clock on
the week days Of the campaign, the
speakers and places Of meeting being as
follows: Boys Work" Arthur +. Cotton
of Buffalo. in Mount Vernon M. E.
Church; Evangelism and Community
Extension, Rev. Arthur ]. Smith Of New
York. in New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church: Missions, Lyman Pierce. in
Service" DIR. Devine, editor of the Sur
vey, and Prof. jerks of Cornell. in west
entry Epiphany parish hall: Bible
Study Speaker not announcedl; in st !.
Eugene Camp, in First Congregational
lChurch.
Tuesday and Wednesday of the cam
paign week will be convention Gays,
when delegates from outside cities and
towns will attend mass meetings con-
Quoted by the visiting experts.
Co1ored Organizations to Meet.
The first public meeting of the colored
organizations cooperating with the white
organizations in the men and religion
forward movement will be held at Lin
coin Temple, corner 18th and r streets
northwest, this evening, beginning at
o. clock
Rev. Sterling y. Brown and Rev. Will
liam Wallace McCary will conduct the
exercises in Bible studies. DR.. W. P.
Thirkield and Rev. NJ. w. Clair will speak
on missions: Rev. j. H. Randolph and
Rev. Samuel L. Corrothers will give
demonstrations on evangelism, and Prof.
Jesse Lawson will speak on Some SOcio-
logical Conditions at the National Capt.
tai" Preceding the public gathering,
there will be meeting of the finance
COMMITTEES, at the same place.
| Rev. A. c. Garner, one of the executive
secretaries, will be present to give in
structions relative to the work Of the
| forward movement.