The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-08

Many Washington leaders are planning
to attend some of the summer confer
ences for Christian workers. which have
increased so in numbers at fully $500
young men and women of America will
spend their vacations at places where
they will have religious meetings anc
study hours, will hear noted speakers
and will combine with these opportuni
ties seasons of recreation. Three in foul
of the number are women, a few young
and nearly all unmarried women in COM
Portable financial circumstances Others
are college students, with a small
sprinkling of laymep from the churches
The number of these laymen is, however,
increasing slowly, as more work is found
in the churches for them. The Christian
associations, the chautauquas, the mis-
sionary societies, and the brotherhoods
plan most of these summer meetings.
Educational work is the feature that is
most prominent and growing. Half the
questions coming into Christian legisla-
tive bodies meeting this way have been
discussed. thrashed over, and decisions
reached at such conferences. Bodies most
active in promoting the summer assem-
blies are the Presbyterian. Congrega-
tional, Methodist. and Baptist. and of
more recent years the Roman Catholic on
Lake Champlain, and the Episcopal at
Cambridge.
NorthfeId Series.
The conferences at Mortified, Mass,
begin soon after the Mortified Seminary
commencement, June 40. The first will
be the student conference June 20-29, and
then in quick succession the young
woman's conference. July %: the sum-
mer school for foreign missionary socie-
ties, July l0-l7; the home missionary
conference, July 1924; the summer school
for Sunday school workers, July 1926,
and the general conference for Christian
workers, August liz.
Some of the speakers already secured
are DR.. John r. Mott. of Montclair;
DR.. Robert Z. Speer. of Englewood; Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery, of Roches-
ter; Rev. J. Stuart Holden. of London;
Rev. John A Hutton. of Edinburgh
Rev. A T. Robertson. Of Louisville: Rev.
Charles Inglis, Rev. Len G. Broughton,
II London Malvin Trotter. DR.. John
Daniel Jones Rev. Robert F. Y. Pierce.
Of New York. and DR.. pG. Campbell Nor
gan. Of London.
student and CITY Y. VI. {. 4.
The Young Mems Christian Association
is TO have two kinds of conferences.
The one at Silver Bay. Lake George. in
August. will be for the training OF asso-
ClatiUual workers in Industrial. physical,
army. navy, and railroad lines, and the
other kind will he for students and will
he held at many centers All will have
the advantage CT the leadership of DR..
Mott who is just back from world tour.
The World Student Christian Federation
held its tenth conference at Lake Mohonk
on June =
The student conference this summer
are: For colleges in New England and
New York. Mortified. June 20 to ~; COL |
leges in Middle Atlantic States. Eagles !
Mere. Pc. LIME - to -: those in South !
eTn States at Black Mountain, y. G., !
June Il to :: in Southwestern States !
Winslow. Ark. June l3 to %; colleges in |
Indiana. Illinois. Michigan. Minnesota, ]
and Iowa al Lake Geneva. June Is TO %: |
IN the Rocky Mountain section at Estes |
Park, Colo. June 10 to 49, and in Mon |
tGaa. Washington. British Columbia, and |
Oregon at Columbia Beach, Oregon. June |
II TO .. Colleges in these districts elect |
representatives from Y. N. c. As to !