Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-18

bring Ccnshrr if tE,y lid take tHt
| lead. One interesting fact is thai i
large number of men, not previously
! identified with the Christian church
entered enthusiastically into the car
paign. In one city, for eX9mple, ;he
! president Of the chamber OF commerce
was one of the most enthU1iasti1
participants. though he was not, At
the beginning Of the campaign, a
church member.
Success Varied
Success varied with varying con
ditons Ii seems to have been
strongest in the moderate siZed com
munIties. I'm one large city for eX
ample, at the evening mass meeting
thirteen meetings gathered AN aggre
gate of only about one thousand
while in smaller CITY Of about thirty
| thousand, gathering of over two
! thousand men came together on a Sun
day afternoon while at the same time
meetings for older and younger boy:
were being held. AS one inquiries If
the various cities, he finds a varied
estimate, but, in the main, those
pastors and laymen who got on tn
inside of it are almost invariably
sympathetic and enthusiastic, while
those who criticise are those who
were Indifferent to the campaign. |,
is, at present, too early to attempt t.
estimate the results. The real move
ment began at the close of the Con
servation Congress, and not at the
beginning of the campaign In eacl
city, in the nature of the case
little more could be done than L
leave a program, an impulse, and oh
jectives for continued service.
! while it, is difficult, with a cam
paign relating to so many cities anG
towns, and involving so many ele
ments, to give any very safe gener
aiities, in many cases where tn
movement fell short it was the faul
Of, or, at least, was on account Of thu
ministers. This, however, has Away
been true or all evangelism pastor
in local community and church have
always to some degree, more or les;
instinctiFely, resented the coming il
OF outsiders. In this case, it may have
been unfortunate that the term lex
pert" was bestoped upon the leaders
At any rate, the chief objection seem
ed to be that men outside loca
Ecomrnunity were not capable Of di
agnosing its conditions or prescriE
ing it's remedies. At the same time II
must not be denied that the move
mcnt and it's leaders had some of tn
defects common to all such move
ments. The chief of those WAS thu
common tendency to place the churc'
upon the rack, and sometimes, per
haps. to administer the third de-
gree" On the whole, however, these
modern evangelists did this far less
than the earliest eyangelists used tC
do. The danger at the present
moment is the common one of reac-
ton. The campaign, in the first
place, has tired out many OF the local
participants. The pastors are seeking
to. bring the churches back into the
more REGULAR channels of their work.
1t is to be hoped that in this the viz
media will BE found, and that the
forces engendered in the movement
will be themselves brought into the
regular order and activities Of the
church .4'.H
Many Cities at Work
correspondence with several hun
fred OF the main and auxiliary cities
shows a large number of communities
n which organized work for boys in
relation to the church is being vigor-
ously prosecuted, where, before the
campaign, no such work, existed.
ITfrT1 1c 0f oh
being addressed regularly by the
pastors and religious leaders of in
dustrial communities. while, previous
to the campaign, the work of the COM
munitY extension was limited to a
very few cities, and also limited in
those cities. If the Men and Religion
Forward Movement has done nothing
more than to bring great army of
pastors out Of their studies and away
from some of their pastoral calls into
the great shops at noon, 1t would have
Justified itself. Mission and Bible
study will probably not show the eff
fects in so marked a degree, and yet
hundreds Of churches will continue
this work Systematically while, previ-
ously, it was done in a more or less
haphaZard way. The work of social
service in each community has only
been begun, and it is at this point
that the greatest detectives were
created for the churches That it has
seriously and effectively raised great
public questions and has great com
munity effect, there is no doubt The
impeachment of mayor by a church
federation is both an illumination Of
its effect and sign OF things yet TO
come.
'Nhile, in accordance with i,
Solemn compact, the movement IiI
10: bring into existence any new ma
tiOnll organization, il has intensified
ahG unified the work of all denOminn-
tiOnal and observation-disclosures organ
cations and movements which partiCl-
p1ted either dirCC tly or indirectly in
L..
Zone Of the first tasks sh0uld h..
that Of arranging for cooperation no.
tween the various interdenOm!natiOT
organizations which have participated
III the movement, or been Influenced
Y it. The campaign has greatly in