The farmer and mechanic., 1913-01-14
Deputations of Many Kinds to
Cross Seas
WAR HURRlES ROMANEVENT
Sixteenth Centennial OF the -Adop-
ton OF Christianity by
Constantine
(RT THE. RELIGIOUS KAMBlf-It.]

With the circulars Of this years
Official foreign tours by religious
bodies before him, an observer could
scarcely call Christianity provincial
| The cosmopolitanism OF present-day
religion Is strikingly shown by the tact
that at least five notable pilgrimages
over seas are arranged for the present
year. and two OF these will girole the
globe. The Protestants and the Cath
| Olics alike are to show their lnterna-
! tiOnaI interests and relationship py
| celebrations that will take hundreds. |
| if not thousands OF Americans across
| one or more oceans.
| In Rome next fall will be celebrated !
the sixteenth centennial Of~the formal
adoption of :. Christianity as the re- |
ligion Of the Roman empire by the
| Emperor Constantine, he Of I'm hoe
signo vinces' fame, whose name is
still borne by Constantinople.
The Sunday schools Of the world
will assemble in International cOnven-
ton in Zurich next July and two
thousand Americans are expected to
be present. The Men and Religion
foreign deputation, led by Fred +.
Smith and Raymond Robbins. sails
from San Francisco on January 18th
for Japan, China, the Philippines,
Australia, South Africa and Europe.
Two large popular deputations will
be taken to the Orient by the Baptist
Board of Foreign Missions, in COM
memoration Of the Judson centennial.
The Pan-Presbyterian Alliance will
call together representatives Of the
Presbyterian faith at Aberdeen in
July and special steamer will take
, the American delegates. In addition
to these tours the Laymen's Mission
ary Movement IS considering an en-
! largement of it's plan and practice for
the sending OF laymen around the
I world to Investigate missions, and the
!. Y. NJ. c. A. deputation, led by DR..
/. John r Mott, who also represents the
/; Allied Missionary Societies Of the
q World, is at present in the Orient.
8 Light on History from the War.
Il The centering Of civilizations at
s tention upon Constantinople and the
8 regions Of the Apostolic Church has
8 quite generally quickened interest in
the Christian history Of this part OF
o the world. especially as the present
# war is fundamentally religious in
Il character. From the standpoint OF
g the special council appointed by Pope
IS Plus x to arrange for the celebration
II in Rome this fall of the sixteen cen
q turies of Christianity as the faith OF
'r the Roman empire, the war has beer
L
popular interest in what might other
wise have been purely scholasti,
,e and historic event.
=: Pilgrims from all parts Of tn,
80 -. world are expected in Rome for thi
- - celebration, and the dramatic figur
at Of Constantine, the first Christian EN-
81 " perOr Of Rome, whose vision Of th
IN cross and the legend. I'm hoe sign
q vinces." has given common phras
all to many languages, will bulk large
in than ever in the popular ina ginatior
,ts Events are conspirhg to aid the pub
nd lie to think of religion in broade
IN terms.
ny Shiploads OF Sunday School Folk.
ill In no one direction is this educatio
'er In lnternatiOnalism proceeding NOR
in pOtently than in the Sunday school
of and young peoples societies, Chris
tian EndeavOr was the first to exa
ng the idea Of great conventions on 70,
lon eign shores, bringing together Chris
for tians Of all lands. The World Sunda
the School Union has successfully follow
ma ed this plan with conventions at Iol
ere don, Jerusalem, Rome, St. Louis ar
10 Washington Now the seventh wor
aye convention is scheduled for Zuric
sly Switzerland. July SIS. and the Sul
a LOT day school leaders say that there w
o,'s be at least two thousand delegat
@ ous from the United States alone.
day o++a.a, AAoHloe e
ave school does things on a big sea
,ese Prior to the Zurich convention the
es, will be many foreign tours Of Sund
and Scuooi "olheis' ihCiu0lhg one Whl
day VIII ehcircie the elODe. Already t
ON ouhuay ScHooi ieduerS OF all Ian
the nave oeeH making provision for t
celebration Of Sunday. July 18th,
me- World Sunday School Day, and t
to literature is being put into practica
1890 all the tongues OF the earth T
1t president OF the World Sunday Scht
:" Association is DIR. George W. Raii