The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09

held In America, and is to try out a
plan that is held by many to be an
improvement upon the city wide CAM
paigns thought ~ the laymens mission
airy and men and religious movement
Instead of general committee, with
headquarters in distant city, after the
manner of the movements named, a local
organization has been formed In the
Bronx, pledged to make the weeks an an
nual event.
Unlike the movements mentioned, the
meetings are held in each church, with
out any central meetings. Not missions
merely, but Sunday schools, social serv-
ice, welfare of boys-all causes to which
Christian churches address themselves,
are included No outside speakers are
imported and three, direct campaigns,
local to each church, are planned One
Is a pledge to live better life during
the year to come-to try to do so, that
is Another is a canvass of the local
field and recastirg of memberships in
all organizations. And the third is a
settling up of old financial obligations
and the making of new ones parish sup
port and missions. The expectation Is
that 5000 to 10000 persons will be person
ally seen and instructed, number far
in excess of any central meetings, While
the expense, when compared with the
movements referred to, and their city
wide campaigns, Will be negligible. The
Bronx experiment is watched with inter-
est by many Christian leaders
Miss Jessie woodrow Wilson, daughter
of President Wilson, is to be speaker
at the national convention of the Young
Women's Christian association meeting
in Richmond, April 9 to IS. Sessions are
to be held In historic st. Paufs church,
where Davis and Lee were communicates
fbo x1yaG al
ship when news of the surrender of the
latter reached him. The Rev. DR.. Cor
nelius Woelfkin of New York, is TO give
the opening address of the convention,
and Prof. Graham Taylor OF Chicago,
Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago and
Miss Grace III. Dodge of New York Will
be among other speakers.
The feature of the convention is to be
a pageant on Saturday afternoon, to take
place in the new Bryan park, just turned
over to the city. Miss Lotte Clark of
Boston is to manage it, and many fea-
lures of class day pageants or parades
at vassar, Smith and Wellesley colleges
will be produced with the added novelty
Of girls from foreign lands. in novel cos
tunes. The pageant is to have four parts,
the student the country, the city and the
foreign work of the association.
Closer cooperation between Young
Womens and Young Mems Christian as
socations sex education, the development
of a national travellers aid service, and
the teaching of girls to save money are
some of the topics of the convention.
Young Women's Christian association
conventions of this character meet every
other year only, and are primarily for
the leaders. However, there come TO
them steadily increasing number OF
young women, and SO the convention pro-
grammes are changing to suit their needs.
President Stewart of Auburn has been
elected chairman of a joint commission
of theological seminaries and the Fed
eral Council of churches to recommend
| a course of study for prospective protes-
| tant ministers in social and industrlai
problems. Besides the seminary members
! of the commission, Director Divine of the
School of Philanthropy, Prof. Carvaer of
| Harvard, and the Rev. washington Glad
den are members representing the coun-
| cil
| The social service commission OF the
council is CO. operating with the American
association for labor legislation in having
| introduced into all state legislatures this
| spring a uniform bill to secure one day S
rest in seven for all Industrial workers.
| Church committees throughout the coun-
| try are being brought into line to assist
| the passage of the bills in their legis-
| latures.
The council. with it's 100000 Protes.
tants behind It, sent letter for President
| Wilson on his inauguration day mention-
| ing the fact that the President begins
his first four years at almost the same
| time the council begins its second four.
1t pledges its forces to work with MN
during these coming four years and espe-