The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-31
Last Evenings Event of Lay
mems Missionary Move
ment Program Was a Sue
cess in Every Particular.
DELEGATIONS FROM
NUMBER OF CITIES
More Than 600 Persons Were
Admitted After Banquet
Inspiring Talks Made at
Today's Sessions.

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Amid flags and slogans of the
worlds missionary workers of every
denomination, assembled here from
practically every station of the earth,
many persons interested in missionary
work attended the Laymans mission
ary movement banquet held at the
Coliseum last evening.
The speaking and success of the ev-
ent was very pleasing to the large
gathering and particularly to the local
committees. There were 720 men seat
ed at the banquet tables and more than
900 men and women came to hear the
speeches of J. Campbell White of New
York father of the movement, John
w. Wood of New York, and F. B. Fish
er also of New York and Rev. c. H.
Bandy, missionary in India.
Among the guests of honor of this
city who were seated on the platform
were DR.. D. w. Stevenson, executive
chairman, Timothy Nicholson, vice
chairman, e. NJ. Haas, treasurer, Ar
thur Smith, secretary, Rev. E. G. How
Parker and Rev. J. S. Lightbourn.
Timothy Nicholson was introduced as
the grand cid man" Of Richmond and
after a short address introduced Mr..
White, the main speaker of the even
ing. Mr.. White spoke on THE World
for Christ in this Generation"
From Divers Cities.
The majority Of the men who at
tended the supper live within a radius
Of Atty miles of this city. Delegations
rom Maffun. Muncie, CanbFidge-City,
Fountain City, Milton, New Castle,
Boston, Lewisville, Dublin, Centerville.
and Hagerstown. Dayton, O., and New
Paris, O., were among the largest.
Much of the success of the event
last night is attributed to the excel.
lent work of the committee who had
the supper in charge. Dr. A. L. Bran
camp and Henry Deuker acted as the
active committee which arranged for
the banquet. The work Of the Woman's s
auxiliary society of the Young Mems
Christian Association was greatly ap-
preciated by the officials who had
charge of the movement More than
100 women and girls had charge of pre-
pairing the supper and serving it.
Decorations Of Hall.
The hall was appropriately decorat-
ed with maps, charts and slogans of
missionary work. Maps of the world
were posted about the Coliseum show
ing where missionary movement is
spreading and in what foreign fields
the non-believer is being converted to
Christianity. American flags and JAP
anese lanterns were placed above the
tables.
A large representative body of the
students of Earlham college attended
the meeting as did members of the
faculty.
The invocation was rendered by Rev.
J. s. Lightbourn of the st. Pauls
Episcopal church. Following the sing
ing of Onward Christian Soldiers"
the program of the evening was car
ried out.
A "Friendiy" City.
The talk on "The World of Christ in
This Generation" by J. Campbell
White, in part, was as follows:
Il assume that l am in the friend
gratulate your community and the Sec
retaries, Mr.. Harms and Mr.. Michel,
who, by their energy made possible
this splendid gathering. 1 think we
ought to have a petetition of this
every year for the next ten years. It
is a great thing to get together, when
We find how much alike we are, how
much We can help each other by COM
mon experiences and common aspira-
tions. Men of so many different COM
munions taking part in this session
and every session of this convention,
and yet all feeling that we are one in
our attitude toward Christ and one in
our desire to see Christ made King OF
the World 1t wouldn't be hard to
work up a convention next year. if
you men here decide to register now
and bring 700 men with you.
There are two possible interpreta-
tions of what Christ meant when He
said Go We into all the world and
make disciples of all nations The
first Interpretation, Christ meant us to
do something in the way of spreading
the Gospel. He wants us at least to
take up a collection, but would not
like us to strain ourselves, if We had
some place else for our money. but We
will do a little, will let our children
do little more and our grandchildren
do little more and some time, way
off in the future, the Gospel will
spread throughout all the world How
many of us would say, that is prac
tically our working theory"
Other interpretation.
"The other Interpretation of the
Great Commission is that when Christ
said preach the Gospel to every crea