Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-26
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
Second Worlds Conference to Meet
in Portland in June.


Interest is rapidly developing in
the Second Worlds Christian Citizen
ship Conference to be held in Port
land, Ore, June 29 to July 6, this
year. Preparations for this world
assembly have been in progress for
more than two years. Speakers from
each of the principal countries of the
world are to have places on the pro-
gram. Among these are Ng Poon
Chew, native of China, but now in
this country; DR.. S. Motoda of Tokyo,
Japan; Dr.. Armenag Haigazian of
Konia, Asia Minor; DR.. Charles Merle
d'Aubigne OF Paris, France; Profess
sor Theophil Mann of Frankfort-on-
Maine, Germany; F. De Rougemont
of Neufchatel, Switzerland; DR.. R. ].
Patterson of Belfast, Ireland, and
John Lamond, B. D., of Edinburgh,
Scotland. America will be represent
ed on the program by many OF her
leading citizens, among them being
eX-United States Vice-President G. w.
Fairbanks, ex-United States Commits
sioner of immigration Robert Wat
chorn, and President Woodrow Will
son (affairs of state permitting).
Questions of vital interest to the
public, such capital and labor, pris-
on reform, Mormonism, social pur-
ity, immigration, intemperance, mar
riage and divorce, peace, the weekly
rest day, and the relation of public
education to morality and religion,
are to receive expert discussion at the
hands of those who have made a
special study of the same for years.
Sectional conferences will be held the
forenoons of the days of the week
that the world assembly is in session.
In the afternoons and evenings public
addresses will be delivered by speak
ers from this and foreign countries.
Commissions of from five to nine
members each, representing different
countries of the world, have been for
months engaged in investigating
from a world viewpoint each of the
subjects to be discussed at the sec
tional conference. These commits
sioners will report at the conference
the actual existing state of affairs as
they find them, with recommends
tions as to now, in their best judg-
ment, present conditions may be rem
edied.
A committee of seven is at work
on plan for the solution of world
problems with which government is
dealing and of very necessity must
continue to deal. This plan will out
line the principles of Christian citi-
zenship as they relate to the family,
church and state, as we'll as to in
ternational relations, and will also
set forth the Christian methods of
political action in the application of
these principles to governmental
problems. 1t will be given out as a
guide for all citizens laboring for the
uplift of humanity.
A local committee of one hundred
people in Portland is organized and
actively engaged in preparing to take
care of the thousands of delegates
and others who will be in attendance.
These attendants will represent the
various Christian bodies and moral
reform societies of our own and 9TH
er countries. Public meetings are
now being held in the United States,
especially in the western states, ad-
dressed by speakers from the east
representing the committee arrang-
ing for the approaching conference,
which is designed to be a sort of a
worlds clearing house for the mu-
tual exchange of practical ideas of
philanthropists, sociologists, educat-
ors, statesmen and other leaders of
Christian thought and action.