The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-12
PROMINENT NAN
TO APPEAR HERE
DR.. CLARENCE A. BARBOUR OF.
NEW YORK, SPECIAL sEcRETA.
nv OF INTERNATIONAL COM.
MlTTEE, Y. Nj. c. A. TO SPEAK
in FARGO MONDAY.

Dr.. Clarence A. Barbour of New
York, special. secretary of the Inter
national committee of Young Mems
Christian associations, will address q
meeting to be held under the
auspices OF the Agricultural college Y.
M. c. A. Monday night, Dec. Is, and
the local pastors association in the
First Baptist church at 7:45 .. m. His
address will deal with the great prob
lem Of religious life among the stu
dents of the city.
DR.. Barbour has come from New
York to give a special series Of ad-
dresses at the University of North
Dakota, where a great religious am
paign Is now being carried on among
the student body by the University
Young Mems Christian association. He
will spend the entire day Monday in
Fargo, OF his way back east, and In
addition to his publicF address or Mon
day night he will speak to g. specially
called meeting of the pastors asso-
citation of the two cities and also to a.
committee supper at the Agricultural
college Y. M. G. A, 80
MI. Barbour Is in great demand as
a speaker in the large universities
throughout the country, the calls up
on him in fact have been SO great that
he has been forced to turn down invi-
tations to speak at. series of meetings
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and Wisconsin. In view. Of this fact
the people of Fargo are fortunate in
having an opportunity to hear DR..
.Barbour~on the subject Of student life,
on which he is sc great an authority.
Formerly Dr.. Barbour was n Of
the leading pastors in Rochester, N.
Y, at the Lake street Baptist church,
and for the five years past has been
on the staff of the international COM
mittee. Two years ago when the Men
and Religion Forward Movement
swept the country DR.. Barbour was in
charge of one Of those three great
teams which visited some twenty-five
or thirty of our largest cities. In that
series Of ten-day campaigns from
coast to coast, DR.. Barbour's team was
received by tremendous audiences. of
men. All Of the big cities on the Pa
citic coast will long feel the powerful
effects Of those stirring campaigns.
The present season is no lighter in it's
calls on DR.. Barbour's time than for
mer ones, for in the past week he has
visited as many as four very prom1-
nent institutions, including the Naval
academy at Annapolis and West Point
Military academy. 49,
The men at the A. c.. will make
large preparations for his coming and
In his n will hold a special supper
in Ceres hall, where every active asso-'
citation worker will be present. And
at the big meeting in the city, which.
will be open to both men and women,
every person in Fargo who Is interest
ed in the moral and religious welfare
Of the great mass of student life In
this city will have a wonderful oppor-
tunity to hear a straight message from
Dr. Barbour when he comes next
Monday. Both student and city
Christian associations. are co-operat-
ing with the pastors association in
making this meeting. one of the great
churches are doing for the students
that has come in years. The meeting
will be open to all and no admission
Is to be charged.