The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-21
OPEN CONFERENCE
WITH BIG DINNER
Laymen's Missionary Movement
lnaugurates Training Confer
ence for Workers.
MORE THAN 400 PRESENT
Two Sessions Will Be Held To-
Day, and Big Mass-Meeting for
Men To-Morrow Afternoon.

More than 400 members of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement attended
the.anniversary dinner last night at the
Richmond Hotel. which inaugurated the
two-day training conference to prepare
for the united missionary campaign to
be conducted early next month in this
city. Sessions of the conference Will
be held this afternoon, tonight and to-
morrow afternoon In Centenary Meth
odist Church.
The conference opened officially with
devotional service at tho Young
Mems Christian Association at $3.50
o'clock when tho panty adjourned to
began at G:45 o'clock. oliver j. Sands,
chairman of the State executive com
mittee presided and addresses were
Edwin NJ. Poteat. president OF Furman
University. Greenville. S. c.: Professor
4. Il. Gaines. Lit. D.. field secretary
Campbell White. general secretary,
Laymen's Missionary Movement The
Invocation was pronounced by Rev. j.
\. bowman. D. D., and benediction by
Rev. William j. Young, D. ID.
The principal address was made by
Or. Poteat. who spoke on Socialism
or tho Kingdom" Socialism and the
Kingdom of God. the speaker said, were
the two modern Utopias. and the prin-
ciples OF the former lead up to the
realization of the Inter Socialism he
traced the growth of the propaganda
citing great statesmen and authors who
hdu curly proclaimed many OF Its prin-
ciples
Land, labor and capital, the three
great forces were likened by Or. Poteat
10 God, who created the land; indi-
Siduals who perform the labor. and So
clety which creates the wealth. Sub
tract what God has contributed and
, wnat society has contributed. and we
uted TO mankind, he said.
Don't Want Tightwnds.
What man Speut d,tr{pu rISo -
had; what he saved. he lost, but what
ne gave he takes beyond the grave.
I uilgh,twads are not wanted in our civi-
J. Campbell White spoke on "a New
Era In Missionary Finance" and told
airy work during the past decade The
annual contributions have more than
doubled 9 FOR foreign work and in spite
mas increased many times. Conditions
in many countries were shown, and the
need OF missionaries to carry on the
work was forcibly impressed on tho
audience.
Professor r.. T. Gaines. who has n
year leave OF absence from Richmond
of the conference The program for to-
day is as follows:
Centenary Methodist Church,
O'Clock, w. D. Duke. presiding--Scrip-
ture and prayer. Rev. l.. T. Wilson. D..
~; address address,; Pastoral beadership in
d. D., Danville; discussion. The Stimuli,
tnneous Every-Member Canvass" j.
Campbell White. leader.
s o'clock o. S. Morton, presiding
Scripture and prayer. Rev. John j.
Scherer, Jr.; discussion. dealing with
questions, objections and dihicuities
which will probably be met with BY
canvassers, j. Campbell White and Pro-
| lessor r.. Il. Gaines. leaders.
The conference will end with q huge
| mass-meeting for men tomorrow az
ternoon at $40 o'clock. oliver JaSands
Will preside. The following program
VIII be carried out:
Scripture and prayer, Rev. ]. Calvin
Stewart, ID. D.: address. Some Factors
In Church Efficiency" Professor r. Z.
Gaines; address, The Spiritual Value
OF the Every Member Canvass" j.
Campbell White; benediction.