New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-22
CHURCHES OF WORLD
UNITE FOR PEACE
PrOteStants to Hold Council
in Switzerland and Cath
Olics in Belgium.
FOUR-DAY SESSIONS
TO START AUGUST 2
Both Meetings Will Be Under
Auspices ard Financed by
Carnegie Fund.

Plans for a world church peace coun-
Gil, TO be held in Constance, Switzerland.
on August 2, and TO continue for four
days, the first affair OF It's kind in his
tory, were announced yesterday by Dr.
Frederick Lynch secretary of the Church
Peace Union. The union was founded In
February by Andrew Carnegie, and he
gave to it 100000 on theeame days, in
Liege, Belgium, conference of Roman
Catholics who are TO discuss the peace
question has been arranged for, under
the leadership OF Count Albert Apponyi,
the Hungarian statesman and peace advo-
cate.
Both meetings will be under the au-
spices of the Carnegie union. "With
view to. having these two meetings mark
an epoch in the advance toward interna-
tional peace" DR.. Lynch explained, "the
union has decided TO finance both This
carries out the idea Of the foundation"
Only members of the Protestant sects
will participate in the conference at
Constance. DR.. Lynch and other mem
bers of the union will sail on July %
Some OF those who have sgnihed their
intention OF going are the Rev. DR.. Will
lam Pierson Merrill, pastor Of the Brick
Presbyterian Church. of which Mr.. Car
negie's wife and daughter are members;
the Rev. Ernest Hamlin Abbott. Of THE
Outlook" Bishop Wilson, of this city;
Bishop Hamilton of Boston, and Bishop
Hendrix, OF Kansas City; Canon Doug
lass. of the Cathedral of St John the
Divine: the Rev. Charles l. Gilbert. ed
itor of "The Churchman"; DR.. William
Adams Brown, of Union Seminary; the
Rev. Walter Laidlaw, OF the Federation
of Churches; the Rev Charles S. Mac
farland and the Rev. Peter Ainslee. OF
Baltimore.
WeL known laymen who will attend in
clude Hamilton Holt, editor of THE In
DEPENDENT; DR. Sidney L. Gulick, Ed
win D. Mead and Judge Henry Wade
Rogers.
The British delegates will be recruited
largely from the English Church Peace
League, of which Allen Baker, NJ. F., Is
the head. Others from England will be
Bishop BOYD Carpenter. the Rev. X. D..
Campbell, John Clifford, Canon w. Moore
Eide. of Worcester Cathedral; Dr. Robert
f. Horton and w. +. Dickinson, of Lon
don.
The German delegates will include Dr.
Spiecker, adviser to the Kaiser; Dr. Dry
ander court pastor in Berlin, and DR..
Sigmund Schultze, the Kaiser's pastor at
Potsdam, who is secretary of the German
! Peace Council.
There will be delegates from Norway,
Russia, Belgium Italy and Austria, as
well as the Swiss pastors, who started
the movement for the conference.
This years conference is Intended pr.
Lynch said, as a preliminary step toward
a church peace congress Of monumental
proportions in 1916, the year of the Hague
Peace Conference. 1t is understood that
that congress will in all probability be
under the auspices of the Carnegie union.
The Church Peace Union was organized
with the intention that the clergy be used
as a medium toward the bringing about
of arbitration OF international disputes.
The Rev. David II. Greer, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese OF New
York. is president. Cardinals Farley and
Gibbons are members.