The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
wake UP THE men
Nationwide Missionary Move.
ment on a Big Scale.
Topeka Convention in Audi
tOrium Oct. 31-NOv. 3.
EXPECT 1900 DELEGATES HERE
Seyenty-Five Similar Meetings
in United States.
Campaign to eliminate al
Washington, d. c., April 26.

| The Laymen's Missionary meeting
that is expected to bring fifteen hum
dred delegates from the churches of
the northern half of Kansas to Topeka
| Oct. 31-Nov 8 will be a part of a
gigantic nationwide campaign that
! will eliminate in a national mission
airy congress at Washington, D. c.
| April 26, 1916.
| Approximately 10000 churches are
| to be invited to senG delegates to the
| conventions of the National Mission
airy Campaign, to be held in seventy
| five of the leading cities of the United
States. beginning in October. All the
| important missionary boards and So
| cieties of the country, including those
carrying on home missionary work, as
well as the foreign mission organiza-
lions, are cooperating in the cam
paign, which is being organized by the
INSTRUMENTATION Laymens Mis-
sionary Movement of New York city.
Missionary Receipts Increased.
There was big meeting at Topeka
while the big LaymeE's Forward Mis-
| sionary Movement campaign was in
| progress The receipts of
the foreign missionary organizations
| of the country increased $5,S51,O0O,
| but the opportunities Tor the extension
of Christianity in nOn-ChriStian and
pagan lands, and the demands for the
extension of Christian work at home
agencies are unable to meet them.
Men More Active.
1t is a noticeable fact that the men
of the churches in Topeka and else
where have been more active since the
1909-191O campaign which was fol-
lowed some time later by the Men and
Religion movement. The gospel teams
that have been going out from Topeka
churches in the last year or more to
small towns of Kansas are an out
growth of the two movements.
D. o. Coe is the chairman of the
local committee in charge of the ar
engagements for the big convention at
Topeka next fall.
The Topeka meeting will start Sun
day, October 81. There will be a team
of experts on missionary and other
subjects as speakers.
Objects of Campaign.
The main detectives of the cam
paign as announced by the Laymen's
Missionary Movement officers are:
To consider new world conditions
and Americas enlarged responsibility.
To study the missionary progress of
recent years.
To secure the general use of the best
methods of missionary education and
finance.
To emphasize the adequacy of the
accomplishment of our whole mission
airy duty.
To inspire laymen to take their part
in the extension of the Kingdom of
Christ.
TO project plans looking toward the
gospel to meet modern social condi-
lions.
To increase the spiritual power and
efficiency of the local church.
Scope of the Campaign.
There are to be conventions in
thirty-seveE states and the campaign
will eliminate in a National Mission
airy Congress in Washington, d. c.,
April 26 to 80, 1915. Each convention
will last two to three days, and during
next autumn. winter and spring. two
and three conventions will frequently
be going on simultaneously in differ
ent states. The churches of popula-
ton of 100000 people in the rs
convention districts will be directly
influenced by the campaign and its in
direct influence will extend to every
part of the country.
The convention programs will in
clude addresses on and discussions of
all branches of Christian work abroad,
the problems of the home missions,
with probably spe eches on the effect
of the war on mission work by mis-
sionaries who have been recalled from
foreign lands.
While men only will be allowed to
register as delegates, women as well
as men may attend as visitors.