New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-17

In the opinion Of clergymen and
church officials behind the movement
Monday will probably mark the climax
in a months preliminary campaign OF
united prayer TO bring about revival
Of religion in New York City. Pastors
and their assistants, church officials,
members OF missionary boards and
committees, Y. W. c. A. and Y. NJ. {. A.
secretaries and religious workers rep
resenting all Protestant denominations
in the city have been invited to attend
the fifth conference of prayer in the
Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 4
p. m.
The steering committee Of which the
Rev. Charles Whitefeld Welch, pastor
of the Park Avenue Presbyterian
Church is chairman, will meet at 8
o'clock to formulate plans for the fur
therance of the campaign. To date the
leaders have created as little ma
chinery Of organization as possible. =,
For the last month clergymen and
church officials have been meeting
every Monday afternoon for prayer.
Only thirty attended the first meeting,
held in Mr. Wclch's church as his
initiative. From week to week the at
tendance has grown as interest in
creased, until last Monday in the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist Church, of which
the Rev. DR.. Charles A. Eaton is pastor,
more than two hundred gathered to
hear about the revival.
That responsibility for a religious
awakening rests first on the clergy
men themselves has been the keynote
of the preliminary meetings. The move
ment is not committed to or in opposi-
ton to Billy Sunday, although several
of the Protestant clergymen on the
steering committee are known 10 be
advocates of Sundays campaigns. Such
matters as choosing leader, arranging
for huge evangelistic meetings IN dit-
ferent parts of New York, and Great
ing an organization big enough to ar
range and finance such city-wlde cam
paign have been subordinated to the
task of stimulating n UNIFIED, prayeriul
interest among all Protestant churches
in the movement.
at had a modest beginning" says
Mr.. Welch, "but | see tremendous pos
sibilities in the projected revival. We
members Of the steering committee get
more enthusiastic over it every day.
Such a religious awakening as New
York has never seen is in the air, al
ready to become reality, If the min
listers and church people want It,
Episcopal Leaders to Meet.
Episcopal churches Of New York are
aroused over missionary conditions,
espe ,ially those having to do with New
York's responsibility for Christian
work throughout the West, among Ind
ians and negroes, and in foreign fields.
During the last seven years their So
cietv supported for this work has
fallen behind in receipts, until dchcit
had accrued Of more than S25O,OOO.
This wa. covered for the most part by
a reserve fund, but that fund had 10
be replaced. Moreover, owing TO war
and other conditions it is feared that
another 100000 will be added to the
deficit this year.
Next TUESDAY night, in Synod Hall
of the cathedral, Episcopal leaders VIII
attempt to call their church TO color:
The plan is similar to that carried
forward at this time in other cities.
Bishop Greer will preside, and the ad-
dresses are to be made by the Rev. DR..
William T. Manning. rector Of Trinity
Church, and George Gordon Battle, one
to speak on the opportunity, the other
how to organize to meet It.
Details of the rally are in the hands
of a diocesan missionary committee,
which expects that more than $50
churches will have delegates present.
The aim is 20 carry into each church
practical suggC stions how people may
help to meet this problem. New York
is the largest Episcopal diocese, and
New York churches give each the larg-
est sums for world work. Hardly a
church in the world gives so much as
St. Thomas's. some $4,000 a year; st.
Bartholomew, Incarnation, Grace and
Trinity and its chapels. The gifts of
the latter are not, it Is stated official