The Washington herald., 1915-09-05
WHAT CHURCH PEOPLE
ARE SAYING AND DOING

| Believing in the power of old-fashioneo
prayer. the leaders Of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement are asking thousands
OF men and women to pray for the Ma
tional Missionary Campaign. which opens
the first of its seventy-fve great conven.
tions for men in Chicago on October IA
individuals in private. families at theiI
family altars, pastors in their pulpits,
| attendants at church prayer meetings
| and groups specially organized are re.
quested to offer persistent prayer for the
campaign and all who participate in It.
\ The call to prayer which has been is
sued says the opportunities as we'll as
! the difficulties of SO great an undertak-
ing as the projected campaign of mis-
sionary inspiration and education. in
cluding the organization of seventy-five
conventions in the leading cities Of the
| United States. constitute an unusual
challenge to the faith of Christian men.
| Therefore prayer is regarded as the most
| important means of preparation for the
| hard work Of the campaign.
| Seven subjects for prayer are suggested
and they include the campaign as a
whole, the mission boards participating.
cities in which conventions are to be
held and the committees appointed to Or
ganize the conventions, the convention
speakers and the delegates to the conven-
ton.
An effort is to be made to get written
pledges from large numbers of men in
each of the seventy-five convention
cities, as we'll as men in other parts of
the country, to pray daily for the success
of the campaign. a promise to pray.
which is to be signed in duplicate. is
part of the call to prayer which has been
issued, the duplicate to be returned to
the mission board with which the signer
is AFFILIATED or to the Laymen's Mission
airy Movement.
s. w. Woodward. of this oity. is a
member of the executive committee of
the Laymen's Missionary Movement and
the eliminating feature of the National
Missionary Campaign which opens in
Chicago on October II will be a national
missionary congress, to be held in WASH
ington April $3.50, 1916
Karl Lehman, who stopped in WASH
ington a few days ago to confer with
local Christian Endeavorers, was on his
way from the headquarters of the So
ciety in Boston to take up his new duties
as Southern States secretary of Chris
tion Endeavor."
as field secretary of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor. travelling more
than 10000 miles over the United States
and has delivered more than 5000 ad-
dresses. The recent Chicago convention
initiated a special movement looking to
the development of the society in a
larger measure through the Southern
States. A so-called "All South Endeavor
extension committee was appointed.
I
who live in the South. divided among
the Presbyterian. Disciples. Methodist
and Christian bodies, the presidents of
all Southern State Christian Endeavor
Unions, with President Francis E. Clark,
Daniel A. Polling and John r. Clements
from the Boston Office. The committee
has elected the following-named officers:
Chairman. Rev. Ira Landrith. Nashville.
Tenn: vice chairman. Duncan B. Curry.
Jacksonville, Fla; secretary. Rev. L. E.
Brubaker. Ensley, Ala; treasurer. w.
Roy Berg, Dallas, Tex. Mr.. Lehman
took up his new duties September /. A
thousand new Christian Endeavor So
cieties in the South the next five years
is the goal of this movement. An ALL
South Endeavor convention is to be held
in Atlanta. Ga, in July. 1916. A new
Christian Endeavor publication. the Dixie
Endeavor, will make its appearance this
month.
William Howard Taft was elected pres
ident of the general conference of the
Unitarian Churches at the national con-
vention which closed in San Francisco
last week. He will hold Office for the en-
suing two years. Other officers were
elected as follows: Rev. Walter R.
Greenman. of Milwaukee. general secre-
tary; Percy A. Atherton. Boston, treas
urer. The new council: Rev. Minot
Simons Cleve. chairman; Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, New York: Rev. John
Rowland Lathrop. Brooklyn; Rev. c. S.
Dutton, San Francisco; Rev. Sydney B.
Snow, Boston: Charles f. Ware. Fitch
burg. Mass: Mrs Clause L. ellison. We'll
lesley. Mass; Rev. Richard B. Boynton,
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Bible Congress at the Panama EX-
position, San Francisco. was a marked
success and has called the attention of
the country to Bible translation and cir
culation throughout the world and point
ed forward to next Mays observances
celebrating the Tooth anniversary of the
founding of the American Bible Society.
The greatest rally of the congress took
place in The Court of the Universe"
the center of the exposition and fit
place Tor eNaltlng the BlDie as the center
of human life and progress.
Fifteen or twenty thousand people at
tended this great Bible rally. held on a
weekday afternoon. Its primary pur-
pose was the presentation Of a bronze
placque by the exposition to the congress.
Rev. William A. Sunday preached a
strong Biblical sermon in his characteris-
tic way. He maintained the truth and
power of the Bible as one rarely hears
1t done, not clothing his speech in fine
phrases, but gripping the throng and
causing all of it to remain to the end.
Interesting from a missionary and in
ternational point of view was the public
ceremony of handing over to the Japan
ese Christians and their friends a copy
of the Scriptures in English, printed by
the American Bible Society for presenta-
ton to the Emperor of Japan on the oc-
casion of his approaching coronation.
The Mikado has consented to receive it.
and II Is understood that the Japanese
Christians in Japan will present at the
same time a copy of the Bible printed IN
japanese.
A nationwide campaign for the
more extensive spreading Of knowl-
edge Of the Bible is about to be
launched by the newly formed Picto-
rial Bible Contest League with offices
in the Bible House, New York.
The proposed campaign includes
many Il atures novel; To Rible propa-
gan6a and. it is believed. will interest
the couutry's nuE.ero':s Bible Students
in a more than passive way. pes'des
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