The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-25
IT'S ONE OF MANY
TOpeka's Laymen Meeting Part
of National Chain.
Dates Have Been Arranged for
"a Leading Cities.

! Following convention of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement in Chi
cago, October IA to II, conventions
will be held in seventy-four other
leading cities in the United States. in
Guiding meeting at Topeka, October
81 to November 8, and eliminating in
a national missionary congress in
Washington next April.
The main detectives of this nation
wide campaign is to consider new
world conditions and Americas en-
Iarged responsibility; to study the
missionary progress of recent years;
to project plans looking toward the
accom- plishment of our whole mis-
sionary duty; to emphasize the AIDE
quacy of the Gospel to meet modern
social conditions; to increase the
spiritual power and efficiency of the
local church; to secure the general
use of the best methods of missionary
education and finance and to inspire
laymen to take their part in the extern
ton of the work of the church.
October Meetings
Conventions will be held in Chicago,
Illinois; Buffalo, New York; Detroit,
Michigan; Pueblo, Colorado; Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado,
and Topeka, Kansas, during October.
Meetings in November will be held
in Wichita, Kansas; Baltimore, Mary
land Philadelphia Pennsylvania;
Mitchell. South Dakota; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; Portland, Maine; Boston,
Massa chusetts; Cincinnati, Ohio;
Wheeling, West Virginia, and Water
bury. Connecticut.
Manchester, New Hampshire; st.
Louis, Missouri; Cleveland, Ohio; AL
bany, New York, and Toledo, Ohio,
will have conventions in December.
During January meetings will be
held in Houston, Tex, Duluth, Mimi,
st. Paul, Mimi, Rochester, n. Y,
Jackson, Miss, Fargo, N. D., Reading,
Pa, Wilmington, Delaware, Billings
Mont, and Birmingham, Ala.
More meetings have been scheduled
for February than any other month
in which conventions will be held
despite the fact that it is the shortest
laymen will hold their conventions
in Atlanta, Georgia; Butte, Montana
Newark. New Jersey; Spokane, Wash
ington; Columbia, South Carolina
Seattle, Washington; Dayton, Ohio;
Tacoma, Washington; Greensboro
n. c.; Portland, Oregon; Richmond
Virginia; Sacramento, California
Kansas City, Missouri; Lexington
Kentucky; San Francisco, California
Des Moines, Iowa; Nashville, Tenne-
see; Fresno, California; Decatur, Hi
nois; Memphis, Tennessee.
The March Schedule
Fewer meetings will be held il
March. twelve being scheduled for the
month. They will be held at Little
Rock, Ark; San Diego, Cal: Column
| bus, Ohio; FL PaSO, Texas; Okla hOma
City, Okla; Fort Worth, Tex; Pitts
field, Mass; Worcester, Mass; Har-
risburg, Pa; Scranton, Pa; Bingham
| ton, n. Y; Syracuse, N. Y.
| Besides the national congress il
Washington. two conventions will be-
| held in April. They are scheduled fol
New York City and Brooklyn, N. Y
| Posters in four colors are to be dis
played in front of thousands O
churches to announce the campaign
! The poster will be sy1nbolical of hotI
home and foreign missions The non
| Christian world is typified on the pos
| ters by a figure of a great idol with
group of worshipers before it, and
mission work at home by a man q
| the common people, standing in cit!
street The particular idol which il
taken as q symbol of idolatrous reli
! gion is the gigantic bronze Buddha a
Kamakura, Japan.