The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-23

attendance or 1,U0O registered Qete-
gates The national convention was in
Chicago.
In all there are to be rs mems con-
ventions in the leading cities of the
country. eliminating in a National
next April So important is the cam
paign considered that some missionary
agencies are throwing almost the en-
the campaign to the exclusion for the
next year, of other forms of missionary
| Inspiration and education.
| Training for the Work.
Within the past two weeks in spe-
cial conferences, leaders of three de-
| nominations met with missionaries
and other men, organizing and train
| ing them for the part they are to take
| in the campaign. From 40 to 10 men
were in attendance at each conference.
The Methodists met at Ocean Grove.
several bishops being present, the
| ngregationalists at Chicago and the
Presbyterians at Atlantic City, DIR. J.
Ross Stevenson, moderator of the gen.
eral assembly, presiding.
Under the direction of its laymen's
missionary movement, of which DIR.
Fred B.. Fisher is general secretary,
tho Methodist church is making spe-
cial efforts to conserve the results that
will accrue from the impulse of the
campaign. Some of the bishops will
give most of their time to the public
work of the campaign. A number of
able missionary leaders have been re-
called from their stations in foreign
lands, and the Methodist board of
home missions and church extension
is putting the full strength of it's city
department into the work.
With bishops, mission board secre-
taries and home and foreign mission
aries, the Methodist church will have
staff Of more than so men in the
campaign, a group of whom will be
thrown into each convention city prior
to the convention to see that every
Methodist church is well represented
by delegates. Thousands of pastors in
the territory of the convention cities
have been made acquainted with the
churches plan and the 400 and more
district superintendent have had the
responsibility of the campaign laid
upon them The we'll organized press
of the church is being called upon to
give generous space to both the de-
nominational and interdenominational
plans of the campaign.
The Presbyterian Program.
The Presbyterians will send an
agent to each convention city in ad-
vance of the convention. who will meet
leading men of the Presbyterian
churches and outline measures for Sc
curing a representative attendance at
the convention of church officers and
members. Two special men have been
employed to give their entire time to
the work. During the convention,
prominent leaders will be in attend
ance, who will meet with the Presby-
terrain delegates one entire afternoon,
leading the conference and following It
up to practical outcome. Presbyter-
ian plans are in charge Of Secretary
David McConaughy in New ork and
DR.. w. A. Marquis in Chicago.
Most of the foreign missionaries of
the Episcopal church who are on fur
Tough will be organized for work in
I mr. ra q "a M RiGhnn
Kinsolving of Brazil is coming home to
be speaker and in addition to other
bishops and clergy, several mission
aries are being recalled from their
fields of work to participate in the
campaign. The Episcopal church ex-
poets to be able to send two men to
each convention center some days or
weeks before the convention for the
purpose of bringing out the full
strength of the Episcopal men and of
organizing them for aggressive work
Immediately after che convention
closes. John w. Wood, secretary of
the board of missions is organizing the
Episcopal forces.
CongPegationaIists Are Busy
A committee of secretaries of Con-
gregational missionary societies of
which DIR. Reuben l.. Breed is chair
man, is planning the largest possible
cooperation in at least forty of the
chief convention centerS where Con-
gregationalism is strongest. Laymen
state and national secretaries, local
pastors and missionaries on furIough
will be used to give every Congrega-
tional church within IS miles of con-
vention city a special missionary i'm
pulse. In addition ten teams of two
men each, made up of a home mis-
sionary and a foreign missionary, will
be formed and one of these teams will
be put into each convention area a
month or six weeks before the con-
vention opens. Eight of the ablest
foreign missionaries of the Congrega-
tional church are being called home
from their fields of work for the cam
paign and the home missionary
agencies of the church will put their
best men into the work. The COM
mittee's aim is to put at least 10000
CONGREGATIONAL delegates into forty or
more conventions.
The Northern Baptist convention at
Los Angeles last May endorsed the
National missionary campaign and
turned over to DR.. John NJ. Moore,
secretary of one of it's important COM
mittees, the formation of plans for
hearty cooperation. Under DR.
Moore's direction a special force of
missionaries and secretaries is being
organized for three or four weeks of
preparatory and follow-up work in
connection with each convention. All
of the Baptist denominational mis-
Sionary agencies will set aside other
methods of campaigning and unite i'll
making the rs conventions of the Ma
tional missionary campaign the one
great task of the year.
Disciples, United Brethren, Luther
ans, United Presbyterians, the two
the Southern Baptist, Methodist and
PresbyterianS and other denomina-
tons are all making the most careful
and thorough preparations for CO.
most supreme effort of missionary in
SDiratfOn and education made nv