Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-28

There are now ON the ocean or pre-
pairing to sail within the next five days
for no ship has room for them all
nearly three hundred OF the foremost
leaders in the religious life of North
America, who are attending the much
discussed Congress on Christian Work
in Latin America, to be held at
Panama, February 1920.
During the five years that 1t has
been In preparation (for 1t was
projected at Edinburgh in 1910) this
conference has aroused more discus
sion than any other event in the re-
lig1ous life of North America during
the same period. A clash OF opinion
over this conference led to the sem
sational resignation of fve members OF
the Protestant Episcopal Board of
Missions. including three bishops. The
Catholic party of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and many spokes-
men of the Roman Catholic Church,
and some sensitive representatives of
the South American republics, who
objected to the implications of the
earlier name. Latin American Mis-
sionary Conference" have antagonized
the forthcoming congress, and this has
led to the change of name and to the
more careful statement of the objects
of the meeting. More than fifty re-
ligious bodies, including all the largest
denominations, and societies like the
Young Mems Christian Association. the
International Sunday School Associa-
ton, etc. are officially participating in
the congress.
Famous Churchmen Sail
There has never sailed from these
shores a more distinguished body of
religious leaders than are now bound
for Panama, unless 1t be the delegates
to the worlds missionary conference
at Edinburgh in 1910. John R. Mott
will be the presiding officer, as he was
at Edinburgh, and the list of speakers,
while known privately, but not made
public. is said by careful judges to be
the most notable and statesmanlike
array of talent ever brought together
for religious gathering in the West
ern Hemisphere.
The committee which has been off,
cially designated by the various de-
nominations and societies to direct the
conference is made up as follows:
Robert E. Speer, chairman. Board of
Foreign Missions. Presbyterians, United
States of America; the Rev. w. F.
Oldham. D. D.. vice chairman, Board
of Foreign Missions. Methodist Epis-
copal Church; the Rev. l.. c. Barnes
D. D., recording secretary. American
Baptist Home Missionary Society; the
Rev. S. G. 1nman, executive secretary.
Christian Woman's Board of Missions;
the Rev. Enoch f. Bell, American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions: Frank L. Brown. Worlds
Sunday School Association; Miss Carrie
J. Carnahan. Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society. Methodist Episcopal
Church: the Rev. S. II. Chester, d. D.,
Executive Committee, Foreign Mis-
sions. Presbyterian. United States; Z.
T. Cotton, international committee.
Young Mems Christian Association;
the Rev. Ed. F. Cook, D. D.. Board of
Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South; the Rev. ]. H. Franklin, D. D.,
American Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society; the Rev. W. I. Haven, D. D.,
American Bible Society: Miss Mabel
Head, Womans Missionary Council,
Methodist Episcopal Church, South;
the Rev. s. 5. Hough, Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, United Brethren in