Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22

are millions of foreigners here who
are not getting n bit of Professionalism
because you men are not aware of the
needs and providing funds to carry
on the big work We cannot go on
unless we get more funds. And each
year many of the conferences are CIV
ing less
Assail Ambitious Preachers
Assailing the country preachers who
use rural charges as stepping stones to
city churches, the Rev. c. n. McCon-
nell, of Lakeville, Ohio, rural
preacher, proud of every hayseed in
his hair" told the laymen that the
country church will never be q success
unless men are sent there that can fill
any pulpit and go there to stay until
they are dead.
You can't send us to the rural
church to punish us. and then, If we
make good, pick the best of us for city
charges" the rural pastor declared
near the end of his address. Shortly
| after he began to speak the Rev. Mr..
Mcconnell said that he noticed few
farmers In his audience. Here's one"
cried an old. gray-haired, gray bearded
man sitting near the front. "Give it
to them!" he cried, encouraging the
Rev. Mr.. Mcconnell in his forceful
arraignment of church work and the
need in rural districts.
"One minister wrote to me for q
solution of the rural problem and en-
closed two-cent stamp. A two-cent
stamp won't solve it. We won't solve
1t to-day. or in this generation. One
OF our big problems is providing
recreation. The devil is doing that
and charging 10 cents admission. 1t
Is wrong for any minister to preach
against these things, against recreation
that is harmful. unless he is doing
something to provide clean. wholesome
amusement for the people in his COM
munity. We must reckon with the
social life or it will reckon with u.s."
-. Closely following the initiative of
the Rev. Mr.. Mcconnell were the
pointed sentences shot at the hearers
| by the Rev. Ora Miner, of Coopers-
town, another rural preacher, who has
been doing things in community work.
He said, III part: Churches will die
out If we wait for educated ministers
| fitted for our work. We must take
men now and educate them at once
that the church needs the presentation
of mighty ideals"
What we need is to teach q num-
ber of so-called Christians Christian
ity," he shouted. Some Christians
have hard job taking Christ along
with them from Philadelphia to At
lantic City,
Before the Rev. DR.. Daniel L.
Marsh. in charge of city mission work
IN Pittsburgh, was introduced, the
committee on resolutions reported.
The Resolutions
The first of four resolutions adopted
to-day urged all churches and people
to contribute generously for the sup
port of the hundreds of thousands of
destitute people in Armenia.
Another resolution was adopted
protesting against the spirit of militar-
ism and the greed for material gain
that brought on the European war
and appeals for new loyalty of de-
votion to the Prince of Peace and His
plan for the real brotherhood of man.
support of the conference was ac-
corded to the National Association of
Druggists in the movement to estab-
lish by legislation one days rest in
seven.
A fourth resolution urges resident
bishops, district superintendent and
pastors of local churches to take up
earnestly the task of bringing cold,
negligent and worldly members to
surrender themselves to God and to
become actual Christians"
The Rev. DR.. Daniel L. Marsh, re-
Gently appointed superintendent of the
department of cities of the M. e.
Board Of Home Missions and Church
Extension Work, and also in charge
of mission work in Pittsburgh, was
the last speaker of the morning, his
address being on "The Conquest of
the City"
In the first part of his talk to the
men he told them of the attacks on
Christianity and declared that in this
challenging the church to Show what
| 1t can do"
He told the men to organize big
city unions of Methodist men and to
begin comprehensive surveys to over
come social maladies, poverty, crime,
racial troubles and religion.
! Speakers this afternoon dwelt on the
work of THE Efficient Church." and
following the trend of the morning
talks, told the men how to aid in
church work. The program included
addresses by the following: DR.. A. E.
Piper, of Wilkes Barre, DR.. Edgar
Blake of Chicago, Harry w. Dunlap,
cago; John 7. Stone, Baltimore, and
the Rev. DR.. Christian It. Reisner of
New York Justice Emory A. Wall
ing presided.
Tonight the big convention will
close with Bishop Hamilton presiding,
and addresses by Fred b. Fisher, ma
tional secretary of the Laymens Mis-
Victory" and Bishop w. f. Nc
Dowell. of Washington, on will We
! Accept the Challenger"
| Mott Held Up
! Prayers were offered last evening
by the big gathering of men when
they learned that John r. Mott, secre-
tary of the International Y. M. C. A.
and member of President Wilson 6
commission on the Mexican situation,
could not be here to address the lay
men. A telegram was received and
read: Mott cannot leave Atlantic
City. Commission matters at a crisis"
Immediately w. e. Doughty, secre-
tary of educational work of the Lay
mems Missionary movement. asked
that the men offer a silent appeal
while he prayed aloud that the work
OF the Mexican commission be carried
on to successful conclusion.
Advocate Prohibition
The big feature of the evening ses-
sion. however, was the adoption of q
resolution putting the Methodist men
on record advocating prohibition both
Statewide and national; the approval
of Governor Brumbaugh's efforts for
local option; and denying allegiance
to any political party which places
the interest of the brewery. the dis.