Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-01
CONVENTION
ANNOUNCES PROGRAM
Distinguished Speakers to BE Heard
Hero During Week OF
February l3.
LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Meetings Are 10 BE Held in Various
Churches, With DenOminatiOnal
Conferences, Followed by General
Meetings mt the City Auditorium.

The Laymcn's Missionary Movement
Convention will he held here February
1916, the opening services to he held
on Sunday afternoon in the City Audi
torum, when Rev. Worth NJ. Tippy,
| ID. d.. OF New York city. Will deliver
an address on "'rhe broadening Mean
! ing Of Social Service" Rev. h. NJ
Poteat. -. D.. OF Grcenvilir, s. g.. preSi-
dent Of Fuiman University, viii speak
on Spiritual Objectives for Men OF
! Business
Meetings will be held in various
churches, and the denominations viii
hold their respective conferences. DIS
tinGuiShcd men, clerical and lay, from
all parts OF the world. wil! be present,
and at the end OF the convention plans
for tho furtherance and continuance OF
the movement viii be made.
The program. as announced last night.
follows:
Sunday. February IS. $50 Il. NJ. city
Audtorium---"rhc broadening Meaning
Of Social Service. Rev. Worth NJ. Tipp!.
ID. D.. New York City. pastor Madison
Avenue Methodist Church. ST. ritual
objectives for Men of Business Rev
T.. NJ. roteat. -. D.. Grccnville, 5. -.
president fucman University.
Monday. February ~. T. NJ. Grace
! street Baptist church-MectinG of min
; listers for Conference and prayer. led
by DIR. Tippy. =. Nj. Grace street
Baptist churcl,---"A Tourists View of
Missions. DR.. j. y. Nils. Washington,
/ II. 70: The World Message for Our
/: Time, Or. H. G. Mabie, Boston. Mass:
! Leaving Your Mark on the world"
Colonel T.. W iIalford New York City.
vice chairman Laymen'S Missionary
Movement In the United States and
Canada.
Tuesday, February II. l":2o y Nj
! "MinistcrinE 70 Afrca's Need" Rev.
George Green. NJ u. ogbomosho, Africa
medical missionary southern BAPTIST
/ Conventions: missionary Progress of
. Recent Years" Eev A. T. williams.
Nashville. Tenn, rcld secretary Of for
! ci"n missions. PRESBYTERIAN church.
/ United states Of America; FIRST steps
an World Conquest Rev. u. Clay Lilly.
Nashville. Tenn field secrc,ar! Lay
mems Missionary Movement United
states and Canada; Enhancing the
Kingdom Or. j. r Henderson, chat
! ianoora. Tenn. secretary I.nyrn,ns
Missionary Movement OF the southern
Baptist Convention.
benominational conferences. " 90 T..
M.-I3aptists. Grace Street Baptist
church; Christians Central Youu.
! Mems Christian Association Disciples
seventh street Christian Church: Eris-
c"paliaHS, st. fau!s Episcopal SUNDAY.
school room; i.uthcrans. First English
/ Lutheran Church; Methodists Ccntcn-
AIRY Methodist Church; Presbytrrians.
morning chapel, Presbyterian Publish
ing House.
When the World VIII Bc r:vau.-ilzcd.'
DR.. +. c. Cronk, Columbia. : q. gen
er"i secretary I.aymcn's Missionary
Movement United Synod, Evangelical
i.nihern Church in the South; The
Hour calls 10 Rg Men" Rev + H.
Rawlings. Nashville. Tenn. .ccrctarv
LaNmen's Missionary Movement, Meth
odist Church; when the Boys Com.
tiome From the Trenches" " T.. Fills
Swarthmore, Pa.
N.1p
ZION OF Prayer TO the Enterprise OF
Missions, br. Warren n. pcnlsor.
Noriolk, chairman of the Southern
christian Convention: The Coming Of
mo Kingdom in China. Rev. j. a. c.
Shipley. Shanghai. China. missionary Of
Methodist Church, South, The World
sis. and Its Challenge to America -.
Key. .. j. Thompson. Raleigh. y. e.,
icid secretary Foreign Missions South
crn Baptist Convention: The Import
hhc" OF the Home Base in the World
f.Hahselization.' Rev. I. r. Love. D. D.,
Richmond. secretary Foreign Mission
Board, Southern Baptist Convention.
Wednesday. $50 H. M--Denomina-
tloual conferences
=. M.-Mass- meeting: The Dyna
mic Of Missions" Rev. X. ". Patton
atlanta. Ga, missionary secretary
Southern Province Protestant Episco-
pal Church; Missions and Spiritual
Life. Grant IS. Lewis. general sccrc-
iary Home Missionary Society, Disciples
church; The Dedication OF our Pos
sessions 70 The Kingdom of Christ" Dr
). 7. Henderson,
The registration Of delegates shows
an increase Of 100. and by dcnomina-
lions stands: Episcopalians. Pa Bap-
lists, ~, l.utherans. t!; Method!s,s. A;
Prcsbyterians. 80: Disciples. 2: out of
town churches. 80: total. 473
The six leading churches are ST
James Episcopal. 60; First English Lu-
thcran. 10; Holy Trinity. SO: All Saints,
81, First Presbyterian. -.
On Friday night there viii be II
number of denomination boosters
meetings. Episcopalians viii meet at
Grace Church; the Baptists ut the Sec
"nd Church.