Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
"A AMERICA MUST
BE CHRTSTIANIZED
Methodist Workers Are Plan
ming For Work After the
War Is Ended

Declaring that America must be
thoroughly christianized that the
world may have the benefit of Amer
lean Democracy and that God has or
dained that the world shall acquire
American standards of civilization,
the Rev. John Watchorn, of Phila-
delphia, made the principal address
at the opening session this morning
OF the two-day training conference of
the Harrisburg district of the 'Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, held in the
Grace M. E. Church, this city.
The Cost of the War" spoke DR..
Watchorn whose topic was Making
Democracy Safe for the World"
must find a corresponding cost in
material and spiritual gifts given by
the church of America" Part of the
material side of this cost to the
church, said the speaker, was the
$S0,000,000 to be raised shortly by
the Methodist Episcopal Church in
this country to help onward the
christian evangelization of the world.
Before Democracy could be offered
to the world. DR.. Watchorn averred,
1T must first be made safe in itself
land one of its greatest problems en-
| countered in bringing this safety
about. he said, was the unchristiah-
! ization of large numbers who live in
out cities. Citing New York as an
instance of the bigness of the ques-
| tion, DR.. Watchorn stated that a
bishop of his church described Goth
am as dead" religiously. IF we con-
cede that Jesus Christ is failure in
New York." he went on, who shall
know that He won't be a failure in
Harrisburg and. Philadelphia" ?" The
religious and ethical standards OF
cities, the minister said, would de-
| termine the ultimate standards of the
| country.
The religious basis for true de-
mocracM DR.. Watchorn stated, could
be made much more secure by a
sympathetic and intelligent attitude
spiritual problems of immigrants
who come to America. They, he said
personified in the laborer and miner
were the ones really responsible fol
the tremendous wealth of the nation
| The conference marks the centen.
ary of the foreign and home mission
| endeavors of the M. Z. Church, and
in this connection an outline of the
Centenary Working Program" wa:
given in part by the Rev. w. S
| Bissonette, returned missionary
from China, who spoke of the Wis.
ion, Intercession and Stewardship,
| VI lllS OCoSllpiH6
his subject summed up in action,
DR.. Bissonette said that the huge
program that the church had map.
ped out for herself could not be
realized through mere mechanical
and monetary efforts alone however
great these might be. The efficacy o.
prayer in achieving the desired
evangelical goal and the necessity o.
making the national campaign fol
S0,000,000 as much a spiritual as e
pecuniary one, was insisted upon by
| this speaker if both undertaking.
| would be a success.
Presiding at the morning session
was the Rev. William A. Brown. Fol
lowing is this afternoons and even
ings program of the conference:
Las, Intercession; 2, address, "Th'
Challenge of the Present Sunda!
School Situation" the Rev. William
A. Brown; 2.45, address, The Call Il
Advance" the Rev. H. c. Wilson
$50, section conferences; elementar.
The Children in a Growing Sunda.
School," Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner
Young People, "Organizing tn,
Young People" the Rev. H. C. viii
son; adult, Building UP the Bible
Class" the Rev. w. A. Brown; 4.45
address, THE Teachers Inner Life,
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner.
Evening Session
7.30, Intercession; 8, stereopticor
and world program address, THE
Home Survey and Opportunity, the
Rev. John Watchorn.