Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-07
GREAT METHODIST CENTENARY
 WORLD PROGRAM CONFERENCE
Special to The Bulletin.l

WORLD PROGRAM CONFERENCE Special to The Bulletin.l Boston, Dec. e.--Twenty eight hun dred people were in the audience at
 Fremont Temple, Boston. Wednes- day. evening at the closing service of the great representative gathering of New England Methedists held there over two days. viz. December 5 and f.
 The centenary movement marks the completion of 100 years of missionary
 effort by the Methodist Episcopal church, it being just ! century ago ] that its first missionaries went out 1 to foreign | untries to aid in the ef- fort to win the VS,rid to Christ. It was first thought to have sim 1 ply a great celebration oyer what has been done but the great emergency | created by the world war has caused 1 the men possessing foresight to urge
 cofnmemoration in the shape of a l gigantic effort to raise a sum not less l than eighty million dollars, and to seek 1 a large reinforcement of workers in all l mission fields and to open new fields
 wherever the conditions demand it. ] This movement is being launched | everywhere throughout the denomina- I urges strongly for it's complete suc- l cess.
 The great conference held in Ire mont Temple on Tuesday an5 Wednes- l day was the largest and n1'st repre- l sentative Methodist gathering ever ] held in New England. Six hundred 1 and fifty pastors out of a total of sev- i en hundred and fifty wer. present be-
 sides a large army of laynaen. l The Centenary. Its Occasion, and Purpose" was presented in a most
 able opening address on Tuesday
 morning by Jollp T. Stone of Balti- more, chairnap of the jaint centen-
 ary commission.
 i A survey with the aid of maps, charts. and Iantern slides showed what Methodism has dont, and wants 1 to do in the eoreign flelds. The Rev Dr. Frank Mason North, of New York
 city was iii charge. h addition to his able address, China was represented by Ralph A. Ward and by a native l born Chinese Methodist clergyman, Rev. Philip s. $. Yu of F'oochew, Chi na. Japan was represented by C. S.
 Davison, q missionary ;.nd as son oi
 a missionary in Japan. South Ameri- l ca was represented by W. H. Teeter of Chile. Africa by Bishop A. P. Cam 1 nhcr of Africa, an able negro leader 1, India vas represented by Rockwell
 Clancy. q veteran missionary, to that land.
 II The Home Missionary Survey in the afternoon cn Tuesday was of cqua
 interest. It was led by D. D. Forsyth i and D. E. Diffendo1fer. with the fol. lowing special speakers: Frontier worl : was portrayed by Edward L. Mills
 Cities. by NJ. P. Burn1; Negro Migra. tons by c. A. Tindley. Rev. c. A Tindlev is the distinguished negro di T. vine who has collected | eongregatioI , in Philadelphia of about 2s00 peopl of African descent and blood and ; D Sunday school of similar size, bu
 whose church edif1ce seats less tha, 5 1000 and in his embarrassment tn : church is hastening, through the Honl |. Missionary Society. to help him in SC f curing a church building large enougI to care for this work Dr. Tinile, r thrilled the vast audience as he plead
 ed for his race-not for sympathy, bu ] for a fair chance to live and develoI S morally, intellectually ard spiritual ly.
 1 The exercises on Tuesday evenin i included rnasteriS address by Bisho
 Theodore S. Henderson in which h l outlined the immediate plans of tn n ] war reconstruction department of tn n Methodist Centenary f5r vital reli n sious development in France, Belgiun = Italy and the United States. The other great feature on Tuesda: T evening was the famous lecture of ( e Earl Taylor of New York, Making De uocracy State for the World" Dl s Taylor illustrated his lecture with Il stereopticon showing pictures takel
 with his own camera in the severa
 mission fields he has visited In a.
 parts of the world.
 al On Wednesday morning the specia . New England problems wore consider . ed. Rev. Dr. William Shaw of the Yer Ii mont Conference spoke on the rura Q problem. Rev. Dr. E. J. Helms DOT
 trayed some of the religious problem n in Boston and told what was bein v planned to meet some Of the new de y Inands. Rev. Dr. J. F. Cooper spok < on some of the problems developed f q cities other than Boston Rev. Dr. ( e E. Dodion spoke on the problem Q Is securing adequate leadership for tn z, new day.
 . Rev. Dr. Edgar Blake of Chicag
 gave an address sparkling with wit i
 which he urged that the Methods
 church possesses resources which ar
 fully adequate to the. success of tn e centenary movement
 . pr. Fred Fisher gave an instructiv a address concerning the work in In a dia- In 57 years the Msthe{iist Epis c | copal church there has grown from :. membership of 5 persons to a presen 5. constituency of a half million, whic
 will become million by the year 1s2l -l He made the startling an11ouneemer
 that Met1odisYn is now haptizing i
 India ar1 average of 1909 per week.
 On WedASsday afternoon, the Cen
 tenary Working Programme was pre-
 se1lted as follows:
 Stewardship Education was dea;
 with by Luther E. Lovejoy; The Ca } For Life. by l.. J. Birney; The Minui
 Men, by Christian F. Rcisner; In tl s Local Church John Lowe Fort; In tt
 Sunday School, L. O. Hartman. 5 pr. Daniel Dorchester spoke on Or . Christian Civilization end The Ger tenary
 Three great banquets were held
 6.3o p. nj. Wednesday, located as fo l. lows: For pasters. at Fert hall; f. = iaymcr at City club: and rcceptic . for ladies at the First Church, Temp
 street.
 The closing service had two gre.