Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-19
THREE DAY CONFERENCE .oF !
 - - <. 53as =, EXTENSION aUNIVERelTY

..N eW Haven has been selected as the meeting place. forgthe state trainl4 Ing con1erence5 of the fnterchurch | ], World Movement for Connecticut.
 This conference will be held eceinber l,.2 and B. at the chapel, Yale School | or Religion New Haven. 1>s
 z:Announcement :A of this was made on l Tuesday by. Norris E. eAliing, field | secretary of the Interchurch World | quarters at Hartford. a s
 Addresses will be delivered tys | team of six leaders of nation reputa- ton on various phases of the Inter ] church program. The conference has been described in advance as a. .'schooli or Christian leadership, but in point f of fact the leaders of the nuestingl qeciare.l that they expect to get as much instruction. particularly on state pans and, conditions. as they irnpart. Hence the rule of the conference will pes nIseen minute addresses, followed 1 oyt forty five minute discussions.
 The members of the state con1r,ittes in charge of this conference are: Rev 1 WmsS Horace Day, B.D., Bridgeport, Chairman; John T. Manson. New Fla ven; Rev. J. H. Bell, DID,, New Haven Key. A. B. Coats, Hartford: Rev. Sam uel R.. Colladay. DID,. Hartford; Hon Burton Mansfield. New Haven; Rev Morris E. filling. Hartford.
 This meeting is one of "a ser;es 1 or such conferences to be held. in ev. cry. state in the Union by December
 2O. By that time it is estimated that l Io,oOo religious leaders throughout. the.
 country will have. become thoroughly 1 conversant with the aims and plans I of this movement for 'Protests ht .fco-- ! 0rHY9fiO 1y7I J9<., l tnorltatlvely upon 1t in every cotintv I Of the United States. Y ! The object of the movement is 10 provide an organization through 7! which the various Protestant, churches 4 Of the North American continent oo Il a similar movement has been started
 in canada-can cooperate .to their mutual advantage, always looking to
 the ultimate ideal Of the Christiani- zatien Of the world +1 f'
 As 8 first step the Interchurch
 movement is engaged on number. of : careful surveys of religious, social and economic conditions .throughout the world, county by, county and city 3 by city in the United States and : country by. country abroad By these c means the facts of tho situation" and f the actual religious needs of the world
 will be revealed. '3-ya,
 The results of the surveys will bt
 coHected and budgeted in terms ol
 men and money. The participat;ns denominations will then be, asked tc : determine by mutual agreementsthe 0 individual share. of responsibility fol T world evangelization. and a. unHes I appeal will be made by the churches q each to its own constituency, for tn, Q resources in men and money that ar, n required. ... : Denominations which haEes .alread, a made a recent financial appeal < vii e share in tho other aspects of the Tn II terchurchi Movement and will have g z their disposal its machinery for coor
 dinating their expenditure so as t
 eliminate waste and duplication. Tn e surveys 'have9 already shown what a Y enormous economy of time. money an 2 human service might bess achieve :. through a proper coordination of thei
 efforts by the various churches.
 .A All the participating denomination ,o will join in the spiritual program C
 the movement. The present. series ( ,t state conferences are to be- followe T by sectional and gs local conference
 through. which the spiritual zmessas
 of the Tnterchurch Movement will h i carried to- towns. villages and .indi of Tidual churches. .se.s y-.s-. s-s. V [ The Interehurch Movement. whic 2, was started in December last year. n now endorsed by plore,than sevent ' denemirationai and interdenomina
 boards and agencies. It has. also re !. ceived the official endorsement of ti B. judicatories. or. highest legislativ ,n bodies, of at least ten denominations at By the spring which will see th e. continuation of the -IRterchureh can m paign for cooperative Professionalism, Id is confidently expected that the va, er majority or the 25.o00,O0O Protestar n church members n the country will
 officially represented in the rnovefler ]. "a body of publiceo opinion which mn; z exercise a powerful influence; in an
 moral issue that may arisa. ss@s