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COUNTY LEADERS
IN SESSION HERE
Training Conference for In.
terchurch World
Movement
SCOPE OUTLINED BY
PROF. M'FARLAND
Sessions Began in Baptist Church Yes
terday Afternoon and Will Close This
Afternoon Living Salaries for
Ministers Urged.

With representative attendance of
ministers and delegates from the various
churches in the county the Windham
County Leaders Training conference OF
the Interchurch World Movement opened
in the First Baptist church yesterday
afternoon at . O'Clock and was followed
by sessions opening at 7.30 O'Clock last
evening, O'Clock this morning and l.30
O'Clock this afternoon
The discussions which followed the
various addresses were entered into gen.
orally, showing a spirit of eagerness to
learn what the interchurch World Move
ment can do for Vermont and Windham
County
The one purpose of the conference is
TO acquaint church leaders with the aims
and plans of the movement and TO pre-
pare them for carrying out these plans
in the county, the community and the
local church.
The afternooN program was changed
on account of the inability of the first
| speaker, DR.. George H. Spencer of Bos-
| ton, secretary of the Vermont and Mas
saehusetts Bible society. to arrive in time
/ to give his address. Rev. Dr. W. A Da-
vison of Burlington, secretary of the
Vermont Baptist state convention, who
was on the evening program, spoke in
his stead, his subject being Have We
the Method and Organization? The
speaker asserted that Eve have the or
ganization. The church is the great or
| ganization." He told of some of the
methods used in connection with the In
/ terehurch World Movement and referred
to the great need of union movements
i'll this work; that the churches should
work together and drop the distinctly
tdenominational lines and merge their
efforts in the big movement. He COM
mented on the surveys to be made and
suggested that they should be made by
idistriet groups.
DR.. Dawson was followed by Professor
Raymond Mcfarland of Middlebury
Vermont executive secretary OF the In
terchurch World Movement, whose sub
ject was The Scope and Significance oi
the Interehurch World Movement.
Following is synopsis of Professor
McFarland's address:
Shall war, or an uncertain league o.
nations, or UNCONVENTIONAL differences
, defeat the peace of the worldf Th'
Christian churches of North Americs
. answer with an emphatic Not TIL
: Interchurch World Movement of Nortl
4 America was launched just year ag
today in New York city. The inceptiol
= of the movement was through the For
eign Missionary Board of the Presby
. terian church, south, meeting in Nash
Vile last year. AS result of its recon
. mendation a committee of 90 was ap
II pointed to draw up a plan of actor
y The committee drafted the plan of tn
movement which already has been en-
e dorsed by more than 20 denominations
t boards and international agencies.
nj The Interchurch World Movement
a cooperative effort of all agencies G
,e the evangelical churches Of the Unite
Y. States and Canada to secure necessar
resources of men and money and powe
: required for their tasks. It's prograi
i, of action will be based on facts ths
7 are aseertained through comprehend,
surveys.
The surveys will include the prin
activities of the cooperating denomil
ations, the religious training OF chi
dren; the enlistment for life servie,
the educational system of the chureh
- at home and abroad; phiianthropic e
. forts such as hospitals, orpnanages al
child welfare agencies; the better ca
II and support of the ministry; and Il
contribution of the church to the sol
II tion of social and industrial problem
II 1t is not an ecclesiastical moveme
II nor an effort at organic church unio
1t will not disturb any denominatio
u or interfere with the administration
: any church or board, neither will
- duplicate any church work already t
II ing well done.
Il 1t proposes to utilize allied strate
/ for the solution of world problel
II through Christian healing. The demo
national armies now operating in !
rious fields of activity at home a
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