Williams news., 1919-05-16
HALF POPULATION OF U.s s. A. REPRESENTED AT
 I.C. w. M. CONFERENCE

61S Ct O1 CAAO AAAOoS representative conference of it's kind ever held in this or any other country, the nine hum dred delegates to the first Ma tional Inter-board Conference of the Inter-Church World Movement of North America, in Cleveland last week voted unanimously the adoption of. g. program of world service that hardly culd be described in any other terms than "all-inclusive"
 Seventy-six different Evan gelical Protestant denomina- tions were represented by the officers of more than two hun dred separate denominational boards committees and forty seven interdenominational or ganizations, who stood sponsor for a ttoal of more than 2OO,- 900 individual church congre- gations with 25,0OO,O00 com municants and as many Sunday School pupils-halfthe popula- tion of the United States.
 The delegates, who packed the grand ballroom of the Ho- tel Cleveland, assembled in the morning, afternoon, and eve ming sessions on Wednesday, April 30, and in morning and afternoon meetings on Thurs day, May 1, with the General Secretary of the movement, Dr. s. Earl Taylor of New York, in the chair.
 In the schedule of work adopted, the conference laid out a platform that contem- plates no less than the introduc- tion of Christianity and Chris tian principles into every phase of human fife in every part of the world, beginning with a CO., lossal survey of the worlds needs on a scale never before contemplated by any organiza- tion and involving the admins tering of remedies to each phase of the conditions that challenge Christianity, civiliza- ton and democracy, regardless of the quarter of the globe in whichthey be found. It covers notonlythose fields commonly classed as missionary" but "all evangelistic effort, the re- ligious nature of children, en- listmentand special prepara- tion of youth for Life Service the educational system of the churches at home and abroad, general, theological. vocation al and professional; phiIan- thropic institutions, hospitals. orphanages, asylums, child welfare agencies: the means for the support of the ministery in retirement, as we'll as in act i've service, and the contribu- tion of the church to the solu- tion of the definite social and industrial problems of the new day of readjustment and recon struction." It calls for an in- vigorating of the spiritual life of all the churches and a reach ing out by them to spread the wherever humanity lives. In it's last analysis it means a deter imitation of the Church to full fill it's entire mission, both with in itself and in applying the prnciple of doing just as much for the other fellow"
 The General Committee took up one by one in more or less detail the separate matters re- ferred to it by the Executive Committee because of the au- thorization voted by the Inter- board Conference. It wound up with an intensely dramatic debate over the basis upon which the movement would ad- dress itself to the conditions of industrial unrest, finally voting the immediate formation of a Department of Industrial Re lations which is charged with applying definite, Christianlike measures to correct the things that cause the dissatisfaction and disturbance of the present 1 days.
 Need for such action was im- pressed upon the delegates in the most spectacular and force full manner when May Day riots of the preceding day just out side the hotel door caught some of the foremost officials in their