The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29
STATEWIDE PASTORS
 CONFERENCE OPENS. WEDNESDAY AT FIRST. METHODIST CHURCH.
Evry Protestant Evangeli- can Church In the State Will Be Represented at
 Conference of Inter- church Movement

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 What church leaders declare will be the largest and most important religious gath ering ever held in Alabama will be launched at the First Methodist church next Wednesday afternoon. when the stste-wide pastors conference Of the In- terchurch World Movement will open, to continue three days.
 Between 300 and 1000 ministers. repre- senting every Protestant evangelical church in the state, will be present, ac- cording to indications at the office of pr. James o. Grogan, state secretary of the movement. They will meet to have outlined to them the work of the Inter- church World Movement is doing and what it hopes to accomplish
 The conference here this week will be the real launching of the Interchurch World Movement in Alabama. It will be followed by smaller conferences in every county in the state, at which minor de- tails of the whole programme will be ar ranged.
 Speakers of national prominence win be here to lay the interchurch plans before the pastors
 An appeal to the people of Birmingham has been issued by Dr. Grogan and his committee on arrangements to help house
 
 condition the hotels will be unable to care for all of the pastors. and citizens have been asked to entertain the overriow un- der the Harvard plan. Lodging and breakfast only will be furnished, for which charge of l.50 day has been agreed upon. All local pastors have been asked to deliver appeals along this line from their pulpits today.
 PASTORS CONFERENCE
 Or he f,~ "a Sf ferences to be held in the ten states Of the southeast during March have been announced by the southeastern headquar- ters of the Interchurcn World Movement. Al the head of the team to attend the conference in Birmingham will be Dr. W. B. Beauchamp of Nashville, leader of the centenary movement of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, South, and Dr. Egbert Smith of Nashville foreign secre- tary of the Southern Presbyterian board. Additional members of this team will be Dr. Henry H. Sweet of Nashville, sec rotary of ministerial education of the Southern Presbyterians; Dr. Morse of New York, associate of Dr. Warren H. Wilson, q leader in the country life de- pertinent of the Presbyterian church, and Dr. George Stoves, pastor of the West End Methodist church of Nashville Dr. Wilson, with whom Dr. Morse is associ- ated, is said to know more about the country church in America than any other individual. In addition to these regular team speak i CTS there will be special speakers, re- | turned missionaries from India, Japan, China, Africa and Latin-America-as well | as survey experts who will outline the re- suits of surveys already made along the l lines of religious education, hospitals and homes and industrial relations, and an eX- 1 pert statistician who will present figures 1 on what the intercnurch movement is &C., complaining in the comprehensive pro- gramme of religious investigation. There also will be a strong presenta- | tion of the Methodist simultaneous evan gelistic campaign that will eliminate Eas- ter Sunday with "join-the- church day observance.
 On other matters to be presented at the | pastors conference here will be that of iuter-racial relations in the south. This will be discussed by southerners from the southern viewpoint.
 NEEDS OF THE WORLD
 The general purpose of the conference is to face and meet the whole task of the Protestant Christian churches in America for aggressive missionary and benevolent activities in all the world. The needs of the world and the world programme of the Interchurch World Movement will be considered in the light of the foreign and home mission surveys made by the move- ment in all quarters of the globe during the last year.
 Outstanding leaders of the various de- nominations will join with the leaders of the cooperative organization in present. ing the facts obtained from denomin- ational and general sources. All of these will be visualized by charts, maps and stereopticon slides.
 IE order to enable the speakers to pre- sent the subjects in the most telling man. ner, all who are on the programme have been given q special course of training. Returned missionaries in this country on 1 their furloughs will describe the need for increased evangelistic forces in the coun- tries in which they have been stationed by their respective denominations. Lead CTS of home missionary work aios Will be heard. There will be at least two women iecturers
 pr. Grogan and his committee on ar rangements have appointed the following Birmingham ministers to act as recep- tion committee for the pastors confer ence:
 pr. !. A. Macsporran chairman; Dr. R. N. Simpson, Dr. J. M. Broady' Dr' George R. Stuart, pr. P. B. Wells, pr. John McNeill. Dr. Nj. R. Heflin. pr, Oscar Dew Randolph. Dr., M s. Barn well. Dr. Albert Massey Dr. W. J. Mo Cartv. Dr. l.. E. Brubakeh, Dr. J. F. Bryan. pr. R. I. Watson. pr. J. W. Hick- man. Dr. Henry M. Edmonds and pr. J. w. Johnson.
 These ministers will have charge largely Of all phases of the conference having to do with entertainment of the visiting preachers.
 
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