The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1920-04-24
HENDRIX SECURES
NOTABLE D|Y|NES
FOR MINISTER'S SCHOOL
Nationally Known Religious Leader.
to Address Annual Summer
School, June 9-17.

Many notable religious and church
leaders, some of them prominent ma
tionally, will be the speakers and lee
turers at the summer school for min
listers at Hendrix College, June 9 to
| II. In addition to the support of the
two conferences of the Methodist
church in Arkansas, for which the
school was primarily founded, by in
yitation the following boards will CO.
operate: Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension, Methodist Episco-
pal church; Board of Home Missions,
Presbyterian church; Congregational
Home Missionary Society and the
American Christian Missionary So
ciety. A departure from programs
followed at previous summer schools
will be the omission of the undergrad
uate courses for candidates for the
ministry. the entire resources of the
school being concentrated on the
graduate courses.
DR.. Charles f. Jefferson, pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York,
and author Of widely circulated reli-
gious books and pamphlets, is per-
haps the most distinguished divine Sc
cured for the conference. His first
address will be at the college on June
16. He will also speak that night and
will deliver two actresses to the school
the following day. Bishop Edwin
Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal
church, who is the bishop of the Bos-
ton area, will be the speaker before
the school on June 10 and IL. Other
speakers are DR.. William S. Bovard
of Chicago, head of adult work for
the Sunday School Board of the Meth
odist Episcopal church; Rev. C. NJ
Mcconnell, distinguished rural pas
tor in Ohio; Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon
in charge of the conferences in Ar
+ kansas; DR.. Homer K Ebright, pro-
fessor of Biblical literature, Baker
University, Baldwin, Kans.; DR.. Ralph
A. FELTON, of New York, head of rural
church work for the interchurch
movement; DR.. Frank NJ. Thomas of
Nashville, editor of the Methodist Re
view; DR.. James |. Vance of Nash
vile, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church.
Bishop Mouzon will be the orator al
the services on Sunday, Juen 16, a.
the First Methodist church, preach.
ing at both the morning and even.
ing hours. Bishop Mouzon in several
appearances here has been greeted by
large audiences. The addresses al
night, which will be at the First
Methodist church, will be according
to the following schedule: June 9, Dr.
Thomas; June 10, Bishop Edwin
Hughes; June II, Bishop Edwin
Hughes; June II and 10, Bishop Mou-
zon; June IA and Is, DR.. Vance and
June 16, Dr. Jefferson.
An added feature of the school this
year will be the daily recreation un-
der the direction of DR.. Ebright
Ministers representing the North Ar
kansas and the Little Rock confer
ences will meet in a baseball game, it
IS announced, and outdoor sports of
all kinds will be provided. The re-
creation hours will be from A to 6 D.
m. Competition of another sort will
also pit the two conferences in strug-
gle. A loving cup is offered to the
district showing the largest attend
ance, and presiding elders already are
at work to have the m nisters of their
districts here for the school. Car
rying out decision reached last June,
banquet will be served on Tuesday
night, June Is.
Practically every phase of religious
and church work will be covered in
the program provided by Dr. John
Hugh Reynolds, DR.. James Thomas
and Rev r. c. Morehead, the COM
mittee in charge. Sunday school work
and methods viii be presented by DR.
Bovard; evangelism will be treated
by Bishop Hughes and DR.. Vance,
rural church evangelism, finance and
church construction will lbe discussed
by DR.. FELTON,, who will also deliver
an address on church public ty; the
inter-race movement will be the sub
ject for William w. Alexander. Rev.
G. G. Davidson, presiding elder of the
Fort Smith distr ct, will conduct the
school round table discussion of
church administration. Rural health,