Evening star., 1920-02-09
|COMMENDS WORLD
'|NTERCHURCH WORK
National Conference of
Churchwomen Urges Ab-
sence of Sectarian Friction.

The interchurch world movement plan
of work was commended as increasing
1 unity of purpose among church workers
and unfying the church by the findings
/ committee of the national conference of
/ churchwomen today in the closing ses-
! sion of a three-day conference at the
; Raleigh Hotel
. Mrs. Raymond Robbins of Chicago.
chairman of the findings committee, re-
: ported that the intcrchurch world move
ment releases the greatest energy Of
! the churches to the best results and thai
+, the sole hope of meeting the present day
situation is through an aroused church
Con tie cooperation between
churches: absence of sectarian friction
and complete elimination of interchurch
differences was urged in the closing ad-
dress of the conference by Daniel A. Pol
ing To successfully meet the problems
OF postwar times the church must
unite. Mr.. Polling said.
! Mrs. Radcliffe Presides,
Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. wife of Rev.
Dr. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, pre-
sided at the post conference luncheon
heid at the Washington Hotel at 1
o'clock. Wives of cabinet members at
the luncheon We're Mrs Thomas r
Marshall. Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs.
Josephus Daniels. Mrs. David F. Hous-
ton. Mrs. Franklin X. Lane Mrs. A. s.
Burieson and Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer
Inc diplomatic corps was r. presented by
Nine Cremer. Nine Peter, Nine
. fanarctof and Nine. Grouitch
John X Mott of New York, who was
TO nave addressed the closing session of
Ihe conference, was unable to be in
Washington today
At the conference were oSo uon,an
registered from thirty-one states and
twcnty-onc denominations, representinp
forty mission boards.
Urges Missions for Nexfco.
MeS1co could be better pacified in a
ihoHth Dy the work of few well
equipPeo missionaries than an army
~ ~ soiIlers could accomplish, DR.. S.
.,, arl iayior. executive secretary of
ne ne dn.erchurch World Movement. told
.ne cohierence yesterday in a plea for
appllcat1on of Christian principles to
problems confronting the world
me cniet factors which have re-
laroeu Mexican development, he said.
are ililteracy. disease and absence of
adjustment of Christian miss;onary
schoois. he said. can friendly relations
ue restored between Mexico and the
Chlted states. DR.. Taylor asserted
that Europe is in desperate straits
especially from a religious stand,
point. only a short time ago l was
III Budapest and spent an entire dav
Trying to get a clergyman out of iaiI"
ne told the conference. The only
crime he had committed was that Of
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ"
Dr- Abram c. Cory, director of the
neio department. announced that a
series or pastors conferences would
De neld IN every state between Feb
ruary Is and March 26. preparatory TO
the nnal campaign, which will be in
augurated in April
To War ON Indecency.
Plans were made by women repre-
sentatlVes at yesterdays sessions to
combine to overcome what was char
acterlzed as the dangerously insidious
modern tendency toward Indecent
clothes, indecent dances and tunes of
AFRICAN Jungle syncopation." The
conference decided unanimously to
convene In every state a series of
mothers meetings, at which it is pro-
posed to enlist every woman in the
campaign and at the same time a com
mittee was appointed to consider the
advisabf1ity of making the issue an
integral part of the interchurch world
movement -
I announcement was made that vari-
Gus boards, cooperating with the in
terchurch movement, intend to spend
100000 for the evangelization and
care of children. 1t is planned to
introduce motion pictures in Sunday
schools in an effort to make religious
services entertaining to children.