The Republican journal., 1920-06-17

international scale, in this tercente-
nary year when Pilgrim celebrations
are being planned by a bewildering
variety of organizations, will fittingly
be that of the Congregationalists who,
in series of meetings beginning
Tuesday, June goth, and closing July
9Th, will take advantage of their
fourth Decennial Council, to empha-
size afresh the spiritual significance
of the coming of the Pilgrims to
America, and to interpret the ideals of
the Pilgrims in terms of world de-
mocracy.
The steadying effect of this Inter
national Council, to which some 200
delegates are coming from England
alone, and at the biggest meeting of
which Sir Auckland Geddes, the new
British ambassador to America, and
Sir Robert Falconer of Canada are
to be the speakers. is matter of no
small moment just at this time when
relations between this country and
Great Britain are in a somewhat tick
lish state.
But though the sailing of the Pill
grims and the beginning of Congre-
gational history will have large place
in the Conference, the achievements
and lessons of three centuries of Con
gregationalism will naturally furnish
most Of the themes and there will
be a great deal of earnest looking for
ward as well as some justly proud
looking backward. The Congrega
tionalists realize that the world has
not yet become heaven though they
believe that heaven is vastly nearer
than it would have been without Plym
outh Rock The glorification of days
gone by will thus supply the point Of
departure rather than the raison d'etre
of the Conference.
The Council would have met any
how. For it was organized thirty
years ago, and meets once in ten
years. Previous meetings have been
held in London and in Edinburgh;
and the second Decennial in 1900, was
held in Boston. The meeting at the
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larger than any previous gathering,
and is being widely advertised as the
most notable gathering of Congrega-
tional people since the 'Separatist'
movement began
In planning the program which viii
be staged in Mechanics Hall, and will
include eleven major sessions as well
as ten sectional meetings il smaller
halls for the more intimate treatment
and free discussion of live TOPICS the
underlying thought has been to dis
cuss the application of Pilgrim prin-
ciples to present day problems. and
to promote international friendship and
cooperation in Christian work Thus
the school, the college the university,
national and international affairs, the
problem of civic reform and social re-
adjustment, the reunion of Protestant
ism, the organization of democracy
and liberty,-all are scheduled for
consideration. And for speakers, in
addition to men of distinction from
abroad, there will be such well known
Americans as Raymond Robins of
Chicago ex-senator Burton of Ohio,
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts, Ex-Governor Osgood of Mich
igan, President Mary E. Woolley of
Mount Holyoke College; Roger W.
Babson, the well-known statistician;
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn,
New York; the Rev. Charles E. Jeffer-
son Of Broadway Tabernacle, New
York City; Dr. Charles R. Brown of
Yale School of Religion; President
Marion L. Burton of Michigan; Sena-
tor William S. Kenyon of Iowa; Rev.
Harry P Dewey of Minneapolis; Pres
ident W. Douglas Mackenzie of Hart
ford, Connecticut; Professor J. w
Buckham of California; Rev. George
A. Gordon, D. D. of Boston; and Miss
Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago
Erom England will come as dele
Uf@ Professor Robert Macintosh, a
SPsominent Glasgow graduate in phil
osophy, who has been minister of the
Congregational church at Dumfries
Rev John A. Patten, M. A., of Fps
wich, England, the young minister OF
one of the old East Anglican Congre-
gational cathedrals, who has made a
name for himself recently by reason
of book which contains the result
of his experiences as a chaplain fol
four years in Flanders; Sir Robert
Murray Hyslop, head of great firm
of iron founders, and treasurer oil
many leading Congregational organi-
cations in England; Rev Nelson Bit
ton, home secretary of the London
Missionary Society, who has rem
dered yeo.nan service to missions bott
in England and in China; DR.. Alexan