Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-18
NEARLY EVERY PREACHER OF
STATE TO De GATHERED IN
pes MONIES.
FIVE TEAMS TO VISIT
FoRTv-klNE CITIES
viii Hold Conferences In Selected
Towns - Specially Trained for
Work to b Undertaken by Inter-
church World Observation-Disclosures
Denominations Represented.
Special to Times-Republican

DeS MONIES, Feb. 18.-FOr the hrst
time In the history Of the state, 1t Is
believed, practically every minister in
Iowa will be gathered under one roof
when the three-day PASTORS Confer
ence for this state meets at Des
Moines, Feb. % to rs in the interest
of the interchurch world movement.
The general purpose of the confer
ence 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 program Of the
movement will be considered in the
light OF the foreign and home mis-
sion surveys made by the movement
thTuout the world during the last
year.
Outstanding leaders Of the various
denominations will join with the
leaders of the cooperative >organiza-
ton in presenting the facts obtained
from the denomination and general
sources. All Of these will be visualiz-
ed by charts maps and stereopticon
slides.
In order to enable the speakers to
present the subjects in the most tell
ing manner all who are TO be on the
five teams that viii visit the forty
nine cities in which conferences are
! to be held have been given q special
course Of training.
DR.. John r. Mott. general secretary
of the international committee Of the
Y. NJ. c. A. and the chairman of>the
executive committee OF the inter-
church world movement. and DR.. S.
Earl Taylor. who successfully con-
Quoted the Methodist centenary cam
paisn and is now the general secre-
tary of the interchurch world move-
ment,' will be among the speakers on
the teams.
Other interchurch world movement
lea ders on the teams include; DR..
| Abram f. Cory, Director of the Field
Department, DR.. William Hiram
EFoulkes of the New Era Movement,
DR.. William E. Doughty. director OF
the Life Work Department and DR..
Ralph E. Diffendorfer. director Of the
Nome Mission and Survey Depart
ment. 10
Returned missionaries in this
country on their furloughs will ac-
company each, team to describe the
in the countries in which they have
been stationed by their respective de-
nominations.
l
Among those already designated as
speakers are; Rev. n. 8. Vincent,
connected with the Presbyterian
church in Siam: Prof. George A..
Huntley, medical missionary of the
Northern Baptist convention and
connected with the Shanghai Baptist
College at Shanghai. China: Rev.
J. NJ. Springer, q Methodist mission
airy in Africa; Rev. W. H. Hanum. a
missionary of the Presbyterian
I church in India: Rev. ]. w. Hawley,
formerly a Methodist missionary in
the same country.
| Leaders Of home missionary work
on the team include DR.. John Nc
Dowell. secretary of the board of
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, who lost his left arm while
4 working in the coal mines at the age
of IA: Dr. Rolvix Harlan. secretary Of
the American Baptist Home Mission
Society: DR.. Frederick w. Burnham.
OF Cincinnati. connected with the
United Christian Missionary Society:
Rev. John NJ. Moore. pastor of the
Marcy Avenue Baptist church of
| mr. Il No mr.
head of the rural division of the sur
vey department OF the interchurch
world movement.
On each team will be or more
Of the women leaders. Among the wo-
men who will accompany the teams
are: Mrs. William f. Mcdowell, pre-
sident Of the Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary society Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; Mrs. Henry w.
Peabody, who presided over the re-
cent national conference of women in
Washington. D. c., Mrs. r. S. En-
rich, missionary to Turkey Of the
1 American board of commissioners for
foreign missions; Mrs. Halle Linn
Hill, national lecturer for the Wo-
mems interdenominational mission
airy board for the central west for
home and foreign missions: Mrs.
e. G. Cronk, associate field secretary
OF the interchurch world movement
and prominent in the Lutheran wo-
mons missionary circles. and Mrs. w.
IC. WinsborouEh, superintendent Of
the weman's Auxiliary Of the South.
arm Presbyterian church, e