Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-01-05
MISS BELLE Bennett
GOES TO CONFERENCE
OF Interchurch World Movement
In Atlantic City This Week
A Big Work Ahead

Monday morning for Atlantic
City to attend the great National
Conference of the Interchurch
World Movement which convenes
in that city on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this
week. More than a thousand
religious leaders from all parts of
the world will bel resent at this
meeting The dele. etes will rep
resent the various B, ards and So
Iclties and executive agencies
OF all Protestant evangelical
churches cooperating in this
movement.
For the first time, the united
Protestant denominations of the
world will come together to con-
slider just what the task of the
churches of North America, is.
A survey has been made of all the
home mission fields, foreign
fields, educational work, relief,
and other Christian benevolent
institutions. The results of this
world wide survey will be among
the topics for discussion at the
Atlantic City meeting The 'hnan-
cial drive, as we'll as the cam
paign for life service will be
taken up.
This conference is to be one of
the most important religious
gatherings of recent years, both
from the standpoint Of delegates
and business to be transacted.
The conference is expected to
outline the next six months
work to be undertaken by the
Interchurch World Movement
and to plan for the cooperation of
| the Christian forces Of America
in the mighty drive of the
christianization of the world
which is to be undertaken I'M
mediately by the forward move
ments of the various denomina-
Itions.
Conference sessions will be
held on the Steel Pier, in the
large auditorium One floor of
the auditorium has been set aside
for the general meetings, while
another will be devoted to the
exhibits of various departments
of the movement. Hotel head
quarters will be at the Hotel
Chalfonte, nearby. The rent of
the auditorium will be met by
the Atlantic City Publicity Blu
reau.
There will be few formal ad-
dresses at the conference, for
most of the work to be under
taken will be accomplished in
committees to be appointed on
various phases of the work. The
facts which have been secured
by the movement in nation wide
surveys and in surveys of the
foreign mission field will be pre-
sented to the delegates as basis
of action upon which to found the
program involved. The results of
the many conferences of religious
leaders which have recently been
held in oo of the principal centers
of America will also be placed
before the assembly to aid in
constructing theprogram.
A thousand delegates are ex-
Ipected to be present. These
have been officially chosen by the
various boards and other agen-
cies of the evangelical denomina-
tions cooperating with the In
Iterchurch World Movement.
At the conference it is proposed
to settle by mutual agreement
Iamong the participating denomi-
national agencies the date, in the
spring of 1920 for the united
simultaneous drive in which they
will appeal, each to its own con-
stituents and to the whole body
of American protestantisrn.
i The meeting will conclude on
Saturday, and will be followed on
Sunday and Monday by sessions
|of denominational group leaders,
On Monday the annual dinner OF
the Missionary Educational
:. Movement which is now merged
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