The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
PASTORS OF STATE
 ARE INVITED HERE :
 FOR CONFERENCE
Meeting of Evangelican Ministers Called In Inter- est of Interchurch
 World Movement

Every evangelical minister in Ala hama has been invited to attend the pastors conference under the auspices of the Interchurch World Movement to be held in Birmingham at the First Methodist Church March 3-5s inclusive. Responses received by Dr. James O- Grogan. state secretary of the move ment, are most encouraging, and the conference promises to be the greatest gathering of evangelical ministers ever held in Alabama.
 pr. Grogan expects approximately 900 pastors to be here, and he and his committee are working out plans for entertaining them during their ttree-day visit. It is probable that the Harvard plant of housing the minis- tcrs will be adopted. pr. Grogan also expects to be able to announce the definite programme of the conference shortly.
 The ministers of all denominations have been invited to attend the con- ference on an equal footing, as the Interchurch World Movement Is CO., operative organization of all the evan ge1ical churches. seeking to uncover conditions facing the churches and work out plans and efficient methods for solving these problems.
 FACE THE TASK
 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 programme of the Interehurch World Movement will be considered in the light of the foreign and home mission surveys made by the movement throughout the world during the last year.
 Outstanding leaders of the various denominations will join with the lead- CTS of the cooperative organization in presenting the facts obtained from the denominational and general sources All of these will be visualized by charts, maps and stereopticon slides.
 In order to present the subjects ir the most telling manner, five nationa teams have been organized to visit the forty-nine cities in which conferences are to be held in February and March Dr. John R. Mott, general secretary oi the international committee of the Y M. C. A. and the chairman Of the ex ecutive committee of the Interchurci World Movement, and Dr. S. Earl Fay Tor, who successfully conducted th' Methodist Centenary campaign and i TOW the general secretary of the Inter church World Movement, will b. among the speakers on the teams
 Other Interchurch World Movemen leaders on the teams include Dr. Abra ham E. Cory director of the field de partment: Dr. William Hiram Foulke of the New Era Movement, Dr. Will liam E. Doughty, director of the spir itual resources department; Dr. j i. Campbell White. director of the Tiff work department, and Dr. Ralph | Diffendorfer, director of the home mis sion survey department
 RETURNED MISSIONARIES
 TaaA.~ ..s- s.. AF on their furloughs will accompany eac team to describe the need for increase evangelistlc forces in the countries M which they have been stationed by the respective denominations Among tho! already designated as speakers are: Re ,a II. s. Vincent, connected with the Presby = terian Church in Siam: Prof George ' Huntley, a medical missionary of Il ~ Northern Baptist convention and col z nected with the Shanghai Baptist Coles z at Shanghai, China; the Rev. J. Springer a Methodist missionary in A rica: the Rev. w. H. Hanun, mission ! ary of the Presbyterian Church in Indi; 2 the Rev. J. W. Hawley, formerly g Methodist missionary in the same coul e try.
 - Leaders of home missionary work ( = the teams include Dr. John McDowe - secretary of the board of home mission / of the Presbyterian Church; pr. Rolv Harlan secretary of the American Ba tist Home Mission Society; pr. Ere erick W. Burnham of Cincinnati, co nected with the United Christian MI sionary Society; the Rev. John M. Moor - pastor of the Marcy Avenue Baptl Church of Brooklyn, and Dr., E. De = Brunner, head of the rure' Vrvey z vision of the survey dr Vt or | < Interchurch World
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