The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-25
COUNTY CONFERENCE
TO Be HELD IN APRIL
Interchurch World Movement
to Send Big Team"
Here.
TO SHOW RESULTS OF SURVEYS
All Local Protestant Churches Cooper
atnq in Movement VIII Be
Represented.
TO SHOW RESULTS OF SURVEYS

Early in April the Interchurch World
Movement will hold its conference I'D
this county. Representatives are now
being selected by the local Protestant
Churches of denominations associated
with the movement, and from present
reports the attendance at the confer
ence will number well into the hun
dreds. In addition to the representa-
tives selected by the churches, the
conference will be open to all church
members and friendly citizens who
wish to attend.
The meeting place probably will be
the county seat, and the attendance
will be composed of the membership
of the Protestant churches OF the
county.
The conferences will last one day
only During that day will be present
ed the whole program OF the Inter
church World Movement for promoting
cooperation in missionary and general
church activities among the Protestant
churches. Time will also be given to
discussion of the local problems re-
vealed by the Interchurch Movements
survey of religious conditions through
out the United States.
This county conference will be just
one of the 2000-odd to be held through
out the United States on approximate
ly the same dates.
No Sidesteppins of Problems.
It will be, it is said, very excep-
tional county that does not hear some
more or less unpalatable truths con-
corning unchurched areas, or wasteful
competition, or underpaid and alb
sentee preachers. Not many counties.
II is stated, are able to show an aver
age ministerial salary higher than the
average for the whole United States,
which is 1897, while barely one-third
of the entire Protestant population of
the United States, according to esti-
mates made by the Interchurch survey,
has an opportunity for regular church
attendance.
Besides a full consideration of local
problems, the program at the county
conference will present the outstand
religious, social and economic condi
tions made by the Interchurch Move
ment, the material for which has beer
gathered from every corner of thu
earth. Special emphasis will also b'
laid on the place of prayer in Christian
life, the importance of assisting younl
people in the right choice of their lif'
work and the duty of laying aside
definite proportion of income for re
ligious purposes Lantern slides viii
be freely used to illustrate the variou
addresses.
The conference will be managed b
local committees, and the various tor
ics under discussion will be handled b
q team of from five to eight men an
women, recognized as church leader
in the county or state. This team, |
addition to the local meetings, will b
responsible for conducting the COME
ences in seven other counties.
Bio Educational Campaign Prepare
This series of conferences repr
sents only an intermediate stage in
great campaign of intensive educatic
in practical Christianity preparatory
the united appeal for missionary fun'
and workers which will be held by Il
Protestant denominations co-operatil
In the Interchurch Movement betwe,
April 25 and May 2. The members
the team that will address the coun
conference we're themselves trained
faculty" of specialists in the vario
aspects of the Movement at a seri
Of state and pastors conferences. 81
ilarly, those who attend the coun
conference will in turn form a If
ulty" for interpreting the message
the Interchurch Movement to their
cal churches.
Thus it is expected that before AT
20 the ideal of church cooperation
vocated by the Interchurch Wo
Movement, in place of church &C
petition, and the program of evans
nation that goes with it. will be
miliar to every one of the fifty mill
Protestants in the United States.