The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21
STEWARDSHIP
 TO BE SUBJECT OF ALL SERMONS
Every Pastor in Connecticut To Talk on This
 Topic.

The next step in the Interchurch World Movement program will be the devotion of the coming Sunday, Feb ruary 22, as Stewardship Sunday" This means that every pastor in Con- necdcut-and for that matter in the counry-has been asked to speak that day on the subject of Steward
 ship" It means an emphasis on the facts that ali property and wealth are gifts from above, and that their hold kers are in that sense stewards, not ai5- solute owners The purpose is to se- cure an acknowledgment of this ob- hgation, and to pledge to lay aside definite portion of income, preferably a "t1the'' or tenth, for the purposes of the church and it's work, to be dis tributed through local church and de- nominational channels To this end cards for signatures will be distrib' uted in all the churches on Sunday. Responses from the pastors of Con- necticut for the Interchurch World conference to be held at Center church in Hartford on Monday, Tues day and "Wednesday of next week in dicate a large attendance In addi- ton to the pastors of all Protestant churches, an invitation has been sent to the heads of the higher educa- tiona1 institutions colleges, seminar ies normal schools and some private schools
 The program will begin at O'Clock on Monday afternoon, when the opening address will be made
 probably by pr. Daniel A Polling, Of Boston, associate general secretary o9 the Interchurch World Movement
 known to all Endeavorers as asso-
 ciate president of the Worlds Chris tian Ezndeagor movement Dr. Rible is to speak on the foreign survey. In the evening there will be reports on
 the rural and city surveys of the state, by the Rev. RollO A KiIbourn and Robert E. Todd, heads of the respective departments
 On Tuesday the forenoon session
 will be devoted to religious educahons hospitals and homes, industrial rela- lions, ministerial relief, American education and the Statistical Mirror. In the afternoon the subjects consid- cred will be evangelism, the field program an outline of the financial campaign, and to sessions of state and county representatives At this session addresses are expected from Dr. Polling and Dr. Eddy
 The list of speakers includes Dr. George Sherwood Eddy, well known for his evangellstic work among the ; colleges, and head of the Y- M C. A work ih Asia, and Mrs Eddy; Rev. Dr. Edwin M Potest, president of Fuman university at GreenViIIe, s. C., but better known in Connecticut as the former pastor of Calvary Baptist church at New Haven; Rev. Dr. Abram Edward Cory, associate gen eraI secretary of the Interchurch field department, and for fifteen years a missionary in China; Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass, widely known as leader in women's mis- sionary effort, and now a member of the executive committee of the Inter church World movement; Dr. Frank w. Bible of Madison, N J., head of the Asia survey of the Interchurch, formerly for many years a missionary in China, and the Rev. Worth M. Tippy of New York, associate director of the Industrial Relations depart ment at the South Congregational church at Hartford.
 In the evening is promised an inn portant address on 'TNhe Needs of the World by Dr. Polling, and from Mrs Peabody on women's cooperation in
 the movement. Wednesday will be . devoted to denonIinational confer
 ences, to a report of the committee
 on findings and a discussion of it.
 and an address on the financaI cam
 pagn,
 In connection with this conference.
 yet in some ways distinct from it, will
 be a conference of the women of Con-
 necticut, to which have been invited
 the leading missionary workers and
 the leaders of general women's or
 ganizations, to the number of more
 than 200. Their sessions will be held
 at the First Baptist church. begin
 ming on Monday afternoon. The
 afternoon and evening sessions will be
 open, and the public is cordially in
 vited The sessions of the women's
 conference will close on Tuesday, and
 the program is still to be announced
 but among the speakers expected are
 Mrs Henry w. Peabody and Mrs George Sherwood Eddy