The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1920-04-01
COUNTY CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD IN APRIL
Interchurch World Movement
to Send Big Team
Here.
70 SHOW RESULTS OF SURVEYS
All Local Protestant Churches Cooper
atlng IN Movement VIII Be
Represented.

Movement will hold its conference II
being selected by the local Protestan
Churches of denominations associated
with the movement, and from presen
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, a very excep-
tionaI county that does not hear some
more or less unpalatable truths con-
corning unchurched areas, or wasteful
competition, or underpaid and abb
sentee preachers. Not many counties,
it 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 full consideration Of local
problems, the program at the county
conference will present the outstand-
ing results OF the worldwide survey Of
religious, social and economic condi-
tions made by the Interchurch Move
ment, the material for which has been
gathered from every corner Of the
earth. Special emphasis will also be
laid on the place Of prayer in Christian
life. the Importance of assisting young |
people in the right choice of their life
work and the duty of laying aside
definite proportion of income for re-
ligious purposes. Lantern slides will |
be freely used to illustrate the various |
addresses.
The conference will be managed by |
local committees, and the various top
les under discussion will be handled by
q team of from five to eight men and
recognized As church leaders
In the county or state. This team, in
addition to the local meetings, will be
for conducting the confer
snces In seven other counties.
Dig Educational Campaign Prepared.
This series Of conferences repre-
tents only an intermediate stage in q
great campaign of intensive education
n practical Christianity preparatory to
he united appeal for missionary funds
md workers which will be held by the
Protestant denominations cooperating
n the Interchurch Movement between
APRIL rs and May g. The members of
he team that will address the county
onfsrence were themselves trained as
faculty" of specialists in the various
spects Of the Movement at a series
I state and pastors conferences. Sim
arly, those who attend the county
difference will in turn form fac
lty" for interpreting the message of
ne Interchurch Movement to their To-
al churches.
Thus it 10 expected that before April
the IDEAL Of church cooperation ad-
coated by the Interchurch World
Iovement, In place of church COM
etition, and the program Of evangel- {
alton that goes with it, will be IA :
iliar to every one of the fifty million
roteztants in the United States.