The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-05
World Religionists to
t-,:a Gather IN Copenhagen

SHPSnuaSen, aug. 4.-ClerRymen
and religious workers from all parts
Of the world will gather here early
this month to attend the meeting of
the International Committee of the
World Alliance for International
Friendship through the Churches,
which will open August z and con-
Sinue through. August II. One of the
main topics will be limitation of ar
mamerts, and it is expected that the
Conference will adopt resolutions ap-
pealing to the nations of the world
and recommending to the churches
methods Of cooperative work toward
this end
Among the more than one hun
dred delegates representing the 90
national councils of the World Alli-
ance who are coming will be a large
number of prominent American min
listers, including DR.. Nehemiah Boyn-
ton, formerly Moderator of the Con-
gregational Council and pastor of the
Clinton Avenue Congregational
church of Brooklyn; DR.. Charles E.
Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway
Tabernacle, New York; DR.. William
p. Merrill, pastor Of the Brick Pres
byterian church, New York, and
chairman of the World Alliance and
the Church Peace Union; DIR. Henry
A. Atkinson, general secretary of the
two last named organizations; DIR.
Charles S. Macfarland, general Sec
retary Of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ; DIR. Arthur J.
Brown, secretary of the Presbyterian
Missionary Society; President w. H.
P. Faunce of Brown University; Pro
fessor William I. Hull of Swath-
more College; Hamilton Holt, of New
York; DR.. Frederick Lynch, Mr..
George A. Plimpton, the Rev. A. z.
Conrad, the Rev. Lauritz Larsen, DR..
Samuel A. Eliot, DR.. Anson P. At
terbury and Mr.. John Harvey.
DIR. Soynton, who is chairman Of
the International committee, will pre-
side. A report on the Washington
Conference for Limitation of Arma-
ments will be presented by Professor
Hull, and the meeting will consider
resolutions adopted at the Seventh
Annual Meeting of the World Alli-
ance, held last May in Cleveland, O.,
which urged the United States gov
arnment to participate in the Court
of International Justice; favored the
progressive reduction of armaments,
and called upon the American people
to cultivate and practice the art of
thinking in terms of peace and in
ternational good will and to "fnd
and apply the peaceful methods of
settling international differences
with honor and credit to the nations"
The result of a study Of labor con-
ditions in the United States, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Denmark,
Hungary, Austria, Holland and Ser
bia will be reported by nine commit
tees appointed last January for this
purpose, and the conditions thus an
.lyzed will be brought to the atten-
tion of the national governments
concerned. On the basis of these rec
concentrations the churches of the
world will be asked to do their part
in reconstructing the industrial or
der.
One session will be devoted to Il
discussion of racial and religious mi
1orities, and how the churches may
help in preserving the rights and lib
erties of, such minorities. The Am
erican delegates will present a reso-
luton, adorted at the Cleveland
meeting, which urges the government
of the United States to cooperate
with Great Britain, or any other ma
tion or nations, in Investigating afro
cities practiced on Christians in the
Near East.
The discussions will be carried on
IN English, French, German and Dan
ish, and the proceedings of the con-
ference will be published in these four
languages.