Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-17
UNITED CHRISTIAN
ACTIVITIES URGED
Unificati0n Pleas Made at
Opening Session of So
cieties Here.
COMMUNITY WORK AIM
Dr.. Freeman Blames Clergy for
Blocking Proposals. for
Cooperation.
COMMUNITY WORK AIM

Strong pleas for the ratification of
the work Of Christian churches in the
communities were made today at the
opening sessions in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church of the
Conference of the Allied Christian So
cieties engaged in community work.
Speakers told the delegates that IL
was only by establishing a spirit of
cooperation and forgetting the de-
nominauonal angie when the COM
nunity was involved, could there be
success OF the community work
The meeting was opened by Fred B.
Smith Of New York. president There
were short devotional services. fol-
lowed by singing by the International
Association Quartet.
Delegates Are Elected.
The following delegates were NOM
mated and elected as members of the
Steering commit5ee; Or John NJ
Churches, Brooklyn, n. Y, is chair
man; DR.. l. w. McCreary. Baltimore.
Nd. Federal Council of Churches:
Miss Florence E. Quinlan, New York
city. Council of Women for Home
~
New York, Home Missions Council; c.
K. Calhoun. New York city, the In
ternational Committee Of Young Mems
Christian Associations; Hugh Magill.
Chicago, international Sunday School
Council of Religious Education; MISS
Mabel Head, Chicago. National Board
OF the Young Womens Christian As
ISOLATION: DIR. n. Boynton, Brooklyn,
N Y. World Alliance of Churches for
International Friendship. and A j.
IL
ganiIation.
A motion by Dr. A. w. Anthony
was passed authorizing the chairman
of the committee to name three or
more additional members at large.
In opening the conference Mr.
Smith sounded the keynote when he
said that there was great need of
the coordination of the work OF all
such organizations.
100 Per Cent Perfection.
Mr. Smith said:
I'VE are here with these Christian
agencies to SO coordinate our plans
to see that III The future if any
one attacks anything that any one
of US holds dear, that all of us will
go after them 1t will bring 100 per
cent perfection and common accord.
In the past we haven't had this CO.
operation and in the past five years
have been discouraged many times
when / have seen organizations and
societies building up programs to-
tally Nnconscious OF what other or
eanizafYons In the same community
were doing.
Welcomed by DIR. Freeman.
DR.. James E Freeman. rector of
the Church of the Epiphany here. in
OF the local committee, compared
the present meeting with the confer
ence on limitation of armament here.
When that body met he said. 1t had
before 1t problems on which nations
never before had been able to agree.
Nobody, he said, can exagserate the
gravity of the present situation in
which the world today finds itself.
He placed the blame for the failure
of this cooperation on, the clergy,
and said that If it had been left to
the laymen It would have been sue
cessf lilly. solved long ago.
Il have no apology to make to the
house Of bishops in the matter when
say that-we Of the clergy are him
dering this thing. Many of us are
this great movement for unity OF
Christian brethren"
No One-Chureh Purpose.
He made 1t plain that there was no
purpose in such q movement or any
desire to make all one church. The
great question before the conference.
he said. is not what would thee
church have US Go. but wha; would II !.
have US do
Prof. E. c. Lindeman of New York
city spoke on The Christian Church
as an Adaptable Institution. and
Some Adaptations Which the Future
Demands"
The session closed with prayer.
following which the delegates went
into group conferences at luncheons
held in various parts Of the city. An
other session began at ESQ o'clock
this afternoon, at which the work
of the various societies was pre-
scented, followed by discussion. Bishop
James Cannon, ir. of Norfolk, Va,
is to speak on THE Moral Tendencies
Of the Postwar Years"
70 Session Due Tonight.
There will be a session tonight, at
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church where all of the general ses-
efons are being held. and to which
the general public is invited. Fol-
lowing devotional service, adj
dresses will be delivered on The
World Outlook. Is it Peace or War.
brotherhood or Revolution?" by Rev.
Nehemiah Boynton. chairman OF
World Alliance of Churches, Brook
Ign, NJ Y; Rev. Ashby NJ. Jones.
pastor, Ponce De Leon Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Ga.
The morning session will open to-
morrow at 10 o'clock. and the con-
ference will close with the session
at o'clock tomorrow night.