Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-27
STOCKHOLM RELIGIOUS
 GATHERING TO DISCUSS
 VARIETY OF SUBJECTS

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26. (P)-Lead- CTS in religious work from all parts of theworld will attend the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Worki winch will begin August 19 and continue through August 30. The conference is unique in that, altho most of the conferees are clergymen, it will discuss practical problems of everyday life. The American dele gates, numbering about 10, expect to take home information which will be distributed to churches turnout the United States, bearing upon ques- tions of the day involving educa- tion, industry and economics.
 The program of the conference has been so arranged that certain periods will be devoted to the discussion of these topics. These discussions will be opened by the presentation of re- ports prepared by special commis- sions in tn United States, Great Brit ain and continental Europe The American Commissions started work on their reports more than a year ago under the leadership of some of the country's most distinguished clergymen.
 One of the most interesting reports will be presented by the Commits sion on "The Church and Christian Education," of which the Rev Wm. Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary, New York, is chairman. This topiic has aroused unusual h. terest on account of the present movement in the United States to bring about religious education thru the public school system Other com missions, with the names of the chairman of the American sectons are: "The Church and International Relations" joint chairman, Bishop Charles A. Brent of Buffalo and H. P. Faunce, president of Brown Uni Vresity; "The Church and Social and Moral Problems" joint chairman, Rev F. w. Burnham, President Unit ed Christian Missionary Society and Bishop James Cannon, jr., chairman of the Executive Committee of the Worlds League Against Alcoholism; "The Church and Economic and h. dustrial Problems" shairman, the Rev Smaller Mathews, dean of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago; Methods of Cooperative and Federative Efforts by Christian Communions," chairman, the Rev. R. E. Speer, secretary of the Presbyte- rian Board of Foreign Missions; "The Church's Obligation in View of Gods Purpose for the World" joint chair men, the Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and the Rev. Jas. I. Vance, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Nashville, Tenn.
 The American delegates have bee chosen by various Protestant denomi- nations, representa- tion being assign ed in proportion to the numerical strength of each denomination. The conference has been organized and fanced principally by the World AL liance for International Friendship Through the Churches, working thru it's 26 national branches all over the world. The Archbishop of Canter- bury, who is International President of the World Alliance, is one of the four joint presidents of the confer ence, the others being His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch of Con- stantinople; His Grace, the Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, chairman of the European section; and tn eRev. Arthur J. Brown of New York, chairman of the American Section.