New Britain herald., 1925-08-15
B|G
 CHURCH SESSION
Variety Of Subjects Are to Be
 Taken Up

N'oNhHolIll, AuE' 10 Nl -- Leaders In all religious work from all parts Of the world will attend tho Uni NcrSal Christian conference on life and work which will begin August l9 and continue through August "o. The conference is unique in that although most of the conferecs arc Clorgymcn, it will discuss practi- cal problems of everyday life. The American delegates, mum b ering about l50, expect to take home in- formation which will he distributed to churches throughout the United States bearing upon questions of tn" day involving education, in dustry and economics.
 The program of the conference has heen so arranged that certain periods will be devoted 10 the dis cussion ot these topics. These dis cussions will be opened by the pre- s"niatton of reports prepared by special commissions In the United States, Great Britain and continental Europe, The American commissions started work on their reports more than a year ago under the leader ship of som" of the county's most distinguished C|crgymen.
 One of the most interesting re- ports will he presented by the com- mission on The Church and Chris tan Education" of which the Rev. William Adams Brown of Union Theological seminary, New York, is chairman, This topic has aroused unusual interest on account of the present movement in the United States 10 bring about religious edu- cation through the public school system. Other commissions, with the names of the Chairmen of the Amer ican sections are: The Church and international Relations" joint chairmen, Bishop Charles A. Brent of Buffalo and Il. P Faunce. presi- dent of Brown uniyersity; The Church and Social and Moral Prob I'ms,' joint chairmen, Rev r. w.. Burnham, president United Chris ton Missionary society, and Bishop James Cannon, Jr., chairman of the executive committee of the Worlds league against alcoholism; "The Church and Economic and Indus- trial prOhIcmS." chairman, the Rev. Smaller Matthew's dean of tho Divin- fly school of the University Of Chi CagO; "Mcthods of Cooperative and l'cdcratiyc Efforts by Christian COnnnunionS." chairman, the Rev. Robert F.. Spcer, secretary of the Presbyterian board Of foreign mis- sions; "Thc Church's Obligation in View of Gods Purpose for the World" joint Chairmen, the Rev, ]. | Ross Stevenson, president of Prince ! ton Theological seminary and inc
 Rev, James l. Vance. pastor of ! l'irs. Presbyterian church of Nash 1 vile. Tenn,
 The American delegates have
 been chosen by various Protestant i denominations, representation being aSSlS'cu ln proportion 10 the nu- mcrical strength of each dFnomina- ton. The conference mas Decn or canl2ed and financed principally by the World alliance for international friendship through tho churches, working through it's 26 national branches all over the world. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, who is international president Of the World alliance, is one of the four joint presidents Of the conference, the others being His Holiness the Ecu menical Patriarch of Constanti- noplo; His Grace, the Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom. Archbishop of psaa, chairman of the European section; and the Rev. Arthur J. Brown, of New York, chairman of tho American section.