Evening star., 1932-04-30
800 ARE EXPECTED
TO ATTEND PARLEY
Congregational and Christian
Churches to Hold Annual
Conference.

Three hundred delegates and SOC
visitors from churches in New Jersey
Delaware, Maryland. Virginia and the
District of Columbia will meet at the
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
next Thursday afternoon for the open
ing of the sixth-fourth annual meeting
of the Middle Atlantic Conference of
Congregational and Christian Churches.
The final session of the conference VIII
be held Friday evening.
DR.. Gaius Glenn Atkins of Auburn
Theoloeical Seminary. conference chap
lain. will speak on THE Times and the
Task" at the opening devotional service
THURSDAY afternoon. and a communion
service will be conducted by Rev. Rus
sell ]. Clinchy minister OF Mount
Pleasant Church, and Rev P. S. Saller
of the Vanderveer Park Christian
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Open Forum.
Following the communion service DR.,
Buell. G. Gallagher of the Passaic, N. j.,
Congregational Church, will direct an
open forum on the subject Can the
Churches Crystalize an Industrial CIV
ilization2" DF. d. Butler Pratt OF
Mount Pleasant Church will be toast
master at dinner for delegates
early Thursday evening, with pub
lie service at 8 o'clock, when the
Mount Pleasant Congregational Chorus,
Under the direction of Claude Robson,
prganist. and Norton NJ. Little, chorister,
will present an opening musical pro-
gram. The conference sermon VIII ce
preached by Rev. George A. Butrlck,
minister Of the Madison Avenue Pres
byterian Church, New York CITY, ana
college preacher at Yale, Princeton,
University of Chicago, johns HOPKINS
wellesley and VaSsar.
After a business session early FRIDAY
morning the conference will hear an
address bv DR.. Luther A. Weigle, dean
of Yale Divinity School, on Ihe
Church's Responsibility for It's Youth,
end will then divide in three seminar
groups with the following themes and
discussion leaders: Who Shall Be
Trained?" DR.. Weigle; Personality
Development of the Child Miss Jessie
La Sale. assistant superintendent OF
washington schools, and Drama ana
Pageantry in the Local Church. Rev.
Z. T. Buehrer of Haworth, N. j.
Reports to Be Made.
Reports of activities in various sec
tlOnS OF the conference 6lilColS "AA
be given Friday afternoon by Rev. A. J.
Buttrey of Park Ridge, N. j.; Rev. W. ..
Alexander of Brooklyn, N. Y; Rev.
r H, Davidson of Vlneland, N. j.; Rev.
s G. Gozzo of Clifside, N. j.; Rev;
w. C. Hook of Frostburg, Nd, ana
Rev. C. S. Shelton of Portsmouth, va
At a young peoples banquet at the
ingram Memorial Church at o'clock
Friday Rev. A. A. Stockdsle OF tne
First Congregational Church Will De
toastmaster. followed by the mai seS-
sion of the conference at 8 O'Clock,
when Rev. George Farnham OF the
cleveland Park Congregational Church
will conduct a devotional service, ana
DR.. Leon E. Smith, president-elect OIL
Zion College, N. c., will deliver the
closing address.
Local arrangements for the con-
ference have been made under the OIL
rection of Rev. Mr.. Clinchy, minister
of Mount Pleasant Church, by a com
rnittee of which Norton M. Little Is
chairman, in cooperation with MEM
hers of other Washington Congrega-
tional churches. The conference ses-
sions will be under the supervision Oh
Rev. w. w. Patton of Glen Ridge:
N J.. moderator Rev. w. H. Haner OF
Irvington, N. j., assistant moderator
and Rev. Walter Spooner OF Newark
N. j., superintendent.