The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

6CDU hliooAoAA1AJ A"AAJ S'SA held in New England is being plan ned by the Congregational and Christian churches for hte weekend Saturday to Monday, October 19 to 21, in Central and Beneficient churches, Providence, R. I.
 It will be a joint convention of the fifth biennial All-New England Regional meeting and the annual meeting of the National or Home land boards of the united denomi- nations.
 The presiding officers will be the Rev. James F. English, pastor, First church, Manchester, N. H., and chairman of the regional committee, and the Rev. Dr. William Horace Day, pastor, United church, Bridge port, Conn.,, and president of the national boards.
 The opening address will be given Saturday morning by the Rev. Dr. Jay T. Stocking, pastor, First church in Newton, Mass, and moderator oi the general council of the Congre- gational and Christian Churches of the United States. His theme will be, Enduring Motives for Missions.
 The recent progress in organized mission work in United States will be surveyed in addresses by many speakers. The work began with the formation of the Connecticut Mis- sionary society in 1798 and in 1t the New England churches for 137 years have been leaders.
 Interdenominationa developments which eliminated this year in the national comity agreement adopted by the boards of six of the largest denominations comprising half of Professionalism in America, will be reviewed by the Rev. Dr. Herman N. Morse, New York, N. Y., admin istrative secretary of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyter- ian Church in the U. s. A., and chairman of the general committee on the flve-year program of survey and adjustment of the interdenomi- national Home Missions council.
 Younger workers in Congrega- tional and Christian missionary pro- jects will be to the front. Buell. G.. Gallagher, who was ipaugurated two years ago at Talladega, Ala, as the youngest college president in the United States will speak on ad- vances in higher education for Me- groes in the south. .. Marguerite Davison, who has pio- neered in a new type of field work as "Extension Service Worker in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, will speak of the Cumberland moun- taineerS.
 Alan T. Jones, honor graduate Of Rutgers college and Union The ological seminary, New York city, and winner of fellowship for study abroad, will speak on rural religious reconstruction to which he has applied himself since his return in 1881 as pastor of the Friendship Larger parish of four country church at Waycross, Ga, and its vicinity.
 A young peoples rally and sup per will be held Saturday afternoon and evening with Porter Bower Of Hartford, Conn, director of religious education for the Connecticut Con gregational and Christian confer ence, presiding. President Gallagher, Miss Davison and MT. Jones will also speak at the young peoples ses- sion and Professor Robert Seneca Smith of Yale Divinity school will give an address on "The New World and the New Person."
 The All-New England Regional meetings were instituted in 1928, the first being at Manchester, N. H., and subsequently, at New Britain, Conn, 1929; Portland, Me, 1881; Pittsfield, Mass. 1883. The New England regional delegates will rep resent 1854 churches in 73 associ- ations of the six state conferences The communicant members of the churches number 342,025 and the total affiliated constituency 1,025,- 900.
 The annual meeting of the na- tional boards will bring delegates from all parts of the country. In the boards are continued the oldest national educational and home mis- sionary societies in America,-the American Education society. found- ed 18l6; and the American Homo Missionary society. founded 1926. Also included Is the American Mis- sionary association. founded l846, and the first agency to undertake educational work for the freed slaves; the American Congregations al Union, founded 1853, which spe- cializcs in church building, chang ing it's name later to Church Build ing society and which has assisted