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Show ! ilVOflLD ALLfAHCE i FOH FRIENDSHIP H TOLlEETLIll i . . 'J f More Than Hundred Dele-i Dele-i I " gate From AH Orer the , ! ; -. ' World to Consider Topics j ; of Importance to Nations j 1 t COPENHAGEN. Aug i Clergymen I i and rellgioua workera from all part I , ef tha world will gather here anon ta I . attend the meeting of the International j . Committee of tha World Alliance for . J International Prlendahlp through the ! ; ehurchea. whirh will open Auiruat T ) j '.and continue throuah to August 11. f ! i One of the main toplca will ba limlta-' limlta-' . tlon of armameata. and It la expected I ' that the conference will adopt rrse. j lutlona appealing to tha nations of tha ' j world and recommending to tha chuch-, chuch-, ' 7 aa methoda nf co-operative work to. ; ; ward this end. I j j Among tha mora than ona hundred I 1 delegatea representing tha twenty-nine eounclls of the world alliance who, are ' coming, will ba a large number of " " prointiieiii -rAiiiei lean ' iiiIiiIrIpi a, 'tn- i .eluding Dr. Nehemiah Pnynton, form- arly moderator of the Conerrgatlonal i Council and pastor of the Clinton Aya-( Aya-( 'nut Congregational Church of Brook-i Brook-i ; lyni Dr. Charlea E. Jefferaon. pastor , of tha Bronrtway Tahamacla, New York; Dr. William T. Merrill, pastor of j I ; tha Brick Pre. by terian 'Church. New I , ,' York, and chairman of tha world al-1 al-1 't Dane and the church peace union; Dr. ! ; Henry A. Atkinson, general secretary . of tha two last-named organisations; ! ' Dr. Charlea 8. Macfarland, general aea-I aea-I . ' rotary of the federal council of ehurchea j .of Christ: Dr. Arthur J. Brown, aeere. i ( tary pf, tha Presbyterian Missionary , t ancletV; President W. H. P. Faunre of ' Brown University: Professor - Wlllam I. Hull of Swarthmore College; Ham-- Ham-- ' llton Holt of New York; Dr. Frederick Lynch, Mr. Oeorse A. Plimpton, the , Bey. A. Z. Conrad, tha Rey. Laurlta ( laraen. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot. Dr. An-I An-I eon P. Atterbury and Mr. John Harrey Dr. Boynton. who la chairman of tha I International committee, will preside, i : A report on tha Washington conference I .' for limitation of armamente will ba r resented by Prof.ssoe Hull, and -tha i i meeting will consider resolutions adopt-: adopt-: j ed at the seventh annual meeting of the world alliance, held last May la j , Cleveland, Ohio, which urged tha ( 1 1'nlted States government to partlcl-i partlcl-i ' rata In tha court of International Jua-tice; Jua-tice; favored tha progressiva reduction of armaments, and railed upon tha American people to cultivate and prae- j ttco tha art af thinking In "terma of j peace and International good will" and i to "find and apply the peaceful meth-j meth-j oda of settling International dtffer , encea with honor and credit to tba na-1 na-1 tinns. ' Th rMU" ef tu,' ""bor eon-. eon-. dltlons In tha United Statee. Oreet ' Britain. France. Germany, Denmark. Hungary. Austria, Holland and Serbia ! wl" be reported by nine committees appointed last January for this pur. p"e. and the conditions thua analysed will be brought to the attention of the rational gnvernmente concerned. On the baala of these recommendations tha churche of the world will he asked to Ifl do their part In reconstructing the In- H 1 dutrlal order. II j One session win ba devoted to a 'II discussion of racial and religious mln- or ties, and how the ehurchea may i Kelp In preserving the rights and lib-ertiea lib-ertiea of such minorltlea. The Ameii. can deleratea will present a reeolu- tu.n. adopted at tha Cleveland meeting which urgea the government of the I nlted States to co-operate with Great Jiritaln. or any other nation or nations. V ?V7,tlr"n """ practiced en , Chri.tiana In the Neer Eaat. The discussions will be carried on In Enall.h. rYench. German and Danish, and the proceedings of the conference , win be published in these four langu- S 1 |