Show BIG RAL Y CONGRESS IN CHICAGO ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS WOULD christianize WORLD every protestant church in Ar america represented at immense meeting which Is addressed Addre saed by many eminent mon men chicago for four days beginning may 3 chicago was the scene of ft a most extraordinary gathering tho the Lay haymans Ln mans national missionary con gress every protestant church in america was represented and the del agates ere men of affairs from all over tho the country who cams came here to consider plans for the iho evangelization of the entire world they numbered 4 in all among them were men of national and international prominence for mer eife vice president fairbanks attend ed as a representative of the methodist episcopal church several gov ernora were present united states senators dolliver Doll lver of iowa and dev bev cridge of indiana and former senator teller of colorado were vere present at the first session A number of former governors vernora go of states were registered among them were former governor govern 0 r gladley of missouri former governor govern 0 r yates batea of illinois and former governor hanley of indiana soldiers sailors Bai lors business busl nesa men professional men and ministers were in attendance the congress closed on friday close of remarkable campaign this convention marked the close of a remarkable religious campaign during the winter inter and spring nils mis flonary conventions were held beld under the auspices of the laymen 9 MIS flonary movement in 76 75 of the lend len d ing cities of the country the cam laign began at buffalo Iluf falo on october 16 the at chicago wua wits thu tha ell max of the series of conent conventions ions A national missionary policy was nas adopted this policy will III he rent cent to 41 w I 1 it john B sleman the woi ida missionary conference at edinburgh scotland on june 14 where it Is expected to exert a pro found conference the delegates were apportioned amongst the various protestant churches of america in accordance with mith their membership and gifts to missions mIgs lons the methodist episcopal church led with ith GOD COD dele gates the presbyterian church was second with men the the north ern baptist church had bad a quota of men while the southern baptist con edtion sent men the southern Sont heru methodist church was nas represented by by men en the protestant Protis tant eosco pat pal church appointed delegates most of the he other churches bad and pro onite representation the various sessions were held in n the auditorium the con gregg opened with the singing of I 1 crown him lord of all right reverend charles P anderson episcopal bishop of chi cago made the opening address ile he epcke on tho the will of christ for the world dwelling upon the need of church unity bishop W V L M me c dowell of the methodist episcopal church made the second address the first evening was devoted to talks by 3 campbell white general secretary of the laymen a missionary movement and J A macdonald editor of the toronto globe notable list of speakers among the speakers ap eakers on the program were prince T 11 II yun of korea J A TI macdonald acDonald editor of the toronto globe robert R F speer secretary of the presbyterian hoard of foreign missions william J pres ident of the he aties union of 1 new york alfred K C marling of new york mornay WIIl lims ims chair chairman linan of the new york state board of char atles clement chase of omaha ilow how ard A kelly of baltimore samuel B capen of boston john it II pepper of memphis tenn it II na M formerly mayor of kansas city george sherwood She rood eddy of india robert II if gardiner of boston col elijah W il halford alford private secretary to the late president harrison during his ad ministration thomas tipped and william H lewis leuis of seattle rt ft A long of kansas pity city john B sleman of washington founder of the movement william E sweet of denver charles A dovland of athens cal go alfred E marling of new nevi york judge selden P spencer of st N W V rowell nowell of montreal john R pepper of memphis and missionaries from ill over the world |