Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-12-02 | Page 10 | Church Congress is to be Held in Salt Lake City

Church Congress I Is To Be Held In Salt Lake City it i The interchurch movement will hold I, a eonjrrs a1 the Pirsl Presbyterian church in Salt Lake, December 8, 9 and 10. This movement includes a j survey of the cities of the I'niled States for thp purpose ot gathering 1 religious, social, geographic and Industrial Indus-trial data. Rev. A G. Alderman who has charge lj of the work in Utah and Wyoming, navs that the world interchurch movement move-ment will be started in January Rev. ' R. Ciart-r, of the Methodist church, will be at the- brad of the movement in Ogden. Rov. Garver lays that Hie Inter-I Inter-I church movement is a world-wide movement by the evangelical Protestant Protest-ant churches and its idea i to make a world survey n is expected thai there will be a large number ot dele-l dele-l sates, who will aiifnd ihe conference in Salt Lake. One feature of the movement move-ment is raising a billion dollar- for the purpose of carrying on, not only I1 religious work, bul to carrj on the work of the reconstruction of the country, physically, socially, and In-'I! In-'I! dustrially ' j It Is expected that the pastors of 1 the Ogden churches will attend the conference, with a delegate represent ing every twenty members ol i b J, church Rev. Carver says thai this Is the biggest movement, that the ohurches have undertaken, and efforts ef-forts will be made to try and real b all the world in an adequate way. Rev. Garver has not completed the members of the local committee ol the I interchurch movement, but ho intimated inti-mated that Rev Godfrey Matthews and Dr J. Ray Palmer Will be among the member?. K At the meeting Rev. Floyd L Carr, pastor of the First Baptist church HI from Lynn Mass. will be one Dl the speakers. He will tour the west and j his mission will comprise organiza- ' tion woik In the lecture-conventions during the course; Rev. Palmer said many eminent speakers from all leading Protestant j I denominations of America will take J part on those three days.