International Lord’s Day Congress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1915

International Lord’s Day Congress

ONE of the most significant conventions to be held at the Panama-Pacific Exposition is the Lord’s Day Congress, which will begin July 27 and continue until August 1. In this convention the Lord’s Day Alliance of the United States unites with the Lord’s Day Alliance of Canada in the consideration of methods for the preservation of the Sunday sabbath. Of this convention the President of the United States has been appointed honorary chairman, with Hon. Alton B. Parker as chairman, and Hon. W. J. Bryan, a former Cabinet officer, and Hon. Wm. B. Wilson and Hon. Josephus Daniels, present Cabinet officers, among the chief speakers. Catholicism joins hands with professed Protestantism in this convention. The convention will be opened by Gov. Hiram Johnson of California, with an address of welcome. At the afternoon session on July 28, Rt. Rev. Edward J. Hanna, who was appointed by Pope Pius X as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, and Mgr. M. J. Lavelle, vicar-general of New York, will have prominent places on the program. This session will be presided over by the governor of Idaho. The evening session on July 30 will be presided over by Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansas. The publicity bureau of the convention states that with the President of the United States acting as honorary chairman, and the Secretary of Navy and of Labor and former Secretary of State participating in the program, there is lent to the congress the further dignity of a great nation. The Sunday law advocates expect a great impetus to be given the Sunday enforcement campaign as a result of this convention.