World's Christian Citizenship Conference

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 1, 1910

World's Christian Citizenship Conference

The first session of the World's Christian Citizenship Conference convened at Philadelphia, Pa., November 16-20. Representatives were present from nearly all the great mission fields of the world—earnest, enthusiastic men and women. The purpose of the convention was to indoctrinate the missionaries on all the foreign stations with the ideas of National Reformism, so that the work of bringing in the kingdom of Christ through the function of the ballot-box might go on simultaneously in all corners of the earth. It was evident from a number of the speeches made by those who had been laboring in countries where religion and the state have been united, that the National Reform Association has a considerable task on its hands to make these missionaries believe that the system of state-churchism is a commendable one. Some of these missionaries have seen that system at work, and condemned it unstintedly as an oppressive and persecuting one. It was claimed that there were about fifteen hundred delegates in attendance. C. M. Snow, of the REVIEW editorial staff, attended the convention, and a report of the proceedings will appear next week.