The Program of the World's Christian Citizenship Conference to Be Held in Philadelphia Nov. 16-20, 1910
We have not space to give this program in full; we therefore omit the general devotional exercises of every day, many of the reports from various countries, and the general addresses by members, and note only the leading addresses. The object and scope of the conference is fairly given.
Opening Session
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2:30 P. M.
Addresses of Welcome — By Gov. E. S. Stuart and Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh.
Response — By the President, Dr. S. F. Scovel.
Address — "The Moral Accountability of Nations," T. P. Stevenson, D.D., LL.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Address — "The Bearing of National Life on Personal Religion," O. P. Gifford, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts.
NOVEMBER 17, 9:30 A. M.
Report — "The British Government and the Christian Religion," The Rev. John Lynd, D.D., Belfast, Ireland.
Report — "British Administration in India," The Rev. Charles E. Parker, Methodist Episcopal Missionary in India.
Report — "The German and Holland Governments and Christianity," The Rev. Dr. James F. Dickie, Berlin, Germany.
Address — "Political Changes in the Near and Farther East as Related to the Kingdom of Christ," The Rev. C. A. R. Janvier, D. D., returned missionary from India.
Address — "Christ the Ruler of Nations," The Rev. W. I. Wishart, D.D., Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
NOVEMBER 17, 2:30 P. M.
Report — "The French and Belgian Nations and Christianity," Prof. O. G. Guerlac, Editor of the Protestant Christian Daily Journal, Paris.
Address — "National Responsibility Toward the Negro Race," J. W. Holley, D.D., Atlanta, Georgia.
Address — "Providential Preparation of the World for the Kingdom of Christ."
Address — "Christian Governments and Foreign Missions," The Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D., Secretary Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.
NOVEMBER 17, 7:45 P. M.
Address — "Christian Civilization and the Liquor Traffic," The Hon. J. Frank Hanley, Ex-Governor of Indiana.
Address — "The Children of the Nation and the Foes to Moral Purity," Anthony Comstock, New York.
Address — "The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ as an Aid to Civic Betterment," The Rev. H. B. MacCauley, D.D., Trenton, New Jersey.
NOVEMBER 18, 9:30 A. M.
Report — "Mohammedanism and National Life," The Rev. John Van Ess, D.D., Missionary in Arabia.
Report — "The Roman Catholic Countries of Southern Europe," The Rev. G. T. Berry.
Addresses — "National Christianity and Public Education," The Rev. Henry C. Minton, D.D., Trenton, New Jersey; The Rev. Robert Ellis Thompson, D.D., LL.D., President Central High School, Philadelphia.
Address — "The Lord's Day and National Welfare," The Rev. David J. Burrell, D.D., President of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches.
NOVEMBER 18, 2:30 P. M.
Report — "National Christianity in the United States," The Rev. R. C. Wylie, D.D., LL.D., Pittsburg.
Address — "Foreign Missionary Educational Work a Basis for Christian Commonwealths," F. E. Meigs, D.D., University of Nankin, China.
Address — "Emigration and Immigration as Related to Christian Citizenship," Bishop William Horn, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.
NOVEMBER 18, 7:45 P. M.
Address — "Responsibility of Municipal Governments for Morals and Religion," The Hon. H. B. F. McFarland, Washington.
Address — "Peace by Arbitration," The Hon. John W. Foster, Washington.
Address — "The Inadequacy of Other Religions than Christianity to the Needs of National Life."
NOVEMBER 19, 9:30 A. M.
Address — "National Religious Observances," The Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., LL.D., President of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor.
Address — "National Christianity in Fundamental Law," The Rev. Sylvester F. Scovel, D.D., LL.D., Wooster University.
NOVEMBER 20, 4:00 P. M.
Address — "National Religion and World-Wide Evangelism," The Rev. J. F. Carson, D.D., Brooklyn.
Address — "A Revival of National Religion," The Rev. H. H. George, D.D., Pittsburg.
Address — "The Civic Mission of the Christian Church," The Rev. J. T. McCrory, D.D., Pittsburg.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, a magnificent structure costing millions, recently dedicated free from debt.
About 800,000 acres of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana has been thrown open to highest bidders. Persons will not be required to show any qualifications as to age, citizenship, or otherwise. Likewise about 700,000 acres will be opened to the public within the former Uinta Indian reservation in Utah, on November 1.
The whole state of California is joining in the campaign to advertise San Francisco as the location for the Panama-Pacific Exposition to be held in 1915. Two million post-cards have been sent out to be distributed over all the country by enthusiasts, necessitating an extra force of postal clerks in handling the mail.
It is said that the Census Bureau has strong evidence that some of the northern Pacific Coast cities have cheated in their census reports by padding their lists. President Taft urges punishment of persons responsible for the figures.
Nearly ten million aliens have arrived in the United States, according to census reports, during the last ten years — an average of a million a year. In this number Italians take the lead.
A little girl laughed at a reprimand, and was discharged. Other employees protested, which finally resulted in a strike of 12,000 neckwear workers in New York.
Stanley Ketchel, who holds the world championship as middle-weight pugilist, was killed by an outlaw working as a farm-hand near Conway, Missouri.
A Pacific Coast Congress representing Hawaii, Alaska, and the eight Pacific Coast states and territories, will be held in San Francisco, November 17, 18, and 19, to adopt measures to restore speedily on a large and efficient scale, the American merchant marine, so that the United States can take its place in the marts of the world along with the other great nations, and to have a greater battle-ship fleet in the Pacific waters. The congress will be held under the auspices of the Merchant Marine League, and the call has been signed by Governor Gillett.
In the opinion of the Government Treasury Department the danger of a possible money shortage this fall has passed. The banks, seeing several months ago what threatened to be a money shortage, and knowing they could expect no aid from the Government, owing to its enormous expense of digging the Panama Canal, piled up gold in their vaults, built up reserves, and cut down loans. Ten million dollars has recently been transferred from New York depositories to other banks.
At a dinner of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic Society, where he was a guest, Colonel Roosevelt praised the Catholics for their work, but said he favored the broadest measure of religious toleration, adding: "There is no other country where Catholic and Protestant get on as we do here. We must never permit anything to make us deviate from this standpoint."
The belief that a large proportion of the Hindu immigrants are suffering from hookworm disease may be the means of stopping the influx of these people. The Hindus have been arriving in San Francisco at the rate of three hundred a month, somewhat to the consternation of the residents of the Pacific Coast.
Three prominent men of Seattle, Washington, have been arrested on indictments returned by the Tacoma Grand Jury, charging conspiracy to defraud the Government in the Alaska coal cases, and warrants for the arrest of others are being served. It is charged that 17,000 acres have been entered upon by dummies.
The Republican insurgents have lost a strong man in the death of Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, which will also be greatly felt by the United States Senate. He was among the ablest orators of the progressives.
Human life seems to be a very cheap commodity in Chicago. According to statistics furnished by Chief of Police Steward, in the last four years there have been 693 murders and but 132 convictions.
In a district of Washington, D. C., it is stated that a ban has been placed on chickens as an article of diet on the supposition that they are the direct cause of infantile paralysis.
The construction of a "Peace" bridge over Niagara River is proposed as a memorial of the one hundred years of peace and friendly relations of the United States and Great Britain.
The Illinois Republican convention has rejected a proposed plank in their platform favoring national medical legislation, or rejecting what has been called in some circles the "medical trust."
Thirty missionaries sailed for the Orient recently under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. This is the largest number ever sent out at one time by this society.
Five persons were shot by an unknown man in ambush while driving near Little Rock, Arkansas, recently.
Twenty-seven lost their lives as the result of a traction car wreck at Carlinville, Illinois.
