CONGREGATIONAL NATIONAL COUNCIL Eighteenth Biennial Meeting PARK (FIRST) CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH PROGRAM (Parts not noted in "Minutes," as arranged and substantially as carried out.) 3.00 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Address, Mr. Frank H. Mann, Secretary American Bible Society. 5.15 Stereopticon Lecture by Representative of Congregational Ed ucation Society. 8.00 Address of Welcome, Rev. Charles W. Merriam, Pastor Park Congregational Church, with Response by Moderator. Address of Retiring Moderator, Rev. William Horace Day. 8.25 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 12.30 Theater Meeting; Address, The New Negro in the New Age, Rev. H. H. Proctor, Atlanta, Georgia. 2.20 Address, Our Program for the Years Just Before Us, Rev. J. T. Stocking, Upper Montclair, N. J. 2.55 Address, In the Thick of Things, Rev. H. F. Swartz, New York. 5.15 Stereopticon Lecture by Representative of the American Board. 7.30 Annual Meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 Annual Meeting of American Board-Continued. 12.30 Theater Meeting: Address, During and after the War in Syria, Rev. Howard S. Bliss, Beirut, Syria. 12.30 and 5.15. Stereopticon Lectures by Representatives of American Board. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 11.30 Address, Work of the Federal Council, Rev. C. W. Gilkey, Chicago, Ill. 12.30 Theater Meeting: Address, The Fine Art of Living Together, Mr. G. W. Coleman, Boston, Mass. 2.00 Sectional Meetings: Section One General Subject: Snap-shots of Local Church Life. The Collegiate Church, Rev. William Dana Street, White Plains, N. Y. Forward Step Week, How to ask for something more needed than money, Rev. Harry E. Peabody, Appleton, Wis. The Present Day "Ladies' Aid Society," Mrs. Franklin H. Warner, White Plains, N. Y. How to Get Sunday School Leadership, Rev. Frank E. Bigelow, Minneapolis, Minn. The Mid-Week Meeting, Rev. Frank H. Fox, Decatur, Ill. Section Two General Subject: The Training of Ministers for the New Age. What a Pastor Sees as He Looks Backward Upon His Own Training and Out Upon the World, Rev. Frazer Metzger, Randolph, Vt. What a Layman Thinks About the Minister's Training, Mr. W. E. Sweet, Denver, Colo. Plans on Foot for Pushing the Strengthening of Our Ministerial and Missionary Force, Rev. Frank M. Sheldon, Boston. Section Three General Subject: Recruiting for the Kingdom. The Church Within Prison Walls, Rev. Orville L. Kiplinger, Mansfield, Ohio. Caring for the Men Who Sail Our Ships, Rev. M. A. Farren, Boston. Evangelism in An Average Church of An Average Community, Rev. George M. Miller, St. Paul, Minn. How Can We Help One Another in Evangelism? Rev. Frederick L. Fagley, New York. 5.15 Stereopticon Lecture: Congregational Church Buildings and How We Built Them. 8.00 Address: What the Forum Movement Means, Mr. George W. Coleman, Boston. 8.35 Address: Unexplored Moral Assets of the Nation, Mr. Raymond Robins, Chicago. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 11.55 Address: Industrial Impressions of Many Cities, Rev. Nicholas Van der Pyl, Oberlin. Saturday Afternoon-Free automobile ride and lunch at Plainfield Country Club. 6.00 Council Dinner in the Armory. 7.15 Address by Rev. Danjo Ebina, Delegate from Japan. 7.30 Address: Our Far-flung Line, Rev. Carl S. Patton. 7.45 Address: The Gospel of Christ in Army Life, Chaplain John T. Axton. 8.15 Address: The Spirit of America, Hon. J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 9.30 Communion Service. Conducted by Rev. J. Henry House, Salonika, and Rev. Henry K. Warren, Yankton, S. D. Council Sermon, Rev. Raymond Calkins, Cambridge, Mass. Sectional Meetings: 10.30 3.00 Section One General Subject: National Waste and Conservation. The Loss Through Preventable Disease, Theron G. Yeomans, M.D., St. Joseph, Mo. The Use and Abuse of Luxuries, Rev. E. W. Bishop, Lansing, Mich. The Loss of Moral Power Through Conflicting or Unrelated Moral Forces, Rev. Reuben A. Beard, Fargo, N. D. Section Two General Subject: Democracy in Industry. As Seen From a Minister's Study, Rev. Herbert A. Jump, Manchester, N. H. As Seen From a Labor Union. As Seen From a Business Office, Mr. Van A. Wallin, Chicago. As Seen From an Industrial Experiment, Mr. Arthur H. Young, Chicago. 8.00 Address, The Ties Between Great Britain and the United States, Rev. A. Penry Evans, Liverpool, England. 8.10 Address, The Industrial Crisis and the Spirit of the Church, Prof. Graham Taylor. 8.50 Address, The Church at Her Best, Rev. A. A. Stockdale, Toledo, Ohio. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 10.30 Annual Meeting of the Congregational Church Building Society. 11.30 Annual Meeting of the Congregational Sunday School Extension Society. 12.30 Theater Meeting: Address, The World Confusion-Why Not Try the Gospel? Rev. Dan F. Bradley. 2.00 Annual Meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 10.55 Address, The Tercentenary in England and America, Rev. M. E. Aubrey, Cambridge, England. 11.35 Address, Rev. F. L. Fagley, Secretary Commission on Evangelism. 11.55 Address, The Call of Siberia, Rev. Doremus Scudder. 12.30 Theater Meeting: Address, With the Last Million in France, Rev. Frank Dyer, Tacoma, Wash. 2.00 Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 10.35 Address, The Temperance Situation at the Present Hour, Hon. Wayne B. Wheeler. 11.00 Annual Meeting of the Congregational Education Society. 12.30 Theater Meeting: Address, World-Wide Prohibition, Hon. Wayne B. Wheeler. 3.00 Address, The American Church in Paris, Rev. Stanley Ross Fisher. THE MODERATOR'S ADDRESS REV. WILLIAM HORACE DAY WHITHER? Quo Vadis?-Whither goest thou? the world demands of America. An evasive answer will not avail, for we stand at the beginning of a new age. When the Revolutionary War ended, Thomas Paine stopped publishing "The Crisis," saying, "The times that tried men's souls are over.' A crisis had passed, but John Fiske was right, the critical period of American history had just begun. March 27, 1918, Lloyd George sent his Macedonian call across the sea-"We are at the crisis of the war. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of getting American reinforcements." Sir George Adam Smith told us in New York how desperate was the situation, but added, "While you are coming up, we will hold the line. On the 12th of April Haig's men, with their backs to the wall, determined to fight to the end, believing that the safety of their homes and the freedom of mankind depended upon the conduct of each at that critical moment. Would the Von Hindenburg line overwhelm Paris? For one hundred and thirteen days fate hung in the balance. On the one hundred and fourteenth day the French were still retreating, but a long line of trucks was rushing through the night, packed with the citizen soldiery from overseas. These men, bred to believe in peace, with their inadequate military training, were to confront the tempered steel tip of the lance aimed at the French capital. French soldiers at Verdun had made good their words "They shall not pass. Could our soldiers do as well? The spirit of America compensated for the unpreparedness of America and the tide of German invasion was forever broken. Before that hour the French people had enthusiastically welcomed our army, but it was always with a touch of patronage because they distrusted our soldier qualities. But overnight the mind of the French press and of the French people was changed, with the morning headlines "The Americans can fight." HISTORY'S CRITICAL HOUR. We thought that the most critical period in modern history, but a more critical hour is here. In the seven-fold heat of war, human society was molten, running like lava. It is already becoming hard. Whose image and superscription is it to bear, Christ's or Caesar's? Ten years hence it will be too late to change our answer to that question. It is more than probable that what we do in 1920 will determine the course of history for a century. Our attention to-night is focused upon Washington, for there America's formal answer must be given. In international relations the world asks this question Whither? A year after the signing of the Armistice we have neither peace nor joy. We must not be impatient of honest debate, nor find fault because so momentous a document is thoroughly examined, but we are indignant when men are so busy breathing out chauvinisms and slaughter against the administration that we are technically still at war. While the world burns, the Senate fiddles. There have been great resolves, great searchings of heart, but so far only shrill, melancholy pipings amongst the party sheep folds. Imperative as are free discussion and honest criticism, our duty now is to enter the land of action. God has made us rich and mighty. This is our mandate, to take our share of the white man's burden and help police the world, though it make us responsible for a free Constantinople and a delivered Armenia. A boy of thirteen has no business in entangling alliances, but a man of thirty has no business to shirk them. In industrial relations at home humanity demands of America-Whither goest thou? All nations are in the midst of a revolutionary modification of the industrial order. We are told the wage system has broken down, that as political autocracy has been discredited it is no less true that the world must be made safe for a democracy in economic life. Some form of industrial democracy is coming by which labor and the public will share with capital in the control of industry. At the President's Industrial Conference three groups, representing labor, capital and the public, have each presented a tentative answer. What answer shall the Church give? The National Council is not a congress of economic and social experts. Let us not blithely enter in where experts fear to tread, as is the manner of some. But we are experts in morals and religion and the country has a right to our verdict upon the doctrines which underlie our economic and social thinking. What do you think of collective bargaining? Shall labor have a right to representatives of its own choosing? Should it be as free as capital to choose its spokesmen? What shall we say of that conception of the solidarity of labor which depends upon the closed shop? After the Revolution civil war was repeatedly averted only because the people were accustomed to government by free discussion. The only thing that will cure the ignorance of the people today will be a wider knowledge, and such knowledge is disseminated only |