DIRECTORY OF INTERCHURCH CONFERENCES,

SOCIETIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS

FOREIGN MISSIONS CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICA Purpose: To consider questions of administration relating to foreign missions.

Embracing various denominational and interdenominational boards of the United States and Canada. Last annual meeting was held at Garden City, New York, in January, 1916. Chairman of the 1916 conference, Rev. Emory W. Hunt; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. W. Henry Grant.

Office, Foreign Missions Conference: 25 Madison Avenue, New York City.

For statistics of the various boards, see page 178.

FEDERATION OF THE WOMAN'S BOARDS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES

Purpose: To promote unity, Christian fellowship and cooperation among Woman's Boards; to encourage and disseminate the best methods of work and to unitedly plead for the outpouring of the spirit of God upon the Church of Christ.

Officers: Chairman, Mrs. DeWitt C. Knox, 1748 Broadway, New York City; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. O. R. Williamson, 3828 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.; Secretary, Miss Mabel Cratty, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City; Treasurer, Mrs. William I. Haven, 25 Fernwood Road, Summit, N. J.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

Purpose: To secure the translation, publication, and circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment, in all languages and in all lands.

Office: Bible House, New York City.

Officers: President, Mr. James Wood; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. John Fox and Rev. William Ingraham Haven; Treasurer, Mr. William Foulke.

LATIN AMERICA MISSIONARY CONFERENCE

To be held in Panama City, Panama, February 10-20, 1916. An interdenominational conference similar to the World Missionary Conference of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Purpose: To consider Latin America as a field for missionary work. Its commissions for investigation are: Survey and Occupation; Message and Method; Education, Literature, Women's Work; The Church in the Field; Home Base; Cooperation and the Promotion of Unity.

Office: 25 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Officers: Chairman, Robert E. Speer; Vice-Chairman, Rev. W. F. Oldham; Recording Secretary, Rev. L. C. Barnes; Executive Secretary, Rev. S. G. Inman.

LAYMEN'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Purpose: The enlistment of laymen for the world-wide extension of Christ's kingdom.

Office: 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Officers: Chairman, James M. Speers; Vice-Chairman, Lt. Col. E. W. Halford; Treasurer, Eben E. Olcott; General Secretary, William B. Millar; Associate General Secretary, Fred B. Fisher; Educational Secretary, W. E. Doughty.

MISSIONARY EDUCATION Movement of tHE UNITED States AND CANADA

Purpose: The preparation and syndication of missionary literature for all ages in the local church, and the training of leaders to use the literature through institutes and summer conferences.

Office: 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Officers: Chairman, Fred P. Haggard; General Secretary, Harry Wade Hicks; Secretaries, Harry S. Myers, Morris W. Ehnes, R. E. Diffendorfer, Susan Mendenhall, John J. DeMott, James B. Mershon, H. C. Priest.

STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS

Purpose: To cultivate missionary interest among the stu

dents of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada.

Office: 25 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Chairman, John R. Mott; General Secretary, Fennell P. Turner; Treasurer, James M. Speers.

Periodical. The North American Student, New York City.

CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE

President and General Superintendent, Rev. A. B. Simpson. Headquarters, 690 Eighth Avenue, New York City.

HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL

Purpose: To promote fellowship, conference, and cooperation among Christian organizations doing missionary work in the United States and its dependencies.

Officers: Chairman, Rev. Charles L. Thompson, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Secretary, Mr. William T. Demarest, 25 East Twenty-second Street, New York City; Treasurer, Mr. Harvey C. Olin, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

COUNCIL OF WOMEN FOR HOME MISSIONS

Purpose: An organization through which National Women's Home Missionary Boards and Societies may consult as to wider plans, and cooperatively do more efficient work for the homeland. These cooperating agencies are divided into two classes, Constituent and Corresponding, according to the number of representatives and the financial obligation assumed.

The Council prepares a Home Mission study book for interdenominational use, prepares a program for a nationwide interdenominational Day of Prayer for Home Missions, cooperates with the Home Missions Council, the Foreign Missions Conference, and the Federation of the Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of the United States.

Office: 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City.

Officers: President, Mrs. George W. Coleman; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. W. Wilcox; Recording Secretary, Miss Elizabeth B. Vermilye; Treasurer, Mrs. P. F. Jerome.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY

Purpose: To publish the Gospel message in many languages, dialects, and characters.

Office: Park Avenue and Fortieth Street, New York City. Officers: President, William Phillips Hall; General Secretary, Rev. Judson Swift; Treasurer, Louis Tag.

WORLD CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND ORDER

Created by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Various denominations have appointed commissions to represent them in this world movement.

Officers: President, Rt. Rev. Charles P. Anderson, Bishop of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; Treasurer, Mr. George Zabriskie, 49 Wall Street, New York City; Secretaries, Rev. Hughell Fosbroke, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Robert H. Gardiner, Gardiner, Me.

BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST
CONVENTION

The brotherhood organization in any church represents the definite work in that church by men or with men. It is an organization for combining and federating all existing agencies of men's work and making them most efficient.

Office: 1701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Officers: President, Frederick T. Galpin; Executive Secretary, Rev. S. Z. Batten; Executive Committee: John M. Moore, P. W. Marsh, R. G. Hall, J. Will Ferguson, H. E. Cole, and the officers.

BROTHERHOOD OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Office: Wooster, O.

Chairman, Rev. William F. Weir.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL BROTHERHOOD OF ANDREW AND

PHILIP

An interdenominational, international organization for men, seeking to bring all the men together in a given church in one organization, affiliating their activities, rounding all up in the spiritual and aiming to federate them denominationally, interdenominationally, and give them a world-wide vision.

Office: 1328 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Officers: President, Joseph M. Steele; General Secretary, Rev. R. Howard Taylor; Treasurer, William R. Nicholson.

BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA✶

This is an organization of laymen in the Anglican Communion under two rules, the rule of prayer and the rule of service.

Office: Church House, Twelfth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

Officers: President, Edward H. Bonsall; General Secretary, Hubert Carleton; Treasurer, Alexander M. Hadden.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

Purpose: Establishing and assisting Young Men's Christian Associations in any country and generally to promote the spiritual, intellectual, physical and social well-being of young men in accordance with the aims and methods of the Young Men's Christian Associations.

Character of the Organization: Religious, Physical, Educational and Social work for young men and boys.

Office: 124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. Officers: Chairman, Alfred E. Marling; Vice-Chairman, William Sloane; General Secretary, John R. Mott; Associate General Secretary, F. S. Brockman; Treasurer, B. H. Fancher.

NATIONAL BOARD OF THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN AssoCIATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Purpose: To unite in one body The Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States; to establish, develop and unify such Associations; to participate in the work of the World's Young Women's Christian Association; to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual interests of young women. The ultimate purpose of all its efforts shall be to seek to bring young women to *For other Brotherhoods see Directory of the various denominations.

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