The King’s Business
Vo1- 5
MAY, 1914
No. 5
Prophetic Conferences T>ERHa PS the most significant and prominent feature of the religious X me of the present season is the series of Prophetic Conferences that i iu - X t . . 11 he:Id from Chicago to Cahfornia. The first of the series was held in Chicago from February 24th to 27th. The Call for the Conference was signed by the Moderator of thé Presbyterian Church, U. 'S. A. • the Mod erator of the United Presbyterian Church, the President of the leading United i resbyterian Theological Seminary, and the President of the Southern Baptist neological Seminary, said to be the largest theological seminary in the world; the Principal and one of the Professors of Wycliffe College (Church ofiEng- Toronto; the Deans of Two Bible Institutes and the President of another Bible Institute and by several editors. It was held in the Moody Church with three sessions a day, morning, afternoon and evening. This great church was filled even at the nine o’clock sessions in the morning, and at the evening ses sions the crowds were so great it was necessary to have two overflow meetings. It would be impossible to give even an outline of the addresses that were made and that is furthermore unnecessary because they are to be published in full. From Chicago several of the leading speakers went to Minneapolis and St. Paul and held conferences simultaneously in the two cities, the speakers going back and forth from the one city to the other. From Minneapolis and St. Paul the writer went to St. Louis, where an eight day conference was held in the Washington and Compton Avenue Church, so long presided over by the Rev. Dr. James H. Brooks. The conference in St. Louis was not confined to prophetic lines of teaching. Indeed, at one of the Sunday afternoons two evangelistic meetings were held, one in the auditorium of the church for men and one in the lecture room of the church for women ; both of these meetings were crowded and a very large number of men and women professed to accept the Lord Jesus Christ and made public confession of their acceptance of Him. Rev. H. H. Gregg, D. D., said he had never seen the church so packed as it was on the closing day of the conference. The final conference was held in the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, from March 22 to 25. Most of the leading speakers at the Chicago Conference came on to the Los Angeles Conference. Large crowds were in attendance from the very first gathering on Sunday afternoon. Every one was surprised at the large numbers that gathered, especially in view of the fact that the conference was so hastily arranged for and so little time left for proper advertising of it. The addresses'were largely the same that were given at Chicago. It was intended that this number of the KING’S BUSINESS should be a Conference Number but instead of attempting to give an outline of the various addresses, we give the closing address made at the Chicago Conference, an address made by Dr. Riley at each conference aqd an address by Dr. Dixon given last summer at the Montrose Conference which is along the same line
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