The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-10-08
PATRIOTISM WEEK
NEW CHURCH PLAN
Twenty-Seven Denominations
in Concerted Action
PRINTERS INK THE MEDIUM

Newspaper -1GN tlSillS " Ding
Churches to Attention of
People-America's Needs
(By THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.l
The amazing fashion in which all
the great Christian denominations
in America have got together for
united enterprises is revealed new
in the announcement Of the concert
ed plans for Home Mission Week."
by twenty-seven Of the leading Pro-
~testant bodies. Equally notable is the
fact that in this union work new forms
have been adopted which indicates a
complete transformation in the meth
DDS Of approach to the public by the
churches. Religion has hitched the
advertising and the printing arts as
steeds to the gospel chariot.
In the new, big way Of doing
things, the twenty-seven largest de-
nominations have undertaken TO focus
the attention Of all church people,
and as many Of the outside world as
possible upon Americas social, re-
ing Home Mission Week." Novem-
Der 1924. One nan has been put in
charge of the enterprise, and fifty
thousand dollars has been fixed as
the sum to be spent under his direc-
ton. The very statement Of the
cause, in terms Of patriotism and So
cial service, rather than as tereo-
typed home MISSIONS" reveals the
modern view that has come to domi-
ante the churches.
Printing Instead of Preaching.
The approved way Of rousing all
Of the churches upon some great
theme-and it is only within a de-
| 20 do that fhnCo nofinpn1 n ~ ro; m o.
have come into vogue-has been by
teams of special speakers, h nave
moved from city to city, presenting
their case to such audiences as they
could gather. h plan worked fair
ly we'll for the large centers, although
it vas enormously expensive.
Now the hame mission council
which is the joint body officially rep
~resenting the various UNCONVENTIONAL
boards, a sort of claring house for
domestic missions has elected to con-
duct it's first united national crusade
preparation for Home Mission
Week. which has been under way
for nearly a year, is actually an ad-
Vertlslng campaign. It is a new-fash-
Toned attempt to reach the people
through the press-the great city
dallies, the country Weeklies, and the
religious papers.
With wisdom, the coun-
Gil has agreed to use paid advertising
space in some of the big dailies, and
it is urging local committees every
where to advertise in their WI news
papers The sum total spent for
newspaper advertising should exceed
the fifty thousand dollars which the
committee ia ~expending for all it's
general propaganda.
In addition to the display advertise
rnents, which will run during Home
A. ircto ~ IIT11I 49,
Of charts, tracts, articles for the re-
ligIous and secular press. illustra-
5 tons, and even boiler plate matter
, mus be credited to the committee
ON must look to the activities of a
political party during a presidential
campaign to inc a parallel for the
present propaganda
The Deadly Diagram.
Graphic charts which tell all sorts
, Of facts concerning immigration, the
: negro and Indian questions, the
I growth Of cities and the rural prob
! are put L by the commit. They
are in a size to hang on the
;, walls OF a church, and in form
, to print in tracts n newspapers
a The new passion for scientific inves-
: tigation and tabulation finds expre-
: sion here.
There are diagrams upon every sub
; ject imaginable that has a bearing upor
, the religious life Of the American PEG
pie. The simplest form of teaching
the appeal 10 the eye by symbols, at
n ter the fashion Of the kindergartens
is employed to make clear to the
average person just how America
8 stands with respect to all the sociaI
and economic problems which come
e within the purview of the churches
Nothing like this attempt to popu.
~llarize religio-social facts has ever be-
. fore been made. The aim is to in.
terpret America to herself. Inciden.
: tally, it really commits all the
churches to social service.
Interesting the Churches in RELIGION
The fact is. h churches them.
, selves need Weakening up to a reali.
= zation OF the bigness Of their tasL
: ard that they should stand, as one -,
Q the committees documents puts II
for the physical. social, economic
~inteIe:tua! n religious