Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-09
CITY PRESBYERY +"
BEGINS CAMPAIGN
In MISSION WORK
Movement Launched in Spe-
cial Meeting at Calvary
Church-Budget Intended
to Wipe Out Church
Mortgages.

The greatest campaign in the interests
OF city mission work and church extern
sion and for the home mission budget OF
the Presbytery Of Philadelphia was In
augurated by the Presbytery this after
noon at q special meeting in Calvary
Church, 18th and Locust streets.
1t is a campaign intended to enthuse
the clergy and church leaders of the de-
nomination to work increasingly for the
$4,000 budget intended to wipe out the
mortgages on Philadelphia churches that
require assistance; to bring about an un-
eaualed evangellstic and upbulldinE cam
palgn among the foreigners and in the
downtown sections, and to increase the
endowment fund for the mission and
church extension work to 100000 and later
to s500,000
Both afternoon and evening sessions
will be held with a supper served at the
church at o'clock. Prominent speakers
will address the diners at the close of
tho feasting. The chief speakers at the
evening session will be the Rev. DR.. Malt
land Alexander of Pittsburgh, moderator
of the General Assembly of the Presby-
terlan Church, and the Rev. DR.. William
II. Roberts, stated clerk and former
moderator.
Jonathan C. Day, superintendent Of the
Labor Temple, New York made strong
appeal for the Presbyterians in Philadel-
phia to increase their social service work
and to start a free bureau to aid the
unemployed of the city In the downtown,
sections. 1.-THE Downtown Church" was
the subject assigned to Doctor Day, and
he urged that the once prosperous
churches in the thickly populated Sec
tions become of greater general practical
service.
'I want to tell the Philadelphia Pres
bytsrians what can be done with n church
downtown" said Doctor Day. "The
church downtown which is active and ac-
complishing something leads to other
thoughts than the downtown church
which we often think of as the church
with no congregation and less life.
SETTLEMENT HOUSE NEEDED.
"In the Labor Temple we have proved
that there is need for the church down.
town. but 1t is not the church OF your
imagination" he said. TT is the settle-
ment house, the factor in social welfare
rather than the church with regular Sun
day services such as we all think of.
Philadelphia may have need of such a
church. If she has, the Presbytery here
can handle such an institution the same
as Ln9 new 1OTh HESSDyLeTy lb HdIullIlB
Labor Temple.
"our Free Employment League" de-
clared Doctor Day. has been revela-
tion to many of the members of our
presbytery, so much SO that the work
has been taken up in almost every
congregation in the city.
And furthermore" he continued, "the
Synod of New York State has gone on
record as favoring the church wrestling
with the problem of unemployment. 1t
is to be worked in this wise: Each city
and town is to have a committee made
up from the members of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood, which shall look after not
only the unemployed, but the menless
Jobs in each locality. All of this in
formation is to be transmitted to all the
other committees in other localities, and
thus will be brought together the jobless
man and the manless job.
This really started at Labor Temple,
where we have our cooperative free em-
ployment bureau" he said. Last spring,
IL we had charged what the commercial
employment agencies would have charged
we placed enough men to have netted us
$4,000.
"At Labor Temple we have organized
all forms OF social service work and
have made the temple place for the
laboring man. He can come to our
services and see motion pictures and
hear good music as we'll as hear the
gospel" Doctor Day concluded.
LONG LIST OF SPEAKERS.
Richard H. Wallace. vice moderator
of the Philadelphia Presbytsry, presided
at the afternoon session and read 1.-THE
Call OF the Presbytery."
The Rev. DR. John w. Lee. pastor OF
the First African Presbyterian Church,
made an appeal for the evangelizatlon
OF the Negroes of Philadelphia who are
out OF the church. The call for mission
work among the italians was made by
tho Rev. Arnaldo Stasio, the Rev. H. L.
Hellyer. minister OF the Mizpah Church.
the Jewish Mission. spoke on the Hebrew
mission problem, and the Rev. Henry
Preston McHenry. OF the Mariners
Church. urged the Importance OF mission
work for other nationalitles.
New Americans and New America"
was the subject discussed by the Rev.
William p ShriYer, OF the Department
OF immigration OF the Home Mission
Board, of New York. The Rev. DR..
Charles p. Dunn. pastor of the Tioga
Presbyterian Church, spoke on ''rhe
City, a Challenge to the Church; the
Rev. Edward Yates Hill, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian Church. made a plea
for greater usefulness for the downtown
church; the Rev DIR, w. Courtland
Robinson explained the plan for the |
raising OF the home mission budget and
the Rev. DIR. Alexander MacColl urged |
increased gifts.