The Detroit times., 1915-01-23
ROCKEFELLER
GIVES MISSION
BOARDS $4,000
Oil King Also Pledges $4,000 a
Year For Maintenance, on
Conditions g
ALLIED BOARDS TO ACT
AS CLEARING HOUSE
Religious Work In Europe To be
Pushed vigorously In
Spite of War
az rHE RELlolous RAMsLER.

N Sp1te VI wal =
nv the RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.
So quietly that this Is the first pup
lication OF the news, there has beer
established in New York city q gen
eral headquarters for the Worldwide
work Of the North American churches
the Rockefeller Foundation having
riyen s25. 900 for the arrangement ans
furnishing OF the entire nineteentf
Z moor OF the Madison-ave. building To-
this purpose. The Foundation als'
(. has pledged $4,000 a year for nv'
wears for !. maintenance. condiuona
4 upon the churches raising $4,000
wear additional, and at the end or nv
years this sum In to be decreased 20.
900 q year, until 1t Is wholly support
cd By the churches themselves. !.
Even among the officials concerned
4 sorne doubts were expressed OF tns
Wisdom OF tying up the whole organi
ration OF united American Protestah
Z tam with the Rockefeller Foundation
hut the matter Is now an accomplish
\ "a fact. Whether the body shall pc
come Incorporated or not remains fo'
constderat ton during the present year
incidentally, the staggering poten
tiaIiffes Of this organization. which
has grown up during n years "a
quietly IS q tree. impress one VIZ
looks into the facts. 1t Is called the
Allied Foreign Mission Boards o.
North America, and Its executive
body ID known as the committee OF
Inference and council. Up until the
preseut year 1t has been largely an
annual conference, although its per
sonnet has been the oficial represen.
tatives OF the denominations. Now II
has appointed permanent committee
a. conference with the home missions
council. and these two bodies have
/. come to be In reality ell that the Fed
ernl Council Of the Snurches OF Christ
A. America Was expected to be. II
really acts for All the churches IN
ereat common, Christian tasks.
e Imagine 3 body capable OF survey
sinx and organising and correlatins
the entire medical work of the whole
non Christian world! And Of stan
dardixing the training and equipment
~ Al missiouar.S.. And OF building
m = common and concerted scheme
a education for hundreds of miih,
..of young men and women In Asia ana
Africa! And Of creating o literary
propaeanda designed to change the
thinking and the character OF more
, than half the people ON earth! NO
lee ambitious than this are the
Gchemes o. the Allied Mission Boards
- I1~~<Js Axvov4ra
The diffIcult. and delicate nature OF
the tnsks witch this body OF Ameri-
cans undertake II seen from the sim
ne statement that they alone can
Z nrevent aNeomplete collapse and sew
ersnce Of those international religious
ana moral relations which have sub
sisted for igenerations. butihaye been
imperfled sby this war.
a tragedy OF the FIRST order would
Be the shndering OF all the ties tnat
bind Elrope's moral and religious
leadership in cooperation Only Amer
lea could save the situation. An en-
inent representative of the Allied Mis-
sion Boards has been In Europe for
months, visiting all the belligerent
nations. upon this delicate and diff
\ cult mission. The success OF his la
hors OF Cancellation and cooperation
are now reported. Despite the war,
the religious leaders sof Europe still
trust one another. and are prepared
TO work together.
In the present staggering world
emergency, the whole elaborate or.
sanitation OF Christian missions by
continental European organizations
was threatened with extinction. The
American missionary bodies ere un-
J lertaking to carry these on until the
close Of the war, or longer, II need
be. an international service commons
urate in ~ way-with the relief of
n the Belgishs.
This body, which was In session
last week In Garden City, Long Island
represents the big business of re-
ligfon. It's receipts Of the year before
Y were more than ylG.5C0.000 from the
!, churches Of the United States and
5 Canada, and nearly s4,r0e,000 from
4 the native Chrfstians xho. In foreign
lands have been won out OF heather
dom. 49,.
These boards. here Jointly repre-
sented, number zSy. They, EMPLOYED
]ost year S.S0s foreign missionaries
y and 6o.67t native assistants. To tell
Is Of tie variety OF work, evangeIfstic,
& ofucofional. medical and industrial,
1ono By this globe-girdling organiza-
E (Ion would take columns Of space.
BoCause Of the official character Of
1koso boards. representing literally all
1ho HpotestAnt evangelical churches of
~ Ind, Il IL possible TO operate
ror1A small, select conference.