Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08
EMERGENCY FUND FIGURES
ISSUED IN BULLETIN
Episcopal Board Of Missions Prepares
Statement Concerning Collec.
ton of Great Sum.
WHAT DAYS INCOME WILL DO"
Table Shows Results to BE Ac-
complished With Money Donated.
Contributions Coming From Alas
ka, Honolulu and Indians.

The Episcopal Board of Missions has
just issued bulletin giving various
statistics in connection with the col
iec'ion OF the emergency fund of $500 :
900 that it is planned to raise before
august 81. as well as interesting facts
incident thereto. 1t notes that s26i.Oa0
OF the amount has been raised to date.
a table is included. showing what
oaEs income will do" as follows:
one dollar will support a hospital
bed in China for week.
Two dollars will support a hosni.al
bed in Alaska for a week.
Three dollars will pay all the ex-
pehSes OF keeping and teaching a boy
ana Sirl for week in one Of our
Indian schools in South Dakota.
rive dollars will provide the salary
OF Bible woman in China for month
Ten dollars will paw the expenses of
an operation that will give sight back
10 one Of the 100000 curably blind p.o-
pie in China. "'''' p"'-
twenty-five dollars will pay a
months salary of one Of our women
the South VI
FIFTY dollars will pay the expenses
Tor five weeks OF the launch peiican
which carries Bishop Rowe and Arch
deacon stuck up and down the Yukon
River in Alaska.
one hundred dollars will pay for the
training OF young negro man or
woman in st. Paurs Industrial school.
Va, for n wear.
rive hundred dollars will make II
possible for some growing town in the
west TO have a resident clergyman for
year
Also the bulletin tells Of various
unusual efforts by individuals and
groups in making their contributions
toward the fund. One Maine church
woman has sent 10 personal letters
TO friends asking for gifts to the
emergency fund. An offering OF Stl
mas been received from ST. Stephens
Church. Fort Yukon, Alaska. Mis-
sionary Bishop Restarick, Honolulu.
sends a letter written TO him by "Cour
Lahaina Children of St. Cross school,
which says that we cannot give one
days salary TO the board OF missions
because we arc not big enough to
you the price of one moving picture
snow. We hope there will he plenty
OF money for you TO send TO New York.
INDIAN CONGREGATIONS
GIVE GENEROUSLY
From Rev. Philip Deloria, the Dakota
clergyman in charge of a number OF
indian congregations in South Dakota.
there comes a check for round 500
for the emergency fund. given by the
people of six CONGREGATIONS in amounts
ranging from s. to s61.
Rev. Amos Ross. another Indian
priest, pledged his congregation for
800 Here are some of the contribu-
tors: Mrs. Louisa Red Horse Mr.. and
Mrs. Ell! Charging Bear, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Lone Wolf, Daniel Sad Wound.
Miss Lyria Firethunder. Howard Fly
ing Horse Mr.. George Dull Knife.
Presiding Bishop futile, of the Do
mestic and Foreign Missionary So
ciety. OF the Episcopal Church, has
written letter. accompanying the bull
ietin, making strong plea for sup
port of the movement. He says in
part:
Il am an old missionary bishop Of
twenty years experience in the Rocky
Mountains.
MY heart is warm with gratitude to
God for the work he strengthened me
TO do and helped me TO do forty years
ago. II was the board OF missions
that generously stood by me in the
doing OF II. II was the Office of mis-
sionary bishop that put me in the best
shape to do il.
The same board OF missions and
similar missionary bishops, twenty Of
them IN the amazinS!E eNpendlng work
under the flaC and nine of them abroad,
as in the wonderful awakening ma
tons of the Orient. are in the thick
of the same sort OF work thatI tried
10 do
Under them are 600 missionary
workers. And month by month these
must have bread and butter.
Hundreds OF chapels, schools and
hospitals must be maintained.
do YOU know that last year our
missionary hospitals helped nearly
100000 people,
ITO do all this we must have near
million and a half Of dollars each
year"