The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-05-05
Religious Work
1886 Per Convert ls Paid.

$1,316 Per Convert ls Paid.
1t costs $1,316 to make one Latin
American into an Episcopalian, and it
costs the Protestant Episcopal church
S2S a year to keep each of it's S.S2S
converts steadfast in that communion,
according to the Rev. Bernard I. Bell,
dean Of the Episcopal diocese Of Fond
du Lac, Wis.
In the current issue of the Living
Church, a weekly Of the high church"
party. issued at Milwaukee, Wis, there
is d letter from Dean Bell headed,
"How many converts for your money!.
1t is prompted by the recent Protestant
congress on Christian work in Latin
America.
This Panama matter has set a num-
Der of people thinking about the mis-
sions already supported by our commu-
Mon in he continent on the SOUTH
writes Dean Bell. 1.-The main good re-
suit Of this controversy is that it has
set many a hard hearted layman and a
soodly number of clergy to investigat-
ing what the board of missions gets
for its money.
THE missions to Latin America, ap-
parently, cost in the neighborhood of a
quarter Of a million dollars a year, or
about one-fifth of all the money con
tributed for all missions each year.
That is quite a generous proportion,
and we have every right to ask what
results are being accomplished by
spending it thus. Apparently they will
be great, for we are told South Ameri-
ca is hungering for the pure gospel,
free from ceremonial and ~medievalism.
Besides. immigration from the United
States is quite constant. thanks to new
commercial ventures-a fact which of
course would help to boon II Latin
American church.
"One is somewhat astonished to find
that there are only S.S2S communicates
of h Episcopal church in all Latin
America. That means we are spending
S2S a year for every communicate we
have down there. But in the diocese
OF Fond du Lac. Wis, just for exam
pie, the church spends about $1.4O for
each communicate we have. We spend.
therefore. for church extension on this
basis of computation twenty times as
49, III 4AAtIl LIZ lNtl as We NO NJ
northern Wisconsin.
But surely there must have been
much growth in Latin America to COM
pensate for this expenditure. Yes, in
five years, from 1910 through 1915, we
gained in all the Jurisdictions put to-
gether 72O communicates, a gain of 9
per e Say that We spent a million
dollars in those five years. That would
mean that each new communicate cost
the general church about 81 1916. Think
of that
Pastor Should Use His Legs.
Don't go into debt. Better that you
go underfed and underclothed than
that you 90 into debt"
So Bishop Quayle Of the Methodist
Episcopal church admonished at AS
bury Park, n. j.. the young men who
We're ordained as ministers there re-
Gently.
The candidates for the ministry
pledged themselves not to use tobacco.
You must not think your promise to
abstain from tobacco makes you
p%ious,' Bishop Quayle told them. "To
give up tobacco only makes you ordt-
narily decent
The bishop, who was president of
Baker college. Kansas, when he was
thirty years old. rave more advice:
do not make a crusade against any
thing. If you do You will make few
friends"
'Do not prate."
do not attack other churches nor
dilate about the Methodist church,
use your legs. Legs are means of
grace. 1t is not given to all Of us to
be good and brilliant preachers. But
every man a be a good pastor. and
legs are of great use in being that
Bishop Quayle was pastor Of st.
James church. Chicago. when he was
elected bishop by the Methodist gen
eral conference in Baltimore in 1905.
He is famous for his u%tterances in the
pulpit and at camp meeting.