Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-02
EXPERT TEAM
TO PUSH CANVASS
Methodist Ministers Take Ac-
ton On Dickinson
Funds.

At the meeting of the Methodist
Ministerial Association. of Harris
burg and vicinity this morning at the
Y. NJ. C. A. Building the following
preamble and resolutions on pro-
posed canvass for Dickinson College
and Dickinson Seminary were pre-
sented by DIR. S. C. Swallow and sec
onded by two others and after a
lengthy discussion were lost by q
vote of five for and eight against.
Ihree of those present not voting.
Hence 1t Is understood that the can
Nass by team of experts from the
West will proceed. Every pastor
must send list of the names of his
members to DIR. Morgan, president
OF Dickinson College, that AN assign
ment OF them may be made by the
western team of solicitors who. ii is
understood. will make an exhaustive
canvass for nearly two months be-
ginning with October IA and ending
December 6.
These were the resolutions:
Whereas. The Central Pennsyl-
last took action favorable to raising
within our conference bounds $780,
600 for the promotion of higher edu-
cation, more particularly as repre-
sented by Dickinson College and
Dickinson Seminary. and
Whereas. World conditions Sc
riously altering and affecting ma
tional, state, municipal, conference,
local church, family and individual
in "
months since conference adjourned;
and
Whereas, Distress appeals are al
most constantly coming to our COM
munities. churches and the members
thereof, the larger number of whom
are in moderate financial circum-
stances. and thousands of them
pressed for the ordinary necessaries
of life in this period of the hitherto
unknown high price of living; and
Whereas, Hundreds OF husbands
and sons have gone as soldiers in de-
fense of our country's very exist
ence as a nation, leaving many or
their families to depend in part at
least on the earnings of others; and
Whereas. There are frequent and
pre- sing appeals to the members of
our local churches throughout the
conference to contribute to the full
fund of 100000 just fairly started
to be raised and on which the fifty
worn-out preachers and seventy
preachers widows of our conference
depend largely for very inadequate
support, some of them actually suf-
fering for the necessaries of life; and
Whereas, Crying appeals are al
most daily reaching us from our high
church officials for collections to bear
the expenses of our Methodist mis-
sions to our thousands of Methodist
soldier boys now at the front or drill
ing in the numerous cantonments in
this and other countries; and
Whereas, the Red Cross, the
Young Mems Christian. Association,
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation and various rescue mission
interests, all intent on furnishing not
life's luXuries. but warding off the
innumerable menaces to life itself
now abroad in the world as never
before in all its history; and
Whereas, The societies formed
for raising millions of money to fur
nish food for what remains of the
starving millions of Belgium. Ru-
mania and especially of Armenia are
by their appeals wringing tears from
our very hearts; therefore
Resolved. That the Methodist
Preachers Association of Harrisburg
and vicinity herewith earnestly pc
tition the Rev. DIR. Morgan and his
trustees of Dickinson College, the
Rev. DR.. Connor and his trustees of
Dickinson Seminary: our beloved
Bishop Mcdowell of this area, and
the five presiding elders of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania conference, to
unite in calling off the threatened
college and seminary two months
crusade against the families and in
dividual members of our local
churches. and we ask it most hum
bly, in the interest of suffering hu-
manity.
Resolved, Second, that we pledge
ourselves as individuals in case this
indefinite postponement is effective,
to cooperate with the brethren here
in memorialiZed in future endeavor
to raise moneys for these institutions
at a time we trust when the effort
will really help them instead of in
turing them as we believe the sched-
uled present effort by strong armed
experts from a distance will GER
tainly do if persisted in.
Resolved, Third. that copies of
our action be sent by our secretary
to the Methodist Preachers Asso-
Citations of Altoona. Williamsporr,
Huntington and Sunbury with a re-
quest that they cooperate with us in
this respectful, kind, but most earn
est request for a postponement of
the within described crusade"
TAFT'S son TO WED SATURDAY
New Haven, Conn, Oct. g.
Charles P. Taft, son of ex-President
and Mrs. William II. Taft, will be
married Saturday to Miss Eleanor
Chase, of Waterbury, it was announc-