Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-12
lHODISM PLANS
pTTTSBURGH COUP
Mission Convention Hears
nutline of Mighty Church
Campaign
.cp,rCIBLE OF NATION"
R,,hop Describes Area as Isl Field
'D for Spending $2,oOo,ooo
of $sO,OOO,ooO Fund
.cRrJCIBLE OF NATION"

kf ,,.,, 10 going into the extensive
Metnoe,n ',n,rg fields and the manufactur-
coke keasons a of Pittsburgh, the CruClple
\ nc sec.o.i " where there are more than
Of the ',I,on foreign-speaking people with
ball ~, No religious teaching ana spehd
u viruass' ~ 81, 100000 In providing churcnes'
upw, pastors, missionaries anu oe''er
so,ial conditions o,,,,
So .,ans for developing the pittsburgh
I rere presented at the Hotel Auelphla
Area uoarIy 200 bishops, leading lay
today u taisters from all over the coun-
men a;;dinr a.u the first joint session of the
III aV' s IIone Missions and Church EX-
Boaru cooiety and the Board of Foreign
tension - the Methodist Episcopal Church
MISSIONS u d,esoIution of the old Missionary
fnce the dIsso'
society in 1907.
n,non Franklin Hamilton, OF Pittsburgh.
bn ,he conditions in Pittsburgh which
fola ~ ,or the extensive church activity In
caseu w. I'd wore outlined in the centenary
Dis az" He said that Pittsburgh was
su'o', '.oc,lon of the best adventure that
e.,,O,soj;,sn e,oss had ever made, referring 10 tne
S,mi Sr.nsisn to collect .SSOooo'ooo WHICH -
s.ing launched at the convention
n,,.burgh is the best-known city IN
- TODAY. the Bishop continued ne
hulvp' Of ms immense industrial supplies
tta
ior ssoa chat they are going to use To
~ ,he Rhine are being made in Pitts
ss coss cheering burst forth and then the
pu,s .a,,so audience roared with laughter.
n,.,or Hamilton dwclt forciDly upon the
ns,o,s masses of foreign laborcrs in
..s o,ransive coke, mining and manuiac-
.,s,na wv regions of the western Pennsylvania
s,r noin,ing out that the true American
.ou,d come from the merging of all OF the
.ocoe of the Allies and showing that the
aonsested polyglot districts are untouched
sv any religious or social propaganda.
The Pittsburgh statement was one of five
whlch the Methodist Episcopal Church has
k.d nrepared under the general title of the
Centenary Survey the hrSt so lar COM
,lsd for the centenary celebration of the
tonndng of Methodist mission work in this
coIntry next year, including the Chicago
area wichita (Kan.) area, Portsmouth dis
,ric. typical of the vast rural section in the
central highlands extending from central
oklahoma to the New Englasd coast; the
need of the Latin-Americans in the South
west and Pittsburgh.
The conference was arranged to consider
plans for a national celebration next year
Of the centenary of the founding of Metho-
dist missions in this country and as a prep
aration for this anniversary the proposed
$50, 900 900 campaign was decided upon. The
campaign will probably he the greatest ever
undertaken by a Protestant denomination
in this country. Forty millions will be de-
voted to each board to spend as it sees fit,
in the spread and maintenance OF Meth
odlsm
The convention, which will continue to-
morrow. Wednesday and Thursday, in Wes-
ley Hall, Seventeenth and Arch streets,
will bring together many of the leading men
OF the denomination. including the twents
bishops. Each section of the church will
be represented by its leading minister's and
laymen, and the missionary status of the
church will he presented and methods de-
bated for its Improvement
Among the delegates will be many pioneer
workers from the western, northwestern and
southern States who will visit this city for
The frst time and take part in the discus
sons. One hundred and twenty-five con-
ferences in this country will he represented,
speaking twenty-five different languages
More than twenty-five missionaries from
Indian reservations and the various Indian
schools will attend, as well as representa-
tiyes from Hawaii. Porto Rico and Alaska
The convention will he presided over by
Bishop Berry, who is the president of the
board. Among the first questions opened
ior discussion will he thu apportionment of
moneys TO the missions, casually amounting
to more than $1.O00000
The secretaries Of the Foreign Mission
Board are the Rev. Earl Taylor and tho
Rev. +. Mason North, both of New York,
and the secretaries of the Home Mission
Board are the Rev. Whitford l.. Mcdowell,
lhe Rev. Melvin j. Burns, the Rev. Edward
Lard Mills, the Rev, George b. Dean, the
rev. Ralph Willes. Keller and Paul H. Vogt.
Ihe delegates will be generously enter
lained while in the city, the entire weeks
program having been arranged, including
uips 10 various historical places