New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-13

! the war, and to carry on constructive
! ly this process of making the world
; safe for democracy, the Joint Gen.
! tenary Commission Of the Methodist
| Episcopal church plans to pledge
| $S0,000,000 during the next five years
! to put the work of its Foreign and
Home Missions on an efficiency basis.
This figure of 100000 Is not
rough guess Of the amount needed,
! but has ben reached as the result of
most scientifically prepared estimates
of the minimum amount which would
meet the pressing needs in each field.
Several years ago, in preparation for
| the Centenary, detailed question
| naires were sent out to the financial
! committees in charge of each mission
area. These questionnaires were
| filled in by the men on the spot, and
were subject to review and the 0. K.
! of the bishop in charge Of each area.
They were then sent back to a CEN
! trail financial committee who went
over them very carefully, comparing
/ them, and making any cuts or
! changes that seemed possible. The
net result Of all this careful and ex-
| pert preparation has been the deci-
! sion to pledge 50 millions.
/ The Centenary will eliminate in a
! weeks celebration in Columbus, Ohio,
! in June 1919. A pageant will give
| a dramatic picture of the status of
| Methodist missions all over the world.
! The most prominent missionaries and
| speakers in the Methodist church will
| gather to tell of their work. Ac-
| Communications will be provided for
| 100, 600 guests.
The celebration will receive addi-
| tional impetus from the fact that it
! is a Joint celebration in more senses
| than one. 1t represents a combina-
! ton not only of the boards of Home
| and Foreign Missions Of the church.
| but the cooperation of both branch
| es Of the Methodist church in Amer
! lea has been secured. The Methodist
Episcopal Church South and the
! Methodist Episcopal church will hold
| common celebration for the first time
! since their separation in 1847.
"Autocracy's End" Bishop Rashford.
One hundred and fifty thousand
| Chinese are helping the Allies in
France according to Bishop Bashford.
Bishop Bashford explained that
| $4,000 Chinese troops are fighting in
the trenches. The rest are laborers.
|
| serving in France as farmers, trench
| diggers, and laborers. The French
government began importing them
! last summer It offered to pay each
! man $40 month, and to send an
| other ten to his family at home, AS
| the ordinary laborer earns from
| eight to tn cents a day In China, this
seemed magnificent offer. But they
| feared it was too good to be true.
| They were a little skeptical of the
| French governments good faith, and
| went to the Christian missionaries in
| their villages asking for advice. 1t
was through the influence of these
| missionaries that the movement
gained it's first headway."
| Discussing ultimate results Of the
| war, Bishop Bashford said that from
| any point of view, 1t must mean the
! end of autocracy, and a universal &C
| ceptance of democracy. Dismissing a
! German victory as inconceiyable, the
, Bishop said:
"The next worst thing that could
| happen would be an inconclusive
| peace. Even this would mean that all
| GGermany stands for would go by the
board. Her doctrine that might
makes right, her militarism, her au-
| tocracy, all this would be demon
| strated a. failure if she accupts an in
| conclusive peace. Germany--who
! started the war--has already said
| that she would be willing to go back
| where she was before the war. But
| she is supposed to be fighting for q.
place in the sun. If she accepts the
status quo, she goes back into the
| shadow, and renounces all that she
| has sacrificed SO tremendously to win
1t may take her people years to in
terpret the full significance of this.
But when they do, her autocracy goes
by the board
"Mismark said years ago that Rus
STA, Germany and Austria must stand
together to preserve autocracy In the
world. He said that England had
fallen hope1essly away toward popu-
iar government, that France had al
ready become q republic and that
the only strong nations left to pre-