Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-13
SBYTERIANS NEED
s5,5OO,OOO THIS YEAR
pudget Increased $4,000 to
Keep Christ on Firing
Line
MIC SHARE FOR MISSIONS
CHURCH Regards This a Righteous
War. Must BE Fought to End,
Says Doctor Roberts
ATLANTIC CITY. Fob. 10.


c..,hv,erians OF the United states
~, ro,so and spend more than S5.5oo,-
n VA d,ring the coming war year. an in
.se " of at least half million dollars
W. ,,c nrcsent church year. to Keep the
~ ~ christ on the firing line.
'A, isast $4,000, 900 of thus sum Will
n,ed for backing up the work OF
rso,, army Of soldiers OF tie gospel In
,,,ssonarv fields abroad. Announce
mi also was made In the mid
,uIrtsr meeting of the executive commits
s,.n AZ the General Assembly of great
s.,,o 10 be conducted during February
"a March in behalf of the Home Mis-
.,ors BOARD. which is in debt to the ex-
tent of 100000.
"ssrbe Presbyterian Church is in this
v,r 10 stay TO the windup," asserted the
Dew william Henry Roberts, of Phii1-
Sslnha, stated clerk. in announcing
s,.rs 10 be submitted to the General
Assembly at Columbus, o. May III. lie
. continued:
| ,r.odrow Wilson, an elder OF Princeton,
Il. Robert Lansing. Secrctory or
| st.,e an elder at Watertown. ~, Y. !;
TSomas r. Marshall, Vice President !:
General Pershing nrdnd. in cGmmano Ganmpai reyl y
n.srai lon ~. ~" Hugh Scott are Presbytcrians.
general Field Marshal Haig. OF the
t,yitish armies, is memh"r OF me
CnuI." Cn EieId Marshal Toffre is n mem
~ nf the Reformed Church of France.
NOT A PACIFIsT CHURCH
.rbe Presbyterian Church never. has
been a paciist church, II does not ,s re-
rsrd war as a thing to be lightly under
.sIer hut il does believe this. war rs q
.,shteons SIen war which must be fought out
20 pnnopts snn presented show that more
.,.n 100 regularly ordained Pres
hvterion ministers already have gone
with the colors and that approximately
ioo 600 of the enlisted men at nome anu
abroad are members in good st+ndlhs VI
that faith. ,.,,oa "a
| press its missionary operations VIII
srsster feryor than ever while the
srra,os are clashirg in the war OF
c,vilizatjon Every dollar needed to'
| ,ha. worl,ing out Of soul-saving projects
~ Aftoen foreign lands will be sup
nI,sd Renorts emphasized the fact that
great numbers of women are replacini
men missionaries. who can be used
more effectively in active service with
the troops ,.,
Out Of 1863 American missionaries
and s242 native helpers now at work in
tbe various missionary districts. fully
one.third are women. The Prcsbyte-
rans of tho United States ut this time
sre maintaining in foreign lands Sic
fully orgauizcd churches, with l7O'opu
commandments, 2O63 schools and l7t
hospl,als and dispensaries, where 1885,
900 patients were treated last year. II
Is operating also two great printing
plants. in Shanghai, China, ard Beirut
Syria, where more than 32,O0O.OOO pages
OF Christian literature were printed
during the last twelve months.
TRANSFERRING PROPERTY
Nathan G. Moore, of Chicago, for the
committe on the new Presbyterian
Board of Education. reported prog
ress, announcing that action In the
| courts Of Pennsylvania and Illinois Is
necessary to place in the posse sion OF
the new board the property Of the Col
lege Board, with headquarters in New
York, and the present Board of Educa-
tion, with headquarters in Philadelphia
which II is to succeed.
There is no opposition to the trans
fer, but DEGREES of the courts of the
lWO StdltS tluSl Dt butd'Iltu Dtiplt tIe
formal transfer and the organization OF
the new church educational agency can
be Effected The College Board has
| property valued at $3,00O,000 and the
Board of Education's holdings in Phila'
delphia and elsewhere are estimated al
| 100000 The headquarters of the new
board necessarily will be in New York
because it is Incorporated in that state
Illness and delays incident to railway
congestion caused the absence Of six
members of the executive commission
At the sessions. J. A. stephenson
Of California. gave up the trip. = John
T. Manson, former vice moderator, is i'll
1t his home In New Haven.
The war budget was discussed to.
night by the commissioners in joint ses-
sion with representatives of the ten
'oards and permanent agencies of the
Church. Moderator j. Wilbur Chap.
man and other commission heads as
serted that war is squirting instead OF
hurting the cause of Christianity all
over the country. The response of pas.
tors and laymen to all of the national
drives for war funds has gone far. /,
Gs asserted, to demonstrate that Chris.
uanity is practical and there has beer
| u great gain In membership and demon.