The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-20
PLAN A BIC DRIVE
Christian Churches Will Raise
$95,O71 in Kansas.
M
AppOrtiOnmentS Made at Con-
ventiOn Here Today.
SHAWNEE co. QUOTA $3.50
Many Notable Speakers at Big
State Gathering.
Dinner Served to Visitors by
Ladies Today.

raised toy - national Dudset ol
100000 ~ carry on the work OF the
Christian tn--ches according to an
nouncemeut riade in convention to-
day. This budget includes the amount
to be expended in missions, both home
and foreign, bcnevolences, the build
ing of new churches, the support or
church colleges. Sunday school pro-
motion, ministerial aid and pensions.
and temperance activities.
DELEGATES from Christian churches
of Kansas met in conference today
that was both a business session and
an inspirational meeting. Speakers
from various parts of the world were
present, including missionaries from
China, Africa and Mexico.
Out of the sum of ninety-five thou
sand, the quota for Shawnee county
is placed at $3.50. The quota for
each county will be sub-divided ac-
cording to congregations. The drive
will be conducted from December to
January IL.
ADportionmcnt COMMITTEE.
The members of the state COM
mittee which arranged the state buQ-
rct and appointments, are: John ID.
zimmerman, David H. owen, the Rev.
George T. Lyon, Sltle StApti iilttii
Miss Alma Moore, and Mrs. Eda l.
Moore The Shawnee County COM
mittee has two members, the Rev. X.
A. Schell, pastor of the First Christian
church, topeka, and the Rev: Z. +.
Rash, pastor OF the central farh
Christian church.
The denomination in Kansas has
membership of about $4,000 persons,
with 400 congregations
The budget for each department OF
the churchs work was made up by
leaders of the various departments and
submitted to a central committee. Inc
money when it is raised will not be
divided on a percentage basis, but eacn
congregation will be permitted to sub
scribe to the various departments as II
chooses, the central committee express
ing a hope that each congregation Will
make it's subscription to all the depart
ments in about the proportion the
budget calls for. But the money sub
scribed will go to the departments
designated. and each congregation Is
privileged to leave out any of the de-
partments int the budget if it sees fit.
A. E. Corey Presides.
THE sessions of the convention were
held in the audience room of the First
Christian church, and were presided
over by A. f. Corey. secretary of the
National Christian Missionary board
Corey has lately returned from france
where he did religious work in the
arn.y having been sent abroad by the
government to report on the actlVllles
of the Y. NJ. c. A.
DIR. ROYAL Dyer a missionary from
Central Africa, made a short address
empha sizing the necessity FOR the
church to spend literally in money
and Lien for missions in Africa on ac'
count of the pending invasion OF MO.
hammedan I aching in the heart OF
dark continent. Ine natives u
that country now ask us for our teach
ing and our help, but unless we Drlns
1t soon, the Mohammedans Will take
the opportunity from us, teaching
their formal religion without morant9
and their creed of hate"
DIR. and Mrs. w. f. Macklin, who
went to China as missionaries thirty
years ago, both made short speeches.
They told of the dying out of pre-
JUDGE in China against the Christian
religion and the western civilization
DR.. Macklin emphasized especially the
necessity that religion be taken t'
China with the new civilization. unles:
China, with its 400.0O0,0O0 population
become the Hun nation of the east
Miss Merrill Speaks.
Miss Bertha Merrill. of New York
told of her work among the foreign
population in New York, where she il
engaged in home mission work in
Christian church community house.
DR. B. o. Cunningham, who spen
twenty years in India as a missionary
made an address on the advance o
Christianity in that country, and re
forms which it made necessary anon;
the followers of the ancient religions
Mrs. Anna Atwater, president of tn
Christian Woman's Board of Missions
spoke on the extension of the mission
work entered into by the women of tn
church in the Congo. in India, China
i'm the home field
Mr. Cornelius. who came from tn
south to attend the convention, told o
the need of the extension of the worl
of the Christian church in Mexico. a
n means of overcoming the supersti
ton and fanaticism on the one nam
and atheism on the other.
The Rev. John Booth, in charge o
church extension on the frontier
asked for consideration of the need
of church work in the sparsely settle
territory of western United States. H
asserted that relatives of his Twin
in the state of Nevada had heard bu
two church services in 13 years.
E. Smith, of indianapolis. Ind, urge
the need of the fund for ministerial
aid and the pension for aged and in
firm ministers The Rev. Mr.. Va
Wrinkle, chairman of the national de
partment of Christian Education 70
the church, made his plea for gen
erous giving to the colleTes of tn
cent of the great men of America i
the past rs years had been educate
in religious schools.
Ladies Served Dinner.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Firs
Christian church served dinner to tn
delegates at IL o'clock, and during TIL
dinner hour the conference was cor
tinued. George Lyon, state superir
tendent. spoke, and brief addresse
were made by others who are leader
in the work of the church In tn
state.
A conference of all the county com
mittees was held at o'clock this al
ternoon for the assignment of quota
and a discussion or plans for raisin
the money.
Last year Shawnee county oversut
scribed its quota by considerabl
sum.
\ conference of the state Christia
Wnman's Board of Missions will b