Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-02
METHODIST LEADER
RAPS j. S. POLICY
Or. Taylor, Before Board Meet
ing Here, Sees Leadership
Chance Drifting Away
WARNS OF GREAT DANGER

The United States. through adher
cnt hour is casting away its chance to
assume world leadership, according to
DIR. S. Earl Taylor, executive sccrc-
tary of the Interchurch World Move
ment, comprising virtually all Protest
ant denominations of North America.
Doctor Taylor spoke before the an
nual conference of the Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Simp-
son Hall. Wesley Building. 1T01 Arch
street, today.
The statement came in n plea that
the Meth odiSt Church bend its full en-
crgies to co operating with all other
Protestant denominations. disregard
sectarian lines, and not make the mis-
take the government is making i'll sac
riticing its chance for world leader
ship.
'If an cmasculated league of nations
goes through - said Doctor Taylor. 81
see nothing on the horizon to lead the
world except the cross of Christ. And
if the Church fails in this hour of its
opportunity the world is doomed.
Sees Peril i'm Division
The peril of the hour, Doctor lay
lor continued is in the unrelated cam =
paigns of various church organizations
for church expansion. At the present
time there are under way or about to
get under way, thirty movements OF
as many Protestant denominations, for
the purpose of raising u total of SJ43, %
600 900.
"Thc forces of evil declared Doctor
Taylor. ''are marshaled against us
as never before 1t costs far more to
obtain peace than it did to fight the
war. All Professionalism must unite
at least in its spending of money. We
must spend wisely and we cannot dc
that unless we work together. If
read the signs Alright, the time has come
for Methodism to stand shoulder tc
shoulder with the other forces of Christ.
We must have a large, statesmanlike
policy, and nothing that smacks of sec
tarianism or littlencss.
Doctor Taylor was executive secrc
tary of the joint centenary committee,
which last year. in celebration of Meth
odism's hundrcdth anniversary of mis-
sonary cndeavor, raised $113, 900, 900 tu
be spent on n five year program of world
regeneration. He instanced today some
of the results already accomplished by
means of centenary funds,
Hellet sent 10 EUROPE
More than $400 900 already has been
spent on furnishing relief to Europe, he
said. and 5000 additional is to be
put into relief work att once. Food and
clothing are being distributed in Italy,
Germany, France and Belgium, along
the Baltic and in the Balkans. Around
Chateau -Thicrry alone there are thir
tv- five devastated French villages which
are being rehabiitatcd by centenary
funds. Their houses are being rebuilt,
their streets rcpaved. their factories re-
stored. and the returned refugees are
housed, clothed and fed in the mean
time.
In the United States various prof
ects already under way were instanccd
by Doctor Taylor. including an Ameri-
canization project among Mexicans at
LoJ Angeles.
Zone tenth of the Mexicans of the
world, 5000 900. live in the United
States" he said. "They center about
Los Angeles. The centenary is work
ing out a great Americanization prof.
cct there which will do more to pacify
the border situation than all the ma :
chine guns ever invented"
At the Home Missions board confer =
cnce which began at 10 O'Clock this
morning and will last until tomorrow
night. $10.J00. 900 will be appropriated
to be spent in 1920 on various church