The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-05-15
PARK TRANSFER ALMOST SURE
Money and Stock TOtalling Nearly
$4,000 Pledged Monday Night


At the Court House in Oakland on
last Monday night at a meeting call
ed by those delegated with the power
to increase the membership of the
committee having in charge the man.
agement of the campaign to secure
funds for the purpose of liquidating
about fifty per cent. of the indebted
ness of the Mountain Lake Park As
ISOLATION so that the property of the
corporation can be turned over to the
Board of Foreign Missions of the NJ.
E. church free of incumbrance, nearly
$12 900 in stock and real money was
pledged for this purpose, which al
most insures the bringing to the Park
for the season of 1920 and for many,
many years thereafter hundreds and
perhaps thousands of young people
to be trained for missionary work at
home and abroad, and many returned
workers who will seek restoration of
their broken vitality by coming here
to recuperate.
The plan of making the Park one of
two or three proposed school centres
where fifty thousand men and women
are to be instructed and trained for
missionary work originated with DR..
John F. Goucher himself member of
the Board of Missions and one of the
individual owners of stock in the AS
sociation. The Board of Missions has
agreed to accept the property upon
the condition that it was free of debt
and for the purpose of raising half of
the Indebtedness against the prop
erty was the meeting held Mr.. fred.
A. Thayer was chairman, while Mr.
Harland L. Jones was the secretary.
In anticipation of the Monday night
meeting Rev. w. NJ. Shultz, pastor of
the NJ. E. church in Oakland, went to
New York on last Wednesday night
and in an interview with the officials
of the Mission Board he was given to
understand that the intentions of that
board were legitimate and that they
had offers from two other points in
different sections of the country
coupled with cash considerations if the
proposed school would be located at
either one of these places. Mountain
Lake Park had been decided upon,
however, and the only thing for the
people of the community to dc is to
raise the sum above mentioned.
After DR.. ShultZ made his state
ment subscriptions were opened and
in less than a half hour the sum of
S11 400 in cash and stock had been
pledged. Since the Monday night
meeting, additional subscriptions to
the amount Of more than a thousand
dollars have been made.
4 Great Moral and Financial Invest
ment for the People OF this Com
munity.
The plan to raise $4,000 in this
vicinity to insure the restoration of
Mountain Lake Park to its former
high spiritual and moral value for
this section of country, making it a
more attractive religious summer re-
sort, and at the same time increasing
its capacity as producer of revenue
for all the business interests eentering
in Oakland and Mt. Lake Park, is one
that is certainly compending itself
more and more to the judgment of the
Thoughtful people of the community.
Much has been said and written
with reference to this being a safe
and highly productive investment for
business men. The net profit, the first
year only, after the project is well
under way, would, in all probability.
be two or three times the amount of
the whole investment SIG 900 or from
200 o to 300 90. Seldom do we hear
of scheme promising such financial
returns with such a degree of safety
amounting almost to certainty.
The Board of Foreign Missions, to
which the association property is to
be decided, is a corporation handling
millions of dollars and is the creation
and agent of the Methodist Episcopal
church, which has a membership Of
about four million members, and
which, through the General Confer
ence, exercises control Of the Board.
1t is expected that in the summer
school to be established more than
two thousand young men and women
will annually be trained for the home
and foreign mission fields scattered
over the continents and in the isles
of the seas.
He should not underestimate the
moral and spiritual value of such an
institution for the people of this sec
ton. Contact with such religious
teachers and students as will assem-
BILE here, and the instruction and holy
inspiration which may be secured,
will have greater value than can be
measured by mere financial terms.
None but those gifted with far-and
clear-sighted spiritual vision can even
approximate proper estimation of
such values.
Those who contribute to this fund
as an investment only will secure
satisfying financial returns. Those
who are influenced by higher ideals
will reap rich spiritual rewards, and
all will contribute to the highest
welfare of our families and friends