Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-06
TO MOBILIZE FORCES
IN CHURCH DRIVE
Special Correspondent

81 Special Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. "a new mob
ilization day for peace will dawn
throughout the United States tomar-
row. Within its "a hours, 100000
linen and women will be organized in
20 a compact unit to help carry on the
work began by the men who served
in France.
The million are members of the
| Episcopal church in the United States.
And this mobilization day is the eli
max Of the Episcopal Nationwide
Campaign. For almost a year the cam
paign has been paving the way for the
concentration OF the entire resources
of the Church behind a definite pro-
! gram of practical service which shall
be its part of the task of reconstruc-
ton.
All over the country, tomorrow,
100, 900 trained -canvaSsers will go out
to enlist every man, woman n child
on the roster of the Church behind
this program.
They will undertake a national plan
for Americanizing the ~foreign-born in
cooperation with the Fedora Depart
ment of the Interior. They viii seek
to discover and to establish through
the country q Substitute for the saloon.
THEY will build new churches and new
community centers, establish facilities
of education in lands remote from
civilized institutions. They will e
medical aid to distant countries where
it is rarely within reach. They will
I help to increase the capacity of hos
pitfalls, and of industrial schools II
other institutions. They will make
possible social service work upon a
broader scale in crowded cities and
isolated rural districts. And they will
increase the salaries of underpaid
4 - - r-s- 1000 AhA+ AhAEA
may more efficiently direct the work
of which they are in charge.
These are major provisions of the
Church's program. To carry them
out the Church must recruit 1900 new
| workers for the home and the foreign
fields. 1t must build approximately
1000 new buildings-churches, COM
munity houses, schools, hospitals ana
other institutions II centers. And il
must provide new equipment for hum
dreds OF others.
The program of the Nationwide
Campaign Is based upon a recently
completed survey of the Church's
needs and opportunities in the next
three years, both in the United States
and its territories and in Latin Amer
lea, Africa, China and Japan. The
survey was reduced to n practical
budget, and this budget calls for $42,-
000, 900 Of which $4,000, 600 is for the
work being done by the Episcopal
Dioceses in the United States; $4,000,
900 for the general missionary work of
| the Church at home, and $13, 200, 900
for the work in the foreign field. for
religious education and social service,
and for expansion of the activities of
; the Church's subsidiary organizations.
Not only the leading clergymen of
the Church, but its foremost laymen
put themselves behind this program
from its inception. Such men have
| given their services to the direction of
the campaign, as Lewis b. Franklin,
who directed the Government war
loan organization through the five
Liberty Loans, and Henry p. Dawson,
directing head of the American Red
| Cross.
The personnel of the commission in
charge of the Nationwide Campaign
includes: Bishop Charles p. Anderson
Of Chicago, chairman; Bishop Charles
Sumner Burch of New York, vice
chairman; Burton Mansfield, New
Haven, Conn. secretary: Mr.. Frank