The Winslow mail., 1919-04-04
CENTENARY TEAM
BEGINS GREAT.
CHURCH DRIVE
Methodists to Raise $1O5,.
100000 for Work Here
and Abroad

San Francisco (SpeciaD Announce
ment has just been received here from
the national headquarters of the
Methodist Centenary Campaign that,
owing to the coming Liberty Bond
Campaign, the Methodist Episcopal
Campaign for $105, 100000 has been
postponed for three weeks, the dates
now being May 18 to May 25. The
sum sought by the Methodists is
$105, 100000, all to be secured within
the Methodist denomination. Of this
sum $40000,O0 is to be used for work
in America, $40,000,000 for work in
nine foreign countries and $25,000,000
for reconstruction work in the war
areas of Europe.
The recent appearances in San
Francisco and Los Angeles of the IA
, nous group of Methodist churchmen
from New York known as the Centen-
ary team, has aroused an enthusiasm
for the campaign that in the opinion
Of Bishop Adna w. Leonard of the San
Francisco area, which includes Cali
fornia, Nevada and Arizona, will in
sure the success of the drive.
With the announcement here of the
chairmen of groups and districts who
will have charge of the 1900 Metho-
dist Minute Men in these three states,
further impetus has been added to
the campaign. The announcement was
made by Chairman James K Stinch-
comb, in charge of the Minute Men for
the three states. From now until the
campaign ends Minute Men in groups
and individually will appear at every
Methodist church, Epworth League
center or other Methodist rallying
point, expounding the cause of the
Centenary. Under Director Stinch.
comb there are eleven district chair
are fifty center chairmen composing
the heads Of still smaller groups. Then
each local church in the area-and
there are 575 Methodist churches in
the three states-has church chair
man.
The Methodist church plans to reach
with the gospel, with education and
hygiene, 150,000,000 non-Christian peo.
pies of the globe, 1t is not undertak.
ing any soft snaps. 1t is tackling in
addition to many regions in the United
States that no church has ever en-.
tered, such foreign lands as Korea,
Japan, China, Africa, India, Malaysia,
the Philippines and South America.
In recent full page article COM
mending the Methodist Centenary
movement the New York Tribune
said, speaking of the power that
Christian workers have by doctrine,
education and personal help to stop
the spread of Bolshevism:
"And the point in it all is that the
Christian church is civilizations real
defense against the social unrest,
which has its latest focus in Bolshe-
vism; or else it is a mere affair of
form and mummery and somewhat OF
intellectual stimulation, thrust to one
side by the march of events. Peace
conferences may legislate against the
Bolsheviki and treat with their repre-
sentatives, and the theoretical idealist
may feed them and thus encourage
them in course as wrongheaded as
his, but in the final analysis it is per.
sonal work with the individual which
will stop the spAead of Bolshevism,"
The survey upon which the Metho-
dist Centenary program is founded is
the result of two years expert work
so that every five cent piece to be ex-
pended and every detail of equipment
and personnel is definitely outlined.