Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-11-27
EPISCOPALIANS
MANI LEADERS
F0R BIG DRIVE
Every Member" Campaign
to Be Vaged Next
Month.

Episcopal Church throughout America
will complete a drive" that must
stand as unique among the many that
have been made since the exigeneies
of war first brought that term, to It's
present definit on.
1t has been a drive for souls and
not for dollars-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart, not the pocket
book Its principal purpose has been
to keep awake and active the spir-
ituality reawakened by the world up
heavaI; to shake into activity ana
highest efficiency those offices OF the
! church which may have become to
greater or lesser degree dormant and
to impress upon the laity that the
church stands equipped and eager 10
supply every spiritual need.
! Every city and hamlet in the coun-
try has been made to feel the reViyln-
cation. Locally both clergy and laty
Z have worked as never before to es-
! ia bIish their church with its commu-
| nicants and a pronounced recrudes-
cence of activity already is evident
December 7, the Big Day.
I The full, tide Of the drive VIII De
felt during the first week OF Decem-
I Der. During that period every mem
! Der of the church will work with re-
/ doubled effort to the end desired and
/ TO produce the fund which will be re-
ouired to make the new program Ell
I fective.
/ A committee of fifteen of the most
distinguished men of the nation has
I been named to handle the great cam
paign. Henry P Dawson, director oil
the Red Cross during the war, has
been named as the organization ex-
ecutive. He will have the active
assistance of many notable churchmen
and lay readers who have been elected
to the committee of fifteen behind
them, among them Bishop Charles
P. Anderson, of Chicago; Bishop John
G.. Murray, of Maryland; Bishop Ar
thur S. Lloyd, Bishop Frederick F..
Reese. of Georgia; Bishop Charles
Sumner Burch, of New York; Rev. DR..
Ernest NJ. Stires, of New York; Rev.
DR.. Edward S. Rousmaniers, of Mas
sachusetts; Rev. DR.. James E. Free
man, of Minnesota; Rev. DR.. William
H. Milton, of East Carolina; Rev. DR..
Frank H. Nelson, of Southern Ohio;
Arthur Woods, of New York; George
Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia; Bur
ton Mansfield, of New Haven, Con-
necticut, and Oliver j. Sands, Of Rich
mond, Virginia
First among the financial needs of
the church considered at the recent
triennial general convention in De-
troit, was the pressing need for
higher salaries for the Episcopal
clergy. 1t was found that only too
often many of the most active and
effective workers within the church
we're subjected to hardship and even
to humiliation by present insufficient
emolument That he may hereafter
do his work .as a leader of the
church with efficiency and self re-
spect" this fault is to be remedied.
Careful revision of the statement
of church needs indicates that a |
sum approximating s42.000,000 will be
gram of the next three years. The
sum originally fixed was $4,000, 900, |
but the joint commission last week
revised this estimate to make the
program as efficient and as reason
ably economical as needs will permit.
How II Is Apportioned.
OF this total. s2S,000,000 viii be re-
uuired for general work and $4,000 |
600 for diocesan needs. Ten millions
of the sum specified for general work
will be devoted to home missionary
work in the dioceses and missionary
districts of America; the remainder to
missionary work in foreign fields, for
social service, religious education, |
Americanization and other work In
America
The Joint commission makes 1t clear
that all sums for general work OF the
church will be distributed and ap-
propriated by the duly constituted au-
thority of the church after careful
and thorough investigation, having in
mind a proper and reasonable distri-
button of funds throughout the whole
church and to the work of the several
boards and agencies.
In connection with the nationwide
campaign there is being carried a
publicity campaign which is calculated
not only to awaken Episcopalians
themselves to the possibilities and
needs of their church, but also to
impress upon the general public the
purposes and hopes of the church.