The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1919-12-10
EPISCOPALIANS
NAME LEADERS
FOR Big DRIVE
Every Member" Campaign to
Be Waged Next
Month.

On December the Protestant
Episcopal Church throughout America
will complete drive that must
stand as unique among the many that
have been made since the exigencies
OF war first brought that term to its
present definition.
1t has been drive for souls and
not for dollars-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart, not the pocket
book. It's principal purpose has been
to keep awake and active the spirit
uality reawakened by the world up
heayal; to shake into activity and
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 to
supply every spiritual need.
Every city and hamlet in the coun'
try has been made to feel the revivifi-
cation. Locally both clergy and laity
have worked as never before to es-
tablish their church with it's commu-
nicants and pronounced recrudes
cence of activity already is evident
December the Big Day
The full tide of the drive will be
felt during the first week of Decem-
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-
quired to make the new program ef-
fective
A committee of fifteen of the most
distinguished men of the nation has
been named to handle the great cam
paign. Henry P. Dawson, director OF
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 T.
anderson, of Chicago; Bishop John
G. Murray, of Maryland: Bishop, Ar
thur S. Lloyd, Bishop Frederick F.
Reese, of Georgia; Bishop Charles
Summer Burch, Of New York; Rev. DR..
Ernest M. Stires, of New York; Rev.
Dr. Edward S. Rousmaniers. of Mas
sachusetts; Rev. DR.. James q. Free
man, of Minnesota Rev. DR.. William
III. Milton, of East Carolina; Rev. DIR.
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. r.
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
were 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
sum approximating $42,000,000 will be
required to cover in detail the pro-
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 1t IL Apportioned
or this total, $2S,o0O,O0O will be re-
CURED 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.