Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25
NEW STATE DIRECTOR
 FIELD DEPARTMENA
Rev. Morris E. filling of Rocky Hill, This
 State

The Interchurch World Movement of North America announced Thurs day the appointment of the Rev. Morris E. filling of Rocky Hill, Congregational clergyman, as State Director of the Field Department of the Movement for Connecticut, with headquarters at Hartford.
 The appointment of the Rev. Rollo A. Kilburn, a Methodist clergyman and an Army Chaplain with the A. E. F., as Rural Survey Supervisor for Connecticut and Rhode Island was announced at the same time. His headquarters also will be at Hartford
 MT. filling has been pastor of the Rocky Hill Congregational church, is president of the Connecticut Chris tian Endeavor Union, and was direc- tor of the states Four Minute Men. MT. KilOurn is graduate of Middle bury College and Union Theological Seminary. He was pastor of churches at several New York sta tions, and for some time has special ized in the work of the rural minis try.
 The two appointments mean an immediate beginning of interdenom- national cooperative effort in Con- necticut under the direction of the Interchurch World Movement. MT. Kilburn will supervise a census of re- ligious conditions in every county of the state. The surveys afterwards will be made bases for interdenomin- ational conferences on unified state and local programs.
 The Interchurch World Movement is cooperative plan, supported by majority of the Protestant, churches of America. It has nothing to do with organic church union or with doctrinal matters, but seeks to co-or- dinate the work of all church agen- cies, missionary boards, ministerial relief and educational societies, etc. so as to reduce wasteful duplication of effort. Each church body will work through it's own organizations, with it's own treasury and personnel, but conferences will be held with view to equitable divisions of the various fields of effort.
 The Movement is surveying the religious needs and conditions of the entire world to get at the exact facts of what the whole Christian church is failing to do and what it can be is doing for every household, what it expected to do through cooperation. The study abroad is being made through denominational missionaries and mission boards.
 At home it contemplates a census of the entire United States, down to the last family. This part has been divided roughly into metropolitan and rural surveys with special sur vcys of such problems as the foreign language colony, the immigrant, the Indian, the Oriental, etc.
 The rural surveys are made county by county, with state supervisors and state councils representing all the denominations concerned. It has in mind two things,-the individual church, and the separate community. The church is examined as to the nature, number, ages, sex, welfare and occupations of it's members, the extent of it's pastoral influence, it's financial situation and methods, it's reltion to all other churches, to granges, to lodges, and its physical surroundings, such as roads, rail- roads, trolley lines, etc. The com munity is examined as to it's popula- tion, trade territory, social environ ments, etc.
 The actual survey is made by resident county supervisor, acting under an interdenominational coun- ,ty council. This council is expected to work out local programs of CO., operation wherever nossihle