The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-12-05
EPISCOPALIANS
NAME LEADERS
FOR Big DRIVE
Every Member" Campaign to
BE Waged Next
Month.

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Episcopal Church throughout America
will complete a drive" that must
stand as unique among the many that
have been made since the exigencies
OF war first brought that term to it's
present definition.
IL mas been drive for souls and
not Tor dollarS-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart, not the pocket
book. Its principal purpose has been
to keep awake and active the spirit
uality reawakened by the world up
! heaval; 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 a pronounoea recrudes-
cence of activity already IA evident.
December the BIG Day
! The full tide Of the drive will be
felt during the first week of Deem
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-
CURED to make the new program eff
fective. N
A committee of fifteen hf 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 Ehurchmen
| and lay readers who have been elected
to the committee of fifteen behind
them, among them Bishop Charles F.
| Anderson, of Chicago; Bishop John
6. 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
gachusetts; 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.
f, 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
were subjected to hardship and even
to humiliation by present insufficient
emolument. That he may hereafter
| do his work las a leader of the
church with efficiency and self-re-
spect" this fault is to be renredied.
i Careful revision OF the statement
Of church needs Indicates that a
sum approximating $42,000,O00 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
lrevised this estimate to make the
program as efficient and as reason
ably economical as needs will permit.
How 1t Is Apportioned
OF this total. $2S.0O0,O0O will be re.
CURED for general work and $14,000,-
coo 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,
characterization and other work in
/ America.