Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-12-13
.ElP'lsIcoPALlh|Ns F.
! ! name LEADERS
!: !. !: FOR Big drive
EVERY Member" Campaign to-
!; Be Waged Next
J Month. :

On December the Protestant
episcopal Church throughout America
VIII 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. !,
It has been drive for souls and
not for: dollars-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart not the pocket
book. Its principal purpose has been
&C keep awake and active the spirit
Gality reawakened by the world up
heayal: to shake into activity and
highest efficiency those. offices OF. the:
church which may have become to q
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 reviyifi
cation. Locally both clergy and laity
have worked as never before to es.
tablish their church with its commu-
! nicants and pronounced recrudes-
cence Of activity already is evident.
December 7 the Big Day
The full tide OF the drive will be
5elt 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 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, mas
been named as the organization ex
.ecutive. He will have the active
assistance OF many notable churchmeh
and lay readers who have been elected
to the committee of fifteen behind
them, among them Bishop Charles 7.
Anderson, of Chicago: Bishop John
G. Murray. of Maryland; Bishop Ar
thur S. Lloyd, Bishop Frederick +.
! 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
Fl. Milton. OF East Carolina; Rev. DR..
Frank H. Nelson, Of Southern Ohio:
Arthur Woods. OF New York: George
Wharton Peppsr Of Philadelphia: Bur,
ton Mansfield. Of New Haven. Con-
necticut, and oliver ]. 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,
prnolpmentr,, That. heS mays hereafter
Hospass @q na sss d aaasa of the
ehnfak with sefficieSey&and self-re.
SpScssi6hsSSault ii to beatsmedied.
p Careful" revision Of the statement
off church .neeas indicatesa that a
sum ,appioximating $42OOa.0oe still be
reqhirsa ITO cover in detail THE pro
grain pfs theS next three yearssi The
sum originally fixed was S62,000,oOO
but the piHt commission last week
revised this estimate TO make the
program as efficient and as reason
ably economical as needs will permit.
How 1t Is Apportioned
OF this total. s2s,OOO,OOo will be re.
hurried for general work and $4,000.
Goo for diocesan needs. Ten millions
of the sum specified for general work
will be devoted to home missioaary
\ work in the dioceses and missionary
districts Of America; the remainder to
missionary work in foreign fields. for
social service, religious education.
Characterization eaa other work in
l erica