The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-05
EPIS'C'0PA|.L!lLANS|s
! NAME LEADERS
FOR BIG DRIVE
Every Member Campaign
to Be Waged Next
Month.

| VI DSSCmUcT tu0 ITOtCSIuu
Episcopal Church throughout Americs
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,
present definition.
It has been q drive for souls and
not for dollRrs--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
heaval: 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 "a
supply every spiritual need.
Every city and hamlet in the coun'
try has been made to feel the revivih.
cation. Locally both clergy and laity
have worked as never before to es.
tablish their church with its commu.
nicants and Q pronounced recrudes.
cence Of activity already Is evident.
December Z, tho Big Day.
The full tide Of the drive win DO
felt during the flrst week Of Decem.
ber. 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 Of
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
P. Anderson, Of Chicago; Bishop John
g. Murray, of Maryland; Bishop Ar.
thur 8. Lloyd, Bishop Frederick F.
Reese, Of Georgia; Bishop Charles
Sumner Burch, Of New York; Rev. DR..
Ernest M. 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. It 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
That he may hereafter
do his work las 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 $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 It Is ApportIoned.
OF this total, $2S,000,000 will be re.
CURED for general work and $4,000
300 for diocesan needs. Ten millions
If the sum specified for general work
will be devoted to home missionary
work in the dioceses and missionary
of America; the remainder to
work in foreign fields, for
social service, religious education,
and other work in
America.
The joint commission makes 1t clear
hat all sums for general work Of the
church will be distributed and ap-
,ropriated by the duly constituted au-
.hority of the church after careful
Ind thorough investigation, having in
mind a proper and reasonable distri.
,ution of funds throughout the whole
church and to the work Of the several
boards and agencies. r+..
In connection with the nationwide
there is being carried a
publicity campaign which ia calculated
lot only to awaken Episcopalians
themselves to the possibilities and
reeds Of their church, but also to
impress upon the general public the
and hopes Of the church.
Jew EPIscoPALIAN
BISHOP coNsEcRATEpl
San Francisco-What prelates Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church prO.