The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
PROFFER
GEMS TO WORLDS
RELIGIOUS MOVE
From Far 0utpOStS Of ASia'S
Civilization Come Gifts of
Rare Value for Fund Of
Methodist Centenary.

Methodist Centenary.
NEW YORK, April 1l.-Rings from
the fingers, toes and ears Of Hindu
women are helping to pay sos, 900, 900
Of the worlds reconstruction bill.
So are rice, beads and palm nuts
from the huts of African villages; we'd
ding rings and silver hairpins from the
m OF Corea; poultry, eggs and
tropical fruits from native farms in the
Philippines, and milk from a prize
Guernsey COW on a dairy farm in Wis
Consin.
There is a poor widow in the Middle
West who has a common tie with a
~l5-year-old boy in Chile and a Chinese
coolle in Sumatra. All three have made
personal sacrifices that a program for
rebuilding the world, for assuring the
durability of peace n the spread Of
democracy may be carried out.
Bales of Southern cotton are going to
help the $l05, 600, 900 reconstruction item.
Thousands of war gardens will be
transformed into reconstruction gar
dens, to help put over the program.
From the outposts of civilization and
from its centers countless stories of
strange gifts n strange givers are
coming INTO the New York offices of
the Methodist centenary movement,
from which, not long ago, went out to
the world the $105, 000, 900 centenary
program construction. Those stories
speak for themselves.
The poor widow in the Middle West
is 70 years old and has brought up a
family of six children, To her the CEN
tenary program Of reconstruction was
worth a 81, 900 estate note, to be paid
out Of the money she left at death.
Her a estate was then only 500.
Her income was less than $500 a year.
Il trust" said she, Il shall live long
enough to make up the $500 difference
from my savings"
The ~l5-year-old Chilean boy lives in
Coquinbo. The Methodist preacher there
explained to him the centenary pro-
gram, He knew the Methodist principle
of giving, the Biblical 1.-THE. Next day
he brought his 1.-THE for the world fund
80 cents.
Small Boy Explains.
But how did you earn 90 cents?' he
was asked.
Il didn't" he explained. 81 earned a
dollar, took one-tenth of that and kept
the tenth for myself" That boy has be-
gun his studies for the ministry. He
plans to give his life.
The Chinese coolie stood outside a
church in Medan, Sumatra, one night
and listened while Leonard Oechsdi,
the Methodist missionary there, ex-
planned the Methodist world movement.
Afterward he went in and gave the
missionary $12. 1t was nine-tenths of
his income-he kept his 1.-THE for him
self. And he earned his living by going
from house to house, cutting wood, car
rying water, sweeping n scrubbing,
The name of the Guernsey COW is
Imported Marie of Sarnia." She be-
longs to one of the most successful Of
Wisconsin's scientific dairy farmers.
Marie Of Sarnia brings her owner a net
annual income Of 5000, And that in
come has been dedicated to the CEN
tenary for the next five years.
One of the gifts to the Methodist
reconstruction fund in Central New
York was $1,000. A woman was the
glver. A shut-in, she read of the
world movement, and sent for a can
vasser. The money was all the wom-
an had. She had earned 1t before
marriage by working out at SO cents
a day. She had saved it to buy some
thing she really wanted. She could not
think of any better way to spend it
than by helping realize the Methodist
world program.
Because the centenary program in
cludes 80 countries it has won many
special gifts. For one woman the most
vital phase of the centenary Is its plans
for new churches along the frontier
lines of the West and Southwest. Hav-
ing no direct heirs, she has given her
oAA ~ Nv ~ liz ~ N"S oNAANAlA6
of three frontier churches. The last
one is to be paid for from the pro-
ceeds Of the sale of her little home
after her death.
Indian School Students Help.
To the students Of the Crawford
Boys school at Deccan, India, the most
important thing in the movement is
the plan for relief in Belgium. Vol
unfairly these boys have given up meat
A-l @-fEA@ f,--. LAta lin -
fare that the money thus saved may
go to aid the Belgian children.
A Japanese millionaire, who in his
boyhood had been befriended by a
missionary and given mis- education at
Aoyama Gakuin Methodist college, has
given $500. 600, with the direction that
it be used for a new building at the
college.
The project for work among the
women of India has brought to the
centenary a $1,000 contribution from
; a New York woman who has just in
income Of the remainder of her legacy
to the same cause.
The introduction of the American in.
dustrial school in China has obtained
rich support for the centenary from
a wealthy Chinese landowner. A farm
Of 1000 acres has been contributed a,
a site for such a school, and the con
tribution has been accompanied by &
gift Of $4,000.
The appeal for the world r~econstruc,
ton program has made the 1.-THE a re,
newing force in giving among the Meth.
odists of the world.
From $40 a year each, 30 farmers o
Central New York have increased thei'
giving to a total subscription Of SO, 40C
U by tithing in response to the appeal o
the centenary. A member Of the United
States army and of the Methods
church not only is contributing one
tenth of his monthly pay. but has as
signed one-tenth Of his $40, 900 govern
ment life insurance policy to the church
boy and the Chinese coolie, one-tentl
does not content all tithers. There /
a Mexican woman in Texas who earn
$40 a month. Her Interpretation o
the 1.-THE is rs per cent. Every montl
she contributes Sis to the c~entenar,
world fund. Then, to increase her In
G come, she takes in washing at might
The scope Of the centenary pro
gram has won gifts from others S tia.
have given a total of S675 to the fun
in Central New York.
One man who happened into a cen
tenary meeting went to the ministe
afterward. I've often heard 20
preach against intemperance," he sale
I'm a wet VIII you accept $500 70
the centenary" Two Christian Scien
lists are on the record of givers !
the first few months of the centenary
Meanwhile, from the Methodist for
eIgn missions post are coming report
like this:
Palm kernels cracked by church mem
bers, $54.4S: rice, 1913. So; silver rings
enameiled plates and pans, beads, clot
and other gifts, 1854; total collections