Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-28
EPISCOPALLANS'
NAME LEADERS
FOR BIG DRIVE
Every Member" Campaign
to Be Waged Next
Month.

Episcopal Church throughout Americ,
VIII complete a drive" that mus
stand as unique among the many tha
have been made since the exigencie,
OF war first brought that term to III
present definition.
1t has been drive for souls ant
not for dollars-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart, not the pocket
book. Its principal purpose has beer
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 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 lalty
have worked as never before to es.
tablish their church with its commu.
nicants and a pronounced recrudes-
cence of.activity already is evident.
OcCcmpeT Z, tno BIG Day.
The full tide of the drive will be
felt during the first week of Decem-
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-
quired to make the new program ef-
fective.
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 en-
ecutive. He will have the active
assistance of many notable churchmsn
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 S. 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
n. 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. 1t 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
emolument. That he may hereafter
do his work "as a 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
sum approximating $42.0OO,O00 will be
requii ed to cover in detail the pro-
Tram of the next three years. The
sum originally fixed was $4,000, 900,
bit the joint commission last week
revised this estimate to make the
program as efficient and as reason
ably economical as needs will permit.
How II Is Apportloned.
OF this total, $28,000,000 will be re-
Quired for general work and $4,000
900 for diocesan needs. Ten millions
If the sum specified for general work
will be devoted to home missionary
work in the dioceses and missionary
districts of America; the remainder to
work in foreign fields, for
social service, religious education,
Americanization and other work in |
America.
The joint commission makes It clear
hat all sums for general work of the
church will be distributed and zap
prop lated by the duly constituted au-
hority of the church after careful
md thorough investigation, having in
mind a proper and reasonable distri-
tuition of funds throughout the whole
church and to the work Of the several
boards and agencies.
In connection with the nation wide
there is being carried a
campaign which. IL calculated
lot only to awaken Episcopalians
to the possibilities and
leeds Of their church, but also to
impress upon the general public the