Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-05-17
METHODIST CENTENARY CAMPAIGN WILL BE
 LAUNCHED SUNDAY

The long heralded Methodist Gen. tenary Campaign by which the Meth odist Church in America plans to raise $105, 5,000,000 in seven days, will be officially inaugurated Sunday, May 18th, with every Methodist min ister preaching on Methodism's world responsibility and with carefully or ganized committees of laymen pre- pared to canvass each Methodist member in every Methodist church and persons in sympathy with the Methodist cause.
 Although but one week will be de- voted to the drive, every indication, in the judgment of Bishop Adna w. Leonard of San Francisco, is that the San Francisco area, including Calif- ornia, Nevada and Arizona will safely exceed it's quota of $4,452,510. AL though the drive is not formally open ed until Sunday, fifteen churches in the three states have already put on their Centenary campaign, total be- ing raised in the fifteen churches of $285,62 where the quotas were $216,- 220. The churches are as follows: San Jose, First; Fresno and Eeastern Swedish; Whittier; Fresno, First; Brawley; Reno; Trinity, Pomona; San Francisco Norwegian and Danish; Imperial; Fl Centro; Holtville; Cal exico; Heber; Kingsburg and Ala morio.
 As still further indicating the vital interest being taken by Methodism generally in the forthcoming Centen- ary, there have been signed in the great national Methodist prayer army 13,351 men and women from the San Francisco area, who pledged them selves to pray daily for the success of the Centenary. In addition there have been enrolled 5,373 "tithers", Methodist men and women who pledge themselves to give up one tenth of their income for the Centen- ary program. To execute the Gen. tenary program, by which $105,000,- 900 will be spent in the five years plan, 50,000 workers are needed. These workers are secured from the ranks of Methodists who dedicate themselves to life servicel for Meth odism and of this army of 50,000 2,246 have already been secured in the San Francisco area. These work CTS hold themselves for any service whether in the domestic or in the for eign field and include teachers, nur- ses, ministers, missionaries, doctors, social workers and in fact every type of worker needed to carry to 5O,OO0,- 900 non-Christian peoples of the world, Methodism's great Centenary program of Christianity, education, hygiene and social instruction.
 The Methodist Centenary program eliminates in grand jubilee cele- bration at Columbus June 20th to July 18th i'm honor of the first found- ing of Methodist missions. In the one hundred years that have elapsed since, the Methodist church has be- come established in thirty six for eign countries, being the largest de- nomination of the Protestant church. es. The Columbus celebration will inaugurate as well the beginning of the five year program under which will be administered the $1O5,0OO,- 900 Centenary fund, $40,000,O00 be- ing spent in church development and missionary work in this country, $4O,- 100000 in nine foreign countries and $25,OOO, 900 being used for reconstruc- tion work in the war areas and for help and assistance of a needful character for returning soldiers and sailors, the crippled and the maimed of the American army returning from