The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-04
STATE ASKED
 FOR S66O,6OO
 MEMORIAL FUND
Connecticut District Head quarters Open Tn
 Hartford.

Headquarters has been opened at
 Hartford for the Connecticut district
 of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund, and
 the C1mpaiCn for raising Connect
 cuts part of it is already in full
 swing Rev William g. Beard. Sec
 rctarv of Promotion of the Conrrc-
 rationaI Home Missionary Society.
 has at the special request of the
 Connecticut Commission been excused
 for the rest of the year from his
 work for that society and is to ac5
 0s dean Of the Connecticut campaign
 until # is completed
 The pNCrim Memorial Fund. which
 the ConEreeauonaI churches of Amer
 ica propose to raise as a part of their
 celehrl ton of the three hundredth
 anniversary of tho landing of the Pil-
 arims. is set a S5.000.Oo0. to be in-
 vested and the income used for the
 pcnsionin- of Congregational minis
 ters. The plan is that each minister
 wishing to participate in the fund
 shall. beginning with his th!rueth
 year. pay into the fund annually six
 per cont of his salary. At the age of
 65 the sum of the minister's pay
 ments. against which will be credited
 his share of the income of the fund,
 will provide an annuity of apprOxi-
 mately half his average salary for 35
 years.
 This is action in line with that
 taken by other denominations. For
 many years the low average salary of
 ministers has been a matter of com mon knowledge. The present de creased value of the dollar divides it in half Sorne provision had to be made 70 remedy this condition or men would in self defense soon be obliged to give up the ministry or l keep out of it altogether The Con gregatiouai church has been none too ] early in meeting this condition. being most of the larger denominations. | The Methodists have raised for this purpose S1O.0OO.OO0. The Prcsby- 1 terians raised S7.00o.o0o, and now ] sec the necessity Of adding s10,0oO.- | GOO to that. The Episcopal fund is ! now $9.oOO.0o0.
 ! COnnectiCUt's quota of the s5.O0O.-
 000 as been agreed on as $660.O0O. Ii
 is the fifth or sixth of the states to
 start on the effort, and if it meets . with the success of other states where 1 the ConcreEationaI church !s rnuc,. ! younger. it will far pass the amoui~ l asked far Minnesota, for example set the mark at $175.OOO. but had raised s235. 900 with the campaign | only partly completed.
 Reports from other points show ! similar success, with not an instance l of failure. The Connecticut cam ! raign is being thoroughly organized | by districts, the unit of effort beina 1 tho local Association. The organiza- | ton under Mir. Beard is fin the hands ] of a team of l 2 men who will with l the assista nee of about 40 Connecticut 1 pastors. whose churches have re- | leased them for from two to four ! Sundays in the coming fall and win ! ter, present tho appeal of the fund ] in the churches This will be fol 1 lowed by intensive work through lOca 1 committees. and it is expected tha ] the drive will be completed before ] Christmas.
 The Pilgrim Memorial Fund is in l Corporatcd by tho National Counci : of Congregational churches. and Rev . William IT, Day. D. D.. Of Bridgeport | moderator of the National Council. is | president Hon Simeon F.. Baldwin ! former governor of Connecticut, is a member Of the corporation. and Con- | necticut members of the Comm issiOr ! of One Hundred are Prof Henry w ! Faruau. Rev. Oscar F. Naurer. D l D.. and Judge Livingston W. CIeave. | land of New Haven, Prof. A. L. Gil 1 lctt of thc Hartford Theological Sem | mary and Charles WelIes Gross of Hartford. Walter E. I.ashar oi ! Fri dEeport and F. c. Platt of New Britain.
 windham county will have the | honor of opening the intensive carr- paigu. The appeal will be presented ' ,1 its churches on September 14 and ! g1. and the drive is to be finished l within fen days.