Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-02

sions, and begins an era of unpre-
cedented service for humanity"
DIR. Swartz's Report
Some idea of the Worldwide
scope of the centenary's beneVolenceS
may be gained by the fact that $780,
100000 is to be spent to make the
world Il better place to live in,
through a multitude of betterments
which include educational and re-
! building projects and other humani-
tartan endeaVors both at home and
abroad"
DR.. Swartz has just completed
| tour of the Washington area, com
prising Maryland, Central Pennsyl-
Vania, Delaware, District of Column
bia. and parts of Virginia and West
Virginia. made public an outline OF
the centenary budget, deemed essen
tial to carry forward projects at
home and abroad and for war recon-
struction.
out of the, total fund" DR.. Swartz
said $40. 900. .000 is to be used for
the home field, and S40.000,OOO for
the foreign field. To meet tho needs
of emergency war reconstruction
both in the United States and abroad.
$25, 100000 has been allotted. Ol
this great sum, hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars is to he expended
in scores of cities and towns
throughout the Washington area.
Reconstruction work IN the
United states is divided up between
400 items of equipment ana 4'eOo
items of maintenance. Besides these
projects the program contemplates
the addition of the following to the
present personnel of the Methodist
church in this country: 1864 pastors
in mission territories; ESQ language
pastors: 1889 other workers, social
and clinical. deaconesses, eNangenstS
and directors: 2.506 new church
buildings: 1885 churches to be re-
modelled, and the construction or l.
l1SS parsonages and 43 special struc-
lures including hospitals and Nari-
Gus types of educational institutions.
Betterments upon an equally large
scale are to he made for the Tor
eign field. For example, ruined
churches will be rebuilt in France.
Serbia. Belgium and other lands,
starving children will be cared for.
orphanages built for thousands left
destitude. and community building
constructed for other thousands
sorely in need of food or raiment.'
Support Is Gained
Executive Secretary Swartz to-day
assembled reports showing that
churches in every part of the WASH
ington area have swung behind the
centenary program with a vim.
Churches throughout the area
are making up to the responsibilities
with which the church stands face
to face. The duty of the church is
plain in this present world crisis.
! Our boys in France have finished the
| job of making the world safe, so far
| as democracy is concerned. Now it
! is the Job of the church to make
democracy safe for the world. The
worlds call upon Methodism and
| it's constituencies will not go un-
| needed. In that prediction l feel
absolutely safe
| EImore B. Jeffery, of Baltimore.
who has fun charge of the financial
campaign in the Washington area
delivered one of the principal ad-
dresses of the day. Mr.. Jeffery pre-
sented briefly a summary OF the
| financial set ups" provided for the
various districts and for the guild
ance of the superintendents and their
| Ilieutenants he outlined the plans for
the financial campaign within the
churches to insure an adequate can
vass of every membership.
Mr.. Jeffery with other campaign
ers to-day completed a tour of West
ern Maryland, attending big confer
ences at Cumberland and Frederick.
/ Leaders of the church are solidly
united behind the centenary pro-
gram, Mr.. Jeffery declared, The
Washington area, of which Central
/ Pennsylvania forms a very import
ant part. will come through on
schedule time with its quota of ap-
proXimately 100000, as its part
| of the $1O5. 100000 fund for world
relief and educational work" Mr..
| Jeffery said. Reports from all parts
, of the area indicate that members
everywhere are responding TO the
call to aid humanity in the present
world crisis.
Going cover"
Far in advance of the date set
| for beginning the intensive financial
canvass churches by the score are
going over the top" with their
allotments, eager to have high places
on the honor roll of the first sub
scriptions. This is a very healthy
sign.
"Hundreds of other churches are
closely approaching their quotas. So
that this far ahead of May Is when
the big drive commences we can see
a good percentage of the great GEN.
tenary fund.
I'VE are sure tnat MeJnOQlSm Will
rally with it's dollars without stint
and will contribute the greatest sum
ever raised by any church for such
worthy undertaking. The financial
organizations in every district are
now being perfected so that the
campaign when it begins in earnest
will be an overwhelming success.
Men prominent in business and
financial life in many states embrace
ed in the Washington area have laid
aside their private business affairs
for the moment and will devote their
time extensively to the centenary
campaign until the close on May %"
Each one of the 10000 members
of Methodist churches in the Wash
ington area will be given an oppor-
tunity to get in on the greatest un-
dertaking of the Methodist church."
Mr.. Jeffery declared. Conscious of
the untold good that will be accom-
plished by this movement, not alone
for the members of the present, but
for future generations, there will be
few indeed who will not support the
cause to the limit of their ability.
Men of the church who have been
blessed have found in the centenary
a means for expressing in a measure
their thankfulness to God for his
goodness to them. When our big
drive begins on May IS. we con-
ffdently look for an unprecedented
authorizing of dollars in response to
the great call that has come to the
church to aid humanity"