Arizona republican., 1919-09-09
COMES ID SURVEY FUR INTERCHURCH WORLD
 MOVEMENT IN STATE

Rev. s. c. Hoover of Pennsylvania, state supervisor for Arizona in the interchurch world movement, has ar rived in the city and is established at TOT East Adams street. His business here is to make survey of religious conditions in the state, such survey having been proposed in every state. Working with MT. Hoover will be state survey council composed of de- nominational and inter -denominational agencies. The first meeting of this group will be held at the Y. M. c. A. building at 2 o'clock this afternoon to consider the preliminary steps in this work.
 Mir. Hoover will leave for New York Thursday to attend a meeting of the state leaders on the 17th, 18th and 18th of this month. On his return to Ariz- zona the counties will be organized and the survey work will be begun.
 It is stated of the movement:
 One of the precious things salvaged out of the wreck, disaster and distress of the world war is a new conscious ness of the value and potency of CO., operation, the possibility of accom- plishing large results by working to- gether. It is worthy of particular note that the forces of evangelical Chris tianity have caught larger vision of this fact and that as a result there has been launched what is now rather well known as the interchurch world move ment of North America and which has more than once been described as the greatest advance enterprise of the Christian church since the reforrna- tion."
 The personnel of it's promoting and directing agencies will at once com mend it to the favorable consideration of church people everywhere. The list of persons prominent in the religious activities of this generation who are the executives and directors in this movement is long one and includes the following who are well known: Francis Wayland Aver, John R. Mott. $. Early Taylor, William B. MiIlar. Fred B. Smith, William E. Doughty, William H. Foulkes, J. Campbell White. A. E. Cory, Fred B. Fisher and the or ganization that has been built up to carry forward this project is perhaps the strongest ever assembled to ad- vance, in distinctly practical way the Kingdom of Christ by the ordination of all Christian forces. The measure Of favorable response to the ideas and ideals of the interchurch world move ment may be indicated by the fact that more than two score of the religious denominations of this country and boards and socities whose membership comes from 76 denominations have in dorsed its plans and pledged support The immediate home task to which the movement is addressing itself is the making of an accurate and scien- tific survey of the religious conditions in every state of the union. This sur vey is to be conducted under three schedules, city, rural church and par ticular groups. With the completion or this survey, professionalism will know both it's fields and it's task in a way It has never known it before and It VIII be able to address itself inteIi- gently to that task. At a recent Co., lumbia country life congress. one of the most prominent sociological pro- fessors in America stated that the rural survey of the interchurch world movement was the greatest sociological event America had ever known The speaker was Dr. Warren H. Wilson Supervisors of the rural church sur vey have been commissioned by the movement to each state These men VIII direct the survey work and give such assistance as may be possible in the interpretation of the survey re- turns and the formulation of commun- l ity, county and state programs relat ing everything of course, to the na- l tional program
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