The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-17

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Home Mission Board Plans Working Eellowships for Competent Graduates in Strategic Fields.

F'eIIowships to the extent of $25, 900 will Fe offered to graduates of the ologiceI senlinaries, preferably Pres byterian, this year by the executive council Of the board of home mis- sions in the Presbyterian church, L. $. A. These felIowships will be granted to those who agree to serve the board for a saven-year period.
 Under the plan 3 minimum initial salary of $1SOO will be provided for ministers. with nanse or it's equiva- lent, and for women community workers one Of $1200. The first of the seven years will be spent in study and preparation for work in the actual field chosen, then five years O. active service will follow, while the seventh year of the contract will be free for the nilsson worl-er to. spend in raduate study, survey work, re cruiting, 1ecturing, writing or other work as the Presbyterian home board may determine.
 During the present year the Pres byccrian home mission board will se- lect missionaries now in service for release from their local fields to spend F months in graduate study, survey work, recruiting and featuring. Ar engagements for this will be made at once. The board has appropriated an additional $25, ,00O for this pur- pose.
 In selecting the men and women to profit by it's Presbyterian graduate fellowships, the board will pick those best qualified who wish to take ad- vantage of this offer for service. Strategic or specialized fields of work will be selected for the work of these candidates under the several depart ments of the Presbyterian board, namely the fields of the city and inn migrant work, church and country life, Cuba, Porto Rico, Alaska, Indian, Mexican and those of the lumber camps.
 Lists of such fields will be con tinually supplied to the board by the directors in the several departments. In particular the Presbyterian eXecu tive council has recommended that such fields in aid-receiving territory as may be designated by the national survey of the Interchurch world movement for Presbyterian promo ton be given preferential consider ation in recruiting.
 The bocrd has also recommended that its educational department tender its assistance to self-support- ing synods and presbyteries for re- cruiting purposes. In addition rec ornnendation has been made that seminary students employed in the summer by the Presbyterian home mission board be selected from those most likely to enter the seven-years' service agreement and that ther fields should be selected in view of this possibility.
 Special blanks for the seven-years' service contracts are now being pre- pared. The forms of appointment state that they are not contracts but "a, Christian gentIemen's agreement"
 The board makes assurance that 1t will undertake certain forms of CO., operation with the appointee and ex- poets a similar type of cooperation In return.
 The Presbyterian board agrees to dSeSle following things for the re- cruit accepting the agreement: Pro vide an adequate and worthwhile field of service; guarantee a mini mum salary of a specified amount; supply at the outset for field work a small library pertaining to the practical problems of the field; ar range for attendance upon at least. three summer schools or training conferences, during the service period paying all necessary expenses; ar