Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-12
CHURCH DRIVES
FOR HUGE FUND
New Era Program Of Presbyterians
TO Raise S4O,G09, 600 ia Full
Swing Here.
PURPOSES CAMPAIGN GIVEN
Reconstruction, Disabled Soldiers,
Prohibition and Preachers
to Get Share.

The new era program of the
Presbyterian church Is in full
swing in Rock Island churches.
The plan is a very comprehensive
one. Some of the churches work
tag it out as best possible suitable
20 their conditions. Part of the
plan is group meetings for social
gatherings and study and discus
sion. In Broadway Presbyterian
church the parish has been divided
into groups with leaders. most of
the meetings being neld on Wednes-
day evening at o'clock Speakers
are provided who use carefully
prepared text books and often the
group leader is the speaker. The
following are the groups:
Group William s. Parks, 202
Nineteenth street.
Group Harvey E. Curtis, 931
Nineteenth street.
Group sc. j Searle, 934 Tween
tieth street
Group DIR. A. f. Anderson,
1922 Twentieth street.
Group SC. A. Schoessel, 1890
Twentieth street.
Group "a D. Sperry, 914 Sec
ond avenue.
Group lotto Storbeck, 2803
Eighth-and-a-half avenue.
Group S-A. D. Walker, 813
Twenty-second street
Group 9-Mrs. c. o. Woodruff.
SIS Twenty-third street.
Group 10-Swan Nyquist, 519
Forty-second street.
Group 11-Mrs. William Passig,
$40 Twenty-fffth street.
Group 12-S- S. Davis, 1852 Tenth
avenue.
Group f3-Miss Titterington, 1890
Fourteenth-and-a street.
Group 14-Mrs. L. S. McCabe
1920 Fifth avenue.
Other groups are being formed
as required. Group and group 10
meet Thursday evening instead of
Wednesday.
The speakers bureau will meet
promptly at 7:30 tonight in the
session room of the church to lay
plans for tomorrow evenings meet
ing.
The new era mems committee
will meet for lunch at the Rock
Island club tomorrow.
Objects of Fund.
Among the objects for which the
$40, 900, 900 will be raised are the
following:
Half a million dollars for use
among returning soldiers and sail
ors, to whom assistance is also to
be given in finding jobs and in get
ting a new start in life
Half a million dollars for recon
struction work in building Protes-
tant churches in Europe devastated
by the war
Four million dollars for overseas
work, where last year Presbyte-
rians conducted 175 hospitals and
diSpenSarieS in which 200 900 pa
tents were treated and where edu-
cational institutions and religious
services were maintained which
were attended by many millions of
natives.
Eighty thousand dollars will be
used for temperance and prohibit
IlJ4 WOth r.. especially III 1OI elSu
lands in which American brewers
and distiIIers are to begin opera
lions as soon as their plants are
closed down in this country.
Nearly million dollars will be
appropriated for disabled preach
ers. and another million win be
Used to increase preachers salaries.
About three millions are needed
for special work in American cities
and among immigrant populations,
Iumberiacks, Indians, Mexicans, and
ether depressed peoples, and for re-
lief work in the sparsely settled
sections of the country.
Presbyterian women are to raise
nearly two million dollars for edu-
cational and social work in this
country.
Half a million will be used for
building new Presbyterian churches
and another half million for educa-
tional and religious work among
negroes.
Nearly a million is to be spent
for general religious education
and theological training. half a mil
lion for Sunday school work and
religious literature. and about one
hundred Thousand for special mems
work and general evangelism.
Twenty-Five million dollars will
be spent by the local Presbyterian
churches for their general COM
launity work.