The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-31
SOUTH AND WEST TO BE
MATERIALLY BENEFITED BY
GREAT METHODIST DRIVE

Plans are now completed for the
eight-day drive for $35,000,000 which
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, will put on April n to May a.
The campaign is in charge of Lyman
Pearce, who was one of the Govern
ment campaign managers, and all the
departments affiliated with the cam
paign are busily at work at head
quarters in Nashville. The immensely
of the sum to be raised means that
the task itself is an immense one and
offices are humming with all the stir
and buzz that goes with hig business.
While the movement is denomina-
tional it is for the benefit of the
world--a large portion of the fund
which will be raised being turned
right over again to build up the COM
munities from which it came in the
Southern and Western States. Among
the various forms of reconstruction
work here at home that will be under
taken as result of the raising of the
$35, 100000 will be the following:
Five schools of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church will be materially
assisted with $4,000 each, while
Paine College will be helped with
$3.50, 900 for endowment, buildings and
equipment. Aside from this practical
work in educating the colored people
in their midst the denomination will
erect school to train religious teach
ers, leaders and preachers for the In
dams of all tribes now located in the
United States. This school will cost
$3.50, 900 and its establishment will
mark the beginning of great forward
movement among the Indian popula-
ton.
A particular effort will be made by
the Department of Home Missions of
the church to help the mountain pop
ulation. Ten schools now under con-
ference ownership will be financially
assisted with $4,000 each, while the
same sum will be spent annually in
carrying on the religious and social
work needed to meet the immediate
needs of these people. The foreigners
now in the South and West will be the
beneficiaries of the campaign to the
extent of forty night schools, thirty
churches and additional missions.
Three schools for Mexicans will need
100000 each, the Textile Industrial
Institute at Spartanburg, S. c., for
cotton mill operatives, will receive
$150,000 and the circuit riders of the
church will, together with hundreds
of Methodist pastors, have their small
salaries raised to meet the higher scale
of living of the present day.
The Woman's work, Home Depart
ment, has outlined its efficiency pro-
gram for the next five years lin addi-
ton to its present income) as follows:
Mountain work, $158,600; city work,
$4,000; Latin Americans, $751; 900;
Gulf Coast work, $82,500; orientals
on Pacific coast, $4,000; Negroes,
$243,000; dependent girls, 100000.
The expenditure of such vast sums
of money in the Southern and West
ern States during the immediate
months and years ahead-and in such
definite phases of reconstruction
means a great step forward for the
populations therein affected. A large
portion of the $35, 900 will also be
spent in reconstruction work in France
and Belgium and in sending medical
and educational missionaries to Africa,
Brazil, CHA, Cuba, Japan, Korea and
Mexico. as well as building up the
missionary work substantially in those
countries.