Evening journal., 1919-12-06
GHURCKMEN GET
CALL TO SERVICE
Nation Wide Episcopalian
Campaign Reaches Gil
max Tomorrow

An every-member canvass win be
made tomorrow afternoon in par
ish Of the Protestant Episcopal Churct
In America, beginning at o'clock, anC
by nightfall II IS hoped by the natlona
leaders that sl2,OOO,OoO for the extension
Of church work will have been sub
scribed by the Episcopallans Of Amer
ica.
In the Diocese Of Delaware, including
the quota, is si2 800 yearly for three
years, and everything is in readiness
for The actual canvass. For weeks a
campaign Of education ana training has
been conducted In every parish.
The program Of the church, which
VIII be made possible by this si2, ,O0O-
600. Is partially as follows:
/ The church VIII undertake a national
plan for Americanlzlng the forelgn-born
in cooperation with the Federal De-
partment Of the Interior. II viii seek
to discover and TO establish through
the country a substitute for the sa-
loon. IL win build new churches and
new community centers and establish
facilities OF education in lands remote
from civilized Institutions. 10 will send
medical aid to distant countries where
u is rarely within reach. II viii helm
TO increase the capacity Of hospitals
and Of industrial schools and other in
.stitutiops. II will make possible social
service work upon a broader scale In
crowded cites and Isolated rural dis
tricts And 1t will increase the salaries
Of underpaid clergymen 30 a living
wage that these may more efficiently
direct the work Of which they are in
charge.
These are major provisions OF the
church,s program. To carry them out
the church must recruit 1900 new work
ers for the home and the foreign fields.
II must build approximately 20OO new
bu'ldngs-churches, community houses.
schools hospitals and other institutions
and centers. And II must provide new
equipments for hundreds Of others.
The program Of the nat'on-wide cam
paim is based unon a recently COM
pleted survey Of the churchs needs and
opportunities in the next three years.
both in the United States and its ter
ritories and in Latin America. Africa.
China and Japan. The survey was re
duced TO practical budget and this
budget calls for si2.OO0.OOO Of which
sii000,OO0 is for the work being done
by the Episcopal diocese in the United
States; si0,0000O0 for The general mis- b
sionary work Of the church at home,
and SiS,O00000 for the work in the for
aign field, for religious education and
social service and for expansion Of the
activities Of the churchs subsidiary
Fifteen hundred dollars a year as a
minimum salary FOR Episcopal clergy
men in the United States IS expected 10
be establ shed by the church in an up 1
ward revision OF clerical salaries 10 oc-
cur Immediately following the drive. /
approximately one-half the Episcopal |
clergy, it is estimated, is now receiy- /
ing less than this amount
\ movement 10 make the increase OF .
salaries a principal objec- I
tive OF the campaign was inaugurated /.
several months ago by prominent busi-
ness and professional men of the
'hurch who are leaders in the cam
)aign. The movement attained its pur-
pose when both houses Of the Episco- 4
'al General Convention IN Detroit. in
october, concurred iu a resolution urg-
nh every bishop. every general board,
very diocesan committee and every
estry to recognize as a primary obli-
-atl0n In the nationwide campaign the
,ayment TO every clergyman Of such
alary as shall enable him to do his
work as a leader Of he church with
and self-respect."
Preparations for upward revision are
low being made in practically every
ip'scopal diocese IN the country in
with the sense Of this reso.
1tion and contingent upon the success
4 the financial drive Of the church
ampalgn.
Fixing the average annual earnings
I carpenter at $3.50. the Episcopal
'iOcese Of Virginia shows in a chart !
( its clergymen's salaries that OF 50
lergymen - receive less than the car
enter. The average laborer's earnings
re estimated on this chart at S99S. and
me Of the - clcrsymen are shown 10
eceivc less than The labo"er. The same
hart shows that five of the 50 clergy
zen in The diocese receive $1,000 or ,,
yer; that i3 OF them receive as much J
r more than the annual wage Of )
abroad engineer, estimated at S2i1O;
as much or more than the brick !,
lason, whose annual earnings are estl-
lated at s2i00, and 2l as much or more ,
ian the plumber with an annual in +
Dme Of 1852.
A more general survey included the
lree Episcopal Provinces Of New Eng r
md. with 56S clergymen; the Md a.
Vest. with 562 clergymen, and the Pa Il
&c. with 297 clergymen. OF the total ;
ii27 clergymen, 67i were shown to z
, receiving $3.50 or less a year: 81 e.
900 or less: %, $3.50 or less, and 2s. d
SIS than $500 OF the 756 who re- "a
i've $3.50 or moro, 30S receive be- G
veen $500 and S2OO0. i57 between b
.oNo and $3.50 and II between S250O d
nd $500 leaving fi3 who receive more t.
ian that amount and Il from whom O.
} inforamt'On was obtained. W
NORMAN JACKSON DIES. Z
Norman Jackson, Of No 1918 Clay U
ont street, died at his. home this q
orn,ns, after a lingering illness. He is p
Irviyed by his wife. Ella " Terrell i,