The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-11-07
$4,000 PARISH HOUSE
AMONG POSSIBILITIES
,EPISCOPALIAN SURVEY
CALLS FOR $5,OOO,OOO
Not Purpose of This Great DenOmina-
ton to Strive for EpiscOpalian
Souls Alone

n Weetlng WILL De nelQ III 81. raul
Episcopal church Friday evening in
the interest of the Nationwide cam
paign for a fund of $5,000,OO0 for
use in enlargement and expansion of
the work and utilities in use in the
home and church life Of this organi-
zation.
The Episcopal church of the Nation
is in the midst of nationwide cam
paign and efficiency survey. An effort
is being made to find out the needs of
the several thousand parishes, tabu-
Nate and group them, and then work
out plan for satisfying them.
To meet these needs it is planned
to raise an expansion fund of $5,000,-
900. Churches that need help to pro-
vide equipment for work at hand
work that is readily discernible to the
appropriation committee, will be
given aid. Churches that have the
ability to look after their own home
wants, and contribute to the aid OF
needy churches, will be given that
work as their part in the plans fol
advancement and uplift.
The Medina church would like a
Parish House that may be used in the
general uplift work of the COM
munity. Some $4,000 has been esti-
mated as needed for such work. 1t
is not the purpose of this church to
strive for the aggrandizement of the
Episcopal denominations, but the good
of the whole community, the filling of
want in the community that is
broader than any denomination, how
ever well entrenched.
Enterprising men in st. Paul's
church are enthusiastic over the possi-
bilities which this enlarged move
ment in the Episcopal church may
bring to communities, States and the
Nation. They feel that if Parish
House, as they visualize it, can be
built and put into commission here
that while St. Paul's church will
greatly benefit so, too, will the other
church organizations in Medina.
If, for example, a gymnasium and
swimming pool were among the
equipment agreed, upon, it would not
be made a means of gathering boys
and girls into the Episcopal church
and Sunday school alone, but an effort
to gather boys and girls, men and
women, not into any one church OF
Sunday school, but INTO SUNDAY
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
It is in the minds of not few Me-
dina citizens that it were wise to
provide intelligent recreation and
places for exercise for both old and
young of this city. 1t is understood
that such an institution will offer
great advantage Of furthering the up
lift work in the community. They
understand that it will be much easier
to inculcate godliness when the indi-
vidual is clean, vigorous and happy
than when he is by mere chance able
to eat three meals a day and dodge
the doctor. And it is knowing this
that has led to the present survey o1
things Episcopalian in an effort te
work out some plan that shall make
for the good of the whole community
in this way assuring great anc
profitable advancement for the Epis.
copalian denomination and its church
membership.
There is a loud call for gym
recreation floor and swimming poo
in Medina. The only intelligent effor
that is being put forth comes in con
nection with this survey by the Epis
copalians. If Medina parents ar,
alive to their best interests they vii
give this or any other intelligen
effort their united support. The boy
and girls of Medina can not attain t,
the "glory that is in them" unles
htheir bodies are given healthful ex
pansion and development. And
large and growing soul cannot i'm,
room to expand,in a narrow, contract
ed body, and especially if that bod,
lacks the health and vigor that onl.
useful exercise can give it.
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