The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-07

copaI Church of America adopted definite labor program. It boldly as serted the right of the workers to em- plOyment and their right not only to 3 living wage. but to the highest wage that industry can afford to pay. Il Evmpathized with the aims and aspiTa- tions of the modern labor union, but if went further in it's labor program than the union could go. It demanded jus ticC and something more. It demand ed that the problems of the employer and employed be worked out under the inspiration of Christian fellowship and that industry be organized not 10 sat isfy the individual thirst for wealth, but to extend to every one the highest opportunity for joyful service.
 '''The Methodist Episcopal Church, he said, lis the only church which now has missions in every country on earth We are not afraid Of any sItua- ton we can possibly find in any for eign field Our missionary society Is not afraid of wars, famine or plague. We are not afraid of hostility or re pression. The only thing we have to fear-the only thing that can now
 stand in the way of a completely sue . ccssful campaign-is indifference on
 the part of the church at home"
 If indifference of the sort he men
 tions is holding back the campaign anywhere the New York Area is not one of the places. The activities in this section indicate something of the spirit of the old American 'revivaT' and something of the fervor of the an i cient crusades backed up by the appli- i cation of modern business methods to i sYstematize efforts and make them ef- 1 fective
 1 Objectyves Mapped Out.
 1 Bishop Luther B. Wilson presides l over the New York Area. Dr. Fred B. l Fisher being the executive secretary
 of the campaign and E. M. McBrfer the 1 Area chairman. All three have attain ] ed high prominence in other work.
 Bishop Wilson headed the religious ! program of the r NJ. c. A in France 1 during some of the most strenuous war .. days. Dr. Fisher is an authority on . Indla, where his executive end loren
 sic ability made him famous. Mir Mo i Brier is one of New Yorks biggest | business men, one of the dynamic pow
 CTS in the administration of the great Woolworth string of stores.
 i With them is staff of expert cam. paigners. including Ira C. Mccormack, associate Area secretary; Watson & ,. Moore, chairman of the Methodist Min
 ute Men; Frank A Horne, vice-chair.
 man of the Area: J. A. MacArt, cam
 paign director; Bruce F. Baxter, field
 secretary; T. A. Hildreth, secretary of
 the speakers bureau, and other spe- cinlists attending to definite phases ot
 the working organization of the Area T There is none Of the hit-or-miss lack of method which so handicapped
 church projects of the past. The cam
 paign Is being waged with almost mili tary strategy. The main objectives are aII mapped out, and the highly trained members of the general staff are mobllizlng all the sinews of war tC carry out the purposes of their Com mander in Chief
 Chrisuanize a nation and you demo ' cratize It. It is this belief that is stim ulatirg this great worldwide move l ment, Christian movement, a churcI movement, but one which will soo1
 compel the world to attach new mean
 ings to the words church" and "relI - zion" and Christianity"