The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-09-03
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EPISCOP ALIANSIN
2 CONFERENCES
The Iowa Episcopa'ians Will Meet
In Two Important Conferences
Davenport and Des Moines.
NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN NOW ON
Nationwide Campaign Projected Or.
iginaIIy by the Episcopal Board
Of Missions.

Two important regional conferences
Of Iowa Episcopalans have been
called for next week in connection
with the nationwide campaign Of the
Episcopal church now taking definite
shape all over the country. The open.
ing conference has been called for
Monday, September Sth, at Trinity
cathedral, Davenport, to be followed
on Tuesday, the 9th, by second gath
ering at St. Paul's Episcopal church,
Des Moines. -,
The Rev. Arthur N. Lewis. of Oska-
loosa, member of the national cam
paign committee for the diocese of
Iowa, called the meetings in coopera-
ton with the Rev. DR.. C. c. Rollitt,
secretary of the Episcopal province
Sof the northwest, who arranged the
itinary of the campaign teams touring
this section of the country to aid IN
intensifying the activity of the nation
wide campaign. aa
Delegations from Rock Island and
Moline are invited from the Illinois
side of the Mississippi, who, with the
campaigners from various parts of the
tcountry sent out from New York, EN-
phasize the fact that the Episcopal
church is ignoring diocesan lines in
projecting it's nationwide drive for
Smen, women and resources to expand
and extend all of it's activities. partic-
ularly its missions, religious education
and social service. -,
The Des Moines and Davenport con-
ferences are to be two Of the most I'M
portant of fifteen regional conferences
to be held this fortnight in the states
between the Mississippi and the
Rockies.
The plan of the regional conferences
4 is to have delegates from every do
cese in adjoining regions addressed
by two speakers, preferably a clergy
man and layman, on the latest de-
\ velopments of the nationwide cam
paign of the Episcopal church, so that
the diocesan representatives. can take
back to their dioceses the best meth
DDS Of forwarding the campaign The
Law representative on the national
campaign committee for Iowa is Geo.
, F. Henry, Of the Equitable building,
Des Moines. ny"
The nationwide campaign of the
Episcopal church was projected orig
inally by the Episcopal board of mis-
sions to substitute one great, adequate
drive, covering the whole country and
the entire needs of the church for the
next three years, for eighty odd do
( cesar campaigns which would multi
ply the effort without gaining the
maximum results. Since this project
was placed before the church repre-;
sentatives of it's other two general
bodies, the general board of religious
education and the joint commission
bn social service, have been placed
on the national campaign committee,
as have representatives Of such fed
eral organizations of the church as the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew, the Girls
Friendly society, the Woman's auxll'
larry, the Junior League, the Church
Reading club and the like.
In addition to obtaining men. WON.
en- and money for necessary mission
airy projects at home and abroad, the
nationwide campaign seeks to inform
and inspire the membership, to crap.
I pie with the problems Of the longest
ed city districts, the rural church, the
mOuntaineers and the American
negroes. The strong parishes and di'
oceses are to help the weaker ones
and in this manner the Episcopal
church is to function as unit in
spreading the Kingdom of God.