Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-10-17
NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN OF
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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vention of the Episcopal Churc
i. which ismeeting in Detroit, Mic
, None is 50 important than col
, sideration of the Nation Vic
Campaign on which the Hous
, of Bishops and House of Deputie
is sitting in joint session tn
week to consider the gener'
problem of missions.
Speaking of the surveys of 81,
, ty dioceses, which had been rt
ceived during the latter part O
September, the Rev. R. Blan
Mitchell manager of the Contra
Office in New York said the.
revealed: realize that the yeuni
manhood and womanhood of thu
land is on trial. Now is th'
chance to prove the virility o.
that vision of service in a righte
Gus cause which was caught in
France and at home in the pas,
two years. Here is the oppor,
tunity to show that we really be.
lieve the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to be true.
On the financial side we know
enough to lay the ghost of the
Twenty Million Dollar Drive"
idea by which the Campaign was
characterized last spring. Re-
member the financial needs of
thirty processes have not been
analyzed yet. Without them,
the financial needs, diocesan and
general, are twenty-four millions.
The point is that the Church
must find those thousand work.
ers or else all the millions cannot
be spent. The Campaign is not
a drive for an arbitrary sum
fixed ahead of time. 1t is a
movement to man the Church's
trenches as to provide adequate
supplies for maintaining her war
riors.
The results of the Nation.
Wide Campaign Survey are
being compiled into two books.
One of them will treat topically
the work done and needed to be
done at home and abroad, among
the mountaineers, the Indians,
the negroes, the foreign-born, in
rural sections, in congested COM
munities, in the fields of Religi-
Gus Education and Social Service
our opportunities in Latin Amer
ica, in Asia and Africa. The
other book will deal with the pro-
blems, plans, and opportunities
from the diocesan standpoint,
setting fourth what each diocese
intends to do for meeting the
situation presented by the recon-
struction era here at home.
"The survey blanks will form
the printed report which the
Board of Missions will submit to
General Convention for its ap-
proval. The Convention will be
asked to convert the survey into
the Nation Wide Campaign Bud
get, and divide the responsibility
among the dioceses. On the Sun
day evening following the open
ing of the Convention the usul
missionary sermon will give place
to a presentation of the need of
the Nation Wide Campaign at
such time as this, and a setting
forth of the great spiritul yerities
underlying the movement.
The national committee of the
Campaign at its meeting on Sep.
tember 10th adopted a memorial
which will be presented to the
General Convention urging not
merely the endorsement of the
Campaign but that the place and
work of the Campaign receive
primary consideration at the ses,
ions of the General Convention.
The romance of it all is that,
for the first time in history per.
haps, the Church is going tc
know the truth about herself.
And that truth will make hel
free free to serve, to labor, anG
to rejoice in her revivified sense
of stewardship. The vision will
be FURNISHED up, the task will b.
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