Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-07
EPISCOPAL DRIVE
TOPIC IN CHURCHES
Sermons Today Touch on
Campaign to Secure Pledge
for $2O3,OOO.

Divine aid in the effort of the ma
ton wide campaign of the Episcopal
Church is being sought in all churches
of that denomination in the WASH
ington diocese this morning, as the
last action of the membership body
before the active canvass to secure
the signed pledge cards is carried on
this afternoon
Sermons of the regular morning
service in all the churches of the do
cese bear directly upon the campaign.
In the Washington churches OF 81.
James, St. Johns, Grace Church, st.
Marks, Church of the Advent: Church
of the Epiphany. the Cathedral ana
munion at II o'clock, which solemn
rite all canvasserS in the enort 10
secure S2O3,000 in pledges for the
coming year will attend.
Every Episcopalian in the District
of Columbia is asked to remain by the
family fireside this afternoon as an
aid to the workers who will canvass
the entire membership of the Wash.
ington diocese between the hours OF
and o'clock. The appointed solicit
tors are expected to return to their
churches this evening with signed
pledge card for every member OF their
congregations.
Luncheon ut Parish Houses.
There will be 1 o'clock luncheon
served in the parish houses of the
Church of the Epiphany and the St
Marks Church for their canvaSSing
committees. The workers will proceed
from the luncheon to their all-mem-
bers' canvass.
In Washington the canvassers will
go about the city in couples as they
capital. Through the rural sections of
the diocese. the solicitors will be
dispatched individually, as each per-
son will have several miles of country
highway to travel in visiting the home
of each member of his church.
All persons who may be forced to
be away from their homes at the time
when the canvassers call are urged to
mail their pledge cards to their
churches or to deliver them to the
rector in person as soon as possible.
Thanksgiving services will be held
in nearly all the churches of the do
cese this evening, in anticipation that
the Washington diocese will have met
its part of the pledge asked from
EpiscopalianS of the nation.
More than $500 canvassers are ex-
pected to perform the duty Of making
the member-to-member calls through
out the Washington diocese. They will
take up the cards which will certify
lieves he or she can give each week
during the next three years to carry
on the work of the church.
Rev. D. Wellington Curran, chair
man OF the diocesan committee, last
spring started to form subcommittee
in every one of the parishes of the
diocese, which comprises the District
and the Maryland counties of Mont
gomery. Prince Georges, st. Marys and
Charles. These parish committees
chose their own directing heads, who
have been the connecting links be-
tween those bodies and the diocesan
headquarters.
The interest in this drive has been
growing steadily for the past several
weeks. Members have been told that
every influence of the church has be N
bent toward making it's success a GER
tainty. Rectors held meetings almost
every night last week for final in
structions to the canvassers, these
gatherings being attended by ap-
proximately 10000 communicates.
1t is the aim of the church to raise
an annual sum of $42,000,00 for a
period of three years. The diocese of
Washington has been apportioned
$203,745 of this general fund.