The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-05-15
METHODIST DRIVE
FOR WORLD WORK
BEGINS MAY IS
Thousands Take Part in $105,-
100000 Campaign.
81, 1854, 900 FROM NORTHWEST
Greatest Religious Effort Ever Con-
ceived Is Planned to Put Christian.
ity Before Every Living Being In
World In Five Years.

On May IS Methodism of the world
will open its campaign for $685. 100000
in seven days. Thousands upon thou
sands of Methodist ministers and lay
men have been modified and will
jump into the fight at the zero" hour.
Ten thousand recruits will go lover
the top" in the Northwest and an in
tensive financial campaign, such as
has never been known in the history
of the church. will be waged with the
rebuilding Of the world the sole aim
in view.
The Portland area, which includes
large part of Oregon, Washington
and northern Idaho, has been given
a quota of $2,664,000 for the ensuing
five years. This money is to be used
in the greatest program of religion
OF service the word has ever known.
1t will be used in meeting the chal-
lenge which church leaders say has
been laid at the door of Methodism.
How Money VIII Be Spent.
The sos 100000 to be raised under
the Methodist Centenary has already
been partly spent in advance The
great Methodist mission ship, leaving
for Europe with $4,000 100000 worth
of portable houses, tractors, plows and
seeds, is an instance of how Europes
share of the gigantic religious fund
is to be expended.
Forty million dollars is to be spent
on the home programme on nearly TO-
00Q different projects. For instance,
the rural church in America is to re-
ceive $1l.000,000 to be spent on a gil
gantic programme of helping and
erecting community country churches,
mainly BByen days a week churches.
Some OF these churches will have
swimming pools and be equipped
somewhat en- the lines of Y M. G.. AS.
Pastors will be engaged who are Elk.
perts. The church will be made the
center of rural activities in that cen
ter, Three thousand projects of that
kind are enumerated in the centenary
budget Great city community
churches, work among the highland
ers of the South, work among the
Mormons, the Indians. the Orientals
of the Pacific Coast, industrial groups,
etc, make up the total of $4,000, 900.
100000 Abroad.
A similar sum is to be expended in
the foreign field, divided among the
countries of the world Educational
work medical work with hospitals and
dispensaries, with evangelistic work
is the manner in which this money
will go. There are 1200,000,0 900 illit-
crate people in the world and 100000
900 who go hungry every night. These
II is the centenary hopes to aid.
The remaining $25, 100000 is to be
spent equally in this country and in
Europe on direct war reconstruction
work In this class comes the famous
mission shop. Boys will be aided to
college if they have a religious career
in view. Camp work will be carried
on and other active assistance rem
dered
Frank c. jackson is the campaign
director in the Northwest The head
quarters are at Portland. The North
west quota is $2,664 900 DIR. Charles
| A. Bowen and DR.. A. L. Howarth are
/ secretary and associate secretary re-
| spectively of the cent, nary movement
/ in the northwest.