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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

fcryent, and possessed Of wonderful, quiet
energy He is not preacher but lay
man, though graduate Of Il divinity
school But he refused TO be ordained and
wished TO go abroad az lay missionary
wish which never has been realized because
Of family conditions. He was first IA
physical director in The y NJ c. A.. and
in those days became intimately associated
with John r. Mott, who is chairman Of an
executive committee Of fifteen from the
Committee Of One Hundred. The two have
remained very close to each other
To look over what the Methodists plan
to do with the original $S0,0000o0 of the
Methodist Church in the North viii, per
haps, give as good an idea Of the scope OF
this movement over the world as one could
get. This sum was divided equally between
work on this continent and in the lands
under the Stars and Stripes and the work
in foreign countries. Nearly $1,000 900
goes to work among the polyglot masses in
downtown New York and in other cities
to establish dormitories by way of solving
the lodging house problem, clinics and day
nurseries. social parlors, community lauu-
dries and classes in English, hygiene and
vocational instruction, so as to make the
church n centre for Americanizing in
fuences and training in citizenship
A similar sum goes to work among indus
trial groups in cities, often polyglot
as well, along lines which are to be en-
bodied in the new constitution which the
British government is considering at the
instance Of the British Labor party. Still
another sum close to $1,000 900 Will be APP
piled to work in "strategic city and subur-
ban fields" which means, in the first case,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

strong things. ! wonder if you'd take this
from wet who really believes in what
the Methodist Church * now attempting"
and he handed over $500
But this ISN'T telling of tho widow,
mite. Is it, Very we'll. In one church.
which has total membership Of 1926. tn.
pastors indefati gable work resulted in lss
pledges. and in another church with Oh
members IS subscribed \ mechanic. who
Is tithcr, with five children. a sick wife
and mothcr-in.law to support, pledged
40 cents week above his 1.-THE. His
mother-in-law has always been opposed To
his giving money to the church, but since
ne became a tither his pay has been in
creased four times.
subscriptions came in by telegraph. tcle-
phone and mail. ono from as rar awsv a.
Los Angeles Three Roman Ca holicS con-
tributed a total of $675, and two Christian
Scientists joined IN
In one family Of seven children The IN
Their and mother are in for so cents
week each, and their seventeen -year-old
son. who IS working. pledges Ike sum.
An eight-year- old boy pledged 10 cents =
week, and his Willingness TO earn this doing
odd jobs so impressed his father and
mother that they increased their own 500
subscription to $500.
woman who recently inherited $4,000
from relative who never gave anything
to religious or charitable causes has
pledged 1.-THE of this sum. and will give
the income from the rest to be used for
work among women in India. God never
got his share from Mr.. - before, but He
will now that Mr.. - is dead" she re
marked
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Is the Church Sufficiently So to ilior
TO World ide Servic

these agitators, strange as it may seem In
ono East Side Methodist church in New
FORK CITY there are more than eighty ex
anarchists, and three of them are prcpar-
ing for the ministry. Trotzky frequently
attended this church when living here in
obscurity
GLOW much that may have had to do
with the fact that the Methodist Church s
the only ono in rctrograd which has not
been closed | don't know. however, DR.
Taylor continued. "When the Bolshevik
came into power 1t looked for some time
as though II would be closed with the rest.
but when the labor programme Of the
Methodist Church WAS studied by Lcrinc
ana lrotzky they placed the church under
the protection of their government
This labor programme, adopted six years
ago, not only asserts the right of workers
10 employment and to living wage, but
to the highest wage industry can afford to
pay 1T demands not only justice, as do the
labor unions, but it goes further than they
could IN demanding that the problems Of
employer and employed be worked out ac
cording to the principles of Christian fell
iowship. And in this great church move
ment we mean to see to it that they are"
concluded this man Of much quiet force
This is, perhaps, the most critical time
in the history of Christianity. There is
an opportunity, unmatched in all the cen
turtles. to help reconstruct the world on
a truly Christian democratic basis. but
unless the church can come into close hui
man touch with the masses, who will have
the final say as to the social and political
programme of the future, the church is
lost"
A modest man, this DR.. Taylor but
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try Practically every church in the con
Ierence exceeded its allotment and the
whole conference went far over the top.
over twelve thousand Methodists in that
conference signed tho tithlng pledge which
commits them 10 devote to the Lords work
as His stewards only Of such worldly wealth
as falls to Them, the Biblical 1.-THE Of one
tenth of all their income.
The general effort for the raising Of the
fund has really not started yet Prepare
tory work has been going on since the first
Of the year and the stewardship campaign
is on now, but the intensive campaign to
bring every member Of the church into the
tithing does not come until April. The
Central New York Conference was per-
mitted to do it's financial work ahead OF
the rest Of the country as a demonstration
Of what could be done and largely because
Geneva, n. y and the Rev Ralph s. Cush-
man are in that conference. will tell you
about them in minute.
There are men over the country who
couldn't wait, and large gifts and small
have been coming in; one man in St. Louis
has pledged himself to give 500 day for
five years, another up the state has given a
great hotel property as a rest house for
returning missionaries, somebody has given
the churc6 4 sanatorium at Attleboro. Mass,
and somebody else resort hotel in Flor
ida. but we go to the Central New York
Conference to see what all this really
means to the individual church member
The conference, in which Syracuse is the
largest city, raised million dollars in
twenty days! The widows mite and the
laborer's dollar make it up, not the gift of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

S25o0,00o, while Malaysia Will get more
than million. Mexico and the Philippines
arc we'll taken care Of and the proportion
fer South America and Centrul America
amounts to more than $5,5OOOO0 I'm South
America not over 20 per ccNt oil the Indian
population reach maturity and in Chile -
per cent Of the babies die before they are
two years old, which gives an idea Of the
medical work which the church finds to do
in the southern portion Of this hemisphere.
When the world survey is made and the
estimates are in 1T is safe to say that these
sums will be increased ten times over in
the amounts to be spent by the inter-dc-
nomlnationai movement To spend S70,000,-
coo among the polyglot masses in down
town New York and other large centres in
this country that would mean something.
eh? Or to spend $65,0o00 600, say. in China?
Can you see what America Will mean to
the rest of the world after the church has
practised what it breaches for a time.
backed by the enormous fund 1t is going
to raise?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Another of Wars Oddities-The Papier-Mache Leg

it. There are no feet, so they just taper
down at the end There was Serbian in
London who took his off at the theatre-just
got tired of wearing it and started pulling
It out 1t created quite bit of excitement,
as you can imagine. They said no one but
a Serbian would have thought of doing
such thing"
Are the legs hard to make" | asked
her.
"Oh, no; quite easy. IF you work quick
ly you can make one long one or two short
in day. Some one has to 20 to the
hospital and measure the soldier, and then
the leg is made to order. In our factory Lady
Marjorie Dalrympe was the head of things,
and it was she who went to the hospitals
and measured the men. Then at night you
would see her in her with five or six
legs standing around going to the hospitals
to deliver them. Every one laughed about
Lady Mar ores legs Every woman who
worked in the factory was supposed TO have
her own private automobile and go around
the hospitals il it was necessary. Private
cars were the only means Of delivering
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Divers Among
The Poor

Now, about DR.. Cushman and the Geneva
Tithers' Association. His Is the only Meth
odist church in a community of soma
10000. 1t is a church Of working peonls
without single member of means. Eight
or nine years ago it dedicated a $4,000
church property a fine edifcc. but with
debt of $4,000 on it when the tthing story
opened in 1915. There was also consider
able indebtedness on current expenses from
back years and budget Of $4,000 for the
current year, of which only a third was
in sight
DR.. Cushmnn found the answer. after
prayer. in Leviticus xvii: 20: And all the
tlthe is the Lords" He preached
from this text and wound up by saying
God shows rs here how defeat NAV be
turned into victory. II is our only hone
VIII you make the conservation ." One hun
dred and twenty-five members Of Tint
church came forward and sikucd the cove
nant under which they would bring eaeb
week ono tenth Of all their income to tho
treasurer Of the Tithcrs' Association, to be
divided among the financial needs Of the
church.
The ncSt night Monday night Dr.. Cush
man and the district presiding elder or
superintendent. az they now call him in
TINT church mot with the church officers
aud tiihng was officially declared 10 be the
chief financial system OF The church. This
was IN December 1915 In the May fol
lowing NJ tho close of second iithinp
campaign, go members mad signcd the
covenant
d Of ,l.tt
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which re found to be extraordinarily rest
full ii turned out to be her own writing
room, planned by her and furnished in
queer shade of blue and green and gold, in
order to give just that particular atmos-
phere Of restful quiet conducive to writing.
In the United States almost no one Of
the Williamson books has created more
interest than the one in which she used
the King of Spain TO bring together nor
hero and heroine. In Speaking OF the book
she told me that she had not lived IN Spain.
though she had motored all about the coun-
try and found "the worst roads in the
world"
ave wondered whether the King would
like being used in the book. but he did
like it, and the Queens brothers loved the
book. He's very good little King. think.
and So she added refectively lis the King
of Italy. | liked him"
Was it. | wondered. straight fctionai
prophecy, or was her mind unconsciouslv
playing with the fctional possibilities of n
monarch who had so often risked his life
and been so frequently under FIRE,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
By ]. DIN Howe

1%O RAISE an estimated 100000 900
year for five years, total Of
81 10000 900. and TO raise it not
in great gifts or large subscrip-
IONS from the wealthy but mainly from
Individual members in ,thcs. after the rnrn-
rer Of tho Biblical tenth, and to disbursc
this immense fund over the globe so as to
make the church in fact. as it is in theory,
the moral and spiritual agency upon which
Christian civilization rests and in the do
,nc Of u TO rcvvify the membership Of
Protestant churches on this continent and
csvanise it into living, vital force in
world affairs such is the programme OF
the biggest church movement in the two
thousand years since Christ walked in
Gslilec.
But for the war, which taught US to think
big ard pull together. this change from the
static to the dynamic wouldn't have been
possible Though there are 25,ooO,ooo COM
municants OF Protestant churches in North
America and 2oooo,ooO Sunday school
pupils in the zoo 900 churches.
The Inter-Church World Movement of
North America, they call it. Thirty differ
cnt denominations are in it. Cyrus H. Nc
Cornick, Of Chicago is its leader as chair
man Of the Committee of One Hundred,
and Dr. S. Earl Taylor, executive secretary
Of the centenary committee of the Metho-
dist Church, is chief executive officer, with
the title Of general secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Using War
Drive Methods

The methods used during war dr,ves
have set the style of this church drive hut
1t may be doubted if any war drive had
anything on this. Dr. Christian F Reisner
pastor Of Grace Methodist Church. who !,
known far and vide as the leader in church
advertising. has organized the division Of
publicity.
He has his Minute Men, 100000 Of them.
one for each church and an extra one for
each 100 Of the membership in that church.
These are all laymen. Dr. Reisner is the
only minister among them And even in
the Methodist Minute Men they are far
from all Methodists. Men OF all denorni
nations, and some Of none, tell Dr.. Refs
ner that this gives them the chance for
service for which they have long been look
ing and which the old-tine activities az
the church didn't provide.
The Fellowship Of Interccssion. pledged
by the thousands to prayer for the sue
cess 81 the movement, IS quite another mat
ter, but who can doubt that it will have
powerful effect on putting it over?
Then there is the department Of evan
geism, whose members go about the land
connected
the work; and enlistment for life serves,
on the part of young men and women who
are wiling to serve in the army of work
ers who viii be required to carry out the
campaign of the church. is a feature Of
the programme.
Methodist movies viii shortly be shown
IN notion picture houses all over the land
and when the INSTRUMENTATION move
ment gets under way this means of edu-
eating the public viii be largely used. All
over the country, too, will soon be seen the
series OF twelve posters done for The cam
paign by A. !. Willing, whose posters were
OF great service in the last Red Cross
drive.
They mean business, the Methodists. and
IN larger way the combination Of Protest
ant churches means business; and the
thinking man has long known that when
the church really gathered itself together
and meant business something would
hspren
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things in Southern France the latter part
Of the war.
"Ours wasn't the only factory. There we're
several others in different parts Of France.
and | suppose also in England They cant
make arms, because an arm without hand
would be of little use, but with the papier-
mache leg lots of the soldiers can walk
with only one crutch.
II tried helping in u hospital at first"
Mrs Williamson admitted when | asked her
what other war work she had done, "and I
have made thousands -of congresses We
used to on them until we got quite
out of breath. Women have done so many,
many different things since the war began.
In Southern France every one has worked
There was one man, remember, with
rather long hair and face like the face
of Christ The soldiers called him Jesus
Christ. He was not strong enough for the
army, so he went to help in ono of the
hospitals. They thought he wns otTeminate
because of his sensitive face, and they
planned to tire him out by giving him dis
agreeable things TO do, They'd make him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

clean the operating room before he ate his
breakfast. But the man stuck-they never
succeeded in breaking him.
Now that the war is over and the crippled
heroes are not going to need so many
papier- mache legs, it is quite probable that
Mrs. Williamson will return to her dashing
motor heroes though whether they will
wear Khaki or horizon blue or everyday
civilian motoring toys she does not say. II
they are Anne orleans, she admits they are all
her creation, because Mr.. Williamson is
very much an Englishmaa and would not
know the details of American life. She
also admits that it is she who writes the
stories. writes them with a pen, not on the
typewriter. as most American authors
write; but she puts her situations I'd to
Mr.. Williamson, and he tells her whether
or not her hero is behaving well
Mrs. Williamson has had two houses
on the Riviera, one of which is now sold
to the brother of Lord NorthclFe. 1t was
here that Lloyd George visited the Will
iamsons and told Mrs. Williamson that
there was room in the house
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

the rich At North Syracuse. out Of
fifteen possible large givers in the church.
nearly all said no. and there was but one
gift of $1,000 but in that church there
were more gvers to this fund than are rep
resented III the church budget
One pastor in a small place went nine
times to man OF means before getting
$500 subscription but as against that n
woman in Red Creek gave 81 900 every
cent she had and earned before her mar
riage by working out at so cents "A day;
she had saved it to buy something she
really wanted but said she couldn't think
of better way to use if.
In three Of the so -called poorer charges
twenty five farmers In a row pledged sub
scriptions ranging from 800 to 1000.
One. recently converted. GIVE 5000 in u
lump Sum. Told he could spread IL over
i've ycars, he sad mo, want 90 get my
money working for tho Lord qulck7
One man walked into a ministcrs Office
up there md said. "lVe often heard you
preach on temperance and say some pretty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
The Negroes
Share

The negro in the South gets S2,50o,ooo
and his brother in the North a million less
than that. There even appropriations
for work among the highlanders Of the
South and among the Mormons. American
lzation among the Orientals Of the Pacific
Coast and their Characterization receive
no small sum, for the Methodists say that
the standing Of democracy and Christian
ity IN the Far East depends largely upon
the verdict Of the many Chinese and Jan
anese vino return to their native countries"
Perhaps you don't know, incidentally, that
there are Buddhist temples in every large
city on the Pacific Coast.
There about 1000 900 Italians in the
United States, and the amount appropriated
for work among them is S1,50O,O 600 A sur
prising number of Latin Americans have
come into the United States in the last few
years, and nearly like sum is to be spent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
The Methodist
Millions

The Methodists started it, They set out
10 raise 5000 900, 100000 at once for
war reconstruction work and the other
$4,000 900 in five years. Then the Metho-
dist Church South joined in with S35 ,0OO,-
900 programme, making $3.50, 100000 Of
Methodist money altogether. This is al
ready partly subscribed and likely to be
SO largely oversubscribed as to reach a
total Of s2000oo,oO0
One hardly thinks Of the Methodists as
rich church, but the Methodist constit-
uency in this country alone has an esti-
mated wealth of s25 900 900 900, and it is
Increasing at the rate of a billion dollars
year. The regular benevoences Of the
church and this doesn't include the Meth
odist Church South. which is separate
affair located in the Southern states-in-
creased by 100000 last year without any
special effort in their behalf.
Since 1914 the church membership has
Increased by per cent and the benevo-
lsnces by 30 per cent, merely as reheX
from the generosity shown in patriotic
giving In tho last FIVE years. just previous
20 the war tho Church Board Of Conference
claimants asked for s5,000,00O for retired
preachers, and to date has received $l4,
100000. recent request OF the board
Of education Of tho church for $40 600 600
vas met with s2s,ooO,000 Perhaps the
Methodist total will be more than $500
100000 s.ss@
solid year the Methodists spent on "a
world survey upon which to base their
campaign, which is now we'll under way
Their general committee has on it such
men as John T. Stone. president Of the
Maryland Casualty Company, of Baltimore;
Frank L. Brown, president OF the Brown
Shoe Company Of st. Louis, and Frank c.
Dunn, president OF the Dunn Chair Com
pany, OF Gardner, Mass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

in Amcricanizing them and adapting Nor
gan Memorial ideas to their needs
The eastern European groups and recent
immigrants from other parts of the world
will get the benefit Of about $1,000 600.
while to the development OF Christian
Leadership 80 necessary to the carrying out
of the vast programme viii be set aside
$26o0,00O
The programme calls for 1873 language
pastors 269 directors OF religious cduca-
ton. t72 women workers, l34 doaconesses
and 100 special workers. The 1000 Meth
odist students at state universities and
agricultural colleges are to be cultivated
as a class The Baldwin Wallace College.
at Berea, Ohio, is to receive an appropria-
ton for the training OF slavonc workers
and Albuquerque College, at albuquerque,
n. NJ for the training Of workers in the
Spanish American field.
AS to the foreign field and the world is
the parish of the church-Africa is to re
ceive $l,7SO, 900 Of Methodist money with
which to combat Islam advancing from the
north, where there are 900 Moham-
medans, and to work among the S0,00O,000
pagans in Central Africa. There are but
100000 Christians on the Continent
India viii use more than $5,00O,O0O
There is SO per cent iliteracy among
Indian men and 80 per cent among the
women, and in this connection illiteracy
means inability to read or write Fifty
million people of depressed classes there
moving en- masse toward Christianity
threaten to overwhelm the limited re
sources Of the church
To China will go between 100000 and
$7,o00,0oo, and to Japan and Korea about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
The Presbyferians
Pluck Up

soon the Presbyterians began 70 be IN
iesestcd, and before the world survey was
complete interest was general among the
rest OF the Protestant denominations They
Just had to get into the movement or be
left behind. The Committee Of One Hun
bred IS the result. 1t even takes in
Canada
Wnilc world survey is being made for
iSe nterdenominational movement the
Aethodists will go right along with their
Programme. DR.. Ralph A. Ward, who is
heir Chinese expert and associate execu-
i've secretary of their general committee,
Is TO spend a year on the grand survey
which is to be the basis Of the world
vide welfare work.
Until this world survey il completed the
exact programme cannot be laid out nor
IS costs arrived at, but $500. 900 900 a
year would mean but a dollar a month from
every church member in the United States,
10 say nothing of Canada, and is a con
servative estimate of what will doubtless
De in hand by 1925. Meantime, slO,0OO,000
will be added 20 the Methodsts' So 600 900
Tor war reconstruction work.
Think OF the power OF billion and
aaif dollars. And think of the revitalizing
influence OF such campaign the church
members. quarter of the population Of
tue United States they are. Even the Cath
oiics are taking notice. The fact is that
We are nearer church unity and denomina
uonai fusion in this country, far nearer,
IMAM ne ever were before.
And the point in 1t all is that the
christian Church is civilizations real de-
ience against the social unrest, which has
us latest focus in Bolsheyism: or else it
mere affair OF form and mumme+y and
somewhat OF intellectual stimulation, thrust
one side 6y the march Of events. Peace CON
isrrnees may legislate against the Bolshc-
slxi andtreat with their repre- natives, and
me theoretical dealist may feed them and
'nQs encourage them in a course as wrong
headed as HIS, but in the final analysis it
- personal work with the individual which
viii step the spread OF Bolsheyism.