The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-01-09

name LEADERS

On December 7 the Protestant
Episcopal Church throughout America
. Will complete a drive that must
stand as unique among the many that
have been made since the exigencies
OF war first brought that term to its
present definition.
1t has been a drive for souls and
not for dollars-a drive" from the
shoulder, at the heart, not the pocket
book. Its principal purpose has been
to keep awake and active the spirit
uality reawakened by the world up
heaval; TO shake into activity and
highest efficiency those offices of the
church which may have become to
greater or lesser degree dormant and
to impress upon the Iaity that the
church stands equipped and eager to
supply every spiritual need.
Every city and hamlet in the coun-
try has been made to feel the reyivifi-
cation. Locally both clergy and laity
have worked as never before to es
tablish their church with its commu
nicants and a pronounced recrudes
cence of activity already is evident
December the Big Day
The full tide OF the drive viii be
felt during the first week of Deem
Der. During that period every mem
Der of the church viii work with re
doubled effort To the end desired and
to produce the fund which Will be re
CURED to make the new program eff
fective.
A committee of fifteen Of the most
distinguished men of the nation has
paign. Henry P. Dawson, director OF
the Red Cross during the war, has
been named as the organization eN
ecutive He will have the active
assistance of many notable churchmen
and lay readers who have been elected
to the committee of fifteen behind
them, among them Bishop Charles +.
Anderson, of Chicago; Bishop John
G. Murray, of Maryland; Bishop Ar
thur S. Lloyd, Bishop Frederick +.
Reese, OF Georgia; Bishop Charles
Sumner Burch. of New York; Rev DR.
Ernest NJ. Stires, OF New York; Rev.
DR.. Edward S. Rousmaniers, OF Mas
sachusetts; Rev. Or. James F.. Free
man. of Minnesota; Rev. DR.. William
H Milton, of East Carolina; Rev. DR.
Frank II. Nelson, of Southern Ohio:
Arthur Woods, OF New York: George
Wharton Pepper, OF Philadelphia; Bur
ton Mansfield, of New Haven. Con
necticut, and Oliver J. Sands. of Rich
mond. Virginia.
First among the financial needs OF
the church considered at the recent
triennial general convention in De
troit, was the pressing need for
higher salaries for the Episcopal
clergy. 1t was found that only too
often many of the most active and
effective workers within the church
were subjected TO hardship and even
to humiliation by present insufficient
emolument That he may hereafter
do his work "as a leader OF the
church with efficiency and self-re-
spect" this fault is TO be remedied.
Careful revision of the statement
of church needs indicates that a
sum approximating $4,000, 900 will be
required to cover in detail the pro
gram of the next three years. The
sum originally fixed was $4,000, 900
but the joint commission last week
revised this estimate to make the
program as efficient and as reason
ably economical as needs Will permit.
How 1t Is Apportionsd
OF this total, S2s.000,000 will be re-
ouired for general work and $4,000,
600 for diocesan needs. Ten millions
of the sum specified for general work
will be devoted to home missionary
work in the dioceSes and missionary
districts of America; the remainder to
missionary work in foreign fields, for
social service, religious education
and other work in
America.