The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-02
NATION WIDE
 CAMP AICN ENDS
 MERE SHORTLY
Episcopal Special Cam paign Designed to Or ganize Moral Forces of
 World to Terminate


 The Nation-Wde campaign of the Episcopal church, designed to revive interest in the church as a live force in the readjustment of the world after the turmoil of war will ter minate it's campaign in Juneau nexf week. Dean Guy D. Christian io much pleased with the success the campaign is meeting in Juneau.
 The objects and purposes of this campaign are set forth very clearly in the following from the Philade, phia Ledger, from which the follow ing is taken:
 Those members of the Episcopa! of their church should be so eXerted at this time as to bring a much great CT number of people into the pews of the churches than are usually found there. are animated by both moral and patriotic convictions. They are not concerned alone in the we.- fare of their own church, but in the influence which all Christian organ izations may produce in a marked de gree toward correcting the laxity and viciousness that infect much of the thought of the people in their transition from a state of war tO a state of peace
 The Most Important Duty of the Hour
 Tt is believed by those who are conducting the movement through the meetings which have been held ir the past day or two. and particullr,r in the one hold at the Academy of Music at which Bishop Woodcock, of Kentucky, was a notable speaker that one of the most important duties of the hour is to make Christianity truly effective force in the work of solving our veXatious social and eco homie problems and to rid the minds of many men and women who arc not church-goers of the idea that Christianity is not helpful to them in these times of trouble and discord
 undoubtedly in the principles and teachings of that religion, as regards every branch of it, there should te found ways and means of spiritual welfare that may be applied to the unrest which prevails in a consider able part of our population C3l tainly there can be drawn from nf other source so much of the teaching of unselfshness, of good will, or re
  spect for law and the personal right of men in their daily relations to one another and the promotion of tbosf social ties which foster domestic v,r tue and maintain peace and stabilit' in our social system.
 Christianity a BuIwark of Our Inst
 tutions.
 "The clergy and the churches ir all Christian denominations form | vast part of the American population They have done much to establis' the character and life of the republir in times past And if this power were now to be used with sense and judgment, it can be made bul wark in the defense of our institu tions as against the folles of Socia ism run wild and the dangers O these agitations which are fosteref by anarchists and Bolshevists ir many parts of the country.
 Churches Lacking in Vitality
 '"Too many of the churches ar' lacking in vitality and perception They stand still when they ofter should be in forefront of human ad vancement.
 Such a rally and awakening g. appears to be contemplated in wh1 is called the nationwide campaign of the Episcopalians. ought to be general object for the religious am bition. It does not mean anything like a union of Church and State. r is not the spirit of merely a recrui' ing agency for cnlarging churcf membership. It is rather an organi7 ing of the whole moral forces in thf United States on the side of the fam iliar principles of American govern ment, of American manhood and An erican loyalty as against the foolisi and wicked doctrines and delusion which have gained possession. fo' + xlxA1 loo