The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-17
Organization win Collect Lsrsast
Amount Ever Handled by Any
Religious Denomination
Anywhere.

Commission.
Colonel Edgerton h q well known
business man. He is president and
manager Of the Lebanon Wooden Mills
/ president of the Tennessee State Man.
ufacturers Association. and during the
war he was member of the executive
committee Of the war industry board
appointed by President Wilson.
Our slogan is no shrinkage. bat an
increase" said Colonel Edgerton re.
Gently. "Just as the Southern Metho.
dist church has surpassed all records
In securing pledges for benevolent
purposes and has raised the largest
sum ever given to any church at one
time In the history OF the world, so do
we expect to set new record in the
collection of these pledges"
An Extensive Organization.
The organization through which
these pledges will be collected has
four centers of responsibility. The
first is general finance conn,issien
with headquarters at Nashville, headed
By Colonel Edgerton. This commis-
sion has prepared the standard plan
and will direct the entire movement.
handing down to the various bodies
throughout the church detailed pIaua
Sor their guidance.
There will also be q conference cab
met in each annual conference OF the
church, about forty in number. These
conference cabinets will BE- composed
Of the Conference Missionary Score
tary, Conference Campaign Director, |
the Lay leader, and the Conferences |
Centenary Treasurer. Each Of these
officials have certain specific duties, |
and viii direct the work OF collecting
all the pledges in each annual confer.
snce.
In each Of the four hundred districts
Of the church there Is similar cab.
met composed Of the Presiding Elders,
the Lay leaders, Campaign Directors
and the Chairman Of the Methodist
Minute Men. The Conference Mission.
Ary Secretary is an ex-officio member
u ell district cabinets. The work Of
collecting in the districts will be su-
'eryised by this district cabinet
Twenty Thousand Churches.
In each Of the 10000 local churches
here win be local cabinets composed
Il the pastor, the centenary treas.
lrer, the campaign director, the lay
eader, the chairman Of the minute
nen, the Sunday school superintend.
mt and the president Of the Woman's
Missionary Society. This cabinet will
10 all the actual work Of collecting the
Individual pledges.
The persons who made subscrip.
ions will be divided into lists of 25
nd the lists viii be placed in charge
I q certain member OF the church
abinet who will collect all pledges as
hey come due.
One feature Of the standard plan Is
hat the local church will be respons.
,le for collecting the full amount Of
Is subscription. If any subscriber
les or meets with misfortune such as
render it impossible for him to pay
is pledge, it will be the duty Of the
nurch cabinet to secure another per
IN to take the place of the one thus
seome delinquent.
It is also proposed that every new
ember who comes into the church
lall also be asked to make coatrl.
ition to the Centenary fund.
The Centenary fund Of $4,000 900
III bepsed for the church in an ex.
nsion; Of its missionary work
roughout the world. Several million
III be sent In the devastated re-
ems Of France. Belgium, Poland and
lssia. Other millions will 20 to the
ven foreign fields occupied By the
lurch Mexico. Brazil Cuba, Africa
inns, Japan and Korea. Other nil.
ms win be sent in the industrial
ctionS Of the great cities, in the
Duntains, among the immigrants, the
groes and the Indians, and IN build.
: churches in the missionary terri
n Of the United states.