The Carlisle independent., 1920-04-08
WORLD MOVE
 MENT

Inc deepening of the spirituality of the members of the various churches as well as the adding of great num- bers to their ranks has prepared the whole country for the United Si- multanous financial campaigns of the thirty cooperating denominations.
 The objectives of the Inter-Churcb World Movement have been brought home to millions of people, both those of the church and the great friendly body of people not identified with the churces, during recent months, from the pulpit and through the press.
 There have been numerous nation al conferences and beginning this week there will be conferences in 2OOO counties of the Union, in which the clergy and the laity will meet togeth- CT to plan for the greater work of the church militant.
 The counties of Arkansas have been divided into thirty-five groups. and teams of men and women thor oughly en rapport with the Movement will bring to the people the message of the multiplied needs of the world Tn education, missions and social ser vlce. These county conferences will be held from April 6 to April 16. Some of the strongest church workers of the state will present the various phases of the Movement.
 It is announced that another na- tlonal team of speakers, the person. nel of which is not known, will visit Arkansas just preceding the Finan- cial Campaign. What is known as the Cheyenne team will arrive in Fort Smith April 20, and will be in Little Rock April 21.
 Business men throughout the coun- try, many of whom were formerly not interested in religious matters, or but slightly interested, have been awakened to their duty to the church through the spirit of worldwide evan gelism. They have been won to the cause by the high and business-like aims which seek, through cooperation and elimination of waste to meet the needs of the world at home and abroad.
 In Arkansas, the churches where no special services or efforts toward evangelism have been held or made are the exception to the rule. Pastor and people alike have been alive to the opportunities of the period, and much personal evangelism has been evident in every community.
 Never before has there been more enthusiasm for financial campaign manifested in every county and city of the state We will put 1t over with plenty to spare" is the enthusias- tic way the leaders are talking about it.
 Two-thirds of the population of the United States is without a regular, reasonable opportunity of attending church every Sunday. The average pastors salary is $937, less today than the wages of an unskilled la borer, and more than half the pastors of the country receive less than $700. Fifty-eight million people, more than half the population of the country, are members of no church, and 26,000- coo young people under twenty-five years of age are connected with no Sunday School or other institution of religious instruction.
 The budgets of the thirty denomi- nations cooperating, have been form ed on the basis of the worlds needs as revealed by the surveys such as those now being made in every county of Arkansas. Each denomination will conduct it's own campaign, and all will get the benefit of the united pub licity through cooperative effort.
 The budget for Lonoke county is S8,000 which is the total for all the cooperating churches.