Evening star., 1920-03-29
PLAN KEYNOTE MEETING
FOR |NTERCHURCH DRIVE
Gathering Here April s Will Be
Attended by Leaders in Re-
ligious Campaign.

| A keynote meeting in interest of the
tnterchurch world movement is to be
held here the night of April at the
Washington Hotel. Arrangements
by leaders in tho movement and by
other men prominent in the religious
political and Industrial life of the
country. are now being made.
Thirty denominations. representing
many millions of church members,
have determined to unite in a great
cooperative campaign for the ad-
vance of Christianity. The purpose
is to raise fund of s336.O0O.O00 to be
used by the various denominations in
extending their work. An intensive
campaign to raise this fund Is to open
April 25 and run for one week.
Mr.. Lansing to Preside.
Robert Lansing, former Secretary of
state, Will preside at the dinner here.
The invitations are being sent out in
the names of Vice President Marshall
Speaker Gfllett, Secretary Josephus
Daniels of the Navy. Gen. John J. Per-
shing, U. S. A; Senator Spencer of
Missouri. Senator Harding of Ohio and
Mr.. Lansing.
The guests of honor will include a
group of men interested in the inter
church world movement who are
starting tour of the country here
This flying squadron" will include
Il.
Mott of New York, director of the
united war work campaign in 1918;
Dr- S- Earl Taylor of New York, con-
nected with the board of foreign mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; DR.. John Y. Aitchison of Bos-
ton. secretary of the American Bap-
tlst Foreign Mission Society; Dr.
William Hiram Foulkes of Philadel-
phia, secretary of the executive COM
mittee OF the national service commits
sion of the Presbyterian Church. and
Lyman l.. Pierce of New York
600 Expected to Attend.
me dinner is to be given in the
salon des nations of the Washington
Hotel. II is expected that covers for
500 guest will be laid. The local COM
mittee in charge. owing to the de-
mand for invitations, has been obliged
to fix limit to the number The
dlnner committee consists of William
Rnowles Cooper. chairman; John
Fooie, treasurer: Edward L. Stock
Edward S. Brashears. H. S. Omohun-
dro and c. Melvin Sharpe.
Men in all walks of life will be
included in the list of guests. The
invitations will go out in the next
tew days. No solicitation of funds is
to be made at the dinner
For the purpose of the campaign
the country has been divided into
regions. The local organization 1.
being perfected under the supervision
Of C. Melvin Sharpe. director for the
District OF Columbia. Edward s.
Brashears is regional director for the
sections embracing the District of Co
Iumbia. Maryland. Delaware, West
Virginia and Virginia. H. s. Omohun-
dro is director for Maryland
In the formation of the budget, each
denomination 0e has set it's own goal.
Or the entire amount of more than
$336.000.000. $175.44S.349 are to be paid
in during 1920. The balance will be
paid In from two to five years.
Budgets for Work.
The budgets for the seven items
into which the work of the church Is
divided are as follows: Foreign mis-
s1ons. $107.661.4SS: home missions.
S109.949.037: American education, $7S.-
ss1.4Sl: American religious educa-
tion. $5.93l.925: American hospitals
and homes. $5.116,465; American min
isterial pensions and relief, S20,610.-
2s9, and miscellaneous, S3,77o.s27.
The thirty denominations included
In the campaign budget are: Advent
Christian Church. Northern Baptist
Convention, National Baptist Conven-
ton: General Baptists. Church of the
Brethren. Brethren Church. Christian
Church, Congregational Church. Dis
ciples OF Christ. Evangelical Associa-
tion, United Evangelical Church, So
ciety of Friends in America. Society
of Friends in California. Holiness
Church. Lutheran Evangelical Synod
of North America, General Confer
e1ce of Mennonites. Methodist Episco-
pll Church. Methodist Protestant
CAurch, Free Methodist Church of
Nbrth America, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church. Colored Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Reformed
Zion Union Apostolic Church, Pres
byterian Church in the United States
of America. Presbyterian Church in
the United States south. Associate Re-
formed Presbyterian Synod. Reformed
Church in North Ameri-
ca. United Presbyterian Church, Re-
formed Church in America, Reformed
Church in the United States and
Church of United Brethren in Christ.