Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-23
INTERcNUPCH WORLD
MOVEMENT Appeal.
BEGINS oAI SUNDAY
1t Is Fer The Purpose OF
EvangeIiznng The World.

Beginning Sunday, April - and
ending Sunday Nay ., thirty coop
Grating Protestant denominations
are asking $33C.777,572, for their
educational. missionary and social
service ppogrrus.
The lnterchurch %orl Movement
IS a movement Of the churches, BY
the churches. for the churches. II
consists of the churches and Their
societies.; it is governed and con
taolled by them; 1T is designed te
promote their work.
It's object is to elutle the Pro
testant Churches of the United
States to contribute their due share
toward the evanEeHzation of Che
world b. means Of cooperation.
The IuterehuYch World Move
ment cannot, undat It's constitution,
have anything to de- with any move
ment designed to promote organic
uoion among the churches
Every denomination that joins
the Irterehurch Movement retains
absolute autonomy and exere Is al
aolute control over It's ewn deuomi-
national policy All Of tho partici-
eating Denominations acting to
gether through their Representatives
on the Genera Committee. control
the policies of the Interchurch
Movement.
The MoYement in fact. represents
an alliance Of churches which have
come together because they can do
more effectively in common q great
many things that al OF them have
been in the habit of doing separate.
ly.
The function of the Interchurch
World Movement is to provide the
machinery for this cooperation
The common tasks in which the
participating churches plan to CO.
operate include the missionary I'M
dertalIings of the churches at horne
and abroad: assistance to local
churches: promotion of the spirit
ual ideas of stewardship. lie SER
vice and the power Of prayer, and
such other church activities as clu.
catiea. the adequate support of the
min iStry and the provision and
maintenance Of hospitals end
hemes.
Cooperation in such undertake
ing is plain matter of efficiency.
There are thirty denominations
participating in the lnterchureh
World Movement. Ii is obvious
that a single comprehensive pro-
gram, embracing the collective Wis
dom of all OF these denominations.
Is going to Gaf more efficient re-
suits at less expense than thirty diff
ferent programs, each framed indie
rendently of all the rest.
BY joining in a great united. sim
infamous campaign, the participat-
ing churches will not only canyass
their own constituency they will
canvass the whole Protestant con
s.ituency Of the United States. They
vii not Only receive their denomi-
national contributions, but they will
a.so share pro rata in the undesig-
mated gifts.
1t is not only the machinery OF
cooperation which the lnte7church
Movement provides. Working in
close cooperation with nearly hun
dred dencmi national boards, it has
also provided body Of accurate in
formation regarding the worlds
needs on which the cooperating
churches may base their programs.
The survey Of religious conditions
throughout the world is the most
comprehensive investigation of its
kind ever undertaken.
1t is more comprehensive than aa}
UNCONVENTIONAL surrey because il
basis is geographic, not d3no,niaa.
ttonal.
1t has surveyed areas which ar
as yet the business OF no dcHomina
ton. It has plotted on The un-