Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-01
.|NTERCHURCH To
co AHEAD WITH
ITS 70 PROGRAM

The following article appeared in
an Atlantic CITY PAPER and was
copied in the Interchurch Bulletin.
II was headed, Word Painter
From New Mexico Talks"
III, r. Mills, state secretary of
the lnterchurch World movement
at Albuquerque, n. NJ, is an en-
thus asst where his home state is
concerned. He quite stunned the
state survey supervisors IN confer
ence here with the following onco-
miums in phrasing the greetings of
the state;
wide extended mesas. ITS deep
canyons and arroyas with their
cimarrOn streams that 60 rushing
from you Ike some wild thing, and
its grand old hills that looked down
upon a civilization that was in the
decrepltude Of it's lettering old age
long before fernando Cortez and
his gold hungry conduistadors set
foot upon this great inland empire
of the southwest. New Mexico is
the wonderland of America Beau
tiful. strangely weird and wonder
full. Wild with iov at the wonders
Of His handlwork. God seems to he
bursting the color Jugs of immor-
talitV against the mountain sides
and palisades that are the wonder
Of the fiends of wanderulst.'
DR.. Mills has returned from a
trip of several weeks to the Inter-
church convention at Atlantic City.
and states that the outlook is most
ENCOURAGING in everv wav
II was impressed" said DR. Mills,
with the fact that the men who
were leaders in the movement,
whether of the clergy or the laitV,
were big men. They were men with
vision, leaders in secular and in re-
lisious work James n. Speers,
wealthy New Yorker. a leading lay
man n the PRESBYTERIAN church of
the U. S. A, and member of the
general assembly: John d. Rookie
TAYLOR. DR.. Ralph f. Diffendorfer
and such. men, are leading the
movement"
The Interchurch movement is
the first and only effort of the
Protestant church to get together
in cooperative way" continued
DR.. Mills. 1T is the getting togeth
er of the mission boards. of the
churches, and in spite of the fact
that the financial ca mnaign was
not put on in three fourth of the
places in the United States, and that
the churches fell down down in
not doing so, We feel the work is a
wonderful success"
More money was raised in cash
and subscription that the Protest
ant churches have ever gathered
together before, said DR.. Mills. who
was within a foot of John y. Rock
efeller when he said This Is the
greatest achieVement that the
church has affected in modern
times"
Already nearly two hundred mill
ion dollars has been raised and
only 217 million were asked, Mr.
Rockefeller duplicated his gift of
S250,0U0.
We feel that we have made a
mistake in the method of anpeal in
the financial campaign" said Mr..
Mills. and we want the public to
know it. We organized for the
campaign and sought, the funds
from a material standpoint, and we
believe now that II would have
been better to have made pure
spiritual appeal. That is what We
VIII do from now on
The work will go quietly ahead,
DR., Mills says, and the 1920 pro-
gram will be carried out as planned.
The campaign will be set up in
places where it has not heretofore
been made. The lnterchurch will
complete the surveys, both general
and household. The mission boards
say that they are the most scientific
and thorough that have been made,
and therefore the most helpful.
The Reverend o. w. Hearn, for
mer pastor of the Christian church
at Roy, n. NJ. will arrive this
morning to assist DR.. Mills in the
1nterchurch headquarters for the
90 a Il . To- Ia to
DR.. Mills paid a glowing tribute to
New MeNiCn which annnarS above.