The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
LOCAL MINISTERS ID PREACH TODAY
 ON STEWARDSHIP
Church Members Will Be Given Opportunity to En- roll In Interchurch
 World Movement

Stewardship Acknowledgement Day. this Sunday. February %, will be marked
 as the big day when all connected with the churches are to be given special op- portunity to enroll in the ten-millon
 legion Of Christian stewards. promoted
 by the Interchurch World Movement.
 The denominations CO., operating in the
 Ipterchurch World Movement sill fitting ly observe Washington's S birthday by em-
 phasizing in thousands of sermons
 throughout the land, the fact that God is the owner Of all things and that man is responsible to Him for his stewardship. Morning sermons generally will deal with stewardship in it's relation to the world programme. It will be shown that the present world emergency can be met
 only by consecrated men and consecrated money The evening theme in most pull pits will be Stewardship and Evanscl-
 'sm,' linking together the two great cam paigns of the churches of February and March.
 In connection with the stewardship cam
 paign. which leaders declare is growing tremendously in extent and interest, the Womens Missionary Boards and the ln- terchurch World Movement have distrib- uted hundreds of thousands of leaflets re- garding the stewardship reading contests Two hundred and sixty-five thousand scmen have enlisted in these contests through churches representing twenty
 five denominations and societies The lat est church to come in is the Mennonite.
 The w. c. T. U. has taken hold enthusi- 4stically.
 large Normal school in Pennsylvania with it's hundreds of students, is spread ing the stewardship idea as auickened in the public schools of the future l. .I,ra Et,V
 list church, Washington. D. C., is am other center of wide influence for the principle of stewardship. Its 600 members accept the idea of tithing their incomes hs a matter of course, and more than lOo have signed stewardship pledges. This class is made up largely of girls who have come to Washington as war work CTS and are now spreading the message and spirit of stewardship in their homes all over the land.
 A new pastor in Pennsylvania town found that the most his church had con- tributed in any year for purposes beyond It's own maintenance was $300. He hung UT a banner with the motto. More F-- Others Than For Ourselves" and began req ching tthe-stewardship, with the re- suit that last year there were g. 700 con- tributed for missions and other outside benevoences by this church, there was good increase in membership, and there was decided revival of spiritual life. The state leader of one of the larger denominations of the middle west writes l "All of our pastors are lined up Tor Feo- ruarys stewardship period. with especlal
 emphasis on Washington birthday, we
 are expecting great things.
 i It has been suggested by church lead
 CTS that the general application of the
 stewardship principle to business affairs
 would solve the labor troubles and most other difficulties caused by seihshness' I The church leaders who advance this idea say that the stewardship plan IS sure I cure for covetousness and covetousness, I thev quote. or the love of money as the Scriptures put it, 'is the root or all | evil.'