The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-04-29
NEW ERA MOVEMENT

multaneous financial drive April 25 TO
May 2. Picked teams and leaders
from the $500 Presbyterian churches
will during that time call on all
Presbyterian church members and adj
herents.
The main drive for the Presby-
terian church in the U. S. A. will be
held on Sunday afternoon, April 25,
and will then be followed up through
the week. Get-together meetings for
he campaign workers will precede
the drive.
Of the $23,O00,000 asked for, the
Presbyterian Board Of Foreign Mis-
sions and the Presbyterian Woman's
Boards Of Foreign Missions seek ST.
31S,303. The next board to benefit
the most is the Presbyterian Board
of Home Missions, whose share will
be $4,612,249, exclusive Of the
Presbyterian Woman's Board of
Home Missions, whose work calls for
$1,O19,5OO.
Presbyterian colleges and acad-
emies present the next most crying
need and the General Board of Ed
ucation asks for these the sum of
$2,S7S, 1000, while Presbyterian theo-
logical seminaries seek $144,352. The
amount to aid disabled and infrm
ministers through the Presbyterian
Board of Ministerial Relief and Sus-
tentation is $2,O29,456. The great
work carried forward by the Pres
byterian Board of Publication and
Sabbath School Work, Philadelphia,
will be done at the comparatively
small cost of $491,45 Last year
FOR this board thirty colporteurs car
ried the Scriptures into $4,000 homes,
while seven foreign language period
icals brought the gospel message to
many additional families.
The 14O Presbyterian Sunday
school missionaries, established 1, III
schools among the communities of the
South, negroes, foreigners and from
tier communities. Many daily vaca-
ton Bible schools were also conduct
ed. The 1920 apportionment for this
board will provide an enlargement of
all these activities.
During 192O-21 scores of new
churches and manses will be built
with the aid of funds furnished by
the Presbyterian Board of Church
Erection, which will receive $685.
600 of the $23,OO0,OO0 budget. A slo-
gan of this board is: GA manse for
every Presbyterian minister" Meet
ings are held monthly at which sums
are granted or loans made for build
ing purposes.
The GA workers now operating
under the Presbyterian Board of
Missions for Freedmen, principally
among the negroes of the South, will |
be increased in number and profici-
ency under the budget granted for
this board of $37O,117, including |
$1S0,672 for the Woman's Depart
ment. At present this board has 127
schools, principally for children and
% boarding schools and several the
illogical seminaries, besides 440 ne
gro churches and missions
Plans for the development of the
departments of family and juvenile
welfare, social hygiene, amusement
and recreation, detectives and delin-
quents and research and statistics,
the six enlarged departments of the
Presbyterian Board of Temperance
and Moral Welfare are making great
Roadway Campaigns of education
have been instituted as in the state
f Kansas and the board is endeav-
oring to make its headquarters at
Pittsburgh a ''West Point for Moral
Welfare" The sum of $3.50, 445 is
allotted for this board
The Presbyterian General Assem-
bly's permanent committee of evang-
elism shares in the 1920-2l budget
to the extent of 500, 900, while the