Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-12
VOTE TO JOIN INTER
CHURCH movement
Congregational Church OF
This City Will do its
Share.

$50 - AANSsPN NJ
the week on the interchrch campaign
n during his absence this vote was
taken. This action places the local
church in line with the Congregational
churches of the United States in the.
current campaign.
The following paragraphs. which APP
peared in the Easter calender of the
First Congregational church of Omaha.
set forth the Congregational situation
so clearly and succin:ly that the pas
tor cCmmcnds them to the attention of
the Webster City constituency:
What is the plan or program? 1t
is simply this: it recognizes the fact
that the work of the Protestant
church, because of its UNCONVENTIONAL
divisions, has been in a measure. frag-
mentary and overlapping and neglect
full. That the Protestant church as a
whole has eve nnitedly faceA her
world task at home and abroad and
attempted to make Il program and to
secure the resources both of means and
OF helpers to meet that opportunity
and that responsibility. The inter
that task. 4 complete religious survey
Of the world has been undertaken and
is near completion. 1t reveals c0ndi-
tons both at home. and abroad that
make a stirring appeal to every Chris
tan heart. Millions and millions Of
people in the darkest spots OF the
pagan worlds, subject to all sorts of
miseries, superstitions, enslavements
and inhumanities, and not Il ray of
hope in their sky: millions more who
have felt little CLEANS Of Christian
light, literally begging and crying for
Christian teachers schools. doctors and
nurses. At home the survey reveals
vast plague spots in great cities where
no adequate program OF Christian
work is being carried on because there
has been no united Protestant pro-
gram. In small towns and rural com
munities it reveals a wOeful condition
of overlapping and neglect. Too many
inadequate buildings and too little vital
practical Christian work.
The Congregational National Coun
Gil, which met in Grand Rapids in
October, 1919, after the most careful
and searching study Of our work 10th
mt home and abroad, estimated that
there would be needed for the whole
work Of our denomination in the \
five years, including our regular bene-
VIOLENT appOrtionment. our Iilsflm
Memorial fund and our d%enominational
educational institutions, a total sum
Of s5O,O0O,OOO or $lO,OGO,OW per year.
OF this S1O.OOO.OOO for the first year.
81. coo. 600, including the amount raised
for the Pilgrim Memorial fund ana
amounts already raised for educational
institutions, is practically in sight.
The remaining $3.OOO,OOW is the amount
designated by our National COuncli
commission as the emergency FUND
which is urgently and desperately need
cd TO meet post war costs and demands
for. ON. benevolent work both at home
and abroad ii we are to hold the posi-
tions already taken in Il conquest OF
the world for Christ and is therefore
the amount asked for in our ConSre-
~, tional m ri of the financial campaign
Of the great %interchurch world move
ment.
WHY is this additional sun needed
this year for Il Congregational WORK
and why is it called an emergency
fund? To answer this question, ON!
n few things can he limited at. Ana
first of all we are aware that II taxes
S1I5O today to do what Sl.W wo"i"
do before the war in our home enter
nr;scs. The American Board. our ven
e,ab,e and honorcd foreign missionary
AGENCY, estimates that the matter Oh
cast of exchange alone this year VIII
monnt TO Mt least $500, 900; all our
business men understand this perfect
" Ouf American Missionary associa-
tion. which carries Oh the work among
the neglected races Of Il W country
is paving missionary teachers a stafVa-
tim sa!ary,-were ii not for theif
s,crificial devotion to the work II e
would have quit long ago.. 10 pr'hs
their salary Up to anything IKE ="
decent living will require $loO'VoV'
Our home missionary pastors, the men
who arc holding the frontier Tor CIVIL
z,tion, are living Oh starvation saiar'
ie,. $13O.GGO will he required to meet
thc most modest advances 10 'heh''
that the work may not suffer. Our
,,al ministers ard their wives ID"
q, tlcm. old ard gray. are receiving
IN. ritiohle sum of $50 II year to keep
,,.,p from starving. Our small Chris
Il. colleges. out from which nave
c,,e more men who have been nation
proportionately. than ron Ill
=, her educational institutions are
come If them already closing their
i, .ors and others are hating on the
chat nocpcSity. The wOfu