Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-10
FRIENDLY cITIzEN'' QUOTA OF S63, 3,OOO.

At union meeting of the Protest ant churches of Norwich held Friday | evening at Trinity Methodist Episco pal church on Main street, it was | announced that New London county Friendly Citizen quota in the In terchurch World Movement campaign
 April 25 to May 2-for $336,111,S ,S12 will be s63,o00. The union meeting, which was attended by about hum dred pastors and representative mem- bers of the Norwich churches, was held as a preliminary to the drive.
 Rev. C.. Hartley Smith of Williman- tic, the United campaign director for Windham and New London counties, told the meeting that the present H. nancial campaign was not a final ob- jective, but only the beginning of great programme which would last at 1 least five years and ought to make lasting impression on the world. The chairman, the Rev. Charles H. Ricketts. of the Greeneville Congre- gational church, called this the | greatest and most far reaching move | ment in the history of Christianity" Mir Smith announced that the coun- l ty had been divided into two divis- l ions. Judge Alfred Colt will head the New London division and Frank l.. l Arnold the. Norwich division.
 ] klG slCllAcS III tlAC COuAilJ -7-~NOA " ASAA I and New. London-will be organized I as a Metropolitan district. of which the Rev. Myron E. Center of New
 London will be director. MT. Center hopes to hold B. meeting, next Tues day, when similar meetings will be held all over the United States, to form the influential citizens interest ll ed into the necessary committees and I teams.
 .5s;4.1.. l.. 4Lo slUS-;z,-aIxxs srt;+; zens" quota, given above, there will J be denominational quota for each
 individual church. Each community iquota will be the sum of the commu- q nifty Friendly Citizen quota and the quotas of all the churches in that
 community.
 Describes inter- Church Campaign.
 The Rev. William E. Doughty, D D., a nationally known Methodis Episcopal leader and member of tn, interchurch cabinet, made the prin- . cipal address in which he described 5 the movement in detail. The Rev } Henry Park Schauff1er, formerly !; : Connecticut Congregationalist minis : ter and now the director of the i'm
 portant survey of 8,000,0o0 people il : the New York Metropolitan District : gave a lecture illustrated by man, s fine lantern slides which shove, : graphically the needs of the natiol |. and of the world as disclosed by in b terchurch Investigations.
 MT. Doughty said:
 I've recently sent thousands of let
 ters to the leading business and pro e fessional men of the nation We ask ed them what they thought was tn greatest need of our time.
 q And what do you think these mel l ,e.& t.v-n ,,, IL I- as their answer ?'
 l. Good Will That they called tt a greatest need of the time. They wei l, almost unanimous. And that is wh; 10 the interchurch world movement is I. the organization of good will und, ss the banner of the Gospel of Jes, l. Christ. It means that all the fore for good of the whole world get tt " gether and pull together. This is
 tremendous program. I will tell VI
 how it gripped one of our great cit
 zer1s.
 A. Cyrus H. Mccormick recent h. came back from. Europe. He W rv sick from the horrors he had see E. He said to s. Earl Taylor, the gener n- secretary of the interchurch nov an ment, My heart is broken. I am g ing. downsto Washington and spend ,,- week seeing if we cannot do som ed thing. I am going to argue with ss my friends there for measures ad of quate for this terrific situation Lte Mir. Taylor replied, You will col ,rs away from Washington more d
 heartened than you go there. You c ne do nothing. But have something isf hand for you to do that is worth yc nj while.'
 d. "Then MT. Taylor outlined the R terchurch idea. MT. Mccormick pl se- tested that this was job for {
 2 churches and the churchmen. not -ge him. MT. Taylor challenged u gle statement. He told MT. McCorm is that the International Harvester Co D. pany and all the business men the America were even more vitally int .d- ested in the interchurch program u ,en the cfurchmen. They had a hot ore gument in MT. McCormick's ho CTS room for an hour. The upshot of ery was that MT. Taylor won. MT. \ ent Cormick did not go to Washingto the instead he put his whole force beh ary the interchurch movement. ual Cooperation and Good Will Need, in What finally won MT. McCorm VIII and what is it that should appeal ln- all America? Cooperation. Good V 7. That is what we need to put
 house in order and to take up the
 ward march of civilization to a be-
 world.
 The interchurch world movemen ,e S1 denominations working together ,em i is not something separate from denominations. It. does not strive een the destruction of dogma. It does r.- ask the denomina tions to give up a < an thing distinctive to them. It sin a.y means that the denominations t . counsel together, educate the peS ltel to the new ideals together, appeal : oL none ytogether and apply their mo nses sss to the best advantage and in the n ,teo efficient way by common progr
 . The movement undoubtedly 2 one out of the war. There had been sm 1o CT movements before. But the eces showed that little armies. worl .s .ss . alone could not win anything. ( 'n' unified command under Marshal k
 could overthrow the embattled h lac of scientific evil. The world leal ahy, that lesson, and learned 1t thoroue
 re- From now on no one will ever dou6 toe Now, the churches have been .
 in little armies. There are altogether but religious bodies in the United St, yaelrsj They have been valiant Thax, l