Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-31
WHAT IS DONE WITH
CENTENARY MONEY
Or. r. j. Wade Tells Delegates
How Great Fund of Church
is Beng Spent.

Staff Correspondence of Every Evening.
Crisfield, Md, March 31.-How the
s10S 900, 900 pledged in the Centenary
campaign of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church is being used for building. edu-
cational, missionary church extension.
reconstruction and good Will purposes
I'm the United States and other coun-
tries was told in an address at tho Will
mington Annual Conference by DIR. II.
j. Wade, corresponding secretary of the
Department of Education. Committee
on Conservation and Advance OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Pay the Centenary to the last cent?"
is urged upon all pledges. individual
and collective. In view of the fact that
only 70 per cent OF the first years
pledges have been paid. OF the total
amount of S.0S0,905 subscribed. ST.
311,170 is in estate pledges. leaving a
balance subscribed throughout five
year payment period of S106, 6,T69,635.
The yearly income, accordingly should
be S21 1853, 1927. But receipts for the fis-
cal year ending October 1, 1921 were
only SIS, ,439, 1862.
DIR. Wade described what Centenary
money is doing through the board of
home missions and church extension"
and what II is doing through the board
of foreign missions"
He tells how In 1920. missionary main
tenance amounting TO s2.1b5.000 was
paid out for the sui port of pastors and
workers in the United States, Porto
Rico Hawaii and Alaska.
For 934 church extension or building
projects in these places, s2.55G.s3s.e1
was advanced. These projects include
oh
es, buildings for religious education,
social centers and iemodeling Ct exist
ing structures 10 provide for worship,
religious education, and community
service. Little d-fashioned churches
replaced by edifces adequate for the
congregation. churches destroyed by
fire rebuilt in Honolulu a dormitory
where Oriental students from sugar
plantations may stay while attending
public schools erected. These are ex-
amples OF what Is being accomplished
with the aid of the Centenary funds.
War emergency and reconstruction
funds amounting to 81 ,093, ,91a.4t were
used 10 continue work in and near mill
itary and naval stations, to help equip
Methodist chaplains. TO promote good
Will industries. 10 provide community
Centers in rural neighborhoods with
greater population as a result OF the
war to promote Americanization. and
to provide scholarships for Methodist
boys whose education was interfered
with by the ar.
Goodwill Industries" are new ma
tional institution OF the Methodist
church. To these industries are sent
i cast of shoes. clothing. furniture and
household equipment These articles
are renovated by old. sick disabled and
discouraged persons. to whom wages
amounting 10 100000 were paid from
| proceeds sales Of the renovated articles
az nominal cost TO poor persons. Re
| ligious services for the workers are
/ held every morning at goodwill indus
| tries, which have been organized IN
/ eight cities. Last year fourteen trades
/ and handcrafts were taught to 200
| men and women and 100 wounded SER
vice men for whose education the United
| states Is paying. have been taught daily
| in the industries. The board invested
/ SIS in bags. tools and equipment. An
| actual cash return has been made of
/ nearly per cent on the investment
Extensive work among foreigners, the
| giving OF scholarships amounting to
| $4,000 TO 1893 Methodist boys, and of
| $50 900 for the maintenance Of Metho-
| dist work IN connection with the Wesley
| foundations were reported.
| He told how 275 new missionaries,
| the largest number ever sent by the
| Methodist Episcopal Church TO foreign
| fields went out in 1920. They are classi-
| fed as follows: 103 evangelistic. ninety
nine educational. forty-one medical and
| thirty-six Industrial.
one OF the most crying needs flled
| by Centenary funds was in China, where
| the decline OF the worth OF the Arneri-
can dollar had caused hardship among
missionaries and was threatening dis
aster TO carefully built-up work. A
similar condition existed in India
In Malaysia $4,000 was spent in the
expansion Of the Anglo Chinese school
| at Singapore, which has more than q
200 pupils.
The increased cost of living in Japan
and in Korea necessitated an increase
in the salaries Of native preachers and
| teachers.
New dormitories, a hospital and sew
| cral churches and chaDels were built In
the Philippines.
Physical relief extended 10 Europe
and Armenia amounted April 3Oth TO
$742, ,767.37. Large shipments OF food
and clothing were distributed in needy
work is being rushed III the Scandina-
Wan peninsula, Finland has been relieved
| Of Indebtedness on church properties.
Underfed and starving women and chill
dren OF Central Europe were sent into
Switzerland for six weeks 10 two months
periods for recovery and rest. Spanish
educational Centers have been estab-
lished.
In Africa, three new hospitals, five
industrial and agricultural training in
stitutions, and other schools have been
started
Mexico, Central America, Panama,
South America and the Netherla nds
Indies also are reaping a harvest from
the Centenary fund.
A summary Of disbursements shows
$6.612, ,223.04 expended through the board
Of foreign missions. Other disburse-
ments were $15Q.0 through the Ameri-
can Bible Society; $45 900 through the
| General Deaconcss Board; $760,000
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