The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-05-05
CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS
FOR EDUCATION
AMONG METHODISTS

The week of May goth to June 9Th
Methodists- of Chesterfield, together
with Methodists in all the Southland,
will be called upon to subscribe their
quota to the $33,OOO,OOO fund which
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
proposes to raise for the advancement
of the cause of education. Leland
Moore, of Charleston, is financial di-
rector OF the movement for the South
Carolina Conference, of which the
churches of this city are a very inn
portant factor. Cooperating with Mr..
Moore are the following district finan-
cial directors: John A. Mccormick,
Charleston; j. w. Ivey, Florence; w.
Z. Nermight, Kingstree; H. A. Lewis,
Marion; w. E. Atkinson, Orangeburg,
and c. r. Sprott, Marion.
Just now all over South Carolina
setting up" meetings are being held.
at which charge leaders, minute men
and other workers get together and
organize for the work to be done Nav
29th to June 9Th. Judge c.. C. Feath-
erston, financial director of the Up
per South Carolina Conference, stat
ed at one of these Setting up" meet
ings that if the Methoditsts of South
Carolina would give up the price of
one cold drink per week for five wears
South Cardinals quota of $2,267.OO0
OF the S33,000,ooO could be put. across
without trouble.
The quota for the South Carolina
Conference is $1,149,5OO. The
churches of Chesterfield are expected
to do their share in this as handsome
y as they did in the Centenary move
ment
The Methodist institutions : learn
ing in South Carolina, with their an
proved asi..ngs are: Carlisle s.hool.
Bamberg, 1000; Columbia COLLEGE,
Columbia, 100000; Lander College.
Greenwood, 100000; Horny Indus
trial School, Aynor, 5000; Textile
industrial Institute, Spartanburp.
$4,000; Wofford Fitting School.
Spartanburg, $4,000; WofFord Col.
iege, 6partanburg, 100000.
Among the obiectives sought in tho
Christian Education Movement of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
are:
First: To develop in the mind of
the church an adequate conception of
the place of Christian leadership in
the life of the church, of the nation
and of the world.
Second: To promte the cause &c ro
ligous education by bringing about q
closer and more effective cooperation
| between the institutions Of learning
ana the Sunday School, by establish
ing departments of religious educa-
Cion IN the colleges and universities.
Third: To lead at least five tbou-
sand young men and women to pledge
themselves to devote their lives to the
| ministry, to missions, or to some other
ioTfh OF Christian service, and to
| seek Christian education as a pren-
aration for effective life service.
rourth: TO raise for the schools.
colleges and universities at leash
Saa'ooo,oOO, the minimum sum neces-
! sary to enable them to send out the
constantly increasing stream of edu-
cated Christian leaders required to
carry forward Christian work of the
world and secure 100000 to aid
worthy students who are looking to
some form of Christian service in
ther efforts to obtain an education.
Fifth: To deepen the moral and
spiritual uplift of the people and +n
promote the spirit of Christian liber-
ality in all of the efforts put forth to
realize these detectives.