The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-18
LARGE FUND BEING SPENT.
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and foreign missionary facts we're
brought home forcefully for the first
time to many in the audience. He said
in part:
In the Centenary campaign more
than 100000 persons contributed to
the SOS. 100000 pledged, it is stated
The circular prepared by the church 5
committee on conservation and advance,
, entitled What Centenary Money Is Do
ing, is designed as a report to donors
Broad expansion at home, as well as
abroad, is noted. Among major features
of this development during 1920 are
mentioned the following:
Work is being done among foreign
speaking people in the United States by
102 English-speaking pastors, 2S3 for
ers, and 141 other special workers; 22J
foreignlanguage students are in train
ing at colleges, universities, and schools :
the church spent 1908, 970.41 to CON
tinue work in and near military and ma
val stations; to help equip methodist
chaplalns; to promote goodwill indus
tries; to provide adequate ministry in
Negro districts congested by the north
ward migration, and in great industrial
centers developed by war industries TO
provide community centerS in rural
nelghborhoodS increased as q result of
the war; to promote Americanization,
and TO provide scholarships for Metho-
/ dist boys whose educational training
! was interrupted when they went to fight
for Uncle Sam"
Surveying Methodist endeavor abroad
DIR. Diffendorfer said that Centenary
funds saved the whole Methodist Episco-
+ pal work in China and India from dis
astcr imminent on the great reduction
/ III value in purchasing power of the
American dollar
AT Singapore $4,000 was spent on
the Anglo-Chinese school. Chinese in
that city have contributed close to $780,
| 900.
/ Extensive projects have been laid out
for Japan, where the direct appropria-
ton last year was S166.7 ia. The .Ko.
+ rran appropriation was S122 2J6,
# Iwenty-siX new missionaries were sent
{ to Africa, marking an increase of 7G
per cent
| Physical relief extended to Europe
and Armenia ran into hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars. France, Italy, Finland
. Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark the
Philippines, Mexico Central and South
/ America. and the Netherlands Indies re-
( ccived attention"
DIR. Gage spoke only briefly, but stated
that he would be i'm Brattleboro again
later in the year and that it was tho
desire of the committee To bring before
the people from time to time such facts
As had just been presented. In speak
ing of New England's part DR.. Gage
said that the average pledge of four
million persons of the country was 81 ia
Il year, while the average subscription
for the New England area was 81. 40
I a year. The amount paid in during the
| first year. he said. represented S3.S4 a
fIs4einber for the entire church while the
amount paid in the New England area
! was equal to S4.61 a member.
| He called attention to the Importance
of cooperation and stated that through
Il cooperation everything that ought to be
done by the Methodist Episcopal church
tcould be done by that church. -
From Brattleboro DIR. Diffendorfer
Went today to Worcester Mass. After
speaking in New England. New York
and New Jersey through this month nc
will cover the country as far West as ST
d. Louis during February. while March will
take him tarough some of the west cen.
|. trail states and in many of the Pacific
coast cities. During the first two weeks
of April, which closes the tour. he vii
, work East from Bellingham, Wash.
through Montana, Minnesota. Wiscon
: sin and return to his home in Chicago
finishing there April 10.