Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-04-20
Methodists Will Raise Large
Fund For Their Schools and
College.

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College.
Methodists of South Carolina Will
have an opportunity to do big things
for the educational institutions OF
Methodist church, South, May 20 to
June 5, in subscribing to the $685.
100000 fund to equip better and EN- en-
dow their schools, colleges and uni
versities. Columbia college will get
100000; Wofford college, Spartan;
burg, will get s5OO,OOO; Carlisle
school, Bamberg, $4,000; Lander
college, Greenwood, $3Oo,OOo; Horny
Industrial school, Aynor, $4,000;
Textile Industrial institute, Spartan
burg, $4,000; Wofford Fitting school
Spartanburg, $4,000.
The quota for the Upper South
Carolina conference, in which the,
churches of Columbia are more idi-
rectly interested, is $1,117,5OO. &C.
Featherstone of Greenwood is the
financial director for the Upper con.
ference and the Rev. j. c. Roper OF
Chester is the educational secretary.
The quota for the South Carolina
conference is S1,149,5OO. Leland
Moore of Charleston is the financial
director and the Rev. G. E. Edwards
of Orangeburg, the educational Sec
retary.
Those subscribing to the movement
will have five years in which to pay
their obligations.
J. H. Reynolds, the director gem
eral, speaking of the movement, says
that "the Christian education move.
ment was scheduled for 1921 by the
general conference of 1918. The
movement comes, therefore, at q
time when our country has just
emerged from period of unusual
prosperity and prodigal extravagancss
and is entering upon that era of f5
nancial depression and frugal ecollss
omy we have all known must comes
If the church now exercises largs
faith and inspires courage in the peod
pie, she will, lay the Foundations for
great spiritual fortunes thss near
future"
The Christian education. movement
of the Methodist church, South, has
an allotment of 100000 in its bud
get as an aid fund to educate the
boys and girls for Christian life ser
vice. In broad terms, the movement
proposes to raise ~ 100000, the
minimum sum necessary to enable
them to send out the constantly in
creasing stream of educated Chris
tian leaders required to carry for
ward the Christian work of the
world; to deepen the moral and spir-
itual life of the people of the church
and to promote spirit of Christian
liberality in all the efforts put forth
in behalf of education; to lead at
least 5000 young men and women to
devote their lives to the ministry, to
mission or to some other form of ef-
fective service; to promote the cause
of Christian education by bringing
about closer and more effective CO..
operation between the institutions of
learning and the Sunday school, and
by establishing strong departments
of education in the colleges and uni
versities of the church.
DIR. Henry Nelson Snyder, presl-
dent of Wofford college, well known
to every South Carolinian, is assist
ant director general of the Christian
education movement, and is travelling
over the country speaking in it's be-
half. Speaking of the cause, he says:
at will bring home to the schools
and colleges the special nature OF
their obligation to make even larger
contribution to the progress made be-
fore, and SO to organize their courses
and work out their policies that theirs
shall be the duty of being the SER
wants of all the great interests where
by the church itself grows into more
intelligent and powerful agency for
spiritualizing the whole life of the
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