The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-02
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TELL ABOUT TRIP
viii Discuss Facts of General
Assembly Sessions
This Sunday.

Members of the First Presbyter-
ian Church and friends of the
church have been requested by the
pastor, DR.. H. G. Stoetzer, and the
general committee on church at
tendance to observe this Sunday
as Church Day, and everyone is be-
ing urged to turn out to the serv-;
ice Sunday morning. There will
only be the one service, as a JOINT.
service will be observed in the eve
when DR.. Walter RATS, the watch
cipal speaker.
DR.. and Mrs. H. G.-Stoetzer have
just returned from Des Moines, Ia,
where they attended the sessions
OF the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. DR.. Stoetzer
is expected to have an interesting
account to give.at the Sunday SER,
vice of the meetings. at Des Moines.
Among the things that he will out
line in: detail is the reduction~zof
the s134 boards, departments and
agencies Of the church to Is, the
action being taken with view to
reductions deficiency and cimpliclty
n the general control of the Presby
terrain church as whole. He viii
also have many other interesting
things to tell the members of the
local church.
Some time ago general COM,
mittee of the First Presbyterian
Church was named to take up the
matter of church attendance and
this committee is now well organ
lied IN the work and expects to
produce some good results in the
near future An effort will be
made to increase the attendance at
Sunday school, church and prayer
meeting.
, OIL J. w. Preston is the head of
the general committee and the
other members are J. c. Welton,
ira Atkins, E. E. Church, S. NJ. Ec-
cles and w. Guy Crigler.
The. following sub committees
have been named. each headed by
ia general committeeman and four
captains;
No Is. NJ. Eccles, committee
man. F. F. Fankhouser, Miss Sadie
Lloyd, Miss Florence Jack and DR..
C. H. yLayman, captains.
No a-E. E. Church, committee
man; Mrs. t. A. Hunsaker, Mrs. j.
. VI w.. tSliSoI oi4o
Hugh F. Smith, captains.
No. 81. C. Welton, committee
man; A. w. Patton. o. F. Jenkins,
Mrs. P. NJ. Hoge and Miss Deborah
Fitzgerald. captains
No. 4-Ira. Atkins, committee
man; Mrs. Alice Cotter, Mrs. Paul
J. Barcus, Earl B, Smith and T. a.
Clark, captains.
No. 5-W., Guy Crigler. COM
mitteeman; Victor Bird, Harry De
Turk, Frank Kelley and W. d.
Straight, captains.
Each of the captains on these
subcommittee will in turn appoint
four lieutenants, giving in all
about 100 persons drafted into the
army for church attendance work.
With the membership of the
church a little over zoo, the work
ers will have only about six per-
sons each to keep tab on, when
the 100 active workers are sub
tracted from the total member
ship. The work is reduced much
more when it is considered that
the average attendance IS SAID to
be about so per cent.
Several meetings of the general
committee have been held and In
the near future there may be a
meeting for all the workers at
which time the details Of the cam
paign will be outlined. The city
has been divided off into groups
and a map drawn which will be
used by the workers in the cam
paign.
1t is thought that once the gen
eral plan has been adopted. that
the campaign will be a success, If
the proper. cooperation is shown.
E. c. Jones. the new president
Of the congregation, has been
quite active since he took office
and he has been giving a great
amount Of time to organization of
this particular line of church
work.
The summar months are OF
course the hardest of all, the year
to keep up attendance at the var
ious churches. Many members
are out flown or spend the hot
weeklends at summer camps; or
the mountains or seashore: How
ever, the general committee feels
it can do a big work this summer
and Will be in great condition to
set a new record for attendance
during next fall53and winter.
AGED M. P. DIES
CHESTERFIELD, Eng, June 2.
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