Evening journal., 1922-03-23
DIR. MOWBRAY DEGREES TENDENCY
TO REDUCE SALARIES OF PASTORS

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from the presence Of the Lord; con-
verts. 40. Trinity and Greenwood
Churches on the Greenwood charge
had unusual meetings. Pastor re-
ports 70 conversions.
THE same may be said Of quite
a few other charges. East New
Market. "a: Rehoboth. A.; Hoopers
Island. Az Armory. IS. Ellondale.
s3: FELTON,. 81: Houston. %; Ellen
dale. 80; Georgetown Circuit, IA;
Lcipsic. "a. Dover. ~; Magnolia.
Il; Millsboro. 12; Lewes. 10; Hur-
lock. 10: Crapo. IS; Lakesville. 16;
Blades. IS; others reporting less
numbers, making a total as reported
10 me OF SIS.
Centenary Campaign.
"I have made an earnest effort 10
ascertain just how the Centenary
account stands on the district. bu,
have not succeeded 70 any satis-
factory degree. II looks now, from
reports received. that the district
will not quite measure up 20 last
year in Centenary contributions,
Reports have come in. I think. be-
cause I have insisted. but with in
complete figures and in quite a few
instances none at all. because the
people in these cases cling TO the
habit OF putting off the evil day.
as long as possible, which makes II
hard for the minister and the people
as well.
There Is an increasing opposition
to the Centenary in many places
especially in the rural sections and
in some places II is like haunting
the red flag in the face OF a bull
even to mention tit stirs up th'
fight.
Not so long since a pastor was
| apologizing TO me for the small con-
| vregation present and said. one rea-
son for this IS that they said they
were sure you were going TO speak
on the Centenary and they were mo-
going 10 hear It, I am advising the
brethren in such cases TO drop thu
word Centenary from their vocab
ulary. specially IN public speech
and use the word Missionary IN
stead. No use irritating the deai
people needlessly.
quite few of the largei
churches are taking the work of th'
Centenary seriously and I might ga!
gladly, and are coming up splendid
IT, II is true we have had an ex
ceptionally hard year financially
No one denies that. with frost an,
freeze for fruit and failure in ou
general crops as we'll as In the isl
and oyster business in the tidewate
sections. we have been hard hit.
Hard Year on Farms.
81 was talking few DAYS az
with a close personal friend OF mine
an ardent Methodist, an optimisti
spirit. the owner OF a dozen or NOR
farms. who said that for the hrs
time in his long business caree
his farms had netted him a deai
loss OF exactly $4,000 in the yea
1921. But. he continued. this ha
been a very bad year but the year
have not all been bad and those I
come will not all be bad years.
shall pay my part 20 the church ou
Of the years that were good. and II
could not do it any other way
would borrow money and pay it,
such a spirit we're general anon
our people there would be no short
age in our church finances.
The bad conditions are real be
yond question, but this fact Is no
the worst feature OF the situation
In these times even. n the peopl
would deal squarely with the Lord
n He had His proper and legitimai
share out Of the wreck: n we did nj
charge all the losses to the Lord
strange how Il is always the Lord
part which Is lost; II He could hay
the tithe after the old Jewish stand
ard out of what we do have, n
cause OF His. as represented by IN
Methodist Episcopal Church. woul
suffer or fail for want OF funds
support Il. There Is no noticeab
shutting down on the luxuries an
. pleasures OF the people. The Lord
b cause must take the shortage.
where there is no vision the pee
81 pie perish. II our people would m
D time climb to some Pisgah's helgl
: and get a vision Of this old broke
: bleeding, sin-burdened world ar