Milford chronicle., 1922-12-08
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
FORWARD MOVEMENT
Have Launched Campaign For
New Program.

The Episcopal Church in Delaware
has set Sunday, December 10, as the
date for its annual Every Member Can
vass, at which time it Will bring to d
climax the campaign which it has
launched for new forward movement
The new program calls for the eXpendi.
ture during the next three years OF
$21 100000. Even this fixed sum is in
cidental to the main object in view
which is to arouse the conscience and
inform the intelligence Of the people
of that Communion.
The program embOdies a three-year
budget of $12,6OO,OO0 to maintain 3OO0
missionaries in America and through
out rhe world, and TO carry ON the work
Of religious and social service to which
the church stands committed. Supple
menting this the recent General Con
VentiOn adopted 4 forward program
involving additional expenditures of
$S,400.000, of which amount 50 per
cent will be spent in the United States
and its possessions for hospitals,
schools, new churches and community
EOuses, with special emphasis upon the
work among Indians, Negroes, noun
taii:eers and mill workers, and for
AmcricanizatiOn, rural and industrial
effort Over $2,O00,O00 is to be spent
for church colleges and for student
work at fifty-fve of the great secular
institutions all over the land. Accord
ing to the plan, S6,O0OOOO of the $21,-
100000 will be raised in 1928; $7,OOO,-
600 in 1924, and $S,O0O,OOO in 1925.
The budget for expenditures in Della
ware is $4,000. From this fund are
paid all missionary salaries in the diO-
cese, and it is hoped to add two other
ministers to the present staff. Six
hundred dollars is appropriated for
religious education, including the sup
port of a training school for Sunday
School teachers. st. Michael's Day
Nursery and Babies Hospital located
in Wilmington, needs $1,000. Money is
also needed for repairs to church
buildings or rectOries and for new
buildings. These projects are closely
scrutinized by the Executive Council
and help is given only to places where
the local congregation raises the larg
er share of the needed amount and dis
play a willingness to help themselves
and support the work when once
started.
Bishop Cook has recently employed
two new women workers to assist in
the dio"ese. They are Miss Isabel
Wagner and Miss Frances Hagner.
They are to promote work among girls
and young women.
Miss Wagner is familiar with insti-
tutiOnal work as organized in a large
New York parish, where she was for
merly a member. Later she has been
a missionary in the mountains of Ten
nessee and among the Indians of South
Dakota. Miss Hagner was a teacher
in the parish of st. Michael and All
Angels in Baltimore and has had ex-
perience in a large New York parish
Last year the Every Member Canvass
was assi%ted by a large corps of
clergymen outside the State. This
year the clergy of the State are under
taking, with the help of their vestries
and earnest workers of the parishes,
to put through this campaign without
outside assistance. Since the new
program of church work went into eff
feet, three years ago, there has been
a wonderful advance in every depart
ment of church activity. There have
been more baptisms, more cOnfirma-
tiOns, more Sunday School scholars
and teachers, more candidates for the
ministry and very great increases in
the amounts raised to spread the King
dom of God at home and abroad. The
first year of the new program saw n
new missionaries sent out, which broke
all previous records. The church has
redOubled its ability to carry comfort
to the sorrOwing education to the igno-
rant, healing to the sick and the good !
news of the gospel of Christ to hun
dreds of thousands of people whom it
could not reach before.