The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-08
PRESBYTERIANS
SPEND VAST sum
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT BUD
GET-RAfSE MONEY ON LOCAL
FIELD SUNDAY.

The total benefit budget of the
Presbyterian church for the year be-
ginning April / next, is $14,500,000.
states the Rev. Wayne S. Snoddy.
pastor of the local church.
why is so large a budget needed?
Because of the tremendous growth
of the church's work throuout the
world. We are paying the penalty OF
success Time was when we had no
foreign missionaries. Eighty-five
years ago we had only thirty-eight
missionaries in foreign lands. To-
day we have a total of 1887 native
and American missionaries at work
on the mission field. These mission
aries must have tools with which to
work. Doctors must have well-equip-
ped buildings and funds for
their work. 1t is unfair to ask young
people who are offering their lives
to make Christ known to the ends of
the earth to make bricks without
straw.
THE local community will receive
a direct benefit from the benevolent
budget in the grant of $1,000 for work
among the students of our own uni
yersity. Through the general board
of education religious work is main
tanned at As state university centers..
There are also 81 Presbyterian col
1eges which are supported entirely by
the church and 900 is asked for
the board of education to assist young
people in preparing for Christian
service A candidate for the minis
try may receive $3.50 year while in
the theological seminary. A student
in training for medical mission work
IG11
A rotary loan fund is available for
Presbyterian young people needing
help in pursuing their studies, what
ever their life work may be. From
this fund student may borrow 5000
a year by giving a note bearing 4
percent interest from the first day of
July after the close of the college
year for which the loan was made.
six hundred twenty-eight thousand
dollars of the budget is for the Sab
bath school board, which is the agen-
cy commissioned with the care of the
children of the church. There arc
l 49, ,292 Presbyterian Sunday school
pupils. This board has undertaken
a thorough and far-reaching program
of religious education including the
promotion of Christian nature in
the family increasing the efficiency
of the Sunday school, developing and
promoting the daily vocation Bible
school, developing and promoting the
weekday school of religious instruc-
ton, boys work, young peoples work,
summer conferences, winter inSt1-
utes schools of methods, and the
and distribution of Chris
ian literature Through this agency
40 Sabbath school missionaries are
Employed who for the most part work
n communities where there are no
)ther religious influences whatever,
md more than 100000 children are
each Sunday in these mis-
sion Sunday schools where there are
10 churches or other influences to
lirect them Godward Our Sunday
school missionaries visit the homes
If the unchurched pastorless fami-
les to the number of 100000 every
7ear. and distribute Christian litera-
ure to the amount OF 500 tons. an
lually." "
The local canvass for funds will
De made Sunday afternoon, March
2 The men who will make the can
ass are as follows: H. L. Axtell,
B. K Bonnett. F. c. Church, j d.
Davis J, G. Eldridge, f. M. Christen-
on, J. s. Heckathorn, Gus Hart, J. A.
Knight, E. X Kroh, VIM. Lennox,
evan Lewis Harry Matthew, J. e.
Norton, G. S. Oakes, L. G. Peterson,
Harry Simpson, j. w. Schumacher,
Harold Salisbury, Carl Smith, VIM.
staples, A. H. Upham, w. A. Van
U. H. Young, c. c. Vincent,
/ j. Draper, Bryan Bundy, and Ho-
ler David.