The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
EPISCOPAL
EDUCATION FUND
Two and a Half Million Dollars
to Be Spent on Education
al Projects

al AsAoJNNto
New York, Nov. e.-Upwards o:
two and one-half million of dollar:
will be spent by the Episcopa
church on educational project.
during the next three years accord
| ing to plans which are announced
/ IN connection with the Every
Member Canvass of the member.
ship of the church ON November
l26th.
The trienn;al budget which was
adopted by the recent genera
convention at Portland, Oregon
/ provides for an expenditure OF
1912, 100000 on missionary, educa-
tional and social work to whici,
| the church is already committed
To this budget the convention add
ed a forward program involving ar
additional expenditure of $500
600. OF which over. s2,000.G00 will
be spent on designated education
al projects in this country.
Under the forward program, the
church for the first time ac-
knowledges its corporate obligation
toward the five distinctly Episco-
pal colieges-Kenon, Hobart, the
University Of the South, Trinity
and St. Stephens; for each of which
an item of $4,000 is included in
the budget, while the forward pro-
gram also includes items of many
hundreds of thousands for increas-
ed equipment, new buildings, etc.
for these five institutions. Sim
iiarly, in addition to providing for
st. Johns and the other uniyersi-
ties and colleges which the church
maintains in China and Japan, and
its schools in the Philippines,
Mexico, and continental United
states, including the twelve normal
and industrial schools which are
maintained in the south by the
American Church Institute for Ne
groes. plans are outlined for the
creation Of other new schools and
the enlargement and develop
naent of existing schools in the va
rious dfoceses throughout the
country.
Plans for a vast broadening OF
Episcopal activities at the great
state and national secular universi-
ties have also been formulated. At
55 Of these, new churches and
community houses will be erected,
or existing plants viii be enlarged
and workers Will be located for
special work among the under
graduates. Additional sums are
provided for scholarships for can
didates for the ministry, for week
day religious instruction of public
school children, for summer class
es, for church boarding schools,
etc.
A bulletin issued in connection
with the forward program calls at
tention to the fact that 100000.
of the young people Of the country
"are receiving no systematic in
| struction in the moral and relig-
ious sanctions on which our demo
cratic institutions rest. The last
thing that the average American
would be willing to confess, says the
bulletin, is that America is a
Goddess country, or that she is de-
yeloping wholly irreligious pop
uiation. From the highest to the
lowest we piously take our oaths
Iupon the Bible, we have chaplains
for our religious bodies, but Of the
teachings OF Christ involving the
ideals of brotherhood and of re-
sponsihility to God. We have but lit
tie knowledge. These $4,000, GOO
young people viii be the fathers
and the grandfathers that will
make America, their sons and
grandsons Will teach other sons
and grandsons. Are we to go on
Goddess and careless? Do we think
for one minute that we will not
pay in material way for our neg
lect Of these children Of today?''
The. bulletin declares that the
church must face the problem.
No financial drive is contemplated
for securing the funds necessary
to realize the church's plan con-
tempIated in this s21, 600, 600
itriennial program. The appeal will
be made to the members and ad-
herents of the Episcopal church
alone, the campaign Of instruction
to this end being now under way.
! On November 26th the Every Mem
; Der Canvass will be conducted, in
the course of which every listed
member of the church in rural sec
tons and mountain districts as
well as in al the cities and towns
Of the country will be visited per-
sonally by canvassers, and be asked
to pledge by weekly, monthly or
yearly payment what he or she
feels able to contribute towards
realizing the s6,000,000 necessary
/ for the plans for 1923.
Women's Mission
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