Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-12
RELIGIOUS REB|RTH
IS COAL OF DRIVE
Cooperation of Christian
Communions in Cities
to Be Sought.

What Is described as probably the
greatest campaign for the propagation
Of Christianity ever attempted in the
United States will be launched at a
mass meeting Sunday evening In the
Church of the Epiphany under the
auspices of the National Commission
of Evangelism of the Episcopal Church.
Under the plans OF the commission
an effort will be made within the next
two years to blanket the entire country
with spoken and written appeals for a
renaissance of religious faith and be-
lief. A striking feature of the cam
paign will be an effort to secure in the
larger cities the cooperation of all
Christian communions in making a
complete religious census, following
which an effort will be made to bring
about simultaneously preaching mis-
sions in every church in the cities thus
brought within the scope of the move
ment. each communion working under
its own leaders, with its own preachers
and with its own methods.
New York Headquarters.
The campaign will be directed from
the headquarters of the National Coun-
Gil of the Episcopal Church In New
York Every city, town. village and
hamlet in the country will be made a
center for preaching missions and other
efforts to promote revival OF practical
religion. To differentiate the campaign
from any effort at so-called 'revivalism. "
or other sensational or emotional APP
peal. Rev. William H. Milton, assistant
national chairman of the Commission
on Evangelism. says:
The commission proposes no meth
H. ~ HA tNnttNa s4In G
and teaching of the church It's one
ideals of the church's life. 1t realizes
that In no other way can the work of
evangelism be made permanent inter-
est of the church"
The speakers at the mass meeting
Sunday night will be DR.. Larkin Glaze
brook of Washington, Right Rev.
Thomas c. Darst, Bishop of East Caro-
lima and chairman of the commission,
and DR. Milton. Dr. Glazebrook. who
abandoned a large medical practice in
Washington year ago to become a
field secretary of the commission. will
talk on personal experiences In the work
of evangelism: Bishop Darst will pre-
sent the call to the church and DR..
Milton will outline the program for the
proposed Nation wide campaign.
Among the proposals are that at least
one bishop in each of the eight prov
inces of the church shall undertake
preaching missions In every parrish and
mission within their bounds by the
close of the Summer of 1929. These
will be followed by the religious census
In the meantime the commission plans
to enlist all existing agencies in the
campaign.
90 Groups to Join.
Among these agencies will be So COM
missions on evangelism in the various
dioceses and missionary districts in the
United States. The entire staff of the
national council. the Brotherhood of
st. Andrew, the Church Army. the
Daughters of the King and the Woman's
Auxiliary. with It's 500, 900 membership;
the parochisl clergy and finally the
laity of the church, both men and
women, will be pressed into service. A
special effort will be put forth in the
colleges of the country, where report
to the Episcopal Department of Educa-
ion recently submitted, shows an alarm
ing spread of agnoSticism.
The commission announces that 1t has
already listed 90 experienced mission
aries for service in the campaign and
200 before the movement is formally
inaugurated.
Other members of the commission, in
addition to Bishop Darst and DR.. Miller,
are Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop Of Washington: Right Rev. G.
Ashton Oldham, Bishop Coadjutor of
Albany; Right Rev. Philip Cook. Bishop
of Delaware: Rev. Floyd w. Tomkins,
rector of Holy Trinity Church, Phila-
delphia: Rev. John Bunting of st. Louis.
Mo-: Very Rev r. E. Macdonald. Fresno,
Calf; Rev Henry Wise Hobson of
Worcester. Mass: Courtenay Barber of
Chicago Willard Warner OF Chatta-
nooga, Tenn: Samuel Thorne. jr., of
New York City, and Frederic c. More
house, editor of the Living Church,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Hungary will spend s22,oo0.000 on
public works and in promoting agricul-
ture and industry.