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Show Utah State Committee Names Officers1 and Outlines Program to Carry on the Work. Question of Obtaining ' Increase in Salaries of Pastors and Deaconesses Dea-conesses Is Discussed Orga nidation of ti e "tab suae i-i.'.nmit-!$ e of the In ten -In i rL-h oi id movement was perfected last nuht at the state eon-f eon-f erence of the movement held tmJer the direction of tho Utah er.ur'h mission council, held in the Kirt Methodist episcopal epis-copal church. Uffieers were elec-d and a resoiution passed to go forward wit!: the survey of the, ehui'h needs of tho state an j county organizations. The state advisory coin in it let"' consists of the liev. M. K. La-'e. superintendent of the Utah Metbodit-t missions; tho Yciv Lev. A". W. Uecse, siiperbitci.den! of the L'tah EpLS-'opa! nrssi.-ns; the. Lev. W. M. I'adeii. superintendent of the 1 r. sb ian rr.iaaior.s: the Lev. ". Mtnelmi ef Denver, Colo.. of the Cru igretia ' ion-t! church; the Lev. A. L. Miiiaker of Loise, Idaho, rei-'j-tsen ti ug the j'.apt i-t ci nreh ; the Lev. O. 11. I La a sun, pastor of thc Lutheran ' h :rch of Salt Lake, and G. W. Harts, pasior of the .Wsro Haptist ehnreli of Salt Lake. The ehairman of the L'tah Interchurch movement i omuiittee is In". Laden; ti;e vLe rhairnian, the I J. Sherman ValI;,o-. of Salt Lake, representing represent-ing the J ianiist chu vc l"r. J t'-e was elected to act as secretary. j DEPARTMENT HEADS OF WORK ARE CHOSEN. The national committee for the departmental depart-mental work ronsisls of: the Lev, J. 11. X. Williams, Salt Lake, of the Methodist church, who will have eharg- of the spiritual spir-itual resources; the Lev. Godfrey Mathews. Ma-thews. Ogden. of the Coitreynt ional t church, who will have eha:ge of the life work; the Lev. IT.' W. Luryer. Salt Lake, of the Presbyterian ehuich, who wi l-hnve the stewardship of toe finatieial department depart-ment and the 1-b-v. C. A. Sndcr. Salt Lake, of the Central 'hrlsi in enurec, who will work in the department of mission mis-sion education. The survey work of the chun'-h's necd; jn the state will lie under ti.e direction of the Lev. J f. W. Plllsbury, Loga n; t ho Ttev. W. H. Luikeley. Lrovn; the Itev. Mar-Lin Mar-Lin Thoma. Maryyvule ; iLu Lev. G. A. Downey, Vernal, a rid the Rev, T. M. Keuseff. of the "Dixie'- eountry. Representatives of the women's department depart-ment of the ehureh work are: Airs. FT. O. Lee of the Methodist ehureli; Mrs. K. W. Senior of the l-taptist cLiuvh: Mrs. A. J. Go nam of the Congregational ehureh; Mrs. Phil in Scboencr, I dseiptes ehureh; Mrs. G. bh Davies of tlie Presbyterian church, and Ales. A. K. lObcriiardt of the Methodist church. CHOOSE LAYMEN TO ASSIST IN SURVEY. Laymen who will take part in the &ur- j rev work and the advancement of the j movement in Utah are: A. L. Lherhardf. ! of the Methodist church: J. L. Jones, of the Kpiseopal ehureh: W. W. McfOrra- ban, of the Presbyterian ehureh: L. W. I Alerril, of the Congregational church, and i A. P.. Lucas, of the I'.aptist church, i The election of officers was made by ; ' Lie state advisory eomrniitee. appointed at the suggestion of Dr. William IL i Dov.Khlv of New York, leader of the Tn- I terchurch world inovement team which j w s s sent to i '1 ah. I Temporary officers who presided at the j organization meeting were: Dr. Paden, president : Dr. Wallace, vice-president, and the Rev. Clem Davie, of the Watei-' Watei-' loo AIet!iodist church, secretarv. The county organizations will be made I in of three ycre-esenlal ives from each of 1 (Continued on Pace 2. Column 4.) MEN ARE CHOSEN FDR CHURCH WOI (Continued From Page One.) t lie evangelical churches in tho county. The representatives must be the pastor and a woman and a man member of the church. A meeting of the Utah personnel of the Intercimrrb movement will be called in the near future. Yesterday was the second day of the conference., anu more man nuy aumuuiiai delegates from over the state registered, making a total of more than 1 r0 delegates dele-gates in attendance. Today the final sessions ses-sions will be held. Increase of wages for ministers of the gospel will be one of the aims of the movement, according to Mrs. i '. T. (Tonk of New York, director of the women's division di-vision of the field department of the ln-1 ln-1 terehuroli movement, who discussed "Adequate "Ade-quate Support for Trained .Leadership" at yesterday's session. "Ministers throughout the United .States," said Mrs. Cronk. . "according to a survey made, by church officia Is, are receiving on an average of less than $'1 per day. This docs not include some of the larger churches in the cities. In almost al-most every instance the ja nitor in the chureh is getting a larger salary than the pastor." Says Ministers Are Patronized. Mrs. Cronk said although she was not a member of the clergy, she felt as if she were almost one of them because her father, brother, husband and twelve f-hst cousins were ministers, and her son had recently entered a theologiea 1 seminary, "T wish the members of churches who felt (hat their pastors were getting enough money would try to hire a wash woma u for $i per day," she said. 'T fried it ami received the answer that tney could not work for less than $-1 a day. Hundreds of good men who have spent four years in college and are spending their time in the betterment of the community a re made to feel that they are almost beggars. Lverywhere they go, whatever they get, they are subjected to patronage. "I It now one church where they os- j mated the amount of gifts which were siven to the minister and his familv during dur-ing the year, then deducted the amount of the estimate from his yea rly .sada ry. The minister resigned and obtained a job as a street, car conductor. "The cost of living has gone up more than double in the last few years, arid yet ministers are working at the same wages they received several years ago. 1 know of no more ingenious managers in keeping keep-ing down the cost of living than ministers and their wives. The wives are past-masters past-masters at turning their last year's hat backwards and wearing it a not.her year, and in cutting the kiddies' clothes out of tho old cothes .Ven to them. They thank the Lord because of the custom which 'created coats with long tails, because that style will permit of enough cloth to make two pairs of little trousers. "The subject of wage increase has never been pushed, because the mini.-ters themselves them-selves have been afraid that people would believe t hem to be mercena ry if t he-v urged that they receive enouuh money to live decently. 1 feaconesses and m ission-aries. ission-aries. too, have ha rdly received enough money to provide Kod and clothiim." Miss Kdith clary, deaconess at the First Methodist Kpisoopad chureh, .-tiil she wanted to say a word or two in behalf of i"'-:s:..i:i wokcrs as she thought the I v, i ot paid enough and hence v. ...-, r.ot do;:!if efi .eient work because ih.v were handicapped m spending tunc ,. ri,, ) ;a (.c: extra, money or in try- i : : to liiahe cuus meet. Make Over Clothes. "You women know." she said, "that it ta'es tin.- t keep old clothes in repair to make t oer. 1 am receiving vlO. ;--r n. and get n.v board and ! : ',,1:11 1:1 ad h.'aui at the home provided I for ohi 'or. s.-es. 1 have spent four vars I hi c ! -ie and am euaii'ped to teaiji school t 'or eouht I'o.h.'w some "other hue of work I a..d make 1 ;t !'" nit e Iv more money. I w.is ! toM at fu'M that the money wnich 1 did: 1 eet 1:1 the church was i;t en to ur- I nh.ms and for other charitable, purposes. Put I no longer believe thus. J know now j I tiiai the money is not being contributed; to the church." j "Hundreds of ministers in the country, ' j said Mrs. Cronk, "are unable to have any sccuritv as to heir futu'-e or the future of their families should they be compelled 10 retire from old a.ue or from inability to continue th- ir work tnrougli ill-health. Their aie i;i hi of such men in tin; United Stales at 1 his time and there is hardly a poo house in the count ry which docs not have among its inmates at least one minister." Tho .Methodist clergy ami laity who are deiep-aies at the conference were the hosts last evening at a dinner given in the Wilson Wil-son grill to the Rev. John J. Lace of Salt Lake and tho Rev. William K. Doughty of New York City. At a luncheon iodav at the commercial club, the cleigv and laity who are delegates dele-gates tn the conference of tho Presbyterian Presby-terian church will be the guests of the Kev. C. V. ,1 enness, who is the weslet n district secrelarv of the New Kra movement move-ment of the Cresbyferian ohnrh. The Rev. c. YValdo Cherry, pastor of t he ( "en I ral l'resbvt erin 11 church of Rocfi-esur. Rocfi-esur. N. Y., and the Kev. Y. II. Marvin Mar-vin of Seattle, Wash., who is connected with the state industria 1 commission of that state, and Mr. YV. K. Iloehn of New-York New-York Citv left last night for Reno, New, where thee will take up tho work in the Nevada conference of the lntereburch world movement. Tonight, the remainder of the team i 1 1 Lave for Nevada and later the entire learn will go to San l-ran-clsco for a conference and then on to Los Anueles. where their work wlil end. Last night the Rev. C A. Hunt ley, for thirty vears a missionary in China and founder of the McLeish Clinic at Shanghai, Shang-hai, gave a resume of the foreign mission survey and the world need in the fureign mission oik. Plan Foreign Work. Under the iuterchuroh .movement, maps will be made? of the foreign missionaries in every country and the unchurched areas will also be designated on the maps. In the proposed survey, the number of churches, the denominations, membership, number of converts and other In forma -tion which will tend to make the missionary mission-ary work more efficacious will be compiled. com-piled. ' Stcreoptieon views or the foreigi) and home missionary work were shown under the direction' of Mrs. Cronk. who explained ex-plained something of the necessity of a survey of the church needs in this country coun-try and abroad. "This is the first time in the history of the world. she said, "that such a survey has been made, and many conditions condi-tions "are revealed which are unbelievable. In Brown county, Indiana, there is only one church in the entire county. "One of the most interesting delegates of the Utah conference is the Rev. A. Rice, who rode in a stage for eighty-nine miles to the railroad and then on to Salt Lake, and this in spite of the fact that (he thermometer was hovering around below zero. Coming over the great divide, di-vide, Mr. Kice was two hours traveling ten miles. This live wire comes from Uintah county, which is 100 miles snuare, and he is the only evangelical minister in ithe county. He goes forty miles to preach an evening service." Urges Attention to Hospitals. lir. Cherry spoke yesterday on "Christianizing "Chris-tianizing Community Life" and "Religious I'M ilea tion and American Democracy." Hospitals, he pointed out, should he included in-cluded in the objectives of Ihe interclmrch movement. "These institutions alone givo approximately $10,000,000 in free service ser-vice annually to the poor and they should have outside help," he said. "They are neglected by the church. Their opportunities opportu-nities to service are as wide as human sorrow. "Five thousand sick people, approximately, approxi-mately, are daily turned away from the doors "of evangeiieal hospitals because of the inadequacy of the civic institutions, and there are not enough of the denominational denomi-national institutions. Homes for the aged in the country turn away almost as many as are entered and children's homes turn awav tens of thousands. One home received re-ceived forty-five last year and rejected 4."..". children. "The work of Christ cannot be considered con-sidered without strong emphasis upon institutions in-stitutions for healing the sick and caring for the needy and helpless. Face these facts: There are 1 500 hospitals and homes for the aged and children under evangelical direction in the country; one million patients are treated annually; one hundred thousand aged people and children chil-dren are cared for annually, arid an equal number refused admission to hospitals and homes because of insufficient room and equipment. "Universal education is the only guar-a guar-a 11 tee of democratic government. The fundamental elements of the nat ion's strength a?re the intelligence and moral jnsiirht of its people. "The effect of the war on the school has been t he withdrawal of teachers in over increasing numbers. There has been a falling off of enrollment in the normal schools of the country and there is a growing difficulty in securing adequate revenues lor the financial upkeep of the schools through taxation, upon which the public schools have depended for support. Commends Smith-Towner Bill. "The evangelical churches should unite 1-0 secure the passage of the Smith-Towner Smith-Towner bill, now pending before congress, which creates a department of education in our natioua I government and places a secret a ry of education in the pros Id en t's cabinet. It, for the first time in our national na-tional life, provides a nat ional education policy. This is done without limiting in it iative and self-government of slates and cities." The Rev. F.T,. Carr. pastor of the First Baptist chureh of Cambridge. Mass.. spoke 011 "The En thronement of Christ in the Home Life of .America." He held I that divorce and the wrecking of homes wi principally due to the lack of l 1 'hrist ian worship. "We must honestly 'face the fact," he said, "that multitudes of A merioan homes are in peril. Never was Hie word of the psalmist more timely: time-ly: 'Kxr-ept the Lord build the housr. they labor in vain that build it.' Sir Olivor Lodiyo recently said that 'praynr is a forgotten secret.' Thousands of our professedly Christian homes have por-mit'ed por-mit'ed the altar fire of worship to die out. Po we marvel'that oftentimes love, field., ity. filial obedience and sacrificial service, ; each in turn, flicker and fall at those same hearthstoi'V" The Rev. WiirTim F. Dough I v of New ! York. leader of the team of the Inter-church Inter-church movement, who was sent to Utah, spoke on "The Dynamics Without Which the Mechanics Are Dead." Plans for the a rou si ug" of spiritual power in the churches include a watch service, in moups or in private, in the closing moments mo-ments of U'1!; the summoning of the nation na-tion to renewel consecration during the week of prayer, January 4 to 1 1, 1 a JO; a' si mult a neons evangelical campaign and inga t her bur into the churches during the early months of lH'.'O, but especially during dur-ing the Lenten season, eulminatintr in a trreat ingathering on Faster Kundav; a day of prayer for students on February jn. 10'J"; propf-ating the spiritual message mes-sage of the movement t brooch publicity channels, and an enlistment and training of millions of intercessors In individual churches. Peieates who registered ye;lrdav are Mis. A. . Frank, Mrs. Ueorgo j-;. '.;tVfH William Million. Kdwin Silver 1 I 'each. Jerald M. Wrisley, Ceorge p' Peacock. Arthur L. Rice. C. ;. Fowler' h F. Pavies, J. K. Jenness, John Meeker' 'ommandant John -I. Shearer. ( '.odfrcy M 1 1 1 he ws, ;. A . Oiiri, Ruth Sa vies j ( ; Pehhard. KM her B. Becker "Ralph" c' Jones, J. II. ( -lark. A. W. Button, Isabei Puiu-e. Charle.s :. Riney, Mrs. A. Trarv, II. W. ris .orn. Anna M. Davis, Airs. ' A. Simpkin, Charles A. Root, F. ' A Fryear, Arnold Hiiltquisl, ' ('. Parsons, Harold J. Stearns, !. Kelson, Henry Jacohs, C. H. Zimmerman. Mrs. Kern Wanless, Miss Nina Mi-t'arthy. Mrs. J. 11. Worrall, Maren B. Knotenin. Frieda A. Drissell. Miss Mary l'enton Keith. A. I.. Hendricks, the Rev. Murtin Thomas, Ada I.. Sheppard. Mrs. H. Benton and Mrs. W. A. McKav. |