| Show I NORTHERN BAPTISTS MASSING fORCES IN 4 Big Sum Asked in One Movement to Fulfill Year Five-Year Program Personal Program Personal Service of Members Members Members Mem Mem- bers to Be Used to Make Huge Pledges More Effective Effective Education Education to Be Feature of Great Activity Both in U. U S. S and Abroad By LUPTON WILKINSON Tin TIll iC churches chinches which constitute the Northern Baptist Convection Contention are aie mot lUu ln In nul foi this 81 spring In a program termed terme b by their lea leader el one of ot the most sl significant unified ad advances a Christian bod body has luts t e ever r ma made e. e Thirty Thirty- four foul state convention contention hen headquarters quarters are teeming with t activity ti an and the entire strength of the denomination Is ready leady for tor a tas tusk k who whose e size sl may maywell maywell maywell I. I well be called culled stag It Is now note nine months since the assembled assembled as ai- as- as national delc delegates of ot the Northern H 1 met In Denver and aad after providing entirely new and modern modern modern mod mod- ern church organIzatIon atlon machinery sot set the fate fare of oC people toward a five fi n year tear ar effort nece necessitating expend expend- tuie t that will total at nt least The o of the tho world situation situa- situa tion viewed ted ft from om the Christian standpoint standpoint stand stand- point und and ud made clear In detail to the contention 1 through h a l page O-page page Itemized itemIzed Item item- itemized survey e of the fields field's needs has worked like multiplying I leaven Thousands Thou sands upon thousands of copies of that survey have been distributed In answel answer answer an an- to in written requests request The denominational program la is known officially a as the New World Movement of ot Northern Baptists It la defined define as an attempt to apply TI rigorously vigorously vigor rigor or- or the l of Christianity to the problems confronting the world The shadow of nUll maty Ills ms the stresses and pain of ot humanity struggling to give a new order birth after the cata- cata cJ SIJ of or war has swept away old standards and safeguards s are the basic basic basic ba ba- ba- ba sic urges behind the Baptist effort The fhe churches Involved believing the call to service Imperative and fated only to grow glow larger largel have hate decided to pledge the entIre Baptist fund In one financial drIve between April 21 and May 2 My 1 purpose here is not to discuss the task Involved inthe In III Inthe the raising of ot such a sum sunI The Impetus Im impetus im- im petus of ot aid and co operation co-operation from numerous numerous nu other denominations working together In the Intel Interchurch church World Movement will aid the Baptists greatly In their money campaign a larger one ODe than any other denomination faces this spring What must Interest the general public public pub pub- lic lie In considering the huge undertaking ing are some very tery practical questions Through what channels does the church hope to effect the application of ot the Christian l Ideal eal and the Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian machinery toward a lessening of unrest How clearly and wisely have havethe havethe havethe the church leaders dewed the situation situa situa- tion Do the they work with a seeing vision vi vi- vi I I slon sion of the tremendous ground physIcally physically phys phs and spirit spiritually speaking that they must cover covel How definite and concrete are their plans No one who has read lead the report of the Held Field Survey Committee of ot the I Northern can reasonably reasonably rea rea- doubt the earnestness with which the men behind the New World Movement are aio striving stilting to be practical The scope of the m plans In Indicates the trend trena Children In Inthe in inthe the Sun Sunday schools a schools will be asked to the ten the treat trent of or foreign born as friends Baptist women will be b. asked to cultivate friendship as Individuals Individuals Indi Indi- individuals with torel foreign born women Missions Mil Mis will be established In mining manufacturing and logging districts district where the native proportion of ot the population is small Speaking of future citizens the report of ot the committee says saya We cannot honestly preach leach to them and teach them national Ideals It if weare Weare we are ro silent while they thoy because they are us strangers are ara b being lnE exploited It la Is our Christian duty to assist in the b bettering bettering bet bet- t. t of factory conditions condition standards of employment for tor women In Industry living conditions of foreigners and social social so cial e educational uca civic chic and religious rel opportunities for tom the foreign From Czecho SlovaKIa Czecho-SlovaKIa from flow Japan from the heart healt of oC Mohammedan Africa Africa Af Af- Af rica observers have hate been heen writing In unanimous agreement that conditions abroad arc are even eyen morp more unsettled d than thanIn thanin thann in n AmerIca The belief hel of oC the church that the Christian Idea Is the lie one solution solution so so- lution lutton will make Itself felt through an Investment of ot practically for tor new equipment In lu foreign mission fields This will bo he In addition to normal normal nor nor- mal operating expenses e Plans Include the sending out of ot new missionary families and amI single women u ml role and the erection election of missionary mis- mis missionary missionary mis mis- residences missionary schools 76 70 dormitories 7 15 75 church buildings bUilding 5 IndustrIal schools and 19 lA hospitals In China Chinn one of ot mn many many mission fields five Ave new high schools for tor girls will Ill m be he established An U intelligent womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood is absolutely necessary for tor the penn permanent anent regeneration exoneration i and Cl Christian Christian- of ot the thc Orient says t S the report which led to this plan plans adoption 1 Ono One domestic trend of ot the New World Movement will be a 1 steady hammerIng on the problem of ministers ministers' ministers ministers' minis minis- salarIes The average salary of ot the or ordained alne Baptist ministers In Inthe inthe Ii the United States Is a day or r a year ear Only eight out of ot every hundred receive as much as u 1500 a J year Many amusing and appealing letters have haTe been received since It became known that a determined educational campaign to remedy this condition Is under wa way One letter from Peru Ind says I In my opinion the greatest Om finan ancier an- an cler cier of ot the times is not Frank Vander- Vander lip or J. J Pierpont Morgan The wife of ot the average minister has hus all of ot the great Teat financiers of ot the lie country beaten to a standstill If It the same degree of ot ote e efficient management as has prevailed In the ministerial household could be applied to our Industrial and poll political Institutions we could successfully compete com corn pete in the markets of ot the world and c come ome off art victors In none of the welfare features of ot the Baptist program will the evangelical evangelical evange evange- lical note be subordinated Dr DI J J. J Y Aitchison director of ot the General Board Boud of ot Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention has summed up a as follows the keynote spirit of ot the effort effort ef et ef- ef fort tort It is s always alwa's necessary to remember that neither money nor buildings nor Additional workers serve to express the terms of ot the New World Worl Move Move- Movement ment It is not a campaign It Is the Advance of an ideal The raising of ot the money and the spending of th the money are Incidental to the supreme task of ot offering Christianity like n healing bandage to the wounds of ot the world We are We are going forward on the theory theo theory ry that the denomination or th the church or the man who hangs back now i. i what President RooS Roosevelt vell would h have va called ft Q pussy Where When Chris Chris' dominates there cannot bt be lust and greed and hate Certainly there ther cannot be Bolshevism |
