Show TWENTYMILLION FUNDRaIsing FUND-RaIsing of It Shows tho Groat Progress of MoMiodlsm From the Philadelphia Press The success of the Methodists In risIng ris-Ing I 20000000 their twentieth century lank offering justifies the elation and ratification with which the announce icnt is received by members of that body That a single church could ralBc Ills great fund over and above Its ordinary l ordi-nary expenses and charities In the short pact of four years is evidence of the great prosperity 0 the country at the present time and the large degree In which MethodIsts participate In tills prbsperlty I also attests the cal and ibcrallty of Methodists and their dovo lon to their church There was a time when the Methodist church wits peculiarly tljo church of the poor Its church edifice were plain and heaply built and plain apparel charac terised the worshipers without any ape clal Indication from the pulpit I was the gal most consonant with their mean But Methodist ala Eons of Methodists have prospered and grown rich without losing any of their nttnch meat to the church of Wesley Its numbers have Increased and It hums grown with the growth ana strengthened strength-ened with the strength of the country I Is not at all surprising that Methodists Metho-dists were able to raise this exlrnrdi nary fund of 20000000 In so short a time The test was not as to tlit ability but to the willingness to surrender so great a sum to the uses of the church In addition to the usual contributions |