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Show TO RUN CHURCH LIKE BUSINESS Interchurch World Movement Natural Nat-ural Growth of Tendency to Eliminate Waste. AVOIDS USELESS 'FRICTION ntllolout Financiering Revolutionised by Succett of Men and' Million Movement and Co-operation Is Re'sult? r The Iiilerchuiih World M.ieineut of North Anierliit lf till' altoiiipt by folUiiidliHikliiK lenilei-H of the nrloin ItuiiKellenl deuoinliuitloiiH of Hie 1'lilt-' ed Suites and I'liunda to, coiudliintu ' the ivhuui'u-h In me n,iy nd inn-' luilnl of 1'iole.stnnt AmoVlni. Hlstorlnilly It Is the logical out- Kl-owtll of il leiuleney of thu liatloiuil liouidK In earli ilenoiuliintloii to form ttorklns alllnliees iiiiioiik themselves, In ulileli eaeli lioiuil ln preserve Its Identity mid eoulrol lis own pci.sonnel nnd lieiiMii-.v In former times, the home mission foiioly, the foreign mission Koylety the chmi'h exieiiHlou society and the various phllmithroplv and eleemosy-nury eleemosy-nury UKLMielesoriinyilcnouilnatliiii eon-duded eon-duded their iiffuli-s luilepepileiitly of one another. I.'iuh hiireyed ls own reslrleled lerrlior.v, prepured u bud-Ket bud-Ket of money ami Workers for its owii purposes ami iniule lis own nppeal to ltn i'oiillluetH' for supiort. This eouhl only iiieiiu that these iiReneles weie.more or less In competition compe-tition with one another; llut thero whs wnsle anil ilupllaitlnn of work and money, ami that iiiiioiik them all some wink was ueKlecled, and somo deiioiiilpiitloiuil icMPiavcs were entirely entire-ly oxerlooUetl. lleciiuwe of their peelnll.ed tiiilnliii;. the leaders of ciieli Ueno.r regarded 'themselves qh peiiillarly filled for their tasks, and Jealously h'Kitnleil attempts at outside out-side Interfeieiiee. , Decide on Experiment. After deeades of such Imphnxnrtl methods, the lenders of one denomination denomina-tion deeldoil mi an oxerlineiit. They thoiiRht it would he possible for the ucoiieles to set toKetliiT for u rom-mon rom-mon mi inl.v of all the opportunities and resources of Ihelr brotherhood, to make out a unified lnnlnel pf men nnd money, mid to conduct a com tried up-peul up-peul for fiimls. It was jmide clear that each constituent hoard should pres(;rt nplete uutonoiiy. ' When the hoard represeotnllvca met (hey foiind It possible tu'fhiulitute. n sn-nf aiiiouiii or onraiilatfoii expenses. ex-penses. They Ulllmiilely worUed out it iMKltri-i mill phiu of ciiiupalKii that wn Killsfiiclnrj to nil. This resulted ill (ho I'mnoiis "Men mid .Millions Movement" or the Disciple of f'hrlst, which brought In what was then considered con-sidered the slncwrliic mini or ?0,:i0Oi-(XXI ?0,:i0Oi-(XXI for a rivc,enr prormu. The liienilnTs of the communion were so pleased with ihls hiistuess-llke metli oil of conductlnc ufralrs Hint liiey con Irlbuled exeii inure Kelicrously than t lit 1 1 been cNpcctcd. The succe-Js of Ibis enterprise revo-littlnnlxcd revo-littlnnlxcd .the whole bi:slnesH of chin eh financiering. Thu other Ki'eat denominations Immediately adopted the plan. Tin- ileuomlmitloiial nssu-clntloiis nssu-clntloiis hne come to he known as 'Vrwiud iiioteiiieuls," and some thirty thir-ty of ihein me In existence today. Kuch one has clnrltled all the Infor-iiiiitlou Infor-iiiiitlou In lelntloii to euieriirlso within with-in the denomination, nnd Imx reduced tho business of colb'ctlliK and spend-llIU spend-llIU money to a science. World-Budget Formed. The Interihiirch Woihl Movement In s.uiply n plan to do lutci'dcuntntnu-tloually lutci'dcuntntnu-tloually what the fcnuiud movemetits lime done within the uirlo'ii communions. com-munions. It memo- that every ! nomlmilbiiinl IiiiiIkcI will be made lu tilt Hulil of world ueeits' Instead of In the Kcml-ohM-iirllj of lucoiupjeto In-foriimtloii. In-foriimtloii. It iiienus thai loutrlhutloiis to one dciiomlimtloii nv i 1 1 not be In wasteful competition with contributions contribu-tions to another, because all the fel lowshlp will have wmKnl out I hell proKram loKelher. The functions of the Interchurch World Movement ore threefold, l'rst, It collects, by means of w'ifrld surveys, sur-veys, nil the pertinent facts on which denominational proKnuus may be 1 built. Second, It sets up the practical luaclilueiy of o operation Third, I nets In an advisory cupaclty whenever Its advice lx requested. The movemeiit bus uothlui; to d with orumilc cliurcli union or matter of cri!d or doctrine. Kiuh const', tueut unit preserves omplute autonomy, au-tonomy, and U bound only so far uk it wishes to he bound. I.'lumiclat ai-ponls ai-ponls are made by each deiionilnu tlon to Its own constituency. Any surplus. In uudeslKiiated funds, over and above the uctual east of adinliils (ration, will he prorated iimoni; the deiiomliiatlous eiiKHKi'd In u given financial fi-nancial iimlertiiklni:. An illustration of one I blue the Movement can do Is to ho found In n western community of 1,iKK) pormm.s In which thirteen deiioiulnutionH have been supportiiiK sepiirutii churches with missionary funds, while an adjacent adja-cent territory of riO.IMK) persons hn only three churches. Ity seelni; thai all missionary boards are supplied wlili Information In such cases, the Movement will uinke possible a wiser distribution of funds. Ha first Kcmls are to reduce uuneces nury diiillculloii und overlapplui; to h mlnlniuin nnd to brin about au Ih-telllKcnt Ih-telllKcnt division of labor In unoccu pled fields, The Movement Is, at hot torn no iiUpiiuiI to nut elun-eh hl. ness b1 the soti'nl. business jrke foun-datluQU foun-datluQU oo which the ureal commercial commer-cial Institutions of America are built. |