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Show NORTHERN BAPTISTS MASSING FORCES IN $100,000,000 DRIVE Big Sum Asked in One Movement to Fulfill Five-Year I , Program Personal ervice of 2,000,000 Mem- 1 ' , bers to Be Used to Make Huge Pledges More 1 Effective Education "to Be Feature of J r Great Activity, Both' in U. S. i 1 and Abroad. ( 'Jjk i , By LUPTON WILKINSON. ' ' I Tk 10,0:n cliurclifi which (..institute the Nlorthirn Itslptlnt CoHvtntlnn I re mlne furwurd thli .sprhil; In a protjrsiiu teAueil'liy Ihvlr ltndr.i on of I the niiMt slgHltleattt unllled inlvtluci-i a I'liiUtlun body ban cvr mad'?. Thirty- I four state ronventlun heiulquurtcrx are teHiulhc wltli activity and the ttntlru 'I strength of the denonilnntloii U luarsballed, ready for a tusk whi she may I well lie nil I I'd staggering. ,, . l( It now nine bioqHi.4 sliicn the as-seiiiblfed as-seiiiblfed national delegates of thu Narlkern KplUU met In Denver vund after providing entirely new and mud-em mud-em church vrganlMtlou wachlnery set the fane of 4i,W000 people taward a Are yesr effert. neciltatlng exunUI-lures exunUI-lures Hut will total at least JIOO.UOO,-OU. JIOO.UOO,-OU. The urgency of tile world situation, situa-tion, viewed &. Uie Oarlstlsu stad-Piit stad-Piit ad Made clear In dfttall tit Ue cnvallM tkroigli a lWpn Hew-Ueii Hew-Ueii survey of the lleid's needs, has worked Ilk Multiplying leaven. Thousands Thou-sands unwu thousand of cupleu uf thai s(rvy bavu keen distributed In answer an-swer ta Individual written requcnu. Tlir iMnowlautiunal progrnui l knawn oOlclully as tbe New WorU Muvaaient t Nerlhera Baptists. It Is , defined as "an attempt to apply vigorously vigor-ously tin principles of Christianity t the problems confronting the world." The 'Udw of many Ills, Urn stresses and pain f huwiiilly, struggling to give a new order birth after the cata-olysw cata-olysw of war has swept away old standards and safeguards, are the basic ba-sic urges behind tho Baptist effort. The churches Involved, believing th call to sorvlrs Imperative aud fated only to grow larger, have decided to pledge the entire $100,000,000 Baptist fund in one financial "drive" between April 21 aud May 2. My purpose here Is not to discuss the task Involved In the raising of such a sum. The 'Impetus 'Im-petus of aid and co-operation, from numerous nu-merous other denominations working together In the Intercliurclr World Movement will aid the RaptlsU greatly In their money campaign, a lurger one than any other denomination faces tills siirlne. What niut Interest the generul public pub-lic In ronsldorUig (he huge uudnrlak-lng uudnrlak-lng are sum very practical questions. Through whnt ehanueU does the church hope to effect tlm application of the ClirUllan ideal and the Christian Chris-tian machinery toward a lessening of unrest? How clearly and wisely have the church leaders viewed the situation? situa-tion? l)u they work wfth a seeing vision vi-sion of the tremendous ground, phys-Imlly phys-Imlly and spiritually speaking, that they must cover? Ifow definite mid nmrrelf niv their plans? No one wjio hiw read (he .report of the Field Survey Committee of the' Norlhi'in Baptist Convmitlon can reasonably rea-sonably doubt tlm earue.stnesH with which the men behind the New World .M)Vi'l,uuiit mi! Ktrlvlng to b.i practical. TJier scope; of tlm Aiiinrlriinljmtlnn pliiux Indicates the trend. Children In tho Simday-schoolM will lm iisked to tixat tin- children of the foreign-bom iik frlcnilM. Bnptl.st women will be Uhkeil .to culllvnle friendship us Imll-vlilimls Imll-vlilimls with ro're'lgn-b'oni women. MiSi. s!ons will ha established In mining, manufacturing nnd logging districts where the native proportion of tin; population Im mnnl. .Slinking of "futuro oltlz(n?, tiu.i - report of the-iomiiilttWftiiyM - "We cannot honestly preach to them nnd tench them national Ideals If wo nre Mlrnt while thcy.'liecmw thev nre Htnyigern, nre being exploited, 'it Is our Christian duty to hhhIsi In tho bettering bet-tering lit factory.'colidltroiis, standards of employment for women ju ludustry, living conditions of forvlguers and ko- l clal,. educatioMal, civic and rvllgious IS pportuullles for th foislgu-born." I r From CV.cb'e-Slovakla, frsu Japan, l', fntns the heart of Mohammedan Af- f. I rica, observsrs bav bn wrltlag In.. .J ft unanimous agretwent that conditions Tjl1' ass-oail art evtu more uassttttd than i In Awrrka. Tus kisUef of Ui church fll that the CUrlttlaa Idoal is lb wm so- II lutlua will milt lltslf flt tlirsuak an ( 1 laveslMeat C armcileaUy Slw.OOO.UUO fr uewveasluiut la Xorulga mtsslon I aelds. This will It Ja addition, t nor- L Mai aasrsllag iptusss.' Tians laoludn I tit aeailliif aut f 'JM w mlestonary I families and, J" slnglt wowniNilii- I lauaries and Hit artrtton of 1W mIm- I ulaaary resident1, 341 mlasloaary I schiMtls, 7 derssltorlts, 75 , harch f3Fi5 buildings, C Industrial swbools aud In tB hospitals. , F In CU(us, on of many mbslen field, ft lira uuw igu scbe)8 for girls will bo l establisjied. "An lMt1llint woman- u hoedili absolutely nwsiry for tlm ueruaneut regeneratlnu and Christian. IzatloH of the Orient," says the report which' led to lifts plnu's adoption. One doniesllc jryad of tlie Ne.w World Moteiuenl will fie a ste"Sly hammering On the problem of ministers' minis-ters' salarl-x. The average salnry of the 3,82-1 onUlncd Baptist ministers In tba United States Is '31.87 11 day, or 1(183 a year. Only eight out of every hundred receive as much, ns $l,.0OO a -. ) year. t Many amuslug and appealing Icttera have been received since It became t known that a determined educational rnmpnlgu to remedy this condition la under way. On letter from Peru, tod. aa- n "Iii my opinion the greatest. Aiian' rler of the times Is not Frank Vnnder ' Up or .T. Plerpont Iofgan. The Wife , 1 of the average minister has all of the, 1 great flnaiiclers of tlie country beaten I to a stabdstlll. If th same degree of I efficient wauagemtut as has prevullvd I Ju the ministerial household could lm applied to our Industrial and political Institutions we could KUcvtixxfull.v win., pete In the markets ,of the worid, and " : come off victors." In none of the welfare feature of the Baptist iprogrnm will .tho evangelical evange-lical nolu be subordinated. Dr. J. Y. Alli'hlson, director of' the (liuwnii I Board of l'ruiiinlloti nfi the Xurtliern Buptlst (ronveutlon, has sumiiifil up 11s ' follows the keynote Kplrlt of tho effort,: ef-fort,: ... . - "li Irt.ntwnya noce.ssary.'.to' reiiu'inber that neither money nor buildings nor, ndill:!oiml workers M-rve to express the terms of thp New World Movement. Move-ment. It Is not 11 campaign. It Is thir .advance" of un Ideal. Tho raising ofj the money and .thVjqiehilhig of tho money iiiv Incidental to tho smprcinu? task of .onerliig- eiirlstlntilty like n-healing n-healing bandage to Ihu wounds of the'. I world. 1 I "Wo nro KPlngffonyard on the then.; ( I' ry that the dtadmlnutlonlor the church & or. the man who lrnilgs back now, I. j9 what .President HookovcII wculdliuv:. '! called ir-'nussy.footer.' WJiere Chris-. " ""l llanlty ilomfifhtox, there cannot, bo-1;' f lust nnd grood nnd hatu. Certnlnly.5' 'R there eiinnot be Bolshevism." $ II |
