Show presbyterians S rians to raise forty million dollar dohar fund for local loc national Naf lonal and overseas work FELLOW A momentous hour has ha truck struck the shadow en an the dial mark a time of of deatly for q 1166 individuals individual institutions and nations nation N 1 W i we establish our altars altar as a abraham of old and keep perpetually burning thereon I 1 the iriente Ir cense kente of a robust faith F I 1 wemusa we mut enter into all ufa life and weave into its it filament flahert and fiber mercy and justice literature or alro we must clia cha steril iten commerce conver convert tl politics politic save ave labor and capital wed in the service of the common brotherhood dl art purify society democratize and swee sweetest tent nd re religion glon reveal as a mans man supreme asset aret i at a time when ami are crumpling crun lingi and the wild wrath of wronged peoples people tames flame forth against law laar and order it is it not our d y to make the church ministers serve humanity shall we not get under the church burden behind its it tack and into the of its it struggles struggle for the healing of the nations nation shall we bear the mark of cain because our indifference has ha slain multitudes multitude shall we live for ourselves ou relve and think for ourselves oura elvea when heroes and martyr marty rii have died for us u I 1 in this ehlt hour of the recovery reconstruction and regeneration of the world every presbyterian should hould enlist in the nw new era crusade Cru tade invest gone generously genero in its it great program and enter expectantly and resolutely into its it easter har bar veil season eaon j A god cod and P father bather inexhaustible in resources a divine christ calling us u to follow in his HI steps and a blotted blessed spirit for guidance gui danca danco and power make the whole program attainable if 11 we are true to our trust we shall hall have a revived church a restored rea faith in its it mission ml Ion an ingathering to the th joy jay of men end and angels angel A past pait heroic herciel a present pre nent with a mighty imperative and is a future whose where prophetic beams beam already announce the of the spirit of service mi vice and sacrifice inspiring hope lot let every presbyterian sound lound alorth forth the slogan over the top to victory and the joy of an immortal achievement in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and Niri nineteen eteen attests ac ail alj stad cah moderators proclamation read in every presbyterian church in athla country on sunday march 2 and displayed on posters opening the drive for funds prepared before the P PROGRAMS war aro are as useless as a last ojars birds nest end and this applies to the work of the church just as much as it does to any other kind of oc an organization which deals with human relationships the vew new era Alo movement of the presbyterian by terian terlan church was 03 organized to study the conditions which have come out of the war and then to set up an adequate e program that will frank frankly ay face the facts acts the fi financial drive Is being organized by business men who were among the most worker slin liberty loan red cross war savings Y hi 0 A and the other war time drives leading preachers all over the country are leaving their important churches for the sixty day period of tha th campaign becoming responsible for certain areas seeing to it that anre thoroughly organized for the 91 ana nal 1 rally aneg adione the objects for which the forty million dollars are to be spent tire are the alio following half a million doll dollars rs for use among returning soldiers and sailors ballos to choin assistance Is also to bo be given in finding jobs and in getting a now new start in life half a million dollars for recon st ruction work in building protestant churches in europe devastated by the war leour million dollars for work overseas w here last year presbyterians rians conducted 17 P hospitals and despen sarles saries in which patients were and where educational i ions and religious services were maintained which were attended by many millions of natives thousand dollars will bemused be used for temperance and prohibition wor 1 in foreign lands I 1 in n which ine rican brewers and distillers are to began operations as soon as their are arc closed down in this country nearly a 0 million dollars will be appropriated for disabled preachers and another million will be used to increase preachers salaries about three millions are needed for special work in american cities and among immigrant populations and lumberjacks lumber jacks and for work among indians mexicans and other depressed peoples and for relief work inthe sparsely settled sections of tho the country tr y presbyterian women are to raise nearly two million dollars for educational and social work in ili tins this country c half a million will be used for building new presbyterian churches and another half million for educational and religious work among negroes nc groes nearly a million Is to be spent for general religious education and theological training half a million for sun day school work and literature and about one hundred thousand for mens work and general evangelism twenty five live million dollars will be spent hy by the local presbyterian churches for their general community work |