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Show Episcopal Church Is to Conduct a Campaign for Funds SALT LAKE. Aug. 1. With the an-j i nouncement of the committee that ill have charge of the forthcoming Epis-; copal campaign for the missionary district of Utah, the work of organization organ-ization in the various parishes of the j district will be rapidly eompletea. ; The committee named by the Right I Rev. Frank Hale Touret, bishop of i western Colorado, is as follows: J.I Walcott Thompson, chairman. Salt I (Lake City, the Rev Edwin T. Lewis.' Ix)fian; J E. Jones, J B- Scholefleld I j and Mrs. VY. " Reese, Salt Lake j The campaign of the Episcopal church Is nationwide and has for its objective the strenRthening of church , work and the stimulation of church effort in furtherance of the program1 of other Christian churches to make the church adequate to meet the prob 1 lems of world reconstruction produced by the war, and to secure through , glfti, and intercession the m ans whereby '.he work of the church may J be developed and broadend both n this country and abroad Country Dividd for Work. For the purpose of the campaign the United States has been divided into j four general areas, the western area i Including California, Washington, Ore- i gon, Utah. Arizona and Idaho. Thel work in each area, while nominally1 under the supervision of the area com-jmittee, com-jmittee, is handled by the diocesan an.1 I district committees, which in turn i have charge of organizing the churches and their parishes. The general committee for the west-em west-em area, which is practically the ter-1 ritory of the Eighth province of thi-Protestant thi-Protestant Episcopal church in America, Amer-ica, is as follows Bishop George C. I Hunting, of Reno; Bishop Herman Page, D. D , Spokane the Re Georgt Davidson, Los Angeles; II (' Wyci;-I Wyci;-I of f. Watsonvllle. and Mrs, A. L. Mc-' 1 Lelsch of Berkeley, Cal The sum ef 20,000,000 ha- been tel ai a goal by the Episcopalians. But the raising of the fund is secondary j to the major purpose of the campaign, ; which is to quote the word of the national director of organization. Dr : R. W Patton. of New York "To bring the spiritual power of the church to bear upon the church's j whole task." |