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RURAL SURVEY OF
VITAL IMPORTANCE
Religious Statistics Are Secured
* From County To Be Used By
J Local Churches
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HEARTY COOPERATION ASKED
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Information To Be Gathered In Every
Part Of The County According To
Communities Will Have Large
j Significance
J The rural survey department, of the
Interchurch World Movement has
;>een organized to assemble informa
tion and analyze conditions from a
religious standpoint in every county in
i lie state, according to Judge H. L. An
derson, rural survey director for the
iate of Georgia, with headquarters at
No. 517 Petess building, Atlanta, Ga
An order for the churches of a com
-rmyiily to carry on their work of
evangelizing tlie territory in which
'.hey are situated and to contribute
. Llietr share towards the complete
vangelization of the world, which is
he ideal in every Christian heart, it
s necessary that the actual condi
tions which exist in each county be
discovered. Because of the vital im
portance of this work, the movement
s calling upon the pastors of all de
nominations and oLhers who are in
dorsed relative to religious conditions
io render all the assistance possible
.awards the completion of the work.
This information, after being tabu
,ated by experts, is taken back to the
( unties, where the several Protestant
!* nominations with churches in the
ounty co-operatively study it and de
.ie on the county’s church needs.
Recommendations are made by the
> ounty churches of each denomina
tion that so desires, to the denomi
national home mission, Sunday school
md other hoards so that these boards
, an co-operate intelligently and effec
tively witli'the local county church
organizations.
The Interchurch World Movement
1s attempting to do its work on a
. democratic basis. It is neither dictat
ing nor attempting to dictate to any
sburch or denomination what shall be
bme. The denominations in each
Bounty must decide unanimously
uuong themselves on any joint coun
‘tv program for church betterment be
fore it is adopted or undertaken with
' e co-operation of the Interchurch
World Movement. The survey depart*
v '-fnt is design* and to help build up and
meet the needs of the local churches
..i.'.rough tt'o local and county denomi
national interests.
An Intwoliurch World Movement
nrvey cf ;i county develops facts as to
tl’-p county’s geographical location and
the general character of its agricul
tural. commercial and industrial life,
its road system and means of inter
• t mmunlcation, public school system
. nd other educational institutions, wel
, f ire and benevolent institutions, other
organizations and individuals engag
d in public service for the entire
county.
Accompanying a general survey of
a county is a more detailed survey of
each community, a community being
regarded as a unit of territory and
population characterized by common
■economic and social experiences and
-interests.
Tluj community survey designates
'he outline and location of the com
munity on information acquired from
storekeepers, bankers and other in
formed persons. Territory not defi
nitely included within the limits of
my trade community is considered in
connection with the communities to
which it is contiguous and to which
t most closely related. Thus no
* wea is omitted in the enumeration of
population and other statistical in
' ormation. The survey takes account
of the community’s economic condi
tions, such as natural resources, chief
sources of income, soil, climate am\
inarket conditions, relations of farm
ers and business men. industrial data,
etc. The social life and organizations
of the community are covered in de
ad, together with other information
-o throw light on the state of the so
cial mind.
The third link in the survey chain
'is the survey of each church in eacl*
' community. This sets out tips loca
lion, denomination, minister, date of
organization, descriptive data as to
buildings and equipment, membership,
-j-egular and special meetings and tab
ulated results therefrom, statistics as
io area covered by the parish, number
f families reached, parish problems
■wnd other data to give a comprehen
sive vision of the parish, and supple
mented by information as to the pro
gram of work outlined for the church
■by the pastor and the official boards.
The triple surveys—county, com
munty and church—assemble all in
formation that may be needed to aid
the individual churches and denomi
nations in working out their present
problems and future programs of de
velopment, so that wasted effort may
Oie eliminated and unproductive ae
'J*Hies of each may be
rulin' rred to productive fields,
i The need of such a systematic study
'of church conditions is apparent by
the results of investigation already
made in somo sections of the South,
if the churches are to accomplish the
greatest possible amount of good. The
conditions found to exist in some
quarters are rather startling. In one
county in the South, for instance,
there are 44 churches, of which 14
are dead and only 16 of which main*
■'aia Sunday schools.
CHURCHES PLAN
BUSY PROGRAM
Interchurch World Movement
Outlines Activities In South
For Months Ahead
Beginning with a campaign of edu
cation of the ciiuroh member to his
financial obligation to the church, a
comprehensive and continuous pro
gram of activities from the present
time through the month of June has
been decided upon by the Interchurch
World Movement in the South. This
campaign of education in the duty of
giving to the support of religious ac
tivities is commonly known in the
movement as the Stewardship cam
paign. It will culminate on Washing
ton’s Birthday in the observance of
National Stewardship Enrollment Day
in all churches participating in the
movement, February 22 this year
chancing to fall on Sunday.
The Stewardship enrollment observ
ance will be followed by the observ
ance of Sunday, February 29th, as
Life Enlistment Day of Prayer for
Students. February this year, for the
first time in forty years, will have five
Sundays. This fifth Sunday observ
ance is to be made a day of signifi
cance throughout the Interchurch
Little Maids in the “Moon Door
Symbol of the Hope of New Chin
Glinling College, at Nanking, Is Girls' School in Five Provinces With Popula
tion of 11,1,000,000 —Interchurch World Movement to Aid Institution.
The way to all things at Ginling lies
through the moon door. And through
the moon door on the way to wisdom
r>ass and repass, every day, the 70
Chinese maidens of the “gung-gwap.”
The moon door at Ginling is round
is the full moon, whence it has its
lame. And the Chinese maiden, as
ihe steps over its high sill, may spread
wide her arms and still not touch its
rim with the tips of her fingers.
Sometimes across the court yard is
mother moon door, and beyond it. like
l smaller concentric circle, still an
other, leading on through that Chinese
puzzle of a house, the "gung-gwan” or
official residence at Nanking. China,
which is now the home of Ginling Col
lege for Chinese girls—one of the
three women s'colleges in all China.
The moon door is but. a single fea
ture of the old place. Once inside the
nigh stone walls that enclose it cne is
lost in a maze of courts and galleries
ir.d covered passages and isolated
rooms.
The whole is China, old China and
new. The moon doors and the archi
tecture as a whole lend the dignity
and the greatness of old China, But
the laboratories and and armitories, libra
ries and studies made from the old
rooms of state and ceremony are mod
rn; just as the force of America is
behind it jdt, represented by the five
American missionary organizations
,> t- r>ANr r c VILI.E MONITOR, PANIELSVILLE. CiA.
World Movement’s organization.
The month of March is to be given
oger to the promotion of the campaign
for life-work and evangelism, culmi
natiug in the observance of Acknowl
edgment Day on Palm Sunday, which
this year falls on March 28th. Every
church taking part in the movement
is expected to hold special evangelis
tic services during the month. Dur
ing March also there are to be held
a series of state pastors’ conferences
In the principal cities of the South
to bring the pastors more closely in
touch with the purposes and scope ot
the Interchurch World Movement in
its relation to the individual church
community ard denomination.
Join the Church Day and Commit
ment Day, when thousands of new
members are expected to be received
into the churches in the South, will
be observed on Easter Sunday, April
4th. This day will be marked by a
great ingathering of- Christians in the
churches inspired with the thought
and determination of doing a greater
service for Christianity.
The nexC fortnight in April will he
spent in active preparation for the
great financial campaign to be con
ducted April 21st to May 2d, inclu
?ive. Local teams and committees
will be organized and thoroughly drill
ed in the duties to be expected oi
them in the making of this canvass
for funds to carry out the constructive
program of the churches.
Throughout May and the early pari
of June the Movement will be directed
toward the organization and perfeo
tion of conservation and extension
plans. Later in June summer confer
ences of missionary education will be
gin.
FOR SERVICE
Registered 0. I. C. Boar for ser
vice. $2.50 fee. See him at the
Adams Stock Farm.
W. F. HARWELL,
Danielsville, Ga.
and the American Smith College
which maintain Ginling, is modern.
One pushes ajar the halves of a
moon door, latticed over paper * in
plum blossom and honeycomb design,
hod enters a chemical laboratory set
u> in a room with 20 windows, each
framed In dragon tracery. And from
the flagstones of the laboratory floor,
often is scraped fungi and mould for
use under the microscope*
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These are typical contrasts of Gin
ling College, revealed through the
survey of the Chinese field now being
made *by the Interchurch World
Movement, which seeks to promote the
closer co-operation of Protestant
Churches of America in attaining their
world aims.
Ginling College, the survey shows,
is at the heart of five Chinese prov
inces, with a total population of 110,-
000,000 —and is the only woman's col
lege in that great area. •
Ginling owns 37 acres of land on
the hills beside the Yangtze river. In
the Interchurch World Movement sur
vey of <!fhina, there is a budget Item
of |5C0,000. It is there to show the
churches of America how they can
place upon that land on the hill the
library, administration building, reci
tation buildings, chapel—all that are
needed for a modem college.
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By using the Aladdin Mantle Lanin
l *pi
This lamp burns kerosene. It g j Ve
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pumping. Eor further information
apply to
W. J. Russunr, Agent
Route 4, Danielsville, Ga.
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