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 GENERAL CONFERENCE 
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 Twenty-eighth Session 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, May 12, 1921 
 
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RULES OF ORDER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 General Conference of the 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
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RULES OF ORDER 
 
 Rule 1. OigaiiizalioM. — When tlie (ieiieral Coiiferenee has heen eoiivened 
 in accordance with the provisions of the Discipline, after devotional exercises, 
 and calling of the roll, if a quorum is present, it shall proceed to organize, hy the 
 election of a reading secretary hy hallot, if there he more than one nomination; 
 otherwise hy acclamation; it shall also elect as many reading secretaries as 
 deemed necessary. 
 
 TIME OF MEETING AND ADJOURNMENT 
 
 Rule 2. After the opening session, the (icnetal Conference ■^hall meet at 
 8:30 a.m., and 2:00 p.m.; hut the General Conference, at its discretion, may alter 
 the time of meeting, and may adjourn, and fix the time to which it shall atljourn. 
 
 THE PRESIDING BISHOP 
 
 Rule 3. The presiding Bishop shall take the chair precisely at the hour to 
 A\hich the conference adjourned, and cause the session to he opened with read- 
 ing of the Scriptures, singin.^, and prayer at the morning session. On the ap- 
 pearance of a quorum, he shall have the journal of the preceding day's session 
 read and approved, and sliail see that the Imsincss of the conference proceed in 
 regular order according to these Rules of Order, and such other rules and regula- 
 tions as may be adopted by the General Conference. 
 
 Rule 4. The presiding Bishop shall decide all questions of order, subject 
 to an appeal to the conference. In case of such appeal the question shall be 
 taken without debate, except that the appellant may state the grounds of his 
 appeal, and that the presiding Bishop may state the grounds of his decision. 
 
 Rule 5. The presiding Bishop shall appoint all committees, unless other- 
 wise specially'. ordered by the conference. 
 
 Rule 6. On assigning the floor to a member, the presiding Bishop shall 
 distinctly announce the name of the member to whom it is assigned and the 
 annual conference represented by said member. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS 
 Rule 7. The regular order of business for the morning session shall be: 
 
 (1) Devotional services. 
 
 (2) Roll Call. 
 
 (3) Reading and approving of the journal. 
 
 (4) Call of the conferences for the presentation of appeals, memorials, 
 resolutions, and petitions, for immediate passage. 
 
 (5) Reports of standing committees. 
 
 (6) Reports of special committees. 
 
 (7) Miscellaneous business. 
 For other sessions it s'hall be: 
 
 (1) Devotions. 
 
 (2) Business. 
 
 DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS 
 
 Rule 8, When a member is about to speak in debate, or to bring any mat- 
 ter before the conference, he shall rise in his place and respectfully address the 
 presiding Bishop and announce his name and conference, but shall not pro- 
 ceed until recognized by the chair. 
 
 Rule 9. Xo member shall be interrupted when speaking, except by the 
 presiding Bishop to call him to order when he departs from the question or 
 uses personalities or disrespectful language; but any member may call the at- 
 tention of the presiding Bishop to the subject when be deems the speaker out 
 of order and any member may explain when he thinks himself misrepresented, 
 the speaker holding the floor. 
 
 Rule 10. When a member desires to speak to a question of privilege, he 
 shall state the question; but it shall not be in order for him to proceed unti' 
 the presiding Bishop shall have decided it a privileged question. 
 
Rule 11. No person shall speak more than twice on the same question, nor 
 more than ten minutes at one time without leave of the conference; nor shall 
 anj' member speak more than once until every member choosing to speak shall 
 .have spoken; provided, however, that a committee making a report shall in 
 all cases through its chairman, or one of the members selected by the committee 
 or its chairman, be entitled to ten minutes to close the debate, either to oppose 
 the motion to lay the report on the table, or, this permission not having been 
 used, to close the debate on the motion to adopt. The committee shall not be 
 deprived of its right to close the debate even after the previous question has 
 been ordered, and when a report consisting of two or more propositions has a 
 seriatim consideration, the chairman or representative of the committee shall 
 be entitled to the same rights and privileges on each proposition thus decided 
 separately, as he would have if the report was considered as a whole. 
 
 Rule 12. No member shall absent himself from the sessions of the con- 
 ference unless he is sick or otherwise unable to attend, or unless excused by the 
 conference. 
 
 Rule 13. Members presenting memorials, petitions, resolutions, and other 
 papers for reference, after reading the text or by title, shall, unannounced, de- 
 liver them directlj" to the secretary in triplicate to be by him, sent to the proper 
 committee and announced in the journal of the day. 
 
 MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Rule 14. Resolutions shall be presented in writing by the mover. All mo- 
 tions shall be reduced to writing, if the presiding Bishop, secretary, or any 
 two members request it. If the conference refer a resolution to a committee, 
 the mover shall furnish the secretary a second copy for the use of the com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Rule 15. All reports, resolutions, and written motions, after the first read- 
 ing, shall be passed to the secretary to be read by him as the conference may 
 require. 
 
 Rule 16. No new motion or resolution shall be entertained until the one 
 under consideration has been disposed of, which may be done by adoption or 
 rejection; but one or more of the following motions may be made and they shall 
 take precedence in the order in which they are here placed, namely: 
 
 (1) To fix the time to adjourn (may be amended, substituted, or laid 
 on the table). 
 
 (2) To adjourn. 
 
 (3) To take a recess. 
 
 (4) To lay on the table. 
 
 (5) For the previous question (cannot be laid on the table). 
 
 (6) To postpone to a given time. 
 
 (7) To refer. 
 
 (8) To substitute. 
 
 (9) To amend. 
 
 (10) To postpone indefinitely. 
 
 Rule 17. When a report is presented and read or stated by the presiding 
 Bishop or a resolution is introduced and seconded, or a motion is made and 
 seconded, and stated by the chair, it shall f>e deemed in possession of the con- 
 ference. 
 
 Rule 18. Any motion or resolution may be withdrawn by the mover at any 
 time before amendment or decision; if objection be made to withdrawal, a vote 
 on the motion to grant leave to withdraw shall be taken without debate. 
 
 Rule 19. The following motions shall be put. without debate. 
 
 (1) To adjourn. 
 
 (2) To suspend the rules. 
 
 (3) To lay on the table. 
 
 (4) To take from the table. 
 
 (5) The question of consideration. I 
 
 (6) The call for the previous question. 
 
 (7) To reconsider a non-debatable motion. 
 
 (8) To postpone indefinitely. 
 
Rule 20. Only one amendment to an amendment shall he in order, hut a 
 suhstitute for both amendments may he received, which substitute may he 
 amended, and if the substitute be adopted, it shall operate as an amendment to 
 the original proposition. 
 
 Rul<^ 21. On the call of a member a question shall be divided if it is 
 divisible into distinct propositions. 
 
 Rule 22. It shall lie in order to move the previous question, that is, that 
 the motion be taken without further debate, on any measure, except in cases in 
 which character is involved, and if sustameil by a two-thirds vote, the (juestion 
 shall be taken; nevertheless, it shall be in order under this rule to refer or to 
 recommit (on either of which the vote shall be taken without debate) to divide 
 or to lay on the table, after the previous question has been ordered. It shall 
 not be in order for a member to move the previous question or to lay on the 
 table at the close of a speech in which he has discussed the pending question. 
 
 Rule 23. The motion to adjourn shall be taken without debate, and shall 
 always be in order, except: 
 
 (1) When a member has the floor. 
 
 (2) When a question is actually put, or a vote is being taken, or until 
 finally decided. 
 
 (3) When a question is pending on sustaining the demand for the 
 previous question. 
 
 (4) When the previous question has been called and sustained and 
 action under it is pending. 
 
 (5) When a motion to adjourn has been lost and no motion or debate 
 has intervened. 
 
 (6) When a motion to fix the time to which the conference shall 
 adjourn to is pending. 
 
 Rule 24. Reconsideration. — When any motion or resolution shall have been 
 • acted upon by the conference, it shall be in order for any member who voted 
 with the prevailing side, to move a reconsideration. A motion to reconsider a 
 non-debatable motion shall be decided without debate. A motion to reconsider 
 must be made on the same day in which the action was taken or the succeeding 
 da}'. 
 
 Rule 25. No resolution or report which proposes a change in the Dis- 
 cipline shall be considered until it has been in possession of the conference for 
 one day; but when it is under consideration, amendments which are germaine 
 and duly presented shall be in order. 
 
 Rule 26. Changes of Discipline. — AM reports or resolutions proposing 
 changes in Discipline shall not only recite the paragraph and line proposed to 
 be amended, but also the paragraph as amended complete. 
 
 Rule 27. When any member shall move the reference of any portion of the 
 journal of an annual conference to any committee, he shall, at the same time, 
 furnish a copy of the portion he wishes referred, prepared as in the case of 
 memorials. 
 
 Rule 28. There shall be nominated for Church boards two times as many 
 members as are to be elected, and as far as practicable the nominees shall be 
 selected from different sections of the Church. 
 
 Rule 29. There shall not be reported as coming from the committee any 
 matter which has not been considered and acti'd upon by the committee didy 
 assembled. 
 
 Rule 30. Committees shall not originate business, but shall consider all 
 subjects referred to them by the General Conference. A committee shall not 
 consider a matter which the General Conference has refused to refer to it. 
 
 Rule 31. The reports of all standing committees shall be made in triplicate 
 and shall be printed in sufficient numbers to supply every member of the con- 
 ference with a copy of each report. 
 
 This rule shall be in force in all ca^es, except where the General Con- 
 ference shall otherwise order. 
 
VOTING 
 
 Rule 2)2. Every member \\\\o is within the bar at the time the question is 
 put shall vote, unless the conference, for special reasons, excuses him. 
 
 Rule a. No member shall be allowed to vote on any question who is not 
 within the bar at the time such questions are put by the presiding Bishop, ex- 
 cept by leave of conference. 
 
 Rule 34. Voting shall be by the uplifted hand; but on a decision of the 
 house, the delegates shall rise in their places, and stand until they have been 
 counted. Votes may also be taken by ballot and by Ayes and Noes. 
 
 Rule 35. Ayes and Noes. — It shall be in order for any member to call for 
 the Ayes and Noes on any question before the conference, and if sustained by 
 forty members, the vote thereon shall be taken by Ayes and Noes. If not 
 sustained, members voting in the minority, if the number voting in said minor- 
 ity is less than forty, may have their votes recorded bj' name. 
 
 Rule 7)6. Order of Voting. — In voting, when amendments and a substitute 
 have been proposed to the original resolution, and an amendment to the sub- 
 stitute has been moved, the conference shall pursue the following order, namely: 
 
 The main question shall first be perfected by voting on the amendments 
 proposed thereto, and then the conference shall vote upon the question of sub- 
 stitution, and finally upon the question of adoption. 
 
 Rule 37. A call for a vote by orders shall be made and seconded by mem- 
 bers of the same order and shall require one-fourth of the order of delegates 
 present and voting. 
 
 Rule 38. When voting by orders, the separation shall be merely in re- 
 gard to the taking, announcing, and recording the vote of each order on the 
 question on which the separate vote is demanded. Any incidental matter bear- 
 ing upon such vote shall be decided by the conference acting as one body. 
 In taking a vote by orders, it shall be by count vote, first of the order calling 
 for the separate vote, and then of the other; but either order may call for 
 the Ayes and Noes by one-fourth of its members; and if the call is sustained, 
 the names of the delegates, first of the order calling and then of the other, shall 
 be called and each member shall answer Aye or No. 
 
 Rule 39. Members presenting memorials, petitions, and any other papers 
 for reference, shall prepare each paper by writing on the back of the outer 
 paper the following items in order, namely: 
 
 (\) Name of person presenting it. 
 
 (2) Conference sending it. 
 
 (3) Number of petitioners. 
 
 .(4) Subject to which it relates. 
 
 MEMORIALS, PAPERS, AND PETITIONS FOR REFERENCE 
 
 Rule 40. Memorials. — Two copies of memorials, resolutions, and miscel- 
 laneous papers presented for reference to a committee and not for immediate 
 consideration, shall be placed in the hands of the secretary without announce- 
 ment, and bv him shall be sent to the Piroper committee and announced in the 
 journal of the day. 
 
 Rule 41. There shall l)e the following General Conference Committees: 
 
 (1) Credentials. 
 
 (2) State of the Church and Evangelism. 
 
 (3) Boundaries. 
 
 (4) Temporal Economy and Salaries. 
 
 (5) Publishing Interests and Church Literature. 
 
 (6) Home Missions and Church Erection. 
 
 (7) Foreign Missions. 
 
 (8) Bonebrake Seminary and the Ministry. 
 
 (9) Education. 
 
 (10) Sunday Schools and Christian Endeavor. 
 
(11) 
 
 (12) 
 (13) 
 (14) 
 (15) 
 
 Temperance, Prohilntion, ;iiul Social Advance. 
 
 Nominations. 
 
 Goals and Program. 
 
 Pensions, Homes, and Orphanages. 
 
 Revision and Church Discipline. 
 
 Other committees may be api)ointed as determined l)y tlie Bishops of this 
 General Conference. 
 
 Rule 42. Reference of Memorials, etc. — Tlie reference of memorials, peti- 
 tions, resohitions, etc., to the several standing committees, shall he determined 
 by presiding Bishop. 
 
 Rule 43. A majority of its memlicrs shall constitute a business q\iorimi of 
 a standing committee. 
 
 Rule 44. All elections of officers shall be by ballot, and a majority of all 
 the votes cast shall be necessary to a choice. 
 
 The acceptance of office shall be considered a pledge that the officer will 
 devote his time and talents wholly to the duties of the office to which he is 
 elected. 
 
 Rule 45. The elections of the general officers of the Cluirch sliall begin on 
 Wednesday of the second week of the Conference Session, and sliall l)e in onler 
 as follows: 
 
 Bishops. 
 
 Publishing Agent. 
 
 Editors of The Telescope. 
 
 Editor of The Watchword. 
 
 Editors of S(mday-school Literature. 
 
 General Secretary Sunday-school Board. 
 
 Foreign Missionary Secretary-. 
 
 Church Erection Secretary. 
 
 Home Missionary Secretary. 
 
 General Church Treasurer. 
 
 Manager Bonebrake Seminary. 
 
 Trustees Bonebrake Seminary. 
 
 Board of Education. 
 
 Trustees Publishing House. 
 
 Home Missionary Board. 
 
 Foreign Missionary Board. 
 
 Church Erection Board. 
 
 Sunday-school and Young Pcoi)le's Board. 
 
 Board of Church Trustees. 
 
 (1) 
 
 (2) 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 
 (7) 
 
 (8) 
 
 (9) 
 
 (10) 
 
 (11) 
 
 (12) 
 
 (13) 
 
 (14) 
 
 (15) 
 
 (16) 
 
 (17) 
 
 (18) 
 
 (19) 
 
 Rule 46. 
 
 Demonstration of approval or disapproval during the progress 
 
 of debate shall be deemed a breach of order. 
 
 Rule 47. The ushers shall keep the aisles clear for their proper use, and 
 none but delegates, pages, and ushers shall be admitted within the inclosure 
 reserved for delegates. 
 
 Rule 48. In all matters not included in these rules the General Conference 
 shall be governed by Robert's Rules of Order. 
 
 Rule 49. These rules shall not be suspended or changed except by a two- 
 thirds vote of the members present and voting. 
 
 Rule 50. Resolved, That all reports of committees to which reports of De- 
 partment Boards and Secretaries have referred or which have to do with de- 
 partmental work, shall be made to the conference not later than. Monday, 
 May 16. 
 
4 
 
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 Program, Rules, Committees and 
 Reports 
 
 GENERAL CONFERENCE 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 
 1. Program of the General Conference. 
 
 2. List of Delegates. 
 
 3. Rules of Order. 
 
 4. Committees. 
 
 5. Recommendations of the Board of Administration. 
 
 6. Quadrennial report of Board of Bishops. 
 
 7. Report of East District. 
 
 8. Report of Central District. 
 
 9. Report of Northwest District. 
 
 10. Report of Southwest District. 
 
 11. Report of Pacific District. 
 
 12. Publishing Interests. 
 
 13. Commission on Evangelism. 
 
 14. Home Missions. 
 
 15. Church Erection. 
 
 16. Foreign Missions. 
 
 17. Sunday Schools. 
 
 18. Young People's Work. 
 
 19. Board of Education. 
 
 20. Bonebrake Theological Seminary. 
 
 (1) Report of General Manager. 
 
 (2) Report of President. 
 
 21. Report of Board of Administration. 
 
 22. Otterbein Home. 
 
 23. Quincy Orphanage. 
 
 24. General Church Treasurer. 
 25. 
 
 26. 
 27. 
 28. 
 29. 
 30. 
 
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General Outline of Daily Program 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Church of the United Brethren 
 
 In Christ 
 
 TO CONVENE IN 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12-23, 1921 
 
Opening Session, Thursday, May 12, 2:00 p.m. 
 Hishop W illiain M. i'.cll, D.I). prisidiiiK 
 Doxology 
 Invocation — Dr. George A. Funkhoiiser. 
 
 Apostles Creed— CoiijjrcRafion staiuliiif,'. each dolcKuU" speaking in liis own 
 
 tongue. 
 Song — "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Cod .Mniighty." 
 Old Testament Lesson, Psalm 11 — Or. Josiah P. Landis. 
 
 \e\v Testament Lesson, Eph. .^:14-21 — P.islioj) William H. \\'a>>liin:.4er. D.I). 
 Opening Remarks — Hishop William M. lUll, D.I). 
 Song — "The Church's One Foundation. " 
 Quadrennial Address — Bishop Hinry II. Font, D.D. 
 Roll Call. 
 
 Announcement of Committees. 
 Organization. 
 Prayer and Benediction liy I'ishop William M. Weeklcy, D.D. 
 
 Thursday Evening Functions 
 Informal reception of delegates on mezzanine floor of ITotej Lincoln. 
 Functions in charge of ^fr. Harper J. Ranshur.g, Chairman of Reception an! 
 
 Social Committee. 
 8:00 p.m. Public Reception at Tf)mlinson Hall. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart. D.D.. presiding. 
 Music in charge of Rev. Rav G. l'i"^on. 
 Prayer— Rev. J. W. Lake, D.D. 
 
 Greetings from local churches — Rev. C. C. Gohn. D.D. 
 Greetings from White River Conference — Rev. J. F. Shannrn. D.D. 
 Greetings from the City ^finisterial Association — Rev. C. H. Wind'-rs. D.D. 
 Welcome by Hon. Charles W. Jewitt. Mayor of Indianapolis. 
 Response- Rev. Arthur B. Station, D.D. 
 Response — Professor Mark Keppel. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bi.-^hop William H. Washingcr. D.D.. presiding. 
 Devotional Address by Bishop .Mfrcd T. Howard, !>.D. 
 Business 
 
 Reports of Bishops 
 Intercession. 
 Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1:30 p.m. 
 Bishop Alfred T. Howard. D.D.. presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneons Business. 
 
 Reports of Secretaries of the General Departments. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening Session — 8:C0 p.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Annivcrsarj' of the Board of Home Missions and Churcli Krection. 
 Rev. P. M. Camp. D.D., Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. 
 Rev. A. C. Siddall, D.D., Secretary of the P.oard of Church Erection, 
 
Saturday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Statement from the General Secretaries Concerning the Outlook and Program 
 for the New Quadrennium and the Means Necessary for the Pro- 
 motion and Work of the Various Departments. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishop. 
 A Summary of Our Needs and Resources. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Sunday Morning Session £ 
 
 Sunday school 9:00 a.m. — Hon. Jay M. Cogan, Superintendent. 
 The Four United Brethren Sundaj- schools of the city will unite in this great 
 
 gathering of the Sunday school forces. 
 10:30 a.m.— Sermon by Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 
 Sunday Afternoon Session — 2:30 p.m. 
 
 .Anniversary of the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Boards. 
 Rev. Charles W. Brevvbaker, D.D., Secretary Sunday-school Board. 
 Rev. O. T. Dcever, D.D., Secretary Christian Endeavor Board. 
 
 Sunday Evening Session — 7:30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of Foreign Missions. 
 Program in charge of Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D. 
 
 Monday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. W^eekley, D.D. 
 
 Business. (I 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Monday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. " 
 
 Business. 
 
 Report of Committee on Memoirs. 
 
 Memorial .Address — Rev. J. P. Landis, D.D. of Bonebrake Theological Seminary. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 I 
 
 Monday Evening Session — 7:30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of lulucation. 
 
 Program in charge of Dr. William E. Schell, Secretary of the Board of 
 Education. 
 
Tuesday Morning Session— 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Alfred T. Howard. D.I)., presiding. 
 . Devotional Address- l'.i>Iu,p Willia,,, l|. WashinRcr. 1) I) 
 Business. 
 
 Reports of Standiiij; Couiniiitccs. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Tuesday Afternoon Session— 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop William M. Bell. \:>.Vi., presiding. 
 Devotions in cliarije of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Dele,t,'atcs from the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. South 
 Evangelical Association 
 United Evangelical Association 
 Methodist Protestant Church 
 Response. 
 
 Reports of Standing Commiitees. 
 Intercession, .\djournment. 
 
 Tuesday Evening Session— 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address— "The Preacher and His Task," Senator Albert J. Beveridgc. 
 No admission will he charged to this lecture. 
 
 Wednesday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart. D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address— Bishop Alfred T. Howard. D.D. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Special Order— Election of Oftkers. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Afternoon Session— 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop Henry H. Fout, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Elections continued as Special Order. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. ♦ Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Evening Session — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address— "Brother or Brute"— Col. William Jenniiig.-, Bryan. 
 No admission will he charged to this lecture. 
 
 Thursday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger. D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address— Bishop Henry H. Eout, D.D. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Thursday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Delegates from the 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
 Presbyterian Church 
 
 Disciples of Christ 
 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Response. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Thursday Evening — 8:00 p.in. 
 
 Program in charge of the Commission on Temperance. 
 
 Hon. A. S. Kreider, presiding. 
 
 Report of Commission by Hon. Jesse E. Eschbach. 
 
 Message from Dr. Howard Russell, Chairman of the Commission. 
 
 Address — Rev. S. E. Shumaker, D.D., Secretary Anti-Saloon League of Indiana. 
 
 Special Music. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kcphart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening — 7:30 p.m. 
 Bishop William M. Weekley, D.D., presiding. 
 Anniversary Benevolent Homes. 
 
 Stereopticon views of Quincy Orphanage. 
 
 Concert l)y Otterbein Home Band. 
 
 Saturday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Pout, D.D:, presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D. D. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Report of the Committee on Goals and Program. 
 Open Parliament on the Promotion of the Quadrennial Program. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p. m. 
 Bishop Wm. M. Bell, D.D., presiding. ' 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Parliament on New Program Continued. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Saturday Evening — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Sunday Morning 
 
 9:00— Sunday School. 11,,,,. Jay M. Coi,^an. Sui)erintciulcnt. 
 10:30— Bishop William II. Washinger. D.D. 
 
 T'lirther program in the hands of thr I'.oard of I'.ishops. 
 
 The music of the General Conference will he in charRe of Rev. Kay G. 
 Upson assisted by Rev. J. F. Hatton. 
 
 The followinsi- is a list of the chairmen of local committees: 
 
 General Conference Committee on Entertainment of Delegates 
 G. A. Everett, Chairman 
 U. E. Bethel 
 Herbert Ranshurc;: 
 Mrs. W. R. Mumma 
 Mrs. G. A. Everett 
 Miss Nina Ranshurj? 
 Miss Maud Carlisle 
 Miss Maude Tatum 
 Miss Lou Rubush 
 Mrs. Effie PUirdscll 
 
 Chairmen of Local Committees 
 General Committee — l^r. C. C. Gohn. 
 Social and Reception Committee — Hari.ier J. Ransbnrg. 
 Finance Committee — S. P. Matthews. 
 Hal! and Arrangements — W. R. Mumma. 
 Ushers and Entrances — Harry Greulich. 
 Churches and Other Meeting Places — E. Howard Cadle. 
 Ministerial Supply — Dr. J. B. Parsons. 
 
 Courtesy Committee— Dr. S. E. Long, Dr. C. C. Gohn. Dr. I. 11. I'arsons. 
 Dr. O. P. Cooper. 
 
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General Outline of Daily Program 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Church of the United Brethren 
 
 In Christ 
 
 TO CONVENE IN 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12-23, 1921 
 
 -a 
 
 I 
 
 f 
 
Opening Session, Thursday, May 12, 2:00 p.m. 
 
 Bishop W'iUiani AI. Bell, D.l). prcsidinir 
 
 Doxology 
 
 Invocation — Dr. George A. Funkhonser. 
 
 Apostles Creed — Congregation standing, each dcioi^atc speaking in iiis own 
 tongue. 
 
 Song — "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God .Mniii^hty." 
 
 Old Testament Lesson, Psalm 72 — Dr. Josiah P. Landis. 
 
 Xew Testament Lesson, Eph. 3:14-21 — Bishop William 11. Wa^hinv-cr, D.D. 
 
 Opening Remarks — Bishop William AL Bell, D.D. 
 
 Song — "The Church's One Foundation."' 
 
 Quadrennial Address— Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D. 
 
 Roll Call. 
 
 Announcement of Committees. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Prayer and Benediction by Bishop William M. ^.\'eekk•y, D.D. 
 
 Thursday Evening Functions 
 Informal reception of delegates on me/zanino floor of Hotel Lincoln. 
 Functions in charge of Mr. Harper J. Ranshurg, Chairman of Reception anri 
 
 Social Committee. 
 8:00 p.m. Public Reception at Tomlinson Hall. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D.. i)residing. 
 Music in charge of Rev. Ray G. Upson. 
 Prayer— Rev. T. W^ Lake, D.D. 
 
 Greetings from local churches — Rev. C. C. Gohn. D.D. 
 Greetings from White River Conference — Rev. J. E. Shannon. D.D. 
 Greetings from the City ^Ministerial Association — Rev. C. H. Winders. D 1). 
 Welcome by Hon. Charles W\ Jewitt. Mayor of Indianapolis. 
 Response — Rev. Arthur B. Statton, D.D. 
 Response — Professor Mark Keppel. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishoi:) William H. Washinger, D.IX. presiding. 
 
 Devotional Address by Bishop Alfred T. Howard. D.D. 
 
 Business , 
 
 Reports of Bishops 
 
 Intercession. 
 
 Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1:30 p.m. 
 Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishoj). 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Reports of Secretaries of the General Departments. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening Session — 8:C0 p m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. , 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Erection. 
 Rev. P. AL Camp, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Home Mission'^. 
 Rev. A. C. Siddall, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Church Erection. 
 
Saturday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. . 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Statement from the General Secretaries Concerning the Outlook and Program 
 for the New Quadrennium and the Means Necessary for the Pro- 
 motion and Work of the V^arious Departments. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishop. 
 A Summary of Our Needs and Resources. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Sunday Morning Session 
 
 Sunday school 9:00 a.m. — Hon. Jay M. Cogan, Superintendent. 
 
 The Four United Brethren Sunday schools of the city will unite in this great 
 
 gathering of the Sunday school forces. 
 10:30 a.m.— Sermon hy Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 
 Sunday Afternoon Session — 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Boards. 
 Rev. Charles W. Brewbaker, D.D., Secretary Sunday-school Board. 
 Rev. O. T. Deever, D.D., Secretary Christian Endeavor Board. 
 
 Sunday Evening Session — 7 :30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of Foreign Alissions. 
 Program in charge of Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D. 
 
 Monday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. Weekley, D.D. 
 Business. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. , 
 
 Monday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Business. 
 
 Report of Committee on Memoirs. 
 
 Memorial Addres.s — Rev. J. P. Laudis, D.D. of Bonebrake Tlieological Seminar}-. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. I 
 
 Monday Evening Session — 7:30 p.m. 
 .Anniversary of the Board of Education. 
 
 Program in charge of Dr. William E. Schell, Secretary of the Board of 
 E^lucation. 
 
Tuesday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Uisliop Alfred T. Howard, D.H., jjrcsiding. 
 
 Devotional Address — Hislio]) William II. Wasliin^rer, D.l). 
 
 Business. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Tuesday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Delegates from the 
 
 Methodist P'piscopal Church, South 
 
 Evangelical Association 
 
 United Evangelical Association 
 
 Methodist Protestant Church 
 
 Response. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Tuesday Evening Session — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address — "The Preacher and His Task," Senator Albert J. Beveridgc. 
 No admission will lie charged to this lecture. 
 
 Wednesday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop Cj^rus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Special Order— Election of Officers. 
 
 Reports of Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Elections continued as Special Order. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Evening Session — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address — "Brother or Brute"— Col._ William Jennings Bryan. 
 No admission will be charged to this lecture. 
 
 Thursday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — l>ishop Henry II. I'out, D.D. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Thursday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Delegates from the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church 
 Presbyterian Church 
 Disciples of Christ 
 Congregational Church. 
 Response. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Thursday Evening — 8:00 p.m. 
 Program in charge of the Commission on Temperance. 
 Hon. A, S. Kreider, presiding. 
 
 Report of Commission by Hon. Jesse E. Eschbach. 
 Message from Dr. Howard Russell, Chairman of the Commission. 
 Address — Rev. S. E. Shumaker, D.D., Secretary Anti-Saloon League of Indiana. 
 Special Music. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kcphart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening — 7:30 p.m. 
 Bishop William M. Weekley, D.D., presiding. 
 Anniversary Benevolent Homes. 
 
 Stereopticon views of Quincy Orphanage. • 
 
 Concert by Otterbein Home Band. 
 
 Saturday Mjorning Session — 8:30 a.m. ' 
 
 Bishop Henry H. Pout, D.D., presiding: 
 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D. D. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Report of the Committee on Goals and Program. 
 
 Open Parliament on the Promotion 'of the Quadrennial Program. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. * 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1:30 p. m. i- 
 
 Bishop Wm. M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Parliament on New Program Continued. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Saturday Evening — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Sunday Morning 
 9:00— Sunday School, lion. Jay M. Cogan. Siiperintciuleiit. 
 10:30— Bishop William H. Washingcr, D.D. 
 
 Further program in the hands of the P.oard of I'.ishojjs. 
 
 The music of the General Conference will he in charge of Rev. Ray (i. 
 Upson assisted hy Rev. J. F. Hatton. 
 
 The following is a list of the chairmen of local committees: 
 
 General Conference Committee on Entertainment of Delegates 
 G. A. Everett, Chairman 
 U. E. Bethel 
 Herbert Ranshurg 
 Mrs. W. R. Afumma 
 Mrs. G. A. Everett 
 Miss Nina Ranshurg 
 Miss Maud Carlisle 
 Miss Maude Tatnm 
 Miss Lou Ruhush 
 Mrs. Effic Burdsell 
 
 Chairmen of Local Committees 
 General Committee — Dr. C. C. Gohn. 
 Social and Reception Committee — Harper J. Ranshurg. 
 Finance Committee — S. P. Matthews. 
 Hall and Arrangements — W. R. Mnmma. 
 Ushers and Entrances — Harry Greulich. 
 Churches and Other Meeting Places — E. Howard Cadle. 
 Ministerial Supply — Dr. J. B. Parsons. 
 
 Courtesy Committee — Dr. S. E. Long, Dr. C. C. Gohn, Dr. J. P.. I'arstjn-.. 
 Dr. O. P. Cooper. 
 
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 II 
 
 General Outline of Daily Program 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
 OF THE I 
 
 Church of the United Brethren 
 
 In Christ 
 
 TO CONVENE IN 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12-23. 1921 
 
Opening Session, Thursday, May 12, 2:00 pm 
 
 Bishop \\ illiani M. I'cll, n.D. ])i csidinj; 
 
 Doxology 
 
 Invocation — Dr. George A. Funkhouser. 
 
 Apostles Creed— Congregation standing, each delegate si)eakiKg in liis own 
 tongne. 
 
 Song — "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty."' 
 
 Old Testament Lesson, Psalm 11 — Dr. Josiah P. Laiidis. 
 
 Xew Testament Lesson, Eph. 3:14-21— Bishop William li. Washin-er, D.i). 
 
 Opening Remarks — Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 
 Song — "The Church's One Foundation." 
 
 Quadrennial Address — Bishop Henrv H. Font, D.D. 
 
 Roll Call. 
 
 Announ-cement of Committees. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Prayer and Benediction hy Bishop William ]\L Weekley, D.D. 
 
 Thursday Evening Functions 
 Informal reception of delegates on mezzanine floor of Hotel T inroln. . 
 Functions in charge of Mr. Harper J. Ranshurg, Chairman of Reception and 
 Social Committee. 
 
 8:00 p.m. Public Reception at Tomlinson Hall. 
 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart. D.D., presidin.g. 
 
 Music in charge of Rev. Ray G. Upson. 
 
 Prayer— Rev. J. W. Lake, D.D. 
 
 Greetings from local churches — Rev. C. C. Gohu. D.D. 
 
 Greetings from W^hite River Conference — Rev. J. E. Shannrn, D.D. 
 
 Greetings from the City Ministerial Association — Rev. C. H. W'ndcrs. D.D. 
 
 Welcome bv Hon. Charles W. Jewitt. Mayor of Indianapolis. 
 
 Response — Rev. Arthur B. Station, D.D. 
 
 Response — Professor Mark Keppel. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop William H. Wasliint^'cr, D.D., i^rcsiding. 
 Devotional Address by Bishop .Alfred '!". Howard. D.D. 
 Business 
 
 Reports of Bishops 
 Intercession. 
 Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop Alfred T. l^oward. D.D., jiresiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Reports of Secretaries of the General Department.-. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening Session — 8:C0 p.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Erection. 
 Rev. P. M. Camp. D.D., Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. 
 Rev. A. C. Siddall, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Church Erection. 
 
Saturday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Statement from the General Secretaries Concerning the Outlook and Program 
 for the New Quadrenniuni and the Means Necessary for the Pro- 
 motion and Work of the V^arious Departments. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of the presiding Bishop. 
 A Summary of Our Needs and Resources. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Sunday Morning Session 
 
 Sunday school 9:00 a.m. — Hon. Jay M. Cogan, Superintendent. 
 
 The Four United Brethren Sundaj' schools of the city will unite in this great 
 
 gathering of the Sunday school forces. 
 10:30 a.m.— Sermon by Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 
 Sunday Afternoon Session — 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Boards. 
 Rev. Charles W. Brewbaker, D.D., Secretary Sunday-school Board. 
 Rev. O. T. Deever, D.D., Secretary Christian Endeavor Board. 
 
 Sunday Evening Session — 7:30 p.m. 
 
 Anniversary of the Board of Foreign Alissions. 
 Program in charge of Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D. 
 
 Monday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. Weekley, D.D. 
 Business. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Monday Afternoon Sfession — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 lousiness. 
 
 Report of Committee on Memoirs. 
 
 Memorial Addres.s — Rev. J. P. Landis, D.D. of BoncI)rake Theological Seminary. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. . 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Monday Evening Session — 7:30 p.m. 
 
 .Anniversary of the lioard of Education. 
 
 Program in charge of Dr. William E. Schell, Secretary of tlie Board of 
 Education. 
 
Tuesday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop Alfred T. lloward. ]).n., prcsidinti. 
 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William II. \\'asliiii,i.;er. I). I), 
 
 Business. 
 
 Reports of Standing' Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Tuesday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Delegates from the 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 Evangelical Association 
 
 United Evangelical Association 
 
 Methodist Protestant Church 
 
 Response. 
 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Tuesday Evening Session— 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address — "The Preacher and His Task," Senator Albert J. Beveridge. 
 No admission will he charged to this lecture. 
 
 Wednesday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Alfred T. Howard, D.D. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Special Order — Election of Officers. 
 
 Reports of Committees. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop Henry H. Pout, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Elections continued as Special Order. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Wednesday Evening Session — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Address — "Brother or Brule" — Col. William Jennings I'.ryan. 
 No admission will be charged to this lecture. 
 
 Thursday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Thursday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 2:30 Reception of Fraternal Delegates from the 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
 Presbyterian Church 
 
 Disciples of Christ 
 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Response. 
 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Thursday Evening — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Program in charge of the Commission on Temperance. 
 
 Hon. A, S. Kreider, presiding. 
 
 Report of Commission by Hon. Jesse E. Eschbach. 
 
 Message from Dr. Howard Russell, Chairman of the Commission. 
 
 Address — Rev. S. E. Shumaker, D.D., Secretary Anti-Saloon League of Indiana. 
 
 Special Music. 
 
 Friday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop William M. Bell, D.D. 
 Reports of Standing Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Afternoon Session — 1 :30 p.m. 
 
 Bishop William H. Washinger, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Reports of Committees. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Friday Evening — 7:30 p.m. 
 Bishop W^illiam M. Weekley, D.D., presiding. 
 Anniversary Benevolent Homes. 
 
 Stereopticon views of Quincy Orphanage. 
 
 Concert by Otterbcin Home, Band. 
 
 Saturday Morning Session — 8:30 a.m. 
 Bishop Henry H. Font, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotional Address — Bishop Cyrus J. Kephart, D. D. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 Report of the Committee on Goals and Program. 
 Open Parliament on the Promotion of the Quadrennial Program. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
 Saturday Afternoon Session — 1:30 p. m. * 
 
 Bishop Wm. M. Bell, D.D., presiding. 
 Devotions in charge of presiding Bishop. 
 Miscellaneous lUisiness. 
 Parliament on New Program Continued. 
 Intercession. Adjournment. 
 
Saturday Evening — 8:00 p.m. 
 
 Sunday Morning 
 
 9:00— Siiiulay Sclinol. Hon. Jay M. Cot-an, Sui)crintciidcnt. 
 10:3(^ — Bishop William II. Wa.shinscr, D.D. 
 
 iMirther proL;rani in tin- hands of the P.oard of T.ishops. 
 
 The music of the General Conference will he in charge of Rev. Ray G. 
 Upson assisted hy Rev. J. F. Hatton. 
 
 The following is a li.>t of the chairmen of local committees: 
 
 General Conference Committee on Entertainment of Delegates 
 
 G. A. Kverett, Chairman 
 U. E. Bethel 
 Herhert Ranshurg 
 Airs. W. R. Mumma 
 Mrs. G. A. Everett 
 Miss Nina Ranshurg- 
 Miss Maud Carlisle 
 Miss Maude Tatum 
 Miss Lou Rubush 
 Mrs. Effie Burdsell 
 
 Chairmen of Local Committees 
 General Committee — Dr. C. C. Gohn. 
 Social and Reception Committee — TIarpcr J. Ranshurg. 
 Finance Committee — S. P. Matthews. 
 Hall and Arrangements — W. R. Mumma. 
 Ushers and Entrances — Harry Greulich. 
 Churches and Other Meeting Places — E. Howard Cadle. 
 Ministerial Supply — Dr. J. B. Parsons. 
 
 Courtesy Committee— Dr. S. E. Long, Dr. C. C. Gohn, Dr. J. B. Parsons, 
 Dr. O. P. Cooper. 
 
DELEGATES TO GENERAL CONFERENCE 
 
 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, May 12, 1921 
 
 Allegheny Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 J. S. Fulton 
 E. G. Sawyer 
 J. J. Funk 
 W. S. Wilson 
 C. W. Winey 
 W. H. Spangler 
 Lay-Delegates 
 A. Kiester 
 G. C. Blair 
 H. D. Thomas 
 A. E. Roose 
 
 E. Henderson 
 A. D. Shaffer 
 
 California Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 H. C. Shaffer 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Mark Keppel 
 
 Colorado Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 F. P. Overmyer 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 E. E. Stettler 
 
 Columbia River Conference 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 W. A. Nicoles 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Mrs. Floyd Brower 
 
 East Ohio Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 P. M. Camp 
 Sager Tryon 
 I. D. Warner 
 J. S. Kendall 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 W. E. Airhart 
 J. M. Cogan 
 D. M. Slusser 
 J. S. Wilhelm 
 
 East Pennsylvania Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 S. C. Enck 
 J. A. Lyter 
 R. R. Butterwick 
 H. E. Miller 
 G. D. Batdorf 
 
 B. F. Daugherty 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 A. S. Kreidcr 
 J. R. Engle 
 H. L. Carl 
 
 C. L. Grabill 
 
 H. G. Longenecker 
 S. D. Clark 
 
 Erie Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 R. J. White 
 
 R. S. Showers 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 W. M. Hodges 
 
 Mrs. O. E. Williams 
 
 Florida Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 R. A. Smith 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 F. L. Stephens 
 
 Illinois Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 W. L. Perkins 
 W. H. Arbogast 
 M. B. Leach 
 
 G. W. Bonebrake 
 J. M. Phillippi 
 
 E. H. Shuey 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 F. N. Munch 
 H. V. Anderson 
 Miss Jeanie Gillespie 
 L. A. Rider 
 
 Cloyd C. Rose 
 E. Perkins 
 
Indiana Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 J. W. Settle 
 W. H. Todd 
 J. W. Walls 
 S. L. Todd 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 H. W. Keys 
 J. W. McCoy 
 Charles Breden 
 
 Iowa Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 W. F. Cronk 
 
 E. W. Curtis 
 M. R. Drury 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 D. W. Bovee 
 J. Hursh Owen 
 Miss Grace Hankins 
 
 Kansas Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 F. M. Testerman 
 O. T. Deever 
 M. L. Robey 
 
 C. E. Heisel 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 R. S. Smither 
 V. H. Miller 
 Mrs. Thos. Ditmars 
 C. L. Miller 
 
 Louisiana Conference 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 W. F. Tietje 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 F. R. Jeanke 
 
 Michigan Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 C. E. Pilgrim 
 A. A. Reiser 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 F. P. Geib 
 L. S. Long 
 
 Minnesota Conference 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 H. Deal 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 E. G. Bufkin 
 
 Missouri Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 W. M. Jones 
 W. M. Pettibon 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 C. B. Walter 
 Elmer Funk 
 
 Montana Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 G. L. Stine 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Ottie Douglas 
 
 Nebraska Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 W. O. Jones 
 S. M. Snider 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Morgan 
 S. C. Caldwell 
 
 Miami Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 A. R. Clippinger 
 J. W. Kilbourne 
 J. H. Button 
 J. P. Landis 
 W. T. Frank 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 A. A. Maysilles 
 
 E. L. Shuey 
 
 Mrs. W. A. Simms 
 
 H. E. Myers 
 
 Mrs. Addie Thomas 
 
 New Mexico Conference 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 Miss Lillian Kendig 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 . A. B. Schlotterbeck 
 
 Ohio German Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 E. F. Wcgner 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 E. Schaefer 
 
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 Oklahoma Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 I. A. Holbrook 
 
 D. L. Doub 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 Mrs. I. A. Holbrook 
 
 E. G. Hall 
 
 Oregon Conference 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 G. E. McDonald 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 W. W. Wright 
 
 Pennsylvania Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 A. B. Station 
 A. R. Ayres 
 J. P. Koontz 
 F. B. Plummer 
 M. R. Fleming 
 S. G. Ziegler 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 R. G. Mowery 
 W. N. McFaul 
 Henry Wolf 
 J. H. Kiracofe 
 C. M. Horst 
 C. O. Yeatts 
 
 St. Joseph Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 J. W. Lake 
 J. A^ Groves 
 
 C. A. Sickafoose 
 M. K. Richardson 
 
 D. B. Kessinger 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 C. L. Raymond 
 C. E. Wilson 
 A. A. Thompson 
 W. A. Cochran 
 
 E. H. Wilson 
 
 Sandusky Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 M. R. Ballingcr 
 R. A. Powell 
 C. B. Fletcher 
 O. E. Knepp 
 J. F. Miller 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 W. P. Alspach 
 A. H. Laughbaum 
 O. E. Neeley 
 J. H. Morton 
 H. M. Fletcher 
 
 Southeast Ohio Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 J. H. Harris 
 R. A. Hitt 
 E. E. Harris 
 E. J. Pace 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 H. M. Whitcraft 
 E. S. Neuding 
 C. F. Luckhart 
 Mrs. Eugene Moore 
 
 Tennessee Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 W. H. Wright 
 Robert Earls 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 Mrs. Sylvia Smith 
 E. M. Horner 
 
 Virginia Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 A. S. Hammack 
 W. F. Gruvcr 
 J. H. Brunk 
 G. W. Stover 
 
 Lay-Delegates 
 J. H. F.uebush 
 W. S. Secrist 
 W. O. Cooley 
 J. L. Graves 
 
West Virginia Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 J. T. Foster 
 Fred Slaughter 
 W. M. Slaughter 
 E. H. Waters 
 
 D. W. Cunningham 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 L. S. Slaughter 
 G. E. Bennett 
 J. Blackburn Ware 
 Arthur Reese 
 J. J. Shore 
 
 White River Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 J. E. Shannon 
 L. O. Blake 
 J. T. Roberts 
 M. F. Dawson 
 J. A. Bray 
 W. L. Waldo 
 Lay-Delegates 
 I. J. Good 
 Delbert Shaw 
 Miss Beulah Chappelle 
 
 E. H. Cadle 
 G. A. Lambert 
 Mrs. Chas. Grant 
 
 Africa Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 J. F. Musselman 
 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 David Manly 
 
 China Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 Frank Oldt 
 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Miss Hortense Potts 
 
 Japan Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 J. Edgar Knipp 
 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Tadashi Yabe 
 
 Porto Rico Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegate 
 
 I. E. Caldwell 
 
 Lay-Delegate 
 
 Vincente Colon 
 
 Wisconsin Conference 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 G. W. Bechtolt 
 J. H. Truesdale 
 Lay-Delegates 
 
 W. E. Gillingham 
 Miss Grace Whitney 
 
 Phillippine Conference 
 
 Ministerial Delegates 
 
 H. W. Widdoes 
 J. Abellera 
 
 Lay- Delegates 
 
 Miss Matilda Weber 
 Lucas Herrin 
 
Committees of the General Conference 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 (^'int'iiins; I n(liaiKii)()lt>, ind., M,i\ !_', I'.iL'l 
 
 1. Bonebrake Seminary and the Ministry. 
 
 J. \V. Lake, R. A. Smith, .1. M. l'hillip|)i, K. W. Curtis. H. K. Miller. 
 Sager Tryon, S. G. Zieglor, M. K. Richardson, A. A. Maysilles, (i. W. 
 Bonebrake, J. H. Button, G. E. McDonald. G. \V. Stover, W. S. Wilson, 
 Mrs. Ira Holbrook, J. \V. Kilbourne. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Cliaptcrs li. 
 7, 8, 9. and Section ."> of rhai)ter 2:^.) 
 
 2. Boundaries. 
 
 \V. O. Jones, M. F. Dawson, H. Deal. F. P. Overniyer, J. K. Knipp, 
 W. A. Xicoles, W. H. Wright, .1. 11. Kiracofe. S. L. Todd, ,1 S. 
 Wilhelni, F. L. Stephens, .1. J. Shore, W. .M. Pettihon. H. M. Fletcher. 
 S. C. Enck. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all (piestions covered l)y Disrii)line, 
 Chapters J9 and ?,0. ) 
 
 3. Credentials. 
 
 F. M. Testerinan, J. W. Kilbourne, W. A. Cochran. .1. li. En.sile. 
 Ottie \V. i:)ouglas. 
 
 (To examine credentials of delegates and to make recommenda- 
 tions to the Conference should any contests occur.) 
 
 4. Foreign Missions. 
 
 A. R. Clii)pingei', \V. F. Gruver. Cloyd C. Rose, G. A. Lambert. 
 J. M. Cogan, J. H. Brunk, A. H. Laughbaum, Fred Slaughter, C. L. 
 Grabill, F. R. .Feanke, Mrs. .J. C. Morgan. Vincente Colon. W. .M. Hodges, 
 J. W. McCoy, Mrs. Floyd Rrower, Tadashi Yabe. Lucas Herrin. J; R. 
 Knipp, Frank Oldt. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Chapter IS. I 
 
 5. Home Missions and Church Erection. 
 
 (L E. McDonald. A. S. Hammacl<, E. H. Shuey, O. E. Knepp, Albert 
 Kiester, C. A. Sickafoose, J. Hart Truesdale, W. T. Frank. Miss Lillian 
 Kendig, W. S. Secrist, C. B. Walter, Miss Grace Whitney. Miss .lennie 
 Gillespie, Mrs. Sylvia Smith, David .Manly. W. A. Cochran, G. W. 
 Bechtolt. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all (juestions involved in Chapters 
 T7 and 2L) 
 
6. Education. 
 
 J. P. Landis, J. H. Harris. I. .J. Good, J. H. Ruebiish. M. R. Fleming, 
 
 C. E. Heisel, Mark Keppel, B. F. Daugherty, A. A. Kelser, R. G. 
 Mowery, O. E. Neeley, C. L. Miller, Miss Hortense Potts, Miss Beulah 
 Chappelie. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Chapter 23, 
 Sections 1, 2, .3, and 4. ) 
 
 7. Publishing Interests and Church Literature. 
 
 P. M. Camp, J. A. Lyter, G. A. Lambert, A. S. Kreider, C. L. Ray- 
 mond, A. A. Thompson, F. Berry Plummer, A. D. Shaffer, M. R. Drury, 
 
 E. J. Pace, R. S. Showers, C. E. Pilgrim, Ira. A. Holbrook, H. C. 
 Shaffer, J. F. Musselmau, .7. J. Funk, W. H. Keys, J. S. Wilhelm. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Discipline, 
 Chapter 22, and Publishing Agent's report and all memorials pertain- 
 ing to publishing interests.) 
 
 8. State of the Church and Evangelism. 
 
 .T. E. Shannon, J. T. Foster, J. F. Miller, J. W. Settle, L. 0. Blake, 
 
 D. L. Doub, W. W. Wright, M. L. Robey, E. G. Sawyer, H. L. Carl, E. F. 
 Wegner, H. G. Longenecker, A. B. Schlotterbeck, John Abellera, G. C. 
 Blair, Mrs. Addie Thomas, Delbert Shaw, F. M. Testerman.^ 
 
 ( To consider favorable and unfavorable conditions within and 
 outside of the Church that favor or hinder progress. What can the 
 Church do to improve its character so as to resist error and embrace 
 favorable opportunities? What can Evangelism contribute to the 
 present conditions of the Church and community? What type of 
 Evangelism shall be emphasized? How conducted? Committee will 
 consider and report on all contents involved in Discipline, Chapter 25.) 
 
 9. Temporal Economy and Salaries. 
 
 Mark Keppel, Eugene Schaefer, G. D. Batdorf, E. H. Cadle, W. P. 
 Alspach, E. S. Neuding, J. R. Engle, S. C. Caldwell, H. D. Thomas. 
 
 F. P. Geib, V. H. Miller, Henrv Wolfe, E. G. Bufkin. C. O. Yeatts. A. E. 
 Roose. 
 
 ( Will consider and report on all salaries and emolument of Gen- 
 eral Conference Secretaries and Officers.) 
 
 10. Nominations. 
 
 A. B. Station, R. A. Ilitt, .1. \V. Settle, L S. Slaughter. .1. A. Bray, 
 A. S. Hammack, S. M. Snider, 1. E. Caldwell, J. H. Morton. G. E. 
 McDonald, W. L. Waldo, A. R. Ai-ford, E. G. Hall, E. Perkins, Arthur 
 Reese, F. L. Stephens. ' 
 
 (To nominate persons for the offices to be filled by the General 
 Conference.) 
 
11. Goals and Program. 
 
 A. S. Kieidci'. .1. A. (Jiovi's. i:. 11. Wjitcrs, Ira I >. WariuT, 1". N. 
 Munch, J. Hursh Owen, .1. L. Graves, W. P. Alspa<h, W. H. Spangler. 
 W. W. Wright, D. M. Slusser. V. M. Horst. Charles Hredeii. W. K. Air- 
 hart, Miss Grace Hankins, \V. A. Xicoles, .1. A. Lyter. 
 
 (Will consider Discipline i)art S. page I'll, to Article 1(», page 21.', 
 and hear the needs and desires of the various Boards and re<'oniniend 
 a budget for the coming four years and a program necessary to achieve 
 the spiritual and financial aims of the church.) 
 
 12. Sunday School and Christian Endeavor. 
 
 M. R. Ballinger. (). 'i". Deever. .1. M. Cogan, l.eroy S. Long. C. E. 
 Wilson, Mrs. 0. E. Williams. C,. L. Stine, D. W. Cunningham, Mrs. 
 Charles Grant. Mrs. H. V. Anderson. Robert Earls, C. \V. Winey. W. O. 
 Cooley, Elmer Funk, E. E. Stettler. E. E. Harris. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Chapter 
 16.) 
 
 13. Temperance, Prohibition and Social Advance. 
 
 W. L. Perkins, R. R. Putterwick, C. F. Luckhart, R. A. Powell. 
 W. H. Todd, D. B. Kessinger, G. E. Bennett. W. E. Airhart. S. D. Clark. 
 W. F. Tieje, Elmer Henderson, Miss Matilda Weber, Mrs. Thomas 
 Ditmars, Ottie W. Douglas. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all ((uestious involved in Chapter 
 11.) 
 
 14. Pensions, Homes and Orphanages. 
 
 J. S. Fulton. R. J. White, C. B. Fletcher. J. T. Roberts, .J. P. Koontz. 
 A. R. Ayres. J. W. Walls. R. S. Smither, .1. F. Musselman, V. H. Miller. 
 E. H. Wilson. W. E. Gillingham. E. X. Horner. Mrs. Eugene Moore. 
 Geo. C. Blair. 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Chapters 
 26 and 27i and the Ministerial Pension Plan recommended by the 
 Board of Administration.) 
 
 15. Revision in Church Discipline. 
 
 E. L. Shuey. S. C. Enck. J. S. Ivendall, W. N. .McFaul. W. H. 
 Arbogast, W. F. Cronk, H. M. Whitcraft, L. A. Rider. J. S. Fulton. 
 D. W. Bovee, W. M. Slaughter, C. L. Raymond, W. M. .Jones, M. B. 
 Leach, G. D. Stine, H. E. Myers, C. E. Pilgrim, O. T. Deever, J. H. 
 Ruebush, W. A. Nicoles, I. E. Caldwell, H. C. Shaffer. H. W. Widdoes, 
 J. B. Ware, Mrs. Floyd Brower, Mrs W. A. Sinims. • 
 
 (Will consider and report on all questions involved in Chapters 
 4, 5, 10, 12, 1.3, 14, 15, 24, 28, 31 and 32, and the changes in Discipline 
 recommended bv the Board of Administration.) 
 
16. Report Blanks. 
 
 .[. T. Foster E. S. Neiiding, .1 E. Shannon, H. L. Carl, M. R. 
 Ballinger, Cloyd C. Rose, A. R. Clippinger, W. M. .Jones. 
 (To consider and report on uniform report blanks.) 
 
 NOTE: In each instance the first person named is the chairman 
 with power to call the committee and complete the organization. 
 
 The committees will not only consider the language of the various 
 articles in the Discipline but will consider the entire subject matter 
 covered by the portions of the Discipline assigned to them, as well as 
 all reports, recommendations and memorials pertaining to the work 
 of the individual committees, and recommend such changes as may 
 seem to them wise. 
 
 BOARD OF BISHOPS, 
 
 William M. Bell, President, 
 H. H. Font, Secretary. 
 
Ministerial Pension Plan 
 
 Changes in Discipline 
 
 Suggestions for a Program 
 
 Recommendations to be Considered by the 
 
 Delegates to the General Conference which 
 
 Convenes at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 
 May 12.1921. 
 
 BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 415 Otterbein Press Bldg., 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 
Foreword 
 
 The last General Conference, in session at Wichita, Kansas, gave 
 instructions to the Board of Administration to prepare a plan for 
 ministerial relief, and to raise a fund for our retired and disabled 
 ministers, their widows and children. 
 
 The General Conference also voted that, 
 
 "The Board shall recommend to the succeeding General Conference 
 such changes in the FHscipline and plans of organization, and such 
 methods of ' cooperation as it believes will increase the efficiency and 
 coordijiate the work of the entire Church — its recommendations to 
 he printed and mailed to each delegate to the General Conference at 
 least thirty days before the convening of the conference. The Board 
 shall study the Charters of institutions and societies of the Church and 
 supply the General Conference any needed information." 
 
 The Board has sought to be faithful in fulfilling this special task 
 assigned to it, and after careful study and work through sub-committees, 
 the Board has prepared recommendations for a Preachers' Pension 
 Plan, changes in the Discipline and suggested plans for cooperative 
 work for the next four years. 
 
 These recommendations are submitted in this leaflet to the delegates 
 of the next General Conference, with the belief that they will be given 
 thorough consideration on the part of each delegate, so that through 
 the combined judgment of all, wrought out in an atmosphere of prayer 
 and full counsel, such plans and policies shall be adopted as shall 
 represent the will of God for our Church. 
 
 These recommendations cover only such things as the Board believes 
 it is expected to report upon. 
 
 Members of The Board of Administration 
 
 G. M. Mathkws, Chairman J. S. Filtox, Recording Secretary 
 
 S. S. Hough. Executive Secretary 
 
 W. M. Bki.l Harrisburg, Pa. M. R. Ballincku. . . .Findlay, Ohio 
 
 H. H. FouT Indianapolis, Ind. J. T. Fcster Mason, W.Va. 
 
 C. J. Kkph.\rt ..Kansas City, Mo. G. E. McDonald. .. .Portland, Ore. 
 
 W. H. Washixgkr. .Portland, Ore. R. A. Hitt Westerville. Ohio 
 
 A. T. Howard Dayton, Ohio W. N. McFaui Baltimore, Md. 
 
 \V.M.WEEKLEY,Parkersburg,W.Va. F. P. Geib Grand Rapids. Mich 
 
 N. Casti-e Philomath, Ore. J. M. Cogax Canton. Ohio 
 
 A. R. Clippixgek. . . .Dayton, Ohio H. M. Whitckaft Logan. Ohio 
 
 V. W. 0\-ERTOx. . .Los Angeles, Cal. R. H. Bexxctt Eldorado, Kan. 
 
 W. F. GRUvER.Martinsburg, W.Va. J. H. Ruebuhh Dayton, Va. 
 
 C. E. Heisel Wichita, Kan. Mark Keppel. . .Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 J. E. SiiAXXOx Marion, Ind. I. J. Good Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 J. R. Engle Palmyra, Pa. 
 
Ministerial Pension and Annuity Plan 
 
 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 
 
 One of the first and most warmly debated questions that arises in the 
 establishment of a pension system for preachers is whether the Church 
 shall pay all the costs of the benefits or whether the preachers shall 
 pay part of the costs and the Church the remainder. If the Church 
 pays all the costs, the system is technically referred to as "non- 
 contributory" and becomes a 'free" pension plan. If the preachers pay 
 something towards the costs, the system is referred to as "contributory." 
 
 The history of the pension movement in America discloses a universal 
 trend away from the free pension plan. The plan for the pensioning 
 of college professors which was started in 1906, was begun as a non- 
 contributory plan. This plan had the .Carnegie Foundation with its 
 resources of millions of dollars back of it, but it was found desirable 
 recently to change to the contributory plan. Even the United States 
 Government in 1918 adopted the War Risk Insurance Act which provides 
 for the protection of members of our military and naval forces on a 
 contributory basis. 
 
 In the preparation of a Ministerial Pension and Annuity Plan for the 
 Church of the United Brethren in Christ, a careful examination and 
 study was made of the experiences of other churches along this line. 
 The Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Reformed, Disciples of Christ, 
 Methodists, Episcopalians and other bodies have already made good 
 progress in the development of a pension plan for their ministers. 
 These churches, as a rule have adopted a contributory pension plan 
 which provides for the payment of a maximum pension of five hundred 
 dollars ($500.00) annually, of which the ministers' contributions are 
 computed to pay one-fifth and the Church pays four-fifths. Superannu- 
 ation retirement in these churches varies from 65 to 70 years of age. 
 The rates of contribution of the ministers have been determined as the 
 results of a careful actuarial investigation. 
 
 In some churches in which pension plans for ministers were organized 
 'on a non-contributory basis, it was found desirable to change to a 
 contributory plan. The Church of the United Brethren in Christ should 
 adopt a pension plan for its ministers, that will guarantee them protec- 
 tion in case of disability or when they reach the age of retirement from 
 active service. Surely it would be unwise to adopt a plan that has 
 proven unsatisfactory when tried elsewhere. 
 
 In the proposed Ministerial Pension and Annuity Plan for the ClijUrch 
 of the United Brethren in Christ, the contributory feature has been 
 incorporated. The maximum annuity is fixed at five hundred dollars 
 
($500.00). The contribiitions of tlie uiinister.s are coiiipiited to i)ay 
 one-fifth of the annuities and the other four-fifths will be paid from the 
 income of a special fund provided for this purpose. 
 
 The temptation will be great to urge that the rates of contribution of 
 the ministers be made lower, but it should be kept in mind that a 
 pension plan that is sound and can pay the annuities promised is 
 much better than a cheap but unsound plan. A number of conferences 
 have Preachers' Aid funds which have been used to help members of 
 the local conference. A minister who is unable to pay the contribution 
 required for membership in the proposed Church Pension Plan, might 
 have part of his contributions to the pension plan paid from the Con- 
 ference Preachers" Aid fund. In • conferences where there is no 
 Preachers' Aid fund, other arrangements could be made- to assist 
 ministers who might need help to pay their contributions to the 
 Pension Plan. 
 
 The disability benefits as well as the benefits guaranteed widows and 
 orphans in the proposed plan make the rates much higher than would 
 be necessary if superannuation benefits only were provided for. 
 
 Should, all ministers who are eligible to join elect to come into the 
 proposed Pension Plan it is estimated that it will require the income 
 of one million dollars to pay the Church's share of the cost of the 
 expected pensions, and annuities. 
 
 Membership 
 
 Sectio.n 1 
 
 1. Membership in the Pension and Annuity Plan shall be limited 
 to regularly ordained ministers anvl missionaries of the Church 
 of the United Brethren in Christ. 
 
 2. There shall be two classes of members, contributory and non- 
 contributory. Contributory members shall consist of those who 
 make application for membership and who have not reached their 
 sixty-sixth birthday prior to .January 1, 1922. Non-contributory 
 members shall consist of those who pass their sixty-sixth birth- 
 day prior to January 1, 1922. 
 
 3. Xo,one who is eligible to join as a contributory member and who 
 neglects to do so can receive the benefits of this Pension and 
 Annuity Plan either as a disability or superannuation annuitant. 
 
 4. Applications for membership shall be filed with the Secretary of 
 the Pension and Annuity Plan, and must give the date of birth 
 of applicant, complete record of service in the Church of the 
 United Brethren in Christ, and such other information as may 
 be required. A certificate of membershij) will be issued to each 
 applicant who meets the requirements of membership either as 
 a contributory or non-contributory member. 
 
Management 
 
 Section 2 
 
 1. The management of this Pension and Annuity Plan shall be 
 vested in a Board to be designated by the General Conference 
 of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. The employ- 
 ment of a secretary and such other help as may be necessary 
 for the administration of this Pension and Annuity Plan, shall 
 be under the direction of said Board. This Board shall have 
 charge of the investment of the funds of the Pension and 
 Annuity Plan subject, however, to the restriction that the funds 
 may be invested only in municipal, state and federal government 
 bonds or other securities that are legal for the investment of 
 the funds of savings banks in the State of Ohio. This Board, 
 may, from time to time, adopt such rules and regulations as may 
 be necessary for the administration of the Pension and Annuity 
 Plan, and it shall have full authority to interpret the provisions 
 of the Plan, and to settle questions of doubt as to the eligibility 
 of any individual for membership in the Pension and Annuity 
 Plan. 
 
 Funds 
 
 Section 3 
 
 1. The General Church Treasurer of the Church of the United 
 Brethren in Christ shall be the treasurer of the Pension and 
 Annuity Plan. 
 
 2. The funds of the Pension and Annuity Plan shall consist of the 
 Contributory Members' Annuity Fund and the Church Service 
 Annuity Fund. 
 
 3. The Contributory Members' Annuity Fund shall consist of the 
 contributions of contributory members. The amount which 
 each contributory member will be required to pay annually shall 
 be actuarily computed and shall be sufficient to pay an annuity 
 of $100.00 to each contributory member who reaches the age of 
 sixty-eight years. Payments to the Contributory Members' 
 Annuity Fund shall cease when the contributor reaches sixty-six 
 years of age, unless said contributor has been granted a disability 
 annuity before that age, in which case the contributor shall cease 
 his payments from the date his disability annuity begins. 
 
 4. The Church Service Annuity Fund shall consist of the amount 
 allotted to the pension fund in the Budget of the United Enlist- 
 ment Movement and sucli other money, gifts and bequests as 
 shall be given in the future for the support of the Pension and 
 Annuity Plan of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 
 The income only of the Church Service Annuity Fund shall be 
 used for the payment of annuities. 
 
 Superannuation Annuities 
 
 Section 4 
 
 1. The maximum superannuation annuity which a non-contributory 
 member can receive is Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) all of 
 
which will be paid from the Church Service Annuity Fund. The 
 maximum superannuation annuity which a contributory member 
 can receive is Five Hundred Dollars ($r)00.00). One Hundred 
 Dollars ($100.00) of which will be paid from the Contributory 
 Members' Annuity Fund and Four Hundred Dollars ($400.no) 
 from the Church Service Annuity Fund. The superannuation 
 annuity of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) which a contributory 
 member will receive from the Contributory. Members* Annuity 
 F^ind is an assured annuity, since the payments of contributory 
 members to this fund have been actuarily computed so as to 
 provide an annuity of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) to eacn 
 contributory member who reaches the age of sixty-eight years. 
 Until the Church Service Annuity Fund earns an income large 
 enough to provide the maximum annuity of Four Hundred 
 Dollars ($400.00) to be paid from this fund, each beneficiary of 
 the Church Service Annuity Fund shall receive his pro rata 
 share. 
 
 2. The method of computing the amount of the superannuation 
 annuities shall be as follows: A non-contributory member 
 sixty-eight years of age or older, who has been in active service 
 In the Church of the United Brethren in Christ at least thirty 
 (30) years, shall receive from the Church Service Annuity Fund 
 an annuity of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) or his pro rata 
 share thereof. A non-contributory member sixty-eight years 
 of age or older who has had less than thirty (30) years of 
 service in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, shall 
 receive from the Church Service Annuity Fund an annuity of 
 One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or his pro rata share thereof, 
 with Ten Dollars ($10.00) additional for each year of service. 
 
 3. A contributory member sixty-eight years of age or older shall 
 receive from the Church Service Annuity Fund an annuity under 
 the same conditions governing the annuities paid non-contribu- 
 tory members from this fund, and in addition a contributory 
 member shall receive from the Contributory Members' Annuity 
 Fund an annuity of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). 
 
 Disability Annuities 
 
 Section 5 
 
 1. In order to be eligible to receive a disability annuity a member 
 must present satisfactory evidence to the Board that he is 
 mentally or physically incapacitated for the performance of 
 the duties of his position. Such incapacitation must be serious 
 enough to be regarded as permanent. Should his disability 
 later prove to be temporary and not permanent, the member 
 may, upon the restoration of his health, resume his payments to 
 the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund and the benefits which 
 he received during his temporary disability shall not reduce or 
 in any way impair the benefits which will come to him in the 
 future. 
 
2. Any member who is receiving a disability annuity shall not be 
 eligible to receive the increased amount prescribed for the 
 superannuation annuity upon reaching the age of sixty-eight 
 years, but such member shall continue to receive the disability 
 annuity only with such increase as shall come to the disability 
 annuitants with the growth of the income from the Church 
 Service Annuity Fund. 
 
 3. The method of computing the amount of the disability annuities 
 shall be as follows: Upon the presentation of satisfactory evi- 
 dence of eligibility to receive a disability annuity a member 
 under sixty-eight years of age and having rendered at least five 
 years of service shall receive a disability annuity of One Hundred 
 Dollars ($100.00) and Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each additional 
 year of service, providing such annuity shall not exceed Four 
 Hundred Dollars ($400.00). 
 
 4. All of the disability annuity of a non-contributory member shall 
 be paid from the Church Service Annuity Fund. One-fifth of 
 the disability annuity of a contributory member shall be paid 
 from the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund and four-fifths 
 from the Church Service Annuity Fund. Until the income of 
 the Church Service Annuity Fund is large enough to pay the 
 maximum disability annuities each disability annuitant shall 
 receive his pro rata share. 
 
 Death Provisions 
 
 Skctiox 6 
 
 1. Upon the death of a superannuation or disability annuitant there 
 shall be paid to his widow, so long as she lives and remains 
 unmarried, an annuity equal to one-half the amount her husband 
 received with One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) annually in addi- 
 tion for each child under sixteen (16) years of age, providing 
 such annuity for widow and minor children shall not exceed 
 Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). 
 
 2. Upon the death of a member who has not yet become either a 
 superannuation or disability annuitant, there shall be paid to 
 his widow as long as slje lives and remains unmarried, an 
 annuity equal to one-half the disability annuity to which the 
 member would have been entitled for disability with One Hun- 
 dred Dollars ($100.00) annually in addition for each child under 
 sixteen (16) years of age, providing such annuity for widow and 
 minor children shall not exceed. Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). 
 
 3. Upon the death of a member who leaves no widow but who leaves 
 children under eighteen (18) years of age, the annuity to which 
 the widow would have been entitled, combined with the addi- 
 tional annuity on account of minor children, will be eqijally 
 divided among the children, the share of each child ceasing when 
 the child reaches the age of eighteen (18) years. 
 
 & 
 
4. Ill rase of the death of a widow who had heeii roceivinK an 
 annuity and who is survived by children under eiRhteon (IS) 
 years of age, the amount of her annuity shall be divided equally 
 among the minor children, the share of each child ceasing when 
 the child reaches the age of eighteen (18) years. 
 
 5. All of the annuities paid on account of widows and minor cliil- 
 dren of non-contributory members shall be paid from the Church 
 Service Annuity Fund. One-fifth of the annuities paid on 
 account of widows and minor children of contributory memliers 
 shall be paid from the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund 
 and four-fifths from the Church Service Annuity Fund. 
 
 Rates of Payment for Contributory Members 
 
 Section 7 
 
 1. The amount of the annual payment of a contributory member to 
 the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund is determined by his 
 age at the time he becomes a contributor and remains constant. 
 The following schedule of payments has been prepared so as to 
 provide for the payment of One Hundred Dollars ($1"0.00) 
 annually to each contributory member after he reaches sixty- 
 eight years of age. This annuity of One Hundred Dollars 
 ($100.00) will be paid to contributory members in addition to the 
 annuity of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) that will be provided 
 for by the Church Service Annuity Fund. All payments by 
 members cease at thfe age of sixty-six years or earlier in case 
 of disability. 
 
 Age 
 
 Quarterly Payni't 
 
 Semi-annual Paym't 
 
 .\nnual Pavm't 
 
 21 
 
 $ 4.85 
 
 $ 9.70 
 
 $19.40 
 
 22 
 
 4.87 
 
 9.74 
 
 19.48 
 
 23 
 
 4.89 
 
 9.79 
 
 19.57 
 
 24 
 
 4.91 
 
 9.83 
 
 19.66 
 
 25 
 
 4.94 
 
 9.87 
 
 19.75 
 
 26 
 
 4.96 
 
 9.92 
 
 19.84 
 
 27 
 
 5.05 
 
 10.11 
 
 20.22 
 
 28 
 
 5.17 
 
 10.34 
 
 20.68 
 
 29 
 
 5.30 
 
 10.61 
 
 21.21 
 
 30 
 
 5.45 
 
 10.90 
 
 21.80 
 
 31 
 
 5.62 
 
 11.23 
 
 22.47 
 
 32 
 
 5.64 
 
 11.61 
 
 23.22 
 
 33 
 
 5.98 
 
 11.95 
 
 23.91 
 
 34 
 
 6.22 
 
 12.44 
 
 24.88 
 
 35 
 
 6.46 
 
 12.92 
 
 25.84 
 
 36 
 
 6.72 
 
 13.44 
 
 26.89 
 
 37 
 
 7.00 
 
 14.01 
 
 28.02 
 
 38 
 
 7.31 
 
 14.63 
 
 29.26 
 
 39 
 
 7.65 
 
 15.29 
 
 30.58 
 
 40 
 
 8.01 
 
 16.02 
 
 32.05 
 
 41 
 
 8.41 
 
 16.82 
 
 33.63 
 
Age 
 
 Quarterly Paym't 
 
 42 
 
 8.87 
 
 43 
 
 9.31 
 
 44 
 
 9.83 
 
 45 
 
 10.39 
 
 46 
 
 11.01 
 
 47 
 
 11.71 
 
 48 
 
 12.25 
 
 49 
 
 13.34 
 
 50 
 
 14.31 
 
 51 
 
 15.41 
 
 52 
 
 16.67 
 
 53 
 
 18.10 
 
 54 
 
 19.78 
 
 55 
 
 21.75 
 
 Semi-annual Paym't Annual Paym'i: 
 
 17.73 35.46 
 
 18.62 37.24 
 19.65 39.30 
 20.78 41.56 
 22.03 44.07 
 23.43 46.85 
 
 24.49 49.97 
 26.69 53.37 
 
 28.63 57.25 
 30.82 61.64 
 33.33 66.65 
 36.20 72.40 
 39.55 79.10 
 
 43.50 87.f>0 
 Anyone entering the Pension and Annuity Plan between the ages of 
 fifty-five and sixty-six will pay annually the regular rate as at age 
 fifty-five, but to the first payment must be added back payments with 
 interest at 3 percent for his years beyond age fifty-five. 
 
 For example, at 56 he would pay for the current year $87.00; 
 one back payment $87.00; and interest on $87.00 for one year 
 $2.61; total $176.61. 
 
 Entering at 57; $87.00; two back payments $174.00; and 
 interest on $87.00 for one and two years respectively $2.61 and 
 $5.22; total $268.83. 
 
 Entering at 58; $87.00; three back payments $261.00; and 
 interest on $87.00 for one, two and three years respectively 
 $2.71, $5.22 and $7.83; total $363.66. 
 
 Entering at 59; $87.00; four back payments $348.00; and 
 interest on $87.00 for one, two, three and four years respectively; 
 total $461.10. 
 
 Entering at 60; $87.00; five back payments $435.00 and 
 interest on $87.00 for one, two, three, four and five years 
 respectively; total $561.15. 
 
 Entering at 61, $87.00; six back payments $522.00 and interest 
 on $87.00 for one, two, three, four, five and six years respectively; 
 total $663.81. 
 
 Entering at 62, .$87.00; seven back payments $609.00 and 
 interest on $87.00 for one, two, three, four, five, six and seven 
 years respectively; total $769.08. 
 
 Entering at 63, $87.00; eight back payments $696.00 and 
 interest; total $876.96. 
 
 Entering at 64, $87.00; nine back payments $783.00 and 
 interest; total $987.45. 
 
 Entering at 65; $87.00; ten back payments $870.00 and 
 interest; total $1100.55. 
 
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2. Anyone entering the Pension and Annnity IMan between the 
 ages of fifty-five and sixty-six years who is nnable to pay the 
 back payments reqnired at the age of entrance, may pay the 
 regular annual payment of $S7.00 only, and upon retirement 
 either for disability or superannuation such person shall receive 
 one-half (^^) of the regular disability or superannuation annuity 
 which would otherwise be paid» This one-half (y>) regular 
 disability or superannuation annuity will be paid only until the 
 unpaid back payments of the member, with interest at 3 percent, 
 have been made up, after which the regular full disability or 
 superannuation annuity will be paid. 
 
 3. The payments of contributory members are payable annually in 
 advance at the office of the Treasurer on each anniversary date 
 of the certificate of membership, but they may be paid in semi- 
 annual or quarterly installments. 
 
 4. Sixty days grace without Interest, shall be granted for each 
 payment of dues or installment of dues during which time the 
 privileges and benefits of membership shall continue in force. 
 
 5. If death or disability occurs within the days of grace the unpaid 
 portion of the member's dues for the current year shall be 
 deducted from the current annuity payments. 
 
 6. In case a member becomes delinquent in the payment of his 
 dues he may be reinstated on condition that the Board approves 
 his application for reinstatement and he pays all arrearages of 
 dues with interest at six (6) percent compounded annually. 
 
 7. Anyone who believes himself unable to pay the full rate may join 
 the Pension and Annuity Plan : 
 
 (a) By electing to pay one-half of the full rate and receive 
 accordingly the proportionate one-half interest in the 
 annuity benefits. These one-half annuity benefits shall be 
 one-half of the annuity benefits which the member secures 
 from the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund plus one- 
 half of the annuity benefits which come from the Church 
 Service Annuity Fund. 
 
 (b) Anyone who joins the Pension and Annuity Plan at the 
 half-rate payment may advance at any time to the full- 
 rate payment and thus secure the full annuity benefits by 
 
 ' paying the rate for the age at which the application for 
 the full rate is made. The member will thus be entitled 
 to the full annuity benefits of the Pension and Annuity 
 Plan, but he will pay one-half of the rate for the age when 
 he joins the Plan and one-half of the rate for the age 
 when he made application for full benefits. For example: 
 A member applying for admission to the Pension and 
 Annuity Plan at the one-half rate at 2.5 years of age would 
 pay one-half of the 25-year rate, which is $9.88. If fifteen 
 years later at the age of 40 he should apply for the full- 
 
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rate payment, he would increase his payment by one-half 
 of the full 4n-year-age rate, which is $16.03. This would 
 make his total payment $9.SS plus $16.03 or $25.91 which is 
 larger than the full 25-year rate and smaller than the full 
 40-year rate. 
 
 Withdrawals 
 
 Sectiox 8 
 
 1. Should a member leave the service of the Church of the United 
 Brethren in Christ or engage in an occupation that would dis- 
 qualify him for membership in the Pension and Annuity Plan, 
 his membership shall automatically cease and upon the surrender 
 of his certificate of membership his payments to the Contributory 
 Members' Annuity Fund, less the amount of any disability 
 annuity which he may have received, shall be returned to him. 
 
 2. Should a member withdraw from the Pension and Annuity Plan 
 for any reason other than eligibility tq continue as a member 
 and surrender his certificate of membership, his payments to' 
 the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund, less the amount of 
 any disability annuity which he may have received, shall be 
 returned to him. 
 
 3. A member who has withdrawn from the Pension and Annuity 
 Plan may again become a member on condition that the Board 
 approves his application for the renewal of his membership and 
 he returns to the Contributory Members' Annuity Fund the 
 amount of the payments refunded to him with interest com- 
 pounded annually at six (G) percent from the date of refund. 
 The rate of payment of one who thus renews his membership 
 shall be determined by his age when he renews his membership. 
 
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Recommended Changes in the Book of 
 Discipline 
 
 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 
 
 The Board of Administration, as anthorized by the last General 
 Conference, has studied the situation in the Church and the Discipline 
 v.'ith a view to recommending such changes as in its judgment seems 
 'vise. A sub-committee, through correspondence and otherwise, 
 secured from leaders in conferences their suggestions regarding changes 
 find new legislation. 
 
 Many who responded believe the time is here for the General Con- 
 ference to give its chief energy to more essential things than changing 
 the phraseology of the Discipline. However, every living, growing 
 church must necessarily make changes in its organization and methods 
 of work, from time to time, with a view to making the loc^l churches, 
 the annual conferences, and the church at large more and more efficient 
 in the work they are expected to do. 
 
 The Board believes, that while the chief work of the next General 
 Conference should be that of constructing a challenging program, and 
 of setting forth inspiring objectives to be realized during the ensuing 
 four years, very careful attention must be given to the necessary legis- 
 lation concerning every phase of our church life and work. 
 
 The Board, with the limited time at. its command, could make but 
 a partial study of this subject. It recommends what follows: 
 
 Suggested Changes in Discipline 
 
 Page 19, change question 1, to applicants for church membership, 
 so as to read as follows: 
 
 Do you believe the Bible to be the Word of God, and that therein only 
 is revealed the way of salvation? 
 
 Page 19, after question 6, to applicants for church membership, 
 substitute for the parenthetical statement the following: 
 
 (The applicant must receive the ordinance of baptism at the time of 
 or prior to being received into the membership of the Church, unless 
 the mode selected would make the service impracticable at the time.) 
 
 Pago 20, change paragraph 5 under "Receiving Children" to read as 
 follows: 
 
 We hold that little children are of the Kingdom of God. 
 
 Pastors are authorized to baptize the children of Christian parents or 
 parent, and to enroll them under the watchcare of the Church, and 
 
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A'hen they shall give evidence of understanding the obligation of the 
 Christian life, and shall publicly confess Christ as their personal 
 Savior, they shall be received into full membership in the Church. 
 
 Pages 22 and 23, combine paragraph 9 under "Support of the 
 Gospel" with paragraph 11, under "Support of General Interests." 
 Eliminate the phrase, "monthly or quarterly." The combined item 
 will read as follows: 
 
 It is the duty of all members of the Church to pay weekly toward 
 the support of the intinerant ministry, in proportion to their ability, 
 as God has prospered them; for the Lord hath ordained that they 
 who preach the gospel shall live by the gospel. (I Cor. 9:14; I Tim. 
 5:18.) It is earnestly urged that all our people practice the Bible 
 method of giving. "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you 
 lay by him in store, as God has prospered him" (I Cor. 16:2). It is 
 also their duty to contribute according to their ability to the support 
 of the various benevolent interests of the Church. 
 
 Page 27, Section 4, under "Transfer and withdrawal of Members." 
 
 We recommend the elimination of all forms of letters except transfers 
 and certificates of withdrawal. This recommendation comprehends a 
 rewriting of section 4, pages 27 to 29. 
 
 Page 2S, Section 4, for items 3 and 4, substitute the following: 
 
 Letters of Transfer 
 
 3. The pastor of a member moving from one charge to another 
 is required to issue a certificate of transfer immediately upon the vote 
 of the official Board and forward it to the pastor of the chai'ge of the 
 United Brethren Church to which the individual has moved, unless the 
 member moving requests that his membership remain with his home 
 church. 
 
 Page 29, Section 4, to item 11, add the following: 
 
 Annual conference preachers shall report yearly the place of their 
 church membership. The item will then read as follows: 
 
 All quarterly and annual conference preachers are required to hold 
 membership in some local church, and upon neglect or refusal to do 
 so shall lose their official relations. Annual conference preachers 
 shall report yearly to the Committee on Conference relations the place 
 of their church membership. 
 
 Church Organization 
 
 Page 30, Chapter 5, paragraph 2, change so as to conform with 
 the United Enlistment Group plan and specify this for each church 
 that the plan may be made permanent. 
 
 It is further recommended in this connection that provisions .be 
 made for regular exi)ert instruction of all groups in manner of living 
 and church work. 
 
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Page 30, Section 1, i)aragi-;u)h ;'.. eliminate the item and substitute 
 the following: 
 
 When a quarterly conference deems it impracticable to maintain 
 the organization of a church in any place, it shall instruct its rep- 
 resentatives to present the matter to the annual conference for its 
 consideration. In no case shall a quarterly conference disband a class 
 without the consent of the annual conference. When a class is dis- 
 banded the remaining members shall be transferred by the pastor to 
 such, class or classes as they may desire. 
 
 Page 33, paragraph 8, substitute the word '•correct" for "revise." The 
 item will read as follows: 
 
 The official board shall correct the church records as provided in 
 Chapter VII. Section II, Paragraph 3, and shall be the body to 
 grant transfers and dismissals from the church. 
 
 Page 34, following item 10, insert the following: 
 
 An auditing committee shall be provided in every local church, 
 whose duties it shall be to audit, annually, the books of all treasurers. 
 Said committee shall be elected by the official board at its last reg- 
 ular meeting preceding the meeting of the annual conference. 
 
 Page 34, eliminate paragraph II, and substitute the following: 
 
 The acts of the official boards shall be submitted to the quarterly 
 conference for approval or amendment. 
 
 Page 35, paragraph 12, substitute "general steward" for "financial 
 secretary." The former applies to circuits, the latter to stations. 
 
 Page 35, eliminate article 5. It is the function of the official 
 board and not the quarterly conference to elect local church treasurers. 
 
 It is further recommended that article 12, page 35, be eliminated on 
 the grounds that the official board should elect its financial secretary. 
 
 Page 35, eliminate paragraph 13, under Circuit Finance Committee 
 and substitute the following: 
 
 The Finance Committee on Stations shall consist of the official board 
 of the church. 
 
 On circuits the Finance Committee shall consist of the pastor, general 
 steward, and one or more persons at each appointment on the charge, 
 elected hy the quarterly conference. These committees shall meet at 
 the time and place specified by the pastor appointed to the charge, and 
 make out an estimate of the regular expenses, and apportion the same 
 to the different appointments according to their respective. ability, and 
 report the same to the quarterly conference for ratification. This com- 
 mittee shall also serve as an executive committee for the quarterly 
 conference during the year, in all matters of finance. 
 
 Page 37, paragraph 4, in sixth line insert the clause "and the Bishoi) 
 of the district." The item will then read as follows: 
 
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The conference shall elect by ballot one or more secretaries as the 
 case may require, who, in addition to discharging their regular duties 
 as secretaries, shall, immediately on the adjournment of the annual 
 conference transmit to the publishing agent, at Dayton, Ohio, and 
 to the Bishop of the district, a true transcript of the footings of the 
 conference chart. 
 
 Conference Treasurer 
 
 Page 37, following paragraph 4, insert the following new item: 
 
 Each conference shall elect, by ballot, a treasurer, who shall hold 
 rJl funds of the conference and shall disburse the same on order of 
 conference. Said treasurer shall be required to give bond for the 
 faithful performance of his duty, the amount of the bond to be fixed 
 by the conference. He shall receive such compensation as that body 
 may determine. In case of vacancy it shall be filled by the Bishop and 
 Conference Council of Administration. 
 
 Page 38, after paragraph 5, insert a new item as follows: 
 
 Pastors' Reports 
 
 Each pastor shall make a statistical report to the annual confer- 
 ence in which he serves. Blank reports to be furnished through the 
 conference" superintendent. 
 
 Page 38, paragraph 9, insert the word "treasurer" after "conference" 
 in first line. The item will read as follows: 
 
 The annual conference treasurer shall forward to the general Church 
 treasurer on the 25th of each month all monies collected by the confer- 
 ence for all general benevolences, and in no case can these funds be 
 diverted to conference interests. 
 
 Page 44, paragraph 1, after "college" in line thirteen, insert "ex- 
 cept in extraordinary cases." Such cases to be referred to the Con- 
 ference Superintendent for final decision. 
 
 Page 46, paragraph 2, question 3, substitute "revealed" for "con- 
 tained." The question will read as follows: 
 
 Do you believe the Bible to be the Word of God, and that therein 
 is revealed the only way to our salv.^tion? 
 
 Page 46, paragraph 3 — (1), add to sentence, "Except in extraordi- 
 nary cases, — such cases to be referred to the Bishop and Conference 
 Superintendent for final decision." 
 
 Page 47, paragraph 9, should be strengthened or substituted with a 
 form of preachers' license that would serve as a check on those who 
 leave us irregularly, and later seek admission into our ministry 
 on the ground of the license they hold. 
 
 It is recommended that there be a number of blank transfers and oi^e 
 blank certificate of dismissal on the reverse side of an Annual Confer- 
 ence License. The form to be as follows: 
 
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Transfer 
 
 This is to certify that is by vote of 
 
 Confereuce transferred to '. Conference of ' the' Church 
 
 ot the United Brethren in Christ. 
 
 Date Bishop 
 
 ^^^^ Secretary 
 
 Dismissal 
 
 This is to certify that has been on this 
 
 date honorably dismissed from the ministry and Church of the 
 United Brethren in Christ by vote of Annual Conference. 
 
 Date Bishop 
 
 ^^^^ ; Secretary 
 
 It is believed that by this means it would be possible to determine 
 or trace the matter of a preacher's standing, his license showing 
 where his membership has been, and whether properly transferred. 
 
 Page 47. following paragraph 9, your committee recommends the in- 
 sertion of the following items to be numbered 10 and 11. The re- 
 maining paragraphs of Section II, to be numbered in their order. 
 
 10. When an annual conference preacher is deprived of his cre- 
 dentials of ordination, by expulsion or otherwise, it shall be the duty 
 of the Bishop who presided over the conference to require them of 
 him, and to have them filed with the papers of the conference of 
 which he was a member. 
 
 11. Should an annual conference preacher be deprived of his cre- 
 dentials of ordination, by expulsion or otherwise, and at any future 
 time give satisfactory evidence to said conference of his amendment 
 or innocence, and procure a certificate of the quarterly conference of 
 the circuit or station where he resides, recommending to the annual 
 conference of which he was formerly a member, the restoration of 
 his credentials, the said conference may restore them. 
 
 Page 48, Add the following paragraph to Section III. To appear 
 as item 2. 
 
 Certificate of Reception of Ministers from Other Churches 
 
 When a minister has been received from another church he shall be 
 furnished with a certificate signed by the Bishop of the conference 
 with which he unites. The following form shall be used. 
 
 This is to certify that has been admitted into 
 
 , Conference of the Church of the United Brethren 
 
 in Christ, he having been ordained to the office of an elder, according 
 
 to the usages of the , Church, of which he 
 
 has been a member and minister and he is hereby authorized to exercise 
 the functions pertaining to his office in the Church of the United 
 Brethren in Christ so long as his conduct and doctrine are conformable 
 with the gospel of Christ. 
 
 Given by me at this. day of in the 
 
 year of our Lord 
 
 Bishop 
 
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Page 49, following paragraph 5, add the following items to be num- 
 bered 6, 7 and 8. 
 
 Lay Preachers 
 
 6. For the larger interests of the Church, and in harmony with 
 church agencies in the best days of the Church's history, we recog- 
 nize the office of lay preachers. A quarterly conference shall have 
 authority to license persons to said office, and to renew their license 
 annually when in its judgment, their gifts, grace, and usefulness will 
 warrant it. 
 
 7. No person shall be licensed to the office of lay preacher who 
 is not duly recommended to the quarterly conference by the local 
 church of which he is a member, nor without first passing under the 
 direction of the Conference Superintendent, an approved examination 
 on the subject, of doctrines and discipline; nor shall any license be 
 valid unless signed by the Conference Superintendent. 
 
 8. Lay preachers may, but shall not be required to pursue the 
 courses of study leading to ordination. They may be recommended to 
 the annual conference for endorsement, and for orders or for recog- 
 nition of orders to serve the Church in the way that the conference 
 may direct both as preachers and evangelists. They shall be mem- 
 bers of and amenable to the quarterly conference where they reside. 
 
 The following form of lay preacher's license shall be used: 
 
 Lay Preacher's License 
 
 The bearer hereof , having been duly recoinmended 
 
 for license as a lay preacher in the Church of the United Brethren in 
 Christ, is hereby authorized to preach the gospel, according to the 
 rules and regulations of said Church. 
 
 Given at a Quarterly Conference, held on Charge 
 
 Annual Conference, this day of in the year 
 
 of our Lord Void unless renewed annually. 
 
 Date Conference Superintendent 
 
 Page 49, Paragraph 6, change to paragraph 9. Substitute "employed" 
 for "authorized." The item will then read as follows: 
 
 No preacher shall be recognized as an evangelist unless he is so 
 employed by the annual conference to which he belongs, or accredited 
 by the General Commission on evangelism. He shall report his work 
 annually to his conference. 
 
 Page 49, Section V, Paragraph 1. Amend so as to specify that ordi- 
 nation may be had upon the completion of a course in the Seminary, 
 or upon the completion of a course of study. The item will then 
 read as follows: 
 
 A licentiate preacher may be presented to the annual conference 
 for elders' orders when he has completed a course in Bonebrake Theo- 
 logical Seminary, or any other standard seminary; or upon thq com- 
 pletion of the course of study prescribed in Chapter IX, Section II, 
 in our Book of Discipline. 
 
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Add on page 52, Section VI paragraph 8 as follows: 
 
 Section VI, page 52, paragraph 8: Change "$800 and parsonage on 
 each charge" to read "$1200 and parsonage on each charge." The 
 entire paragraph will then read: "The Conference Superintendent 
 shall earnestly endeavor to arouse the membership of the church to a 
 more uniform performance of their duties as to a minimum salary of 
 $1200 and parsonage on each charge, and shall suggest the most practi- 
 cable means for securing the same." 
 
 Page 52, Paragraph 12 amend so as to read as follows: 
 
 Should it become desirable to exchange the pastors of two charges 
 in a conference, the superintendent may, in conjunction with the 
 Bishop of the district change said pastors. 
 
 Page 53, paragraph 14, amend so as to read as follows: 
 
 It shall be his duty in consultation or correspondence with the Bishop 
 of the district to fill all vacancies in the pastorates of the confer- 
 ences. 
 
 Page 53, paragraph 4, eliminate the phrase "as far as practicable" ap- 
 pearing in line 8. 
 
 Page 57, paragraph 4, under "transferring members" eliminate the 
 entire item and substitute the following: 
 
 4. The pastor shall issue certificates of transfer to members mov- 
 ing from his charge when granted by vote of the official board. The 
 same to be in harmony with the provisions of Chapter IV, section IV, 
 of Discipline. 
 
 Page 58, Section 2. After the w'ord "leader" in line 6, insert the 
 following, "the accused to be notified of the time and place of such 
 examination." 
 
 Page 63, Section 11, paragraph 3, amend and revise so as to make 
 the article read as follows: 
 
 The official board shall at least one month before annual conference 
 correct the church records. The duties involved to be essentially 
 clerical. It is not a committee of investigation or trial, to determine 
 who shall be members, but simply to see that the church records state 
 the facts as to who are and have been members. The name of no 
 member shall be erased from the records unless the Discipline steps 
 have been taken. (See Chapter IV, Section II, Paragraph 17; Chapter 
 IV, Section III, and Chapter V, Section I, Paragraph 3.) 
 
 Page 67, eliminate last clause of paragraph 8; the item will then 
 read as follows: 
 
 On the completion of the course of study, and two years practical 
 work under the direction of a pastor, or an equivalent course in an 
 approved training school, or literary school providing such courses, 
 the deaconess shall be consecrated to this service by a Bishop or Con- 
 ference Superintendent and receive a permanent license. 
 
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Change the first sentence page 84, paragraph 6, to read as follows: 
 "No Board of Trustees shall begin the building of a church house or 
 parsonage without first submitting their plans and estimates of lot, 
 or lots, and building, to the Quarterly Conference for consideration, 
 approval and direction, the Superintendent being present. 
 
 Page 8(), add to paragraph 14, the following: 
 
 When such adjustment is made the claims assigned to the class 
 withdrawing shall be equitably apportioned among the remaining 
 class of the charge. 
 
 Page 87, following paragraph 17 insert the following special item: 
 
 Royalties From Leases 
 
 Royalties and funds realized by leasing of church or parsonage 
 lands contiguous to producing oil or gas fields, or mines, are construed 
 to be an object of General Conference legislation. Net profits secured by 
 such royalties, or leases, shall be divided on the pro rata basis of fifty 
 per centum between the annual conference in which such resources 
 are derived, and the local church. Provided that all such funds se- 
 cured by the local church shall be used primarily to enhance the ma- 
 terial resources of the church or charge by purchasing real estate, 
 or for new or improved church or parsonage property, or to promote 
 conference or other general benevolence aims. The endorsement of 
 the quarterly conference shall be required in each case. 
 
 Page 91, Chapter XV, paragraph .2, item 2, substitute the words 
 "on the 25th of each month" for the word "immediately"' as it appears 
 in the ninth line The line of the item will then read: "shall be trans- 
 mitted on the 25th of each month to the general church treasurer.'' 
 
 Forms Recommended 
 
 The following Forms are recommended to the delegates for their 
 constderation. Some of these will take the place of Forms now in the 
 Discipiine; others are new. 
 
 Transfer of Member 
 
 THIS CERTIFIES, That is a member in good 
 
 and regular standing in the Church'' of the United Brethren in Christ, at 
 
 in Conference, h . . . . 
 
 membership in this ChurcK to cease when the accompanying certificate, 
 properly filled and dated, is returned to this Church, and not till then. 
 
 Given by vote of 
 
 Dated 19 
 
 Pastor. 
 Transfer Acknowledged 
 
 THIS CERTIFIES, That was received, on 
 
 19.... into membership in the Church of the 
 
 United Brethren in Christ at terminating h. ^. . 
 
 membership in the said Church at 
 
 Pastor. 
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Certificate of Withdrawal 
 
 THIS IS TO CERTIP^Y. That has been. 
 
 until this date, a member of the Church of the United Brethren in 
 
 Christ at and at h. . . .request is Rranted this 
 
 letter of honorable withdrawal from the Church bv a vote of 
 
 Dated 19 
 
 Pastor. 
 
 Permanent License for Ouarterly-Conference Preacher 
 
 THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That has completed 
 
 the course of reading required, and is hereby granted a Permanent 
 
 License as a Quarterly Conference Preacher by 
 
 Charge, Annual Conference, in the Church 
 
 of the United Brethren in Christ, as long as his conduct and doctrine are 
 conformable with the Gospel of Christ, as held by the Church. 
 Dated ' 19 
 
 Conference Superintendent. 
 Transfer of Preacher 
 
 THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That is a 
 
 of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ of 
 
 Conference, and is hereby transferred to Conference 
 
 of said Church. 
 
 Given by vote of Annual Conference. 
 Dated 19 
 
 Bishoi). 
 
 Secretary. 
 Deaconess' Certificate 
 
 THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That is an approved 
 
 Deaconess in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, so long as 
 her conduct and doctrine are conformable with the Gospel of Christ 
 and with the government of our Church. 
 
 Authorized by the Quarterly Conference of Charge 
 
 Annual Conference. 
 
 Dated 19 
 
 Conference Superintendent. 
 
 For Dedication of Parsonage 
 
 Charge to the Trustees. 
 
 The Scriptures clearly teach that as Aaron was divinely ap|)ointed 
 to the priesthood, even so today men are called to the ministry for the 
 purpose of preaching the Word, and otherwise giving aid and comfort 
 to the spiritually needy. In the same divine program it is also ordained 
 that those who "preach the gospel shall live of the gospel." In Second 
 Kings, fourth chapter; we read that after frequent visits by the prophet 
 Elisha to Shunem, a great woman and her husband, in recognition of 
 his exalted character and special blessing to their home, erected for his 
 sole use a little chamber and furnished it with a bed, a table, a seat, 
 and a candlestick. Here the man of God was to tarry at times for rest 
 and meditation. 
 
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Likewise, providing a home for the pastor is a recognition of his 
 high office and great value to the church, and by so much is a wise 
 provision contributing to his temporal support. This house, about to 
 be consecrated as a pastor's home, has been made possible by the 
 generous gifts of those who are interested in the ministry and church 
 you represent. 
 
 You have been appointed by the church to the responsible office of 
 Trustees of this manse, and in such capacity you are to represent the 
 Church and act on its behalf whenever your services are required. 
 Remember, however, that in a very important sense the entire com- 
 munity has an interest in it, and should be led to recognize its real 
 value to the religious and social betterment of the same. It is your 
 duty to properly care for this building, keeping it in good repair, and 
 so beautifying the grounds as to make the property attractive to the 
 general public ever keeping in mind that it is God's house, to be used 
 for his glory. 
 
 Beloved, by the direction of the Quarterly Conference, and in the 
 name of the Holy Trinity, I now give this key to the president of the 
 board as a symbol of your authority to hold this parsonage in trust 
 for the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. May you cheerfully 
 perform the duties which devolve upon you, ever looking to the Spirit 
 of promise for direction and help. Amen. 
 
 Dedicatory Prayer 
 
 And now, Lord God of our fathers, we give this house to thee, praying 
 that what the people have builded for thy glory, may be accepted of thee 
 in the name of thy Son, our Savior. Graciously manifest thyself to all 
 who have contributed to this work with a sincere desire to glorify 
 thee in the furtherance of thy cause. 
 
 When thy servants who shall dwell in this place, preach the Word, 
 blessedly reveal thy presence in making the message they bring the 
 power of God unto salvation to as many as believe. Preserve this 
 house we beseech thee, from fire and storm, and make it a continued 
 blessing to the entire pastoral charge. And not only accept this home 
 provided for thy servants, but accept anew the devotion of our hearts, 
 and dwell thou in them according to thy promise. And at last home 
 us with the saved in "Father's house," and unto the triune God, 
 Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bjessed and glorious, we will give the 
 praise ever more. Amen. 
 
 (Note — Where the conditions warrant it, the impressiveness of the 
 occasion may be intensified by the Bishop delivering the key to the 
 conference superintendent, he in turn to the pastor, and the pastor 
 to the chairman of the board, each in the name of the Trinity.) 
 
 Memorials * 
 
 The Board received memorials from various sources which it had 
 not time to consider and pass upon. As nearly all the members of the 
 
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Board of Adiniiiistration are delegates to the General Conference the 
 Board will hold a special session at Indianapolis before the oi)eninK of 
 the Conference to consider the report of the sub-committee on Charters 
 and other unfinished business, when the memorials presented may be 
 considered and decisions arrived at concerning them, and they will then 
 be presented to the delegates. 
 
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Suggestions For A Program For the Next 
 Quadrennium 
 
 THE SPIRITUAL MISSION OF THE CHURCH 
 
 The Church of the United Brethren in Christ, born of the Spirit 
 into the family of American Protestant churches, must be true to its 
 birthright. Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior of men, now living 
 and in the world in the power of the Holy Spirit, must ever be recog- 
 nized and followed as the divine Lord of the Church. Faith in him and 
 the spiritual regeneration consequent upon faith must ever be the 
 standard of church membership. To win people — children, youths, and 
 men and women — to personal faith in Jesus Christ must ever be the 
 supreme business of the United Brethren Church. 
 
 This business calls for a strong, spiritual, growing local church; for 
 adequate and effective leaders in the annual conferences, and in the 
 Church at large; and for inexpensive, efficient, general agencies through 
 which our churches may fulfill their mission of bringing the gospel 
 of the Son of God to America and the world. 
 
 In building a program for the next four years we must keep our 
 eyes on the local churches with a view to aiding them to realize their 
 largest possibilities in growth and service. A vital efficient local 
 church implies a God-called ministry, adequately trained and properly 
 supported. It implies a church building equipped for worship, instruc- 
 tion, and diversified service. The central purpose of an effective pro- 
 gram must be to utilize every agency in soul winning and soul building 
 and in extending the cause of Christ. 
 
 In submitting recommendations for the construction of a program 
 the Board gives alternating propositions, and observations, which make 
 the report more extended than it otherwise would be. 
 
 I. SPIRITUAL LIFE AND EVANGELISM 
 
 Statements coming from ministers and laymen lead to the conviction 
 that our denominational policy for the coming quadrennium should pro- 
 vide a better agency on Spiritual Life and Evangelism, to aid our 
 churches to meet the unparalleled opportunities and resi)onsibilities 
 now facing our Zion. We must seek for the better development of the 
 spiritual life of our people, and for the cultivation of those who have 
 enrolled as life work recruits. As yet only the first steps have been 
 taken to enlist tithing stewards. Our records show that approximktely 
 one thousand of our local churches did not have so much as one acces- 
 sion on confession of faith last year. 
 
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A study of our present methods reveals the fact that we lack unity in 
 our approach to the problems of the spiritual life of our churches. We 
 find the Evangelistic Commission (ieilinp almost exclusively with 
 professional evangelism; the Young Peoples Department promoting 
 stewardship of life and of property; the Board of Administration, 
 stewardship, the prayer life and phases of evangelism: while our 
 Sunday School Department has been emphasizing evangelism also. 
 
 A more unified approach to this whole i>roblem should be made, and 
 the Board of Administration recommends that the unrelated efforts 
 of the Church to cultivate the prayer life, life work recruits, steward- 
 ship, and evangelism be united under one efTective agency to promote 
 the following schedule of work: 
 
 1. The cultivation and development of the spiritual life of our entire 
 membership. In this realm we should prepare and distribute among 
 our people suitable tract literature on many lines of spiritual activity, 
 such as (1) the prayer life, (2) Bible study, (3) personal work, (4) 
 family altar, (5) instruction and training in daily Christian living, etc. 
 
 2. Enlisting and training our people in the practice of Christian 
 Stewardship. 
 
 3. Enrolling and directing our young people who wish to offer them- 
 selves for either whole time or part time Christian service. 
 
 4. Arousing and training the entire church to meet its evangelistic 
 responsibilities. In this field would come (1) personal evangelism: 
 (2) pastoral evangelism: and (3) professional evangelism. All the 
 evidence coming to the Board indicates that the Church is insistent 
 upon strong emphasis being placed particularly upon personal and 
 pastoral evangelism. 
 
 At least three methods are open to the General Conference by which 
 this unification and increased effectiveness might be accomplished: 
 
 1. The General Conference. could create a board or commission as an 
 independent department, and elect the head of the department and 
 provide for his salary just as other departments are provided for. Or 
 
 2. The General Conference could allocate this task to some depart- 
 ment already existing whose work is kindred to the scope of the 
 activities indicated for this field. Or 
 
 3. The General Conference could outline the general plans to be 
 followed iay the department and refer the selection of the personnel 
 and details of operation to the Board of Administration. 
 
 II. THE FINANCIAL PLANS 
 
 1. General Policy 
 
 The Board has given much consideration to a financial policy that 
 will develop the sense of Christian stewardship in the lives of o>ir 
 members, meet the needs of the various causes which are now much 
 greater than four years ago, and avoid, as far as possible, confusion and 
 multiplicity of appeals. 
 
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Some have thought that the Board should recommend to the General 
 Conference a budget of askings to meet the needs of all departments 
 of the church for the next four years. After considering this matter the 
 Board believes that the General Conference delegates themselves, 
 should hear a statement of needs from the departments and institu- 
 tions, and that they should fix the total amount of the budget while 
 at the General Conference. 
 
 The Board has received many suggestions from conference super- 
 intendents, laymen and pastors touching financial plans for the ensuing 
 four years. With great unanimity these favor the continuance of the 
 main features of the United Enlistment Plan, especially its unity of 
 appeal and its every-member-canvass by the local churches. Many 
 believe that some better way should be devised for the cultivation of 
 large givers. After studying all the suggestions submitted, both 
 written and verbal, the Board reports as follows: 
 
 There are several courses open for the delegates of the next General 
 Conference to pursue: 
 
 Plan One — The General Conference could place before the Church a 
 sufficiently large budget to care for all the current expenses of the 
 boards and institutions and also the endowment and equipment 
 necessary, and quota this down to the local churches to be raised by an 
 every-member-canvass. Or 
 
 Plan Ttoo — The General Conference could build a smaller budget 
 known as a current operating budget, and quota that down to the 
 churches to be raised by an every-member-canvass. The General Con- 
 ference could then provide for an endowment and equipment budget 
 to be raised by special solicitation of larger givers. Or 
 
 Plan Three— The General Conference could combine the two plans 
 by building a budget in two sections, the first to be exclusively for 
 current operating needs of the general boards, annual conferences and 
 institutions, and the second to contain a limited amount for enlarge- 
 ment needs of the general departments and institutions. This united 
 budget should be within the financial reach of our people and be raised 
 by a combination of the every-member-canvass and special solicitation. 
 
 Observations 
 
 Plan one alone is not believed to be feasible for it is scarcely possible 
 to raise sufficient money in an every-member-canvass to meet all the 
 current, enlargement and endowment needs of our societies and insti- 
 tutions. This plan does not provide for the adequate cultivation of 
 persons able to give in large amounts. 
 
 Plan tivo |)rovides only for the current expenses by the every-member- 
 canvass, and would require a very close solicitation in local churches 
 on the part of secretaries and special canvassers for the enlargement 
 and endowment of the work. It seems that the ideal plan would' be 
 one that naturally ties the special solicitation and the every-member- 
 canvass very closely together. Plan two does not do that. 
 
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It is believed that plau three comes more nearly representinR what 
 we should follow. This plan would secure the closest cooperation 
 between pastors and special solicitors because the budget formed under 
 this plan would require the utmost effort to reach the quota and most 
 pastors and churches would welcome special aid to help them reach 
 their goal. In this respect plan three overcomes the chief difflculty of 
 plan two and for this reason it is to be preferred. However, plan three 
 of itself will hardly be sufficient to meet either the needs of our com- 
 bined causes or to provide for the proper cultivation of large givers. 
 To remedy both these defects of pla^i three we recommend plan four. 
 
 Plan Four — This plan provides for a current operating and enlarge- 
 ment budget and also for an endowment and equipment fund. 
 
 (1) The Current Operating and Enlargement Budget to 'be built in a 
 manner similar to the present United Enlistment budget, in two 
 sections: 
 
 Section One to consist of preferred causes and large enough to meet 
 the current operating needs of the following: 
 
 Annual Conference needs, Colleges, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, 
 Church Erection, Board of Education, Bonebrake Seminary, Sunday 
 Schools, Young People's Work, Benevolent Homes, Evangelistic work 
 and administrative expenses,— which include Bishops' salaries, expenses 
 of the General Church Treasurer, Board of Administration, Preachers' 
 Pension Plan and General Conference expenses. 
 
 Section Tico to be a non-preferred part of the budget for enlargement 
 needs of the General Boards, Benevolent Homes, Preachers' Pension 
 Fund. Colleges, and any other authorized interest. 
 
 This Current Operating and Enlargment Budget should be of such 
 size as will not be beyond the possibility of reaching the amount 
 through the every-member-canvass, and yet be large enough to call out 
 every resource of the church through such a canvass with some aid for 
 special solicitation. 
 
 (2) The Endoivvient and Eqtiipment Fund, to be of sufficient size 
 to care for the present needs of our institutions and societies for endoic- 
 ment and for new buildings. This endowment fund to be raised by a 
 quiet canvass on the part of agencies and institutions needing .surh 
 funds. This fund might properly be known as The Quadrennial Endow- 
 ment and Equipment Fund and should be allocated to annual 
 conferences. 
 
 2. Making the Budget 
 
 (1) The Current Operating and Enlargement Budget (Sections one 
 and two). The General Conference should fix the total amount to go 
 into this budget and should allocate the same to the several conferences 
 which in turn will quota it to the charges. This total amount should 
 be divided between the preferred and non-preferred sections of the 
 budget and between the various agencies participating in the budget by 
 
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the General Conference or some competent agency authorized by it. 
 The General Conference also should decide what shall be the partici- 
 pating agencies and their classification, as preferred or non-preferred 
 participants. 
 
 (2) The Quadrennial Endowment and Equipment Fund. The General 
 Conference should authorize the amount of this fund after the most 
 careful investigation, based upon satisfactory surveys. In constituting 
 this fund, there will be two clas.ses of causes to be, considered: namely, 
 those that have general relation to the church and those that have only 
 regional relation, such as colleges and benevolent homes. In the case 
 of the agencies having general relation, the General Conference, or 
 some agency authorized by it. should have authority to determine the 
 amount and placement of the departmental allotments in the Quad- 
 rennial Endowment and Equipment Fund. In the case of aganc^es 
 having regional relations it is recommended that the General Conference 
 authorize some agency to have authority to pass upon the surveys, 
 with recommendations as to the amount of the allotments to go in, 
 but that the authority for the placement of the allotment should be 
 vested in the annual conferences involved in the support of ths various 
 agencies, in conjunction with the boards controlling such regional 
 agencies. 
 
 (NOTE: It might be argued that there need not be so great care in 
 the constitution of this fund which is not to be divided upon a pro 
 rata basis, but is it not a fact that many of our people look to the 
 general church to give them some Idea of the relative merits of the 
 claims of the several institutions, that they may be properly guided in 
 their giving?) 
 
 3. Allocating the Budget 
 
 The Current Operating and Enlargement Budget, ( Sections one and 
 two) should be allocated to conferences and local churches on the same 
 general principles that governed the allocations of the Unite:! Enlist- 
 ment budget, corrected by such considerations as experience has shown 
 to be wise. 
 
 The Quadrennial Endowment, <ind Equipment Fund should be 
 allocated to annual conferences only. 
 
 4. Raising the Current Operating and Endowment Budget 
 
 (Sections one and two.) To raise this budget a simultaneous every- 
 memlier anniial canvass should be conducted to subscribe the full 
 amount of the quotas allotted for the ensuing year. This canvass should 
 be preceded by a preliminary-giving canvass for the larger amounts 
 needed, the departments and their agencies cooperating with pastora It 
 is suggested that the canvass be conducted between May 15 and June 15, 
 making May 14 to 21 the central period for the canvass of 1922. 
 
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5. Realizing the Quadrennial Endowment and i:qiiipnunt Fund 
 
 To reach the goals of this fund we must give more atlention to the 
 sympathetic, tactful cultivation of men ami women of large means. 
 The Church owes a debt to these persons and should not delay the 
 payment of same: namely, that they should he fully informed about 
 the plans and work of the whole denomination and should be shown 
 the privilege of being Christian stewards of what God has given them. 
 To do this work in a constructive, spiritual, effective way so as to lead 
 these persons to become vital partners with Christ in promoting his 
 cause, will require careful preparation of material to be put before 
 them and doubtless some expert field men to supi)lement the work of 
 heads of departments. 
 
 In the operation of such a force who will aim to secure gifts, 
 bequests and annuities, two considerations are important: 
 
 First, to preserve the autonomy and protect the rights of the indi- 
 vidual departments, securing their active cooperation; 
 
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 Seco}i(l. to secure unity of appeal and the avoidance of over-lapping 
 of efforts and the consequent confusion of our people. 
 
 To accomplish these results the following plan is suggested: 
 
 ( 1 ) Thai the departments conduct an aggressive campaign ^or 
 endowment and equipment; that each department desiring thus to 
 increase its funds, elect a field man satisfactory to itself and provide 
 for his salary; that this field man become a part of a united field force 
 for the Quadrennial Endowment and Equipment canvass through a 
 united campaign movement. 
 
 (2) That these representatives work under the direction of the 
 agency authorized to conduct the united canvass and be assigned 
 definite territory in which they shall work, thus avoiding overlapping 
 of effort. The members of this united field force will work under 
 principles to be agreed upon. 
 
 (NOTE: An emergency canvass for any benevolent cause in the 
 general budget, if the necessity for such arises, should have the approval 
 of the Board of Administration ;ind the conference units where the 
 same is to be conducted.) 
 
 III. INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY 
 
 The matter of great importance in promoting a program will be that 
 of giving to the whole church the facts about what has been accom- 
 plished and what needs to be done to make the cause of Christ 
 triumphant. This vitally important publicity and educational work 
 must be i)rovided for in an adequate fashion. Some plan that will 
 avoid overlapping and waste of energy and yet give a thorough presen- 
 tation of all the causes is the ideal to be aimed at. The following is 
 recommended : 
 
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1. That the departments and institutions of the Church assemble as 
 soon as possible, a wide range of facts concerning the various phases 
 of their work, keeping in mind the constant need for illustrative matter. 
 
 2. In view of the fact that our church periodicals hold a central place 
 as a most effective means in giving information to our people, we 
 recommend that there be the fullest counsel and cooperation on the 
 part of the publisher, editors, and secretaries of departments so as to 
 greatly increase the circulation of our periodicals, and that they be 
 utilized to the utmost in giving the vital information necessary for the 
 realization of the goals of the program. 
 
 3. That arrangements be made whereby the annual conferences may 
 cooperate in the publication of a Bulletin, and that adequate space be 
 granted the conferences for the publication of their financial state- 
 ments and other conference matters. By such a plan each local church, 
 through its membership groups, may be able to place a copy of the 
 Bulletin in every horiie. 
 
 4. That as soon as possible a list of from ten to twenty thousand of 
 our leading laymen be secured with a view to sending them, from time 
 to time, proper literature from the various departments, and on 
 stewardship, evangelism, etc. 
 
 5. That the department of statistics, charts, and stereopticon slides be 
 enlarged to meet the growing demand for such publicity matter. 
 
 6. That steps be taken to enlist our pastors, young people, and key 
 laymen to avail themselves of denominational and interdenominational 
 summer conferences. 
 
 7. That a study text book be prepared for use in our churches covering 
 all the benevolent, missionary and educational activities of the united 
 program. We believe that the various departments and institutions 
 shduld at least partially subsidize such a text book so that it could be 
 furnished our people at small cost when assurances are given that the 
 people will make a systematic study of the book. 
 
 8. That the Departmental Promotional Periods be properly corre- 
 lated as heretofore. 
 
 THREE ESSENTIAL FACTORS 
 
 In conclusion, the Board ventures to express its conviction with 
 reference to fundamental conditions without which no large achieve- 
 ment can be accomplished. These conditions are: 
 
 1. Wholehearted Cooperation 
 
 In the plan suggested there is an effort to attain a high standard of 
 unity without sacrificing the autonomy of departments and institutions. 
 Good progress has been made in cooperation during the past four years, 
 but greater, more vital cooperation should be secured as we go forward. 
 
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 In perfecting the plans for the next quadrennium the General Con- 
 ference should aim to secure the heartiest cooperation of departments 
 
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and institutions and place more and more responsibility upcm tiicsf 
 agencies. Above all, the method of procedure should be such as will 
 secure the whole-hearted cooperation of pastors and churches KrantiiiK 
 them large liberty and initiative. It is believed that the rank and file 
 of our church membership and the heads of departments and institu- 
 tions will be ready for such vital, effective cooperation. 
 
 2. A Unified Executive Organization 
 
 In order to give full information concerning our causes and to 
 enlist our people to become tithing stewards, and to conduct a thorough 
 every-person-canvass, it will be necessary to perfect the organization 
 in bishops' areas, annual conferences and in local churches, where the 
 family group with captains should be organized and trained to carry 
 forward every phase of the work we expect to do. "With this simple 
 organization running from the General Conference right down to the 
 last member of the church our people can do great things for God. 
 
 3. A Vitalized and Militant Individual Church 
 
 The Board closes as it began by saying that in reaching the various 
 objectives, we should keep in mind constantly the aim to develop the 
 local church for the real battle is won or lost in these churches. The 
 spiritual life of our people must be intensified. They must be taught 
 the privilege and duty of Christian stewardship. 
 
 At present our members are giving less than one-half of the tithe of 
 their income for all our causes, including pastors' salary and local 
 expenses. The lives of all should be laid on the altar for service, and 
 thousands must be directed to our Colleges and Bonebrake Seminary 
 for training for life work. Our Sunday-school teachers must be pre 
 pared to meet their high obligations, and our Christian Endeavor 
 Societies and every other training agency at our command, must be 
 utilized in providing better leaders and a better spiritual elflcient 
 church. 
 
 One of our chief tasks must be to train the members of churches to 
 be personal soul winners. Our pastors must themselves be evangelists, 
 and recognize soul winning as their chief business, and every local 
 church should face its community problem with earnestness. 
 
 In short, our people should be led to look upon the United Brethren 
 Church as an aggressive army of the Lord and act as under marching 
 orders from Him in the work He is calling us to do. 
 
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Quadrennial Address 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Board of Bishops 
 
 OF THE 
 
 United Brethren Church 
 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
 In Session at Indianapolis, Indiana. Convening 
 
 At Two O'clock. May 12. 1921, 
 
 In Tomlinson Hall. 
 
Bishops' Quadrennial Address 
 
 Presented to the General Conference of the United 
 Brethren Church, at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 May 12, 1921 
 
 To the General Conference of the Chnrcli of the I'nitcd Brethren in Christ, 
 assenihled from many lands, we present salutations in the name of onr Lord 
 Jesus Christ, the Shepherd and Bishop of ouj souls, and return glad and grateful 
 thanks to our heavenly Father for the good providence that has preserved vour 
 lives and ours to meet on this occasion. 
 
 One hundred and twenty-one years ago a little group of ministers, fourteen 
 in number, met in the home of Peter Kemp, near Frederick, Marvland. It 
 was the initial conference, and the genesis of the organized work of oiir Church. 
 Those who witnessed the gathering may have given it but a passing thought. 
 But it is now spoken of as "a cloud the size of a man's hand, appearing in the 
 morning sky of the nineteenth century which was to empty itself in refreshing 
 rains upon the widening fields where grow God's boundless" harvests to the en<l 
 of time." From that conference the missionaries pressed their way, first to the 
 newly opened settlements of the West, then on to the western ocean, then to 
 the farthest shores of the Pacific — into the mighty empires of Japan, China, and 
 the islands of the sea. Let us pause to remember that to these lands, from 
 which we have just come with lightning speed, our fathers once went with the 
 slow tread of a droning civilization. The quickened tramp of our coming is 
 only the echo of the foot-tread of the fathers, "whose line is gone out through 
 all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." 
 
 We are guests today in a queenly city. One that has long had deserved 
 honor as the home of happy families, excellent schools, aggressive churches, 
 and great leaders both in church and state. We are guests in a magnificent 
 State, distinguished for its splendid contributions to the world of letters, 
 science, statesmanship, and religion. The fathers who carved it from the wilder- 
 ness and planted civilization in its solitudes were godly men — a courageous 
 people with splendid poise and strength of character. Our denominational ap- 
 preciation can but be quickened as we recall the service rendered bj- our own 
 pioneer ministers. 
 
 Our first missionary. Doctor John George Pfrimmer, over and above his 
 apostolic mission and office, rendered invaluable service to the State and to 
 secular civilization. On reaching the territorj- in 1808, he met Governor William 
 Henry Harfison. A strong friendship soon developed. The same year they 
 laid out the town of Corydon, which became the first capital of the State. The 
 following year Harrison County was organized and Doctor Pfrimmer became 
 judge of the courts by appointment of the governor, with Patrick Shields and 
 Moses Boone, nephew of the illustrious Daniel Boone, as his associates. He wa.<; 
 counseled by the governor and law-making bodies in important matters of 
 legislation pertaining to the shaping of the policies of the new State. When 
 the "Constitutional Convention" met in 1816, under the "Constitutional Elm" 
 which after the storms of a hundred years stands today as a witness to that 
 historic event and its ceremonies. Doctor Pfrimmer was chosen to christen the 
 new State with a prayer of dedication. It is a remarkable fact, that from that 
 time until the present, the reins of this great commonwealth have biin within 
 the hands of a Christian governor. 
 
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In presenting this quadrennial address your General Superintendents are 
 profoundly convinced that never before in our history did a General Conference 
 meet in a time like this. Membership in this body is not simply a high privilege 
 but a serious and searching responsibility. We face problems today of which our 
 fathers never dreamed — supreme issues, essential questions of life or death for 
 our Church in this day. But we face our world as the fathers faced theirs, sit 
 with our Master as they sat with theirs — the same Master yesterday with them, 
 today with us, and forever with the Church. God grant that we may advance 
 upon our work with the same fullness of high life and resolution with which 
 the}- walked into the western wilderness and claimed it for the kingdom of God. 
 
 On entering upon their duties at this conference your General Suprintend- 
 ents are sadly conscious of the recent break in their thin line. In the beautiful 
 Woodland Cemetery, in Dayton, Ohio, there is a new-made grave. Flowers are 
 growing thereon which have never bloomed before, and they spring out of earth 
 still moist with tears. There in that last inn on the winding road to the skies 
 sleeps our beloved Bishop, George M. Mathews — man of God, preacher of the 
 Word, Bishop of souls. 
 
 With tendet hearts we proceed to speak the names of William J. Shuey, 
 "our grand old man" who for a generation directed the publishing interests of 
 the Church; Daniel Berger, architect and builder of our first Sunday-school 
 periodicals; Henry A. Thompson, author, educator and editor; C. I. B. Brane, 
 associate editor of The Religious Telescope, and Vera B. Blinn, editor and 
 General Secretary of the Women's Missionary Association. Of the ministers 
 who sat with us as delegates four years ago and have passed within the veil are: 
 D. D. Lowery, C. W. Kurtz, J. B. Norveil, I. H. Albright, A. A. Chapman, 
 George Geiger, J. W. Wilson and E. A. Lilly. Of the laymen of that conference 
 who have been called to their heavenly crowning are: A. A. Moore, A. S. Light, 
 John L. Arbogast, Briley Douglas and M. H. Meyers. 
 
 For these whom the Church will long hold in grateful memory suitable 
 memorial services will be held during this session of the General Conference. 
 If we keep alive through long years of separation our love of those gone before 
 as every true heart does, then, on our side at least reunion is prepared for. 
 And we may be sure that they will answer our longing, for "life is ever lord 
 of death, and love can never lose its own." So let us believe, so let us live out 
 our little day, 
 
 "Till the night is gone. 
 And with the morn those angel faces smile 
 Whiih we have loved long since and lost awhile. ' 
 
 It need not be stated that the past quadrennium has been the most tragic 
 and eventful in the annals of history. When the General Conference convened 
 four years ago, a thousand millions of the earth's population were engaged in 
 war — a war that cost two hundred billion dollars, and dug ten million graves. It 
 was the hour of the world's supreme trial, when service banners filled with stars 
 hung in all the churches of the land as proud proofs of the unity of religious 
 zeal of America for love of libQrty and hatred of the heresy of autocracy. We 
 here record our special gratitude, that immediately following those years of 
 agony, when faith was wavering, and "hearts were breaking. Providence threw 
 upon the foreground at stated times the announcement of glorious and far- 
 reaching victories won by the forces of righteousness pointing definitely to the 
 final reign of the Prince of Peace. November 11, 1918, January 16, 1919, Janu- 
 ary 25, 1919, August 2?), 1920, are dates that will stand out in history, as great 
 promontories along the coast line of the world's progress. 
 
 On the first date, the Armistice was signed. After months and years of 
 grave doubt as to the outcome, humanity's fierce battle against the enemies of 
 civilization was won. The upwclling emotion stirred by the announcement prob- 
 ably never has been equaled in history. Centuries after we who were livin? 
 upon the earth at that time are forgotten, children will read in the school 
 histories that on the eleventh day of Novenilier, 1918. lil)crty was born anew. 
 
On the second date, the last of the thirty-six States necessary to complete 
 the process of ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Lonstitutiou 
 prohiuiting the manufacture, sale, and use, of intoxicatmg beverages was an- 
 nounced. The most powerful nation on earth, calmly, deliberately, and by 
 practically unanimous expression decided to dispense with intoxicants, thus 
 bringing to a close one of the fiercest and most prolonged contests in history. 
 The Constitution of the greatest republic of the world enthrones sobriety and 
 liberty side by side. It was not the decree of a dynasty; it was the decision 
 of a democracy. Such victories are bloodless but they are most glorious, and 
 they hasten the redemption of the nations and the. reign of the Son of man. 
 
 On the third date, the- Peace Commissioners, at Versailles, approved the fun- 
 damental principle of world peace and the perpetuation of peace. The develop- 
 ment of the idea to an early fruition will be welcomed by all lovers of God and 
 humanity. The task is colossal, but a beginning has been made, and the dis- 
 cussion at \'ersailles is one of the most tremendous facts of the age. It declares 
 the will of an awakened world. 
 
 On the fourth date, the Nineteenth .\mendmcnt to the Constitution was 
 ratified, and womanhood with her sceptered ballot took the throne in joint 
 reign with her brother. Suffrage was hers by right and of divine intent. Now 
 it is hers by constitutional law. It is a part of the gospel's legacy. It is the 
 business of the gospel leaven to lift all society equally into the sweetness and 
 lightness of freedom. Every barrier is to be broken down by the conquering 
 tread of the Galilean. Caste barriers have been breaking, from the time of the 
 epistle to Philemon by Paul, to the Emancipation Proclamation by Lincoln, 
 and now another step in the Christian evolution of the race is reached. Our 
 God is marching on. Twenty-seven million new voters were brought to the 
 kingdom for a time like this to aid in that which concerns far more than any 
 dream the permanence of the Republic and the well-being of their children, name- 
 ly, the conservation of our national ideals. 
 
 The Church of the United Brethren in Christ holds its place in the burnished 
 candle-stick that lightens the holy of holies in the temple of democracy. We 
 count our forces not by multitudes of membership, but bj' the invisible trans- 
 forming power of truth which like the torch of liberty is scattering the dark- 
 ness of the world. The best word that can be spoken to our people at this time 
 is that the Church has made substantial progress during this quadrennium. We 
 may rejoice that, amid the distractions of those terrible, those unforgetable 
 j-ears, with the absence of our full share of young men in their country's service, 
 we see no general weakening of our organizations at home or abroad. By the 
 mercy of God, this General Conference represents a larger Church, with larger 
 assets and a wider sweep of influence than any other since the first similar 
 gathering in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, one hundred and six years ago. 
 This will be shown by the reports of the several great interests and activities of 
 the Church which will be laid before you by those who have them in charge. 
 
 While the gains in our membership have been comparatively meager, our 
 resources and working capital show exceptional increase. Steadfastness and 
 stability have characterized our publishing interests through troubled days and 
 trying condi!ions. Sunday-school and Christian Endeavor enterprises have been 
 marked by intensive rather than extensive emphasis. Missionary spirit and 
 endeavor have taken a decided step in advance. The revival in church building 
 has continued with steady momentum notwithstanding the handicap of ab- 
 normal cost of material. The progress of our educational work has been 
 marvelous, making the quadrennium memorable. The development of our 
 orphanages and homes for the aged has been marked. Our War Service Com- 
 mission did its work well. Our Evangelistic Commission gave valuable aid to 
 the conferences. The United Enlistment Movement was the most significant 
 and far-reaching ever planned or achieved by our denomination for the extension 
 of the kingdom of Christ in the earth. When we consider these achievements, 
 not as a matter of pride, but a reason for praise, we can but say with holy 
 awe. "The Lord of hosts is with us yet." 
 
While the Church has caught new concepts of dutj' and had new visions 
 of service, while her heart-beat has quickened with the quickening tide of 
 modern life and her sympathies have widened and deepened, she is still en- 
 gaged in the old-time mission of carrying the gospel of the crucified Christ to 
 erring men and women. She stands by the ancient faith. She still believes in 
 the existence of a triune God, in a personal Savior, in the deity of Christ, in the 
 redemptive power of his shed blood, and in the immortality of the soul. As our 
 Church was born amid the throes of the American Revolution, it has the same 
 love of liberty and equality that found expression in the immortal Declaration 
 of Independence. It is as nearly modeled after the pattern of our Republic as a 
 church can be like a state. There is no nobler ideal in the world toda.v, and 
 the more fully it is known the better it is loved and revered. 
 
 But what of the future? In the confusion and bewilderment of the world 
 the Church has its chance, and its new code of obligations. What can God do 
 with a Church like ours, in helping to lift a war-broken world into new life and 
 enduring peace? What shall be the message and spirit of the Church in a time 
 like this? Where shall the emphasis be placed? These are the questions that 
 must concern us. Your General Superintendents are therefore constrained to 
 stress the fact that we are here for high and serious business. This General 
 Conference must give itself to higher tasks than formal legislation, which is 
 usually overdone in our legislative bodies. We must attend to ideals rather 
 than enactments, build a program and plan an offensive if we are to serve the 
 present age, which is our supreme calling. It is a day for broad thinking, resolute 
 planning and devotion to the larger good. 
 
 THE CHURCH AND OUR NEW AGE 
 
 Our thought is here dominated by an immortal sentence of Abraham Lin- 
 coln, uttered in an hour of national crisis — immortal, because it will apply 
 to every crisis in the world's history. "God bless the churches and blessed be 
 God, who, in this, our great trial, giveth us the churches." Conspicuous world 
 leaders voice their alarm in this critical hour and look to the Church of God 
 for help. An eminent statesman recently remarked, "The only institution that 
 stands between society and chaos is the Christian Church." We go further than 
 that. The Church is not only the chief agency for the prevention of disorder, it 
 is the one hope for the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. The five 
 Premiers of the British Empire met awhile ago and declared that the new 
 world order must be built on spiritual foundations, on the authority of God and 
 the message of Christianity as a whole: that civilization waits everywhere upon 
 the spiritual power, the spiritual life, and the spiritual message of the Church. 
 The same conviction has been expressed, in equally strong terms both b}- the 
 former and the present Chief Executive of the United States. 
 
 Cynic voices assail the Church now as always. It is cursed for going 
 too slow, and cursed for going too fast. It is charged with failure and with 
 being the champion of the obsolete. Bu^t it is here. It is the worlds only hope, 
 and with it moves the life of the nation. The| Church through the ages will 
 be an imperfect institution. From the beginning it has been flawed and marred, 
 but the Holy Spirit has through its inptrumcntalitv brought about that miracle 
 of miracles, the transformation of a large part of the race from savagery to 
 civilization. If the critic is honest and true to the facts of history, he must admit 
 that all we are as a nation above the heathen the Church has made us. We 
 are here today as Christian men and women, who were brought to Christ be- 
 cause there has been a Church of Christ. It is fitting that for ourselves and 
 for our people we here renew our loyalty to Christ and the Church and pledge 
 our best endeavor to place the Church on a higher level of influence and power 
 for the new generation. 
 
 Never was it more fatally easy than in the recent past to be tempted to the 
 cynicism of illusion and to say that Christianity has failed, and that we can ex- 
 pect nothing better of human nature than p-rced, revenged and war — following 
 the old vicious circle from Jena to Austerlitz, from Sedan to the Marne. So 
 
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much has happened; so many securities have been shattered, so many ^rtat 
 liopes confidently entertained have tailed of fruition, and our eyes have been 
 washed by a flood of tears the while we walked through the Gethsemane of 
 the World War up to the very mount of Calvary. But Christ has not failed. 
 It is now clear that it was because diplomats rejected him that the world was 
 plunged into a ditch. Germany made the fatal mistake of building an edifice, 
 not out of the principles set forth in the Sermon on the Mount, not out of the 
 essential genius of the German people as represented by the sermons of Luther, 
 the literature of Goethe, the music of Beethoven, the learning of Von Humboldt, 
 but out of the imperialistic instincts and ambitions of an exclusive military caste. 
 The plans of man have broken down, for man himself has failed. It is the hour 
 of man's extremity, but the hour of man's extremity is God's opportunity. 
 
 We thank God for the new demonstration which the war has brought, of 
 the unshakable foundation upon which our faith is laid; for the clear revelation 
 of the central place which religion holds in the life of man. We have a new 
 appreciation of the adequacy of Christ's program to heal the world's hurt. In 
 all the upheaval and world crash, no truth of Christ has licen invalidated. Not 
 one principle of his when tried has failed. The Church needs in this crisis 
 to make no experiments with new weapons. When carnal weapons have been 
 used where spiritual forces should have been released, no wonder defeat has 
 come! The Church does not need to change its creed to cure the world. It has 
 always had enough resources to save. Its failure to use them has brought d.>- 
 feat. The gospel of Jesus needed no revision to meet the needs of 
 our boys in the trenches, in the hospitals, or on the gray solitudes of the seas. 
 As unchanging as the needs of the human soul are the saving principles of Jesus 
 Christ. He is not exhausted. He has not failed in a world crisis. The race 
 lies prone with cruel wounds because he was not allowed to help. We cannot 
 fail if the living Christ has the right of way. The old time religion must be 
 the new time religion. It is good enough for our new age. 
 
 Each Communion sustains its relation to the Church universal through its 
 particular organization. So long as denominationalism has its place in what 
 appears to be a necessary and providential order, there must be wisdom in 
 bringing every particular denomination to the highest degree of efficiency as a 
 denomination. That is our business as a General Conference. The universal 
 Church is an army, and, the more efficient every regiment is, the more efficient 
 the army as a whole will be. The next quadrennium should be devoted to 
 strengthening the stakes and lengthening the cords of our denominational life 
 and influence. 
 
 But this General Conference represents the whole Church. The kingdom 
 is greater than any of its parts. The Church must be judged and appraised in 
 the light of the sovereign vision of the kingdom of heaven. The Church does 
 not exist for itself, but to promote the kingdom of heaven, to bring the reign 
 of Christ to realization in the hearts and homes of men — in its own life, and 
 in all the fellowships of humanity. By all methods, by its evangelism and ed- 
 ucation, by the purity and brotherliness of its members, as a keeper of holy 
 mysteries and as an inspirer of social activity, in state, in trade, everywhere 
 the Church must seek one thing and one only — to establish the kingdom of 
 heaven. Its specific function is not simply to provide a home for religious 
 people, but to transform the faith and life of men, individually and socially, to 
 increase the number of men and women who have entered into the mind of 
 Christ and look with his eyes upon the Church and the world: and further to 
 mother and train prophet souls — to go up and down the land— ail lands — to 
 watch and witness and to keep everyw-here alight the fires of God. 
 
 The Poet-prophet addressing the Church as the custodian of the sacred 
 oracles of Jehovah cried, "O send out thy light and thj truth." That command 
 is urgent today to this General Conference. The four outstanding agencies 
 employed are the home, the pulpit, the press, and the school. We will do well 
 to give ourselves to the strengthening of this quartet of agencies in a con- 
 structive way. 
 
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THE HOME 
 
 The home is the oldest and greatest training school in the land. The 
 unit of Jewish and Christian legislation as enacted in the Old and New 
 Testaments was the home. "If the groves were God's first temples, parents 
 were his first priests." In the home God has given us in miniature a picture 
 of what he means his world to be — a society in which the welfare of each is 
 the concern of all, and he is greatest who serv-es most. The Christian home is 
 the nursery of religion, and of government. There the family altar, which is 
 the greatest school of religion, is maintained. Such a home is God's chosen 
 field for the cultivation of those social and spiritual graces which make life 
 beautiful and majestic, whether it be lived under the limitations of poverty or 
 amidst the splendors of wealth and high social position. If religion is permitted 
 to die out of the home it cannot be maintained elsewhere. Family worship 
 should be supplemented by the incorporation of an intelligent educational pur- 
 pose in its program. In some way there must be a real strengthening of the 
 sense of family responsibility for the religious education of the child. It is 
 for the Church to strengthen the home at this point by inspiring and training 
 parents to take up the work they have neglected, and by giving them definite, 
 sj'stematic help in maintaining family worship, and in the religious training of 
 their children. 
 
 THE PULPIT 
 
 Preaching is an institution peculiar to the gospel. It is an agency previously 
 unknown, which Christianity has created for itself to be its own chosen mode of 
 utterance. Glorious is the history of the Christian pulpit. It has been the 
 great moving, uplifting power in human society. The fact that young men 
 are not entering the ministry in as large numbers as formerly presents a present 
 day problem that challenges the serious thought of the Church, because the 
 Church cannot live without an adequate ministry. Many see in the depleted 
 ranks simply one of the destructive results of the war. A leading educator 
 laments that young men are turning from the learned professions to enter trade 
 and commerce. Materialism, he thinks, is an evil spirit that has given its cup of 
 sorcery to youth and beguiled young life from the path of noble scholarship and 
 spiritual leadership. It must be admitted that the secular and materialistic 
 spirit of the age is a powerful cause in diverting young men from the ministry. 
 But not the emoluments of commerce alone explain the drift of young men away 
 from the ministry. The principal reason in our judgment why young men are 
 not entering the ministry in larger numbers is because of a lack of definite, 
 earnest, pra3'erful effort upon the part of the Church to influence young men 
 toward this high calling. 
 
 There are certain definite and well-defined ministerial recruiting grounds 
 that must be assiduously cultivated. (1) A home in which worship is maintained 
 and where family-talk never discredits the Church or the pulpit. (2) A pastor 
 who, from the watch-tower of his vantage ground, keeps scanning the field for 
 prospects and speaks an encouraging wor^ in season. (3) A local church where 
 a deep spiritual life is maintained, where parental opposition is overcome, and 
 where the prayer condition is met. (4) A college atmosphere favorable to 
 Christian work, and in which the office of the ministry is exalted. When the 
 Church honors the pulpit, the pulpit will honor the Church bringing authentic 
 leadership to its service. (5) Thg boards and institutions that directly touch 
 youth in the years when it is making its life decisions should have a coordinated 
 plan, not for an occasional campaign for recruiting and training, but for a con- 
 tinuous unwearying regard for gathering young life for the ministry and other 
 forms of Christian service. 
 
 The whole plan of the Church for recruiting the ministry should be con- 
 structed upon a firm and comprehensive basis. This General Conference should 
 by all means provide for a larger investment of money in the training of* the 
 future leadership of the Church. The necessary equipment must be placed 
 within the reach of young men and women in preparation for the ministry and 
 mission fields. The Church cvn ill afford to permit young men whom God 
 
has called, to leave the halls of our institi-fons of Icrrnins for lack (.f means 
 to continue their work of preparation. We rejoice in the larger opportunity 
 and greater usefulness that will come to Bonehrake Theological Seminary 
 through the new buildings and equipments that are being cstai)lished on that 
 ideal spot overlooking the winding Miami. The Church has no more urgent 
 duty than to make that school of the prophets equal in every particular to any in 
 the land. No other institution than one in spiritual and intellectual sympathy 
 with a given Church can properly train a ministry for that Church. 
 
 Moreover, if we are to keep our pulpits supplied with competent, consecrated 
 men, adequate support must be guaranteed by the Church. The nightmare of 
 old age penury must be removed forever from the overtaxed mind of the 
 preacher. The Church will do herself no greater honor than to provide an 
 adequate pension to cheer and brighten the closing days and years of our aged 
 ministers — not as a gift but as a compensation for service rendered. We may 
 lake a little pride in the fact that the recent survey showed that the average 
 salary paid by our denomination to its ministers was above that of some of 
 the larger churches numerically, nevertheless the support given our ministry is 
 yet far too small. But it must not be forgotten that the supreme motive of 
 the ministry lies back of material support. It must have the anchorage of a 
 call to the sacred office, backed by a definite Christian experience and passion 
 for the work. It appeals to the heroic in man. As a Church, we have never 
 been without a ministry ready to adjust itself to difficult conditions, and count 
 it an honor to bear hardships for Jesus' sake and the work's sake. 
 
 THE PRESS 
 
 The value and potency of the press are gaining recognition as a vehicle through 
 which the world is to receive religion and civilization. By this means the 
 preacher of righteousness may include the world in his parish. The public 
 schools and the spirit of the times have made this an age of reading and the 
 people a nation of readers. The religious press, therefore, is a major consid- 
 eration in our educational system. This General Conference has no higher 
 privilege and duty than that of providing not only to maintain our present high 
 standards of literature, but to add to its character and attractiveness with a 
 view to securing a stronger literary grip upon the j'oung life of the Church, and 
 thereb}' counteract the thousands of papers of low moral standards and ideals 
 that set j'outh on the wrong side of every good thing. The real profits 
 of our great publishing plant do not appear in figures on the credit side of 
 its ledger, but in lives that are created — the dividends in human character. This 
 is its supreme mission. 
 
 THE SCHOOL 
 
 The Christian institution of learning is an organized agency of light by 
 means of which Christianity is becoming ever more and more an efficient life 
 working intelligently for the well-being of the world. What the world will be 
 tomorrow will be due to what we educate into it toda}'. The young life rep- 
 resented in the schools constitutes the field. The ideals held forth by the 
 teachers of ^oday will shape the mind and morals of the generation just before 
 us. In Germany it has been seen that in one generation a nation's mind can 
 -be made wrong. Youth is the period of the making whether it be good or evil. 
 It is the task of Christianity to make the mind and character of the world ac- 
 cording to the mind of Christ. 
 
 The Christian Church must educate if it is to meet the challenge of the 
 times. It must educate the masses not alone in material knowledge: least of 
 all in that. It must inculcate Christian virtues and Christian ideals. Without 
 them the world cannot struggle to its feet again. And it is strictly up to the 
 Christian Church to provide that education. Governments will not do it. In- 
 dividuals cannot do it. The Church must. .•Xs we face the ereat issues of life 
 and the absolute demand for an adequate leadership, to successfully meet \hn<" 
 
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issues it must be apparent that the future of the Church is bound up with 
 the future of its institutions of learning. We cannot possibly hope to raise up 
 an adequate force of laj^ and ministerial leaders without these training agencies. 
 Secular institutions have not the art to shape ministers and church workers. 
 Our church schools produce them. 
 
 Moreover there must be brought to the Church a new conception of the 
 sanctity and value of the whole business of teaching and education. The Church 
 must support the State in every measure looking toward raising its educational 
 standards, and in the selection of well-qualified teachers both in character and 
 training. Our Nation is honoring itself in the splendid material equipment and 
 comfort.^^ it is providing for the education of its youth, and the best is none 
 too good. But greater in importance and influence than millions of equipment 
 is the maintaining of high moral and educational standards. The place of all the 
 places where the State cannot afford to retrench is the maintenance of these 
 standards with adequate salaries for teachers. 
 
 THE CHURCH AND THE CHILD 
 
 It is not an accident that Jesus makes the child — the prophet of humanity 
 in whose hand the future lies — the symbol of his gospel, and the child-heart 
 the secret of his religion. Here the everlasting enterprise of education — by 
 \vhich we must mean spiritual nurture, no less than physical health and intel- 
 lectual culture — finds sanction and inspiration, as much by the method of the 
 teacher as by his faith. 
 
 The problem of the child is the problem of the Church — naj', the problem 
 of the child is the problem of the world. It is by far the most important 
 problem with which the church and the state have to deal; because the child is 
 the citizen and Christian of tomorrow. William E. Gladstone once made the 
 statement: "The relation of the Church to the youth of Great Britain is a 
 matter of greater importance than all the combined problems of the British 
 Empire." Theodore Roosevelt likewise said: "If you are going to do anj^thing 
 permanent for the average man, j^ou must begin before he is a man. The 
 chance of success lies in working with the boy and not with the man." No 
 greater and more vital truth has ever been announced from two continents by 
 two of the w^orld'p greatest master men than the identical truth in their re- 
 spective statements. 
 
 The weightiest responsibility committed to the Church is that of the sacred 
 guardianship of her youth. We waste the land and our children starve. We 
 squander the Nation's resources and the citizens of tomorrow suffer. This is 
 the core of the current agitation about conservation. The truth applies to 
 church life. The Church of today is determining the volume and quality of 
 the Church of tomorrow. If we fail to conserve our heritage of childhood, the 
 material out of which the kingdom of God is to be built, it will be a wicked waste 
 compared with which the destruction of our forests, the exploitations of our 
 minerals, and the loss of our water power is as the small dust of the balance. 
 
 The weakest point in Protestant Christianity has been in the failure to 
 recognize the fact that her first great opportunity is the childhood of the world. 
 It is said of Francis Xavier, 'the great missionary of the Roman Catholic 
 Church, that on a certain occasion, when worn out with his many labors, and 
 when retiring for rest, said to his servant: 'T must sleep; if I do not, I shall 
 die. If someone should call to see me, tell them I am asleep." The servant 
 watching the door of the missionary's tent soon saw the pale face of Xavier and 
 heard him say: "I made a mistake; if a little child comes, do not fail to call 
 me." Of all the places where the Church ought never to sleep, but be awake 
 to her duty, it is in her relation to the children. The need of the hour is an 
 aroused Church, one which shall place a proper value upon the child, and upon 
 the fateful significance of those fleeting years in which, if at all, childrei^ must 
 be prepared for taking their rightful places in the kingdom of God. 
 
 It must be admitted that the Church by its neglect of childhood loses more 
 people to the kingdom of God than all our revivals are able to bring back. The 
 
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almost exclusive expenditure of the Church's energies has l)cen upon adult con- 
 version and culture, adult creeds and orders of worship. In planning its i)uii.l- 
 ings. the ihouyht has centered ahout the adidt instead of the child. It nuist ever 
 remain to her discredit that it was nearly two thousand years after Jesus folded 
 the little ones in his arms before his Church made a' coinfortahle hench for 
 them to sit upon, or built houses of worship with the slightest reference to 
 those of whom he said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." 
 
 God has put the child in the center and the program and legislation of the 
 Church must be built around that center. The work of each committee of this 
 General Conference should be performed with the fullest recognition of the 
 child in the midst. Plans must be devised by which the Church will hold a 
 tighter grip upon the childhood of hef care that it may be kept from sin's 
 ravages for Christ's beautiful service. When the problem of properly dealing 
 with young life during its early stages of development shall have been solved, 
 the Church will enter upon her brightest era since the day of Pentecost. One 
 generation, one. entire generation of all the world of children, understood as they 
 should be, loved as they ask to be, and so developed as they might be, would 
 usher in the millennium. It is one of the famed sayings of Mr. Moody, "If 
 we can save one generation we have i)ut the enemy out of business." 
 
 SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS 
 
 What should be the attitude of the Church toward present social, economic, 
 and industrial conditions that threaten to shatter society already rent by the 
 shock of World War? It is true that the first and chief interest of the Church 
 is the redemption and training of souls. But the Church cannot fulfill that 
 mission :;nd lie indifferent or even neutral in a conflict in which the souls of 
 men are fighting for life. The two mighty forces that shape human life more 
 than all others put together are the economic and religious. Until these two 
 forces are brought into right relations — each serving the other — there will be 
 neither religious reality nor economic peace. Too many evangelists are al! 
 too indifferent to social conditions. All too many social theorists and social 
 workers are wholly without interest in the spiritual regeneration of persons. The 
 call of the hour is for that better, completer work of regeneration and re- 
 demption, that larger evangelism which will make new men and new society 
 according to Christ's pattern. 
 
 The Church knows neither rich nor poor as such, and her jnirest teachings 
 tnove her to value men as well as count them; to seek, not what they have. 
 but what they are and ought to be. She makes war, when loyal to her mission, 
 on all injustice, and in her pursuit of what is ethical, submits herself to the 
 teachings of her divine Lord. The Church opposes unjust exactions either by 
 employers or by the employed. Profiteering is a vague term, but it is sufficientlv 
 explicit to include the workman who charges more than he is worth, as well 
 as the contractor or the usurer who takes adv^antage of his opportunities to ac- 
 cuiTiulate filthy gains. The great Teacher unfolded the divine ideals of human 
 society and taught the true principle upon which it can exist when he said, 
 "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." 
 The Golderv Rule of Christ expressed in sociey will bring in the Golden Age 
 of man. His touch clothes poverty with power, consecrates wealth to human 
 benefit, and makes work and wages sacraments of human fellowship. 
 
 The Church must in this day exercise its mediatorial ministry. It must 
 hold a steady course, speak in clear tones, and minister to order, stability, and 
 righteousness. Lord Morley thinks the problem of the black man in .America 
 "insoluble' — that is his word, and so it is, if it be only a welter of rancor and 
 wrangle of irritations, not less so in our medley of races where one feels the 
 distressing pressure of racial suspicion. In the same way. the tangle of 
 industrial unrest is hopeless if its issues are left to be fouTcht over by ex- 
 tremists. Those who now array class against class, man against man, in any 
 way, are foes, not friends to society. The Church must strenuously inculcate 
 the principle that employers and employees in their very nature are partners. 
 
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not competitors; allies, not enemies; brothers, and not aliens. The United 
 Brethren Church reaffirms her devotion to orderly government and her un- 
 alterable belief in legal processes in societ}'. She is uncompromising in her at- 
 titude, against lawlessness, confusion, and anarchy. 
 
 In filling its specific mission the Christian pulpit furnishes the greatest 
 opportunity for effectual social service It announces those eternal principles 
 which know no mutation in any age. Shaftsbury said: "Charles Spurgeon's pul- 
 pit, without discussing problems of government, has done more for social reform 
 and progress than any statesman of his era. This country was not made 
 primarily' by statesmen, it was made by prophets of God. It was the pioneer 
 missionaries who turned mob leaders ii\to class leaders and recreated the State. 
 Social reforms cannot do away with the divine requirement for a regenerated 
 and purified society." Here the mission of the preacher takes transcendent 
 grounds, which the materialist does not concede are the legitimate province of 
 the Church. But for us they are the territories of God, in which the battle 
 for the new humanity and the new freedom will have to be waged and w'on. 
 No political, economic, or even ethical strategy is paramount over the New 
 Testament declaration , that men and nations "must be born again.' The secret 
 of growth of righteousness is with those who worship the author of right- 
 eousness. 
 
 What is to be the attitude of the Church, and what part will she play in the 
 new uprising, inevitable, industrial democracy now at our door? The stand of 
 modern Church for a social order based on social righteousness — and not 
 merely social justice — is growing unmistakably firmer every daj' Three recent 
 pronouncements, from widely differing Communions, are prophetic of the direc- 
 tion in which the Christian mind is moving. The first is a manifesto in which it 
 is declared that the old industrial relations should never be allowed to return. 
 Instead, it proposes an industrial democracy, that is, representation of workers 
 in the management of business, in the control of its processes, the nature of its 
 jiroducts, the employment and dismissal of labor, hours of work, rate of pay, 
 welfare work, and shop discipline. The second issued an equalh' significant 
 statement, endorsing the general principle and adding the following items: the 
 abolition of child labor, vocational training for all, but not to interfere with 
 cultural education; an adequate wage that will provide for family support — one 
 that will keep the mother in the home, and the child in school; insurance against 
 invalidism and old age. The third also declares for the same principle as being 
 fundamental to the new order. It goes further and says that no business should 
 declare profits until a living wage has been paid, and that, if it cannot pay 
 a living wage, it has no right to exsist. 
 
 It is with pride that we are privileged to refer to our great Publishing House, 
 the Otterbein Press, as the first of the denominational houses to introduce this 
 new order and, please God, we believe, to lead the way to better industrial con- 
 ditions. Two years of experience have abundantly justified the adventure, and the 
 wisdom of the scheme. The aspiration^ of the unprivileged is not merely for 
 better material conditions but for fuller, freer, and more human life. Sympathy 
 with this demand is the duty of the Church. Ruskin well says: "There is no 
 wealth but life, including all its power of love, of joy, of admiration. That 
 country is richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy 
 human beings, that uses money to make men, and not men to make, money." 
 It is the business of the Church to set up the kingdom of God in the earth; 
 that is, to bring about such conditions that each man will have his chance to 
 reach his best estate. Justice Spafford, of the Supreme Court, recently said: 
 "Our safety can only be found in a policy that treats all men as brothers." 
 William Morris speaks of the industrial problems of our day as a "tangled 
 wood." So they are, and Christianity is the only lamp that will illuminate the 
 path out of this "tangled wood." Its founder and leader was a carpentjer, in 
 whose great brotherly heart we find the secret of redemption, both personal and 
 social. The stewardship of wealth, the spirit of service in industry, the 
 reciprocity of the Golden Rule — these are the steps by which he would lead us. 
 
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For a Inindred years the United Brethren Chiireh has thrown its weiK'lit on 
 the moral side of every question. Ours was the first of the denominations 
 to pass a resolution condemning the legalized liquor traffic. And from that day 
 until the present the Churcli has been relentless in its oi)position to that in- 
 describable crime against humanity. The enemy, mortally wounded, does not 
 acknowledge defeat or death. With deliberation and in all possii)le corrupt 
 ways he is endeavoring to counteract a generation of progress, defy the Con- 
 stitution, aid nullification, and at length secure a repeal of the Eighteenth 
 Amendment. The United Brethren Church has its face set like a flint against 
 yielding any part of the victory that has been gained.. Xo compromise now, 
 and no nullification anywhere is her unyielding motto. The same has been the 
 attitude of the Church toward all reform movements looking toward the al- 
 leviation of the burdens of humanity, and in making this a better world in 
 which to live. It stands for the sanctity and protection of the institutions of 
 the Home and the Sabbath as the basis of all that is hopeful in social and civil 
 life. The Church has not only proclaimed righteousness but has assisted in 
 establishing justice. .A.nd for this great truth let all her history tell, who 
 serves mankind doth serve his Maker well. 
 
 THE CHURCH AND EVANGELISM 
 
 The real mission of the Church is to win the souls of men. This must precede 
 all social schemes for the betterment of society. Economic ills cannot be 
 cured by economical appliances. It will take new men to make a new world, 
 and the Church has the pattern and the power for that new manhood. Any ef- 
 fective waj' of saving a man's soul except by conversion is yet to be discovered. 
 There can be no substitute for personal religion. That is why a real seer has 
 uttered the eminently wise words: "Christianity would sacrifice its divinity if 
 it abandoned its missionary character. ' When the power of reclaiming the 
 lost dies out of the Church, it ceases to be a Church. When that power re- 
 mains there, whatever else is wanting, it may still be said that the tabernacle of 
 God is with men. 
 
 Xo one denies that a spiritual awakening is the prime need of our age — a 
 revival that will issue in a new day of vitalized, triumphant Christianity, and 
 a new sense of the Christian's responsibility for the unsaved. The Church must 
 put her emphasis first on the redemption of men, on the spiritual life of men, 
 and. unless she is victorious here, what to her are the kingdoms of this world and 
 the glory of them? We insist that evangelism be made the outstanding feature 
 of the Church's work, and the crowning glory of the Church's life during the 
 coming quadrennium. If we speak of our program as a "forward movement," 
 that movement must be evangelistic in motive and power. We do not plead for 
 an evangelistic ministry alone, nor for an occasional evangelism, and special 
 evangelists, but for an evangelistic Church, always, and in all its activities seek- 
 ing to fulfill Christ's redemptive purpose in the world. The spirit of all its 
 services should be such that the salvation of souls would be expected and in 
 order. 
 
 The need is most urgent. Recent surveys reveal the enormity of the task 
 confronting American Protestantism if our country is to be evangelized and 
 Christianized. It is important to Americanize those who have come to us from 
 other lands, but it is more important to Christianize both ourselves and the 
 strangers withm our gates. Americanization must be undergirded with re- 
 ligion if our American institutions are to be preserved. There are in the United 
 States twenty-seven million Protestant children and youths under twenty-five 
 years of age who are not enrolled in any Sunday school or other institution 
 for religious training. W^e have fifty million people above ten years of age 
 who are not identified with any church — Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant. Our 
 cities, the centers of vastly and rapidly increasing masses of unevangelized 
 people; our rural districts, suffering from the attractive force of the cities and 
 yet furnishing conditions for the preservation and development of many of the 
 best elements of our national life; our frontiers, the regions sought by the on- 
 pushing migrations from all sections and all lands, needing churches, schools. 
 
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and missionaries; the millions of our foreign-speaking population awaiting 
 political, social, economic, intellectual, and spiritual assimilation in our body 
 politic, call for the most unselfishly patriotic devotion, the most Christlike self- 
 sacrifice and most strenuous educational and evangelizing efforts that the 
 Christian Church has ever known. Question of questions — will the missionary 
 heart of the Church be equal to the missionary need and opportunity? With 
 other churches we must strengthen our home missionary agencies. 
 
 The times demand a new emphasis upon evangelistic work in rural com- 
 munities where half our population now' resides. Whenever "we consent to a 
 decadent country church, w^e shall have a decadent country and a decadent 
 Church on our hands. History attests that the large majority of the world's 
 leaders have come from among the people who live close to the soil. The 
 farms produce men that steady the Nation as city radicalism rocks it. If the 
 churches can make adequate provision for the moral and religious life of 
 our rural communities, we shall have gone a long way toward keeping pure and 
 eternally vigorous the life of the whole Nation. An increasing number of 
 country churches should have resident pastors with a competent support. 
 
 The Nation has watched its marvelous urban growth with deep concern. 
 The recent surveys reveal the fact that fifty percent of our population now 
 live in cities. We are wont to record this fact as a problem in capital letters. 
 The city is at once a menace and also an opportunity. It is the storm center 
 of the industrial world. The situation calls for a vigorous and aggressive 
 evangelism. It is urgent that all Christians become eager messengers declaring- 
 the gospel which alone can bring order and real prosperity. The call of the 
 hour is for a new emphasis upon personal evangelism. Revivals we must have, 
 but we dare not depend exclusively upon the annual revival for spiritual con- 
 quest or we shall fail. There were indeed three thousand converted in a single 
 day on Pentecost; but after that, "there were added to the Church daily such as 
 should be saved." This original method has never been superseded by any 
 superior. When our Lord went back to heaven only one hundred and tw'enty 
 were in the "upper room' as his avowed disciples. When the last of these had 
 passed away they left a half million converts. 
 
 Moreover, it is apparent that the spiritual conquest of the world cannot be 
 accomplished through the agencies of our adult civilization alone. 
 
 Statistics show that the zone of greatest productiveness in the spiritual 
 life of man lies between the ages of ten and seventeen. Eighty-five percent 
 of all the people of the world who profess to be followers of Christ made the 
 profession before reaching their eighteenth birthday. It should be a matter of 
 great concern to the churches that sixty percent of our children and youths 
 are without any Christian training or instruction whatever. But two out of 
 seven are in the Sunday schools. We do not suggest a change of emphasis 
 that means less intensive work on the part of our religious education agencies 
 in the training of the two, but we do urge that a program of extension be 
 planned that will enlist every local church in our Communion in reaching the 
 other five. This we conceive to be our immediate duty and opportunity. 
 
 We are confronted with the necessity of providing for a more adequate con- 
 servation of the results of our evangelistic victories. There is need for a 
 broader definition of the term "evangelism" than we are prone . to give it. 
 Evangelizing is gospclizing and Christianizing, and therefore is not to be 
 limited to a single emotional crisis in the life or to the joining of a church. 
 It should include certain antecedent processes of education, and must include 
 the important work of nurturing the new converts and training them for Chris- 
 tian service. .-X definite schedule of Christian activities should be provided for 
 all new recruits. Immediately on accepting the responsibilities of the Christian 
 life, these young Christians should be given something to do; some work to help 
 win others, some method of Bible study. They should be taught the first principles 
 of Christian stewardship, and be made to face the commanding claims of life 
 service. 
 
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The program outlined by this General Conference for the coming quadnn- 
 nium must exalt tin- effort to hrinu pcioiile to Christ as the heart of our 
 task. Your General Superintendents beg you to read between these lines con- 
 cern beyond the power of words to express, and likewise a faith and hope greater 
 than our concern. God is now working among the churches. Unusual victories 
 are being reported. Thousands have been brought to Christ's discipleship in 
 recent months and reassuring proofs are at hand that the mightiest revival and 
 spiritual conquest the Church has ever registered is just at hand. 
 
 THE CHURCH BEYOND OUR NATIONAL BORDERS 
 
 \ye have noted the cond-tions with which the Church is face to face in 
 .•\merica. Kach incoming mail or cablegram from abroad brings us additional 
 proof that our I)rothers beyond our national borders are wrestling with the 
 same herculean questions that so constantly engage our moral and sjjiritual 
 forces here. Tlie agitation for outright self-determination of the Philippines; 
 the deep resentment against Japanese rule in Korea and China; the hostility to 
 British rule in India; the question of who owns the land in the European 
 colonies in Africa; the question of hours and wages and working conditions in 
 the multiplying factories in the Far East; manhood's, yes, and womanhood's 
 common right of suffrage; the demand for political justice; for better educa- 
 tional facilities; the demand for good morals; the demand for freedom from the 
 burdens imposed by militarism; the demand for freedom from the bitterness of 
 race prejudices; the demand for the satisfaction of the hunger for knowledge of 
 an all-wise and Almighty God — these are the questions as every foreign news 
 item attests that fasten themselves in the minds of our brothers beyond our 
 borders. 
 
 To all these groups the Church is going with her message of a supreme 
 Lord and brotherly love. She goes to the foreign home, claiming the little 
 child in Africa or Asia as her own and seeks by the development of Christian 
 homes to enable that child, notwithstanding un-Christian surroundings, because 
 of its faith in Christ, to increase in wisdom and in stature and in favor with 
 God and men. 
 
 In looking at this welter nf ])ain, ignorance, hard living conditions, political 
 injustice, superstition, fear, discouragement, hate, and deep spiritual thirst, one 
 feels inclined to say with one of our nationally known journalists: "The future 
 looks black enough, yet it holds a hope, a single hope. One and only one 
 power can arrest and save us, that is the Christian religion. Democracy is 
 but a side issue. The paramount issue underlying the issue of democracy is the 
 religion of Christ and Him crucified, the bed rock of civilization." If the world 
 is to be saved from destruction — physical no less than spiritual — it will be 
 saved alone by the Christian religion. It is the evident opinion of this journalist 
 that deep and dark though the world's physical, economic, educational, moral, 
 and spiritual need may be, the Savior, whose love and power were manifested 
 on Calvary and in the Garden tomb, is fully able to supply them. 
 
 Within the life-time of the majority of the members of this General Con- 
 ference, there were sign-boards in public places in Japan warning people against 
 the acceptance of the Christian faith. But as a result of the foolishness of 
 preaching one hundred and ten thousand Japanese Protestant believers now 
 acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus, while millions look to the Church as the 
 only source of adequate moral power. Xavier. unal)le in the Sixteenth century 
 to gain an entrance into China, cried out, '"Oh, rock, rock, when wilt thou open 
 to my Master!" Today the rock has opened. China's great rivers arc all 
 highways for the gospel messenger. The Protestant churches now number 
 312,970 communicants in China. In far away Tibet the gospel is being secretly 
 welcomed. New proofs of the power that can save to the uttermost is seen in 
 the pitiful eagerness with which India's outcast press toward the Church, while 
 Christian Indians are now volunteering to carry the gospel west into Meso- 
 potamia. 
 
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The forces are inadequate, but nevertheless the gospel is leavening the 
 life of the new composite nation that is developing in the East India Islands 
 composed of Chinese, Indians, and Malays. Removed from the old home influ- 
 ences in China and India, these pioneers in new lands seem singularly open to 
 the gospel. The Evangelical churches in the Philippines, a group of $90,000, 
 now form a strong cohort in the world's Christian army, a force working for 
 better home life, better citizenship, better Christ'an character. In Africa, too, 
 new evidences of the church's resourcefulness and power are manifest every- 
 where, north, east, south, and west. A more practical type of education that 
 will help to buttress Christian homes can be seen as well as mass movements 
 towards the Church along Africa's west coast; onen'ngs for Christian ministers 
 among the great mining groups can be seen in the South; the entrance of 
 scores of new missionaries irto forn^er German East Africa: a revival in the 
 old Coptic Church in Abyssinia and the opening last year of a new Christian 
 University in Cairo, the intellectual center of I^Iohammedanism are all weather 
 vanes showing the direction whither the winds of God's good grace are blowing 
 among neighbor peoples, near and remote, and give incontestable proof that by 
 degrees, sometimes slow and sometimes swift, Jesus Christ is becoming the 
 des're of all nations. 
 
 A CHRISTIAN FRATERNITY 
 
 "One is 3'our Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." Thus speaks 
 the great Brother — a Master by virtue of his vision of truth and his power 
 of love — and the throb if his heart is felt to this far-off day, though ages have 
 come and gone. About Him are gathered a group of peasants, drawn by the 
 winsomeness of his personality and the magnetism of his truth, and in the 
 center he breaks the bread and blesses the cup of fellowship. In that atmos- 
 pbere there was room for all the varied express'ons of personality, all types 
 of temperament, all methods of ministry; it was unity in diversity, a creative 
 fellowship in whose radiance human souls grew luminous and powerful. The 
 same spirit was visualized in a meeting one hundred and fifty years ago near 
 Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The picture rises before us today with a new luster 
 and beauty of significance. The occasion was a great meeting appropriately 
 held on VVhitsuntide. The gathering of the people and the character of the 
 services were distinctively Pentecostal. People of high and low degree, and 
 representing almost every phase of belief known to the commonwealth of 
 Israel, came from far and near and sat under the spell of gospel unity in that 
 meeting. Martin Boehm, of the Mennonite Church, was the Peter of the occasion 
 and preached with such unction and power that souls were swayed like trees 
 in the grasp of a mighty tempest; and when the sermon closed on the high tide 
 of spiritual peace and power Philip William Otterbein, a distinguished divine 
 and noted scholar of the German Reformed Church, threw his arms about the 
 preacher before he had time to resume his seat, and tenderly said, "We are 
 brethren'' — and the United Rrelhren Church was born. 
 
 Christian brotherhood is not a mere detail in the religion of Jesus, but the 
 essence and glory of the gospel. The Church is a fellowship, and the sorest need 
 of a world torn by war. grown gray -with grief, is the fellowship of humanity in 
 God and of the life of God in humanity. We rejoice in the growth and increase 
 of the spirit of sympathetic and fraternal relations among the various com- 
 munions that compose the Protestant forces of the world. This is the blessed 
 result of the increasing pressure of world tasks and the deepening illumination 
 of the spirit of love in the hearts of men. What goal will be finally reached in 
 the realm of ecclesiastical organization is a matter of speculation. It doth not 
 yet appear what the Church is going to be in external form. In the heart of 
 many there is a dream of a day when in all the world there will be one 
 ecclesiastical organization. The appeal of the Lambeth Conference for a 
 reunited Christendom is one of the most remarkable utterances of the century. 
 The utterances of the more recent Geneva meeting are equally remarkable. 
 Such i)roposaIs would liavc l)een out of harmony with the spirit of any other 
 
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era duriiiij the past I'lve huiulrod years. These unotVicial appeals arc thiiiK out 
 upon the Christian sea as an adventure of pood-will and still more of faith. 
 
 Chureh federation is now a fact. Sectarianism, which means c<)mi)etition 
 and not cooperation, bitterness instead of brotherhood, that substitutes the 
 word Denomination for the world inclusive word Kingdom, thank God. is a 
 thing of the past. The war taught us that men can cooperate effectively for 
 great ends in spite of their differences of opinions and customs. They can be 
 inspired by the same spirit, and be united in one sovereign purpose, and still 
 ojder their Church life after the preferences of their owfi heart. The day when 
 in all the world there will be but one ecclesiastical organization may be afar off. 
 The union of Christians in a single organization may be of less importance 
 than the agreement of Christians' in the proclamation of the gospel. Unity 
 in organization is- not so important, perhaps, as many imagine. God seems to 
 love variety in stars and flowers, in races and nations, and possibly he can 
 best work out his will through a variety of organizations. The unity for 
 which Jesus prayed was a spiritual unity, a unity of mind and heart, of purpose 
 and character. That prayer is being progressively fu! tilled. While the provi- 
 dential trend of the hour is toward closer cooperation, it is also toward the 
 merging of certain bodies that are one in doctrine, polity, heart, and spirit, and 
 are dift'erentiated only by the name. That sucli a union would be for the glory 
 of God and the larger interest of his kingdom there can be no doubt. We 
 count our Church dear unto us only for the sake of him and his kingdom, 
 and any and every denomination should l)e willing if needs be to lose its life that 
 Christ may find his in the world. In this way a Church will find its final 
 immortality. 
 
 WORLD PEACE 
 
 Nineteen centuries ago, the shepherds, watching their flocks by night among 
 the hills of Judea, were stirred by a cry in the sky from angels' lips announcing 
 the coming of the Prince of Peace. That song of peace is still prophecy, not his- 
 tory. Until the bringing in of the reign of the Prince of Peace, Christmas wails. 
 Those living upon the earth November 11, 1918, will not forget the thrill of 
 emotion and the profound gratitude that accompanied the announcement that 
 the Armistice had been signed, and the greatest of all wars was ended. Many 
 were sustained through the ordeal by the hope that that was a "war to end 
 war." But, instead of a new world as we had dreamed, we are in a world 
 embittered and confused. The war tempest has subsided, but the ocean still 
 heaves and rolls with cresting waves. Lookinff out over the world today, so 
 torn, so troubled, so gray with grief, one recalls that prayer for peace by an 
 ancient Greek poet, which might have been written this morning; a prayer 
 which only the spirit of Oue who was trreater than the Greeks can ever answer: 
 "From the murmur and subtlety of suspicion with him which we vex one another, 
 give us rest. Alake a new beginning, and mingle again the kindred of the 
 nations in the alchemy of Love, and with some finer essence of forbearance and 
 forgiveness temper our mind." 
 
 W'ar is earnestly deprecated and peace longingly desired by all good men. 
 The Versailles Council was a step in the interest of peace and fraternity. What- 
 ever else of good to mankind may be the outcome of the council, it is evident 
 that a practical application of the principles of international arbitration is 
 brought nearer, and that the world hereafter will be more closely united in 
 common honor, interest and obligation, in behalf of the common good of the 
 race. But so long as governments find satisfaction in territory and wealth, so 
 long as they look with pride on armaments, and with exultation on foreign 
 conquest — so long will reorganization of sovereignties to preserve peace be a 
 vain and futile thing. There must be the conversion of the public mind from a 
 material to a spiritual interpretatioi> of national glory. The hearts of men 
 must be changed — their souls converted. They must rejoice in the friendly 
 rivalries of art and letters and not in the hateful rivalry of diplomacy. They must 
 boast their poets and singers and benefactors, not their soldiers and war 
 ministers and kings. They must find their prestige in a hapiiy people at honn , 
 
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and not in a conquered people abroad. The}' must seek their strength in the 
 sword of the spirit and not in the sword of steel. 
 
 Fear has done its worst. Statesmanship has done its best. Force has 
 done all it can do. Unless spiritual inHuences take up the task, softening the 
 bitterness of war, and weaving a better spell upon the human mind, our hopes of 
 a real peace are frail and dim. Force has failed. Fear has failed. Only love 
 remains, and "love never faileth," if we ha\e the daring to trj- it. Men are 
 coming to see that the teaching of Jesus is not an iridescent dream, but a 
 necessity, and that unless it rules chaos will reign. Bernard Shaw tells us that 
 he is no more a Christian than Pilate was, but that he is ready to admit, that, 
 after contemplating present world conditions, he can see no way out except 
 '"the way which could have been found by Christ's will and love if he had under- 
 taken the work of a modern practical statesman." 
 
 Great as are the difficulties which confront us, our grounds for confidence are 
 greater still. Because war is old and gray does not mean that it will always 
 exist. Noble have been the victories of war, dethroning sceptercd iniquity, and 
 setting the enslaved free. Noble must be the victories of peace, enthroaiing 
 the spirit of Christ who will bring pity and joy back to the common ways of 
 life. The time is coming, how far off we cannot tell, when the causes of war and 
 necessity for war will disappear under the influence of the gospel, and with 
 them war itself will vanish out of sia;ht. for the Lord hath spoken it. The 
 nations will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning 
 hooks. The dreadnaughts that now ride the seas shall, unarmed, bear only 
 messages of peace and good-will. The millions in uniform who now stride the 
 bent back of over-burdened producers shall toil as fellow reapers at their side; 
 when government everywhere shall he administered with justice and in mercy; 
 when the federation of the race shall be achieved; when men shall know and 
 acknowledge the great fact that God hath made of one blood all nations — the 
 fact of universal brotherhood. Christ alone can efifectuate the parliament of 
 nations; bring to pass the federation of the world and perfect peace. 
 
 AN URGENT FUTURE 
 
 With a full faith in God who has led us in the past and showered his 
 blessing so richly upon us, let us go forward in the new day with a program that 
 will meet its new occasions and new duties. ''Wanted: a faith for a task," cried 
 a forward looking saint recently fallen asleep, "a faith adequate to the necessary 
 undertaking of these stupendous times." To such a faith must be added a 
 clarity of thought, a wisdom of iJ'atiercc, and a daring adventure to attempt 
 great things for God. No one can in any measure appreciate the tremendous 
 significance of the years just before us. without a deepen'ng conviction that 
 the measure of service the Church gives to the world during the period covered 
 by the legislation enacted, and the program adopted by this General Conference, 
 may determine a century of the world's life and character. 
 
 The experiences of recent years have taught us that we cannot meet a big 
 world challenge with a little world plan. If in this crisis our Cliurch falters 
 and takes a backward step, her- apostasy will be visited upon her children, and 
 her children's children. The outstanding features of the United Enlistment 
 Movement which so greatly prolited the Church must be conserved. Its 
 organizations in the local church and in the conferences have proven to be in the 
 line of real progress. Moreover, a church with the world always before its 
 eyes and on its heart must be permanently committed to intercession, steward- 
 ship, evangelism, and to a united program if her history is to record the highest 
 achievements. 
 
 It was a crisis in the spiritual history of the first disciples after they had 
 returned from the Mount of Olives and were assembled in the upper rc*oni in 
 Jerusalem. They were facing their task— Christ's task, and they were facing 
 the world. How easy it would have been for them to come back from the 
 Ascension to fold their hands and fall to dreaming; to give themselves oyer to 
 ecstasies and transports of thought. On the contrary, the Church was in the 
 
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upper room preparing herself for action. There is a crisis like tiiat for us just 
 now. Shall this General Conference end in a line frenzy of feeling, in a masterly 
 demonstration of interest, in the enthusiasm of rumor and reports, or shall it 
 go on to write new pages in the I!ook of Acts of those who love the Lord. 
 Shall this upper room of our privilege be a place of dreams and promises, of 
 purposes woven into the fine, cold architecture of resolutions and legislation! or 
 shall it be the birth place of action, the open door into a new era of actual 
 workmanship for Jesus Christ such as we have never known before? 
 
 Long ago in the city of Florence two artists lived together, both of them 
 sculptors, Michelangelo and Donatello. Donatello had completed his great 
 figure of Saint George, and the people were admiring it as it stood in front of 
 the Church of San Michele. But everybody wanted to know what the great 
 Michelangelo thought. At length he came and, looking at the splendid figure, 
 every limb perfect, every line complete, the face lighted almost with human 
 intelligence, the I)row uplifted and the form ])oised as if it would step forth into 
 life just as you may have seen it in its niche today in the Italian gallery: Look- 
 ing still upon the statue, and slowly lifting his hand, he said: "Xow march!" 
 It is our Lord's word to us, and he is pointing out the way, the way of spiritual 
 power, the way of prayer, the way of individual service and personal conse- 
 cration, the way of passion for the winning of souls, the way of unity of spirit 
 and effort. 
 
 A FINAL WORD 
 
 We have been deepi}' conscious of the presence of Christ at tiie opening of 
 this General Conference. Let us beseech him to abide with us throughout all 
 its sessions; that we may live with him, live like him and live for him during 
 these days. Faber has said, "The supernatural value of an action taken by a 
 church assembly depends upon the degree of its union with Christ at the time 
 the action was taken.' Therefore, if our lives, words, and acts throughout this 
 General Conference are to possess supernatural value, we must establish and 
 maintain complete union with him. We shall then see things in true per- 
 spective; we will enter upon our work well poised; we will keep diligent when 
 slow plodding is necessarj'; we will have wisdom to untie knotty problems; we 
 will be steadied in our large tasks: proper relations to each other will be main- 
 tained; and our sessions will be fairly fragrant with the presence of God. 
 
 We are here for twelve days. We shall never be together again as now. 
 Our time is short. The results of our action are long. In a little while we 
 shall go out again on the errands of Christ, in hope that our paths of counsel 
 and service may cross at many pleasant earthly meeting places; but that, most 
 of all, those paths may all at last converge at the door-way of the Father's 
 House. In this holy hour let us for ourselves and for our whole Church 
 reverently and completely rededicate ourselves to God. Let us read again our 
 commission, and have our glorious Lord write his name anew on our 
 credentials. 
 
 "Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we 
 ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us; unto Him be the glory 
 in the Churcli and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. 
 Amen.'' 
 
 NICHOLAS CASTLE, (Emeritus). 
 
 WILLIAM M. WEEKLEY, (Emeritus), 
 
 WILLIAM M. BELL, 
 
 HENRY H. FOUT, 
 
 CYRUS J. KEPHART, 
 
 ALFRED T. HOWARD. 
 
 WILLIAM H. WASHINGER. 
 
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Report of East District 
 
 Wii.i.iAM M. Bi I.I.. Bisiioi' 
 
 To the General Officers and Delegates assembled in the 28th General 
 Conference of the Chnrch of the United Brethren in ('hrist. 
 
 Beloved Coworkers: 
 
 During the first year of the quadrenniiun now ending the Flast 
 District was comprised as follows: The Allegheny, East Pennsylvania, 
 Erie, East Tennessee, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Vir- 
 ginia Conferences. 
 
 Under the enabling act and by concurrence of all interested, after 
 the first year. East Tennessee conference was united with West Ten- 
 nessee conference and the supervisory service was rendered by Bishop 
 G. M. Mathews of Central District. With the exception of the Florida 
 conference I was able to preside for all the sessions of the annual con- 
 ferences notwithstanding the great physical crisis through which I 
 was called upon to pass. The Florida conference after the first ses- 
 sion indicated a preference for midwinter sessions and this made.it 
 necessary for the other Bishops to preside for me as the physicians 
 had ordered me to avoid the eastern winters. Bishops Kephart, P^ut, 
 and Mathews presided most accei)tably for the three sessions which I 
 could not attend placing myself and the conference under many obliga- 
 tions. 
 
 STATUS OF THE CHURCH 
 
 At the beginning of the quadrennium there were 1049 organized 
 churches within the Area; at the close 1116, a gain of 67. At the 
 beginning 517 Itinerants; at the close 527; a gain of 8. Members 
 at beginning 122,604, at close, 124,949, gain 2345; Christian Endeavor 
 at beginning 26.S19; at close 2G,098; loss 721. Sunday School enroll- 
 ment at beginning, 160,012; at close 151,608; loss 8404. Pastor's 
 salaries at the beginning, $411,304; at the close $654,224; gain $242,920. 
 Local church expenses at the beginning $516,925; at close $733,480; 
 gain $216,555. At the beginning for General Benevolences and Confer- 
 ence Budgets, $114,142; at close including United Enlistment Movement 
 payments, $185,162; ^ain $71,020. At beginning total for all purposes, 
 $1,326,092; at close $1,999,016: gain $672,918.00 At beginning, value 
 of church houses and parsonages, $5,960,577: at close, $6,754,094; gain 
 $793,517.00, 
 
 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS 
 
 A part of the East District gave cooperation in the drive for 
 Otterbein College. I^banon Valley College is distinctly an enterprise 
 of the District and the drive in its behalf was fully successful, increas- 
 ing the assets of the institution by above $400,00(1.00. A campaign 
 was also successfully carried through for Shenandoah Collegiate Insti- 
 tute which was also fully successful and increased the assets of the 
 institution by above $75,000.00. In all these movements an even greater 
 victory than securing the funds came in the sense of adequacy and 
 power which came to the leaders and grouiw everywhere who entered 
 
into the struggle and carried on to victory. All of our institutions 
 are having the largest student bodies of their entire history and in 
 every instance the increase of facilities is absolutely imperative. 
 
 The conviction is growing in the rank and file of our constituency 
 and membership that educational policies and equipments must from 
 now onward be far more liberal and adequate. Xo solid denominational 
 or national life without unstinted provision for education under the 
 spirit and ideals of Jesus. Far too small a percentage of our churches 
 are represented in the student bodies of our educational institutions. 
 This is not because we do not have children and youth in practically 
 all of our church communities who would do well under the privileges 
 of our schools of higher learning, but because for one reason and 
 another the schools are not within their reach. This matter deserves 
 the serious attention of this General Conference and of our people of 
 wealth at all times. No better investment is available on earth than 
 that the Church locate education with strong Christian character on 
 a much larger number of our young people. Our people in the Eastern 
 Area believe in theological training for our ministry at home and 
 abroad. They are loyal to Bonebrake Theological Seminary and are 
 ready to afford a much more powerful and generous support to it. 
 They wish their own sons and daughters to help fill the lists of her 
 student body in ever increasing numbers. 
 
 THE UNITED ENLISTMENT MOVEMENT 
 
 In all the great objectives of this movement our people of the 
 east have full sympathy. There was a measure of hesitation as to the 
 propriety of such a full and abrupt change of program in the middle 
 of a quadrennium rather than after the whole matter had been well 
 considered by the General Conference and handed down from that 
 supreme body directly. Our Church in the east has history, age, tim- 
 bers, wealth, intelligence, and full organization. These features are 
 in good part applicable, to our Church everywhere, but especially in 
 the east our conferences are given to settled policies that carry through 
 the years and embrace their sense of dignity and responsibility. 
 Naturally when they were asked in the interval between General 
 Conferences to cancel their well-wrought plans and adopt new ones, 
 there was a measure of hesitation, not from a lack of loyalty but from 
 the sense of care, deliberation, and self determination. After due 
 consideration of all involved every conference of the District in the 
 sessions last fall made the askings of the U. E. M. the conference 
 budgets and payments are coming in at a ^ood rate. All the askings 
 are not fully underwritten by individuals and churches but the proc- 
 esses are on and the loyalty of the District is beyond question. In 
 every aspect the showing submitted in this report has been vastly 
 improved since last fall when these summaries were 'assembled. In 
 all my more than forty years experience in the work of the Church 
 I never witnessed such a geneVal distribution of evangelistic power 
 and fruitfulness as has been in evidence during the last winter and 
 early spring in the Eastern Area. To God be all the praise forever and 
 forever. About one in eight of- the pastors have the full askings of the 
 II. E. M. subscribed with collections in full assured and the pastor 
 of one church where this achievement means between eight and nine 
 thousand dollars says in his report that "It can be done in any 
 church if paytor and officials do their part." , : 
 
 OUINCY ORPHANAGE AND HOME 
 
 This institution is now so fully established in the good will of all 
 our people and of a host of liberal persons outside of our own Cliurch, 
 that the necessary funds are coming in with , increased amplitude. 
 The Home includes a community of about 150 persons and this means 
 
a Christian ministry that comforts the aged ami protects and edu- 
 cates the young. In each instance these persons would he sufferers, 
 more or less adrift in the social order with a measure of blame attached 
 to the Church for failing to do throiigh cooperative service what is 
 easily within her power to do. Bonds for $T5,ouo.i)U have recently 
 been placed on the market, the proceeds from sales being devoted to 
 the erection of a much needed additional building. The annual Christ- 
 mas offering in the churches for the Home now totals many thousands 
 of dollars and the growth in the sum total from year to year is most 
 gratifying and assures the future of the Institution in ever enlarging 
 service. 
 
 SPIRITUAL LIFE 
 
 It is most refreshing to find our churches in this original area 
 of our denominational existence maintaining carefully a full emphasis 
 upon experimental Christianity. Young and old unite in exalting the 
 power of Jesus in conscious salvation and many of the assemblages for 
 worship are characterized by a warmth and heartiness that is deeply 
 heartening. Our people as they have revealed themselves to me in 
 these four years have impressed me with the fact that they consider 
 Christianity as far more than a formality expressed in a static creed 
 on stated occasions. They know Christianity as daily communion 
 with God, as daily atmosphere affording inspiration for every activ- 
 ity. Their sturdy adherence to the sovereignty of Jesus in the inner 
 life makes the type of religion set forth by Bliss Carman in the words: 
 
 "They're praising God on Sunday. 
 
 They'll be all right on Monday. 
 
 It's just a little habit they've acquired." 
 
 appear as cheap i>arody. These good people have demonstrated to 
 me that their religion is vastly more than a superficial Sunday observ- 
 ance, "a little habit." Their passion for Jesus and the Church has 
 caused me to recall the words of Harry Fosdick when he says: "F'or 
 true discipleship to Jesus is the opposite of spasmodic conventionality. 
 We are even wrong when we call our public worship on Sunday 'church 
 service.' Church service really begins on Monday morning at seven 
 o'clock and lasts all the week. Church service is helpfulness to people; 
 public worship is preparation for it. For the church service which the 
 Master illustrated and approved is a life of ministry amid the dust 
 and din of daily business in a sacrificial conflict for a Christian world." 
 
 BISHOP'S RESIDENCE 
 
 Included in the period of my serious illness was the entrance of 
 the United States into the World War, and our experience with rentals 
 in the Capital of the Nation, in which place alone, when we needed 
 a home, was not even a rented property to be had. Stating my troubles 
 one day to 4^hat eminent servant of God, Congressman A. S. Kreider, 
 he said to me, "Something must be done. Wait until 1 go through 
 Harrisburg and see what can be done." 1 waited and he went through 
 Harrisburg. Since that day there has been at the disposal of the 
 Bishop of the Eastern Area and his family such a home as makes 
 weary people think of heaven. 
 
 The Annual Conferences of last fall promptly took action approv- 
 ing the purchase of the Harrisburg residence and arranged for a 
 trusteeship of the property as also for the full payment of cost and 
 m.aintenance of same. Many callers, some of whom were of national 
 standing, have expressed unstinted praise for such enterprise and HIkm" 
 ality as has found expression in this good property. It has been an 
 essential part of my advocacy of this property that like provision be 
 
made by each Bishop's Area, for each conference superintendent and 
 general officer of the Church. God speed the day when such essential 
 equipment of our denominational life shall obtain. It affords me 
 pleasure to state that the Allegheny conference has already provided 
 for a superintendent's residence located at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 
 and the senior superintendent of the Eastern Area, Dr. J. S. Fulton is 
 now occupying the residence. Profound gratitude is hereby tendered 
 to many individuals and churches for the furnishings of the Bishop's 
 residence at Harrisburg thereby adding to the value of the i)roperty 
 and doing away with the necessity of moving furnishings either to or 
 from the home. Particular mention of such generosity has been made 
 in The Telescope from time to time. May God who keeps the books 
 reward and bless each generous donor. 
 
 AND NOW FINALLY 
 
 No Bishop could ask for a more loyal and kindly people than 
 those who have gathered about the writer during the last four years. 
 Words fail me as to the fidelity of Fulton in Allegheny, Enck in East 
 Pennsylvania, Statton of Pennsylvania, Hammack of Virginia, Showers 
 ■of Erie, Foster, Pritchard, and Slaughter, of West Virginia, Smith of 
 Florida. Their names are in the Book of Life and in the memory of 
 the man who gives signature to these lines, to remain forever. My 
 relations with all the general officers of the Church have been so 
 gracious that I am in debt to them all far more than I can ever tell. 
 To the hundreds of faithful pastors who have given a mighty allegiance 
 to Jesus, the people, and the Church of our deepening covenants I 
 offer the full mead of praise. To the hosts of great laymen who have 
 rallied under every challenge and to the last and least of all our hosts 
 I tender my most profound thanks. May grace here, and heaven there 
 be their high reward. My all but fatal illness during the quadrennium 
 brought me to the other world preludes. The mists of eternity were 
 upon my face, with Jesus and dear ones near by, so that I wanted 
 to go on through, but Jesus heard the volume of prayer and suffered 
 continuance below for a time. Pray for me that this imperative of 
 brevity in the while that remains shall be duly sensed and improved. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 William M. Bell, 
 Bishop of East District. 
 
Report of Central District 
 
 To TlIK DKI.Kt;AIIS (i|- I hi; OiKM ism. CuNKHtKNCK. 
 
 Fellow Bishops and Brethren: 
 
 In reporting to yon the achievements on the Central District for the 
 qnadrennium just closing, it may he helpful to remind you that this 
 territory covers much historic ground in which the foundations of the 
 United Brethren Church were laid by our i)ioneer fathers. It is a 
 part of the great Western Empire in which the foundations of our 
 national and denominational life were planted on the principles of 
 education, morality, and freedom. 
 
 We have a rich galaxy of illustrious names connected with our 
 early Church history. 
 
 Bishop Christian Xewcomer, a mighty man of God, came westward 
 over the Allegheny Conference and presided over the first session of 
 Miami Conference held in Michael Crider's home, Ross County, Ohio, 
 in 1810. Miami Conference then included the territory afterwards 
 occupied by ?cioto and Muskingum conferences, now the territory of 
 East Ohio, Southeast Ohio, and a part of Sandusky Conferences. It 
 also extended into the State of Indiana. 
 
 When Xewcomer first saw this land, he exclaimed, "Oh, what a 
 countiy this will be in a half century!" 
 
 Other heroes were associated with Bishop Newcomer in home 
 missionary extension such as (Jeorge Benedum, of Lancaster, Ohio; 
 Dewalt Methlin, Lewis Cramer, John Smaltz, Bishop Heistand, of 
 Canal Winchester; Andrew Zeller, Jacob Antrim, .loseph Hoffman, of 
 Germantown and Lewisburg; Henry Kumler Sr., of Milton ville; Aaron 
 Farmer and Christian Flinchpaugh. and others who waded swamps 
 on horseback, preached on stumps, in hams, and open fields amid the 
 howling of wolves and the war whoops of Indians. 
 
 William Davis, "the old man eloquent." Dr. .John George Pfrimmer, 
 who wf-ought in Indiana, John Burgner, Jacob Baulus. and Alexander 
 Biddle wlfo settled in the "Black Swamps" near P'remont, Ohio, and 
 John Calvin McXamar, of Greene County, Ohio, were also remarkable 
 Church pioneers. McXamar was the first English preacher of the 
 denomination. He was the first one to introduce a financial plan for 
 the local church. Dr. J. G. Pfrimmer came west and settled in Harrison 
 County, Indiana, near Corydon. He was a physician and preax>her 
 of note. He organized the first Sunday school in the denomination, 
 and erected the first I'nited Brethren church west of the Ohio river, 
 about 1820. 
 
 Such leaders as Bishcp Jonathan Weaver, David Edwards, William 
 Hanby, J. S. Mills, Revs. J. C. Bright, William Rliiiiehart. W. J. Shuey. 
 
D. Berger, Wm. McKee, D. R. Miller, John Kemp, Jacob Emrick, John 
 Walters, C. J. Burkert, J. L. Swain, and others form a galaxy of illus- 
 trious men who grace the history of our Church. 
 
 The organization of the Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary 
 Society at the General Conference at Miltonville, Ohio, and the 
 removal of the printing establishment from Circleville to Dayton, Ohio, 
 marked important events in the histoi-y of our denomination in this 
 territory. 
 
 The rise and growth of our Church and its present achievements 
 in this section are sufficient to inspire genuine denominational pride 
 and loyalty. 
 
 Following the last General Conference the Central District leaders 
 with heroic, intelligent planning and enthusiasm began to take up 
 Christian education. Evangelism, publishing interests and all other 
 departmental aims and push them towards success. 
 
 During the quadrennium at the conferences from the oi)ening day 
 to the closing of each conference, the rising tide of intelligent interest 
 and cooperation passed beyond anything the writer has ever witnessed 
 before in the years of his administration. The United Enlistment 
 Movement has overshadowed every other consideration in this crucial 
 and challenging period. 
 
 Great emphasis was placed upon the need of a perfect organiza- 
 tion of the local church as well as the stewardship of life and material 
 possessions. 
 
 The unity and fellowship that has characterized all the conference 
 sessions during the quadrennium were due to the faith, heroism and 
 generosity called forth by the goals, programs and cooperative efforts 
 of the United Enlistment Movement, whose challenging appeals stirred 
 the best thought and life of the Church. 
 
 Then the leaders came feeling the necessity of placing spiritual 
 achievements above mere money getting. They saw that an awakened 
 church is necessary to successful soul winning in connection with the 
 release and consecration of material possessions. 
 
 The conference organization perfected with territorial groups, 
 headed by leaders, who with the Bishop and conference superinten- 
 dents, form councils of administration, have yielded the best results 
 ever secured on the Central District. 
 
 Two State Conferences wei-e among the best of the kind ever held. 
 The entire State planning and acting as a unit had added power and 
 influence. In all these larger gatherings the consensus of opinion by 
 all our conference leaders was that the fundamental need above all 
 our plans and finances is the vitalization of our local churches and 
 such an awakening as shall inspire great fellowship, generosity and 
 passion for souls. 
 
 The local church is the unity whose development is vital to the 
 realization of our goals and aims. The pastor and his key workers will 
 solve the problem. 
 
Special point of interest that may be mentioned is the union of 
 the two Tennessee Conferences into one increasingly vigorous confer- 
 ence. The results already prove the wisdom of this merger. Our 
 Kentucky territory was divided for more convenient supervision, the 
 northern portion being assigne<l to the Indiana Conference, the South- 
 ern to Tennessee. 
 
 The launching and practical consummation of a movement to gather 
 $400,000 for Otterbein College, four hundred students, and one hundred 
 workers trained for ministry, missions and education in its territory, 
 is notable evidence of the s;i-owing strength of the denomination in 
 this area also. 
 
 Bible study under the Seminary Extension plan has convinced the 
 most of the leaders that it should receive more and more emphasis 
 as a vital element in the life and thought and power of our churches. 
 The Bible is the greatest weapon in the hands of the Church and men 
 and women should be trained to use mightily the sword of the Spirit. 
 
 Great .ioy and enthusiasm came to our constituency over the victory 
 of a dry Ohio. Let us now go forward with a program to carry the 
 gospel to the ends of the earth. 
 
 In examining the statistics that the conference superintendents 
 so painstakingly reported in answer to a questionnaire sent out by 
 Bishop Mathews, one feels the solid strength of the great con>pact 
 body of 83,221 believers in the Central District, a force whose 322 
 pastoral leaders can, when the occasion demands it, easily be called 
 together for counsel and aggressive planning. 
 
 One wishes his ear were more keen that he might be able to 
 actually hear the 16,145 young people in the Christian Endeavor Society 
 saying week by week, "I promise to pray and read the Bible every 
 day." 
 
 How it must have stirred the heart of Bishop Mathews to see the 
 little children, young men and women, sturdy men and women in middle 
 life, and the grandpas and grandmas included in the great Sunday- 
 school group of 97,942 persons in the Central District. 
 
 If our eyes fail to see other things, they should not fail to see 
 the fruitful opportunities in the Sunday school that are illustrated 
 by the ,14,135 persons, presumably children who have come into the 
 Church from the Sunday school. 
 
 One sees in these statistics back of the figures the faithful women 
 who, through the Women's Missionary Association, gave $74,376 for 
 missions at home and abroad. 
 
 The people in the conferences evidently appreciate their conference 
 superintendents as they have increased their salaries from ten percent 
 to ninety-five percent, the average is just a little over fifty percent. 
 
 And so far as percentages go, the people have done still better by 
 their pastors, as the average gain here is sixty-seven percent. 
 
 One's denominational chest rises a bit higher when he reads that 
 the value of church houses on this Central District has increased 
 from $3,345,898 to the handsome sum of $4,181,011, a gain of $835,113. 
 
Far above the property gains are the eternal values represented 
 by the 34,320 persons \\ho have during these four years come into the 
 Church and taken its vows. 
 
 Some Things That Need Continued Stress and Re-emphasis 
 
 1. A denominational wide campaign for evangelism that enlists 
 every Bishop, conference superintendent, pastor, and Sunday-school 
 worker throughout the whole church constituency. 
 
 Arouse and enrich the membership, and they will joyously and 
 generously make offerings to meet the goals and demands of the New 
 Era. A rich, full life in Christ will fill our Church treasuries. 
 
 2. The churches will reach the maximum of power, when there is 
 a vast army of stewardship tithers, who work, and pray, and give 
 according to God's will. 
 
 3. Intercession for life recruits, and a definite choice for specific 
 life work is the need of the hour. 
 
 4. In these days of luxury, and grasping for wealth, self-sacrifice, 
 under the impulse of Christ, for the bleeding causes of the Kingdom, 
 will bring in triumphant and blessed times. 
 
 The folhowing paragraph written by this United Brethren Great 
 Heart may well come at the close of a life as well as at the close of a 
 report: 
 
 "With gratitude to God for the many kindnesses of the brethren 
 of all the conferences, and in appreciation of the inspiring fellowships 
 of the general officers that drew me closer to our beloved Zion, and the 
 Master, I promise to enter into a covenant with all, to make the 
 coming year the best, and richest and happiest, for His glory, and in 
 His name." 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Alfred T. Howard for 
 Bishop G. M. Mathews. 
 
Report of Northwest District 
 
 H. H. FoiT. Bishop 
 
 To THK DkLKCATKS OF TIIK GkNKKAI, CoNIKKENCK. 
 
 Dear Fathers and Brethren: 
 
 In obedience to the order of the Church I now submit to you my 
 quadrennial report. I am more grateful to God than I can ever express 
 for health and strength with which to meet the duties and responsi- 
 bilities involved in your commission. Service for the kingdom of God 
 and for the Church of our choice has been a joy beyond description, 
 and I submit this report in the keen appreciation of service privilege 
 and the love and friendship of my associates to whom large credit 
 is due for whatever success has been achieved. 
 
 The five states comprising the Northwest District are in the heart 
 of the old "Northwest Territory" — an empire wrung by our fathers 
 from forest gloom and prairie solitudes, and by them dedicated for- 
 ever to human liberty — civil and religious. An empire reclaimed and 
 peopled by a mighty population — eighteen millions in number — in whose 
 veins leap and course the mingled blood of every civilized nation 
 beneath the sun, an empire athrill with the heart-throb and purpose 
 of twentieth century enterprise, rising by sublime impulse to the high 
 levels of twentieth century opportunity. The field presents a great 
 task and a mighty challenge to American Protestantism. 
 
 In presenting this report, it is understood that I am not to worry 
 you by entering into the details of the Church's activities during the 
 quadrennium. While not all has been accomplished that we so much 
 desired, there are nevertheless abundant reasons for encouragement 
 in the progress that has been made. The first impression that stands 
 out in my own thought in attempting a review of my personal work 
 during these unforgetable years is that of the variety of experiences 
 caused by war conditions. The last thing one is tempted to say 
 of the quadrennium is to accuse it of being monotonous and tame. If 
 the importance of a quadrennium is correctly measured by its needs 
 and opportunities for service, then the period covered by this report 
 probably has never been equaled, much less excelled. 
 
 PROGRESS 
 
 On the whole the work in the district during the four years would 
 be called intensive rather than extensive. It has been a period of 
 consolidation rather than large advance. A Church consciousness is 
 being created. The United Enlistment and similar movements are 
 ushering in a new day. The best word that can be spoken for the dis- 
 
trict is that during these four years the Church has made some progress 
 in membership and phenominal advance in its working capital. By 
 the mercy of God the area represents a larger United Brethren Church, 
 with larger assets and a wider sweep of influence than at any other 
 time in its history. It will be remembered that the boundaries of the 
 district were changed four years ago. Iowa and Montana Conferences 
 being detached, and Indiana Conference attached to the Northwest 
 District. By an enabling act granted by the last General Conference 
 the Lower Wabash and Northern Illinois Conferences were united. The 
 combined territory now constitutes the Illinois Conference. 
 
 At the beginning of the quadrennium the communicant member- 
 ship of the district was 86,80G. At the close of the series of conferences 
 last autumn, it was 88,618, an increase of 1812. The following confer- 
 ences reported gains: Wisconsin, Illinois, White River and St. Joseph. 
 Wisconsin had a ten percent gain, with Illinois as a close second. It is 
 gratifying to note that during the first six months of the present 
 year there were above five thousand additions to the churches of the 
 district. God is now working among the churches. Unusual victories 
 are being reported, and reassuring proofs are at hand that the mightiest 
 revival and spiritual conquest the district has ever registered is just 
 before us. Churches were e&tablished in the following centers during 
 the quadrennium: Louisville, Ky., Indianapolis, Ind., Port Wayne, 
 Ind., Peoria, 111., Rockford, 111., Sterling, 111., Detroit, Mich., Reedsburg. 
 Wis., Rochester, Minn., and Benton Harbor, Mich. 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 Two outstanding movements in the district during the quadrennium 
 were the Educational and the United Enlistment Movement. I have 
 given to both the full measure of my sympathy and as large a degree 
 of service as my strength and other duties would permit. There is 
 but one institution of learning in the district. Indiana Central College, 
 located at Indianapolis is the youngest of our colleges, having been 
 founded fourteen years ago. The State of Indiana has done itself proud 
 by the support given its colleges within recent years. The value of 
 the property and endowment of the school eight years ago was $67,793. 
 Its value of property and endowment four years ago was $172,000. 
 During the past quadrennium the value of its property and endowment 
 has grown to $547,000. 'This achievement of itself would be sufficient 
 to make a quadrennium of our work in the State immortal. Within 
 recent years Illinois and Wisconsin Conferences have voted cooperation 
 with this growing institution of learning giving it a constituency of 
 eighty-five thousand of our Church membership. The overshadowing 
 demands are upon us for more buildings and increased equipment. 
 
 UNITED ENLISTMENT MOVEMENT ^ 
 
 In addition to the supervision of the work generally, special em- 
 phasis during the past two years was placed on those activities in 
 conferences, districts and local churches that related to the United 
 
Enlistment Movement. Nothing else equal to it was ever planned or 
 achieved by the Church. While the goal has not been reached, it is 
 gratifying that about eighty percent of the apportionment has been 
 subscribed and the securing of the other twenty percent will be 
 achieved. I am convinced that the morale and spiritual life of our 
 forces register much higher as the result of this achievement. It is 
 my firm conviction that no greater blessing could ever come to a 
 church than the discovery of what it can do as our Educational and 
 United Enlistment Movement have revealed it to the Church. Moreover, 
 the future of the Church that has caught a vision of stewardship and 
 intercession for the whole world seems to me much surer and larger 
 than its present. 
 
 FINANCIAL ADVANCE 
 
 The only phase of the work in which there is an undiminished 
 and excelerated gain is the financial. This of itself has made the 
 quadrennium epochal. Four years ago the district paid for the support 
 of its ministers $316,181.00. This year it will pay approximately 
 $500,000.00. Four years ago it paid $59,631.00 to the General Benevolence 
 Budget. Last year it paid $247,702.00. Four years ago the district 
 paid for all purposes $764,947.00. Last year it paid $1,285,8.56.00. Four 
 years ago we had $2,710,000 invested in church houses. Last year. 
 $3,631,526.00. Four years ago we had $456,355.00 invested in parsonages. 
 Last year $753,130. While there seems to be a decrease of eighty in 
 the number of Sunday schools, and of thirteen thousand in the enroll- 
 ment, the offerings of the schools last year were forty-five percent above 
 those of four years ago. The same is largely true of our Christian 
 Endeavor work. These organizations have done intensive rather than 
 extensive work, and the results are seen in an increased number of 
 qualified teachers and life-work recruits. 
 
 THE MINISTRY 
 
 The problem of a ministry for the Church of tomorrow is a very 
 serious challenge to the faith and prayers of our people. A church 
 cannot live without an adequate ministry. It lies back of all success- 
 ful missionary enterprises. To the discovery and development of these 
 leaders the' Church must devote its prayers and support. The field 
 is vast, the problems are many but a great future is before us if we 
 "are wise, consecrated, and courageous. It is gratifying that more of 
 our laymen are actively and intelligently engaged in the work of the 
 kingdom than ever before. Pastors have an enlarged vision, and to 
 consecration has been added more efficient methods. Our ministers 
 as a rule have given loyal support to our periodical literature. The 
 vital relation of our literature to the progress of the Church in all 
 of its undertakings is having a finer appreciation, and a larger recogni- 
 tion. While the district receives its proportionate quota of Religious 
 Telescopes, the circulation is yet far below the standard that our cause 
 demands. 
 
For the visitation and help of the General Officers at the confer- 
 ences and on the field, I am deeply grateful. I have a sincere apprecia- 
 tion of the warm personal friendship and cooperation of the conference 
 superintendents to whom large credit is due for whatever success has 
 been achieved. I have nothing but words of praise for our pastors 
 without whom we would have utterly failed in our undertakings. With 
 but few exceptions they have been faithful. I have a growing appre- 
 ciation of the character of our membership. It is such as to reflect 
 credit on any denomination and upon the cause at large. We have 
 a growing number of business laymen who take their place in the front 
 ranks of our church enterprises. I count it a rare privilege to have 
 been associated with them in the work of the quadrennium. 
 
 In the spring of 1919 I accepted an appointment on a commission 
 to visit the Near East, and especially the Armenian districts of the 
 Turkish Empire in the Interest of the great and good work that is 
 being done by our Government and so splendidly supplemented by our 
 Sunday schools for the relief of the naked and hungry multitudes of 
 those oppressed lands. The step was not taken without first counsel 
 ing with my associates in office and securing their advice. Nothing 
 but a great cause and an exceptional opportunity to serve humanity 
 could have taken me away for five months for outside service, during 
 that busy year. 
 
 In concluding this report I desire to make most grateful record 
 of the patience, kindness and cooperation of ministers and laymen 
 throughout each of the conferences during these strenuous years. We 
 have had a good time together. God bless them all. 
 
Report of Southwest District 
 
 Cyrus J. Kephart, Bishop. 
 
 To TlIK DKl.KGAaKS OF TIIF. Gk.NKUAI. CoNb-KRKXC'K. 
 
 Dear Coworkers: 
 
 The Southwest District as constituted by the General Conference of 
 1917, embraces the Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklaho- 
 ma, New Mexico, and Louisiana conferences, the Iowa conference being 
 added to the district at that session, and the Colorado and New Mexico 
 conferences being constituted mission conferences at the same session. 
 Oklahoma conference has one charge in Texas, and four in Arkansas, 
 the latter organized during the quadrennium. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 As has been the case with the denomination at large, the quadren- 
 nium on the district has been one of considerably less ingathering than 
 was the preceding quadrennium, though sufficient to justify hope of at 
 least some actual increase. I am sorry to have to say, however, that 
 comparison of statistical reports shows a decrease in membership of 
 2966. 
 
 There are probably several reasons for this decrease. First, no 
 doubt, the efforts for increase have not been as fruitful, perhaps not 
 as earnest and efficient as they should^ have been. But there are other 
 reasons. Prominent among them the discontinuation of a number of 
 rural charges, consequent upon removal of our people, and their settle- 
 ment in towns and cities where, either we do not operate, or where our 
 equipment for service, or our plans of operation have not been suffi- 
 ciently attractive and helpful. Another reason, and one that should 
 be speedily removed, is the defective keeping of records of membership, 
 and along with this, at least in many places, our little less than vicious 
 method of revising church records. To the extent that these should be 
 matters of legislation, they should, I am sure, receive your careful at- 
 tention. 
 
 Recent reports from conference superintendents show that since the 
 last sessions of the annual conferences there have been held more than 
 250 special evangelistic meetings, which have resulted in 3285 acces- 
 sions to the Church. 
 
FINANCES. 
 
 Comparison of financial reports for the year 1919-1920 with those of 
 the year 1915-1916 shows encouraging increase in this relation. In 
 pastors' salaries, the increase of last year over four years ago was 29.5 
 percent; in money collected for Sunday-school purposes, the increase 
 was 32.5 percent; in collections for benevolences, the increase was 240 
 percent,— 80 percent in advance of the denomination at large; in col- 
 lections for all purposes, the increase was 54.6 percent; in collections 
 for building purposes, the increase was 23 percent, — 4 percent above 
 the increase throughout the denomination. 
 
 It is a delight to say that throughout the district there has been, to a 
 very large degree, unanimity of feeling of harmony with the purposes 
 and plans of the United Enlistment Movement. The change in general 
 financial conditions, along with some failure to understand the Move- 
 ment, heightened by some unfavorable criticism, resulted in several 
 conferences falling short in pledges of the amounts undertaken. Colo- 
 rado, New Mexico, and Louisiana conferences reported their apportion- 
 ments pledged in full, and some other of the conferences have ap- 
 proached near to the amounts asked. In the district at large 54.25 
 percent of the charges reported in full or more, while many other 
 charges reached nearly the amounts asked. 
 
 " • EDUCATION. 
 
 At the beginning of the quadrennium our educational work in the 
 district was represented by Leander Clark College, at Toledo, Iowa, 
 York College, at York, Nebraska, and Kansas City University, at Kansas 
 City, Kansas. 
 
 Early in the quadrennium the trustees of Leander Clark College 
 took action contemplating the merging of that institution with Coe 
 College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This action resulted in the closing of 
 the college at Toledo, and in the transfer of the real estate of the in- 
 stitution to the State of Iowa. The Board of Education did not consent 
 to this merger on the terms proposed, and by unanimous vote directed 
 the Secretary of the Board to enter suit in the federal court to prevent 
 its consummation. The case is now awaiting hearing. 
 
 York College, according to the recent report of its president to its 
 Board of Trustees, has an attendance of 693 students, excluding dupli- 
 cation of names. The students are distributed as follows — allowing 
 duplication — : liberal arts department 247; fine arts department 325; 
 business college 169. A fine religious spirit pervades and has pervaded 
 the institution, and some twenty of the students are preparing for the 
 work of the ministry. Though the college has its financial perplexities, 
 the reducing of the debt during the year by nearly $30,000, and the 
 growing- prospect of increased financial support, give renewed courage 
 to its friends. 
 
Kansas City University, owned and operated jointly by the United 
 Brethren in Christ and the Methodist Protestants, has. during the 
 quadrenniuni, come to a position of greatly increased promise. The 
 burden of nearly $250,000 of indebtedness upon it four years ago has 
 been removed; full recognition by the State Board of Kducation has 
 been secured: the enrollment of students has been materially increased, 
 and there has been a good increase of students preparing for special 
 service in the Church. The two denominations are working in complete 
 harmony, giving promise that this effort at cooperation in the work of 
 Christian education will prove a real success. 
 
 THE OUTLOOK. 
 
 What is it? "Bright as the promises of God," as said another. But as 
 the promises of God are, as to their fulfillment, conditional, so the out- 
 look in the Southwest, as to its realization, is conditional. What the 
 great Southwest is to be to America and to the world, is a question 
 awaiting answer. But measured by the possibilities presented, the an- 
 swer must be very optimistic. But as to actualities to be realized, the 
 answer depends much upon the answer to another question, What 
 energies are to be expended there? 
 
 "The coming millions" for the tramp of whom Patrick Henry stood 
 listening, have arrived in large numbers, to be followed by many mil- 
 lions more. They are and will be found upon its broad prairies, many 
 of which yet await our exploration; in its prosperous cities— but few of 
 which we have as yet entered; in its villages and towns, many of 
 which will become cities, and in comparatively few of which we are as 
 yet represented. 
 
 It were folly for us to attempt at once to enter, or even to explore all 
 these inviting fields. The immediate duty, and the immediate act of 
 strategy is, courageously, heroically, to develop and strengthen the 
 places we now occupy, and along with this to estimate prophetically and 
 liberally our ability as to men and means, and then by wisely planned 
 and helpfully contiguous efforts plant our banners where we are needed, 
 and plant to stay. 
 
 Too much have we scattered. Too much have we consulted only 
 the immediate present. Too little have we studied the oncom- 
 ing futurer Too little have we thought of building,— building for 
 the centuries. Too much have we taken the place of journeymen to 
 prepare material from which others who have more wisely planned 
 have built great and permanent structures. If we would realize upon 
 our possibilities in the Southwest, we must change our plans, and 
 > change them wisely, and change them quickly. 
 
 Thank God that we have been able to do so much! Thank God that 
 we have won thousands to Christ, even though in so doing we have 
 contributed more to the building of other denominations than our own. 
 It has been a part of our history. Thank God that they have been 
 saved and homed. But why not plan to build ourselves? Why not plan 
 
more effectively to home our own converts? Why not ourselves plan 
 to push into centers of influence in which, when our people move to 
 them, they will find commodious buildings and welcoming arms of their 
 own spiritual kindred to receive them? It must be done more ef- 
 fectively in the Southwest if we are to survive and to fill a mission in 
 promulgating the Gospel and in bringing in the reign of Jesus Christ. 
 The doors are open; let us study well where we enter, and enter there 
 to build, to survive, to expand. 
 
 THE NEED. 
 
 But to do this, to plant wisely, to develop, to enlarge, as *we should 
 and may, there must be large increase of men and women for the work 
 of the ministry, and for service in other relations, and there must be 
 large increase of funds for their development and support, and large 
 increase of loyalty to our Church. 
 
 God be praised, and praised the men and women who did it, for the 
 work accomplished in the past. But a new day is at hand, aye, is al- 
 ready passing; a day that demands the filling of the pulpits of the 
 Southwest with men qualified for service in the pulpits of any other sec- 
 tion of our denomination. There is no longer a Wild West! We must 
 have large additions of qualified men in the Southwest if we are to 
 stay effectively where we are. and to occupy and develop the inviting 
 openings in the great empire of the West. 
 
 We are growing and educating some preachers, but not in the num- 
 bers needed. The Superintendents report that we have 63 holding 
 quarterly conference license; 54 given annual conference license during 
 the quadrennium; 49 ordained, and 39 in college, and 5 in the Seminary 
 preparing for the ministry. "But what are these among so many?" 
 
 And we must have money for the more liberal support of those at 
 work, and for those we would have to come. Much of this money, 
 more of it than ever before, from the Southwest, for it too, is becoming 
 wealthy, — but not all of it can be gotten there. 
 
 And here arises the call for doubling, tripling, the funds of the 
 Home Mission and Church Erection Boards, — not for the Southwest, 
 nor for the West alone; but for the great East as well. For we know 
 full well that the open doors inviting the entrance of the Church of the 
 United Brethren in Christ, are before us everywhere, in all our broad 
 land. 
 
 The Superintendents of the Southwest District estimate that we need 
 annually $24,000 for home mission work now in operation, and at least 
 $35,000 more annually, conservatively estimated, to enter new fields 
 now inviting us. 
 
 As we contemplate these things, surely our ears hear again the words 
 of our Lord — whose every word let us study with ever increasing c^re — 
 "Lift up your eyes and look upon the fields, for they are white already 
 unto harvest." "Pray ye, therefore, the lord of the harvest, that he 
 send forth laborers into his harvest." 
 
Report of Pacific District 
 
 W. H. Washinger, Bishop 
 
 Tt) TiiK Dklegates of TiiK Gknkkai, Conkkuknck.. 
 
 Dear Coworkers: 
 
 I bring to you my quadrennial report of the Pacific District to which 
 I was assigned four years ago. These years have been crowded full 
 of rich blessings from the bountiful hand of our Heavenly Father. 
 
 We give thanks to God. first of all, for the unity that prevails 
 throughout the district. Whenever the bugle call to action has been 
 sounded our superintendents, pastors and people, almost to the man, 
 have fallen into line and have kept step to the martial music of Zion, 
 to the drum beat of progress, marching bravely to battle and to certain 
 conquest for our King. 
 
 There is a price set upon all growth and development. The burning 
 need of the hour is the willingness on our part to face new problems, 
 the willingness to face old problems in a new way and the willingness 
 to pay the price that service demands. 
 
 In spite of the hardships and dangers and limitations and lonliness 
 and silences, yes, in spite of these we have learned to know and appre- 
 ciate as never before the blessedness of service. 
 
 Notwithstanding war conditions, the drouth-stricken Northwest, 
 shortage of preachers, bad church records, the Pacific District has had 
 a good quadrennium as the following figures and facts show: 
 
 FIGURES AND FACTS 
 
 The District comprises four conferences — California, Oregon, Colum- 
 bia River and Montana, representing 95 organized classes. 
 
 The number of church members at the beginning of the quadrennium 
 was 5637; at the close 6029, showing a net increase of 392. 
 
 The number of conversions reported to me for the quadrennium 
 is 2G95; number of accessions 3306. 
 
 The Suijday-school enrollment was 8248, at present 8737. net in- 
 crease 489; the Christian Endeavor membership was 184S and is now 
 1805, net decrease 43, the decrease occurring through the senior 
 societies while the junior and intermediate show a nice increase; the 
 W. M. A. membership was 653 and is now 990, net increase 337; 
 Otterbein Guild membership was 84, at present 178, net increase 94. 
 
 The number of Religious Telescopes at the beginning of the quad- 
 rennium was 4C6, at the close 803, net increase 337; Watchwords 1434, 
 at close 1514, net increase 80; Evangels 415, at close 568, net increase 
 153; Friend for Boys and Girls 1306, at present 1734, net increase 428; 
 Otterbein Senior Quarterly 1330, at present 1394 increase 64; Adult 
 Quarterly 738, at close 851, net increase 13; Otterbein Intermediate 
 Quarterly 1143, at close 1170, increase 27. 
 
The offerings on the Lord's Day of coViferences during the quadren- 
 niiim amounted to $20,527.22, of this amount $5,404.33 was raised for 
 the contingent expenses of Philomath College and the remainder for 
 Preachers' Aid and Conference Missions — one third for Preachers' Aid, 
 two-thirds for conference Missions; for Home Missions special fund for 
 work in new cities $2,071.97; Self-denial offering $3,118,87; Philomath 
 College endowment $47,934.75, with the campaign not yet concluded 
 in Corvallis and in Columbia River and Montana conferences, which 
 added to the special gift of $27,000 from the Baker estate at the 
 beginning of the quadrennium, makes a total of $74,934.75; Permanent 
 Church Extension fund $12,190.07; Preachers' Aid Fund in addition 
 to the conference Sunday offering $1,425; Church Erection loans were 
 paid to the amount of $16,720; old debts on church property w^re 
 paid and improvements made amounting to $32,591.03. 
 
 The total raised for the United Enlistment Movement in cash and 
 idedges amounts to $90,504.63, making a grand total of $254,083.54 
 for the above named interests raised during the quadrennium, of which 
 more than $140,000 has been paid, with the Philomath College and 
 United Enlistment pledges being paid systematically by all the con- 
 ferences except Montana which has been in the grip of perhaps the 
 most severe drouth in its history but will make good as soon as crop 
 conditions improve. We must be patient and help them tide over the 
 trying times. Our people in Montana can be depended upon to go to the 
 limit, adding faith to sight in maintaining the cause of our Lord. 
 The seven new classes organized in Montana conference is proof of this. 
 
 In addition to the magnificent sum named above, new churches and 
 parsonages were built in the district at a cost of $55,760 nearly all 
 of which has been paid. The total property valuer, including Philomath 
 College and Baker Home, amount to $629,383.50. 
 
 The Pacific District was apportioned $104,499 for the United Enlist- 
 ment Movement. As stated above we have raised $90,504.63 and if we 
 are given credit for the amounts raised for special interests to which 
 the representatives of the district and many others believe we are 
 justly entitled, we will have more than reached the goal. 
 
 We now have in each conference a Preachers' Aid Fund, Permanent 
 Conference Extension Fund, Conference Mission Fund and all organi- 
 zations necessary for aggressive work. The amount in the Preachers' 
 Aid Fund of the several conferences totals $4,077.64, Permanent Con- 
 ference Extension Fund totals $12,190.07 and almost $10,000 has passed 
 through the Conference Mission Fund to help in the establishing of 
 the minimum salary standard and to help in reducing the General 
 Home Mission Board's appropriations to the fields. 
 
 The miniumum salary standard for California and Oregon confer- 
 ences is $1200 and parsonage; for Columbia River and Montana $1000 
 and parsonage. i 
 
 California, Oregon and Columbia River conferences now support 
 their own superintendents, California and Oregon each paying $2100 
 and Columbia River $1700 per year. Montana conference pays $1200 
 of the $2100 received by its superintendent. 
 
At tlie last session of the annual conferences we were able to supply 
 all our fields of labor with pastors for the first time in a number of 
 years. Our greatest problem is tliat of leadership. We need more 
 men as some of our younger men desire to go to school to further 
 qualify themselves for the gosi)el ministry and some of our older 
 ministers will soon retire from the active service on account of age. 
 
 A Branch W. M. A. was organized in Columbia River conference and 
 one in Montana conference by Mrs. Washinger. The work of the W. 
 M. A. in Columbia River. Oregon and California conferences was 
 greatly strengthened by the Itinerary of Miss Vera B. Blinn whose 
 example of consecration and spiritual beauty lingers as a fragrant 
 influence with us. 
 
 PHILOMATH COLLEGE AND COL. R. M. BAKER HOME 
 
 Philomath College and the Col. R. M. Baker Home for Retired 
 Ministers have had a good quadrennium and show a marked degree 
 of prosperity. The people have a larger vision relative to these two 
 institutions — a vision that has led to enthusiasm, self-denial, larger 
 service and consequently to greater results. 
 
 The total endowment holdings of Philomath College July 1, 1917, 
 was $23,000. The total endowment to date of this report is $89,833. 
 The number of students this college year not repeating names, is 88; 
 total number of registrations 136. 
 
 A gymnasium and other new buildings are badly needed. Philomath's 
 record of fifty-two years shows, over 1000 graduates, over 1200 teachers, 
 8 college presidents 150 ministers, .5 foreign missionaries with many 
 other professions enriched. 
 
 The Baker Home was established by Col. R. M. Baker and his good 
 wife, Sarah A., in 1913. They provided $15,000 for -the site and im- 
 provements and gave a property in Los Angeles worth $60,000 as an 
 endowment. There are six cottages and twenty acres of valuable 
 ground. Ten acres are planted to citrus fruits. 
 
 Ten thousand dollars have been permanently set aside by the 
 trustees for the building of a dormitory in the near future. The 
 present worth of the giound and buildings with resources is $86,693.50 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 Two great programs have been on during the quadrennium — a pro- 
 gram of e^'angelism and one of finance. The evangelistic program 
 resulted in 2695 conversions and 3306 accessions. 
 
 The finance program resulted in the payment of Church Erection 
 loans, liquidation of other indebtedness, raising money for conference 
 and general interests and in the building of churches and parsonages, 
 only where they were absolutely needed, on account of the high cost 
 of material and i)rice of labor. However, building funds were started 
 wherever possible. 
 
 These two programs must continue with intensity during the com- 
 ing quadrennium. The finance program, in addition to the liquidation 
 of remaining indebtedness should include the building of fifteen 
 churches and at least six parsonages, on old fields of labor. Even 
 though all may not be completed, that niany should be begun. 
 
In addition to this we should enter at least six new centers. The 
 program of evangelism should also include, as never before, the con- 
 servation of its results. Converts, and then culture, is the order. Soul- 
 winning precedes soul-tiaining, and that training is seriously defective 
 that fails to stress the sui)reme importance of soul-winning. 
 
 The reflex influence of the United Enlistment campaign has enabled 
 United Brethren in the Pacific District to discover themselves, finan- 
 cially and doctrinally, and has developed a deeper consecration. We are 
 a sleeping giant, but we are beginning to awake to our possibilities. 
 The greatest blessing, however, that has come to our pet)ple as a result 
 of the campaign is the deepened spirituality and increased evangelistic 
 fervor which is everywhere evident. 
 
 The presence of Dr. J. S. Kendall, Dr. P. M. Camp and Brother L. O. 
 Miller, who represented the various general church interests at the 
 several sessions of annual conferences was highly appreciated, as was 
 also that of Dr. J. H. Patterson who represented the Commission on 
 Evangelism, Rev. and Mrs. W. N. Wimmer and Rev. and Mrs. E. B. 
 Ward, returned missionaries. 
 
 Bishop N. Castle has an abiding interest in the work of the district 
 and in a practical way emphasizes the fact that the "October of life 
 may be one of the most fruitful months in all its calendar; and the 
 'Indian Summer' its brightest period when God's sunshine kindles 
 every leaf on the tree with crimson and golden glories." 
 
 CLOSING WORDS 
 
 I desire, in these closing words, to express the appreciation of Mrs. 
 Washinger and myself for the special recognition given us on our 
 wedding anniversary and birthdays, which occurred during the last 
 session of the several conferences. The memory of the pleasant 
 occasions is with us yet and will be as we trudge over the hill of time 
 into the golden valley of the Great Sunset. 
 
 The work of the quadrennium has been intensely arduous, but with 
 God's help and that of my brethren in the ministry and laity, it has 
 been a great joy. The pages of the history of the Pacific District are 
 vivid with the victories of religion in behalf of law and order, of 
 education and justice. Our preachers and others like them caught the 
 vision of a redeemed America and went forth to conquer the wilderness 
 and our country for Christ. We are heirs of the golden harvest of 
 church history that has come to us through the ages, and 
 
 So long as United Brethren pulses beat — 
 So long as United Brethren freemen meet 
 We lift our gauntlets to the sky 
 And swear to guard the legacy. 
 
 I 
 With joyful reminiscence, therefore, as we dwell upon the victories 
 
 in the past, with a blessed inspiration as we contemplate the oppor- 
 tunities of the present and with a glorious hope, as we look upon the 
 rainbow of the divine promise spanning the future, this report is 
 respectfully submitted. 
 
Sixth Quadrennial Report 
 
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 The Publishing Agent 
 
 — and — 
 
 Quadrennial Report of 
 The Board of Trustees 
 
 —of the— 
 
 Printing 
 Establishment 
 
Sixth Quadrennial Report of the PubHshing Agent 
 To the General Conference 
 
 Dear Fathers and Brethren: — 
 
 With thankfuhicss to God this report is made. Notwithstanding the bane- 
 ful effects of war, wrecking and bankrupting the' nations, and the unsettled 
 economic condition of business, the quadrennium just closed is the best of any in 
 the history of the United Brethren Publishing House. 
 
 Our People in Service 
 Many of our men entered the army and did valiant service at the front 
 Others of our men and many of our women were found faithful in the home 
 war activities. The government gave the House secret printing to do that went 
 to the fronts in France, Belgium and Italy. 
 
 Our Employees 
 Never have we had a better or more loyal people in the House than at this 
 time. Their aim, working through the principles of Industrial Democracy, is to 
 make this institution especially strong in its service. No institution gives to its 
 people greater initiative than this one. 
 
 The Board 
 
 The Board of Trustees has been earnest and painstaking in its examination 
 of the conduct of the business, and I am grateful for its suggestions made froifi 
 time to time, particularly during the years of war stress. 
 
 Our Real Estate 
 
 No change has been made in the realty of the House during the quadren- 
 nium. The Board of Trustees will lay before the conference the facts as to our 
 real estate holdings. Something should be done with the properties at Main 
 and Fourth streets. Three ways seem open: 
 
 1. Hold the property and improve it by doing what the City Fire Code 
 requires on the old buildings. 
 
 2. Improve the old properties by building up in keeping with present of- 
 fice building, as the Trustees intended and planned when the holdings 
 were obtained. 
 
 3. Sell these properties and desert this most important corner in the 
 rapidly-growing city of Dayton. 
 
 The first plan would mean great waste while the last plan would be a 
 serious backward movement. 
 
 The Main and Fourth real estate suffered by the change in the date of 
 closing the books from April 1, to March 31, the second year of the quadrennium 
 by having twelve months of expenses charged and only eleven months of re- 
 ceipts credited to it. 
 
 Volume of Business 
 
 The total business during the quadrennium was $2,658,729.72 — a gain of 
 $621,654.98 over the preceding quadrennium. The total business for the past 
 twenty-four years is $9,735,837.26. 
 
Earnings 
 
 The earnings for the four years are $171,789.49 as compared with $152,005.20 
 in the preceding quadrennium. 
 
 Subsidies Paid 
 
 There was paid to the Church in the form of subsidies $17,722.43 during 
 the quadrennium. This does not include loss on any periodical. 
 
 The Conservancy Tax 
 
 This tax began during the second year of the quadrennium and amounted 
 to $27,988.32 for the three years. We have not added this to the inventory of 
 the properties, as some have done, but it is computed as an item of tlie earn- 
 ings of the House. In arriving at these figures the direct conservancy tax. 
 which is assessed against each individual piece of property, and the general con- 
 servancy tax, which is charged upon the general duplicate' of the city and 
 county in which the Publishing House is located, are added together. 
 
 Inventory 
 
 The gross inventory of the House is $1,540,219.19. Of this amount 
 $778,345.25 is invested in the Main and Fourth streets real estate holdings. 
 
 The inventory of the Fifth Street Publishing Plant real estate and equip- 
 ment is $761,873.94. The net inventory of the whole publishing interests is 
 $770,551.73. 
 
 The liabilities of the House are the difference between the gross inventory 
 and the net inventory, which was $769,667.46, March 31, 1921. 
 
 The debt is analyzed as follows: 
 
 Due other houses on account $ 42,525.14 
 
 Bonds outstanding 75,000.00 
 
 Mortgage indebtedness 386.000.00 
 
 Borrowed money (notes) 266,142.32 
 
 Total indebtedness $769,667.46 
 
 The interest-bearing indebtedness is $727,142.32. The increase in the whole 
 debt is $49,263.46 over April 2, 1917. The increase in the interest-bearing debt 
 same period is $35,822.73. The requirement of more capital for mercliandise 
 and new machinery and the increase of accounts due the House much more than 
 offsets this increase of debt. 
 
 Comnaring the net inventory, March 31, 1921, of $770,551.73 with the net 
 inventory of April 2, 1917, which was $658,424.75, the gain in the net in- 
 ventory for the quadrennium was $112,126.98. 
 
 The gain in the gross inventory for the quadrennium was $161,390.44. 
 
 The Publishing Plant 
 
 The Publishing Plant, building and equipment on West Fifth street, has 
 met with increasing efficiency, the' requirements of the Church in the publication 
 of our periodicals. A few changes have been made in the departments in order 
 to meet the requirements more perfectly. 
 
 Labor j 
 
 We have had no strikes or industrial trouble during the quadrennium. A 
 little over a year ago Industrial Democracy was installed in the plant and has 
 proven a great blessing to the institution. 
 
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Our Literature 
 
 If a review were made of the number of periodicals and the volume of same 
 today as compared with twenty-four years ago. it would hardly seem like the 
 same institution. A very accurate system of discarding names from circulation 
 lists has been in vogue for years. Notwithstanding this, the circulation of the 
 Telescope, Watchword, and all of our Sunday-school literature has greatly in- 
 creased. The total circulation of our periodicals. April 1, 1898, was 390,446; 
 March 31, 1921, 521,050. This does not include the great volume of Graded 
 Lessons sold to the Church. 
 
 The home going of Rev. C. L B. Brane, D.D., associate editor of The 
 Telescope, was a source of sorrow to all of us. His sweet spirit was an inspira- 
 tion to all who were connected with the Publishing House. 
 
 Mail Order Department 
 
 This department has grown ever since it was started. It did a business 
 of $68,497.06 last year. 
 
 The Church 
 
 The House never received more hearty support from the Church than it 
 has during this quadrennium, for which the management is grateful to both 
 the pastors and people. 
 
 Our Accountants 
 
 The Auditor's Report for each year of the quadrennium, as well as the 
 Bookkeeper's Profit and Loss Sheet, has already been submitted to the Commit- 
 tee on Publishing Interests. 
 
 A Personal Word 
 
 In presenting this — my sixth quadrennial report, I close my twenty-fourth 
 year as Publishing Agent. M}' heart was never more full of thankfulness to God 
 and to the Church for the privilege of these years of earnest and at times most 
 trying service. I had ambition to help do certain things in connection with 
 the building up of the property owned by the Publishing House. Had the flood 
 not come, we would have been almost through with this task by this time, pro- 
 vided the plans as worked out by the Board of Trustees had been followed. 
 
 The first three years of the quadrennium just closed were the hardest of all 
 for me. At the General Conference, at Decatur, I would have gone out of this 
 work had it not been for the influence of several of the leaders of the Church, 
 among whom were Bishop N. Castle and our late departed Bishop G. M. 
 Mathews. They held me steady at a time when I felt I wanted to unload the 
 responsibility. At the beginning of this last quadrennium I was more than 
 ever inclined to resign the task, but was held in place by the strong influence of 
 the Board of Trustees. 
 
 During the twenty-four years I have made close and abiding friends, not 
 only in connection with the Publishing House, but in the business life of the 
 city of Daytpn. It will be hard for me to break these close fellowships that 
 are worth 'more than money to anyone. With all the editors who have served 
 through these twenty-four years I have had the closest and sweetest commun- 
 ion, and, as far as I know% there has not been an unpleasantnes.s between any one 
 of these editorial workers, and myself. Enough has been said to me to make 
 me believe I could be reelected to this position. I am not going out of this 
 work because of criticism, just or unjust, but because I desire to be relieved of 
 strain, which I fear would in th^ coming years pull too heavily upon me. I 
 prefer to leave this work in perfect health and strength, trusting that God wdl 
 open the way for me to do something somev>'here in His vineyard. 
 
 To the Board of Trustees who have served, not only during this last 
 quadrennium but during all the quadrenniums; to the Editors and to the people 
 who worked with me in the plant, I extend my heartiest and best wishes, 
 
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Items of Interest 
 People employed 250 
 
 Wages paid for year ending March 31, 1921 $308,958.66 
 
 Wages paid for year ending April 2, 1917 $204,170.89 
 
 An increase of $104,787.77 
 
 Periodicals published (Graded S. S. Lessons not included) 14 
 
 Combined circulation 521,050 
 
 Net Assets March 31. 1921 $770,551.73 
 
 Net Assets July 2, 1897 ., $283,383.04 
 
 A Gain in Net Assets in the 24 years of $487,168.69 
 
 Paid to the Church in dividends, subsidies, etc., since July 2, 1897 $170,363.85 
 
 Two items for which the management was not in any way responsible 
 - — the flood and the International Bible Agency — together made 
 
 a total of $161,843.66 
 
 These items the House was compelled to meet as a loss and pay out of 
 its business. 
 
 The following figures are for the past 24 years: 
 
 Gain in Net Assets $487,168.69 
 
 The two losses on flood and International Bible Agency 161,843.66 
 
 Paid to the Church 170,363.85 
 
 Alaking a Grand Total of Money Result for the period of $819,376.20 
 
 This does not take into account losses on any of the periodicals which 
 we have met during the years. 
 
 The following pages of my report will give comparative statements, but 
 the financial comparisons will be found in the Auditor's Report and the Book- 
 keeper's Profit and Loss Sheets, which have already been placed in the hands 
 of the Committee on Publishing Interests. 
 
 Inventory of the House by Quadrenniums: 
 
 July 2, 1897 the net inventory was $283,383.04 
 
 April 1, 1901 the net inventory was 303,179.99 
 
 April 1, 1905 the net inventory was 402,975.83 
 
 April 1, 1909 the net inventory was 536,986.18 
 
 April 15, 1913 the net inventory was 544,211.20 
 
 April 2, 1917 the net inventory was 658,424.75 
 
 March 31, 1921 the net inventory was 770,551.73 
 
 Gain in the Net Inventory for the Six Quadrenniums__$487, 168.69 
 
 Volume of Business of House by Quadrenniums: 
 
 From April 2, 1897 to April 1, 1901 . $ 791.037.89 
 
 From April 1, 1901 to April 1, 1905__-a 1,062,418.46 
 
 From April 1, 1905 to April 1, 1909 1,395.360.69 
 
 From April 1, 1909 to April 15,-1913 1,781.115.76 
 
 From April 15, 1913 to April 2, 1917 2.037.074.74 
 
 From April 2, 1917 to March 31, 1921 2.658,729.72 
 
 Total From April 2, 1897 to March 31, 1921 $9,735,837.26 
 
 Earnings for the Quadrennium Ending March 31, 1921: 
 
 For the year ending April 2, 1918 $ 4.668.25 
 
 For the y/ear ending March 31, 1919 28,784.06 
 
 For the year ending March 31, 1920 7X763.77 
 
 For the year ending March 31, 1921 60,573.41 
 
 A Total for the Quadrennium $171,789.49 
 
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Earnings by Quadrenniums: 
 
 The profits from 1897 to 1901 were If 83 087.J5 
 
 The profits from 1901 to 1905 were . 146689 53 
 
 The profits from 1905 to 1909 were 166!299 81 
 
 The profits from 1909 to 1913 were 143,29174 
 
 The profits from 1913 to 1917 were 152io05.20 
 
 The profits from 1917 to 1921 were 1711789.49 
 
 Total Earnings for the 24 years of ^ $863,163.12 
 
 Comparative Circulation of Publications 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 
 
 Telescope 22,700 32,700 33.500 26.550 
 
 Watchword 46,000 45,5(X) 47,250 52,500 
 
 Boys' Friend 21,000 21.000 21,250 23,650 
 
 Girls' Friend 24,000 23,000 23,500 26,650 
 
 Our Little Folks 23,000 22,000 19,000 18,000 
 
 Otterbein Teacher 12,200 12,200 12,000 13,000 
 
 Adult Quarterly 16,600 20,500 
 
 Senior Quarterly 155,200 145.000 
 
 Intermediate Quarterly 62,250 47,000 
 
 Advanced Quarterly 141,000 163,400 
 
 Youths' Quarterly 56,000 59,000 
 
 Junior Quarterly 23,000 26,000 25,500 27,750 
 
 Primary Quarterly 15,000 16,000 15,500 17,000 
 
 Home Department Quarterly/ 12,350 13,500 11,000 
 
 Lesson Leaves 27,000 27,000 26.000 26,000 
 
 Picture Wall Chart 900 800 800 800 
 
 Picture Cards 35,000 33,000 33,000 36,000 
 
 Pupils' Lesson Stories 
 
 Evangel 15,000 18,000 18,000 20,000 
 
 Total 511,200 503,200 492,800 521,050 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 W. R. FUNK, Agent. 
 
 Auditor's Report 
 
 April 19, 1921. 
 Dr. W. R. Funk, Manager, 
 
 The Printing Establishment of the United Brethren in Christ, 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Having concluded the continuous audit of the Establishment for the fiscal 
 year including March 31, 1921, I herewith submit Schedule and Exhibits as 
 follows: 
 
 Schedule A — Balance Sheet. 
 Exhibit 1 — Profit and Loss Statement. 
 Exhibit 2 — Notes Payable. 
 Exhibit 3 — Cash Test. 
 The inventories were accepted as given. 
 
 Considering the decline in prices and conditions in the commercial world 
 
 generally, it should be a source of congratulation to have the net profit as shown. 
 
 The audit revealed nothing which would reflect upon the integrity of anyone. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 C. L. HUBBARD. 
 
 Accountant. 
 
Quadrennial Report of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Printing Establishment 
 
 We, the Board of Trustees of the Printing Establishment, respectfully sub- 
 mit the following report. Following the election of members of the Board by 
 the General Conference meeting in May, 1917, at Wichita, Kansas, the Trustees 
 present met at said time and place and organized by electing A. W. Drury presi- 
 dent and J. A. Lyter secretary, and A. W. Drury, L. C. Weimer andj W. H. 
 Cassel as members of the Local Committee. Regular annual and semi-annual 
 meetings have been held throughout the quadrcnnium. A special meeting was 
 held in Februar_v, 1920, to consider a new situation rising with reference to the 
 Main and Fourth streets real estate. 
 
 Preceding the last regular meeting held in April of this 3'ear all of the 
 members of the Committee on Publishing Interests appointed by the Bishops 
 of the Church for the approaching General Conference w^ere invited to be 
 present at said meeting of the Board, that they might make themselves fully 
 acquainted with the properties and business of the Printing Establishment. A 
 good proportion of the committee responded with their presence. 
 
 At the time of the session of the last General Conference our country was 
 under the cloud of the great war iu Europe, and soon afterward came the un- 
 paralleled distractions and burdens due to America's entrance into that war. 
 Every interest of the Printing Establishment felt the strain and burden of the 
 unprecedented conflict. Labor and material costs necessitated changes in 
 size, price and material quality of our periodicals. Recent changes have made 
 possible the restoration in part to former standards. 
 
 The death of Dr. C. I. B. Brane, associate editor of The Religious Telescope, 
 took from our presence and his work in the Church a noble Christian man and 
 a devoted and efficient Christian worker. Rev. D. T. Gregory, who had just 
 completed his course in Bonebrake Theological Seminary, was secured to take 
 up and carry on the work for the remainder of the quadrennium. 
 
 The relations of the Board with Doctor Funk, the Publishing Agent, the 
 editors, the heads of Church departments and the entire body of workers have 
 been uniformly friendly and cooperative. While the Board have for themselves 
 felt a responsibility in directing and caring for the affairs of the House, they 
 have sought to give sincere and earnest, yet discerning support to Doctor Funk, 
 the Publishing Agent, who has been elected by a growing majority by six suc- 
 cessive General Conferences. Now that Doctor Funk announces his purpose 
 not to stand for reelection to the re.'^ponsible post which he has held for the 
 last twenty-four years, it is due and proper to say that, while he has always 
 advocated a well-understood 'constructive policy, he has ever given due con- 
 sideration to the authority and judgment of the Board, and that every advance 
 step taken has been by a unanimous vote of the Board. 
 
 It is unnecessary to duplicate in this report the items given in the report of 
 the Publishing Agent. The instructions of the last General Conference have 
 been carried out in regard to a separate account for the different pieces of real 
 estate at Main and Fourth streets. The inventories, both of real estate and 
 factory equipment, may be taken as conservative. 
 
 There probably are no great or special problems at this time with refer- 
 ence to the factory site of the Publishing House business. The closing out of 
 two of the departments in the factory, which could not be made to show a 
 profit, will at once stop a loss and simplify the work of the factory. 
 
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The question as to the real estate at Main and Fourth streets must be 
 brought to decision before long. It is the purpose of this report to be as help- 
 ful as possible to the General Conference in reaching a proper solution of this 
 problem. To this end liberal reports of actions taken by tlie Publishing Agent 
 and the Board will be given. Situations as they have developed will be stated 
 and proposed solutions will be indicated. Members of the Board do not feel 
 prompted by any motives of defense or attack or special advocacy, but taking 
 conditions as they arc desire to be helpful toward a courageous, constructive 
 and safe policy for the future. As no present members of the Board were 
 members when the initial steps looking toward extended enlargements were 
 taken, they may fairly claim to be free from special bias. 
 
 About eighteen months ago notice was received from the department of 
 safety of the city of Dayton that changes in the seven-story building on Fourth 
 street must be made to make the building conform to the present fire code. 
 The expenditure thus required might amount to much over $100,000. A like 
 order might be expected at any time in regard to the old buildings on Main 
 street. As these properties are not now yielding a suitalile return, and as tlie 
 new expenditures demanded would not increase receipts, the Board was sum- 
 moned to meet in extra session to decide on what should be done in the 
 premises. The Board decided that the on'y proper course to take would be 
 to replace the old buildings with such build; :.js as would make, with the present 
 office building, an enlarged office building cl approved and up-to-date character. 
 As the Board had no authority to enter on this undertaking, the city officials, 
 by tacit agreement, allowed the matter to rest pending the action of the General 
 Conference. To show how the Board has grappled with this question, and at 
 the risk of seeming to be tedious, the following report of the Committee on Real 
 Estate, as made to the Board and approved by the Board at its last session, is 
 here included entire: 
 
 Report of Committee on Real Estate 
 
 In making a report and offering suggestions regarding the real estate at 
 Main and Fourth streets, the committee finds that we are confronted with 
 two outstanding conditions: First, all these properties with the exception of the 
 fourteen-story Office Building itself, are losing money annually. The other is, 
 that these properties are not properly protected against fire and do not meet 
 the Fire Code of the city of Dayton. Notices have been served upon the Pub- 
 lishing House that either the improvements recommended must be made or the 
 buildings permanently abandoned. 
 
 To make the required improvements will cost from $125,000 to $150,000. 
 If this expenditure were made and it would increase the income of the properties, 
 we would feel justified in making a recommendation that the Firo Code of the 
 city of Daj'ton be complied with. But these improvements would not increase 
 the rental income and therefore the properties would still be not only non- 
 productive, but would continue to show a loss each year. In previous reports 
 of this committee and in the reports of the Agent of the Publishing House, 
 W. R. Funk, to the Board of Trustees, estimates of cost of improving this 
 property, together with plans prepared by F. J. Hughes, architect, were sub- 
 mitted, the latest available figures of which would indicate that an expenditure 
 of from $900,OCK1 to $1,000,000 would be required to erect a fourteen-story of- 
 fice building with a six-story tower, in harmony with plans draw^n. We do not 
 believe that it would be advisable to recommend the expenditure of this sum 
 of money without some positive assurance that an income would be derived war- 
 ranting the expenditure. 
 
 Our attention has been directed to the probability of the Agent of the 
 Publishing House securing a tenant if this propert)^ were improved and a build- 
 ing erected — either seven or eight stories in height — in such a manner as to 
 make it suitable for department-store purposes. In our judgment and accord- 
 ing to information available, it would seem that a seven-story building could be 
 erected on these premises at a cost not exceeding $500,000, not including sal- 
 vage on present buildings. It is believed that this salvage w-ould be worth at 
 least $100,000, so that the expenditure would not exceed $400,000. 
 
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It has also been suggested that a building of this character would readily 
 rent on a long-time lease for at least $50,000, the tenant paying all taxes, also 
 Conservancy taxes; cost of all leases, and furnishing his own light, heat, power, 
 elevator services and all necessarj' repairs. If such a contract could be entered 
 into and an estimate secured, assuring that the new building operations would 
 not exceed the cost named, we would recommend that this course would be 
 far more desirable than repairing the present buildings or selling the entire 
 property, it being understood, however, that, if a building of only seven or 
 eight stories were erected now, the foundations and walls should be sufficiently 
 heavy to admit of the erection of a fourteen-story building with a six-story tower, 
 at some future date, and the elevators in the building should be placed so as 
 to permit the improvement of the property at some later date. 
 
 It has been suggested that it might be advisable immediately to erect 
 a fourteen-story building on this ground with a six-story tower at a total cost 
 not to exceed from $900,000 to $1,000,000, as present estimates would indicate. 
 It has been further suggested that a considerable amount of this can be 
 secured in donations and subscriptions for this purpose. 
 
 We, therefore, would suggest and recommend that, if not less than twenty- 
 five percent of the cost of the new building can be secured in donations and sub- 
 scriptions, and the first seven stories of the building can be rented so they will 
 produce a net income or rental of not less than $50,000, and satisfactory bonds 
 be given to this effect, a fourteen-story building be erected in lieu of the seven- 
 story building previously referred to. Our reasons for reaching this conclusion 
 are as follows: 
 
 1. If we comply with the City Fire Code, an expenditure of at least 
 $150,000 must be made without any increased income. 
 
 2. If $400,000 is spent, (which is $250,000 more than is required to meet 
 the demands of the city), we will have an up-to-date, seven-story build- 
 ing to rent, which will produce a net revenue of not less than $50,000, 
 and put the entire property holdings on a paying basis. 
 
 3. If the last recommendations were adopted and a fourteen-story 
 building erected, we would probably have to borrow $750,000. If bor- 
 rowed from some large institution, this would probably cost us six 
 percent, but if a mortgage were given and bonds sold to members of 
 the Church and others, we believe these bonds could be sold at five per- 
 cent. At any rate, the interest charge on $750,000 at six percent will not 
 exceed $45,000, and, if we were absolutely assured of a rental income on 
 the first seven floors of $50,000, it would be ample to pay the interest 
 on the cost of construction of the entire fourteen-story building, thus 
 leaving the seven upper stories and the tower — the most desirable part 
 of the building — for offices, without any extra overhead charges except 
 the ordinary running expenses. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 A. S. Krcider, 
 Jay M. Cogan, 
 W. H. Cassel, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 This report was unanimously adopted as an expression of the views of the 
 Board, one member. Doctor Wcimcr, limiting his approval to the proposition 
 to build only to seven stories at this time. While nothing in the report given 
 is to be taken as a recommendation to the General Conference, yet the report 
 indicates the length to which the Board felt impelled to go in seeking a solution 
 of the real estate problem. In the course of their prospecting and preliminary 
 work, the Publishing Agent and Board have provided and secured various ma- 
 terials, such as plans, estimates of costs and estimated incomes from buildings, 
 which may be of advantage to the Committee on Publishing Interests. ' 
 
 If the real estate at Main and Fourth streets should not be suitably im- 
 proved, the alternative course would be to sell the same. Sentimental consider- 
 
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atioiis and denominational interest might put in their plea against the sale of 
 this property about which clings so much of historic association, but such plea 
 would have to yield to necessit)-. 
 
 But if the property should be sold, would it not relieve the case somewhat, 
 if not fully, if the Church itself should be the purchaser? Might not a way be 
 devised by which the trustees of the pension fund, perhaps along with the 
 various Church departments or other associates, might acquire this valuable 
 property on the best corner in the growing city of Dayton? Office buildings 
 rightly situated and rightly constructed are safe and profitable as forms of 
 investment and present indications are that this class of properties is entering 
 on an era of enlarged demand and profit. 
 
 It is often and truly stated that the Publishing House exists for the pro- 
 motion of all of the work of the Church, that it must give out in many ways in 
 connection with which there is no corresponding return. In the quadrennium 
 ending in 1920, the Methodist Episcopal Church lost on its various periodicals 
 the large sum of $169,137.51. Yet the Book Committee having in charge the 
 publishing interests of that Church in their report to the General Conference 
 said that the amount named was "not a large charge to make against the pui)- 
 licity and promotion of the interests, educational, benevolent and spiritual" of 
 that Church. With the Methodist Episcopal Church, as with the United Breth- 
 ren Church, the profits to meet such deficits and other demands must be made 
 by the publishing houses themselves in other departments of their work. 
 
 Notwithstanding all handicaps, and the heavy burdens borne, the Publish- 
 ing House has shown large earning power, due in no small degree to the loyal 
 support of the Church. Before 1897, the Publishing House paid in dividends to 
 the conference, $16,500, and since that time has paid in dividends to the confer- 
 ences $50,000. The litigation in our church case cost the Publishing House 
 $35,000. Bonuses given out in many directions, amounting to many thousands 
 of dollars, have been paid. A final loss in closing out the bookstore of $22,0(K) 
 and a final loss of $42,000 in closing out the International Bible Agency, a 
 $10(X000 flood loss, and a conservancy tax of more than $11,000 for the last year 
 indicate the burdens that have been carried. An institution that thus carries 
 without complaining its own losses, and helps in other cases where no other 
 agency is ready or able to help, and yet adds large sums to its net assets year 
 by year and quadrennium by quadrennium, in time of disturbance by war ns 
 well as in times of peace, is no mean friend or helper. As we honor those whose 
 faithfulness and ability have brought the successes of the past, so we look for- 
 ward with hope to those who shall take up and continue their work and per- 
 form a like service in the years that are to come. 
 
 A. W. Drury. 
 
 President of Board 
 J. A. Lyter, 
 
 Secretary of Board 
 A. S. Kreider 
 P. M. Camp 
 Jay M. Cogan 
 R. H. Bennett 
 , G. A. Lambert 
 
 L. C. Weimer 
 W. H. Cassel 
 
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 LOVE OF GOD AND LOVE OF COUNTRY ARETHE TWO NOBLEST 
 PASSIONS IN A HUMAN HEART, AND THESE TWO UNITE IN 
 
 HOmE MISSIONS." - Henry Van Dyke. 
 
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 Oil 
 
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 Need 
 
 Opportunity 
 L Responsibility 
 
 The United States of America has been invaded 
 by three enemy armies which threaten our national 
 existence. 
 
 First — There is within our borders an army of five 
 and one-half million illiterates above nine years of 
 age. 
 
 Second — There is an army of fifty million people 
 above nine years of age who are not identified with 
 any church — Jewish, Catholic or Protestant. 
 
 Third — There is an army of twenty-seven million 
 Protestant children and youths, under twenty-five 
 years of age, who are not enrolled in any Sunday 
 school or other institution for religious training. 
 
 If these three armies should form in double column, 
 three feet apart, they would reach one and one-fifth 
 times around the globe at the equator. If they 
 should march in review before the President of the 
 United States, moving double column at the rate of 
 twenty-five miles a day, it would take tne three 
 armies three years and five months to pass the pres- 
 ident. 
 
 — World Survey. 
 
 Help Our Church to do Its Share by Suppot*t- 
 ing the Work of Home Missions. 
 
The 
 Fourth Quadrennial Report 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Home Missionary Society 
 
 Of the United Brethren in Christ 
 
 For Quadrennium Ending May, 1921. 
 
 P. M. CAMP, General Secretary 
 
 Otterbein Press' Building 
 
 Dayton, Ohio 
 
The Fourth Quadrennial Report of Home 
 Missions May, 1921 
 
 To the Bishops and members of the 'r\vent>--eighth (General Ccjul'er- 
 encc, Greeting: — 
 
 I bring to you this, my first Cjuadrennial report of Home Missions: 
 Although for seven years the cliairman ot the executive board in the ser- 
 \ice of m>' j^redecessor. Dr. C. Whitney, my convictions ha\'e increased 
 nian\-fold during the past ciuadrennium that Home Missions must be 
 made a basic work for denominational growth. 
 
 Study of Conditions. 
 
 • The greater part of the first year was given to the stu(i\- of the de- 
 partment, both in the office and on the field. During this >ear most of 
 the needy territory of the denomination has been gone o\-er. 
 
 As we proceeded in our in\-estigations, the whole situation enlarged 
 and became graver. New conditions, problems, tasks and needs con- 
 stantly arose. These problems and needs led us to a careful study of 
 what and how best promote Home Missions on a practical and possible 
 basis. 
 
 Departments and Policies. 
 
 Our stiuh' of the situation led to the conxiction. that to successfull)' 
 maintain and promote Home Missions, it must have both systems and 
 policies that would conserve the best interests of the entire work. Ac- 
 ccjrdingly we set to the task of dividing the entire home mission work 
 into definite departments; and now recognize the four following, — Con- 
 ference Extension, Frontier, Spanish-American and Special rit\' Work. 
 
 This makes it easier to estimate the cost of maintenance and promo- 
 lion, as well as to discover a safe limit in our promotional work. 
 
 \W also found it necessary to adopt some specific |)olicies lor eco- 
 nomic |)urposes and a higher standard ot o|)eration, as lollowsc 
 
 First — That the Board of Administration, or proper authorit\' of each 
 annual conference, must arrange their home mission approjiriations and 
 ajipointments of pastors to home mission charges with the Home Mis- 
 
sion executive board before the meeting of the annual conferences in the 
 fall. 
 
 Second — That when an ajipropriation has been agreed upon and the 
 pastor appointed fails to go to the field, that appropriation is cancelled 
 for the time being and a new agreement must be entered into when a 
 pastor is appointed. 
 
 Third — That in all new home mission projects the location, building and 
 pastor must be appro\ed l)y the Home Mission executive board. 
 
 Fourth — That when a home mission charge has been receiving an appro- 
 priation for a reasonable time, the Home Mission executive committee, 
 at its own discretion, can arrange a reducing appropriation until entirely', 
 relieved. 
 
 Fifth — That in all special City Mission work, after the second or third 
 year, whatever the membership pays to the salary, half of it goes to the 
 increase of the pastor's salary, the other half to the reduction of the 
 home mission appropriation. 
 
 These policies are working out most gratifying results both for the 
 mission fields and the Home Board. 
 
 Present Status. 
 
 We are all conscious, by this time, of the terrible consequences of the 
 impact of the world war upon the Church. Possibly no department of 
 the Church has felt this more than Home Missions. The high cost of 
 living and limited means has made it impossible to retain workers at 
 some points. The high cost of labor and material has made home mis- 
 sion building prohibitive. 
 
 The call for men has taken some of our best missionaries and lay 
 workers. Yet in the face of these hardships, our home mission work 
 shows many points of advancement during the quadrennium. 
 
 1 — Evangelism — , 
 
 Had the entire Church done as well in evangelism, in proportion as 
 our home mission fields, the denomination would have had an ingather- 
 ing the past quadrennium of over 200,000. 
 
 2 — The Enlistment Movement — 
 
 In this great financial program, the home mission fields are at the 
 top, Florida being the first to report full, while Oregon reported the 
 greatest percentage of surplus over the quota. Practically all are giv- 
 ing more to the Enlistment Movement than they receive from the 
 Home Board, while many are giving more to benevolences than .the 
 pastor receives in salary. 
 
3— Conference Extension - 
 
 Our conference extension work, as a whole, has made splendid ad- 
 \ancement. With but few exceptions, all the Conferences have made 
 creditable records. The two Tennessee conferences have been united 
 and are now making ad\ances on nearly all fields. California, Colum- 
 bia Ri\er and Oregon conferences have gone to self-support and are no 
 longer mission conferences. The standard of equii)nu'nt is on the up- 
 grade in all conference extension work. 
 
 The one great need just now is leadership. While we have a goodh- 
 number of very efficient workers, many more are needed. Men with 
 grit, grace and a godU' ambition. Men of experience and vision to 
 oxercome the problems of the home field. 
 
 In connection with this need we are working toward a better sup- 
 l)ort, so as to challenge the most efficient workers in the denomination. 
 To achie\e this end, there must be a closer cooperation between the 
 Conference authorities and the Home Office. This cooperation must 
 jxirticularl)- be found in the planning and promoting of new work. 
 
 4 — Our Frontier Work — 
 
 No work in the home mission field has suft'ered so much as our fron- 
 tier. In Montana, the severe droughts the past three years still con- 
 tinue, compelling thousands of the rural people to abandon their homes. 
 And so much of our work there being rural, has made it quite difficult 
 to maintain the workers, all of whom have made untold sacrifices during 
 this time. All this has made it impractical to do much promotional 
 work in Montana the past three years. In New Mexico, outside of our 
 Wagon Mound Charge and Spanish-American schools, little progress 
 has been made. Until sufficient Church Erection funds are available 
 to open some creditable churches in the cities, little can be done to en- 
 large the work. 
 
 The same is true of our Columbia River work. We must enter, in a 
 business-like way, more of the cities or perish. Much of our home mis- 
 sion work in other frontier states has been carried on at a poor, dying 
 rate, at some places for a half century or more, with no developments. 
 The time has come when this work must be developed or surrendered. 
 
 5 — Our Special City Missions — 
 
 With the $3S, ()()() that the Church put into the home mission treasury 
 in November, 1918, as an initial fund to promote ten special city mis- 
 sions, we are glad to state that, by the close of the last conference year, 
 five of these missions have been put on the map; namely. Great Falls, 
 Montana; Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Rockford, Illinois; Louisville, Kentuck\-: 
 
Save the City and Save America 
 
 More than half of our population is in the city — the nerve center 
 and the storm center of our American civilization. 
 
 The city has become a serious menace 
 to our civilization. 
 
 If the city is a peril to our civilization, it is an opportunity to the Church. 
 The redemption of the American city is the immediate task of the Christian 
 Church. To win America we must win the American city. It is the key to 
 the evangelization of America. 
 
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 A special city mission department was created in our Home Mission work 
 this last cuadrennium. To promote this department $65,000 will be needed 
 annually. 
 
and Fairmont, West X'irgiiiia. Within this conlcrcncc year, already 
 two more ha\t' been opened; Greene\ille, Tennessee; and Second church, 
 TamiKi. Morichi. Two others are in conteni])lation at this time. 
 
 Xo department of our home mission work is hringiiig such great and 
 specd\- returns to the denomination as our special cit>- work. In order 
 that what wi' iia\e alreach' done in this special line maxnot come into 
 jeopardx betore its future is assured, we have been tr>ing to conserve 
 as nuich as possible from our current fund, for the i)r(.'sent, to see it 
 safely through, with the hope that tin' Church will pro\ide for its future 
 continuance. We have reserved in the treasury, at present, about 
 .§().").()()() to bring to self-support what churches of this class we have al- 
 ready opened, Avith the hope that at least $()5,()0() annually will be add- 
 ed to the home mission budget as a special City Mission fund, this to 
 be o\er and above what the quota to Home Missions is at present. In 
 case the home mission budget in the future is not increased, the special 
 city mission work, as a department, will largely have to drop out, since 
 the present funds will largely be needed in the future to develop the work 
 in oin- mission and weak conferences, where they have been struggling 
 for a half century with little growth because of inadequate support 
 from Home Missions and Church Erection. 
 
 6 — Our Spanish-American Work — 
 
 W'e cannot take space or time in this quadrennial report to give an 
 intelligent account of our Spanish-American work in New^ Mexico. 
 The enclosed booklet on our Spanish- American work, which is just ofif 
 the press, is intended to make plain to our denomination, why our Home 
 Mission Society entered upon this work, what we are doing, and what 
 the needs are for future success. W^e solicit a careful reading of the book- 
 let for the sake of the work. In this report we confine ourselves to the 
 work of the past quadrennium. 
 
 Our first home mission inspection tour, as secretary, was to our 
 Spanish-American work, in August, 1917. We were at once impressed 
 with the need of a possible and practical policy, and set ourselves to the 
 task. The close of the quadrennium finds our Spanish-American work 
 taking on a deiinite form, with a fixed goal, and with both equipment 
 and resources sufficient to do efficient work for the kingdom at least on 
 a small scale. Our equipment is not ideal, but adequate to demonstrate 
 to the denomination the real need and fruit of such work. 
 
 During the quadrennium, our work at Alcalde, a purely Spanish 
 town, was opened. Our boarding school work has been consolidated 
 at Santa Cruz. 
 
 A large, commodious girls' dormitory, that will home from se\'ent\- 
 five to one hundred girls, was completed in August, 1920. An electric 
 
plant was installed to li.^ht all lhi\'c ot our huildings al Santa ("ruz. Tiic 
 Edith AlcC'urd)' Honu' was fonwrti-d into a hoys' doiniitor\'. A lar^e 
 school room was pro\ided in the basement of the girls' dormitor\- for 
 the opening of a two years' Normal Coin"se in the near future. 
 
 ill XoNcniher, 11)20, a large commodious school building was com- 
 pleted at Alcalde. A lieautiful tive-acre i)lat was donated to the so- 
 ciet>' b\ Air. Borah, of C'oloratlo Springs, Colorado. The building con- 
 tains two well-equipped modern school rooms, a cozy four-room apart- 
 ment for the teachers, with full equipment throughout. At Velarde, 
 additional property was purchased south of the teachers' home so as 
 to safe-guard the best interests of our work there. 
 
 At present there are eleven in our staff of workers. Six teachers, 
 four matrons, and a pastor. 
 
 Arrangements have already been completed for a general superin- 
 tendent of this work, whose duty will be to superintend the New Mexico 
 Conference, have general supervision over our three schools and act as 
 pastor for the Santa Cruz charge. We now have a combined enroll- 
 ment in the three schools of about two hundred. The Home Mission- 
 ary Society holds at present a property value, in our Spanish-American 
 wrork, of about SOU, 000 with not a penny of indebtedness. 
 
 For a full account of this work pertaining to its origin, nature, policy 
 and future needs, read the enclosed booklet. 
 
 Facts and Finances. 
 
 A few facts and figures may be helpful to this General Conference 
 in seeing Home Mission's needs in order to meet the tasks that God has 
 given into our stewardship. 
 
 The policy of Home Missions for the next quadrennium is not to 
 extend the Church's borders, but develop the work within our present 
 territory. For the past two years we have given special study, both 
 on the field and in the office, to the development of the Home Mission 
 territory within our present sphere. 
 
 A brief study of the map in the center of this report w^ill give you a 
 bird's-eye view of our undeveloped mission territory. This map shows 
 the location of our work in these states, the self-supporting charges, the 
 Home Mission charges and the prf)spective fields that have been selec- 
 ted to develop as rapidly as means and men can be provided. 
 
 We have already selected 83 cities situated within the iiounds of our 
 annual conferences in these various states, as the promotional task of 
 Home Missions in Special City Work. 
 
STATES FOR SPECIAL H( 
 
 AT OB-TJ-i 
 
 S OUTh, 
 
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 /f AiV 
 
 vOoif, 
 
 IRIZONA 
 
 MEXICO 
 
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 •J EXPLANATION <• 
 
 SELF-SUPPORTING FIELDS- o 
 HOME MISSION CHARGES- • 
 PROSPECTIVE FIELDS— • 
 
 T E t 
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 States outlined in RED are fields in which our C hurch has beep operating from I 
 
 in the larger conferences, where the conterence 
 
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MISSION DEVELOPMENT 
 
 to sixty years, but never developed. No prospective work has been designated 
 zation is depended upon to take the initiative. 
 
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Calculating on a reasonable average for bringing a mission charge 
 to self-supix)rt, with a program for opening at least fi\-e new cities each 
 \'ear, it will take for this work alone $()5,()(H) annually for both promo- 
 tion and maintenance. 
 
 Next, we call \our attention to our Conference Extension work. 
 
 The following chart shows the figures, according to the last \-ear book, 
 of the thirteen undexeloped states as shown in the map. The first col- 
 umn gives the number of years the conference was organized. The 
 second column, the numljer of charges at present. The third, the mem- 
 bership. The fourth, the amount appropriated by the home board the 
 present year. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Appropriated 
 
 
 No. of years 
 
 
 
 by Home Poard 
 
 
 Organized 
 
 No. of Charges 
 
 Membership 
 
 Present Year 
 
 Michigan 
 
 60 
 
 29 
 
 3,412 
 
 SI, 700. 00 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 56 
 
 25 
 
 3,206 
 
 5,200.00 
 
 Florida 
 
 19 
 
 5 
 
 500 
 
 1 ,950.00 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 ()3 
 
 19 
 
 3,205 
 
 900.00 
 
 Missouri 
 
 (53 
 
 31 
 
 3,923 
 
 2,010.00 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 64 
 
 15 
 
 1,430 
 
 1,300.00 
 
 Oklahoma 
 
 24 
 
 38 
 
 3,306 
 
 4,500.00 
 
 Montana 
 
 11 
 
 15 
 
 984 
 
 6,500.00 
 
 Colorado 
 
 50 
 
 13 
 
 1.748 
 
 3,950.00 
 
 New Mexico 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 206 
 
 7,950.00 
 
 Washington 
 
 5() 
 
 15 
 
 853 
 
 1,600.00 
 
 Oregon 
 
 67 
 
 22 
 
 1,941 
 
 4,200.00 
 
 California 
 
 55 
 
 21 
 253 
 
 2,251 
 
 2,600.00 
 
 
 2(),9()5 
 
 $44,3()().00 
 
 A mere glance at these figures makes it plain to any one why these 
 conferences have made so little advancement all these years. In order 
 to properly develop these conferences, Home Missions must have at 
 least .SiJO.OOO annualh' to |:)Ut into tins work for conference extension 
 alone. The salaries must be such as to challenge the strongest men in 
 the denomination. It will require .$15,000 additional, outside of these 
 thirteen states, inaking a total of .$75,00(1 annualh", for our conterence 
 extension work the coming ciuadrennium. 
 
 Our |)rogram and needs of our Spanish-American work for the next 
 quadrennium are given in the enclosed booklet. W^e trust you will not 
 fail to read it carefully. ' 
 
 This, briefly, is Home Missions plan for tlie coming (luadrennium. 
 
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I'o launch thus prosTrani without adequate resources being guaranteed 
 would onK bring disaster and ultimate failure. Accordingly, Home 
 Missions has not yet enlarged the i)rogram conunensurate to the Enlist- 
 ment Moxi'MU'iit, hut is waiting lor tlu' action ol this body tor the next 
 ciuadrennium. 
 
 We belie\'e it a jiart of ( iood Churchnianship tor any department 
 not to exceed its resources in promotional work. 
 
 The halan(-e in tlu' Home Mission treasur>' today is not an accident, 
 nor the result of an inadequate program in the past, but the fruit of a 
 caret ul planning in order to launch a larger home mission program if 
 this General C^)nference will fix a safe basis of resources to execute the 
 program. 
 
 We trust that the foregoing facts and figures have made this clear 
 to all of you. 
 
 New Departments. 
 
 In harmony with the spirit of this age and God's claims upon this 
 generation, as well as to maintain our place as a denomination in the 
 great Protestant ranks of America, we must, in the near future, enter 
 to some degree into more of the departments of home mission work. 
 We have little place under the Stars and Stripes, as a church, if we do 
 not bear our commensurate part in the solution of our national prob- 
 lems touching our civilization and moral welfare. 
 
 The Negro problem will never be settled except on the basis of the 
 gospel. Prohibiting foreign emigration will never settle the alien prob- 
 lem in America. The gospel alone will transform them into useful and 
 loyal citizens. The Spanish-Americans are fast covering our whole 
 land with little or no thought for the principles of our government and 
 institutions. They need education, Christianity and civilization. 
 
 When will we enter these fields? 
 
 Tasks Ahead 
 
 One of the greatest tasks for Home Missions, in our denomination, 
 is to establish a promotional and comprehensive standard of work. Too 
 many in the Church still think that whatever we do is sufiticient: that 
 no standard of quantity or (}uality is neederl. 
 
 This is all wrong. Church comit}', church federation, and Ameri- 
 ca's challenge to the Church for this day, demands that we make good 
 our ]:)rofession of faith or surrender the field. Hence, to meet the tasks 
 ahead, our denominational forces must be so adjusted as to build a sym- 
 metrical and adequate denominational life. 
 
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Our honu' mission work imisl i)c so rrcntorccd as not onl\' to pro\i(lc' 
 for the maintenance of our present work, but j)romote new work in har- 
 mony with the spirit of this age. We should not only do more promo- 
 tional work in tlie dejiartments already established, but i)romote two 
 new de{iartments. that of Alien work in cities and Negro work in America. 
 
 These are some of the tasks which we beliexe the great Protestant 
 communion and brotherhood of America is committing to us toda>'. 
 Tlu' (piestion is, will we as a Church entiT upon the tasks? 
 
 Our Future Needs. 
 
 The hrst need just ahead of us, is the dexelopment of the home mis- 
 sion work we already ha\e in hand. 
 
 In the department of Conference Extension, we have some thirteen 
 states in which we ha\e been operating from twenty to sixty-five \-ears 
 with Init little de\-elopmen-t. Our frontier work needs reorganization 
 for etificienc)'; so that our Conference Extension Department will need 
 as a minimum annual budget, $75, ()()(). 
 
 Our special cit\' work, if we plan to open fixe new missions each 
 year, will require an annual budget of .^(i.xUOO for both promotion and 
 maintenance. If we can carry out this program in special city work, 
 every ten years will add to our denomination what will be equal to one 
 of our larger conferences. 
 
 Our Spanish-American work, during the next cjuadrennium, will 
 need an annual budget of .$1.3, ()()() for maintenance. 
 
 The administrative expense will approximate .$10,000 annualh'. 
 
 Thus to properly maintain and promote the work we alread\" ha\e in 
 hand will reciuire an annual budget of at least $10.'5,0(JO. 
 
 Besides the above annual i:)udget, it will require $20,000 for enlarge- 
 ment and equii)ment of buildings in our Si:)anish-American work during 
 the quadrennium. 
 
 In addftion to finances, Home Missions will need more trained \york- 
 ers, men with a spiritual vision, trained for service, dedicated to great 
 tasks, and with a will to succeed. IVIen who do not stagger at difficul- 
 ties, but wrestle with hardships clean through to complete \ictor>-. 
 Men that nothing but actual death will baffle. 
 
 Home Mission Education. 
 
 During the past quadrennium, the Home Mission Office has iieen 
 permitted to put on two special campaigns. 
 
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The Special City Mission Campiiign, which was put on in 1918, was 
 both a financial and educational campaign. The object was to raise an 
 
 initial fund of $.")(),()()() to open some special cit\' missions. 
 
 Splendid encouragement was received in this campaign, but about 
 the time the program was to be put on in the local churches, the influ- 
 enza epidemic closed most of them, yet in spite of this hindrance the 
 Church gave an offering of S.3.S, ()()(). 
 
 In this campaign, a very attractive booklet entitled, "Keep the Home 
 Fires Burning," was issued; 20,000 copies of which were distributed over 
 the Church. Also a very attractive poster, containing many facts, was 
 prepared and distributed to all the churches and Sabbath schools in the 
 denomination. 
 
 Besides these, many articles were furnished for all our Church per- 
 iodicals setting forth the needs of this work, as well as our home mis- 
 sion work in general. 
 
 Then in the United Enlistment Campaign of 1920, Home Missions 
 contributed its commensurate part both in contributions to the Church 
 periodicals and in field work. 
 
 In November, 1920, a joint educational program was put on by Home 
 Missions and Church Erection. Nineteen thousand copies of a booklet 
 entitled, "Seeing and Saving America," were sent all over the denomi- 
 nation. Besides these, all our Church periodicals carried articles, during 
 the month of November, on promotional work in both Home Missions 
 and Church Erection. 
 
 According to the present program, as given to the different depart- 
 ments by the Board of Administration, no little concern is felt as to how 
 best to promote home mission education. To glut the Church periodi- 
 cals for a month or two with home mission matter, then drop out of ex- 
 istence entirely for ten months of the year, is a poor educational policy. 
 The work of Home Missions must be given to the Church twelve months 
 in the year instead of two. What i» really needed, is a more specific 
 account of Home Missions as related to our own Church, the nature and 
 kind of work as well as the needs. .Space is needed in our periodicals 
 from time to time, for advertising, displays, descriptions, statistics, 
 reports, plans and policies, with accounts. of such promotional work as 
 ma\' be taken up from time to time. 
 
 The office is in position to supi)lement this work with leaflets, tracts, 
 and booklets concerning the specific departments ot the home w(^rk. 
 
 We trust that the Ceneral Conference will proxide a way for larger 
 and more specific home mission educ^itional work. 
 
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W. M. A. Cooperation. 
 
 Our Woman's Missionary Association is hcconiinj? more and more a 
 tunctioninti part in our home mission work. This is true not only of 
 the two members on the home executive Board, but of their staff of 
 office workers, their Board of Trustees and in their national bod>'. This 
 complete cooperation on the part of the \V. M. A. with Home Missions 
 makes theW. M. A. an integral ])art in denominational building in order 
 to enlarge our work abroad. Our magnificent new school building at 
 Alcalde, New Mexico, of which we are justly proud, was made possible 
 1)\- the gifts from the Otterbein Guilds. The annual offerings from the 
 \V. M. A. to our special city and Spanish-American work, have brought 
 many rich blessings to these interests. 
 
 This cooperation on the part of our W. M. A. and Otterbein (luilds 
 with Home Missions, is a growing inspiration to our home mission pas- 
 tors to open out the way for our W. M. A. work. This is as it should be, 
 since e\-ery home mission opened becomes an opportunity for the exten- 
 sion of our W. M. A. work. This cooperation also interests many 
 women in \V. M. A. work that were not interested before this coopera- 
 tion. 
 
 Home Missions is happ>' in this fellowshijD and trusts that in the fu- 
 ture there will be a still more mutual sharing of the great work in the 
 home-field in order to increase our resources for w'ork abroad. The fol- 
 lowing are the gifts from the W.M.A. and Otterbein Guilds to Home 
 Missions the past quadrennium: 1918, $17,727.94; 1919, |2S,023.(i2; 1920, 
 $2S.()0().29 and 1921, $29,673.82, making a total of $103,431. G7. 
 
 Summary and Statistics. 
 
 During the quadrennium our home missions had 8,089 accessions. 
 It is worthy of note that if our whole Church had done as well in propor- 
 tion as our home mission fields, there would have been added to the 
 Church 227,000 members. Sixty-eight missions have gone off the list 
 during the quadrennium and fifty-four have been taken on, twenty-two 
 of which are city Missions, as follows: Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio; Trinity, 
 Detroit, Michigan; Peoria, Illinois; Second church, Spokane, Washing- 
 . ton; Kenmore, Ohio; Kidder Memorial, Jamestown, New York; Wash- 
 ington Ave., Columbus, Ohio; Second church, Nashville, Tennessee; 
 First church, Wabash, Indiana; Fourth church, Portland, Oregon; 
 Rockford, Illinois; Hamilton, Ohio; Kansas City University, Kansas; 
 Great Falls, Montana; Fairmont, West Virginia; Second church, Tampa, 
 Florida; Plymouth-Peoria, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; Ames, Iowa; 
 Cheviot, Cincinnati, Ohio; Marble City, Knoxville, Tennessee, and 
 Greeneville, Tennessee. 
 
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The First Seven of Our 
 
 United Brcthroi Church at Rockford, Illinois. 
 
 The Church in Great Falls, Montana. South Wayne Church, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 
 
 The Cadle Memorial Tabernacle, Louisville, Kentuckv. 
 
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5;pecial City Missions. 
 
 The church and congrcgiiiio)i nt i-iilnnont, 11 . I <i- 
 Greeneville, Tenn., our newest city mission, organized November, H)2() 
 The seventh mission is Tampa, Florida,, second, not pictured. 
 
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Our 1921 annual report shows the following statistics: 14,475 mem- 
 bers on our home mission fields. An average of 7,782 at preaching 
 services, and at Sunday school 9,242 w^ith an enrollment of 17,594. 
 There are on our lists at present 130 missionaries serving 158 appoint- 
 ments. Last year there were 2,243 accessions and $246,354.22 paid by 
 our mission fields for all purposes. 
 
 A Word of Gratitude. 
 
 Much of the success of Home Missions during the quadrennium is 
 due to the efificiency of our educational secretary, Miss Lyda B. Wiggim, 
 whose many years of faithful service in the oflfice has made her a safe and 
 valuable counsellor, assuming for weeks at a time the entire responsi- 
 bility of the oflfice while the secretary was in the field. We also desire 
 to express our appreciation of the splendid and faithful services of Mrs. 
 Mary Curl in her department. 
 
 We owe much to the painstaking, self-sacrificing and loyal services 
 of the executive members, Drs. Owen, Siddall, Brewbaker, Whitney, 
 Mrs. J. E. Fout and Mrs. W. O. Fries. 
 
 We are profoundly grateful for the respect and cooperation of all the 
 Bishops, conference superintendents, pastors, laymen and all our work- 
 ers on the field. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 P. M. CAMP, 
 
 General Secretary 
 
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Home Missions 
 
 Builds 
 
 A Greater Denomination 
 
 Since the Home Missionary Society has been a 
 separate organization, 42,834 members have been 
 received into the Church through our Home Missions. 
 If the whole Church had done as well, proportionately 
 as our home missions these sixteen years, there would 
 have been added to the Church over a million 
 members. 
 
 During this period, there has been appropriated to 
 our Home Missions .$601,121.69; the missions have 
 contributed for all purposes, $1,858,596.67, or in 
 other words, the Church received from them three 
 dollars for every one expended, besides 42,834 souls 
 saved. 
 
 One hundred and two city missions have been pro- 
 moted; 376 missions in cities, villages and on the 
 frontier have been aided — enough fields to have put 
 on the map three such conferences as East Ohio, 
 Miami and Pennsylvania. 
 
 A Greater Denommation 
 
 Hastens 
 
 The Kmgdom 
 
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 pantBti-Ammran 
 
 Work in Nnu jflexiro 
 
 Our Workers 
 
 The United Brethren Home Missionary Society 
 Dayton, Ohio 
 
OUR 
 
 Spanish -American Work 
 
 IN 
 
 New Mexico 
 
 Its Origin 
 
 lis Nature 
 
 Reasons for the Work 
 
 Achieoements Past Quadrennium 
 
 Our Policy 
 
 Our Future Needs 
 
 Ways to Assist the Work. 
 
 HOME MISSIONARY OFFICE 
 
 Otterbein Press Building 
 
 Dayton, Ohio 
 
 1921 
 
OUR SPANISH -AMERICAN WORK 
 
 So main' people wonder \vh> we, as a denomination, are 
 gi\"inij attention to sehool work in New Mexico. 
 
 This little booklet is intended to answer the above cjuery 
 and at the same time to make plain to otir denomination why 
 our Home Mission Society entered upon this work; what we 
 are doing, and what the needs are for future success. 
 
 ITS ORIGIN 
 
 Our Spanish-American work in New Mexico was begun 
 at Velarde, October 12, 11)12. This is the day that Miss 
 Mellie Perkins, the originator and pioneer of our Spanish- 
 American work, landed at Velarde, New Mexico. We regret 
 that we do not ha\'e space to print her first impressions and 
 early experiences as she entered upon this work, so far from 
 home and among not only foreigners but almost heathen. 
 
 Miss Perkins organized our work here amid many hard- 
 ships and difficulties, and had charge of the work till 1915, 
 when she placed it in others' hands, while she herself went 
 about eighteen miles further down the Rio Grande river 
 toward Santa Fe, the capital of the State, and opened another 
 school at Santa Ouz. 
 
 In the summer of 1917, a third school w^as opened at Al- 
 calde, about half wa>- between Santa Cruz and Velarde. 
 
 ITS NATURE 
 
 There are sexeral jihases to our S])anish-American work 
 in New Mexico. In the first place, we ha\e standard schools, 
 according to the highest standard prescribed by the State. 
 We complete grade school work and prepare the pupils for 
 first-class high school work. 
 
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Another phase of the work is the rehgious. Not only is 
 there daily worship in the schools, but reading and study of 
 the Scripture. Then the boys and girls are urged to attend 
 our Bible school and worship on the Sabbath. Much is made 
 of Christian Endeaxor among the young people. A regular 
 pastor is maintained for the three schools and regular preach- 
 ing services are maintained. At Santa Ouz, we ha\e a reg- 
 ular organized church. 
 
 At \'elarde and Alcalde we ha\"e but plaza schools. The 
 children come from their own homes each (la\' and return in 
 the exening. 
 
 At Santa Cruz we maintain both a plaza and boarding 
 school. The boarding pupils come to us in the fall and stay 
 till school closes in the spring. It is in this work that the 
 greatest results are achieved, as here we ha\e both the boys 
 and girls under our complete supervision. 
 
 The boys are homed in the boys' dormitory and are under 
 the direct supervision of the pastor and his wife, while the 
 girls are homed in the girls' dormitory under the supervision 
 of three matrons. 
 
 Besides the school and church work, the girls are taught 
 American cooking, housekeeping, plain sewing, needle work, 
 and music. The boys are taught such home and out-door 
 work as our present facilities afford. We hope the time will 
 soon come when modern methods in both garden and fruit 
 growing can be taught. 
 
 REASONS FOR THE WORK 
 
 A few people in the Church have criticized the Home 
 Board for going into this work, on the ground that the Span- 
 ish-Americans are imbedded in another religion. On this 
 ground, practicalh' all our foreign missionaries would have 
 to be called home. This criticism comes from the same kind 
 of a spirit that criticized Christ for taking the gospel to the 
 I)ul)li("ans and Samaritans. 
 
•^mmi 
 
Ia'I us look .It this Spanish-Auu'rican (iiicstioii troni sc'\'- 
 eral \ic\vpoints. Tlic Spanish toni^ue is the hirgost in the 
 work! to(hi>'. The Spanish-Anu'ri(\ins are spreading oN'er 
 the Soutiuvest and Central West states at an alarming rati'. 
 They are ignorant both of Christianity and the basic prin- 
 ciples of our national life. A Rei)ublic like America can be 
 secure and promoted onl\ 1)\- the xoliintar)' acts and good 
 will of its people. The injection of the un-American spirit 
 of the millions of aHens and Spanish people into our Ameri- 
 can life nuist stagger, ii not e\'entually overthrow, the basic 
 principles of our national life. The gospel of Jesus Christ, 
 through the Protestant Cdiurch of America, is the only remedy 
 tor these luidermining forces. The i)id)lic schools of the 
 rural sections of New Mexico are wretchedly deficient; so 
 that dense ignorance prevails in all that country among the 
 Spanish people. 
 
 It is impossible to promote the true Christian religion 
 where such dense ignorance and superstition prevails. 
 
 No one, not having visited that country can form any 
 conception of the poverty, ignorance, superstition and deg- 
 radation of those Spanish people in the Southwest. And 
 so long as the federal government does not step in there and 
 provide a standard public school system with standard and 
 efficient teachers, the only thing for the Protestant churches 
 to do, in order to promote the Christian religion among this 
 people, is to maintain standard schools of their own, whicl\^ 
 all the denominations are doing that are promoting home 
 mission work among the Spanish-American people. 
 
 So our Spanish-American work is necessary, not only 
 from the viewpoint of our ntitional welfare, but from the 
 viewpoint of the evangelization and Christianization of this 
 exer-increasing Spanish-American people, who are becoming 
 an organic part of our nationality and civilization. 'Tis 
 true the Christian religion will nex'er make all the people of 
 America of one l)lood, but it can make them of one mind, 
 and that the mind of Jesus Christ, whose life and spirit alone 
 can make us all of one purpose, mind, and kingdom. 
 
Main' more reasons (H)u1(1 he gi\en; l)iil we trust that 
 the al)()\"e is sufficient to make plain to an\- why we are pro- 
 moting this Spanish-American work in New Mexico. 
 
 ACHIEVEMENTS THE PAST QUADRENNIUM 
 
 No department of our home mission work has given the 
 Home Office so much concern and anxiety as our Spanish- 
 American work. 
 
 The work, four years ago, was just in its infancy, and 
 indeed still is. But from the beginning of our connection 
 with the work, it seemed apparent that it needed reorganiza- 
 tion under a well-defined policy with some specific goals. 
 Information was gathered from many sources. Much time 
 was given to prayer for proper guidance in a sane, practical 
 and possible course. Under these impulses we tried to grap- 
 ple with the task. Many good plans presented themselves, 
 but resources and maintenance staggered us at many points. 
 We needed a practical, possible policy. We needed equip- 
 ment. We needed resources and maintenance; we needed 
 workers and friends for the cause. But we held steady to 
 the needs and claims; and the close of the quadrennium. 
 May 1, 1921, finds our Spanish-American work taking on a 
 definite form with a fixed goal, and with both equipment 
 and resources sufficient to do efficient work for the kingdom 
 at least on a small scale. 
 
 Our equipment is not ideal, but adequate to deuK^nstrate 
 to the denomination the real needs and fruit of such work. 
 
 During the quadrennium our work at Alcalde, a piireh" 
 Spanish town, was opened. Our l)oarding-school work has 
 been consolidated at Santa Ouz. A large, commodious girls' 
 d()rmitor\-. that will home from seventy-five to a hundred 
 girls, was completed in August, 1920. An electric plant 
 was installed to light all three of our buildings at Santa Ouz. 
 The Edith McCurdy Home was converted into a l)oys' dor- 
 mitory. A large school room was provided in the basement 
 of the girls' dormitory for the opening of a two years' normal 
 
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course in the near future. This will upvn the way for tlic 
 preparation of efficient teachers for that entire section. 
 
 In November, \\)'2{), a hirge, commodious sciiool buildins; 
 was completed at Alcalde. A beautiful fi\e-acre plat was 
 <lonated to the Home Society by Mr. Borah, of. Colorado 
 Springs, Colorado. The building contains two well-ec|uippe(i 
 modern school rooms; a cozy four-room apartment tor the 
 teachers; a large basement with hot-air furnace to heat the 
 entire building; a good sanitary well, convenient to teachers' 
 apartment. 
 
 At X'elarde, additional property was purchased south of 
 our teachers' home so as to safeguard the l)est interests of 
 our work there. 
 
 The total \aluation of our three mission properties is 
 about -sriO.OOO. 
 
 At present there are eleven in our staff of workers. Six 
 teachers, four matrons and a pastor. Arrangements have 
 already been completed for a general superintendent of our 
 work whose duty will be to superintend the New Mexico 
 conference, have general supervision over our three schools 
 and act as pastor for the Santa Cruz charge. 
 
 There is now a combined enrollment in the three schools 
 of about two hundred. 
 
 At Santa Cruz we also ha\e a church organization with 
 a membership of fort>-four. 
 
 OUR POLICY 
 
 In framing a polic\- for our Spanish-American work, a 
 number of faots had to be kept in mind. One was that the 
 Catholic Church has held almost absolute sway in that coun- 
 try" for man}" centuries. 
 
 Another was, that we, as a denomination, had very limit- 
 ed means for such a task and that we, as a church, had still 
 less knowledge than means of the real needs of that work. 
 
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And most of all. we were confronted with the fact that, in 
 both means and numbers, the growth to the denomination 
 would be extremely slow. 
 
 In the face of these three facts we tried to make a careful 
 study of the whole situation, and then to settle on some def- 
 inite course. Many changes may yet have to be made; but 
 the following are some of the rules that we have been trying 
 to incorporate into a policy for our Spanish-American work: 
 
 First — That there must be no antagonism, in any way, 
 to any existing religion about us. That if we cannot convince 
 by education, training, and the teaching of the gospel of Christ 
 and Christian example that our claims are better, then we 
 must fail. 
 
 Second — That we must keep in mind the denomination's 
 very limited quota to Home Missions. That while w^e hope 
 to do a creditable share in the great Spanish-American field, 
 we must not allow that to hinder our Conference Extension, 
 Frontier and Special City Mission Work. Some think that 
 we ought to pay better salaries, put in more convenient equip- 
 ment and enlarge beyond what we have. All these things 
 are desirable, but until the denomination grows up to a larger 
 support for Home Missions and particularly our Spanish- 
 American work, we must be content with what we have. 
 
 Third — That for several reasons, we have fixed, as a pol- 
 icy, a certain nominal sum to be paid by each one seeking the 
 privileges of our schools. It teaches them the value of such 
 privileges and the necessity of a loyal support of all welfare 
 work for the betterment of their own condition. Again, 
 it makes the pupils themselves more punctual and attentive 
 to their school work. While we ask a fee of but twenty-five 
 cents per month for plaza puj^ils and a fee of fifty dollars 
 for each pupil that is fed and homed the entire school year, 
 yet it means considerable toward the curreiit expense of the 
 school. 
 
 F"ourth- It is the polic>' of the school, in e\er\' phase ot 
 the work, to instil real Christian principles into the minds 
 
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of nil the pupils, to give them a higher standard of morality, 
 insjjire a higher standard of home life, teach the dignity of 
 labor and a common brotherhood. In fact one of the great- 
 est tasks in the entire work is that of disciplining the minds 
 and conduct of those crude children whose genealogy for 
 many generations has been little ahoxe animal instinct and 
 passion. 
 
 OUR FUTURE NEEDS 
 
 We have already mentioned the fact that our S])anish- 
 American work is yet in its infanc>'. 
 
 And while we consider that we nf)w ha\e creditable build- 
 ings and equipment, yet as we look into the work as it is, we 
 discover many and great needs for the future. The follow- 
 ing are some of the most important that will have to be met- 
 within a number ot \-ears: 
 
 1 An adequate water s\stein at Santa ("ruz. This will 
 j)robabl\' inii)i_\' a sewerage system of a mile aiul a half, and 
 will have to be laifl underneath two irrigating ditches. It 
 will refiuiri- an outdoor elexated tank sufficient to suppl\- 
 the three buildings. Another well v\ill need to be put down 
 efiuip])ed with gas engine and building suitable for operating 
 the same. A complete system of jjlumbing will ha\e to be 
 installed for tire jirotection, domestic use, laundry and bath. 
 It is eviflent that it will cost many thousand dollars to install 
 this, our greatest need, just now. 
 
 2 <)ur boys' (jormitorx is eiitireU inadecpiati', <ind not 
 ver>' well ada[)te(l to the vvork. However, it needs enlarging 
 and changing in a nulnber ol w^ays. 
 
 I'irst, it should be enlarged so as to accommodate at least 
 fifty boys. This calls for considerable more (lormitor\' and 
 study room. Another stairv\a\' will lia\e to be built in so as 
 to admit the boys to their dormitory (quarters from their 
 own apartments instead of having to go through the pastor's 
 apart ments. 
 
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In addition to tlic^r ciilar.m'nu'nts, wc nred a small tract 
 of land King just south of our iJropcrtN as a plaN'^roinid lor 
 the l)()\s, part of w hich can \ i'r\ niccK be set apart tor cimu- 
 cter\- i)urposes. 
 
 ',i — Two more (U'i)artments should be added to our s(-hool 
 work. One is, a two Ncars' normal course tor our grade 
 graduates and such others as might want to come in trom 
 outside schools to prepare themselves for teaching and com- 
 mercial life. Nothing would so rapidly improve the moral 
 and religious conditions in that section as to have those young 
 people, who come up through our schools after taking a nor- 
 mal training, go out o\er that countr\- and estaljlish stan- 
 dard public schools, thus, not onl> gi\ ing a higher standard 
 of education, but a higher standard ot morals as well. 
 
 Right in this line also we are hojiing that as our l)o\s and 
 girls complete their work and go out into life, the\- will also 
 set up higher standards of home life, thus instilling new- 
 ideals for all the i)eople. 
 
 The other department that is nuich needed is Manual 
 and Industrial Training for the bo\s. In connection with 
 their school work nothing would be m(jre helpful to those 
 boys than to be taught how to make and do things. How 
 different that country would become if those boys were given 
 higher ideas of home construction and making. The mater- 
 ial is there, it simpK' needs minds to construct. 
 
 The same is true in reference to industries and farming. 
 What could be made out of that country if the people were 
 onh- aroused and trained to the tasks and possibilities! 
 
 4 — Another need calling right now is the re])airing and 
 remodeling of'our buildings at Velarde. While our buildings 
 here are comfortable enough with a little repair, they are illy 
 adapted for the work in hand. What is realK' needed is the 
 remodeling of the present chapel so as to gi\e us two modern 
 school rooms, thoroughK' e(iiu'{)ped. 
 
 As it is now , tin- lower grades must be taken into a large 
 
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 Transporting children to the Santa Cruz School from Espanola. 
 
 The Crown Drill at the dedication of the Girls' Dormitory. 
 
 A typical Indian or Mexican Corral. 
 
room of the teachers' home, which is neither large enough 
 nor adapted to school work. Besides the room in the home 
 could be well used for social and other purposes. Then the 
 home needs other repairs, such as new floors, some interior 
 conveniences, a front and rear veranda, a deep sanitary well, 
 a double garage for use of teachers and superintendent. Some 
 drainage system must he installed, if i^ossihle, to carry otl 
 the surface water at limes. 
 
 .') — We imagine that some readers, long before thc>' come 
 to this place, are asking, where will the means come Irom.-' 
 Possibh- a word concerning the past will assist us tor the 
 future. The girls' new dormitory at Santa Cruz and the 
 school building at Alcalde, both of which were finished in 
 1920, cost completed, — buildings, ground, equipments and 
 furnishings, — in round numbers, $33,000, all paid. 
 
 The means for the Alcalde building were given by the 
 Otterbein Guild and W.M.A. The means for the girls' 
 dormitory at Santa Cruz was put into the United Enlistment 
 askings. The running expense for the three schools the past 
 year, including the salary of teachers, pastor, matrons and 
 current expense, approximated $12,000. The future will 
 call for probably the same amount for running expense. A 
 very rough estimate for installing a complete water system, 
 enlarging the boys' dormitory and making the necessary 
 improvements at Velarde may be put at trom $lo,()00 to 
 $20,000. 
 
 WAYS TO ASSIST THE WORK 
 
 We have now made our Spanish-American work a distinct 
 department of our home mission work. 
 
 As such we are ready to rcceix'e special gifts trom anyone 
 who has an interest in that work. Five hundred dollars 
 provides the support for a teacher or matron for one year. 
 Fifty dollars provides the boarding for a boy or girl for a 
 school year. One of our largest current bills is our light and 
 
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fuel for all the buildings. The winters are not so long, but 
 because of the high altitude, are rather severe at times. 
 
 How man>- individuals or organizations could support 
 one of these interests and get real blessings out of it! 
 
 The Church has been very liberal in ddnat'ng furnishing 
 and bedding. We cannot tell you how much these gifts are 
 appreciated and hope they will be continued. For as the 
 work enlarges it will constantly call for more such donations, 
 besides w^hat it will take to replace the worn-out household 
 equipment. 
 
 Another way by which you can assist this noble work is 
 by endowment and annuity gifts. Money that can be loaned 
 out on first mortgage security, the interest of which will go to 
 the permanent upkeep of the buildings, furnishings, etc. The 
 interest of a 1100,000 permanent fund would amph' proxide 
 this expense for the future. 
 
 Thus, my dear reader, through this little booklet, the 
 Home Mission Society comes to you asking for an offering of 
 prayer, kind words, interest, means and whatever else you are 
 prompted to do for these downtnxlden jjcople living under 
 the Stars and Stripes. We ha\'e tried to make the message 
 brief and interesting, that in one hour leisure you might be- 
 come intelligent on this most needy department of our home 
 mission work. 
 
 May Ciod bless the message and the reader. 
 
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OUR SPANISH-AMERICAN WORKERS 
 
 1920—1921 
 
 Pastor Santa Cruz Charge and Superintendent of our School 
 Work— Rev. J. R. Overmiller, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 
 Teachers — 
 
 Miss Lilhan Kendig, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 Miss Ruth Smith, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 Miss Mary Brawner, Velarde, N. M. 
 Miss Anna Hardy, Velarde, N. M. 
 Miss Bertha Wohlhieter, Alcalde, N. M. 
 Miss Lulu Clippinger, Alcalde, N. M. 
 
 Matrons — 
 
 Girls' Dormitory 
 
 Miss Bessie Willhide, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 Miss Matie Watts, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 Miss Sara Emrick, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 
 Boys' Dormitory 
 
 Mrs. J. R. Overmiller, Santa Cruz, N. M. 
 
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The Thirteenth Quadrennial Report 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Church Erection Society 
 
 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 
 
 PLYMOUTH U. B. CHURCH, PEORIA, ILL. 
 
 This baautiful church, worth $.30,000, was secured by the Church Erection Society 
 for $10,000. It has a $.3, .300 pipe organ, $.'J,000 worth of pews, chairs, liyinn l)ooks, 
 pianos, blackboards, etc., also a good parsonage. The church has main floor, galler\', 
 basement, and sub-basement. The work is opening up splendidly under Rev. E. Fowler 
 as pastor. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 
 MAY 12. 1921 
 
The Thirteenth Quadrennial Report 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Church Erection Society — United Brethren 
 
 in Christ 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12, 1921 
 
 To the Bishops and Meml)ers of the Twenty-eighth General Confer- 
 ence, United Brethren in Christ : 
 
 Dear Coworkers : I herewith submit for your consideration the 
 Thirteenth Quadrennial Report of the Church Erection Society. 
 
 THE WORK OF THE QUADRENNIUM. 
 
 The following is a tabulated statement of the aid given by this society 
 during the quadrennium, classified as to years: 
 
 FISCAL YEAR 1917-1918. 
 
 Churches: 
 
 Colorado Springs, Colorado; Fairview, Dayton, Ohio; Elkhart Second, St. 
 Joseph; Granger, Iowa; Santa Cruz, New Mexico; Somerset, Toledo, Ohio; 
 Lancaster, Ohio; First Church, Wichita, Kansas; Carrnionte. Dayton, Ohio; 
 Second Church, Bloomington, Illinois; Lapel, Indiana; Fremont, Ohio; Trinity, 
 Cleveland; Savoy, Montana; Moville, Iowa; Harrisonburg, Va. ; Kansas City, 
 Kansas; Tampa, Florida; Second Church, Kansas City, Missouri; Westerville, 
 Ohio; Barbour Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana; Goodell, Iowa; Vincennes, 
 Indiana; First Church, Peoria, Illinois; Upland, Nebraska; Veedersburg, 
 Indiana; Portland, Indiana; East St. Louis, ■ Illinois; Rossville, Illinois; 
 Columbia, Kentucky; Seattle, Washington; Burgess Avenue, Columbus, Ohio; 
 First Church, Indianapolis; Georgetown, Miami; Grand Rapids, Michigan; 
 Gibson City, Illinois, and Brookfield, Missouri. 
 
 Parsonages: 
 
 Colorado Springs, Colorado; Pleasant View, Montana; Vincennes. Indiana; 
 Manor, Oregon; Marion, Ohio; Wagner .Memorial, Coliunbus, Ohio; H^errington, 
 Kansas, and Columbus Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. 
 
 Lot Fund Grants: 
 
 Warren, Pennsylvania, Erie; Peoria, Illinois; Savoy, Montana. 
 
 Miscellaneous Loans: i 
 
 Kansas Conference I'.oard — Two Loans — .\nnnity funds. 
 
 Summary for Fiscal Year 1917-1918 
 
 Total loans granted 50 
 
 Total amount granted - $99,705.64 
 
 FISCAL YEAR 1918-1919 
 Churches: 
 
 Trinity, Cleveland; North Hill, Akron; West Pliiladelphia, Pennsylvania; 
 Vincennes, Indiana; Marslialltovvn, Iowa; Gibson City. Peoria First, and Bloom- 
 ington Second, Illinois; Wichita and Fellsburg, Kansas; Carrmonte, FairView, 
 and Cliffton, Miami; Nevada, Missouri; Circle and Glendive, Montana; Seattle, 
 Washington; Fremont, Ohio; Westerville, Ohio; St. Clair Avenue, Columbus; 
 Clarksville, Tennessee; Barbour Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana: PetersburR, 
 Dayton, ?>lairton, Cumberland, and Harrisonl)urg, Virginia. 
 
Parsonages: 
 
 Hastings. Nohraska: Marion, Ohio, and Sonicrsot, Toledo, Ohio. 
 Lot Fund Grants: 
 
 Yiniia, Colorado; Charleston, Illinois; W'.ico Avenue, Wichita, Kansas, 
 and Trenton, Missouri. 
 
 Miscellaneous (Lots purchased for which the society has the deed.) 
 (. lark>\ ille, Tennessee and Xasln ille, Tennessee. 
 
 Summary for Fiscal Year 1918-1919 
 
 Total nuniluT of projects aided 3S 
 
 Total amount of aid given $64,527.18 
 
 FISCAL YEAR 1919-1920 
 Churches: 
 
 Bloomington Second. Illinois.; North Philadelphia, Pennsj^lvania; St. Clair 
 Avenue, Colunihus, Ohio; East Dayton, Miami; Trinity Church, Cleveland, 
 Ohio; Peoria First, Peoria, Illinois; Woodward, Oklahoma; Fairviev^% Dayton, 
 Ohio, Great Falls, Montana; Nevada, Missouri; Trinity Church, Detroit; 
 S. Wayne Church, Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Nashville, Tennessee; Waco Avenue, 
 W'ichita. Kansas; Ollie, Montana; Rockford, Illinois; North Hill, Akron, Ohio; 
 Eads, Colorado; Fremont, Ohio; Charleston, Illinois; Martinshurg Second, 
 Martinsburg, West Virginia; Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Parsonages: 
 
 Marion, Ohio, Sandusky; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nortii Hill, Akron, 
 
 Ohio. E. Ohio; Burgess .\\'enue, Colunil)Us, Ohio, S. E. Ohio. 
 
 Summary for Fiscal Year 1919-1920: 
 
 Total number of projects aided-- 27 
 
 Total amount of aid given $74,049.16 
 
 FISCAL YEAR 1920-1921. 
 Churches: 
 
 Cliarleston, Illinois; Dunbar, W^est Virginia: Chattanooga, Tennessee; 
 Plymouth Church, Peoria, Illinois; Beach, North Dakota; Great Falls, 
 Montana: Benton Harbor, Michigan; Jaennette, Pennsylvania; Bloomington 
 Second, Illinois; Silicia, Ohio; Wabash. Indiana, Troy Street, Dayton. Ohio; 
 Fairmont. West Virginia; Marble City, Tennessee; Burgess Avenue, Columbus, 
 Ohio; Glendive, Montana; Willard, Ohio; Clough Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; 
 Columbus, Kansas; Martinsburg Second, West Virginia: University Church, 
 Kansas City, Kansas; Trinity, Cleveland: Third Church, Decatur, Illinois: 
 Kenmore. Ohio; Cheviot, Ohio; Six Lakes. Alichigan; Trenton, Missouri; 
 Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Parsonages: 
 
 Beach. Montana. 
 
 Summary for Fiscal Year 1920-1921: 
 
 Total number of projects aided 28 
 
 Total amount of aid given _ $108,316.74 
 
 QUADRENNIAL SUMMARY. 
 
 ("irand total project.^ aided durini:^' quadrcnniuiii 14o 
 
 ( irand total aid 2;i\-cn $vS46,59S.72 
 
 QUADRENNIAL COMPARISONS 
 
 Loans Amount 
 
 Made Loaned 
 
 1903-1909 86 $121,155.65 
 
 1909-1913 72 164.552.50 
 
 1913-1917 94 120.170.55 
 
 1917-1921 13S Mr),59X.72 
 
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Weekly Memorial U. B. Church 
 
 Charleston, \V. Va. 
 
 Substantial Progress 
 
 I believe that 1 can report conscientiously that snl)stantial progress 
 has been made during- the quadrennium in the character of work done. 
 Our work has been characterized by two outstanding features, namely, 
 the kind of structures l)ui!t and the kind of locations selected. In 
 planning our new buildings for our missions we have kept clearly in 
 \'iew the development of the future and refused to build a ])lant that 
 would ])e inadefpiate and which would ha\e to l)e torn d(»\\n in a 
 few years to make way for a more commodius structure. If we \Ncre 
 unable to build a big complete plailt, we ])roceeded to build a ])art of 
 a ])ig, com])!ete ])lant in such a way that it wonld fit into future ])lan.> 
 which when completed wouhl serAe the ct)ngregation for the next 
 quarter of a century or more. These i)arts f)f com]dcte ])lants con- 
 sisted mainly of a fine auditorium accommoijaling sonicthing like '>('() 
 ])eoi)le so adapted to .Sunday school work as not to mar either the 
 symmetry or unity of the auditorium as such hut which reallv gives 
 Sunday-Hchool facilities of rallu'i- a high order. The cuts on thi> page 
 and following pages show some of these plans actuall\- constructed 
 and many more are now on the way. 
 
First United Brethren Church t 
 
 Chark'ston. Illinois 
 
 The present administration has l)ecomc extremely cranky on loca- 
 tions. After witnessing- (as we have had t(~> for the last eight years) 
 that literally hundreds of our churches had to be relocated or eke out 
 a miseral)le existence we could l)e no other than cranky. It is well 
 nii^'h impossible now for a bad location to get b}'. We ha\'e so 
 stoutly refused to aid unless locations were right that the eyes of 
 Bishops and conference superintendents are wide open when a new 
 mission is started and they say to ])astors and trustees, "You must 
 get the final appro\al of C'hurcli l^rcction on your location or they 
 will not help you," and that ])ractically settles the matter and we are 
 called in before the final decision is made. 1 can assure this (iencral 
 Conference that ycnir new missions are being well located and I can 
 report to you that scores of bad locati<jns are being changed into good 
 ones. In these two res]:)ects the (piadrenniuni has been eminently 
 jiredominant. 
 
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Third United Brethren Church 
 
 Decatur, Illinois 
 
 Our Financial Growth 
 
 At another place in this report I will set forth in detail our efforts 
 to increase the financial strength of the society and it will he sufficient 
 here to give you simph' the tahulation of the results. The following 
 tahle shows assets at the close of the quadrenniums indicated : 
 
 Quadrenniuni closing May, 1905 $137,449.98 Net Assets 
 
 Quadrennium closing May. 1909 228.662.09 Net Assets 
 
 Cjuadrennium closing May, 1913 291.939.66 Net Assets 
 
 Quadrenniuni closing May, 1917 354,505.02 Net Assets 
 
 Quadrennium closing' May, 1921 . . , 525,527.91 Net Assets 
 
 In this connection I sliould say that our ciuitingent note assets 
 have been subjected to close inspection and audit, and all notes known 
 to be without value have been charged off our books, so that our con- 
 tingent note assets arc ])erhaps the best of the kind we have ever 
 reported. From this it will be seen fhat this societv lias made an 
 increase in its net assets during the present administration of ap])r().\i- 
 niately $225,0C0 or a]ii)roximately 80 ])erccnt. 
 
 ( )ur material growth as a denomination may be seen 1)\- studying 
 the gra])h on the opposite page. A study of the graph in the lio*ht of 
 the insert will prove a strong recommendation for the influence and 
 ]>ower of the Church h'rection Societv. 
 
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Building Under Difficulties 
 
 Our building- operations for the most part of the (piadrenniuni 
 have been carried on under unusual difficulties. The high cost of 
 material and labor practically doubled the cost of construction and 
 such churches as were able to go forward required Church Erection 
 loans in proportion and consequently the number we could aid was 
 greatly reduced. It was soon discovered the cost of construction w\as 
 so heavy that with what the local congregation could raise. Church 
 Erection was not able to make loans in sufficient size to meet the cost 
 of building and that it would become necessary to resort to local loans 
 in addition. This necessity brought us into an extremely difficult situ- 
 ation because the constitution of the society provides that Church 
 Erection can loan only on first mortgage security. It was soon api)ar- 
 ent that no loans could be made for the building cami)aigns of 1920 
 and 1921 unless there could be some relaxation of the first mortgage 
 requirement. The matter was laid before the Board of Directors and 
 the executive committee was authorized to make second mortgage 
 loans on the following conditions: (1) the total outstanding indebted- 
 ness against the property on completion should not exceed two-thirds 
 its cost; (2) the annual conference to give its indemnifying bond guar- 
 anteeing ])r()mi)t and full payment ; these refjuirements of course 
 sujiplemented by second mortgage and adecjuate insurance assigned to 
 the society. 
 
 Trinity Church Cleveland, Ohio 
 
\\ c lia\e proceeded under this jxilicy and nearly all loans hotli 
 for the huildinti^ canipaiiiii of 1920 and 1^21 have been made in that 
 wav. lioth the h'xecntixe Committee and the Hoard of Directors 
 appreciate that such a pt)licy is not without its dangers and that second 
 mortgaj^e loans should not be continued in just that way; but all are 
 agreed that, if present cost of construction continues, some provision 
 must be made by which second mortgages may be made or our build- 
 ing power will be greatly limited. The Board of Directors has 
 ap])ointed a committee to take this matter under advisement and that 
 committee will have a report to submit as to method of meeting this 
 situation. 
 
 There has also been considerable retardation of our current build- 
 ing campaign due to the fact that money has been close and many 
 churches have not been able to locate the necessary local loans. Then, 
 too. in man}' localities, it is impossible t(^ get loans on churches at all 
 and in other localities interest rates have made it impracticable for our 
 missions to carry an}- local loan and thus their building must be 
 deferred. All these conditions impress us anew that Church I-'rection 
 is vital to our material growth as a Church. 
 
 Marble City Church Marble City. Tenn. 
 
Cooperation 
 
 The spirit oi cooi^eration between the general society and the 
 conference branches is ahnost idea!. We ha\e made great progress 
 in this line during the (jnadrenniuni. It has cmly been a few years 
 since when there was much complaint that Ijuilding enterprises were 
 started without consultation with the general society, resulting dis- 
 astrously, in many cases. lUiildings were badly i)lanned and enter- 
 prises could not be financed to completion. That has nearly all dis- 
 appeared. This condition has not been brought about by any legal 
 enactments but by two simple administrative attitudes of the society. 
 First, we discouraged loans to enterprises which failed to take us 
 into their confidence, and second we offered service such as we were 
 a])le to render to local boards and conference boards. The st)ciety has 
 sent its secretary on the ground to investigate and help reach decisions 
 in the best interests of the Church. This service has been received 
 very kindly, and we have received more calls than we could hll. In some 
 instances conference boards ha\-e asked us to go over their entire con- 
 ference ])ui]ding ])roblems and investigate the individual enterprises 
 and submit suggestions for a program of construction. This has 
 entailed a vast amount of additi(tnal work U]jon the part of the general 
 secretary and some increase in traveling expenses but it is both energy 
 and money well invested. This disposition to cooperate will tend to 
 increase as the society increases its service to the conferences and 
 local churches. ( )ut of the cooperation alread}- attained ha\e s])rung 
 up manv new opportvuiities of service to which I call }()ur attention 
 in a later ])aragraph. 
 
 Second U. B. Church. Martinsburil, W. Va. Not yet Completed. Cost. $40,000 
 
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Interest Bearing Plan 
 
 Four years ayo tlic General Conference y:ave us instructions to charge 
 interest at 6 percent on over-due loans. Our experience during the c|uadrenniuni 
 has proven the wisdom of this action. Nothing could break u]) the disposition 
 to hold money longer than necessary than this has done. We liave applied the 
 action uniformly and the plan has met with lint little criticism on the part of 
 the churches having loans, for they all realize that if it is to their advantage 
 to hold the money longer than agreed, they should pay interest. It is such 
 a simple business proposition that all recognize its justness. While the 
 income from interests has not been large, yet it is helping substantially to 
 meet administrative costs. We are now including interest clauses in all our 
 agreements. This does not mean any change in the non-interest bearing 
 features of our policy for it still remains true that all loans that are refunded 
 as agreed ui)on \\!umi the loans are made, are free of interest to the churches. 
 
 Board Reconstruction Advisable 
 
 Our present board plan is far from satisfactory. The Home Mission Board 
 and the Church Erection Boards are commonly supposed to be one and the 
 same board. In the first place it is not the same l)oard for the Bishops are 
 members ex officio of the Home Hoard hut not of the Church Erection Board: 
 then. too. the Home Board has on it three representatives of the W. M. A. and 
 these are not on the Church Erection Board. In the second place they are 
 not one board, they are two boards. To do their work legally when they want 
 to transact business for Church Erection thej' must meet as a Church Erection 
 Board and then to take up some Hotne Mission item, they must adjourn as a 
 Church Erection Board and convene as a Home Mission Board. This makes 
 it very unsatisfactory. Then. too. our board is too small to give great variety 
 of judgment. We have only nine members of which four are laymen. Two of 
 our laj' meml)ers did not attend a single l)oard meeting during the quadrennium 
 and none of them attended all of the meetings. It sometimes occurs that one 
 or two of the ministerial members can not be present and that often leaves the 
 business to be transacted In' four or five of the m.embers and there have been 
 rare occasions when two men had to make and second every motion. It is 
 easy to see how unsatisfactory all this is. For efficiency these boards should 
 he the same board and tliis can l)e done by enlarging the Church Erection 
 Board so that it might add to its present numljers all the Bishops and also the 
 three representatives of the W. M. \. This would practically double the 
 present Church Erection Board. But this arrangement still leaves it two boards 
 and this could be overcome by reincorporating the boards under a new board 
 to be known as "The Home Mis>ion and Church Erection Board of the United 
 Brethren in Chr'st" or "The Church Extension Board of the United Brethren 
 in Christ." In nether case would this necessarily mean that both Church 
 Erection and Home Missions would be under one management; the dual man- 
 agement could be continued as now. I earnestly ask you to take some action to 
 give us a more satisfactory constitution of our board. 
 
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 Fairmount, W. Va. 
 
 The Standard Plan 
 
 Early in the last quadrennium, the society in conjunction with the Home 
 Missionary Society developed a new plan of operation in its relation to new 
 missions. Instead of permitting the young mission to take its first steps in 
 halls or in school houses, it was proposed that some plan be developed by 
 which it could at once have its own church home. Hence the Standard Plan 
 l)y which it was agreed between the Home Alssionary Society and the Church 
 Erection Society that when any new m'ssion was to be opened up that the 
 Home Missionary Society would give sufficient support to command the service 
 of an A grade man on condition that Church Erection would provide first 
 class equipment in which he could begin his work. On the part of Church 
 Erection this plan provided tliat we would purchase a first grade location and 
 furnish enough money with which to iniild a first grade bungalow chapel and 
 
 •S. Wayne St. Church -Ft. Wayne, Indiana 
 
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Mosely Memorial — Rockford, Illinois 
 
 A New Policy 
 
 furnish it with A grade equipment. Wherever it was possible to do so. we 
 either induced the local comniun'ty or the annual conference to purchase tiie 
 lot and we then furnished the building and equipment. 
 
 We have steadfastly adhered to this plan and under it have established a 
 number of new missions. Some of the chapels are shown on this page. The 
 results have more than justified our plans. Every mission so entered has had 
 marvelous success. There is only one drawback with this plan and that is that 
 these missions grow so fast that before they can begin to pay l)ack their loan, 
 they face the need of a new church, and that places a new Inirden on Church 
 Erection. What a glorious drawback! If this General Conference will give 
 adequate support to Church Erection, we can show you fifty of these new 
 chapels in our next report. 
 
 First Church — Great Falls, Montana 
 
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What Became of the Golden Jubilee Campaign? 
 
 The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Church Erection Society 
 came during the quadrennium, to be exact, it fell upon May 12, 1919. If you 
 will consult the minutes of the last General Conference you will lind that the 
 Society was authorized to observe fittingly this great event l)y conducting a 
 great Golden Jubilee Campaign for the raising of additional endowment in the 
 amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000). In addition to the quiet 
 solicitation which was to continue through the quadrennium, we were duly 
 authorized to observe the event with a pui)lic program in every local church 
 in the autumn of 1919 at which time the work of Church Erection was to be 
 presented to our people and a great birthday offering was to be taken for the 
 work of the society. 
 
 I may say to you that your board and executive committee took this oom- 
 mission very seriously and started out to realize the highest degree of success. 
 After due consideration it was decided to proceed under what we called "The 
 Conference Fund Plan." Under this plan each annual conference was asked 
 to designate the amount that should be raised in their territory with the under- 
 standing that whatever was raised was to be a special fund to be used solely 
 within their own conference bounds for a period of fifteen years after which it 
 would become a part of the general fund and subject to loaning anywhere in 
 the Church. It was also agreed that whatever was raised in the birthday 
 offering was to become a part of the conference funds. This plan aroused 
 great interest upon the part of all the conferences and elicited practically 
 universal cooperation. Your secretary visited a large number of the conferences 
 in person and laid the matter before others by correspondence with the result 
 tliat the conferences underwrote the fund as follows: 
 
 Kansas $20,000 
 
 Iowa 20,000 
 
 Northern Illinois 10,000 
 
 Lower Wabash 10,000 
 
 Missouri 55,000 
 
 Virginia 10.000 
 
 Miami 25,000 
 
 Sandusky 25,000 
 
 East Ohio 20.000 
 
 Allegheny 30,000 
 
 White River 20,000 
 
 Indiana ^ $10,000 
 
 Michigan 5.000 
 
 Erie - 8,(X)0 
 
 S. E. Ohio • 20,000 
 
 St. Joseph 20,000 
 
 West Virginia . 20.000 
 
 Pennsylvania 20.000 
 
 East Pennsylvania 25.00'0 
 
 Nebraska 10,000 
 
 Colorado 5,000 ^ 
 
 This makes total underwriting of $.13S.(K1() from the conferences. While 
 other conferences did not report any deMnite amount fixed as their underwriting, 
 
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yet everyone assured u> of their desire to participate in the lieiiefits of tlie plan. 
 Tlie total amount assumed l)y the conferences would be at least $vl50,()()(l. In 
 addition to this underwriting to he raised hy solicitation, every conference in 
 the Church voted to observe the birthday and take an offering, i'-very iiulica- 
 tion pointed to a cash offerint? of $10(),()()(). 
 
 We were al)le to make canvasses in a few of the conferences before the 
 United Juilistment Movement was inaugurated by the Hoard of Administration 
 which put a sudden ending to all our well-hiid plans and these canvasses showed 
 that where we could complete the canvass, we received on an average of 20 
 percent more than the underwriting. Had the complete canvass showed the 
 same results, we would have received in new assets $420,000 exclusive of the 
 birthday offering which would have given this societ}' new assets of appro.xi- 
 mately $5(X),000 during the quadrennium. 
 
 I do not wish this General Conference to think that the general secretary 
 of this society was not in harmony with the ideals of the United Enlistment 
 Movement, for he was an ardent supporter of that movement and gave it every 
 cooperation possible and yet tiie fact must not he l)linke<l that this cooperation 
 cost the society heavily and we are probably reporting $250,000 less assets in 
 this report than we would have reported if the movement had not been inaugu- 
 rated. This has brought us face to face with a real crisis in our building and 
 equipment work, but even so it need not end disastrously provided in the future 
 financial plans of the Church you take cognizance of this situation and provide 
 adequately to meet our growing needs. Should the discrimination continue. 
 however, I look for great suffering on the part of our many mission 
 •congregations. 
 
 Church Erection and the United Enlistment 
 Movement 
 
 Simple justice rec|uires that 1 make a statement liere of the effect of the 
 United EnHstment Movement upon Church Erection income. In the autumn 
 of 1919 at the time when Church Erection was to have its great cash Birthday 
 offering, by arrangements of the Board of Administration a joint offering was 
 taken out of which Church Erection realized $42,682. While this is scarcely 
 half what I had hoped to realize from the Birthday offering yet it made a sul)- 
 stantial addition to our funds. The fiscal year has bought to our treasurer 
 $10,913.42 from the old Inulget before United Enlistment pledges became pay- 
 able and $42,/l7.47 of United Enlistment money, making a total received from 
 budget of $53,630.89. The value of the United Enlistment to Churcli 1-Lrection 
 can best be seen when placed in comparison witli the old plan when we received 
 only about $15,000 from the l)udget. It is perhaps too early yet to determine 
 just what the full effect of the Movement will l)e on our income. This much 
 is true that in view of the discontinuance of the Golden Jul)ilee Cami)aign as 
 noted above, our work for the year has been determined largely bj' this increased 
 income from the United Enlistment Budget. Without either of these sources of 
 income we would have been prostrate. 
 
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New Opportunities for Service 
 
 1 — An Architectural Department. 
 
 New opportunities for service are constantly offering themselves to this 
 socict}'. The first and most insistent one is for the creation of an architectural 
 department which would he in position to aid our congregations in getting the 
 most up-to-date plant and equipment possible for the money at their disposal. 
 The modern Sunday school is now making, and will continue to make, severe 
 demands upon building committees. Our experience reveals the fact that 
 altogether too many building committees have little or no conception of what 
 sort of a structure they should have to meet these increasing needs. We also 
 find that a very large percent of architects have no conception whatever as to 
 the needs of the modern church and Sunday school. Your general secretary 
 has been studying this situation somewhat and I find that trustees and building 
 committees are very eager for suggestions and help and we have been trying 
 in a limited way to minister to these calls. However the socictj' is not equipped 
 to meet the needs adequately and this general conference would do well to 
 authorize the society to establish an architectural department; this would not 
 necessarily mean another man but it would involve some increase in adminis- 
 trative expenses which would be an expense exceptionally well made. 
 
 2_Our Rural Field. 
 
 The second opportunity of service is that represented in our rural con- 
 stituenc}-. It may be truthfully said that this offer is hardly articulate as yet 
 but it exists in a very real form and I am convinced that if given encourage- 
 ment by this general conference it would not onl}- be articulate but really 
 clamorous. I suppose we have from two to four hundred United Brethren 
 churches having rural constituencies of sufficient size to constitute a strong 
 independent station and in which we either are the only church ministering to 
 that constituency or we have such a lead that we might easily liecome the 
 dominant church of the community. Any one conversant with these rural 
 churches knows that on the whole they are almost totally lacking in modern 
 equipment. I am convinced that with proper encouragement on the part of the 
 Church in general, hundreds of these churches could be put on a modern basis 
 in way of equipment. These natural centers should be surveyed, chartered, and 
 studied. Someone could most profitabl}' devote his whole time in developing 
 our rural churches. I see no reason whatever why we should not aid our rural 
 churches in getting better equipped church houses as well as to aid city churches. 
 This aid. however, would be misplaced unless it would mean a program for a 
 strong community church and under some direction that would create desire 
 for better equipment. Rural churches' seldom ask for Church Erection aid 
 because they do not yet see s^ny need for a better type of church than the 
 single cell structure which they caii easily finance themselves. Our city 
 missions could also finance their buildings if they were content witli similar 
 equipment liut everyone of us is busy educating the city church to sec its needs 
 of a better church house, l)Ut no one is doing this for the rural church. Why 
 is not a primary room as necessary for the rural child as the city? Rural 
 children are just as good as city children and the United Brethren C"hurch 
 owes its rural constituency a s(iuare deal. There is not a single thing that can 
 come before you more important than the creation of a Rural Life Department. 
 It ni;iy not be jjroper for Church Erection to make tliis suggestion but it 
 needs to be made and I only make it here to say that when such a department 
 
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is created, vdu will place lart^ely increased deinaiuls ui)oii this societ}- and must 
 of necessity provide income sufficient to meet the new demand. 
 
 3 — A Financial Expert. 
 
 There is a tliird opportunity of service which tliis society could render our 
 churches t)y furnishing expert solicitors to aid churches in raising old debts 
 or funds for the erection of new buildings. Our board of directors had given 
 the executive committee authority a year ago to employ such a man but after 
 mature thought, the committee felt that the action might be misconstrued and 
 decided to refer the whole matter to this body for consideration. 1 most 
 heartily recommend for your favorable consideration the employment of such a 
 man w hose duties would be to help raise money to meet Church Erection loans, 
 put on campaigns for funds to build new churches where Church Erection is 
 expected to help, organize and put over great cash days, and to assist older 
 congregations in raising church and parsonage debts. If he did no more than 
 give attention to churches where Church Erection was interested, he would 
 render a great service. His work would doubtless make the initial loans less 
 and it would also insure more rapid return after made. Older churches in 
 which Church Erection is not concerned w^ould be glad to pay for his services 
 and thus reduce the cost of the department to the society. This man would 
 doubtless be able to turn into the treasury in new funds each year anj'where 
 from four to five times his salary. To have such a man on the staff would be 
 far from a liability; he would be an asset of the very highest order. I sincereh- 
 hope this suggestion maj- have j-our approval. 
 
 4 — Church Insurance. 
 
 We have had a large number of inquiries as to a church and parsonage 
 insurance department in connection with this society. Our board has never 
 felt authorized to take this matter up but the request is of such importance that 
 it should be carefully looked into. Our recommendation is that this matter be 
 referred to the Board of Administration for study and report. 
 
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Tasks Ahead 
 
 So far In this report we have been dealing with 
 the things already accomplished by this society. We 
 have been asked to lay before you a statement of our 
 needs for the coming quadrennium. It will not be 
 so pleasing to say what I am compelled to say or to 
 show the pictures I am going to show. I have been 
 told that such a presentation as I am about to make 
 is pessimistic and discouraging; but what is the use 
 of covering up the facts. I know of no way of 
 showing the actual needs of this department but to 
 give you the facts as they are, and in the following 
 pages I am going to do this as faithfully as I know 
 how. After you have carefully perused all these 
 facts, I am sure you will all agree that the Church 
 Erection Society has a tremendous task upon its 
 hands; a task that will require the best cooperation 
 this Church can give in the next four years. In 
 fact I can see no salvation whatever for many of 
 our missions if we must go on at the present rate. 
 
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INDEX OF 
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
1 — That a restudy be made of the entire question of security 
 for Church and Parsonage loans as requires by discipline 
 page 148, Article X subitem (2). 
 
 Discussion on this point pages 
 •six and seven in this report. 
 
 ir r 
 
 2 — That closer cooperation between local churches and the 
 general board be authorized if it is found that the present 
 constitution does not cover this feature. 
 
 Discussion on this point pages 
 eight and t wenty Jiine of this report. 
 ^^ 3f 
 
 3 — That the Church Erection Board be made to conform 
 with the Home Mission Board in number and personnel 
 if not in actual organic unity. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 
 4Hfte of this report. 
 ^( 
 
 4 — That an architectural department be incorporated as 
 a part of the work of this society. 
 
 Discussion, on this point page 
 feurt^n of this report. 
 
 5 — The creation of a Department of Rural Life in connec- 
 tion with some agency of the church and a definitic^n of 
 
the relation ot' Church ICrcction to this dcpcirtnient when 
 created. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 fourt een of this report. 
 
 /c 
 
 6 — The authorization of the eniph)\ment of a man wlio 
 shall give himself exclusively to raising- church debts 
 and funds for new huilding-s. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 fifteen of this report. 
 /? 
 
 7 — That the (juestion of church and parsonage insurance be 
 investigated. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 fifteen of this report. 
 
 ^ ? 
 
 8 — That a Gift Fund be constituted to aid the more impor- 
 tant and needy mission enter])rises. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 thirty of this report. 
 
 9 — That the permanent funds of the Church be increased 
 from $525,000 to $1,000,000. 
 
 Discussion on this point page 
 -tiiir4:y-Otte of this report. 
 
How It Works 
 
 Here is an example of how Church Erection works. When 
 Church Erection found this enterprise the congregation was 
 worshipping in an old wooden church which, I am told, had 
 been occupied by six different kinds of religious organizations, 
 and the pastor was living in the cellar. See what a change! 
 
 Lest We Forget 
 
Our Survey — How Made 
 
 The Church Krcctiou Society lias now at its coniniaiul tlic most up-to-date 
 data of the church building needs of the denomination that it has ever 
 possessed. Our United Enlistment survey was the first effort of its kind in the 
 history of the society and the facts developed by this survey were nothing; less 
 than astonishing. I am herewith sulimittinji for your study the results of this 
 survey. This survey was not made in our office l)ut was made by our (."onfer- 
 ence Superintendents and Bishops who arc close to the iniilding needs of the 
 denomination and can speak with an authority not possessed by any other body 
 of men. The survey therefore, do€s not indicate what we would like to have 
 in the way of funds. l)ut it indicates what the society must have for a .urowin.L; 
 church. 
 
 I have tabulated the results of this survey under two classification^ : under 
 Analysis A, I have tabulated every project shown in the survey wiiich included 
 sixty-eight projects for new missions that should be opened up. Under Analysis 
 B, I have eliminated the projects for all new missions and shown the needs for 
 existing missions only. These analyses will bear j'our closest study. 
 
 Church Erection Survey 
 
 1 — Xew Church Buildings 196 
 
 2 — Remodeled Church Buildings <S 
 
 3 — Parsonages 120 
 
 Total Projects Scheduled 324 
 
 A — Analysis A, including all scheduled projects. 
 I. The New Church Buildings. 
 
 1. Number of new church buildings scheduled 196 
 
 2. Estimated cost of these structures $4,685,700 
 
 3. Askings for these 195 projects $2,258,200- 
 
 II. The Remodeled Church Buildings. 
 
 1. Number of remodeled church buildings scheduled 8 
 
 2. Estimated cost of such remodeling $ 97,000 
 
 3. Askings for remodeled tniildings $ 88,000 
 
 III. The Parsonages. 
 
 1. Number of parsonages buildings scheduled 120 
 
 2. Estimated cost of these 120 parsonages $ 480,700 
 
 3. Askings for these 120 parsonages $ 251.150 
 
 IV. Summary of Analysis A. 
 
 1. Grand total projects scheduled 324 
 
 2. Total estimated cost for the 324 projects $5,263,400 
 
 3. Total askings for the 324 projects $2,597,350 
 
 The above figures are for twenty-six annual conferences onlj'. and if the 
 other six conferences should show similar average of needs, the final summarj- 
 under this analysis would be approximately as follows: 
 
 1. Grand total projects scheduled 404 
 
 2. Total estimated cost of the 404 projects $6,579,250 
 
 3. Total askings for the 404 projects $3,246,685 
 
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 JO 
 
Certainly the Umted Brethren Church wiU not desert our ttn^ghnt mmmcn 
 fhurchet already ktarted. But if we do tliat much we wiU need during die 
 
 qaadreRnium at leatt $ljBOO,OOQ with which to set them on their ieeL 
 
 Special Suney 
 
 The fe^xriety hab un6t:Ti^ont something of a revoluti'^ in its plans 
 of grantinj^ I'jans, When the s'jciety wa'^ able to grant the major 
 portion of applications presented, it was permissible to c^^sider appH- 
 catifjiii in the order of their filing. But when the time arrived when 
 we could not grant more than one f/ut of five applicati^^ns presented, 
 much greater care had t/j be taken to see that our V>ans were placed 
 at the most strategic and need%' places. This practically forced us to 
 get bef«^^e u>« all the p^^ssible ap]>lications for the building year ahead 
 and then ^tudy them carefully and grant as many loans as we could 
 finance for the following summer or building season. This required 
 special "urveys in addition to the general survey given above. Our 
 last survey of this character was an eye opener. We sent to each 
 l>ish*/p and asked him to give us five of the most vital enterprises on 
 his district and to list them in.^^rder of their impfjrtance so that if only 
 '>ne Ujan could go into his district, it would l>e his judgment that it 
 should go to the one he menti^/ned first, etc. A similar blank was sent 
 to each c^^nference superintendent with like instructions asking each 
 not to give more than three. This survey brought back 81 applications 
 for projects that should gf» on this present summer. The amount 
 asked for was o%er $800,000. 'JTie best the committee could see was 
 an income of $140,000 for this present building year and loans were 
 granted to 19 out of the eighty-one, or less than ^/ne-ff/urth the number 
 asking. 'Fhis will give you s^jme idea of the tremendous task we 
 >iave '^ ^.mr hands. Next summer's building needs will be even 
 greater than this one. Nothing but a largely augmented income for 
 Church Krection can save the day for many >^jf our struggling misi-ion 
 conjrre^rati^jns. 
 
 21 
 
These Need 
 
 
 I am showing you on this page just a few of 
 our many distressing situations so far as 
 phN'sical equipment is concerned. You see here 
 a number of just plain board tabernacle's in 
 which our mission congregations must carry 
 on. In some cases there is no floor but 
 mother earth and the roofing is either rubberoid 
 or frequently just plain tar paper. Some of 
 them have folding chairs and some have just 
 home-made benches. Everything is of the 
 cheapest sort. They are extremely cold in 
 winter and just as hot in summer. I have 
 preached in these buildings when candy and 
 tobacco buckets had to be set around in various 
 parts of the l)uilding to catch the water that 
 came through the roof. I should say that we 
 have from si.xtj' to seventy-five buildings in 
 substantially this condition. You do not know 
 the suffering of these congregations as they 
 loyally hold on, hoping that the daj^ will come 
 when the Church will come to their rescue and 
 give them aid.. Some of these have lieen in 
 this condition for four years, some six years, 
 yes some ten and twelve years. O, Church of 
 t4ie I'nited lirethrcn in I lirist, when will _\-ou 
 help these people?' Must they wait another 
 four N'cars and then another four years." Some 
 time _\du nuist face this issue; \\h\- not tace it 
 now while many of them can be saved. 
 
 22 
 
Your Help 
 
 Tlieso churches are located in just as line 
 missionary territory as can l)c found in our 
 country. All are located in growing American 
 cities and in communities needing a church. If 
 your home missionary secretary were to go out 
 and hunt for sixty new places in which to start 
 new missions, he could not -tind sixty more 
 satisfactorially located than those we already 
 have started. I am not averse to starting new 
 ones, but, brethren, wliy start another si.xtj' 
 when under present conditions you know 
 beforehand they must suffer the fate of the 
 now perishing sixty. Such a policy is neither 
 an honor to God nor a credit to our denomi- 
 nation. "Come let us rise up and build that we 
 become no longer a reproach." To do justice 
 to these communities it would cost an average 
 of $25,000 to get what we should have in way 
 of a building; that is not extravagant. That 
 means a total of $1,500,000. These congrega- 
 tions will do the heroic to help themselves; 
 these churches will each raise from live to ten 
 thousand dollars in cash by dedication. But 
 unless they can get some additional heli), all 
 their willingness must go for naught. It will 
 re(|uire from Church Erection almost $1,000,000 
 to put these sixty projects on their feet. Will 
 this General Conference pass a few pious reso- 
 lutions of sympath}' and thus pass the buck to 
 providence fro do this work or will you grapple 
 with it and see it through. Sixty struggling 
 missions are waiting for your repb'. 
 
 23 
 
A 
 
 Sample 
 State 
 
 I am sliowing on this page the pictures of five churches. These are the 
 hest churches we have in the state after twenty-five years of endeavor. The 
 structures will speak for themselves. The central picture shows a churcli that 
 stands within five blocks of one of the finest state capitols we have in the nation 
 in the midst of a splendid residential district. The one at the upper left is in a 
 niost beautiful city of possibly fifteen thousand population. The upper right 
 is in the capitol of the state. The lower ones in fine cities under twenty-five 
 thousand population. These in one of the very finest missionary opportunities 
 we have in the nation. We ought, by all means, have $200,000 to invest in this 
 section in the next quadrcnnium. If we can get it, we can show you results 
 of the first order. 
 
 24 
 
Our Big-City Situation 
 
 1 am greatly ccncerned o\cr the condition of our church houses in our 
 larger cities. Our denomination has been very vigorous in entering large citie> 
 in the last twenty years hut we have not been nearly so aggressive in their 
 proper equipment. Among the larger cities we are now in are Los Angeles, 
 Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, 
 Denver, Oklahoma City, Columbus. Toledo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, 
 Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Buffalo. I will not take the space to discuss their 
 condition in this report but anj-one familiar with them will tell you that with 
 every little exception, they arc neither modern nor adequate. 
 
 It would be the part of strategy to quickly establish ourselves in these 
 great metropolitan centers for they exert a great influence morally and 
 religiously upon our American life. As it is, it is most certainly open to argu- 
 ment whether the United Brethren Church is firmly established in a single 
 big city of 20(/,C00 population and over. We are strongly established in many 
 cities of lesser size Init manifestly weaker in the large centers. Neither are we 
 firmly established and adequately equipped in but a single state cai)ital in the 
 entire nation. If these statements were only relatively accurate, they ought to 
 stir us mightily to hurry our equipment program. 
 
 The success of our city work is practically determined by the measure of 
 aid Church Erection can give. If we could have half a million dollars this 
 coming quadrennium for our total city work, we would l)e able to show results 
 that would be highly pleasing to the whole Church. This may seem like a large 
 sum to ask for city work but when you remember that this must serve the 
 United Brethren Church in every city of the country and when other com- 
 munions are appropriating as much as a million to a single city you will not 
 wonder. The future work of your Mome Missionary Society will in all prolia- 
 bility be in the great cities of the country and will be dependent upon Church 
 Erection for equipment support. 
 
 25 
 
Our Far-Flung Battle Lines 
 
 Here is an interesting graph for stiuly. The shorter line shows the terri- 
 tory where the great hody of our church membership is found. The other lines 
 indicate what might he described as our far-flung battle lines. The longer of 
 these lines traverses our more important missionary territory. This line 
 starting in Michigan and thence crossing Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, 
 Washington, Oregon and then south through California and thence eastward 
 again through New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Tennessee is nearly 8000 miles in 
 length. .\11 along this line there is now going on one of the most heroic 
 liattles ever fought for Christ and the Church. Our United Brethren pastors 
 and people are in the thick of the fight. But we have sent them into battle 
 without e(iuipment. I doubt very much if we have a single modern United 
 brethren Churcli house on this entire line of 8f)00 miles. On some parts of this 
 line we have been operating for si.xty years. Is it not about time for the United 
 Brethren Church to equip these advancing forces and go after our task in blood 
 earnestness? O, yes, it would cost less to abandon the fields, but I want to 
 serve notice on the United Brethren Church right now that when she abandons 
 this 8000 mile battle line you have started a retreat that will never end. For 
 your own safety, you dare not abandon this great field, but abandon much of it 
 you will, unless you greatly strengthen our work with ade(|uate ecpiipment. We 
 ought, by every consideration, have $500,000 in the next few years for eiiuip- 
 ment along this line. 
 
 26 
 
Just One Case 
 
 Here is an interesting "Close-up" of one of our churches. I am not giving 
 the picture for the sake of this church alone but because it is typical of scores 
 of situations we have to confront. Let me tell you the story. 
 
 This church is located in a fine town of about 3000 population and is the 
 seat of the agricultural college of the State in which it is located. More 
 United Brethren young people see this church than any other United Brethren 
 church in that State, except the churches to which they belong. The church is 
 located just across the street from the court house and rm the ])athway from 
 the city to the college. To the United Brethren people of that State, this is 
 a very important church for it must take care not only of our young people 
 who go there to school but it furnishes the architectural standard by which 
 our young people are judging our Church and at the same time liy which we are 
 being judged by others. 
 
 There was a time when even with the above structure we were on even 
 ground with other churches and if we could have maintained that equal ad- 
 vantage we would have a very different story to tell. But we did not maintain 
 that even advantage as I will show you — our four competitors made gifts of 
 more than $4(),000 to their congregations and built tine churches. What did the 
 United Brethren in Christ do? They could not make a gift for thej' have no 
 gift fund. All they could do was to ofTer a meager loan that would have to be 
 paid back. Our people there would do as heroically as others in proportion to 
 their ability', l)ut how can you expect them to meet this coinpetition''' 
 
 That church is still standing just as you see it in the picture. W'c can re- 
 coup some of our lost opportunity even yet and this congregation is waiting to 
 know what this General Conference is going to do to make it possible for 
 them to go forward. Xot only this one church is waiting, but fifty of them 
 are in practically the same situation. Vou will help them, won't you? 
 
 21 
 
Hopelessly Handicapped 
 
 In the race between Church Erection needs and Church Erection resources, 
 the resources are hopelessly handicapped. Under present conditions there 
 is no hope of ever being able to overtake the needs. Let us take our minimum 
 needs as shown on page nineteen of this report as an example. According to 
 the survey needs, Church Erection will have to consider in the next four or 
 five years between two hundred and fifty and three hundred different projects 
 and the amount of aid required from Church Erection will be nearly $2,000,000. 
 During the last eight years we have loaned a total amount of $450,000 or less 
 than $60,000 annually; at that rate it would require thirty years to meet 
 the minimum requirements. $100,000 is the high-water mark for loans for 
 any one year in the history of the society and if that average could be main- 
 tained, it would require twenty years to catch up. Now suppose the resources 
 could be suddenly doubled and we could loan $200,000 annually, it would still 
 require ten years to catch up with the minimum needs which only includes ex- 
 isting missions. 
 
 But is this Church going out of the extension business? Do you not pro- 
 pose to enter new fields during the next quadrennium? If this Church enters 
 less than fifty new places in the next four years, we are recreant to our re- 
 sponsibility. But if you enter fifty new places, you will by that achievement 
 double the demands upon Church Erection for the next four years. Every new 
 mission entered now, entails expenditure of approximately $10,000. Brethren, 
 lift the handicap, and give resources a chance in the race and I am sure you 
 will all be shouting happy as he comes in under the wire. 
 
 Church Erection Helped to Do It 
 
 South Bend Indian.i 
 
 28 
 
Why This? 
 
 In the liglit i)t tlu' lU'cds of the Clmreli and the consecinont demands phieetl 
 upon the Chureli Kreetion Society, I wonder it we liave j,Mven tliis great society 
 a square deal. At tlie deneral Conference oi I'Mo tliis society had outstanding 
 promises of aid in amount of $1(K),000 and a liank indel)tedness of $16,000. What 
 do you suppose the deneral Conference did in this crisis? Did it urge the 
 society to put on an aggressive campaign and overtake the demands as quickly 
 as possible, knowing as they did that scores and scores of other struggling 
 missions were waiting for help? That would have been a fine bit of strategy 
 but they did no such a thing as that. The (irneral Conference of 1913 ordered 
 Church Erection to dismiss the only field man it liad and was not permitted 
 any campaign for funds. The result of that action was that for nearly two 
 years of that quadrennium, we did not make any new promises of loans for 
 it took every dollar of income to meet the promises made preceding the Gen- 
 eral Conference of 1913. That was a most serious blow to the efficiency of the 
 society and the Church itself is now suffering from the l)lunder as indicated 
 by the increasing distress in our building operations. 
 
 At the General Conference of 1917, the society again came forward with 
 a plan to retrieve in some measure the disaster that had overtaken it. Under 
 that plan (see page twelve of this report), we were well on the way to a 
 magnificent increase in the assets of the society when the United Enlistment 
 Movement was inaugurated. Under the plan of cooperation as outlined by the 
 Board of .\dministration. we were again compelled to dismantle the finest 
 field organization we ever had and turned it over to the Movement. Did the 
 Movement take cognizance of our great needs and provide that Church Erection 
 should not stand to lose by entering the Movement? Certainly not. It seems 
 that for the second time in six years Church Erection was made the goat. 
 While the ^lovement carried appropriations for agencies that had already com- 
 pleted their quadrennial campaigns with success and others were given more 
 than they asked j-et Church Erection was given only half of its minimum ask- 
 ings. In the initial stages of our quadrennial plans, for the year before the 
 United Enlistment Movement went into operation we increased our assets 
 $72,000, whereas for the first year of the Movement we have increased our 
 assets but $28,000. At this General Conference, the Church Erection Society is 
 reporting at least $250,000 less in assets than if it had gone right on with 
 its plans. 
 
 I am not sa^'ing this to question the good judgment of the Church in these 
 matters; may be it was right, but I cannot see it that way. You cannot eat your 
 cake and have it at the same time. You can restrict Church Eerction in its 
 resources but you will not have loan funds when you want them. Only nineteen 
 loans granted this summer out of eighty-one applications. We had only abou': 
 $140,000 to meet applications calling for $800,000. The demand will be even 
 heavier next year and under present plans our income will not exceed $100,000. 
 I think I may frankly say that if you expect to go on with your home mis- 
 sion and extension work as a denomination you will have to face this matter 
 frankly and give to Church Erection a square deal in the family of denomina 
 tional institutions. 
 
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Policy Recommended 
 
 It seems to me that before this Goneral Conference adjourns we ought to 
 arrive at some policj' that will enable the society to promote a very aggressive 
 program of building for the next quadrehnium. What would be the reflex in- 
 fluence upon our Church as a whole if in the next two or three years we could 
 put about sixty of our more important and strategic missions firmlj- on their 
 feet? My judgment is that the influence would be very great'. In addition to 
 recommendations in another part of this report, I herewith submit what seems 
 to me to he the only policy that could realize the above ideal. 
 
 I — Unusual Care in Granting Loans 
 
 The executive committee is being forced bj' the very nature of the situa- 
 tion to adopt a new plan of granting loans. Formerly the committee granted 
 loans right through the year; this was a proper policy when the society was 
 able to meet relatively a much larger proportion of applications than it can 
 possibly do now. Now that we are able only to meet about one-fourth or one- 
 fifth the number of applications, this policy has its dangers, and that danger is 
 that we may soon exhaust our resources for the year on the first few applica- 
 cations coming in and find later that some most important enterprises must be 
 neglected. It has seemed best to your executive committee that along in 
 November of each year a special survey should be made through Bishops and 
 conference superintendents to discover what enterprises should be considered 
 in the next year. This makes it possible for us to get a complete view of the 
 entire need of the year and then by studying this survey carefully we may be 
 able to determine where our limited resources should be invested to the greatest 
 advantage. I believe as matters now stand this is the best policy to pursue 
 and I so recommend. What is your judiiment on the matter? 
 
 II — Guarding the Type of Building 
 
 It is not only necessary to guard the investments of money so that it 
 goes to most strategic points, but when it is invested in these strategic points, it 
 should be invested in such a way as to get the best type of building possible. 
 In another part of this report I recommend the creation of an architectural 
 department in connection with the Church P2rection Society (see page fourteen 
 of this report). Nothing is more important. It is almost tragic to see thousands 
 and thousands of dollars spent in the construction of a church house and then 
 when it is completed to find it incapal)'le of meeting the needs of a modern 
 church. I was taken to see a church recentlj^ that was held up to me as 
 a model for our people to l)uil(l. I found a good, substantial structure tliat 
 would seat about three hundred people and which would cost now about 
 $25,000 to build. It did not have a single departmental e-quipment for the 
 Sunday school, not cxen the jirimary departuK-nt. There was not a single 
 Sunday-school room in the entire building. The basement was one naki'd, cold 
 room which might have easily been made to house a modern Primary Depart- 
 ment, a Junior Department, and the 1 nternicdiati' I)ei)artnient willi snitalile 
 class rooms in connection with lacli dei)artment. The niodirn church nuisJ in- 
 deed provide for worship but it must also i)rovidc for modern Sunday-school 
 'vork, for the Christian Endeavor Society and for social and community work. 
 
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Tlli^ imiltipk'x ut ckinands has cn-atcd tlu- ckniaiid tor an (.ntircl}- luw tyi)e 
 of church. The best church architects in the country are working hard on 
 this prol)k'ni and your Church Krection Society shoukl be placed in a position to 
 intluence the type of buildings built. It tlu- present constitution and by-laws 
 do not give the society this jiower. \ on should strengthen them so that it would. 
 
 Ill— The Creation of a Gift Fund 
 
 It seems to me that we cannot longer postpone the creation of an adequate 
 Gift Fund. We are asking our mission churches to assume tremendous obliga- 
 tions in getting themselves a church house. Of course it is wise to encourage 
 self-help as much as possible but in many cases we are asking it on such 
 a scale that it is more harmful to us as a Church than helpful. Vou turn back to 
 page three of this report and sec that church. That young congregation made 
 up entirely of work-a-day people had to assume a debt between sixteen and 
 twenty thousand dollars. The indebtedness on Decatur Third will run $20,0(K) 
 of mortgage indebtedness. Benton Harl)or will have a debt of between $22,000 
 and $25,000. Xow look on pages ten and eleven and you will see churches 
 started in debt for every dollar that the chapels cost. Thus it goes. How manv 
 of 'our older congregations having men of wealth and influence are willing to 
 assume indebtedness of $25,000? Xot many. Then remember that these 
 _voung churches are probably brought into competition with churches of other 
 denominations that receive large gifts (see page twenty-five for a case in 
 point). Other denominations ar^. making great preparations for handling their 
 mission churches. In the Cent^ary I\Iovement out of $40.0CO,COO for work in 
 -Xmerica. $30,000,000 was for Cl^rch Erection and that all gift fund. With all 
 the strength of Methodism in lEleveland, the M. E. church dropped a cool 
 million into Cleveland. They did. the same in Detroit, Minneapolis. Seattle. San 
 
 Burgess Ave., Columbus, Ohio. iNearinft Completion) 
 
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Francisco and other places accordingly. We drop a little chapel in Detroit that 
 cost $800 and expect them to pay that back. Aside from large gilts from 
 general boards, the large denominations have well-organized city missionary 
 organizations and when a new place is to be entered, these city missionary 
 organizations hack them financially. In Kansas City, Missouri, in the ter- 
 ritory in which Telescope Memorial Church operates, competing churches have 
 donated well on to $200,0()0 in outright gifts. We are meeting it every 
 day. 
 
 I am going to ask this General Conference to provide for a gift fund of 
 $500,000 for the next quadrennium. I ask it because we cannot go on without it. 
 I am asking you to place it in your united budget as a preferred claim. I be- 
 lieve you ought to do it here and now and not refer it to someone else. Let 
 us face the issue now. With a gift fund of that size we could place on a sound 
 footing at least eighty of our struggling missions and they would become 
 powerful assets to the Church. A few of these would get buildings without 
 any gift, but it will be at the price of a crushing debt that will retard our work 
 in the community for fifteen or twenty years. Along with the creation of the 
 Fund, I recommend that you determine the policy and plans by which this 
 fund shall be administered. Brethren, if I knew any other way to handle 
 our distressing situation, I would be glad to submit it; but I know of no 
 other way. It looks to me as though we have our choice between a good gift 
 fund and almost a complete stalling of our extension processes. I believe 
 those best acquainted with the situation will agree. 
 
 IV — Increased Permanent Fund 
 
 I suppose at first l)hish it would seem inconsistent to ask both a large (iift 
 Fund and a largely increased loan fund; but I am sure your best after-thought 
 will be that such increase in the permanent funds is absolutely necessary. With- 
 out a gift fund at all I presume that not more than twenty of our most 
 needy missions would be able to build this coming quadrennium; but with the 
 gift fund I would say that at least seventy-five or eighty would be able to build. 
 It is likely also that for every gift made there would also be a loan made, for it 
 is not contemplated to give to any one enterprise all the aid it needs as a 
 gift; part wnll be gift and part would be non-interest Ijearing loan. Hence, you 
 see that the very existence of a Gift Fund at once creates a greatly increased 
 demand for loans. Without the Gift Fund we are only able to meet about 
 one-fourth the ai)plications; unless our permanent loan fund is increased cor- 
 respondingly witli the (lift I'und, we should still show a smaller proportion of 
 applications granted. I think it will not be difficult to increase the permanent 
 funds and I am asking this General Ccwiference to authorize the increase of the 
 permanent funds u]) to the million dollar mark, ^'our authorization and an opt-n 
 field and it will l)e an accom])lfshed fact. 
 
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Personal 
 
 just a iiioiiunt to say that 1 am most Kratoful to Almighty God for good 
 health and hlossing through the quadrcnniuni. I am most happy for the fine 
 spirit of cooperation on the part of tl;e whole lluireh. I am under great 
 obligations to my Executive Committee for their faithfulness and wise counsels. 
 1 am humbled that the report for the quadrennium is not better than it is. 
 but such as it is. Brethren, I have given to it my full time and my best talents. 
 May be His blessing will lie upon our linnihlc lal)ors: 1 am trusting it will. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 A. C. SIDDALL. 
 
 General Secretarv. 
 
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America the Beautiful. 
 
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 And crown thy goo(J with broth - er-hood From sea to shin - ing sea! 
 
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 Quadrennial Report 
 
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 Acting General Secretary 
 
 of the 
 
 Foreign Missionary Society 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 To the General Conference 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 
 May 1921 
 
 The Foreign Missionary Task 
 
 BIG 
 
 DEFINITE 
 
 COOPERATIVE 
 
 FRUITFUL 
 
 URGENT 
 
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QUADRENNIAL REPORT OF THE ACTING GENERAL SECRETARY 
 
 OF THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE 
 
 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST 
 
 To th? Bisliops aiul McihIhts of the Tuciity-ciglith General Conference. 
 Esteemed Voke-Fellows: 
 
 In that part of West Africa, known as the Gold Coast, the members of an 
 International Educational Commission that is spending the year studying the 
 educational needs of tropical Africa, called a few months ago at a mission sta- 
 tion formerly staffed by German missionaries connected with the Basel Mission. 
 These travelers visited a little cemetery where a number of these fallen German 
 missionaries now sleep. On the simple markers above their graves are these 
 words left by these missionaries to Africa's present and coming generations, "I 
 live, }'Ou too shall live." This brief line states so succinctly the reason that is 
 the drive wheel of the whole Foreign Missionary Movement that I have felt in- 
 wardly compelled to adopt it as the organizing idea around which to group those 
 facts naturally expected in a Foreign Missionary report. 
 
 A man can say, 'I live" only after he has entered into fellowship with 
 Christ. That being taken for granted, consider additional reasons that so just- 
 ify Christian Americans in saying, "I live," that it does not sound like an 
 arrogant boast. 
 
 There is a consciousness of national security. In only one other country in 
 the world, England, is this sense of national security at all comparable to that in 
 the United States. In no other country' is the common man housed in as com- 
 fortable a home or does he have an income as nearly adequate to meet his 
 reasonable needs as in America. In no other country are radical agitators in 
 such a decided minority. In no other country are there such generous educa- 
 tional provisions for the children as in America. Education has been called 
 America's ruling passion. $1,000,000,000 are spent annually for this item. Our 
 state and larger private universities are the wonder of the educational world. 
 
 In no other country do young men and women have the freedom to choose 
 what their life work shall be as here. In no other country has the church as 
 little to apologize for because of past tyranny or neglect of special classes. 
 
 These conditions being so, are we not justified in raising an old inquiry: 
 "What nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord, 
 our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" It is no idle boast but a 
 gratitude — compelling discovery that lies back of a Christian American's sober 
 assertion "I live." 
 
 The Bigness of the Task 
 
 When one accepts the consequences to others as those Basel missionaries 
 accepted them in West Africa, and says, "You too shall Kve," he is immediately 
 impi-essed with the bigness of the task. The United Brethren Foreign Mission- 
 arj' task is big from the standpoint of numbers, from the standpoint of dif- 
 ficulties and successes. The State of Ohio ranks fourth among the States in 
 population, having a population now of 5,759,000. Yet the responsibility that we 
 have been assAuning abroad is equal to the population of Ohio with the excep- 
 tion of the city of Cleveland. Consider the responsibility of being the' only 
 agency to evangelize and develop churches, build chapels, supply educational 
 opportunities and medical relief in great human groups like Toledo, Sandusky, 
 Youngstown, Athens, Portsmouth, Cincinnati, Van Wert, Paulding, Columbus 
 and all the other cities and rural places in between. That is the population 
 equivalent to our task. 
 
 To reach this group of people an increased number of missionaries has 
 been urgently asked. But owing to war and post-war conditions, the problem 
 of securing a sufficient number of adequately trained missionaries, particularly 
 men, has seemed up to the present quite insuperable. 
 
 After the Board has seemed to have done its best to discover and api^oint 
 and finance new missionaries, eight places remain unfilled. It goes without 
 
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saying that money has been needed, and in large amounts, to carr}- forward 
 benevolent enterprises touching the lives of so many persons. 
 
 But almost over night the price of exchange in China was doubled. The 
 gold dollar shrank to half its previous value. Double appropriations were re- 
 quired to carry on existing work. The increase cost of exchange has cost 
 fully $75,000 for the quadrennium. 
 
 The supply of proper residences for the missionaries whom we have been 
 able to appoint and maintain on the field has been pitifully inadequate. 
 
 Our problem has been enlarged by the fact that the homes of our neighbor 
 people abroad to whom we minister are constantly darkened by the presence 
 of pain. Those households in Africa, China and the islands seem to have rather 
 more than their due share of dental troubles, accidental burns, wounds, disloca- 
 tions, fractures, fevers, intestinal disorders, contagious diseases, pneumonia, 
 tuberculosis, leprosy, epilepsy and insanity. 
 
 Having helped to relieve the suffering in these very human families one 
 is perplexed by the number and difficulties of the languages spoken. One of 
 the results is the severely limited supply of such instructive and inspirational 
 literature as are regarded absolutely necessary in building up vigorous churches 
 in intelligent communities. The difficulties of the written language in China, 
 the lack of a sufficient number of teachers there and our other mission fields, 
 result in a deadening weight of illiteracy that lies like a black blanket on the 
 brain of millions of the people whom we would serve in Africa and China. 
 
 The old religions too, whose adequacy to meet the human thirst for a satis- 
 fying religion, our faith challenges, add to the bigness of our problem. The 
 United Brethren Church has been providentially brought face to face with all 
 the great non-Christian religions abroad excepting Hinduism. These faiths 
 seem to have the sanction of great age. It is altogether probable people were 
 worshipping fetishes in West Africa two thousand years ago. Buddhism has 
 been a thousand years in Japan and longer in China. Confucianism was an 
 old religion in the time of our Lord. There has been a very definite attempt 
 in Japan to revive Shintoism with its emperor worship. Mohammedanism, how- 
 ever it may appear in other lands, makes an almost perfect appeal to the natural 
 man in Africa. It offers a formal religion while permitting slavery and 
 poligamy. Its advances have been so great its leaders are almost insolently 
 confident. 
 
 It would be a pleasure to report that these false faiths are dying out. The 
 facts compel one to say that during the four years under review, there has 
 seemed to be a distinct revival of interest and activity among each of these 
 groups possibly excepting the Confucianists as the influences of Christ has come 
 nearer to them through his church. 
 
 The task is further enlarged by the remarkable increase in the number of 
 merchant ships and by the increased number of American young men who are 
 going to non-Christian lands for trade, banking or as engineers. The imagina- 
 tion can easily picture the reaction of the life of these lands on these men if cut 
 off from the influences of the church. The importance of establishing churches 
 in the great business centers abroad becomes increasingly evident. 
 
 There is the age long problem of drink and vice and extortion. Shylock 
 was not merely the name of an ancient resident of Venice. He goes throus:h 
 the streets of these lauds abroad today still demanding from people who 
 through misfortune, or ignorance, or sin, have become indebted to him, bis 
 nound of flesh. There is crujelty in homes, injustice in courts and deep racial 
 hatred. 
 
 There is an alluring bigness to the task when viewed from the angle of its 
 recent successes. Christians have championed the rights of native people in 
 South Africa, to their own soil when they seemed likely to be dispossessed of 
 a million acres by a great chartered company and won out in a British Court. 
 Missionaries are defending the rights of the people against forced labor by 
 Europeans living in East Africa, who desire to impose on African labor. The 
 members of an Interdenominational Commission of Educational experts are 
 spending the year studying the best forms of education for tropical Africfe. Our 
 own schools have already profited by their visitation. 
 
 A letter written from South Africa by an American Board missionar}' to a 
 friend states, "Doctor Jones spoke to all the faculty and native teachers last 
 
night and in tollinjj ahont his visit to Sierra Leone, said the l)est work in all 
 that section is being done by the United Brethren people. ' 
 
 I'uerto Rican Christians won an ontstaiiding prolnuilion victory. 
 
 Uoors long shut in Santo Domingo have opened. 
 
 The lioldnig of a World's Smutay-scliool Convention, in Tokyo, was a 
 great achievement. In Japan, our own Sundaj' scho.ols and churches were in- 
 spired by tlie coming of certain of our own representatives from America. 
 Other Churches were similarly inspired because certain wealthy Japanese ap- 
 preciating the moral character developed through the Sunday schools were will- 
 ing to give tens of thousands of dollars, hoping thereby to enlarge the fruit- 
 luiness of the Sunday school. 
 
 t-vidences have been seen in an unusual way in both Japan and China dur- 
 ing the past four years of what the grace of God can, do through a Japanese 
 or Chinese personality. During the quadrennium Paul Kanamori, with his 
 three-hour sermon on "God, Man and His Sin and Jesus, the Savior," has be- 
 come aunost a world figure. In China, General Feng has developed an army 
 more nearly Christian than any since the days of Cromwell. 
 
 As a result of long continued activity on the part of missionaries in China 
 a phonetic script has been devised and widely accepted that promises to place 
 literacy within the reach of great blocks of China s 325,000,000 illiterate people. 
 This will have a greater influence in spreading knowledge among great masses 
 of people than any other discovery since the invention of movable types. All 
 these stirring movements flow from the church's determination to share her 
 life with others. 
 
 The Task Big, but Definite "*" 
 
 The second observation one makes is the definite character of this task. 
 There are definite tasks for every church and definite tasks for every individual 
 in the church. 
 
 Our l-oreign Mission problem has definite geographical boundaries and 
 yields to definite methods of approach. First of all, it is important to know that 
 these millions may be reached through the home. In the main it is true abroad 
 as in America, "the home is the nation's heart." These people must be sought 
 and can be won as members of families. It may reasonably be estimated that 
 among 5,000,000 people there are 1,000,000 families. It is by helping to solve 
 some of the problems most acute among these families that a favorable hear- 
 ing is won for the gospel. Anything that strengthens the home may be counted 
 on to strengthen the church later on. Among the needs of our people in 
 Africa and certain sections in the Philippine Islands is a greater variety of 
 fruits and vegetables, increased production, new methods of farming, new im- 
 plements, more industries. 
 
 During the quadrennium a missionary was sent to the Philippine Islands 
 for service among the Ifugao people. These people through the centuries 
 past have been driven into deep mountain valleys by the better educated people 
 of the plain. Because of the roof-like steepness of their mountain home, the 
 lood supply is limited in variety and quantity. The missionary there, among 
 other apportunitics for service, can be of incalculable phj'sical blessing to these 
 mountain people in revealing to them God's further intention in their mountain 
 soil. 
 
 But it is in Africa where the greatest attempt has been made during the 
 quadrennium to do more systematic work for the industrial and agricultural 
 life of the people. We are proud of the work that has been done by our mis- 
 sionaries who have developed farms and gardens. Desiring to extend this 
 work the Board appointed four men, each of whom it is hoped among other 
 duties will be able to give more sustained attention in one station to these 
 important agricultural and industrial problems than has ever been possible 
 before. 
 
 Not only has your messenger. The Foreign Missionary Society, been at 
 tempting to make the products of the earth more abundant and varied in 
 certain areas, it has also entered thousands of these homes abroad and sought 
 there in those homes to help remove certain of its greatest anxieties. Among 
 these are the anxieties that arise from physical suffering. 
 
 The Hatfield-Archer and other dispensaries in Africa, though handicapped 
 during the war by the difficulty of securing drugs, have ministered to a long 
 line of impotent folks. 37,914 persons have received aid. 
 
During the quadrcnnium the Ramsburg Memorial Hospital was completed 
 at Siu Lam, China, by the aid of funds contributed by Air. James and Miss 
 Lucretia Ramsburg, of Dallas Center, Iowa. The cost of this building was 
 $14,00().00. This hospital has been open for service during the past two years, 
 being under the direction of a Chinese physician. From September of this 
 year Dr. A. D. Cook, having completed his study of the Chinese language, will 
 be in active control. 
 
 In Canton, China, a new, attractive and really adequate dispensary building 
 was erected, funds having been contributed by Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Coover, 
 of Annville, Pennsylvania. This excellent new equipment means that this center 
 that has touched the lives of so manj' tens of thousands during the past thirty 
 years is to attract other tens of thousands in the coming half centurj'. 
 
 It is a pleasure to report that because of the generous gift of $5,000.00 by 
 Mr. William Michener, of St. Anns, Ontario, a former United Brethren and a 
 member of the 1905 General Conference, it has been possible to plan for the 
 erection of a new hospital in Jiama, Kono District in Sierra Leone. A trained 
 nurse has already been at the station a year. A doctor is considering the op- 
 portunity and the hospital is being erected. ' 
 
 During the quadrennium God has also laid it on the heart of another friend 
 in America to offer property valued at $12,500 to supply the needs of a hospital 
 in San Fernando, Philippine Islands. This hospital is a unit in the equipment 
 there that has been most earnestly requested for a period of ten years. A trained 
 nurse has already been sent to the Islands to begin this medical service. She 
 has already begun work in the former Training School building. Two Filipino 
 doctors are giving part time to the work. A doctor is being sought. The hos- 
 pital will be built as soon as Superintendent Widdoes can return to give it his 
 attention. 
 
 One other item in the development of the medical side of our program is 
 the action of our Foreign Board in accepting partial responsibility for the 
 maintainance and staffing of the Canton Hospital. This hospital, established 
 in 1835, has had a history rich in both scientific and spiritual values. It seemed 
 likely following the war its doors would be closed. A new cooperative plan 
 among several missions calls for new buildings to cost $425,000.00 and a staff of 
 twelve foreign doctors and a stipulated current income. 
 
 Our Board was asked to supply one doctor on this staff of twelve and 
 $5,000 for new property and $1,000 per year toward the current expense fund. 
 
 The Foreign Board in view of the great strategical importance of the posi- 
 tion of this hospital in South China, and because of its history and the confidence 
 the Chinese have in it and because it meets needs far beyond the ability of anv 
 single church hospital to meet, have set aside Dr. Frank Oldt for service in this 
 hospital and have promised the desired financial support. 
 
 The problem of pain which no known remedv will relieve is an almost con- 
 stant problem in the most of these 1,000,000 families to which God has been per- 
 mitting our Church to minister. 
 
 But there are other questions of grave concern in these foreign homes. What 
 is to be the future of the children in those homes? The times are changing. 
 The most tmtutorod discern that. On far too many of these homes debt rests 
 like a crushing mill stone. Children must help in lifting the burden of del)t from 
 the home. 
 
 But what vocation shall the children in these homes follow? .And how are 
 they to secure adequate training? Will the homes set up later on bv these chil- 
 dren when they reach the home-making stage be quite the same as their parents' 
 home? 
 
 At least 2,000,000 children abroad have been pitifully dependent on agencies 
 maintained bv the United Brethren Church to give them intellectual, vo- 
 cational and spiritual direction. In their presence it is easv to sav with Llo'-d 
 George: "Training the next generation is the biggest business of this genera- 
 tion." 
 
 Our missionaries have helped to solve these problems that relate to the 
 well-being of the child in the foreign home by gathering certain of the smaller 
 children into kindergartens. Our Church maintains seven kindergartens, five in 
 Japan and two in China. For the training of children a few v'-ars older, fortv- 
 three day schools in .Africa and China have been conducted. The general policy 
 of our missions in lands where there are no schools supported I)y the govern- 
 
nicnt, is to establish a day school wherever a church is established and make 
 it as near self-supporting as possible. 
 
 Probably the most con^picuous achievement of the Church through the 
 Foreign Missionary Society during the quadrennium is the supi)lying of the 
 rather exceptional equipment for the training of girls and j'oung women in 
 mission boarding schools. 
 
 First, While the buildings were practically completed in the previous 
 quadrennium, the Miller Seminary, in Siu Lam, China, was first opened for 
 classes under new conditions during the period under review. It cares for about 
 fifty regular boarders ever}' year besids fifty additional day pupils. 
 
 The Woman's Bible Training School, at San Fernando, Philippine Islands, 
 was comjileted last year at a cost of $27, (K)O.OO for building and equipment. Here 
 thirty young women are in training as deaconesses and thirty other high school 
 girls find here the influence of a Christian home. 
 
 Another most interesting work for girls is that conducted at Moyamba, 
 Sierra Leone, a land that has not appreciated woman's intellectual capacity over 
 much. A curriculum providing for nine years' work has been outlined to pre- 
 pare African girls to be Christian wives and mothers. The members of the 
 Phelps-Stokes Educational Commission after visiting Moyamba spoke of the 
 work as comparing favorably with the work of similar grade conducted at Hamp- 
 ton and Tuskegee. Work on a larger and more adequate building has been in 
 progress several weeks. 
 
 The full value of these three girls' schools will be seen later in multiplied 
 Christian homes. 
 
 Our Church has been responding to childhood s cry, "Come over and help 
 us by maintaining in Africa seven boys' boarding schools where African boj\s 
 cannot onl}- secure the coveted education but are cared for in supervised Chris- ' 
 tian dormitories, the nearest possible equivalent of a parental Christian home. 
 
 As it seemed highly necessary in China to do as good work for boys as is 
 being done for girls, two of our American young men have, during the quadren- 
 nium, been assigned to the definite task of promoting boys' education, just now 
 particularly grammar school education. These schools, one in Canton and one 
 in Siu Lam, are already going concerns. The gift of $8,000 has been given by 
 a friend towards a boys' school building. A lot has been purchased for a boys' 
 school in Siu Lam at a cost of $4,000.00. It is expected that within the quadren- 
 nium these two school buildings will be erected and equipped. 
 
 Work for students prepared to do high school work is provided for at the 
 Albert Academy, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Here a staff of six African teachers 
 and three Americans are, through the opportunities presented in the class room 
 and the manual training department, seeking to build up Christian character in 
 the lives of these boys at a critical period in their lives. 
 
 The Albert Academy attendance has been ninety-three, of whom fifty are 
 boarders. Opportunities for self-help are also offered. Sixteen young men have 
 supported themselves b_v working from four to five hours per day in the wood- 
 work or printing shops. Young men intending to take up teaching as a life- 
 work, secure initial normal training in their course. Later Reading Courses 
 and Institutes are provided. 
 
 In China there is a Union Normal School for young women in which the 
 United Brethren Church has one unit. 
 
 A good Union Normal School for young men is greatlv needed in South 
 China, but in the midst of many other things to be done it has seemed im- 
 possible'to respond to this need. 
 
 Young men in Africa preparing for the ministry after graduating from a 
 high school pursue the course of reading required by the General Conference. 
 
 In our other four fields our young men are trained in union theological 
 schools. 
 
 The theological school in Puerto Rico stands along side of the insular 
 university at Rio Picdras, which insures good scholastic standards. Six Mission 
 Boards are back of this cooperative task. The United Brethren Mission bears 
 the cost of one unit in this excellent training institution at a cost of $500.00 per 
 year. 
 
 Our pastors in Japan are trained in the theological department of the 
 Doshisha Universitv. The United Brethren Church cooperates to the extent of 
 maintaining one missionarj' professor in the theological faculty and paj'ing the 
 salary of a Japanese professor. 
 
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Eight Mission Boards are back of the Union Theological College, in Canton, 
 China. United Brethren participation consists in the giving of one missionary 
 for half time teaching and the payment of the sum of $600 annually, making up 
 the unit that entitles our representative to a share in the management. 
 
 This theological college has acquired new grounds and erected a number 
 of new and substantial buildings within the quadrenniuni. It falls to few edu- 
 cational institutions to face without a rival so large and important a field as 
 this Canton Theological College, which, with one small German school, is the 
 only agency training spiritual shepherds for at least 27,000,000 people. 
 
 After ten years of delightful cooperation in union theological school work 
 in Manila during which period the work has been carried on in rather cramped 
 quarters, a seventy-five acre site has been secured just outside the city of 
 Manila. Five thousand dollars have been paid by our Foreign Board towards this 
 I'ewer and larger plant. 
 
 Altogether our Church through its representative is meeting 1879 students 
 of all grades in our class rooms. One hundred and five of these are in training 
 for definite Chritstian work. 
 
 Christian Americans, grateful for the helpful educational advantages enjoyed 
 by their own young people, are saying to j'oung people through these schools, "1 
 live, you too shall live." 
 
 How much that is best in the believer's life is interlaced by the sweet in- 
 fluences of the house of God. Almost unconsciously the churches you represent 
 in America have through their gifts been building temples in lands where these 
 temples far too frequently are strangers. 
 
 Owing to the excessively high cost of building material, the price of which 
 was as a rule the American price plus almost extortionate shipping charges, the 
 Foreign Board felt unable to respond to the very urgent letters and cables 
 asking for funds for larger buildings in Kobe, Japan, Canton and Siu Lam, 
 China, Manila, Philippine Islands and Yauco, Puerto Rico. However, a number 
 of church buildings of moderate cost have been erected. 
 
 The outstanding items under the head of church houses and grounds are the 
 new churches at Cervantes and Baguio in the Philippine Islands, the acquiring 
 of property in the city of Manila for dormitory and church purposes at a cost 
 of $22,500. On this property $10,000 has been paid. A church building in 
 Leung Kong, China, was made possible by the gift of $2,500, given by Brother 
 H. S. Immel, of Mountville, Pennsylvania. 
 
 A lot for a church in Kobe, in certain respects Japan's most important sea- 
 port, was acquired during the past year at a cost of $11,000. 
 
 The Church's Task Not Only Big and Definite but Cooperative 
 
 The reason the Church could face this great task without dismay was because 
 of the great number of sturdy forces cooperating to win success. Among these 
 forces that have been united in the Foreign Mission enterprises are God-fearing 
 parents, devoted Sunday-school teachers and pastors, editors whose pens inform 
 and inspire youth, college professors, through the windows of whose class rooms 
 students see the needs of the whole world. Volunteer Movement secretaries, 
 the Bishops and other members of the Foreign Mission Board, the Fxecutive 
 and Candidate Committees that have given time and energy unstintedly. 
 
 The Board owes a big, hearty, "I thank you," to all those who have made 
 gifts to Foreign Missions through general church offerings. The total of these 
 has made the largest gift. 
 
 Other comrades in the felhowship of service have been the Ottcrbein Guild, 
 Women's Missionary Association and individuals that have supported or partially 
 supported missionaries or erected buildings. Without the aid of these re- 
 sourceful, self-denying coworkers our work could not have been maintained. 
 
 The measure of this cooperation in dollars and cents will be reported by 
 the General Church Treasurer. 
 
 At times during the quadrennium, owing to the fluctuating costs due 
 to war conditions, this department learned new lessons in walking by faith. 
 
 The members of the Board I am sure would wish a special word of gratitude 
 expressed to all those who in an hour of iniusual need shared in the Self-T)enial 
 Offering, in March, 1918. This offering totaled $4^), 795. 75. 
 
 Gratitude is also expressed to the Ottcrbein Ciuild and Women's Missionary 
 Association. The grants from these sources were $311,979.80. 
 
A further wor^ of thanks is expressed to those churches and individuals 
 who have supported or shared in the support of a missionary. The society is 
 grateful too, for gifts for special buildings. All these funds, which now 
 amount to $52,000.00 are in the hands of the treasurer and will be used as 
 designated just as soon as the prices of materials drop or our funds increase so 
 that the buildings can be erected to meet the needs as seen now. 
 
 Had it not been for the larger income that came to the Foreign Board 
 through the United Enlistment Movement it would have been necessary to 
 have reduced the appropriation for current work abroad or to have detained 
 nine missionaries at home who were due to go abroad who have reached their 
 stations — three in Africa, two in China and four in the Philippine Islands — the 
 past seven months. 
 
 Neither could we have shared in the opening of evangelical work in Santo 
 Domingo, though it has waited for the gospel just off our shore four hundred 
 years. Neither could we have authorized the purchase of a lot for a church in 
 Kobe, Japan's most important sea-port, a city with a population of half a mil- 
 lion or made a definite beginning in medical work though it had been most 
 earnestly asked for, for ten years. 
 
 With the severest economj'^ and resisting so many demands for help the 
 Board seemed unsympathetic to persons making the appeals, yet the Board came 
 to the close of its financial j-ear with little more than one thousand dollars on 
 the right side of the ledger. One's mind draws back from contemplating what 
 the effect would have been on our over-worked forces abroad if it had not been 
 possible to send these missionaries or what the effect on the Church would 
 have been if a debt of $50,000 had accumulated. 
 
 The members of the Foreign Board believe that the Movement was clearly 
 the means God used to enable his advancing forces, when there was danger 
 of retrenchment or collapse, to abide firmly by the task abroad in lifting up 
 Christ as Savior and Lord. 
 
 Other comrades in this inspiring fellowship are our missionaries who have 
 gone abroad. Some have left parents, ill or aged. Others have left children. 
 Some have ventured to cross seas that were mined or infested by submarines. 
 The women were as plucky as the men. All have borne the yoke of hardship 
 because salaries w^ere inadequate; because reduced missionary staffs imposed 
 unjust responsibilities on shoulders already too full. Certain of these coworkers 
 have been ill away from home. Others are ill today, seriously ill. 
 
 Nor should we forget the children of these missionary homes, who by force 
 of providences, be3'ond their control, are cut off from fellowship with parents 
 or playmates, or the kinds of food which are childhood's right. The men, the 
 women, the children have all been good soldiers. 
 
 The Noble Intention of Two Friends, Rufus and Ella Clark 
 
 Whatever the outcome in the final settlement of the Rufus and Ella Clark 
 Estates, the intentions of these friends cannot be too highly appreciated. It 
 may be one of the chief values the Church will receive from this estate is the 
 great importance on the part of those who would make gifts to benevolent 
 causes of making all legal arrangements during their life time. 
 
 Some progress has been made during the quadrcnnium in settling up the 
 estates of these friends. One thousand one hundred and nine vacant lots were 
 sold through the agency of Conner and Milner, and about one-fourth of the 
 purchase price has been received in cash to date. 
 
 During the quadrennium a receiver was appointed for the propertj' held as 
 .collateral for the Nye note. An extensive law suit is now in' progress to de- 
 termine the validity of the claims for this property. We have employed as our 
 attorneys, J. W. McCreery and Son, of Greeley, Colorado. Our attorneys be- 
 lieve that our society has the first claim on this property. 
 
 The prospects are now good for selling the Loretta Heights. 
 
 Dr. S. S. Hough has been looking after the matter of settling up the 
 estate as trustee of the society, and he has been ably assisted at different times 
 by Dr. W. R. Funk. They are doing everything that can be done to close 
 up the estate and turn whatever assets may be available for the promotion of 
 the cause for which the bequests were made. 
 
 Another unit in the cooperating group that deserves to be mentioned in- 
 dividually was the former General Secretary of the society, whose painstaking 
 
familiarity with the problems of the society, vision, heroism in assvmiing great 
 responsibility, discernment, sympathy, tact, patience and devotion has given to 
 his contribntion to the cause of Foreign Missions in the United Brethren 
 Church an enduring, granite-like character. 
 
 The educational secretary too, whose Spirit-filled life has interlaced itself 
 inextricably with the lives of the missionaries on the field through correspond- 
 ence or public addresses has also helped incalculal)ly to prepare the work for 
 the coming kingdom of God. 
 
 On the field the union language schools in Tokyo and Canton, where our 
 young missionaries have learned to speak, union normal schools in South China, 
 union theological schools in four fields, union publishing plants in two areas, 
 union evangelistic enterprises in Santo Domingo and China, union inspirational 
 conferences as in Puerto Rico, Japan, China and the Philippines, the World's 
 "^unda.v-school Association, the China-for-Christ Movement — all these were 
 sturdy team-mates in the great game of sharing the best of our life with our 
 less fortunate friends. 
 
 This task has had its fascination because of its constant fruitfulness. It 
 seemed during the war that even to holrl our own would be a miracle. The fruit 
 has not always appeared just when and where expected, but there have been 
 gains. 
 
 It is something that thirty-two new missionaries have been discovered and 
 sent out. 
 
 Medical cases to the number of 127,234 have been reported. The Sunday 
 schools enroll 8220. 
 
 Two printing plants are maintained. Denominational papers are published 
 in all fields. The Puerto Rico Evangelico started in 1912, has a weekly circula- 
 tion of 6()()0, the largest of any paper in the Island. 
 
 Besides chapels not reported in the statistics, there are eighty-seven church- 
 buildings valued at $313,916. There are 920 preaching places, a gain of 244. 
 
 There are now forty-two ordained and fortj^-seven unordained native men, 
 a p-ain of nine ordained men during the four years. These eighty-nine pastors 
 minister to a group of 8480 believers. 
 
 There have been 2871 accessions to the churches on confession of faith. 
 
 Our people have contributed for distinctively church purposes $70,328, 
 and for church, educational and medical purposes $123.0.S8. 
 
 The total value of our property abroad is now $586,113. 
 
 The writer of this report has been connected with the Foreign Missionary 
 Society in various capacities since the autumn of 1894. The following statistics 
 show the growth of our foreign work during that time. 
 
 1895 1905 1915 1920 
 
 Missionaries 16 31 64 72 
 
 Ordained Native Workers 4 25 42 
 
 Total Native Workers 21 81 174 178 
 
 Organized Churches 10 38 102 106 
 
 Communicant Members 400 1,429 6,432 8,480 
 
 Sunday Schools 10 38 116 121 
 
 Sunday-School Enrollment 696 2,243 7,199 8,220 
 
 Young People's Societies 1 6 34 33 
 
 Members in Young Peoi)le's Societies -v 35 239 765 805 
 
 Day and Boarding Schools 9 14 43 53 
 
 Pupils in Day and Boarding Schools..- 594 901 1,669 1.879 
 
 Dispensaries 2 2 8 7 
 
 Cases Treated 31,614 
 
 Value of Mission Property $30,000 $76,927 $259,678 $586,113 
 
 Bevond these figures and more important than the figures is the new 
 spirit that is mentioned in letters from the field. Africa is conducting this 
 year a campaign much like our own United h'^nlistment Campaign but called 
 there a Movement for the Masses. A letter from the superintendent, dated 
 March 28, states "we had five evangelistic meetings here (in Bonthe) lastiweek. 
 There >vere fifty to ninety at the altar each evening. The services were con- 
 rliicted in the vernacular. Pastor S. B. Catdker gave the message each evening. 
 He still grows in sinritual power and is most thorough in spiritual teachings. 
 
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"I went to Bendu to spend the Sunday, Easter, baptized six infants, five 
 adults; received sixteen nicnil)ers. Rosselot reports seventy-four decisions at 
 Sheiige. Freetown reports eighty-four. 1 was at Mando one Sunday when 
 there were forty-four earnest seekers at the altar. I do not want to make too 
 nnich out of it l)ut there has been more to rejoice my soul in the last few weeks 
 than I have ever witnessed out here before." 
 
 Our churches in Puerto Rico a year ago began to plan to make every one 
 of our churches in that Island self-supporting within the next fifteen years. Our 
 former superintendent has spent the year in the large neighboring Island of 
 Santo Domingo, purchasing property for a new cooperative mission. $5(),()()0 
 has already been invested by the missions interested in Santo Domingo's capital. 
 
 Our Japanese leaders, dissatisfied with past achievements, are determining 
 anew to win the children and the people around their churches to Christ. 
 
 Our China churches in the midst of political chaos the greater part of the 
 (piadrennium are sharing in the China-for-Christ Movement with its emphasis 
 on: 
 
 Every Christian 
 
 Praying, reading the Bil)le, winning relatives, giving systematically, work- 
 ing in some form of the community' service. 
 
 Every Christian Home 
 
 Essentially Christian, a training school in Christian virtues, a center of 
 Christian service. 
 
 Every Christian School 
 
 Bringing students to Christ, calling for consecration of life, emphasizing 
 Christian leadership, preparing students for Christian citizenship. 
 
 Every Christian Hospital 
 
 Relieving phj'sical distress, setting standards of public health, show'ing 
 Christian attitude towards suffering, witnessing the power of Christ to heal the 
 soul and body. 
 
 Every Christian Church 
 
 Deepening fellowship with God, training members in service, providing 
 religious education for children, studj'ing economic and industrial needs of 
 members, cooperating in service, showing Christ as the only hope of the in- 
 dividual and nation. 
 
 Superintendent Widdoes, of the Philippines, writes: "I am glad to report 
 that seventy-four more Igorots were baptized in Kabayan when our super- 
 vising pastor visited the mission field recently. That makes over one hundred 
 and fifty new members in that new mission field this year, the mission supported 
 iiy our Ilocano churches." 
 
 A short time ago the writer of this report was awakened one morning in 
 a hotel in one of America s growing cities by the medley of snarling noises of 
 the early, morning street traffic. The day before the seventh policeman to be 
 shot in two years had been killed. 
 
 One of the city's judges, who had been under trial for murder, w'as being 
 sought on a perjury charge. Hold-ups were almost a daib^ occurrence. It 
 mi^ht have been easy to have allowed oneself to drift into a pessimistic mood, 
 hut cheerily there in that early morning hour above the din of the city's streets 
 one's ear caught the shrill notes of an old gospel hvmn whistled by someone, 
 while passing along the street, the old tune of "At the Cross, at the cross, 
 where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled awav. It was there 
 bv faith" — and my morning whistler had passed beyond my hearing. I thanked 
 Cod for the whistler. I arose, looked out of the window, saw a new city, not 
 the city jiictured in the newspapers, but a city in which tens of thousands of 
 nuobstrusive believers were quietly beginning the day with God, rejoicing that 
 "at the cross the burden of their sin had rolled awav." 
 
During the quadrennium, we as a church, have been sharing in so far as 
 humans can share in the deep groan-evoking w^ork of redemption. If well 
 advertised sin in America or sin on the ships that have carried our young people 
 or sin in these lands to which they have gone out has claimed such a preeminent 
 place in our thinking that we have been at times depressed, shall not the ear of 
 our souls at this time catch the victorious note of the church's morning in these 
 lands that are growing increasingly dear to us? Shall we not rejoice that God has 
 allowed our Church to release agencies in many a dark, sin-vexed community that 
 have set children, men and women singing the truth of the old hymn: 
 "At the Cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light 
 And the burden of my heart rolled away, 
 It was there, by faith, I received my sight . 
 And now I am happy all the day." 
 Leading boys and girls, men and women to that cross, helping them to 
 discover that light and that joy is the one service the Foreign Missionary So- 
 ciety has been seeking to render. The service assumes many different guises. 
 There is just one task. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 ALFRED T. HOWARD, Acting (General Secretary. 
 
 Summary of Statistics for Quadrennium 
 
 1917 1918 
 
 Ordained Men 21 20 
 
 Unordained Men 4 5 
 
 Itinerants 17 17 
 
 Single Women 17 17 
 
 Wives 21 19 
 
 Doctors 3 3 
 
 Total Missionaries 66 62 
 
 Native Workers — 
 
 Ordained Preachers 33 38 
 
 Unordained Preachers 38 32 
 
 Itinerants 69 78 
 
 Other Native workers 126 124 
 
 Total Native Workers 195 214 
 
 In Training for Ministry 44 44 
 
 In Training for Other Work 61 66 
 
 Day and Boarding Schools 45 55 
 
 Pupils in Day and Boarding Schools-- 1,573 1,979 
 
 Union Schools 4 4 
 
 Dispensaries 6 7 
 
 Cases Treated 35,713 29,645 
 
 Sunday Schools 123 HI 
 
 S. S. Teachers and Officers 592 626 
 
 S. S. Pupils ^_ 7,303 7,340 
 
 Total S. S. Enrollment 7,895 7,966 
 
 Young People s Societies -30 24 
 
 Members in Y. P. S. 1 929 895 
 
 lunior C. E. Societies 53 40 
 
 Members in J. C. E. S. 1,632 1,523 
 
 Organized Churches 113 111 
 
 Other Preaching Places 67fi 734 
 
 (Communicant Members 7,899 8,301 
 
 Added on Profession of Faith 982 607 
 
 Amt. contributed on F^icld, not including 
 
 medical and educational fees $13,501 $15,672 
 
 Amount contributed on l^'ield including 
 
 medical and educational fees $24,174 $24,768 
 
 10 
 
 1919 
 
 1920 
 
 19 
 
 24 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 64 
 
 72 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 36 
 
 38 
 
 74 
 
 74 
 
 117 
 
 9a 
 
 194 
 
 178 
 
 44 
 
 4/ 
 
 70 
 
 58 
 
 55 
 
 53 
 
 2,182 
 
 1,879 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 30,261 
 
 31,61-+ 
 
 106 
 
 121 
 
 577 
 
 570 
 
 7,527 
 
 7,381 
 
 8,433 
 
 8,220 
 
 23 
 
 33 
 
 850 
 
 805 
 
 37 
 
 31 
 
 1,212 
 
 1,098 
 
 106 
 
 106 
 
 697 
 
 920 
 
 8,356 
 
 8,480 
 
 670 
 
 612 
 
 $19,035 
 
 $22,119 
 
 $33,440 
 
 $40,676 
 
86 
 
 87 
 
 87 
 
 $131,377 
 
 $149,042 
 
 $313,916 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 $100,104 
 
 $160,644 
 
 $182,125 
 
 34 
 
 37 
 
 35 
 
 $10,897 
 
 $11,477 
 
 $15,831 
 
 $118,820 
 
 $178,268 
 
 $184,24/ 
 
 $361,108 
 
 $499,431 
 
 $586,113 
 
 Church Houses * 85 
 
 \alue Church Houses & Grounds $128,33/ 
 
 Missionar}' Residences 17 
 
 \alue Missionary Residences & Grounds $93,814 
 
 Parsonages lor Native Pastors 34 
 
 \'alue Parsonages for Xative Pastors. _ $10,902 
 Value of Other Property, Schools. etc.__ $98,671 
 Total \'alue Property $331,724 
 
 Receipts and Expenditures for Quadrennium 
 
 Receipts from churches and individuals for current work $493,193.55 
 
 Receipts from chjirches and individuals for buildings and equipment.- 39.715.45 
 
 Receipts from W. M. A. for current work 234,458.08 
 
 Receipts from W. Al. A. for buildings and equipment 77,521.72 
 
 Annuity Gifts 29,300.00 
 
 Borrowed Money, Permanent Fund. Real Estate 63,866.67 
 
 Rufus Clark Estates 17.611.51 
 
 Special Appropriations 9,444.78 
 
 Special Deposit of Friends __ 800.00 
 
 Aliscellaneous 481.24 
 
 Total for Quadrennium $966,393.00 
 
 Cash on hand at the beginning of the quadrennium 13,428.29 
 
 Total in the Treasury for the quadrennium $979,821.29 
 
 Total Expenditures for quadrennium 925,922.27 
 
 Balance on Hand April 1, 1921 $ 53,899.02 
 
Quadrennial Report of 
 
 CHAS. W. BREWBAKER 
 General Secretary 
 
 Sunday Schools and 
 Brotherhoods 
 
 of the United Brethren 
 in Christ 
 
 "Feed my lambs," John 21:15 
 "Feed my sheep," John 21:17 
 
 Twenty -Eighth General Conference 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, May 12, 1921 
 
Quadrennial Report 
 Sunday School and Brotherhood Work 
 
 To the Twenty-eighth General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ, 
 Greetings : 
 
 It is with profound gratitude to Almighty God that I present this the four- 
 teenth quadrennial report of the Sunday-school department to your honorahle 
 body. God has been gracious and good beyond measure. In the awful crisis 
 through which the world recently passed the Church has proven herself the 
 salt of the earth, the lig'ht of the world and a mighty factor in saving the race 
 from impending destruction. Her growing ideals of democracy will live in the 
 future and the gospel of our Lord will have a new meaning as applied to all 
 human relationships. During the past four years all of the agencies of the 
 Church suffered seemingly irreparable losses numerically, among which is the 
 Sunday school, and yet there never was a time when the denominations have 
 come closer together in united plans, program and action in this important field. 
 The present is marked for its increased breadth of vision and effort in the field 
 of Religious Education in behalf of the childhood and youth of the world. 
 There are already signs of marked progress and recovery of the great losses 
 sustained. 
 
 The period covered in this report is from April 1, 1917, to April 1, 1921. 
 We are glad to say that full time was given to the work without any hindrance 
 by sickness or misfortune. I have been unusually busy both in office and 
 field. During the four years the office work has been heavy and there were 
 many calls for service along many other lines due to world conditions. Aside 
 from many thousand multigraphed letters 375,000 pieces of printed matter were 
 issued by the office. I have served on Committees in the Sunday-school Council 
 of Evangelical Denominations, the Inter-church World Movement, the United 
 Enlistment Movement, and at present am a Trustee of the International Sunday- 
 school Association and a member of its Executive Committee. 
 
 During the quadrennium I have spoken 758 times including lectures, 
 addresses, sermons, etc. Have participated in sixtj'-four Sunday-school Group 
 meetings. Institutes and Schools of Methods, three State Conventions, five State 
 Group Meetings, twenty-two County Conventions, six Township conventions, 
 five C. E. Conventions, thirty-three Annual Conferences and have conducted an 
 Evangelistic meeting each year which resulted in 250 conversions. 
 
 In 1917 we published a book entitled "The Devotional Life of the Sunday- 
 school Worker." We believe that this little volume of ten chapters meets a great 
 need in the lives of our Sunday-school officers and teachers. Many of those 
 who have read it commend it most highly, which we appreciate greatly and 
 only wish that its circulation may widen and that all who read its pages may 
 be inspired to greater things in the Sunday-school field and be enriched 
 spiritually. ' 
 
 SPECIAL DAYS AND SEASONS. 
 
 The department has aimed each year to keep before the pastors and workers 
 throughout the Church the special days and seasons of the church and Sunday- 
 school year, which we believe acts as a stimulus as well as an educational factor 
 in the work. 
 
 THE WORLD'S SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. 
 
 At the Board Meeting held at Corydon May 20-24, the Secretary was elected 
 to represent the denomination as delegate to the Eighth World Sunday-school 
 Convention which met at Tokyo, Japan, October 5-14, 1920. I left home 
 Tuesday, September 7, and returned Monday, November 29, making in all 
 
(lacking one day) twelve weeks. In starting, our ship was delayed nearlj- one 
 week before leaving Vancouver, B. C, which with a big storm at sea caused 
 us to arrive in Japan several days later than scheduled. The Convention 
 undoubtedly was a great blessing to "The Sunrise Kingdom," indeed to the 
 entire Orient. It was my privilege to spend five weeks in Japan doing intensive 
 work. I spoke forty-two times and conducted two Sunday-school Institutes. 
 It was a real joy to be in the homes of our missionaries and to visit all the 
 charges of our native pastors. Surely we have a splendid corps of workers, 
 who are loyal, self sacrificing and consecrated to their task. All showed great 
 interest in the World's Sunday-school Convention. They expressed their 
 churchly pride in the recognition that the United Brethren denomination had 
 in the convention. Indeed the place our Church holds in Sunday-school leader- 
 ship in Japan is worthy of mention. Rev. Y. Oakazaki, pastor of our Honjo 
 Ku Church, Tokyo, is a member of the executive committee of the National 
 Sunday-school Association of Japan. Rev. K. Yabe is general Secretary of 
 his province. Rev. Y. Ono, of Kobe, is president of the Kobe Sunday-school 
 Association and Rev. C. Yasuda of the Kyoto Association, both large cities. 
 Other United Brethren from America who attended the Convention were 
 Attorney and Mrs. J. M. Cogan and daughter, Ruth, of Canton, Ohio; Miss 
 Ruth Koontz, of Dayton, Ohio, and Attorney and Mrs. E. E. McCurdy, of 
 Lebanon, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Letters received from our missionaries and a number of our native pastors 
 since my return to America indicate larger plans for the future and greater 
 victories in the Sunday-school work in "The Sunrise Kingdom." 
 
 I wish to thank the Church most heartil}- for the privilege I had in repre- 
 senting our work in that land whose millions need our Lord and Christ .and 
 whose minds are open to the teachings of the Bible. 
 
 OTHER FOREIGN FIELDS. 
 
 Africa, China, the Philippines and Porto Rico report splendid progress in 
 Sunday-school work. Our Year Book shows a total in all of our Foreign 
 fields of 123 schools, 577 officers and teachers and an enrollment of 8433. Bishop 
 A. T. Howard reports in detail all of our Foreign work. We believe that the 
 department should keep in closer touch with our missionaries in regard to this 
 work, for without doubt it is l^asic to the life and growth of our Church in 
 these lands. 
 
 THE BOARD OF CONTROL. 
 
 Tlie Board is composed of nine members elected by the General Confer- 
 ence, five of whom are laymen and four ministers together with the editors of 
 the Sunday-school literature, the editor of the \\'atchword, and tlie general 
 publishing agent. The Bishops are ex officio members. 
 
 The laymen are Prof. H. M. Ambrose, A.Af., Meriden, Kansas: Col. 
 Robert Cowden. Lit.D.. Dayton. Ohio; Prof. M. A. Tlonline, Lit.D., Dayton, 
 Ohio; H. C. Cridland. Little Rock, Arkansas: the four ministers are Rev. W . G. 
 Fulton, Beaver Falls. Pennsylvania: Rev.'T. G. Uul)cr, D.D., Davton, Ohio; 
 Rev. J. E. Shannon. D.D., Marion, Indiana: Rev. S. C. Enck. D.D., Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania. ' 
 
 Four sessions of the Board were held dnritig the Quadrennium. We are 
 grateful for the work done and the loyalty shown l)y the members of the Board 
 toward the great interests which they represent. 
 
 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 The regular members of the Executive Committee on Sunday-school and 
 Brotherhoo^d work who served durint: the (juadrennium are Rev. W. O. 
 Fries, D.D., Col. Robert Cowden. Lit.D.. Prof. M. A. Tlonline. Lit.D.. Prof. 
 W. A. Weber, D.D.. and Mr. H. C. Cridland. Mr. Ira S. Richmond served as 
 advisory member. These are all .Sunday-school leaders ;ind are a strong arm 
 to the Secretary in his work. » 
 
 COLONEL ROBERT COWDEN. 
 
 We are glad to. note that General .Secretary Ivmeritus, Col. Robert Cowden 
 has been witJi us throughout the quadrennium. God has lieen wonderfully 
 
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good in giving to tlie Church and society one whose life lias l)een so full of 
 blessing and enrichment. Col. Cowden has lived to see the work of the Sunday 
 school in vvhicli he spent the best years of his life, grow and reach some of the 
 ideals which he set forth even in advance of iiis day. Surelj' his e.Kample and 
 devotion to tiie work are worthy our emulation. 
 
 OUR OFFICE FORCE 
 
 One stenographer is enrployed regularly in the oftice. Our office work has 
 so increased during the past year that much of the time additional help was 
 necessary. Too much of the detail clerical work is left to the General Secre- 
 tary and Elementary Superintendent. Suflicient help must be provided in the 
 future. 
 
 OUR STANDARDS OF EFFICIENCY. 
 
 In all of our work we aim to ha\e the I)cst possible standards of efliciency. 
 
 We have a Standard for the Main School and one for each of the different 
 divisions and departments all of which have been carefully worked out jointly 
 by the denominations in the Sunday-school Council of Evangelical Denomi- 
 nations and we aim to adapt these Standards to our own denominational needs. 
 
 The following is a brief outline of the Aims, Aleans and Tests of our own 
 denominational standard. Also the Standard Departinental age groups used 
 bv all denominations. 
 
 Aims. 
 1. 
 
 3. 
 Means 
 1. 
 2 
 3^ 
 4. 
 5. 
 6. 
 7. 
 8. 
 
 STANDARD. 
 
 To win every available member of the communitj^ to the Sunday school. 
 To win the members of the Sunday school to Christ and the Church. 
 To win them for intelligent and effective Christian life and service. 
 
 Graded organization. 
 
 Graded lessons and graded methods of instruction. 
 
 Regular missionary instruction. 
 
 Temperance instruction. 
 
 Sunday-school evangelism and church attendance. 
 
 A training department. 
 
 A workers' council and library. 
 
 Children's Day observed and offering for the general Sunday-school 
 
 Board (at present it is applied to the General Benevolence budget). 
 Tests. 
 
 The efficiency of a Sunday school is measured by the character of its 
 product. 
 
 The following tests need constantly to be applied. 
 
 1. Is the school making such increase in enrollment and average attend- 
 ance as may be reasonably expected from a careful survey of its 
 community? 
 
 2. Is the knowledge of the Bi!)le growing? 
 
 3. Is the devotional life steadily developing? 
 
 4. Are. the pupils dedicating their lives to Christ and the Church? 
 
 5. Are the pupils showing increasing interest and efficiency in Christian 
 service? 
 
 6.- Is the school providing trained leaders for its own work, for other 
 departments of the local church and for the wider fields of Christian 
 service? 
 A school will attain this standard when it accepts these aims, uses these 
 means and measures its product by these tests. Three hundred and seventy- 
 two schools sent for our Wall Standard, a number of which have reached 
 every point. 
 
 DEPARTMENTS. 
 
 (1) Cradle Roll Department — All under four years. 
 
 (2) Beginners' Department — 4 and 5 years. 
 
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(3) Primary Department — 6, 7 and 8 years. 
 
 (4) Junior Department — 9, 10 and 11 years. (12, optional.) 
 
 (5) Intermediate Department — (12 optional) 13 and 14 years. 
 
 (6) Senior Department — 15, 16 and 17 years. 
 
 (7) Young People's Department — 18 to 24 years. 
 
 (8) Adult Department — ^25 years and above. 
 
 (9) Home or Extension Department — Non-attendant members. 
 
 (10) Training Department. 
 
 WORK FOR CHILDREN. 
 Miss Ida M. Koontz, Elementary Superintendent. 
 
 We believe that our department has made marked progress during the 
 quadrennium in its work for the children under the very capable leadership of 
 Miss Ida M. Koontz, our Elementary Superintendent. The Elementary Division 
 deals with all the children under twelve years of age. Miss Koontz has aimed 
 to build all of the work of the Cradle Roll, Beginners, Primary and Junior 
 Departments around the child. Her splendid advice in the form of leaflets and 
 letter has been sought frequently. We have urged each Annual Conference to 
 appoint or elect an Elementary Superintendent to work in cooperation with 
 our Elementary Department, also that money be provided for the same. A 
 number of conferences have appointed a worker, with some good results. But 
 this should be a universal program throughout the Church. Close supervision 
 is needed by the Church if we would do our best and accomplish the most. 
 
 Considerable time of our Elementary Superintendent has been taken in 
 editorial work for our children's periodicals. She has also been active in the 
 work of the Sunday-school Council of Evangelical Denominations, serving four 
 years consecutively as Secretary of the Children's Work committee and one 
 year as Chairman. At present she is serving on the committee of Week-Day 
 Religious Instruction and the Committee on Missionary Education. She has 
 also been active as instructor in the Community Training School of the city of 
 Dayton and has responded to calls in the field as they came. 
 
 During the quadrennium special attention was given to preparing and 
 supplying proper printed matter for elementary workers throughout the Church 
 along the most aggressive and fruitful lines. 
 
 Special emphasis has been given to Children's Week. This year the week 
 was observed from April 24 to May 1. Better results have been shown. Our 
 plan for the week has been one of cooperation with other denominations in the 
 preparation of literature, program and promotion work. Miss Koontz prepared 
 the leaflet on arrangements which had a very wide circulation on the part of 
 the Elementary leaders of other denominations. We believe that the universal 
 observance of Children's Week is necessary if God's little ones would come 
 into their own. It is a means of bringing the interests and training of the 
 children nearer to both the home and community life and cannot help but result 
 in untold good. 
 
 The aim of the Elementary Division is to set before our Church the highest 
 possible ideals for the workers with children in the way of preparation, organ- 
 ization and leadership, with the object of turning out Christian boj's and girls 
 when they have passed through the Junior department. 
 
 Aside from Departmental organization very little is done in class organ- 
 ization among the children. This is permissible only in the Junior Dejiartment. 
 During the past four years only 17 classes with 172 pupils reported an organ- 
 ization and received certificates. 
 
 Much stress is laid on the observance of Children's Day which comes on 
 the first Sunday in June. Last year the department prepared a Children's Day 
 centennial program entitled "Our Father's World" asking that it be used in 
 every school. Thirt}'^ thousand copies were printed and offered free. Only a 
 little over seven thousand were ordered, which was a great disappointment to us 
 for we feel that an opportunity for teaching church loyalty was lost. It is our 
 purpose to urge the use of this program this year. We believe that more atten- 
 tion should be given to this important day from the standpoint of religious 
 education. The only way to express our appreciation of the children is by 
 doing our best for them through Ihe Christian agencies provided. 
 
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WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
 Secondary Division. 
 
 This Division of our work includes the work for young people ranging 
 from twelve to twenty-four years, inclusive, or the Adolescent period. 
 Indeed we are glad for the emphasis put on the work for children but more 
 attention must be given to our young people. The Standard which was worked 
 out by the Young People's committee of the Interdenominational Sunday-school 
 Council of Evangelical Denominations is being adapted to the needs of the 
 denominations and is functioning in the lives of many of the young people. 
 
 The years of adolescence are regarded as the scope of our work in this 
 division. The natural groupings within these years are as follows: 
 
 Group 1 — years 12, 13, 14 (,12 optional) Intermediates. 
 
 Group 2 — years 15, 16, 17 Seniors. 
 
 Group 3 — years 18-24 Young People. 
 
 It is understood that these groupings shall in all cases be considered flexible, 
 thus permitting the adjustment of group organization to local needs. 
 
 THE GENERAL AIM. 
 
 Here I use largely the same language found in our Secondary Division 
 Standard leaflet. Building on the foundation laid in previous years (the ele- 
 mentary departments) the aim is to produce through worship, instruction, and 
 training, the highest type of Christian manhood and womanhood, expressing 
 Itself in right living and efficient service. 
 
 The ideal is one inclusive organization in the local church for each group of 
 adolescents, the correlation of all young people's organizations in the local 
 church in such a way that it be complemental, not conflicting or competing, with 
 a program of study and activities that will develop our young people on all 
 sides of their nature, physical, social, mental and religious. This program should 
 include Bible study and correlated subjects, the cultivation of the devotional 
 life, training for leadership, and service through stewardship, recreation, com- 
 munity work, citizenship, evangelism and missions. 
 
 We are more convinced than ever that the Church must awaken herself to 
 and supply the needs of all her young people if we would have them become 
 Christian and build a Christian society. 
 
 We have urged the organization of the classes in this division. During the 
 quadrennium, 403 classes were organized with a total membership of 5403, for 
 which we issued a joint denominational and International certificate. 
 
 We believe with Mr. John Alexander, Secondary Division Superintendent 
 of the International Sunday-school Association, that the organized class is the 
 best form of organization to meet the needs of young people and that "The 
 great majority of Sunday-school teachers have no desire to try any auxiliary 
 organization in combination with their classes. They are somewhat dubiO'US 
 of the machinery, ritual, etc., which are concomitants of these schemes. Again 
 and again they have voiced a demand, not for new organizations, but for activi- 
 ties to deepen interest in the organization that the teacher understands, the Bible 
 Class." There is no reason why we should not have a strong Secondary or 
 Young People's Division in every Sunday school throughout the denomination. 
 
 It is mteresting to note that the International Sunday-school Association 
 has a strong Young People's organization with trained leaders. This organ- 
 ization is linked up with every Province, State and county on the Continent 
 and the organizations known as the Boys' and Girls' Congress are working 
 wonders in enlisting the young people in training and expression. Two Inter- 
 national Training schools for young people for training and expression are 
 now in operation, one at Conference Point, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the other 
 at Winnipesaukee, Maine. We are glad that some of our own young people 
 have been in attendance at these schools. Others should be encouraged to do so. 
 
 It is in this Division between the ages of 12 and 16 years that the greatest 
 number of conversions take place and between 16 and 24 most of life's choices 
 are made such as a vocation, home making, etc. How important then that we 
 give our young people an organization and program of Religious Education 
 that will mean their personal salvation and training for a life of service. 
 
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WORK FOR ADULTS. 
 Advanced Dhasion. 
 
 Here we deal with all above twenty-four years of age. The Adult move- 
 ment has had a marvelous growth, especially in tlie United States. 1 am glad 
 that our own denomination has kept pace in this work. 
 
 The denominations have a well worked out Standard for this Division, 
 which has also been adopted by the International Sunday-school Association. 
 There are three recognized departments in this Division (1) Adult Class Depart- 
 ment which includes Adult Class Organization. (2) The Home and Extension 
 Department (3) The Parents Department. We have aimed during the quad- 
 rennium to bring the aims, scope, organization, means, etc., of this Division 
 before our Adult leaders and workers. We believe that a strong adult organ- 
 ization helps solve the problem of getting the children and young people. We 
 believe too that there must not only be great emphasis put on the I)uilding up 
 and organizing Adult classes but that there should be a Home and Extension 
 Department for those who cannot attend Sunday school. Also a Parents 
 Departrpent for the training of parents and helping them in the nurture of their 
 children. 
 
 There is a growing demand in our office for special study courses for 
 Adults. We hope that in the near future something definite may i>e offered. 
 The International Lesson committee has outlined some splendid courses, but 
 as a denomination we have not yet made them available. 
 
 During the past four years 220 new adult classes with an enrollment of 
 5052 pupils were reported to us, to which we issued certificates. Many of these 
 classes we are glad to say are functioning with a program of service (1) In the 
 class (2) In the school (3) In the church (4) In the home (5) In the community. 
 
 TRAINING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 A marked change was made in the early part of the quadrennium in regard 
 to Teacher Training. A Standard course was carefully worked out by the 
 Teacher Training section of the Interdenominational Sunday-school Council 
 and adopted by about thirty denominations, members of the council. Each 
 denomination was given the riglit to select its own units and use its own imprint. 
 Our department selected its units and decided on the title '"The Otterbein 
 Standard Training Course." This course consists of 120 lessons and aims at a 
 more thorough training of Sunday-school officers and teachers. It presup- 
 poses that those who enter the classes have a fair knowledge of the Bible, 
 hence the course is strictly pedogogical. Each year consists of four units of 
 ten lessons each. 
 
 The First Year Units are as follows: 1. The Pupil; 2. The Teacher; 3. 
 How tO' Teach the Life of Christ; 4. The School. 
 
 The Second Year I. Significance and Teaching values of the Old Testa- 
 ment: 2. Significance and Teaching Values of the New Testament (other than 
 the Life of Christ); 3. The Message of the Christian Religion; 4. How to Train 
 the Devotional Life. 
 
 The Third Year consists of Specialization Units as follows: Beginners and 
 Primary, Junior, Secondary, Adult and Administrative. In this year the pupil 
 chooses one of the group of units covering forty credits, with a view to special 
 preparation for the particular field in the Sunday school in which he intends 
 to work. 
 
 The books for the first and second year have been prepared and are in use 
 while the third year units are now in process of preparation. 
 
 When a pupil completes the First year units a certificate with seal is issued, 
 for the Second year a seal and for the Third year a diploma. 
 
 • We still offer the old or former courses and give a special certificate for 
 their completion, but the certi'icatc does not count as a credit on the Otterbein 
 Stan.dard Course. 
 
 •■ -•■,■ The Board two years ago recommended that the General Secretary prepare 
 a. new, shorter course, part of the work was done Init the multiplicit}^ of duties 
 made it impossible for him to complete it. 
 
 ,, Our records show the following for the past four years. Number of pupils 
 enrolled in old courses 902. In Otterbein Standard Course 476 or a total of 
 1378 pupils. Diplomas issued in old courses under old plan for all who had 
 
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oiuolK'd before April- 1, 1918. 350. Certilicates issued for completing First 
 part in old courses under old plan 380. Special certilicates issued for com- 
 pleting old courses under new plan 182. Certilicates issued with seal for com- 
 pleting First year Otterbein Standard Course 117. Seals issued for completion 
 of Otterbein Standard Course Second Year 4. 
 
 This report does not include what was done tiirou.^h the county and State 
 or^^anizations. Our Sunday-sciiool survey revealed the awful fact that only 
 about one-eighth of our schools have a training department of any kind. More 
 than one-half of these are not enrolled with the General OHice. 
 
 We believe that our Church and Sunday-school leaders must take the 
 matter of otticers' and teachers' preparation more seriously and must provide 
 for a training department in each school to meet at the Sunday-school hour 
 the same as other departments. Without l^etter trained workers we cannot 
 expect to hold our children and young people and give them a proper Christian 
 education and training. 
 
 COMMUNITY TRAINING SCHOOLS. 
 
 The growing spirit of Brotherhood and Denominational cooperation today 
 is marked and we are glad that in many places Community Training Schools 
 are being organized and functioning with good results. These schools have 
 for their purpose the training of Sunday-school officers and teachers. We urge 
 our own schools to unite heartily in this movement. This will help solve 
 the problem of training in many of our schools. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL EVANGELISM. 
 
 We believe that the Sunday school is the greatest evangelistic field and 
 yet the sad fact is that about sixty percent of our pupils pass out of the Sunday- 
 school without being won to Christ and Church membership. 
 
 Our denominational survey revealed to us that only about one-half of our 
 Sunday schools observed Decision Day or gave the pupils an opportunity to 
 accept Christ as their personal Savior. There are some facts that we cannot 
 get away from and which must be emphasized in our Evangelistic program in 
 the local church, namely, that Sunday-school evangelism is inseparable from 
 religious education and conservation; that the value of child conversion cannot 
 be over estimated; that the agencies that enter into the highest and best type 
 of Sundaj'-school evangelism are The Church, The Home, The Sunday school 
 and these must be cooperative and that careful and wise preparation must be 
 made for this important work. 
 
 I like the language of Milton S. Littleheld who says "Evangelism is that 
 appeal to the will which will lead the individual consciously to adjust himself 
 to the will of God. It is the process of making a Christian, and a Christian is 
 one who shares the purpose of Jesus. The purpose of Jesus must differ in 
 different ages, for in different periods of development, the individual is a 
 different being." In order to have the best results in evangelism, it should be 
 graded with graded evangelistic appeals. There should be a dift'erent presenta- 
 tion and approach to the different life periods. There is a decision period in 
 every life and it is the business of Christian leaders and teachers to prepare 
 every child for that period and when he reaches it lead him to Christ. 
 
 The Ye^ar Book shows that during the past four years there were added to 
 the Church' from the Sunday school 47,160. While this looks like a large 
 number, we have reason to believe that there are more than that many thou- 
 sand for whom no definite effort was made to reach. This is to be regretted. 
 Of all phases of Church work that needs united prayer and action it is that of 
 evangelism. 
 
 But evangelism must not stop at conversion. The processes of education 
 and conservation must go on. One of the saddest comments on our Evangel- 
 istic program is the woeful lack in the instruction and training of the converts 
 for church membership and Christian living. Careful personal attention is 
 needed. There is entirely too big a leakage in our churches. There are too 
 many backsliders. It is not God's fault or the thoroughness of his work as 
 God. It is because of our woeful neglect to feed his lambs, to shepherd his 
 flock. During the years just passed I have had many calls for books on instruc- 
 tion for young converts, but there were very few that I could recommend and 
 
[hty do not meet the needs in an adequate way and some are out of print. The 
 church would do well to provide such a book of instruction in the near future. 
 It should be Biblical, modern, practical and meet the needs of the convert in 
 a constructive helpful and spiritual manner. The writer chosen should be one 
 who actually knows what is needed and knows how to prepare it. 
 
 FREE GRANTS AND EXTENSION WORK. 
 
 Our records show that during the four years there were 219 grants of free 
 literature, whicii represents 189 dififerent schools, of which 130 reported as new 
 schools. The others were schools in need of help or reorganized schools. 
 The total cost to the Board was $980.78 adding the discount $278.08 given by 
 the U. B. Publishing House, makes a total of $1,258.86. It is difficult to under- 
 stand that in spite of so many new schools organized that there should be a 
 loss each year in the total number of schools. 
 
 We believe that our largest Sunday schools should do more extension work. 
 That new schools should be started in needy communities but with greater care 
 and upon a more permanent basis. Had we field workers as a department we 
 believe our work would be more satisfactory in this line. Much depends upon 
 the personnel and influence of those who begin and promote the work in any 
 community. 
 
 RURAL WORK NEEDS EMPHASIS. 
 
 The United Brethren Church originally was rural and has continued so to 
 a large degree. We are glad for the splendid work we are now doing in many 
 cities. But we must not forsake the source of our original strength. One- of 
 the sad things that we are experiencing is the closing of many of our country 
 churches which means a loss in Sunday schools. Many of our young men who 
 are trained for the ministry must be encouraged to become country pastors. 
 Indeed we must aim to get our young inen in the country to prepare for rural 
 leadership. We cannot afiford to weaken here. Many of our rural pastors 
 are doing splendid work and are maintaining and promoting fine Sunday schools 
 but they need encouragement, special help and financial support if they would 
 bring the work up to the highest standard and maintain a rural Christian 
 conscience and carry on an adequate rural program. 
 
 FIELD WORK NEEDED. 
 
 It is impossible for the General Secretary to do all the Administrative work 
 required and at the same time do extensive and constructive field work. This 
 work is promoted by a number of the leading denominations by State workers. 
 In some cases by district workers. With the strength of our denomination wp 
 believe it would be possible for a number of conferences to combine in the 
 employment of field workers under the direction of the General Department. 
 If this is not done then there should be a very carefully selected Sunday-school 
 Hoard in each Conference with ample funds provided for said board to help 
 promote the work along the lines advocated and presented by the General 
 Board. We must keep in closer direct touch with our schools if we would 
 maintain them, get proper results ^nd cultivate Church loyalty. 
 
 NEW PHASES OF WORK UPON US. 
 
 With the tremendous momentum now on in the field of Religious Education 
 we must not fall behind in the new movements that are essential to the better 
 instruction, training and spiritual well being of our children and young people. 
 We are told "that the average Protestant child has only 24 hours of time pro- 
 vided annually for his religious instruction, while the Jewish child has 335 
 hours and the Catholic child 20(> hours."' 
 
 "More time on Sunday and during week days should be provided as rapidly 
 as curricula and teachers can be prepared," already vacation and. week day 
 schools of religion are being established in many places with marked success. 
 We boast of being a Christian nation and yet there are 27,000,000 children and 
 young people in the United States, under twenty-five years of age who have no 
 definite religious instruction of any kind. United Brethren must not only 
 
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\ provide a better Religious Education program, more time for the Christian 
 instruction and training of those they now have but must share in providing 
 for these unreached 27,000,000' children and young people, besides the many 
 million of unreached adults. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL LITERATURE. 
 
 While this does not come primarilj- vvitiiin the province of our iioard, 
 nevertheless there is a close and vital connection, for the success and product 
 of Sunday-school Work depends in a large measure upon the lesson material 
 used as well as the personality and qualilication of the leaders and instructors. 
 From time to time we have emphasized both graded lesson material and graded 
 instruction. We are glad that many of our schools are using graded lesions 
 especially in the Elementary Division (for children under twelve yearsj also 
 some m the Secondary or Young People's Division. 
 
 We can never expect to turn out young people with a knowledge of the 
 Bible and right Christian conduct until they are given lessons adapted to tnejr 
 needs. The crying need today is graded lessons for our young people as well 
 as the children, also special courses for Adults aside trom the international 
 uniform lessons. 
 
 We believe that the editors of our Sunday-school literature are doing their 
 best and are turnmg out a splendid type of lesson material, but we cannot do 
 our best as a denomination until we specialize and supply the growing demand 
 that is now upon us for our own graded lessons for young people and special 
 courses for adults. 
 
 Our editors are to be commended for the high grade magazine, The Otter- 
 bein Teacher, which should have a much wider circulation. We believe 
 however, that more material should be furnished by our own writers as to the 
 use of Graded Lesson material and the promotion of different phases of 
 religious education that are now demanding the attention of Sunday-school 
 workers everywhere. 
 
 1 think 1 can safely say that the great majority of our Sunday-school 
 leaders are loyal to their own Church in the use of United Brethren literature. 
 They are entitled to the best along all lines that the Church can produce. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE OR BUILDINGS. 
 
 Since there is increasing change in the educational processes and program 
 of the Cnurch we discover a rapidly growing tendency' to meet these needs in the 
 form of buildings better adapted to devotional, educational, e-xpressional and 
 social purposes. However, even in new buildings we discover plans designed 
 by men who have little conception of modern religious education which results 
 in great disappointment. Ample time and care should be taken to design and 
 construct standard Sunday-school buildings in both rural and city communities 
 with a view to meeting the needs of different life groups as found in a modern 
 graded school and the best possible equipment should be provided for depart- 
 ments and classes. 
 
 BROTHERHOOD WORK. 
 
 The department has continued to emphasize the work for men mostlj' in 
 the form of organized classes in the Sunday school. Where a Federation of 
 Men's classes was desired or an organization including all the men of the 
 church, then we recommended the Otterbein Brotherhood as best fitted to meet 
 the needs. 
 
 Each year, the last Sunday in January has been set apart as I'.rotherhood 
 Day. Many of the pastors observed the day with good results, and many men 
 were hitched up in a definite way to the work of the Church. 
 
 Our survey showed that only about one-half of our Sunday schools have an 
 organized Men's Class. This should be changed in the near future. No school 
 however small should fail to organize the men. 
 
 Our records show that sixteen Otterbein Brotherhoods were organized and 
 received charters during the quadrennium. 
 
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SUNDAY SCHOOL CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Our annual Board Meeting May 20-24, 1920 was in the form of a centennial 
 celebration. It celebrated the founding of the lirst known United Brethren 
 Sunday school in 1820 by Rev. John G. Pfrinimer, near Corydon, Indiana. The 
 Sunday school is still active and is known as Pfrimmers. 
 
 Every service and session of the Board was rich and full, including the 
 closing hour Sunday night the twenty-fourth. 
 
 Rev. J. L. Battram of Corydon and Rev. M. I. TuUis of the Pfrimmei- 
 Church and their good people made every possible arrangement for comfort 
 and entertainment and gave all who attended a royal welcome and good time. 
 Saturday the twenty-third was spent at the Pfrimmer Church and in the nearby 
 grove where all-day services were held. In the forenoon after brief services a 
 beautiful bronze tablet was unveiled in the Church by two little great, great 
 grandsons of Dr. Pfrimmer, Masters Marion and Phillip La Hue. The inscrip- 
 tion on the tablet is as follows: 
 
 3n (Grateful i$lemorj> 
 
 of 
 
 3^eb. SFolbn George pfrimmer, MM. 
 minl$ter-Pbyslclan-3urlst 
 
 Born In the uniagc of Bishcim, flisace, Trance, 3uly 24, 1762. Came to 
 United States in i78S. and settled In eastern Pennsyluanla. Chence re- 
 moved to Corydon, Tndlana, in i$o$. 1)e established the first United 
 Brethren Churches in Indiana. Organized the first United 
 Brethren Sunday School at this place In i$20. Died 
 September 5, i$25. 
 
 "He was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of Faith." . . Acts 1 1-24. 
 
 the General Sunday School Board of tbe United Brethren in Christ 
 placed this tablet may 20, 1920. 
 
 There were also touching services at the graves of both Dr. and Mrs. 
 Pfrimmer. Dinner was served in the near-by grove followed by an interesting 
 program of addresses and reminiscences. On Sunday the twenty-fourth, the 
 meetings were held in a large tent on the Fairgrounds in Corydon, all of the 
 churches of the town participating; the outstanding feature being a combir.ed 
 Sunday-school parade in the afternoon, all marching to the tent in a i)ody. We 
 feel that the four days spent in Corydon were days of rich intellectual, historical 
 and social enrichment and that all who participated in the program did 
 their best. , 
 
 A beautiful centennial pageant entitled "The Way of Holiness" showing 
 our debt to the past and future was prepared for us by Doctor Mary Alice 
 Emerson of Boston University. This pageant cost us considerable money. It 
 was thoroughly advertised in our Church and Sunday-school periodicals but 
 failed to receive a hearty response from our churches and schools which 
 brought keen disappointment to those of us who are proud of our denomi- 
 national Sunday-school history. 
 
 COOPERATION WITH OTHER MOVEMENTS. 
 
 Our department cooperated with and particii)ated in the Inter-church 
 World Movement. The General Secretary served on the committee of Spiritual 
 Resources. We also cooperated heartily in our own United P^nlistmtAit Move- 
 ment helping to prepare the way in different conferences and serving as chair- 
 man of the committee on Spiritual Work and Rvangelism. Passing through the 
 ex[)eriences of the war followed by these big movements made the work of our 
 
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office extremely heavy and rcijuired all the latent strenytii that could he 
 mustered. 
 
 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND INTERDENOMINATIONAL 
 COUNCIL REORGANIZATION. 
 
 During^ this (luadrennium a mo\'cment has hcen on foot to hring ahout 
 closer cooperation in the held of religious education. At jiresent a plan is well 
 under way and practically consummated for the merging of the Sundaj'-school 
 Council of Evangelical denominations, and the International Sunday-school 
 Association, which are the two outstanding Interdenominational Sunday-school 
 agencies of North America. 
 
 The International Sunday-school Association Executive Committee has 
 heen reconstituted with hoth denominational and territorial representatives 
 upon a fifty-fifty liasis. The Sunday-school Council has also l)een reorganized 
 to include in addition to its former memhership, (who were all denominational 
 representatives) the employed officers of the International Association and of 
 the associations affiliated with it. These steps practically make the two asso- 
 ciations one and we hope they shall soon function in a spirit of fraternity and 
 Christian unity that will mean greater things in the Sunday-school work of all 
 communions and also receive their hearty and official support. We earnestly 
 urge the most hearty cooperation of our own denomination in this new 
 movement. 
 
 FINANCES. 
 
 We are glad to state that our treasury is in a healthful condition which 
 prepares the waj' for us to do some of the things that are absolutely necessary 
 to strengthen and build up the work in all departments. 
 
 According to the action of the last General Conference the Sunday-school 
 and Brotherhood department were to receive four and one-half percent of the 
 General Benevolence Budget and the Children's Day offering. Upon the launch- 
 ing of the United Enli'^tment Movement it was agreed that a preferred claim 
 of $12.50(( i)er year be given to this department and that no special offerings be 
 taken. This agreement has been lived up to but we believe that the plan has 
 taken a factor of educational value from our children that later on will be seen. 
 W^e believe firmly that the Children's Day offering should have a definite 
 objective. 
 
 The Board of Control at its annual meeting in 1919 gave the department 
 authority to raise one hundred thousand dollars as a permanent fund in com- 
 memoration of the One Hundredth .Anniversary of the founding of the first 
 known United Brethren Sunday school, by Rev. John G. Pfrimmer in 1820. near 
 Corydon, Indiana. Plans were well under way with the promise of success when 
 the Board of Administration put the amount in the General Benevolence Budget 
 with the understanding that the Sunday-school department receive twenty- 
 thousand dollars a year for two years as a centennial fund. 
 
 The treasurer's report shows that only $2,289.99 have been received for this 
 frind up to April 1. " 
 
 This means that we are disappointed greath' in the defeat of a plan that 
 we believe would have been successful. 
 
 During these years all the schools were urged to make a liberal contri- 
 bution to our orphanages and homes, which received a hearty response. 
 
 Each year the schools have also been asked to make an offering to the 
 Armenian and Syrian, now called the Xear East Relief Fund. Our offerings each 
 time totaled in round numbers about forty thousand dollars. 
 
 Other interests, lo-cal and general, received liberal contribution from many 
 of our schools among which is The International Sunday-school Association. 
 Our Year Book shows that $1,032,547.57 were collected for local Sunday-school 
 purposes, during the (luadrennium. 
 
 The foregoing shows that the Sunday school is a rich financial source but 
 we believe that it should be made more than a device to secure money. That 
 education and evangelism should have the right of way and that ample funds 
 should be provided for the general department in the execution of its work. 
 
 Our office receipts for the quadreimium are as follows: $1,226.60. 
 
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The Treasurer reports an overdraft, March 31, 1917, of $93.20; receipts for 
 quadrennium from ail sources $48,833.94: expenditures $36,992.14 with a balance 
 on hand. April 1, 1921, of $9,458.61 in general fund and $2,289.99 in Centennial 
 tund or a total of $11,748.60. 
 
 I am convinced that this department can be made a tremendous agency for 
 the Kmgdom of God if in our Educational program we give proper place for 
 instruction in the stewardship of wealth. 
 
 SPIRITUAL RESULTS. 
 
 It is impossible for us to estimate the spiritual results of our work of the 
 last four years. We have aimed to emphasize the necessity of a thorough knowl- 
 edge of the Bible as the Word of God. of a vital relationship with Christ as 
 Divine Savior and Lord and of living like him in society. We believe many 
 lives have been enriched. We appreciate our noble army of forty thousand 
 volunteer officers and teachers and their splendid pastors who are giving their 
 time in this rich field of Christian service. We only pray that they strive to 
 cultivate a personality like Jesus the Master Teacher and give to him their 
 very best; that they catch the inspiration of this new day when we are building 
 all our work of Christian religious education around the pupil with a view to 
 his salvation, which calls for a new consecration and devotion to the task. 
 
 MUST REGAIN OUR LOSSES. 
 
 There is no way by which we can secure complete statistics except from 
 our conference minutes as tabulated in our Year Book. 
 The following are the reports. 
 
 No. of No. of Officers Total 
 
 ,^,„ Schools and Teachers Enrollment 
 
 ^8 33S7 42,054 448,787 
 
 oln ii?. ^^-^^^ 432.445 
 
 1920 3223 40,117 410149 
 
 1921 3151 K, 39,474 407,657 
 Ihis makes a total loss for the quadrennium of 235^^ schools. 2580 officers 
 
 and teachers and 41,130 in enrollment. Upon investigation I have found that 
 the manner of reporting is not uniform or satisfactory. Some do not report 
 schools that run only part of the year. We need a plan for enrollment that 
 will include all schools and all pupils. Then too many of our country churches 
 are being closed, which accounts partially for our losses. We should make a 
 more vigorous effort to make these churches serve their communities in a 
 Christian but modern way in order to conserve them as an agency for the 
 building up of Christ's Kingdom. I am glad to say that recent reports from 
 different parts of the Church show a fine increase in enrollment and renewed 
 interest along all lines of Sunday-school work. 
 
 Indeed, many small schools if given more attention and proper leadership 
 could be enlarged. The only way to stop the leakage is to put our 
 time, thought and energy into the work and determine to reach every man 
 woman and child for which our schools are responsible. "Behold I say unto 
 you. lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white alread'v unto 
 n3-vest. 
 
 STATISTICAL SUMMARY. 
 Time served April 1, 1917 to April 1, 1921. 
 
 Lectures, Addresses. Sermons, etc 758 
 
 Participated in Group Meetings. Institutes and Schools of 
 
 Methods 54 
 
 World Convention 1 
 
 State Conventions 3 
 
 State Group Meetings '. 5 
 
 County Conventions 22 
 
 Tovvnship Conventions 6 
 
 Christian Endeavor Conventions '5 
 
 Annual Conferences Attended 33 
 
 Evangelistic Meetings Held [ 4 
 
 Number of Conversions 250 
 
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. NEW CLASSES ORGANIZED. 
 
 Elementarj' Division (Children under 12 years) 17 classes 172 pupils 
 
 Secondary Division (Young People 12-24 years) 403 classes 5,403 pupils 
 
 Adult Division (All over 24 years) 220 classes 5,052 pupils 
 
 Total 640 classes 10,627 pupils 
 
 TRAINING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 I'upils enrolled in Old Courses 902 
 
 Pupils enrolled in Otterbein Standard Course 476 
 
 Total ., ....1.378 
 
 Diplomas issued in Old Courses under old plan 350 
 
 Certificates for complctiny first i)art in Old Courses under old plan.. 380 
 
 Special certificates for Old Courses under new plan 182 
 
 Certificates with seal for completing first year Otterhein Course 117 
 
 Seals for completing second year Otterhein Course 4 
 
 Added to the Church from Sunday schools 47,160 
 
 FREE GRANTS OF LITERATURE. 
 
 No. free grants given 219 
 
 No. of schools represented • • 189 
 
 No. reported as new schools • • 130 
 
 Cost to the Board $ 980.78 
 
 Discount granted by Publishing House 278.08 
 
 Total Cost $1,258.86 
 
 BROTHERHOODS. 
 
 Number of New Brotherhood Charters issued 16 
 
 FINANCES. 
 
 Over-draft at Beginning of Quadrennium $ 93.20 
 
 Receipts from all sources 48,833.94 
 
 Total expenses • 36,992.14 
 
 Balance on hand April 1, 1921 in General Fund 9,458.61 
 
 In Centennial Fund • ■ • • 2.289.99 
 
 Total amount Collected by Local Sunday Schools 1,032,547.57 
 
 PRINTED MATTER ISSUED. 
 
 1917-1918 66.500 
 
 1918-1919 70,000 pieces 
 
 1919-1920 125,001) pieces 
 
 1920-1921 114,000 pieces 
 
 pieces 
 
 Total ...................... . . 375,500 pieces 
 
 ENROLLMENT. 
 
 No. Officers Total 
 
 No. Schools and Teachers Enrollment 
 
 3,387 42,054 448,787 
 
 3,320 41,230 432,445 
 
 3,223 40,117 410,149 
 
 3,151 J^ 39.474 407,657 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS. 
 
 In the light of the foregoing and with a view to greater efficiency in the 
 
 work of religious education, we recommend the favorable consideration of the 
 following: 
 
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1. That the different agencies that have to do with religious education of the 
 children and young people of our Church be so correlated and coordinated 
 that overlapping and duplication of effort be lessened in their behalf. 
 
 2. That provision be made for Summer Training Schools in the different areas 
 of the Church with a view to gathering our young people for ten days or 
 two weeks for instruction and preparation for Christian leadership in local 
 churches. 
 
 3. That as a denomination we cooperate most heartily in the movement to 
 provide Week-Day Religious Instruction, and Vacation Religious Schools 
 for the children, also Commimity Training Schools for the purpose of 
 training workers for leadership and teaching in our churches and Sunday 
 schools. 
 
 4. That a book be carefully prepared for the instruction of Young Converts 
 in the fundamental doctrines of the Bible and in practical Christian living. 
 
 5. That a uniform and satisfactory system of enrollment be provided for our 
 Sunday schools with a view to correct records and statistics. 
 
 6. That a special time be set apart for the election of Sunday-school officers 
 and that it be required that the names and addresses of the newly elected 
 officers be sent to the General Ofiice at Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 7. That all Teacher Training Classes and organized Sunday-school Classes be 
 urged to secure diplomas and certificates from their own denomination as 
 agreed to by the Interdenominational Sunday-school Council of Evangelical 
 Denominations and The International Sunday-school Association. 
 
 8. That our Publishers be requested to give more attention to the preparation 
 of Graded Lessons that will meet the needs in the Young People's or 
 Secondary Division, and if necessary provide special courses for Adults. 
 
 9. That provision be made for each Conference to appoint an Elementary and 
 Secondary worker, whose business shall be to keep in direct touch with tlie 
 General office. Also at least one field worker in each of the different 
 Bishops' districts. 
 
 10. That specific direction be given as to the Children's Day Offering and that 
 as far as possible the day be observed universally throughout the Church. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 CHAS. W. BREWBAKER, 
 
 General Secretary. 
 
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Quadrennial Report of the 
 Department of 
 
 Young People's Work 
 
 OF THE CHURCH OF THE 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 TO THE 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
Quadrennial Report of 
 
 Young Peoples' Department 
 
 To the Bishops, General Officers, and Members of the Twenty-eighth General 
 
 Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ: 
 Dear Brethren and Sisters: 
 
 In making this, my second quadrennial report, I desire first of all to record 
 my gratitude to the Heavenly Father for his goodness and mercy and for the 
 heart-cheering victories he has given our beloved Zion during the past quad- 
 rennium. 1 wish to sincerely thank my colaborers for their kindness and 
 cooperation in the work. 
 
 The Young People's Department is correlated with the Sunday-school and 
 Brotherhood Department under the direction of the lioard of Control, elected 
 Ijy the General Conference. At tlie first meeting of the IJoard this quadrennium, 
 held at Wichita. Kansas, May 19, 1917, the following executive committee was 
 elected for the Young People's Department: J. G. Huber, H. F. Shupe, J. \V. 
 Owen, A. R. Clippinger and J. 1>. Showers. The committee continued through- 
 out the quadrennium and has given splendid assistance to the work of the 
 department. This help given the department has been rendered in spite of 
 other taxing responsil)ilities in connection with the United Enlistment Move- 
 ment. Three out of live of the members of the executive committee of the 
 Young People's Department, namely, A. R. Clippinger, IT. F. Shupe, J, B. 
 Showers, are on the Campaign Committee of the United Enlistment Movement. 
 This Movement called for much of their time and it was often difficult to have 
 a ineetin^ of our committee when desired. 
 
 MEETINGS FOR COUNSEL. 
 
 Seeing the need of some plan which calls into counsel the leading officials 
 of the conference Christian Endeavor unions, because they principally execute 
 the plans worked out. Christian Endeavor conferences, with at least one or two 
 representatives of the different conferences in the Bishops' districts, were held, 
 during the last two years of the (piadrennium, at Kansas Cit}', Missouri, 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus. Ohio, and Harrisburg, I'ennsylvania. These 
 conferences did much to unify our work and give to the conference union 
 workers a clearer understanding of the denominational jirogram. 
 
 , CONFERENCE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNIONS. 
 
 Every conference in the denomination, outside of our foreign mission fields, 
 has their Young People's Societies organized for work. .About four thousand 
 young people are gathered together in conventions held by these conference 
 organizations each summer. As many as three hundred life service decisions 
 were made during a convention season. The conference union organizations 
 with their conventions, constitute one of the greatest assets of our denomination. 
 This General Conference should seriously consider how it may strengthen these 
 organizations and increase their usefulness. Too high a tribute can hardly l>e 
 paid them for their magnificent work. 
 
 ANNUAL CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP. 
 
 The Young People's Department has been able to luit across its program 
 because the conference organizations have been working hand in hand with it. 
 Without these organizations the Young People's Department would be seriously 
 
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handicapped. These conference organizations have heen the bulwark of our 
 Young I'eople's Work for thirty-one years. 
 
 They give the denomination its strongest agency for denominational direc- 
 tion of its Young i'eo))le's Work. Other denominations are earnestly seeking 
 to promote denominational direction of their Young People's Work, because 
 they lind that if thej- do not, their young people turn to other leadersiiip and 
 they lose a great opportunity to have a share in their training. The pendulum 
 is swinging toward denominational oversight of the religious training of yontli. 
 Many churches are awakening to this need. I quote from a recent letter from 
 Dan Brummitt, editor of the Epworth Herald and a leader among Methodist 
 young people; 
 
 "We are more than ever convinced of the value of denominational work. 
 The one instance that we can j)lace nearly ten millions of Centenary sul)scrip- 
 tions to the Young i'eople's Societies is i>art of an accumulative mass of 
 favorable evidence. Another, this paper secured 40.(X)0 signatures to the 
 Tithing Covenant from our members in one daj\ (after weeks of pul)licit3', 
 propaganda and other preparation). This sort of thing can be done only when 
 there is unity of program in all the local societies, and a united etifort to a 
 single objective." 
 
 I also quote from a letter from Kev. Ralph Hall, superintendent of Young 
 People's Work of the Presbyterian Church; 
 
 "We issue literature magnif3'ing the denominational program and emphasize 
 the work in a large number of Institutes and Summer Conferences.'' 
 
 The distinctiveness of the Christian Endeavor organization is what gives it 
 vitalit}'. For the lirst time in the history of our Young People's Work evary 
 United Brethren conference outside of the foreign fields haye a Young People's 
 organization of more or less efficiency. 
 
 \\'hen the Biennial Conventions ceased and the Board of Co-ntrol took 
 over the Young People's Work it was with the distinct understanding that the 
 conference organizations be strengthened and that in lieu of giving up I)icnnial 
 conventions, conference conventions be reinforced. 
 
 The conference organizations made it possil)le for the Young People's 
 Department to put across the program which you outlined for it. 
 
 QUADRENNIAL VICTORIES. 
 
 The last General Conference set six great goals for our young people. 
 These goals were; Seven thousand Comrades of the Quiet Hour; 5000 Tithers; 
 500 Life Work Recruits; Students in Personal Eiticiency in every society; 25 
 percent net increase'in societies. and membership: and cooperation in vitalizing 
 the local church. 
 
 The lirst four goals named were fully realized. Alany leaders think our 
 C hristian Endeavor organizations .greatly assisted in realizing the good results 
 attending the United Enlistment Movement. Xo doubt nearly one-half of 
 United I'rethren tithers are found among our Endeavorers. 
 
 Our goal for Life Work Recruits has been realized three times over. As a 
 result we have nt)w in our schools of learning the largest number of young men 
 and young women looking to special Christian service we have had in the 
 history of the Church. 
 
 We have enrolled 3220 Students in Personal El'licieiicy and sent over 15,000 
 seals, indicating that many books read. 
 
 A decided advance has I)een made in tlie direction of conference field work. 
 Seven or eight conferences are planning work of this nature. Southeast Ohio 
 takes the lead in this line, having a fieldWorker in the person of Rev. E. E. 
 Harris, an Otterbein student, who ,gives his week-ends and vacation periods to 
 visit churches in the interest of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 Most conference luiions now have the conference divided into districts and 
 are develoi)ing strong organizations l)y securing elticient district leadersiiip. 
 Our Christian iMideavor conventions have taken on added interest thrc><igh new 
 methods emi)loyed to make them interesting and helpful. Some of them are 
 held out of doors, recreational features added, and the time lengthened for tlie 
 duration of the convention. Institute work, with attractive inspirational 
 features, is l)eing magnified as never before, 
 
NUMERICAL GROWTH. 
 
 Our societies liave sustained a loss in membership dnrins; tlic quadrenninm. 
 It was impossible, during the war period, to hold the extraordinary gains of the 
 previous quadrennium. But were we in a position to give an up-to-date report, 
 I)ased on the gains of the last six months, since the rcmarkal)le revivals through- 
 out the Church, we could give a very dilTcrent account of the work. We have 
 received reports of more new C^hristian ICndeavor societies since January first 
 (lian during any other period of equal length since I have had connection with 
 this work. 
 
 Christian b'ndeavor flourishes on revivals. During the most of the quad- 
 rennium when revivals were few. new societies were hard to organize. If the 
 revival spirit dies out of the Church, Christian Endeavor societies will die. Not 
 only so. but it is a well known fact that the enlisting of the young men in the 
 army worked great hardship on our Christian Endeavor societies. This ,is 
 especially true since so many of the young men ujion returning from the war. 
 did not enter again into church work. 
 
 We now have 1519^4 Senior societies with a mcni1)crsliii) of 63,329. Wc 
 have 770 Junior and Intermediate societies with a memlicrship of 29,959. This 
 gives a total of 2289 societies and 89,288 members. 
 
 EXPENSE. 
 
 The Treasurer will give figures in detail slmwing the expense of the dei)art- 
 ment so T shall only indicate a few items. 
 
 The first year of the ciuadrennium it cost $4,284.20' to carry the work. The 
 second year the expense was higher, being $.S, 350,12. The third year. $4,820.40 
 was the amount and the fourth year it cost $5,229.62. This shows an aggregate 
 of $19,684.34 spent during the four vears. The average yearly expense was 
 $4,921.08. We have a balance of $4,054.92 to our credit. 
 
 During the campaigns of the United Enlistment Movement the general 
 secretary gave much time to the promotion of Christian Stewardship and other 
 phases of United Enlistment Movement work. Much of the expense of this 
 work was borne by the Young People's Department, Christian Stewardship 
 being a feature of Christian Endeavor work. 
 
 The department has l)ecn maintained on a basis of most rigid economy. 
 During the first half of the fiuadrennium the department labored under the 
 burden of a deficit which reached $806.86 in 1918 and was reduced to $525.66 in 
 1919. .Ml the balance shown was accumulated during the last two years. 
 Indeed the department was in a state of uncertainty as to its financial condition 
 up to a few months liefore the books closed for the quadrennium. This condi- 
 tion made it impossible to launch the aggressive program which w-as made 
 possible by the United Enlistment Movement. The United Enlistment Move- 
 ment has furnished the department with $5.866. .38 the past year. In addition to 
 this we received $2,149.93 from the Inidget. making a total income of $8,016.51. 
 Our budget collections for the year closing March 31. 1918 were $2,255.07. 
 These figures clearly show the lift that came to our department from the United 
 Enlistnv?nt Movement. 
 
 SPECIAL OFFERINGS. 
 
 During tiie (|nailreniiiuni the department lia< had two special offerings. 
 The first was the .\nniversary Offering of 1918 which amounted to about 
 $1,700. The second was a share of the Self-denial offering in 1919 which 
 amounted to $2,000. Up to the time of the United b'nlistment Movement the 
 income of the department was so inadequate that the office was haiidicapi)ed by 
 not having the full time of a stenographer. The work was therefore greatly 
 hampered. 
 
 ACTIVITIES. 
 
 The activities of the department arc. liroadly speaking, of two kinds; 
 namely, field and office. 
 
OFFICE WORK. 
 
 'The office work of the department has grown during the quadrennium. The 
 following literature has been created and supplied, with two exceptions, free 
 to the societies: 
 
 1. Five thousand copies of a M page hook — "Enlisting Our Young People." 
 
 2. Sixteen page leatlet entitled "Conversations About Christian Endeavor." 
 ^. Report blanks and etiiciency sheets for the societies. 
 
 4. Students in Personal Etiiciency leaflets. 
 
 5. Two hundred and lifty thousand copies of a booklet entitled '"Gertrude's 
 Vision" a booklet used during the Reconstruction campaign which fol- 
 lowed the close of the war. 
 
 6. Two hundred and fifty thousand copies of a short parable entitled "The 
 Prodigal Church." 
 
 7. Students in Personal Efficiency certificates. 
 
 8. Leaflets and certificates for Junior and Intermediate supplemental course 
 of study. 
 
 9. Decision cards of different kinds. 
 
 10. Quiet Hour leaflets. 
 
 11. StewardsJiip leaflets. 
 
 12. A leaflet entitled '"A Word Al)out Life Service." 
 
 13. Leaflets on Junior Work. 
 
 14. Leaflets on Intermediate Work. 
 
 15. Ten thousand copies of a booklet of 28 pages entitled "The Church Caring 
 for Her Young' People" used in the recent campaign of the department 
 centering about Young People's Day, May L 
 
 In addition to the above literature other leaflets have been reproduced; 
 many articles written for the church papers; thousands of letters sent out; multi- 
 tudes of inquiries answered; large quantities of free literature sent out upon 
 request; and in other ways the department has tried to serve the Church. 
 
 For the past year and a half Aliss Louise Hofacker. office assistant, has 
 given efficient full time service to the department. The office is now in a position 
 to render real service to the Church. I'or seven years I have tried to serve as 
 general secretary of this department but it is only during the last year that the 
 department has been in position to adequate!}- do the work it was expected to 
 do. During the first part of the quadrennium the support of the department 
 was so uncertain that it was difVicult to decide the kind of policy to pursue. 
 
 FIELD WORK. 
 
 Much of the time of the General Secretary has been spent in the field 
 visiting conventions, conducting rallies, and promoting the Four Year Program 
 and the United Enlistment Movement. During the past year for example, the 
 secretary was in sixteen conventions in the five liishops' districts, in seven 
 annual conference sessions, toured four conferences doing institute work, and 
 gave time and effort to promoting the United Enlistment work. 
 
 Also during the past year the general secretary put himself into the evangel- 
 istic campaign giving four weeks of his time to three different churches. During 
 these weeks the secretary witnessed the conversion of about two hundred souls. 
 
 UNITED ENLISTMENT MOVEMENT. 
 
 During the quadrennium we have gi\ en much time and energy to promot- 
 ing the Four Year J^rogram and the United Enlistment Movement. This 
 movement was of such commanding importance as to challenge tlie united 
 efforts of all the departments and also made it unadvisable for any one depart- 
 ment to promote a vigorous separated program. A considerable amount of the 
 resources of the department have l)een invested in the general work of the 
 Church, in field work and service at the office. We feel, however, that the 
 returns to the Church and to the department fully justified all the effort and 
 expense. j 
 
 JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE WORK. 
 
 Our Junior and Intermediate societies are in a ])rosperous condition. 
 During thr (luadreiinium, the number of societies has risen from 706 to 770. 
 
There has heen a sniall loss in meinher.ship hut the ^aiii in societies in the>e 
 strenuous times is anijile evidence of tlie Ke'ii^ral favDP in wliirli tliis work is 
 iield and the prosperitj- enjoyed. 
 
 There ought to tie a tremendous awalvening to tlie importance of training 
 our boys and girls for Christ and the Churcii. During the (luadrennium the 
 general secretary has had the responsibility for the Junior work with the 
 assistance of Mrs. Deever. A wonderful opportunity is open in this field. 
 Some plan should be devised by which additional help could be found for 
 junior and Intermediate work. 
 
 The Juniors are responding heartily to the plan of cooperation with the 
 W omen's Missionary .Association. The plan for Supplemental work is meeting 
 with increasing favor. Quite a considerable sum is being gathered each year 
 tlirough the missionary offerings of the children for work among boys and 
 girls in our mission lields. 
 
 Probably- the greatest need for emphasis is on the Intermediate work. The 
 adole.scent period is so important and so difficult that the Church should 
 redoul)le her efforts in meeting her responsibility toward the boys and girls 
 of this age. 
 
 PROPOSED COMBINATION OF DEPARTMENTS. 
 
 The General Conference will need to consider carefully the proposed 
 combination of the Sunday-school and Hrotherhood Department with the 
 department of Young People'^ Work, for thirty-one years our Young People's 
 Work has had a separate identity. Tiiese thirtj-one years are replete with 
 heroic achievements. 
 
 After seven years of close study of the cpiestion 1 am convinced that a 
 combination of departments will result in loss. .\s far as I can learn, generally 
 si)eaking. there are two reasons given why the comliination .should take place. 
 
 ECONOMY. 
 
 The first reason is the consideration of economy. I do not consider this 
 the most important reason and shall not deal with it at length. If you think 
 best to retrench in the matter of expense, then I have this word of warning: 
 Xo head of any other department should undertake the details of the work of 
 this department because other secretaries are loaded lieyond their limit and 
 some have assistants. My best judgment is that a committee composed of 
 those who understand and have e.xpert knowledge of Christian Endeavor, can 
 give better direction to it than a secretary whose hands, head, and heart are 
 absorbed in another line of work. In this connection I wish to repeat a recom- 
 mendation of four years ago: If exacting economy is necessarj', then let us go 
 i)ack to voluntar\', unpaid service for our Young People's Work. For all the 
 years of its history. Endeavor entluisiasts have sat up nights to give this work 
 gratuitous service and they can continue to do so, if necessary. While I 
 firmly believe loss will follow such a course, I am convinced this would not be 
 so great as the loss that would come if the Young People's Department was 
 tucked in under the wing of some more pretentious sister department. 
 
 It is physically and i)sychologically impossible for one person to do all 
 the work' that ought to be done for this department and at the sanu- time do 
 the work that ought to l)e done for some other department. 
 
 We should remember also that the psychological efTect of combination 
 might seriously dishearten many of our young people and thus inflict hardship 
 and injury upon the work. 
 
 I wish also to suggest that the General Conference sound out no note of 
 discouragement. It is easy enough to get in a pessimistic strain. There are 
 no reasons for any such attitude. Generally speaking, our Young People's 
 Work is in the best condition it has ever been. It is true there has been a 
 slump during the last two or three years but certainly a policy for the future 
 should not be built on data gathered from al)normal times like these, but 
 should be built on the entire history of a movement. It is so easy to become 
 impatient for a harvest for which we do not take time to sow seed. We find 
 it also difficult to fully appreciate bur training agencies. Those who bear 
 fruitage in the silent, unseen, inconspicuous forces that build character are often 
 
depreciated by those who in more spectacular ways gather large numher of 
 persons into the Church. Let us be willing to wait tor results. 
 
 The second reason given for the combination is that it will unify unr work 
 of instruction and training. 
 
 DISTINCT ORGANIZATIONS. 
 
 The Sunday school and Christian Endeavor are two organizations distinct 
 and diflfercnt. 1 do not believe the l)cst result will be attained l>y placing them 
 under the fostering care of one single department whose interests arc divided 
 and which cannot give enthusiastic support to several organizations. 
 
 It is verj- evident that we need unitj' and correlation in our work but the 
 unity needed is not the unity of concentrated authority but the unity of under- 
 standing and mutual concern. If our denomination is to undertake to secure 
 unity bj- centering authority in one person or one agency, we arc in danger of 
 securing unity at the expense of efficiency. 
 
 It has been suggested that there be several additional secretaries elected 
 by the Board so the work could be ade<iuately carried forward. When the 
 General Conference delegates to a Board the right to select and hire secretaries 
 you have entered upon a course that may lead to unexpected results in the future. 
 Boards, as a rule, meet once a year. This places the matter nK>stly in llic 
 hands of an executive secretary and the executive committee. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS. 
 The Coming Quadrennium. 
 
 The coming quadrennium should be distinctly a quadrennium for Christian 
 training. The Church should l)c led to recognize the inadeciuacy and thus 
 . ineflfectiveness of her program for the instruction and training of our children 
 and young people. They have been woefull)' neglected. This condition is 
 true of all Protestant denominations but it is especially true of ours. The time 
 is apparently ripe for a strong, aggressive advance. This will require a rein- 
 forcement of our instructional and training agencies and the working out of a 
 strong, symmetrical program for the individual churcii. Unless this is done, the 
 growth of the denomination is like!}' to be seriously retarded. 
 
 Wc urge the formulation of a challenging quadrennial campaign to be 
 known as "Christian Endeavor Foursquare." This plan will harmonize with a 
 proposed campaign to be undertaken by the Endeavorcrs of .the World, and will 
 casil}- lend itself to a j'Car by j'car campaign during the quadrennium. Emphasis 
 should be placed on the four divisions of Christian Endeavor which are the 
 Junior, Intermediate. Senior and Alumni. There are four great Christian 
 Endeavor principles, namely, confession, service, loyalty to the Church and 
 fellowship which need emphasizing. There are four spheres of action which 
 are the Home, the Church, the Community and the World. Prayer service, 
 fellowship and stewardship constitute four great methods. These diti'ercnt 
 |)hases of the work can be stressed during different years of the quadrennium. 
 Suitable goals should be fixed which will call for heroic achievement on the 
 part of our young people. We can only indicate a few of the features which 
 should characterize this Foursquare campaign. 
 
 HOME RELIGION. 
 
 The program outlined for our joung people should c.ill for earnest home 
 religion, including Christian standards and conduct, family worship, I'iblc 
 study, a faithful discharge of Imnie duties, and a good cxatnple in the home. 
 
 PERSONAL STEWARDSHIP. 
 
 More emphasis should be put on Personal Stewardshi)). ( hir young people 
 should be made to realize that while they are under obligation to render to 
 God a tithe of their earnings, stewardship also relates to our duties to our 
 community and our country as well as to God. Young people are "Stewards 
 of the manifold grace of God." They are to do everything for Him they can 
 do. This should be the dominant note of the program you outline for the 
 young people during the c<»ming (luadrennium. 
 
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STRENGTHEN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK. 
 
 The General I'oiilorciice sliould register itself as liavjng deep and abiding 
 faitli in lliristian Mndeavor as an organization effective in saving and training 
 tlie youth of the Cluireli. The wlioJe denomination must be gripped witli a 
 conviction of the al)solute necessity of Christian lindeavoj or some oilier similar 
 organization. This form of work should he ct)nsidcred as an integral part of 
 church life. While Christian Endeavor is functionally weak in some places, 
 it is organically sound and is destined to render great service to the Church. 
 A "dead in earnest"' effort should be made to introduce it permanently into 
 every church. 
 
 For over twenty years 1 have earnestly advocated the importance of 
 t'hristian luuleavor not only because it trains and develops — is a spiritual 
 gynmasiuni for the education and development of young people, but also 
 because it is a harvest tield where ripened grain is gathered. 
 
 We should not fail to recognize the effort that has resulted in enrolling 
 thousands of young people as tithers and Comrades of the Quiet Hour: inter- 
 esting many in Bible study, missions, church life and other phases of Christian 
 service; saving to Christ and to the church multitudes: helping to secure the 
 decisions of at least 150() Life Work Recruits, a work that has helped increase 
 the attendance of our colleges: teaching thousands of individuals how to conduct 
 religious meetings, work on committees and do eft'ectivc work in church duties; 
 molding and beautifying the lives of young men and young women throughout 
 liie denomination: and in otlier ways lifting the youth of the Church to a 
 iiigher plane of devotion and service. 
 
 It is a significant fact that the .Soutiiern Presbyterian denomination has 
 organized near HXJO new Christian ?2ndeavor societies the past two years. 
 Dr. Francis E. Clark. World leader of the Movement, recently said in a special 
 message to our United Brethren j^oung people, pul)lished in the booklet ])re- 
 pared by the department, for Young People's Day the tirst of the month: "I 
 am glad to tell you that the work God has given its to do is prospering in all 
 ]>arts of the World, and so far as I know, there has never been a time when 
 Christian Endeavor was growing more substantially or established more 
 firmly in all countries than today." In another message he says: 
 
 "A growtii from one society to far more than a hundred thousand, tiiougli 
 some that did run well for a time have fallen liy the way. A multiplication of 
 the original fifty-seven members by more than 300.000 until the number of our 
 l)ast and present comrades reaches eighteen millions. A distril)ution of our 
 society from one little corner of the United States, to every continent and every 
 nation Iietween the two poles. Surely this is another miracle of the loaves and 
 lishes. This is a mighty underscoring of the age-old truth: 'Not by might, nor 
 l)y power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.' " 
 
 The Church has so woefully neglected its children and young peoi)Ie tiint 
 nothing should be done to discourage any agency doing the neglected work. 
 Instead let us find additional agencies if possible. The Endeavorers of the 
 Cliurch will gladly welcome any reinforcement however it may come, no matter 
 liow named or directed when the\- are thoroughly convinced it is a help and 
 not a hindrance. 
 
 Let us redouble our efforts to make our Christian Endeavor work effective. 
 I have profound faith in this form of training and believe that with ])ropcr 
 supporr. and all working together, a society can be put in e\ery cluirch in tiie 
 denomination in a few years. 
 
 A CAMPAIGN OF ORGANIZATION. 
 
 Fully one-half of our United Brethren Churches do not have a single young 
 people's organization of any description, no Christian Endeavor society, no 
 Ottcrbein Guild, and many of them do not have an organized young peo])Ie's 
 Sunday-school class. 
 
 Indeed the Interchurch Survey tells us the same story of other denomi- 
 nations. We are told that there are many times more adult organizations 
 than there arc for boys and girls, — the men and women are organized but not 
 the boys and girls. What we need is more organizations and not fewer in 
 most of our churches. I quote here from Rov. William Ralph Mall, the 
 superintendent of Young People's Work of tlie Prcsbvtcrian Cluirch: 
 
■"My conviction with that of several others Is that the church leaders have 
 swung awaj' from the emphasis of about live to seven years ago when all were 
 urging few^er organizations and combinations to the position where we feel 
 it absolutely essential to give more time. Therefore while we may not attempt 
 more organizations we do need the time of the Sunday-school hour and the 
 Young People's Society hour in addition to church, and a good deal even 
 liej'ond these." 
 
 Shall we not greatly accelerate our efforts in organizing our boys and 
 girls and young people for definite Christian training and service? 
 
 REINFORCE OUR INTERMEDIATE AND JUNIOR WORK. 
 
 Some plan for reinforcing our Junior and Intermediate work should be 
 proposed and an aggressive forward movement launched, designed to establish 
 these societies in every local church in the denomination. 
 
 In this connection we wish to call your attention to the fact that many of 
 our Senior societies are composed of Intermediates. In some cases there are 
 two or three Seniors but the rest are Intermediates. We strongly urge a better 
 grading and standardizing of our societies and that all societies having a majority 
 of "teen" age young people be called Intermediate and a wise superintendent 
 appointed. Roys and girls up to eighteen need close supervision in their work. 
 
 We recommend that our pastors be asked to see that all our societies are 
 graded more carefully Juniors are children approximately from seven to 
 twelve, inclusive; Intermediates are boys and girls of the high school age, from 
 thirteen to seventeen or eighteen, inclusive; Seniors are young people from 
 eighteen and up. The Sunday school is paying much attention to the grouping 
 of adolescents and the above suggested ages conforms, loosely, to ages proposed 
 by the Sunday-school workers. All leaders of work among children and young 
 people agree that we can work far more effectively if they are divided into 
 groups of the same appro.ximate age. 
 
 We also recommend that a committee be appointed to provide a suitable 
 Catechism to be used in our Junior and Intermediate societies. 
 
 ORGANIZE OUR BOYS. 
 
 We recommend that some simple plan be suggested whereby adolescent 
 boys of the Church be given advantages similar to those afforded by the Boy 
 Scout organization but that this work be done in connection with some organ- 
 ization of the Church, or a special organization provided, so our boys can 
 receive the benefits of this kind of training under the auspices of the Church 
 and under its direct control. 
 
 LIFE SERVICE. 
 In view of the appalling need for workers throughout the Church you should 
 empower and finance this department to put on a vigorous campaign for enlist- 
 ing Life Work Recruits throughout the whole denomination. All pastors 
 should he urged to enroll Recruits in a special training course and in teacher 
 training work. All of our recruits should be expected to take up these two 
 lines of study as they look forward to 'special collegiate training. There should 
 also be a well planned campaign to secure the attendance at our colleges of 
 these Recruits. 
 
 W^e should provide some means for securing suital)le fields of service for our 
 Recruits. Should not a campaign be launched to educate our churches to 
 value of deaconess work? We urge the formulation of a plan where])y young 
 people may be enlisted in special service in the local church. .Many of our 
 young ijcople will gladly recruit for special local rhurch work who do not feel 
 led to take up the ministry, missionary or other vocational church work. .\ 
 covenant for this class of volunteers for service and definite suggestions should 
 be worked out. j 
 
 We recommend that a training course for Christian leaders be outlined, 
 modeled after one being arranged by the United Society of C hristian l''ndeavor. 
 Their course has the following enrollment pledge: "Trusting in the Lord Jesus 
 Christ for strength, I will strive through study and training, to become more efli- 
 cient for volunteer Christian service. 1 have checked below the kind of service in 
 
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which I expect to specialize." A list of tifteen or twenty kinds of local church 
 work is su}js<-*sted. CeVtilicates of enrollment are offered and Honor certiHcates 
 {^ranted when the work, which consists of nine ontlined courses, is completed. 
 
 We also urge that steps be taken to make our Supplemental Personal 
 Efficiency reading course more effective. 
 
 A DIRECTOR IN EACH CHURCH. 
 
 We recommend that every pastor lie asked to appoint a director of young 
 people's work in everv- local church where there is no young people's society. 
 Perhaps this should l>e done in every church. This name to be reported to 
 the conference Cliristian Endeavor union ofticers and to tlio general secretary 
 of the department. 
 
 In cases where the young people's society is composed of "teen" age boys 
 and girls and it does not seem expedient to elect a superintendent, a director or 
 counselor should be named who will be an advisor to the young people in 
 their work. 
 
 ALUMNI COUNCILS. 
 In keeping with a movement which is taking root in churches having 
 Christian Endeavor societies we recommend the formation of alumni councils 
 in all our churches where there are those who have I)een once active iiv 
 Endeavor work l)ut have reached the place where they feel they should give 
 place to younger and less experienced workers in directing the Christian 
 Endeavor society. 
 
 THE WATCHWORD. 
 
 \\'e recommend that the Watchword, which has served the Church so well 
 for twenty-eight j-ears as a young people's paper, be continued as the official 
 organ of the Christian Endeavor movement of our Church. 
 
 COOPERATION. 
 
 The Young People's Department should be requested to secure the best 
 information possible as to the most up-to-date plans for young people's work 
 in local churches. Trial should be made of any commendable plan proposed 
 ^vith a view to improving our methods of work. 
 
 This department should acquaint itself with the most approved methods of 
 Sunday-school work among young people with a view to .further correlating 
 the work of these two agencies. Our Christian Endeavor agencies of promotion 
 should give every possible assistance to all other agencies promoting young 
 people's work. 
 
 The General Conference should encourage closer cooperation between all 
 the organizations of the Church that are seeking to instruct and train our 
 young people. To this end we recommend: First, that the two executive 
 committees of the two departments under the Board of Control be asked to 
 meet for counsel at least once a quarter and also that these departments fre- 
 quently call into their councils representatives of our missionary and other 
 agencies that they maj- be consulted as to the best methods of promoting 
 training I'n our Sunday school and Christian Endeavor societies. Second, that 
 the conference superintendents be asked to call the heads of dififerent confer- 
 ence organizations together at least once a year for coimsel. Third, that pastors 
 in local churches be asked to call together for counsel at least once a quarter 
 responsible leaders of the organizations of the Church having to do with 
 instruction and training of young people. 
 
 FINANCIAL SUPPORT. 
 
 VVe urge that the general Conference provide at least $10,000 a year for the 
 hnancial support of this department. To this end we recpiest a renewal of the 
 provision made at your last gathering for the Anniversary Offerings to be 
 taken for the work of the department. No financial campaign should be 
 planned which would destroy the effect of this provision. 
 
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 
 
 The editors of our Church literature have rendered invaluable help to the 
 department. \ot only have thej^ given space for publicity matter in the 
 Telescope, Watchword, Sunday-school literature and Evangel, but in other ways 
 they have .>^tudied our problems and given counsel and help. The Watchword, 
 our young people's paper, has been especially helpful. The Executive Com- 
 mittee has given careful counsel and help in many ways and I am exceedinglj^ 
 grateful to them for their assistance. Other Church leaders have been very 
 kind and have shown a tine spirit of cooperation. Pastors, superintendents, 
 secretaries. Bishops and other workers have given me royal treatment, much 
 better than I deserved. Mrs. Deever has supplied Junior helps for our Church 
 papers and in other ways given help to the department. The Woman's Mission- 
 ary Association has given splendid assistance in giving missionary training to 
 our Juniors. 
 
 Most of all I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to the conference union 
 officers and district and local workers for their magnificent cooperation in the 
 work. The response to suggestions has been hearty and enthusiastic. 
 
 I am thankful for the counsel and help of the members of the Board of 
 Control. The Publishing House has also assisted in the work of the depart- 
 ment in many ways for which I am trulj' grateful. 
 
 Most of all do I thank the Heavenly Father for his gracious, patient, loving- 
 kindness to me and for health for the work to which you called me at your last 
 gathering. 
 
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The Church Caring for Her 
 Young People 
 
 
 
 A National Emergency 
 
 "The United States of America has been invaded by three enemy armies which 
 threaten our national existence. First, there is within our borders an army of five 
 and one-half million illiterates above nine years of age; second, there is an army of 
 fifty million people above nine years of age who are not identified with any church — 
 Jewish, Catholic or Protestant; third, there is an army of twenty-seven million 
 Protestant children and youth, under twenty-five years of age, who are not enrolled 
 in any Sunday school or other institution for religious training. 
 
 If these three armies should form in double column, three feet apart, they would 
 reach one ^nd one-fifth times around the globe at the equator. If they should 
 march in review before the President of the United States, moving double column at 
 the rate of twenty-five miles a day, it would take the three armies three years and 
 five months to pass the President." 
 
 — Interchurch World Movement. 
 
 YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT 
 
 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST 
 301 Otterbein Press Bldg. - - DAYTON. OHIO 
 
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 GOD'S 
 
 WORD 
 
 God's Word Declares: 
 
 The ostrich is fooHsh because she is hardened against her young ( 
 
 ones. Job 39: 14-18. 
 God is angry because children follow their parents in Idolatry. 
 
 Jeremiah 7:18. 
 The "promise" is to your children also. Acts 2:39. 
 The faith of parents bless the children. II Timothy 1 :5. 
 Parents are responsible. Gen. 18:19. 
 The young require suitable spiritual food. Prov. 30: 8, 9. 
 Fathers should not discourage their children. Col. 3:21. 
 Family government is required, I Timothy 3:4. 
 Children have a right to play. Zech. 8:5. 
 Children should be taught the truth early in life. II Timothy 3:15. 
 
 The Purpose of this Booklet 
 
 This booklet has a two-fold mission: It is to be read at the family fire-, 
 side The church needs to know what is being done and what needs to be 
 done for our young people. This booklet contains intcrestmg mformation and 
 a burning message. Every Christian who is interested m the extension o[ the 
 Kingdom will find data setting forth the greatest opportunity the church has 
 for saving the lost. The church can thus best enlarge itself and serve the 
 Kingdom. . 
 
 In the second place, the booklet contains material which qan be used in 
 any program setting forth the importance of Young People s Work. It is 
 especially designed to furnish matter for Young People's Day. 
 
Young People's Day 
 
 The first Sunday in May is Young People's Day. This day has been 
 observed as an occasion for emphasizing the responsibility for the training of 
 our young people ever since the organization of the Young People's Work in 
 1890. Although the day is an anniversary of the Young People's Christian 
 Union in our denomination it is expected that every church will observe the 
 day, whether it is enjoying the blessings of having a young people's society 
 or not. 
 
 Indeed, Young People's Day is for the church rather than for the young 
 people. The church needs to be awakened to its duty towards youth. This 
 does not mean the young people should not participate in the program. They 
 should share largely in the programs of the day. It dues mean that the pro- 
 grams given to the entire church arc fur the ttcnefit of its young members. 
 Young people should share largely the responsibility of putting on a program, 
 in connection with the pastor, but they should do it to present their cause to 
 the entire church which owes to them prayerful interest and help. There 
 is an added duty to observe this day devolving upon the church which is 
 without Christian Endeavor societies, since the young people of that church 
 are without the religious training they should receive. These services may in 
 a way compensate for that loss and be the means of providing definite 
 Christian training along the lines of expressional activity. By all 7neans 
 observe this day. 
 
 (For Program Suggestions, see pige 18) 
 
 Her Thirty-first Birthday 
 
Glimpse of United Brethren Christian Endeavor 
 
 History 
 
 By H. F. Shupe, Editor of "The Watchword." 
 
 Young People's work in the United Brethren Church 
 began with Otterbein, founder of the Church, when 
 14G years ago he made provision in his church to do 
 for the children and young people, the essential things 
 done by Christian Endeavor. 
 
 Passing over a century, the first Young People's 
 organizations in their more modern form were started 
 in the Church about 1S71; Young People's Christian 
 Associations they were called, but they did not multi- 
 ply to any extent. 
 
 Then came the Christian Endeavor movement in 
 18S1, inspiring all denominations to an increased 
 Old First Church interest in the voung people. The first Christian En- 
 
 Dayton, Ohio , • i i 1 • 1 • ii_ Ti -i J 1-. 11 
 
 where Y.P.c.U. was born deavor society to be organized in the United Brethren 
 
 (. burch was at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in 1883. 
 
 By 1890 there were a number of Young People's societies in the denomi- 
 nation and a growing sense of the Church's responsibility for directing and 
 training the young people in the religious life. A group of ministers of 
 Illinois Conference passed a resolution asking for the denomination to 
 organize the young people, and this was soon followed by a similar request 
 from the Ministerial Association of Dayton, Ohio, these requests being sup- 
 plemented by the publicly expressed wish of a number of pastors. 
 
 In June, 1890, a convention of representatives of existing societies and of 
 pa.stors and laymen met in the First United Brethren Church, Dayton, Ohio, 
 and organized the Young People's Christian Union for the denomination. 
 This organization included young people's societies of any name, thus recog- 
 nizing "Christian Endeavor Societies" and "Young People's Christian Unions" 
 as on an equality. 
 
 After the organization of the Young People's Christian Union, which in 
 18^3 was formally constituted a department of the Church by the General 
 Conference, the number of societies grew rapidly, most of them taking the 
 name Young People's Christian Union, although, most of the pioneer societies 
 had been Christian Endeavor societies. The two types of societies did not 
 differ much, except that the Endeavor societies incorporated the Christian 
 Endeavor pledge and were linked with the interdenominational Young 
 People's movement through the Christian Endeavor conventions. At the 
 same time, all United Brethren societies were linked together in the General 
 Young People's Convention ''and the Branch linion conventions in each 
 Annual Conference. 
 
 The movement thus organized developed successfully, but gradually the 
 advantages of having all societies of the Christian Endeavor name and type 
 were recognized, and in 1908 at the General Convention of United Brethren 
 societies, after a vote had been taken in the branch unions, the name of our 
 denominational organization was changed to Young People's Christian 
 Endeavor Union. The next year the direction of the young people's work 
 was placed under a board provided by the General Conference and the 
 biennial general conventions were discontinued. However, the annual 
 conventions of the Conference Branch Unions were given increased attention, 
 and in all the history of our young people's work have been a gt-eat factor in 
 promoting interest and efficiency. 
 
The first president of the Youns People's T^nion was Dr. J. P. 
 
 ^^^^^^ I.aiidis, who. after twelve years of service, was succeeded by 
 
 iQ^^^hO ^^'" ■'■ ^'- ''"'^P'"- ^^'i" eontiiuied until the department was placed 
 
 "ifey^S^r under the uianagenient of the Hoard of Sunday-school and 
 
 ^" ^imik y Christian Endeavor work. The secretaries of the movement 
 
 ^^^sf have been Rev. W. A. Dickson, serving three years. Dr. H. F". 
 
 Shupe, serving in two periods ten years. Dr. C. W. Brewbaker, 
 
 six years, and Dr. O. T. Deever, eight years. 
 
 Early in the movement. Junior societies were organized, these for a 
 number of years being under the superintendency of Rev. W. A. Dickson and 
 Mrs. G. W. Kitzmiller, and now are under the General Secretary of Christian 
 Endeavor, as are the Intermediate societies which came into existence some 
 years subsequent to the .Junior societies. 
 
 The Watchword has been the paper of the Young People's work since 1893, 
 at first exclusively for the Young People's societies, and for twenty years for 
 the Endeavor societies and Sunday schools jointly. 
 
 Anniversary Day has been observed annually the first Sunday in May. 
 For sixteen years the offerings made by the societies on Anniversary Day 
 were used in establishing United Brethren churches in America and abroad. 
 Churches in Los Angeles, Chicago, Porto Rico, and Japan were thus estab- 
 lished. Since the movement came under the direction of a board, the Anni- 
 versary offerings have been devoted chiefly to promoting the Christian 
 Endeavor work, and much more attention has been given to aiding the Con- 
 ference Union conventions. 
 
 Early in the work of the Young People's Union a reading course was 
 announced from year to year. This was succeeded by the Mission Study 
 classes, which some years enrolled as high as 15,000 students. More recently 
 the instruction through reading has been carried on under the Students in 
 Personal Efficiency feature, in which readers have been enrolled and certifi- 
 cates and seals issued. 
 
 Almost from the first the Young People's societies have promoted Christian 
 stewardship, first under the superintendency of Rev. S. S. Hough, appointed 
 in 1897. This was continued until the Christian Stewardship Department of 
 the church was created in 1909, with Rev. J. S. Kendall as secretary, who 
 for a number of years, was the stewardship superintendent of the Young 
 People's work. Christian stewardship is now carried forward under the 
 Board of Control of the denomination. 
 
 The promotion of the Quiet Hour, and, more recently, the enlistment of 
 Uife Work Recruits, have been features of the Young People's work by 
 which it has contributed to the spiritual life and leadership of the 
 denomination. 
 
 The Young People's Christian Endeavor Union now enrolls 1519 Young 
 People's societies and 770 Junior and Intermediate societies, a total of 2289. 
 The membership of the Young People's Societies is 63,329 and of the Junior 
 and Intermediate societies 25,959, a total of S9,2S8. These numbers indicate 
 an army of young people being trained for Christ and the church — an army 
 which the United Brethren denomination ought to highly appreciate and 
 support. Of the 1500 Life Work Recruits, a large proportion are members 
 of the Endeavor societies and have been enlisted in the Christian Endeavor 
 conventions and rallies. 
 
 The Coilference Christian Endeavor conventions bring together annually 
 about 4000 young people for instruction and inspiration. These thousands 
 receive information conceining the enterprises and institutions of the United 
 Brethren Church, thus making these conventions an agency of inestimable 
 value in the promotion of the Kingdom, 
 
Oldest United Brethren Endeavor Society 
 
 These young people constitute the members of the Mt. Pleasant. 
 Pennsylvania, Christian Endeavor society which was the first to be organized 
 in the denomination and has had a continuous existence since its founding. 
 The society was organized by Emma C. Walter in 1883. The first president 
 was Prof. Wm. Ebersole. The groups below are part of forty-two members 
 which the society has. The young men in the upper group are organized into 
 an orchestra with the two young ladies to assist. The average attendance of 
 the society is twenty-seven. The pastor is Rev. C. W. Hendrickson. The 
 present officers are: President, Mrs. F. S. Hyde; Vice-president, Miss Kathryn 
 Lear; Recording Secretary, Violet Werts; Corresponding Secretary, Emily 
 Mullen; Treasurer, Ruth Close; Chorister, Arthur Berryhill. 
 
 The first General Conference was held at the Bonnet school house at 
 Mt. Pleasant. 
 
The Church's Responsibility and Opportunity 
 
 As a field for investment none will bring greater returns than the field of 
 youth. Here is our opportunity and responsibility. Hitherto, the church 
 has had an inadequate and thus ineffective program for doing work for our 
 boys and girls and young people. Our children have been woefully neglected. 
 This condition exists in all Protestant denominations but it is especially true 
 in ours. Millions of children in Protestant homes are wholly untouched by 
 the present efforts of the church. Two out of three children under twenty- 
 five years of age have no definite religious training. Moral bankruptcy and 
 national decay will be the eventual result if our boys and girls grow up in 
 spiritual illiteracy. "The saddest page in the history of the Christian church 
 is that which records spiritual neglect of childhood in the home." 
 
 The Interchurch World Movement gave the following striking exhortation: 
 "If you would point to the weakest spot in the Protestant Church you would 
 put your finger on the army of twenty-seven million children and youth in 
 our own land who are growing up in spiritual illiteracy and sixteen million 
 other American children whose religious instruction is limited to a brief half- 
 hour once a week, often sandwiched in between a delayed preaching service 
 and the American Sunday dinner. Let it be burned into the minds of our 
 church leaders that a church which cannot save its own children can never 
 save the world." 
 
 The church has not kept pace with worldly organizations in bidding for 
 the young people. In many cities the Saturday night attendance at theaters, 
 dance halls, and pool rooms is much greater than the Sunday attendance at 
 the churches. Sunday schools and young people's societies. If we persist in 
 neglecting our young people how can we hope to save them to the Kingdom? 
 
 The following striking facts are given in Interchurch World Movement 
 reports: 
 
 "It is estimated that over 10,000 children are arrested in one American city 
 during the year. Observe the cost of failure in home education: The cost 
 of one year's crime is estimated at not less than $6,000,000,000. Yet only 11 
 percent of the crimes reported are punished. Nine-tenths of the criminals 
 were normal children. Nine-tenths of the children brought into court are 
 boys. Two-thirds of criminals were homeless, or worse, in childhood. 
 
 "Because of the tremendously significant period of youth, special leadership 
 is needed for young people's work. During the 'teen years habits of Christian 
 life and service are formed or largely made impossible. No provision for 
 religious education is complete without attention to the groups of young 
 people. 
 
 "Think of the boy Jesus in the midst of the doctors in the temple at 
 Jerusalem. What spiritual insight! Suppose the spiritual leaders at 
 
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 23 
 
 Age of Greatest Religious Interest 
 
 Age of Conversion 
 
Nazareth had taken the attitude toward him that the Protestant churches of 
 America are taking toward the 27,000,000 American children and youth who 
 are today unreached by the educational agencies of the church! 
 
 "To three out of every five Protestant children the Protestant churches say: 
 'We are exceedingly regretful but we have no funds to guarantee you a 
 religious education. Maybe when you are old we can spend a little money in 
 adult evangelistic campaigns to rescue you from lives of sin, but don't ask 
 us now for money to keep you pure.' To the other two children the church 
 says; 'We are able to offer you twenty-four hours of religious instruction 
 annually in schools usually taught by immature, untrained and unsupervised 
 voluntary teachers. Do the best you can, children, on a half a dollar a year 
 for spiritual nurture, and if you ever do go to a Christian college we will 
 spend much more upon your training.' To which a righteous judge will 
 reply: 'Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these my little ones, 
 ye did it not unto me.' 
 
 "A religious education should be the heritage of every child. Spiritual 
 illiteracy is the greatest peril of organized society." 
 
 Two Days in a Typical City — Population 51,000 
 
 Saturday: 
 Theaters, Dance Halls, Pool Rooms 
 
 Sunday: 
 Churches, Sunday Schools, etc. 
 
 "The time has come for a great revival which will 
 convict the Church of the sin ot neglecting the 
 spiritual life of its children, and arouse a con- 
 science on the subject in the Church and the 
 home." 
 
How Christian Endeavor Will Help Solve Your 
 Problems 
 
 A Christian Endeavor society in a local church is not only a very valuable 
 asset in helping care for and train the young people, but it is indispensable 
 to realize the highest result in securing the boundless possibilities for service 
 of the youth. We are dependent upon the young men and young women of 
 the church to supply our pulpits, do our missionary work and be our Christian 
 leaders in the work of the church. The Life Work Recruit Movement will 
 ultimately break down unless the trend of the church is changed. The 
 church draws the largest part of its membership from the Christian home 
 and young people's organizations. If it is to succeed in a great and perma- 
 nent way, we must guard against the danger of separating the young life 
 from being vitally related to the organization and work of the church itself. 
 Christian Endeavor is a feeder of the church. 
 
 Christian Endeavor is the best agency the church has for discovering and 
 training church leadership. Men and women who rank as leaders in the 
 great forward movements of the church during the last twenty-five years have 
 repeatedly declared that it was in Christian Endeavor that they saw the vision 
 and received the discipline that prepared them for the greater tasks and 
 responsibilities in later years. 
 
 The church which does not have Junior, Intermediate and Senior Christian 
 Endeavor societies cannot give adequate religious training to its youth. Our 
 young people merit the sympathetic cooperation and prayers of the whole 
 church to help promote their work. 
 
 During a convention last summer a young lady said to Secretary Deever, 
 "I can never be the same girl again. This is the most wonderful event in my 
 life." Young people are being transformed by attending young people's 
 conventions. 
 
 "It Don't Get Ya Nuttin' " 
 
 Said a boy in Chicago the other day. His brother was to be hanged for 
 crime. Does sin get us nothing? What about the bad results? Which is 
 better — to build a Christian Endeavor wall of protection, guidance and help 
 about our boys and girls or let them drift, possibly coming to as bad an end 
 as the young man mentioned above? 
 
 Following are some stirring testimonials from leading United Brethren 
 as to the value of Christian Endeavor: 
 
 Quickens Dormant Powers 
 'Christian Endeavor is a God-given and God-blessed organization; it 
 functions largely in and for the young people; it discovers and quickens into 
 activity dormant powers; it enlarges vision for Christian service. It was the 
 gateway through which I passed into public service, first as a teacher, now 
 as a preacher." Rev. C. H. Babb, president of the Tennessee Conference 
 Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Most Lmportant Organization 
 "From my experience as a pastor of strong Christian Endeavor societies for 
 the past twelve years, and knowledge through my association with the more 
 than two hundred societies of Allegheny Conference, I am more and more 
 convinced that no other organization can take the place of Christian 
 Endeavor, — that in the training of our own young people for Christian 
 service and enlisting them for Life's Work in the Kingdom, Christian 
 Endeavor as we now have it, is the most important of all our Christian organ- 
 izations. Any plan that would in the least interfere with this department 
 of our work, would be a sad mistake and result in calamity." Rev. G. R. 
 Strayer, president of Allegheny Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
Chkistian Endkavor Tuaixs Lkadeks 
 
 "I find that the Christian Endeavor is the most prolific department of the 
 church for the training of future leaders, and that the church that is indiffer- 
 ent to, or ignores its importance, is sure to suffer the most because of the 
 lack of leadership." Rev. S. A. Jessee, president of West Virginia Conference 
 Endeavor Union. Christian Endeavor Vital 
 
 "The Christian Endeavor infiuence is indeed vital to the young people of 
 the church because the Christian Endeavor is the one department of the 
 church for which the young people are vitally responsible." Rev. J. P. 
 Overmiller, president Colorado Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 Leads to Service and Creates Loyalty 
 
 "The value of young, vigorous life in the church cannot be over-estimated. 
 The Chistian Endeavor is a training camp for this young life, to fit it for 
 years of Christian usefulness. 
 
 "I feel that has been true in our own church. From our local Endeavor 
 have gone forth nine Life Work Recruits in the last two years. Seven of 
 these are now preparing themselves for definite Christian service 
 
 "Secondly, our most loyal young people of the church membership are 
 Endeavorers, loyal in the giving of talent, time and substance to advance His 
 cause and kingdom in and about the community. The youth of today are the 
 leaders of tomorrow." W. E. Gillingham, successful business man of 
 Richmond Center, Wisconsin. 
 
 Victorious Christian Endeavor Army 
 
 "The clean, strong, well-drilled khaki-clad American army was the pride of 
 America and of the whole world. 
 
 "The greater army of Peace, the Christian Endeavor soldiers, with clean 
 bodies, trained minds, consecrated hearts marching on to greater triumphs 
 and conquests each passing year, makes an army of which the church may 
 justly feel proud. The entire world is their field, Jesus Christ is their 
 Captain and who is he who dares to stand in the way of their brightest 
 future." C. L. Raymond, Publisher, Huntington, Indiana. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Develops Latent Talents 
 
 "The value of Christian Endeavor as an agency for developing and training 
 young people cannot be over-emphasized. For deepening the prayer life, 
 training in Christian leadership, stimulating church loyalty, discovering and 
 developing the latent talent of Christian young people. Christian Endeavor 
 stands preeminently at the head of church organizations. 
 
 "From this Department are coming hundreds of young men and women 
 who have made a definite dedication of their lives for the Master's service." 
 Cloyd C. Rose, fourteen years president of Lower Wabash Christian 
 Endeavor Union. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Si ppleme.vts the Sinday S('U(K)l 
 
 "I am glad to bear my testimony to the value of Christian Endeavor at any 
 and all times. To my mind there is nothing now on the horizon that can 
 begin to take its place. Herewith my reasons: 
 
 "(1) It supiilements, in no small degree, the work of the Sunday school 
 in that it supplies added time for Scripture study. We all agree that twenty- 
 six hours a year devoted to Bible study is not sufficient for our growing boys 
 and girls. 
 
 "(2) It brings out personality. 
 
 "(3) It develops individuality. 
 
 "(4) It gives the church leaders. 
 
 "(5) Christian Endeavor is one of the strong pillars on which the church 
 rests. An integral part of the structure which makes up the church general. 
 
 "(6) Christian Endeavor is a dynamo of untold power, supplying the 
 church with fresh, untrammeled enthusiasm, a current of str^gth strong 
 enough to overcome the greatest obstacles. 
 
"(7) In this day when all the world is making its strongest bid for the 
 young, surely the rhurch will not let up on the Young People's Work but with 
 might and main, will labor to lengthen its borders and strengthen its stakes 
 in this fruitful portion of the Lord's vineyard." C. B. Walter, Treasurer of 
 the Missouri Annual Conference, Secretary and Treasurer of a large business 
 firm in Kansas City. pkomotk.s Expkessional Activity 
 
 "Christian Endeavor has functioned faithfully in providing a field for the 
 expressional activity of Christian young people and rightly deserves a place 
 in every church. Jesus said, 'By their fruits ye shall know them.' The 
 fruits of Christian Endeavor are a consecrated, trained, paying, praying, and 
 working young people. Give it a boost." Rev. M. S. Livengood, president of 
 St. Joseph Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 ViTAi.izKS TiiKoucjii Its Organ izatiox 
 
 "Christiau Endeavor brings about greater vitalization through better 
 organization, deeper spiritual devotion and above all efficient leadership. 
 The organization of Intermediate societies in every church is a solution of the 
 young people's problem." Rev. I. N. Seldomridge, president of East Pennsyl- 
 vania Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Ciiiustian Endeavor Broadens 
 
 "Christian Endeavor gives broad vision, loyalty, cooperation, individual 
 training, knowledge of principles and methods, effective leadership and 
 enthronement of Christ." Elmer R. Funk, president of Missouri Conference 
 Christian Endeavor Union. Cinuc.i Needs It 
 
 "The church must have the Christian Endeavor society. It could not con- 
 tinue in its present power for good without this training school for its young 
 people." Edwin Huenefeld, president Nebraska Conference Christian 
 Endeavor Union. Training School of the Church 
 
 "Christian Endeavor is the training school of the church and many of our 
 young people are going out to do effective work who would have no other 
 chance of training. Trained leadership is the church's need today. Christian 
 Endeavor is meeting that need as nothing else can." Mrs. J. S. Martz, 
 president of Michigan Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 Develops Spiritual and Social Side 
 
 "The many lay and ministerial leaders of Pennsylvania Conference who 
 have had much of their Christian experience shaped by their connection with 
 Christian Endeavor work convince me more and more of the value of this 
 organization as an efficient and necessary training agency for the young 
 people of all our churches in the development of both the spiritual and social 
 sides of their personalities." Rev. P. R. Koontz, president of Pennsylvania 
 Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Positively Essential 
 
 "Like the Sunday school. Christian Endeavor today is positively essential 
 to the life of the church of tomorrow." E. G. Bufkin, president of Minnesota 
 Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Leauehsiiii' Factory 
 
 "Without leaders the church would soon die, and the Christian Endeavor 
 society is the great leadership factory of the church." Rev. C. O. Main, 
 president Salina District, Kansas Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Stron(; Arm of the Church 
 "The Endeavor society to me has always been one of the strong arms of the 
 church and for the young people. I think there is no greater, — for it is their 
 part of the work and a training for greater and better things." R. S. 
 Smither, member First Church, Topeka, Kansas, Treasurer Kansas 
 Conference. 
 
Secretary A. L. Spafford 
 
 The Christian Endeavor Society of the Future 
 
 Christian Endeavor has made a marvelous 
 impression on the world during its forty years of 
 history, but the future holds in store more wonder- 
 ful possibilities than the past has realized. 
 
 Largely as a devotional society it has accom- 
 plished during the past, but the future society will 
 be one that deals with the individual in every phase 
 of his life as a Christian that needs developing. 
 Even pastors and leading laymen have not visioned 
 the "real" Christian Endeavor in the past. 
 
 The "Society of the Future" will be an organiza- 
 tion. (Not simply a Prayer Meeting once a week.) 
 As essential as that is, it is not Christian Endeavor. 
 If Christian Endeavor is to train for service the 
 motto of every society must be "Every Member on 
 a Committee, Every Committee with a Definite Task 
 to Accomplish." Unless the community as well as the local church is better 
 because of the society, it has failed to function as it ought. 
 
 Then, too, the church that deals with the society of the future will plan so 
 that there will never come a time when the society lapses because of a lack of 
 young people. When we plan so that Junior, Intermediate and Senior societies 
 are maintained in all of our churches, there will be no more reason for dis- 
 banding societies than there is for disbanding Sunday schools in the average 
 church. (If it is necessary to teach God's word in the Sunday school, it is 
 necessary also that we put it into practice through the training of Christian 
 Endeavor.) 
 
 With this program followed out, Christian Endeavor will become a great 
 Evangelistic agency. Our young people will be trained from childhood to man- 
 hood in methods of church and community work, and as a direct result of 
 rendering service, will be more easily led to see the world task of the 
 Kingdom and after having caught the vision will be willing to dedicate their 
 lives to constructive building in the Kingdom. 
 
 Is not such a society worthy the attention of every church? Is it not worth 
 while that a committee of the best, most consecrated laymen in the church 
 become the directors of Young People's Work? If we, in His name, make the 
 investment. He will give the increase. ^ j^^ ^^,^^^ Spafford 
 
 Secretary Michigan State Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 Secretary Spafford's Idea Partly Worked Out at 
 Akron, Ohio 
 
 The Senior Christian J^ndeavor society of our First Church at Akron, Ohio, 
 has helped to solve its social problems by a Sunday afternoon social hour 
 lasting from 3:30 to 5:30. These social meetings are held in the church base- 
 ment during the winter months. Light refreshments are served at 5:00 p.m. 
 The Intermediate society serves a lunch on the first Sunday of each month. 
 No offerings are taken but individuals provide the "eats." Groups take turns 
 in doing the dishes and other work. 
 
 Such speakers as the city mayor, Y. M. C. A. secretary, assistant superin- 
 tendent of schools, superintendent of city rescue mission, and others have 
 appeared on the program. Sometimes all gather about the piano and sing 
 gospel and popular songs. Jazz and the flippant variety are Eliminated. 
 Sometimes the meetings are literary, some of the members giving good read- 
 
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ings that are appropriate. A reading room is provided with tables and 
 chairs and books and magazines, for those who wish to spend Sunday after- 
 noon more quietly. 
 
 Strangers are sought out and invited. From forty to sixty young people 
 attend every Sunday. Many young people have come to Akron to work in 
 the rubber factories and many lonely boys and girls, young men and women 
 have spent Sunday afternoon here. It is maintained that it is better to have 
 the young peoi)le under the church roof, even though they do get noisy some- 
 times, than to have them on the streets or in the Sunday theaters. All of 
 them invariably attend Christian Endeavor and most of them the evening 
 preaching service. 
 
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 Sunday Afternoon Soc 
 
 il (.roup, Akron, Ohi 
 C. E. Societies 
 
 First Church 
 
 The Importance of Christian Endeavor 
 
 The importance of Christian Endeavor, as of 
 anything else, may be determined by considering 
 its product, and the need of this product. 
 
 Christian Endeavor, more than any other depart- 
 ment of church work, is continually "turning out" 
 great numbers of Comrades of the Quiet Hour, 
 Members of the Tenth Legion, and Life Work Re- 
 cruits. It is the familiar testimony of a great 
 majority of pastors, missionaries, deaconesses, 
 and other religious workers, that they experienced 
 their first inclination toward, and received their 
 first training for service in definite religious work, 
 in a Christian Endeavor society. 
 
 We have read, recently, of one church, which, 
 during 150 years existence without a Young 
 People's society sent out only nine young men 
 into the Christian ministry. During the last nine 
 years, this same church with a Christian Endeavor 
 society operating among its young folks has sent 
 eleven young men into the ministry, and two young 
 women into the mission fields. 
 The need of this product is evident from the hundreds of vacant pulpits, 
 and the great cry for consecrated men and women to carry the gospel "into 
 all the world." Likewise, is the demand insistent, also, for a greater "pray- 
 ing and paying" laity. 
 
 Rev. C. E. Hnn-zi-KK, 
 United Brethren preacher. General Secretary West Virginia State Christian 
 Endeavor Union. 
 
 Sixth World's 
 
 Christian Endeavor 
 
 Convention 
 
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The Young People's Department 
 
 The Young People's Work has been a department of the Church ever since 
 1909 when the General Conference placed it under the direction of the 
 Board of Control. Since 1913 the department has had the full time of a 
 secretary. No other department in the Church has rendered greater service 
 to the Church for the amount of money invested than the Young People's 
 Department. 
 
 This department merits a more generous financial support on the part of 
 the Church. Annual conference workers in the field are constantly calling 
 for help. Our churches are so scattered and far apart that we lose the 
 encouragement of close contact. A personal visit from the general secretary 
 to the churches would do great good. The general secretary is often forced 
 to reply that lack of funds and the burden of office work, which until 
 recently has not had the full services of a stenographer, make it impossible 
 for the secretary to respond. The dictates of the best business policy would 
 be to get the office help so sorely needed. An investment in the Young 
 People's Department is an investment in the Church and will pay big 
 dividends. 
 
 Nearly five years ago a widow handed Secretary Deever a bit of tissue 
 paper which contained two five dollar bills,^ — the gift of her husband on his 
 death bed. For a year she had prayed and sought for the best possible invest- 
 ment for this precious money. After a short talk by the secretary in a 
 church she called him aside and gave him the money, stating that she thought 
 it was God's will that it be invested in the Young People's Work. God gave 
 his approval and blessed the recital of this deed so that over $1000 was 
 gathered to meet a pressing need, — in answer to definite prayer. This is 
 only one of the many ways that God has used to put his seal of approval on 
 the work of the Young People's Department. It is God's work, not man's. 
 
 The office of the Young People's Department is located at 301 Otterbein 
 Press Building, Dayton, Ohio. The department is constantly creating liter- 
 ature of all kinds which it supplies free to Christian Endeavor societies. It 
 is glad to respond to any reasonable call for help. 
 
 Itnlted Hrethren (^Ihristiiin Kndeavor (Convention Held -at .luana. Di.i/ IM)ii() Kico 
 
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The Executive Committee of The Young People's Department 
 
 The members of the Committee are, beginning at upper left-hand corner: J. W. Owen, 
 Associate Editor S. S. Literature; Professor .1. B. Showers, Professor in Bonebraice Seminary ; 
 A. R. Clippmger, Superintendent Miami Conference; J. G. Huber, Chairman of Executive 
 Committee, and H. F. Shupe, Editor of The Watchword. 
 
Our Conference Christian Endeavor Unions 
 
 Our conference unions, taken as a whole, have the best organizations they 
 have ever had. A decided advance has been made in Christian Endeavor 
 field work. Seven or eight conference unions have undertaken or are plan- 
 ning to undertake some distinct field work. Southeast Ohio takes the lead 
 in this line, having a field worker in the person of Rev. E. E. Harris, an 
 Otterbein student who gives all of his week ends and vacation periods to 
 visitation of churches in the interest of Christian Endeavor. Most confer- 
 ence unions now have the conference divided into districts and are developing 
 strong district organizations through rallies and by efficient district 
 leadership. 
 
 Our Christian Endeavor conventions 
 have taken on new significance and 
 interest through new methods employed 
 to make them interesting and helpful. 
 Some of them are now being held outdoors 
 with recreational features added and the 
 time lengthened for the duration of the 
 convention. Institute work, with attrac- 
 tive inspirational features, is being mag- 
 nified as never before. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Conventions 
 
 Each summer about 4000 young people attend our C. E. Conventions 
 receive the spiritual uplift and blessing they impart. 
 
 CONFEUENCE UNION VICTORIES 
 
 It is impossible to get complete reports from all the conference unions in 
 time for this article but it is safe to say that there are 7000 Comrades of the 
 Quiet Hour and 5000 tithers in the Christian Endeavor Societies. We have 
 the names of 1500 Life Work Recruits most of whom are preparing for special 
 Christian service. There are now 3115 Students in Personal Efficiency 
 enrolled, and over 15,000 seals have been sent out, indicating that many 
 books read. 
 
 Thousands of young people have been converted and added to the 
 Church. Many have been enrolled in Mission Study classes. Thousands of 
 dollars have been raised for benevolent purposes and scholarship funds. 
 Several hundred Juniors and Intermediates have been enrolled in Supple- 
 mental study. Young people have been learning how to conduct religious 
 meetings and work on committees. 
 
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Victories of the Quadrennium 
 
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 Of 
 
 xT^ 5000 Tjf/iercS 
 
 M^4\^ -o>- AND M£/lQ£aSH/P ' 
 
 ^^^^STUOEWrS IMPERSONAL 
 £FF(C(ENCyfNEVEfty50C|ETv . 
 
 Christian Endeavor comes to the close of this quadrennium with a number 
 of outstanding victories. The last General Conference set for it five great 
 goals. At least four of them have been more than reached. The outlook is 
 bright for splendid advancement. 
 
 The following are some encouraging words from conference union 
 presidents: 
 
 "The outlook seems to indicate that we will make a good showing for 
 1920-1921." H. C. Miller, president of East Ohio Conference Union. 
 
 "We are getting the societies in Oklahoma conference trained to all be 
 doing the same thing at the same time and in a systematic way, and by keep- 
 ing everlastingly at it, with yearly conventions instead of every two or three 
 I years, we will see results." Mrs. E. P. Freeman, president Oklahoma Con- 
 ference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 "Intensive interest from a spiritual standpoint at our annual convention 
 gives a promising outlook for a great year's work in Minnesota conference." 
 E. G. Bufkin, president Minnesota Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 "Perhaps the most encouraging feature of our Endeavor work in Sandusky 
 conference is the deep interest our young people themselves have in making 
 possible an enlarged Christian Endeavor program; an interest manifested in 
 greatly increased giving of money, of time, of self." J. S. Engle, president 
 Sandusky Conference Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 "The outlook for Christian Endeavor work in Salina district, Kansas, is 
 encouraging. There are four new Life Work Recruits to add to the total." 
 C. O. Main, president Salina District, Kansas Conference, Christian Endeavor 
 Union. 
 
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Civmsj. 
 
 Pp.-*-' 
 
 Tenth Legion 
 
 Endeavorers Practice Tithing 
 
 Our goal for tithers has also been 
 more than reached. About half 
 of all our United Brethren tithers 
 are found among our Endeavorers. 
 The lifting power of the young peo- 
 ple through example and effort has 
 helped greatly in achieving the 
 splendid victories of recent cam- 
 paigns. 
 
 Christian Endeavor is seeking to 
 implant in the lives of our youth the 
 practice of Biblical Benevolence, 
 without which the church cannot 
 perform its highest mission in the 
 world. This practice is the surest 
 guarantee that the church will fight 
 a winning battle in the future. The 
 greatest spiritual victories are 
 impossible unless Christian people 
 entirely do God's will and fully 
 recognize his divine sovereignty 
 and ownership of all things. 
 
 « 
 
 Quiet Hour 
 
 Endeavorers Learn to Pray 
 
 The goal for 7000 Comrades of the Quiet Hour has been more than realized. 
 Of the 30,000 Intercessors enrolled during the United Enlistment Movement 
 fully one-third were secured from our Christian Endeavor societies. Many 
 leaders declare that the marvelous results attending the United Enlistment 
 Movement are to be attributed in no little degree to the prayers and efforts of 
 our Christian Endeavor organizations. 
 
 Life Work Recruits 
 
 Many Endeavorers Become 
 Recruits , 
 
 The 500 goal for Life Work Re- 
 cruits has been attained three times 
 over. As a result there are now in 
 our schools of learning the largest 
 number of young men and women 
 looking toward special Christian 
 service in the history of the Church. 
 
 Christian Endeavor has been foi' 
 several years an earnest and con- 
 stant champion of the cause of spe- 
 cial Christian service. The church 
 has no agency better fitted to chal- 
 lenge the young people to service. 
 
 Recruits at Ft. Scott Kan., Rev. C. L Montgomery, Pastor 
 
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Students in Personal Efficiency 
 
 Endeavorers Grow in Efficiency 
 
 A strong, aggressive move has been made in the direction of greater 
 efficiency in the work among our young people of the Church. The Students 
 in Personal Efficiency Course has become a great success. The type and 
 character of work being done has been improved to a marked degree. 
 
 Intermediate Work Important 
 
 Intermediate Work Grows 
 
 The church has slowly discovered the outstanding importance of Inter- 
 mediate Christian Endeavor work. The Intermediate society is just as 
 essential as the Intermediate department of the Sunday school or the Inter- 
 mediate grades of the public schools. As long as more than one-half of the 
 boys and girls enrolled in our Sunday schools are lost, we are not over- 
 organized. Prom twelve to sixteen is the great harvest time of youth. More 
 than one-half of the conversions occur during this period, and yet this is the 
 most neglected time of all in the life of the youth. The adolescent boy and 
 girl deserve much more consideration than they are getting. 
 
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 Junior Work Strengthens Faith 
 
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 Junior Glad Chest for Missionary Offerings 
 
 The Junior superintendent must 
 strengthen the belief of the boys 
 and girls in order to develop them 
 in ways of active Christian service. 
 Children will not work for a cause 
 that isn't true. It is sad if a 
 Junior is impressed that the super- 
 intendent is only, entertaining the 
 Juniors. The superintendent must 
 impress the Junior's mind that the 
 Junior work is of great importance 
 because it is the work of Christ. 
 
 Christ is our Savior. He died on the cross for our sins. We must believe 
 him and eonfess him If we would be saved. The Junior society must 
 strengthen the Junior's belief in Christ and must lead the Junior out into 
 such active Christian service as will express his faith in Christ his Savior. 
 
 Two Junior girls were looking at a Bible story book. One was fascinated 
 with the picture of Christ upon the cross. The other remarke:!, "Why do you 
 want to look at that picture so much? It isn't true anyway." 
 
 This occurred in the home of a Junior superintendent. At once this 
 superintendent asked, "What is it, Frances, which is not true?" Frances 
 replied, "That picture of Christ on the cross. It isn't true, it's only a story." 
 
 "What makes you think it isn't true," asked the superintendent. "Xo one 
 ever told me it's true," answered the child. "It's only a story." 
 
 Listen, Junior superintendent; are any of your Juniors testifying that the 
 Bible is not true because you have failed to emphasize the truth of your 
 teaching? You must strengthen the belief of your Juniors and lead them 
 to express that belief in testimony and in service. 
 
 Mks. O. T. Dkkvkk. 
 
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Young People's Anniversary Day 
 Sunday, May 1, 1921 
 
 Theme: Thy Kingdom Come 
 
 Outline of Day's Activities 
 Sunrise — A Young People's Prayer Meeting. 
 
 Sunday School — Brief program emphasizing C. E. at close of session. 
 Morning Preaching Service — Sermon on Young People's Work and program 
 
 by Endeavorers. 
 Sunday Afternoon — Some kind of definite, practical work such as holding a 
 
 rally or organizing a society in some neighboring town or community. 
 Evening Services— A combined program closing with Christian Endeavor 
 
 pageant. 
 
 Suggested Program 
 Denominational Forward Song. (Send for free copies.) 
 Scripture Lesson — Matt. 6:7-15. Other scripture verses will be found on 
 
 inside cover page of this booklet. 
 Short service of prayer. 
 
 Statement of purpose of meeting by leader. 
 
 Talk — Glimpse of United Brethren Christian Endeavor History. 
 Presentation of special messages: The special messages of Secretary O. T. 
 
 Deever, Bishop H. H. Fout, Dr. Francis E. Clark, Dr. J. P. Landis 
 
 and Dr. J. G. Huber can be given as telegrams if desired. 
 Recitation by a Junior. 
 Special music. 
 Series of short talks: 
 
 a. The Young People's Department. 
 
 b. Our Conference Christian Endeavor Unions. 
 
 c. Junior Work. 
 
 d. Intermediate Work. 
 
 e. The Quiet Hour. 
 
 f. Tithing. 
 
 g. Uife Service, 
 h. S. P. E. 
 
 Short talk by the president on the topic: "How Christian Endeavor Helps 
 Solve the' Problems of Young People." 
 
 Short sermon by the pastor on the subject: "The Church's Responsibility 
 and Opportunity for Training the Youth." 
 
 Questions answered. 
 
 Special music. 
 
 A statement of the purpose of the offering. 
 
 Offering. 
 
 Junior demonstration. 
 
 Junior Forward Movement Song. 
 
 Close by repeating the pledge. 
 
 Remarks: Adapt your program to the time you have. Churches without 
 Christian Endeavor societies should put on this program as well as churches 
 having one or more of the societies. Boys and girls of the Junior and Inter- 
 mediate age as well as older young people should participate in the programs 
 of the day. Let the young people make short talks on the above topics. If 
 any of the three societies. Senior, Intermediate and Junior, are lacking, 
 someone should strongly present the importance of organizing them. 
 Endeavorers should attend the preaching service in a body. 
 
 The church should be decorated with Christian Endeavor monograms, 
 streamers of blue and white, Christian Endeavor Efficiency Charts, etc. There 
 should be in some visible place, an exhibit of the work of the societies, such as 
 the record of attendance. Junior Birthday books, posters, etc. 
 
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special Messages to the Church and Young People 
 
 "Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee 
 in the days of thy youth, and tvalk in the way of thine heart, and 
 in the sight of thinr rye.s: but ktiow thou, that for all these things 
 Ood tvill bring thre into judgment." 
 
 How good it is to be alive: Let us thank God for 
 life and its abundant blessings. Let us rejoice that we 
 are young. We are in the period of buoyancy anil hope. 
 We walk with quick steps without the many aches that 
 come with age. The dew of the morning is fresh 
 upon us. 
 
 Let us also thank God for the church, — that institu- 
 tion of divine appointment at whose altars we have been 
 saved and for which we toil and pray. Remember our 
 motto: "For Christ and the Church." 
 
 Surely we have great reason to be thankful for 
 Christian Endeavor, — what it has done and is still 
 doing. The Young People's Movement in our Church is 
 lifting the lives of youth of the Church to a higher level. 
 The outlook for the future is bright. Christian Endeavor is fundamentally 
 sound. We are going forward to victory. 
 
 Christian Endeavor is truly wonderful in many ways. It deals with life 
 at a wonderful age, — the age of the greatest possible opportunity for molding 
 character and shaping destiny. Christian Endeavor has a wonderful message, 
 a message pertaining to the deeper spiritual truths of Christian living. 
 Christian Endeavor is founded on wonderful basic principles, — principles 
 that are foundation stones of human life and grip young people at the point 
 of their greatest need. Christian Endeavor bears wonderful fruitage, the 
 fruitage of spiritual enrichment of youth. Christian Endeavor is wonderful 
 in its extending into all the nations of the earth. 
 
 Let us magnify our cause. The efficient and spiritual church in the future 
 is impossible unless the youth of today are trained and led into the deeper 
 spiritual realities. The church has no other organization for meeting this 
 
 need as does Christian Endeavor. rk rr. ta 
 
 O. T. Deever 
 
 General Secretary Young People's Department. 
 
 Secretary Deever 
 
 Through the agency of Christian Endeavor the church is 
 presenting to youth the pattern of life in Christ, the power of 
 life in his spirit and the inspiring challenge of Christ for 
 character and life service. The call for such endeavor is 
 greater today than when the movement was inaugurated. The 
 necessity of enlistment and training young people in the 
 activities of the church, and in Christian leadership is many 
 times greater than when the first society was organized for 
 that purposes Therefore the best work of the movement 
 and its vaster possibilities are yet to be realized. 
 
 The insistent call just now is for intensive evangelistic 
 endeavor. I wish that by some word we might secure the enlistment of every 
 Endeavorer in this work and that every society might make soul-winning the 
 outstanding feature of its work in the days and weeks ahead. What may we 
 not accomplish if all together we give ourselves to the Lord for this greatest 
 of tasks? Let all our young people dedicate themselves anew to Christ and 
 his service. We shall then have the best "Young People's Day" on May 1 
 that the Church has ever witnessed. tt u yovvt D D 
 
 Chairman Board of Control, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
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Boston, February 28. 1921. 
 Dear Endeavorers of the United Brethren Church: — 
 Dr. Deever has given me the privilege of sendin.s; 
 you a greeting for your Young People's Day. I 
 rejoice to do it, for no denomination has been more 
 cordial toward the Christian Endeavor movement 
 than your own, and in no denomination has our 
 movement warmer friends than in yours. The 
 cordial expressions of interest and the ready help 
 that has been given by your leaders have been a 
 source of great comfort and help to us in this office, 
 and I am sure I speak for my colleagues here as well 
 as for myself, when I send you heartiest congratu- 
 lations. 
 
 1 think the young people of your denomination 
 have proved the truth of one contention that a 
 Christian Endeavorer is just as loyal to his own 
 church, and denomination, as any young Christian 
 can be, while at the same time he has the inspiration of city-wide, state-wide 
 and world-wide fellowship. I pray that in the future as in the past your 
 societies may be greatly blessed, and that everyone will always be true to the 
 underlying principle of Christian Endeavor — loyalty to Christ and the Church. 
 I am glad to tell you that the work God has given us to do is prospering in 
 all parts of the world, and so far as I know, there has never been a time when 
 Christian Endeavor was growing more substantially or established fnore 
 firmly in all countries, than today. 
 
 With all good wishes to everyone who reads this message, 1 am. 
 
 Faithfully yours, Francis E. Clark 
 President United Society of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 President Clark 
 
 Most hearty greetings to the Christian Endeavorers of the 
 United Brethren Church! The purpose, aims and spirit of 
 this arm of the Church remain the same that they were thirty- 
 one years ago when the general young people's work was 
 organized, though some methods have changed. 
 
 The young people are the hope of the church; they must 
 furnish the future workers and leaders, — the ministers, 
 missionaries, editors, Bishops, and so on. Keep the standards 
 high. Our cause is the greatest this side of heaven, our pur- 
 pose the loftiest, "For the Glory of God and the Salvation of P'^'d^"' Landis 
 men," "For God and the Church." The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus ^ 
 Christ be with you all. Rev. J. P. Landis, D.D. G 
 
 President 
 Y. P. C. 
 
 Bonebrake Theological 
 U. for twelve years. 
 
 Seminary. First President General 
 
 The Young People's society meets a distinct need in the activities of the 
 Church — a need that 'no other organi'zation can supply. It is a voluntary, 
 self-directing and self-training agency that leads young life to self-conscious- 
 ness, to faith and religious expression. It is an open forum for canvassing 
 the world's needs, studying the Scrii)tures and fitting youth for an unselfish 
 and active Christian career. In the Sunday school and church mature people 
 necessarily dominate but in the Christian Endeavor society bouyant, adventur- 
 ous, affectionate and courageous youth asserts itself and in its consecration 
 to the Master sets out to make a new world. Rev. J. G. Huber, D.D. 
 
 President of General Y. P. C. U. seven years. Chairman of the Board of Control 
 
 eight pears and present Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 
 
 Young People's Department. 
 
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The' Scholarship Fund 
 
 Take An Offering 
 
 The time-honored custom to take an Anniversary Offering on Young 
 People's Day should by all means be continued. This is a good way to train 
 our young people to give. Interest can often best be deepened by giving 
 money to support the cause. We suggest that the offering be taken for the 
 scholarship fund which our denomination is raising as a part of the United 
 Enlistment Movement. Your offerings can be counted on your church's 
 pledges to the United Enlistment Budget. If your budget is full it can be 
 added as a surplus to make up for the many churches which are not full. 
 Or if you prefer the offering can be given to the scholarship fund which your 
 conference Christian Endeavor Union may be raising. 
 
 ScHOL.\R.SHip Money Gkeatly Needed 
 
 We have now about 1500 Life Work Recruits. Less than 400 are in our 
 schools preparing for Life Work. Several hundred are in high school but 
 alas, several hundred are not in school at all and under their present financial 
 conditions cannot go. What a Joss to the Church and the Kingdom that these 
 splendid, talented, young people cannot prepare to serve the Church! 
 
 If they give their lives, including their time and money, certainly the 
 Church should be willing to help pay their way through college. Don't fail 
 to take an offering for this fund. 
 
 The Collegiate Scholarship Fund 
 
 A fine idea! Yes, for several reasons. In the first place it 
 is to be a permanent fund, invested on safest security and 
 only the interest used. Interest at six percent in sixteen and 
 two-thirds years grows to an amount equal to the principal. 
 While the interest is being used the principal goes on pro- 
 ducing through all time. It is just like pure water running 
 do\\n from a perennial spring. 
 
 In the second place all this interest is given from year to 
 s q 1, II ^^^'' '•^ ^^^ young people in securing an education for minis- 
 
 secretary scheii terial and missionary service. Thus many will be assisted 
 who, without such assistance, would find it impossible to go to college. 
 
 In the third place our greatest hopes gather about those who are called to 
 give their whole lives to the service of the Church. They must be thoroughly 
 consecrated and well-trained in order to make the future of Christianity and 
 of civilization secure. 
 
 Therefore, our scholarship plan touches the very heart of Christian 
 progress, and money given to the scholarship fund becomes an agency of 
 power, constant and gigantic beyond expression. 
 
 Wm. E. Schell. 
 General Secretary of Education. 
 
 FOR CHRIST 
 
 AND 
 
 THE CHURCH 
 
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The Triumph of Christian Endeavor 
 
 A PAGEANT ' 
 
 Adapted from Four Decades of Christian Endeavor 
 
 By MRS. WILLIAM V. MARTIN 
 By permission of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 CHARACTERS: 
 
 The cast calls for groups of Juniors, Intermediates and Seniors. The largest number of Juniors used 
 in any scene is 6, of Intermediates 4, of Seniors 14. The same members may be used for all the scenes, or 
 in the case of a large society different members may be used. In some scenes larger numbers may be used 
 than are called for. 
 
 In preparing the pageant write out a definite cast for each scene. Rehearse each scene sufficiently often 
 to make sure that each participant knows his or her part well, can repeat the lines perfectly, andean take up 
 the proper position in the group without hesitation. 
 
 To be a success the pageant must move smartly, without a hitch. Labor to attain efficiency. 
 
 Processional. Every one taking part in pageant, while singing first verse and chorus of "Onward, 
 Christian Soldiers." 
 
 SCENE I. 
 Organization of first Christian Endeavor Society. 
 
 Parlor of Dr. Clark's home. Williston Congregational parsonage, Portland, Me. 
 Characters: Spirit of Christian Endeavor, dressed in white, with large Christian Endeavor mono- 
 gram on breast: Dr. and Mrs. Francis E. Clark, twelve or more young people. 
 
 (.Chairs are placed as if in readiness for a meeting. Scene opens with Dr. and Mrs. Clark sitting in 
 parlor appparently talking.) 
 
 Recitative by Spirit of Christian Endeavor: 
 
 Forty years ago there was a revival in Williston Congregational Church, Portland. Me., under the 
 pastorate of Dr. Francis E. Clark. Many young people accepted Christ, and the pastor wanted to 
 hold these young people to the church, wanted to help them, and wanted them to be a help to the 
 church. He had previously organized a young people's club, a literary society, a social club, and a sing- 
 ing society, but none of these seemed exactly to meet the need. He felt that there should be in 
 the church a society that would train the young people for religious work and not merely provide for 
 entertainment and pleasure. After careful study, much prayer, and wise planning, he drew up the 
 constitution and pledge of the first Christian Endeavor society in the world. He then called the boys 
 and girls together for a meeting at his home on February 2, 1881, and presented to them this pledge 
 and constitution. Thus the Christian Endeavor Society was born. Thirty-five young people signed 
 the active members' pledge at once, and six the associate members' pledge. 
 
 (Spirit of Christian Endeoi'or retires, and young people come in, two and three in a group, from one 
 side of the platform as though coming in at the front door. They are greeted by Mrs. Clark, then by Dr. 
 Clark and are given seats. This is acted out. but no words spoken. When all arrive Dr. Clark says:) 
 
 Dr. Clark: We have asked you to meet with us this evening that we might talk over plans for 
 organizing a young people's society whose object shall be to lead the young people to Christ, to estab- 
 lish them firmly in the faith by promoting an earnest Christian life, and to set them to work in the 
 Lord's vineyard. 
 
 I have drawn up a constitution for your approval. It deals with officers of the society in the 
 usual way, and has this to say about the prayer meeting: 
 
 "It is expected that all the members of the society will be present at every meetinij;, unless 
 detained by some absolute necessity, and that each one will take some part, however slight, in ever\- 
 meeting. The meetings will be held just one hour, and, at their close, some time may be taken for 
 introductions and social intercourse, if desired. 
 
 "Once each month an experience meeting shall be held at which each member shall speak concern- 
 ing his or her progress in Christian life for the past month. If any one chooses he can express his feel- 
 ings by an appropriate verse of Scripture. It is expected that if any one is obliged to be absent from 
 this monthly meeting he will-send the reason of hi-s absence by some one who attends." 
 
 How many of you are willing to sign this pledge and become members of this new society which 
 will be called the Williston Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor? .Ml who will please 
 raise your right hands. (They all raise their right hands.) Will some one make a nomination for 
 president? 
 
 First Member: Dr. Clark, I nominate Granville Staples for president. 
 
 Dr. Ctarlc: All in favor of Granville Staples for president, please say, ".\y." (.ill say, ".\y.") 
 Dr. Clark: Whom will you nominate for secretary? 
 Second Member: I nominate Fred W. Waterman. 
 
 Dr. Clark: AH in favor of Fred W. Waterman for secretary say, "Ay." (All say, ".ly.") 
 Dr. Clark: I have a list of members of committees, the praiyer-meeting, the.lookout. and the 
 social committees. Shall we adopt it? * 
 
 Third Member: I so move. 
 
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Dr. Clark: I hear no objection, and it is adopted. Let us close our meeting tonisht by singing 
 one stanza of "Work, for the night is coming." 
 
 {After singinR all march off the platform, the orchestra, or organ where there is no orchestra, continuing 
 to pla\ the melody.) 
 
 SCEXE II. 
 
 Triumphant Growth of Christian Endeavor 
 
 Characters: .Spirit of Christian Endeavor, two Juniors, two Intermediates and three Seniors. 
 The first Junior should wear a Junior arm-hand and carry a Junior cardboard shield hearing the words, 
 "First Christian Endeavor Triumphs.''' The first Intermediate should wear a summer hat and he dressed 
 to represent a traveler. Should speak loud and carry a Christian Endeavor flag and suitcase. He should also 
 carrv a cardhoard banner bearing the words "Convention Triumphs." The second Junior should be dressed 
 as the first with the words on his shield. "Junior Triumphs." the second Intermediate should carry an 
 Intermediate pennant with a cardboard banner bearing the words "Intermediate Triumphs." The first 
 Senior should carry a temperance banner with the words ".1 .Saloonless Nation in 1920." The second 
 Senior should wear no coat, his sleeves rolled up and carry a banner entitled "Service Triumphs." The 
 third Senior should carry the flags of all the different countries he can get and also a banner with the words 
 "World Wide Triumphs." 
 
 {Each character enters fust as soon as the one before him ceases speaking. Move 'luickly, without delay. 
 These should all he loud, distinct speakers.) 
 
 Spirit of Christian Endeavor speaks: 
 
 .\ long time ago. on February 2, l.SSl. the first Christian Endeavor society was formed. Today 
 there are T.i.OOO societies and they are found in every country on earth. Of these societies 2.289 are 
 United Brethren, including Juniors and Intermediates. Christian Endeavor has had a triumphant 
 growth and e.xtends into about 80 denominations and into as many different nations of the ep.rth. 
 (Spirit of Christian Endeavor retires.) 
 
 First Junior (a boy) enters: I stand for some of the early Christian Endeavor triumphs. The 
 first society was formed in 1881. The first convention was held in 1882. The first Junior society 
 was organized in 188.'^. The first state union was formed in 1884. In 188.5 the first society was organ- 
 ized outside of the United States, at Honolulu. Hawaii. Also in 1885 the first society in China was or- 
 ganized. It was called the "Drum-and-Rouse-Up Society." In 1886 the first local Christian Erideavor 
 Union was formed. In 1887 Dr. Clark was elected president of the United Society of Christian En- 
 deavor. In 1888 the first society was formed in Australia. Also in this year a great Christian Endeavor 
 convention was held in Chicago. In 1889 the President of the United States, who was President 
 Harrison, sent a message of greeting to the convention which met in Philadelphia. In 1890 the first 
 prison society was organized. , 
 
 First Intermediate, {a boy), enters: I stand for convention victories. Christian Endeavor has 
 held some wonderful conventions. They have been held in Minneapolis, New York. Montreal. Cleve- 
 land. Boston, Washington. San Francisco, Nashville, Detroit and London. The largest convention 
 ever held was in Boston in 189.5. Fifty-six thousand delegates were registered. In many of the con- 
 ventions there have been representatives from Canada, Mexico, China. Japan, Australia, Africa, Scot- 
 land. Germanx-. England, India and many other countries. 
 
 Second Junior (a girl), enters: I stand for Junior Triumphs. The first Junior Society was 
 formed in Berkeley. California. 1893. There are now more than 19,000 Junior societies scattered over 
 all the world. Out of these 770 Junior societies are United Brethren, with 2.5,9.59 members. 
 
 Second Intermediate, (a eirl). enters: I stand for Intermediate Triumphs. The Intermediate 
 society is of later origin than the Junior society, but it is a thriving and enthusiastic form of Endeavor 
 work. California has always led in Intermediate work, and thousands of boys and girls and young 
 people in their teens have been led to accept Christ through the influence of these societies. 
 
 First Senior enters: I stand for Temperance Work. Endeavorers have always been prominent 
 in temperance and prohibition work, but when in Atlantic City in 1911 the slogan, a "Saloonless Nation 
 by 1920," was proposed, many of even the most enthusiastic Endeavorers thought it was a goal im- 
 possible to reach. Every temperance organization in the country adopted this Christian Endeavor 
 j slogan, and we know how this dream has come true. 
 
 Second Senior enters: I stand for Service Triumjihs. "By their fruits ye shall know them." 
 Christian Endeavor fruits are many. In some places Endeavorers provide fresh-air homes in the 
 country or at the seashore where thousands of children and tired mothers from tenement houses can 
 rest. A number of societies have helped to bring cheer to hospitals — in six months in Chicago .3500 
 Endeavorers attended the meetings held in the hospitals and 36,400 bouquets were distributed. 
 During the War Endeavorers distributed Bibles and reading matter, books and comfort-bags to the 
 soldiers and sailors, and gave freely of time and money to help them. In the great cities, on the 
 Western plains, among the mining-camps and the mountaineers, among the Chinese and Japanese 
 along the Pacific slopes, and in the Indian reservations, Endeavorers have always served. Many 
 societies have been organized in various institutions. 
 
 Third Senior enters: I stand for Christian Endeavor World Wide Triumphs. Christian Eri- 
 deavor is the only interdenominational and international young people's society in the world. It is 
 found in more than eighty denominations and in every civilized country of the world today. Dr. Clark, 
 president of the World's Union, has made six trips around the world in the interest of Christian En- 
 deavor, and last year made another trip to Europe, where he went to help the Endeavorers who have 
 lost so much through the war. 
 
 (Note: In connection with this last speaker, if desired, a group of children can be used to represent 
 China. India. Russia. Sweden. Norway. Scotland. Germany. Italy, France, Ireland, Mexico, Canada, 
 .Australia, and any other countries you wish. The children should be dressed in costumes of the country 
 represented and carry a flag of that country. When this speaker is through have all the children join 
 hands to form the world. Let the children march around in a circle while they sing "Speed .Away" or "The 
 whole wide world for Jesus" or some other suitable song. They march off the platform at the close of the song.) 
 
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SCENE III. 
 Triumph of Christian Endeavor in the United Brethren Church. 
 
 Characters: The Spirit ofChrtsiian Endeavor and 10 oilier characters: One representing the Young 
 People's Department who should be dressed as a traveler uith a traveling bag in one hand and a package of 
 literature and books in the other, typifying the General Secretary of the depart?nent, one of whose responsi- 
 bilities is to attend the young people's conventions. Another Senior Endeavorer should represent the conference 
 Christian Endeavor unions. He should be seated at a table with a chairman's gavel in his hand. A third 
 Endeavorer should represent the Increase Campaign. lie should carry a big banner on which are the words, 
 "Forward March." Still another Senior Eiideovorer should represent the Watchword. He should carry a 
 copy of that paper in his hand. There should be a Junior to represent the Junior work. He should carry a 
 big Junior banner. There should also be an Intermediate boy or girl to represent the Intermediate work, 
 carrying an Intermediate banner. There should be four additional Endeavorers who represent the Quiet 
 Hour, Christian Stewardship, Life Service and S. P. E. Reading Plan. The one representing the Quiet 
 Hour should carry an open Bible. The one representing Stewardship should carry in his hand a large 
 pocketbook. The one representing Life Service should hold in his hand a license to preach. The one repre- 
 senting the S. P. E. Reading Plan should have an S. P. E. Certificate. 
 
 Several large banners bearing the inscription " United Brethren Christian Endeavor" should be placed 
 around the room while this scene is being given. 
 
 The .Spirit of Christian Endeavor enters and after speaking, leaves. The ten other speakers enter and 
 form a group with the Young People's Department in the center. Each steps to the center of the platform as 
 he or she speaks and then steps back to their place in the group. When they are all through speaking they 
 join hands and sing one verse of "Blest be the tie that binds." 
 
 Spirit of Christian Endeavor: In 1890 the spirit of Christian Endeavor took hold of the 
 United Brethren Church and it resulted in the organization of a Young People's Christian Union. When 
 this organization was 18 years old the name was changed to Christian Endeavor. Since that time the 
 United Brethren young people have enjoyed the fellowship of the larger movement. There are now 
 1519 United Brethren Senior Endeavor societies, and 770 Junior and Intermediate societies. The total 
 membership of these societies is 89,288. The movement is still growkig in power and Christian use- 
 fulness. New triumphs are being achieved constantly. 
 
 Young People's Department speaks: In 1908 the last biennial convention was held. This 
 convention memorialized the General Conference to make the Young People's Work an integral part 
 of the Lhurch to be managed by a Board as are other departments. 'This request was granted in 1909 
 when the Young People's Work was correlated with the Sunday School and Brotherhood Work and 
 placed under the Board of Control. At the General Conference in 1913 Rev. O. T. Deever. who was 
 then a pastor, was elected general secretary of this department to give his full time to the work. 
 The Young People's Department maintains an office at 301 Otterbein Press Building, Dayton, Ohio. 
 Thousands of letters are sei.t out from this office. The department has an office assistant who gives 
 all of her time to the work. The Young People's Department furnishes literature for the churches and 
 societies on \oiing people's work, supplies speakers for the conventions and in many other ways seeks 
 to build up the work. 
 
 Conference Unions speaks: Every annual conference in the denomination has a union of young 
 people's societies which is organized to carry on convention work and intensify Young People's work in 
 the conference. About four thousand delegates gather each summer in the different conventions. 
 There have been as high as 300 Life Service decisions in one season's Christian Endeavor conventions. 
 Most of the conference unions have a full list of officers, including superintendents of departments of 
 work such as Junior, Intermediate. Quiet Hour, Tithing, Life Service. Efficiency and Missions, etc. 
 "The conference unions are the greatest asset that our Young People's Work has. These organizations 
 are in the best shape they have ever been in the history of our work. Many of them are raising scholar- 
 ship funds and at least one of them is employing a field worker part time. The conference unions are 
 spending more and more money on their conventions and a number of them are planning to do con- 
 structive field work at considerable e.\pense. 
 
 Increase Campaign speaks: For a number of years there have been different denominational 
 forward movements in the Church. The Four Year Program was a great blessing to the Young Peonies 
 Work and helped to intensify the activiiies of our societies. It was especially timely during the war 
 period. The exactions of war wrought havoc among our societies but reconstruction efforts are bearing 
 fruit. New societies are being formed throughout the ( hurch. We are now getting ready for another 
 great forward movement. This movement should be the most successful yet. The rallying cry is 
 being sent out to all societies. The orc^er is "Forward March." 
 
 The Watchword speaks: In 1893 our joung people's movement was given an official paper. 
 This paper was named "The Watchword" and Rev. II. F. Shupe was elected editor. For 28 years Dr. 
 Shupe has been the editor of'this splendid young people's paper. The circulation recently reached the 
 magnificent figure of 48,080 which at that time was the largest circulation that it has ever had. The 
 circulation is constantly increasing and will .soon no doubt pass the 50,000 mark. 
 
 Junior speaks: Early in our young people's movement Junior societies were organized, For a 
 number of years these were under the direction of Superintendent Rev. W. A. Dickson and Mrs. G. W. 
 Kitzmiller. The Junior work is now under the direction of the general secretary of the Young People's 
 Department. There are now about six hundred Junior societies in the denomination. They are doing 
 splendid work. 
 
 Intermediate speaks: The first Intermediate .society was organized after the first Junior society. 
 There are about l.")0 Intermediate societies in the denomination. Many of them are doing most excel- 
 lent work. The Intermediate society is one of the most important of the three, and when properly 
 carried on results in great good to the girls and boys. . 
 
 Quiet Hour speaks: The Quiet Hour is a brief period of approximately 15 minutes spent, prefer- 
 ably in the earl> morning, in quiet Bible reading, meditation and prayer. This movement has brought 
 
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untold blcssiiiR to the youiiK people and should be vigorousl\- promoted in every society. Every con- 
 ference union has a Quiet Hour Superintendent to whom the societies should report the number of the 
 Comrades of the Quiet Hour. The Voung People's Department gladly furnishes free literature. 
 
 Christian Stewardship i/>f(j/t5.- The young people's work has been a pioneer in promoting 
 the tithe principle. Our Endeavor societies have a larger proportion of tithers in their societies than 
 any other organization in the Church. Nearly one-half of the tithers in the Church are Christian 
 Endeavorers. Endeavorers have a profound conviction that God is sovereign owner of all and one- 
 tenth of all we earn belongs to him. 
 
 Life Service sf<eaks: The Life Service movement has been exceptionally successful in (recent 
 months. This movement began in our Illinois conference Christian Endeavor union and has spread 
 into every conference in the Church. The Voung People's Department has the names of 1500 Life 
 Work Recruits. Our colleges have the largest enrollment of young men and young women looking to 
 special service that they have ever had in their history. 
 
 S. P. E. speaks: The Young People's Department promotes a plan for the reading of good books 
 designed to make the Endeavorers more effective in the work of the Church. These books cover the 
 subject of Missions. Bible study. Christian Stewardship, Evangelism and Church Life. A certificate 
 is given to each one who pursues this course. A seal is attached for every book read. There have been 
 3111 certificates issued and fully I.t.OOO seals have been given, indicating that many books read. 
 
 SCEN'E I\'. 
 
 A Live Christian Endeavor Society of Today. 
 
 Characters: Fourteen yomtg people, four children, and the Spirit of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 {The society officers and commillee chairmen are grouped upon the platform in a semi-circle. The 
 president and vice-president stand in the centre of the circle, just behind a table, on one side of which is seated 
 the recording secretary, apparently writing in a book; on the other side is seated the corresponding 
 secretary, reading a letter, and behind the table is seated the treasurer, holding up a collection-plate. The 
 president and vice-president are holding bet-ween them a large wall pledge.) 
 
 ( Ne.xt to the secretary stands the chairman of the prayer-meeting committee holding a Bible and a song- 
 b<x)k, «e.v< stands the music committee holding a sheet of music, the social committee holding a cake, and at 
 the end of the circle is seated a Quiet- Hour Comrade reading a Bible. To the right of the vice-president 
 stands the lookout-committee chairman looking through a pair of field glasses at the audience, then the flower 
 committee holding a bouquet, then the good-citizenship committee holding temperance banner, and at the end 
 of the circle is seated the Tenth Legion holding a bank. In front of the semi-circle, on one side, is seated the 
 chairman of the Junior committee holding by the hand a Junior boy on one side and a Junior girl on the 
 other. Each Junior may hold in his other hand a Junior banner or pennant. On the other side in front of 
 the semi-circle is seated the chairman of the missionary committee, with two children in foreign costume. 
 .■Ill characters may wear on their breasts red Christian Endeavor monograms cut out of cloth or paper.) 
 
 (During the recitative which follows, each chairman or officer should step forward a step as he is men- 
 tioned and then step back to his place, those who are seated ?nerely bow as they are mentioned. After the 
 recitative is finished they all sing one stanza of "Volunteers are wanted.") 
 
 Spirit of Christian Endeavor: When the first Christian Endeavor Society was organized no 
 
 one dreamed of its spreading and growing as it has done. The first society had its officers and a few 
 committees, but the live, up-to-date society of today has a far broader outlook. Every live society 
 has its Efficiency chart and conference scheme of credits to direct the work of the society and its com- 
 mittees: its Experts, who have studied the text-book "Expert Endeavor" and taken an examination 
 in it. Every live society of today has access to the Watchword and has enrolled its tithers, and has 
 some members of the Quiet Hour. Every live society should also have one or more Life Work Recruits. 
 
 The officers of the society are the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and the corres- 
 
 )Donding secretary, who keeps the society in touch with the General Secretary and conference C. E. 
 union and the United Society. The committees are: the lookout committee, the prayer-meeting, the 
 music, the Junior, the missionary, and others. Each committee has its own distinctive work and on 
 the faithfulness of these committees depends the success of the society. 
 
 Every Endeavorer has a part in the great work of the society, and is pledged to loyalty to Endeavor 
 ideals and service. 
 
 (.4// sing one stanza of "To the Work! to the Work!" and retire while repeating, as a processional, the 
 chorus. t ' 
 
What Leading Laymen Think About It 
 
 I have helped for many years in the development of a local church, and 
 am convinced that our most efficient workers come from those who have been 
 trained in a Christian Endeavor Society. 
 
 Albert Kiester, Scottsdale. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Successful business man. 
 
 I am thoroughly convinced of the importance of the young people's work 
 in the denomination. I believe it to be one of the strong arms of the Church. 
 
 A. S. Krieder, Annville, Pennsylvania. 
 Successful business man and statesman. 
 
 The most vital element demanded by the business and professional world 
 today, from those who serve it, is character. The Bible is the textbook of 
 character. The Young People's Work in our Church furnishes the oppor- 
 tunity to study this text and to practice the virtues therein taught. 
 
 Sincerely yours, A. A. Maysilles, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 County Superintendent of Public Schools. 
 
 "A Natkw That Rides In 
 AuTOMOaii,r,6 SH0^lto^4>I 
 
 P*««1T It* CHIlLIMltNTo 
 Wa1,K in ICNOK AWCB" 
 
 Christian Endeavor in our own denomination has given birth to the Life 
 Work Recruit Movement which is God's answer to the prayers of his iieople 
 for workers in his vineyard. Cloyd C. Rose, Olney, Illinois. 0^ 
 
 Assistant Postmaster, fourteen years president Lower Wabash C. E. Union. ^ 
 
 Christian Endeavor is the best organization in the church for the young 
 people. The organization hag been proven worth while by the number of 
 preachers and missionaries it sends out each year. 
 
 C. b. Raymond, Huntington, Indiana. 
 
 Publisher. 
 
 Oh, that the church would realize and recognize the need of the hour and 
 stimulate and encourage organized Christian training for young people! 
 W. E. GiHingham, Richland Center. Wisconsin. 
 Successful farmer, wide experience in the councils of the Church. 
 
 Christian Endeavor is like the sun, in its journey each day across the 
 beavens. It gives life wher'er its rays find lodgement; it gives warmth and 
 cheer, continually bringing forth new life, new harvests, ^nd making 
 the earth to blossom like the rose. C. B. Walter, Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 Treasurer Missouri Conference, cashier leading business liouse. 
 
CHURCH OF THE 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 QUADRENNIAL REPORT 
 
 Of the Board of Education 
 
 WM. E. SCHELL. General Secretary 
 
MEMBERS 
 
 Bishop W. M. r.cll, D.D., 1509 State Street, Harrisburg, 
 Pennsvlvania. 
 
 Bishop H. H. Font, D.D., 945 Middle Drive, Indianapolis, 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 Bishop C. j. Kephart, D.D., 3936 Harrison .\venue. Ivansas 
 ritv, Missouri. 
 
 Bishop W. H. Washinger, D.D., 686 East Taylor Street, 
 
 Portland. Oregon. 
 
 Bishop A. T. Howard, D.D., 821 Five Oaks Avenue. Day- 
 ton, Ohio. 
 
 Bishop N. Castle, D.D., Philomath, Oregon. 
 
 Bishop W. M. Weekley, D.D., 1424 Twenty-second Street, 
 Parkersburg, West Virginia. 
 
 President W. G. Clippinger, D.D., Westerville, Ohio. 
 
 IVesident L. L. Eplev. D.D., Philomath, Oregon. 
 
 President I. J. Good, A.M., University Heights, Indianapolis 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 President C D. Gossard, D.D.. Annville, Pennsylvania. 
 
 President J. P. Landis, D.D.. 1566 West Second Street. Day- 
 ton, Ohio. 
 
 President H. U. Roop, D.D., York, Nebraska. 
 
 President 1. H. Ruebush, A.M., Dayton, \irginia. 
 
 Chancellor J. C. Williams, D.D., Kansas City University, 
 Kansas City, Kansas. 
 
 Professor H. H. Baish, A.M., 711 North Second Street, Har- 
 risburg. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Judge Walter Brewer, Paris. Illinois. 
 
 Superintendent Mark Keppel, A.M., 700 Hall of Records. 
 Los Angeles, California. 
 
 Superintendent A. A. Maysilles, A.M., 215 Dayton Savings 
 and Trust Building, Dayton. Ohio. 
 
 Judge Wm. N. McFaul, 603 Law Building, Baltimore, 
 Maryland. 
 
 Professor ]. P. West, A.M., \\esterville. ( )hio. 
 
 Lebanon Valley Collcfte Freshmen 
 
'OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 
 
 W 111. 1''. Sclicll. (iciK-ral Secretary 
 I". |. Kephart. President 
 *t;." M. iMathews, \ice- President 
 W'm. E. Schell, Recording Secretary 
 L. O. Miller, Treasurer 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 *G. M. Mathews, Chairman 
 Wm. E. Schell, Secretary 
 W. (1. Clipiiinger L |. Cmud 
 
 I. v. Landis A. A. Alavsilles 
 
 j. P. West 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES 
 Committee on Material Holdings and Standards — ^llishop 
 G. M. Mathews, President j. P. Landis, President W. G. Clip- 
 pinger, President L. L. Epley, President I. J. Good, President 
 H. \J. Roo]), and Superintendent A. A. Maysilles. 
 
 Committee on Current Expense Budgets of Institutions — 
 Bishop W. M. Bell, Bishop W. H. W'ashinger, Professor H. H. 
 Baish, Superintendent A. A. IMaysilles. Judge Walter Brewer, 
 and President j. li. Ruel)usli. 
 
 Committee on Religious Life and Work— Bishop H. H. 
 Pout, Professor J. P. ^\■est. Bishop W. M. Weekley, President 
 Ci. D. Gossard, Judge Wm. N. McFaul, Superintendent Mark 
 Keppel, and Secretary Wm. E. Schell. 
 
 *Deceased April 3. 1921. 
 
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Presented to the General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 
 
 May, 1921 
 
 BY WM. E. SCHELL 
 General Secretary of Education 
 
 PROLOGUE 
 
 The tenth quadrennial report of the Board of Education of 
 the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, the second under 
 present organization with full-time General Secretary, is sub- 
 mitted to the members of the General Conference of the United 
 Brethren in Christ, and to the churches, in order that they may 
 be informed as to the work of the Board, its field of operation, 
 purposes and aims, the steps of progress gained, the present 
 outlook, and objectives for the immediate future. 
 
 An earnest effort has been made to present clearly and con- 
 cisely the work of the quadrennium as it pertains to the func- 
 tions and operations of this organization in its relation to our 
 institutions of learning and to the denomination. 
 
 This report is submitted with the hope that it will be read 
 with interest and studied with care. Those who so peruse it 
 will rejoice with us because of the undertakings which have 
 been translated into achievements and because of the victories 
 which have been recorded in this field of endeavor since the 
 quadrennial assembly of 1917. Especially will those who have 
 given heartily their moral and financial support find occasion 
 for satisfaction and gladness over the fact that their efforts 
 have helped to bring advancement to a cause so fundamental 
 to the progress of the gospel and the building of the Kingdom. 
 
 While there are great fields yet to be compassed and diffi- 
 cult problems still awaiting solution, this is far and away the 
 most encouraging quadrennial report ever made on the work 
 of Christian education among United Brethren in Christ. Its 
 submission is attended with most sincere appreciation of the 
 fine spirit of cooperation so generally evinced by both the 
 ministry and laity, and with overflowing gratitude to God for 
 his grace and blessing so ever-present and abundant as we 
 have journeyed across the plains of victory and over the hills 
 of triumph. 
 
 PROSPECT 
 
 The ])rospect was by no means encouraging when thb cur- 
 tain fell at the close of the last General Conference. Our coun- 
 try was just driving into the world war, pursuant to the de- 
 cision of the month before, and after the most noble and long- 
 
suffering: strug^gle a nation ever made to avoid the clasli of 
 arms. All the resources of the land were laid under tribute to 
 the imperative and imperious demands of the gigantic conflict. 
 The outgoing streani of finance at once swelled to billions of 
 dollars. Legalized conscription, at one stroke of the pen, made 
 all our young men from twenty-one to thirty-one years sub- 
 ject to the country's call. And they began going at once by 
 thousands and millions to the camps and overseas. Our young 
 women followed, as is always the case, to care for the sick and 
 wounded and dying. Men and women everywhere went into 
 near-war work of various kinds, and by the lapse of the first 
 spring into summer the whole nation was precipitated into the 
 awful encounter. War consumed our thought by day and 
 filled our dreams by night. It claimed our time and strength 
 and money and men and women — the nation's very heart and 
 soul. Throughout the greatest of all republics there was just 
 one business left intact — the business of war. 
 
 These conditions by no means constituted a roseate prospect 
 for progress in the work of the Church. And especially was 
 the outlook dark for the work of higher Christian education, 
 with all our young men of college age in the army and also 
 multitudes of our young women ; on the threshold of a great 
 financial undertaking for our cause, and the resources of our 
 people being poured out like water in response to the daily de- 
 mands of war. 
 
 But we shall never doubt God's wise and gentle leading in 
 the initiation and formulation and adoption of our educational 
 program for the quadrennium now closing. Had we been able 
 to unveil the future of these last four years and see the end 
 from the beginning, it is impossible to divine where or how 
 we could have planned more wisely or launched our projects 
 with greater sanity. 
 
 PROGRAM 
 
 The program for Christian education, as authorized by the 
 last General Conference, embodied four goals, as follows : 
 
 1. Our institutions of learning enriched and strengthened 
 as training agencies for Christian service. 
 
 2. Two million dollars in new funds for equipment and en- 
 dowment. 
 
 3. Two thousand increase in student attendance. 
 
 4. Five hundred additional trained ministers, missionaries, 
 and educational leaders. 
 
 These were big undertakings ; by far the biggest to date. 
 Some thought they were out of reason, especially the financial 
 goal. But the program has been pushed with all vigor and dis- 
 patch throughout the quadrennium and splendid steps of prog- 
 ress have been added to those of the four years preceding. 
 
 First Goal 
 
 "Our institutions of learning enriched and strengthened as 
 training agencies for Christian service." 
 
We have made gxjod progress in this held oi endeavor. There 
 are nt) concrete measures for estimating the gains in this fea- 
 ture of our work, l:)Ut they are proven l)y evidences which are 
 convincing and uiiniistakal)le. 
 
 The Bible has a larger i)lace in our courses of study. It is 
 regarded seriously as a book for study by increasing numbers 
 of our college students. 
 
 ■ All our colleges ha\e ai)pro\e(l one unit ot liible study for 
 entrance credit, such credit to be earned by the .completion of 
 two courses, each of which represents the equivalent of four 
 hours of recitations ])er week for twenty weeks. 
 
 Biblical and related subjects are taught in all our church 
 schools, and in most of them there is one professor giving all 
 his time, or nearly all, to this field of instruction. 
 
 ( )ur college faculties are made up of rare Christian men and 
 women. They are more and more assuming the attitude ♦^hat 
 the work of teaching in a Christian institution of learning is 
 not merely a jirofession, but a divine calling; a God-given 
 opportunity for the investment of a life where it will be of 
 greatest consequence in shaping the coming leaders of men. 
 Many of them are in the work at the call of their Lord. The 
 character side of education holds a predominant place in their 
 purposes and aims. They well understand the great truth that 
 the elements of Christian love and good-will are fundamental 
 to the progress of the Church and the State, and that the}' are 
 absolute requisites for the construction of civilization upon 
 higher planes, not only morally and religiously, but also 
 economically and politically. They are deeply sensible of the 
 glory and supremacy of our holy religion, and find their great- 
 est joy in seeing those who gather about them as learners 
 enter upon the Christian life and heed the call to the gospel 
 ministry and other forms of full-time service in the Church. 
 
 7\nother evidence of progress in this realm of service is the 
 fact that all our colleges have been l)lessed with gracit)us re- 
 \ivals. St)me of them were unusual manifestations of the 
 divine j^ower, turning large numbers of students to the Chris- 
 tian life and leaving but few unsaved. Also, many were led to 
 a decision for the Christian ministry. 
 
 These college revivals ha\'e been an untold blessing, not 
 only in winning the unsaved, but also in edifying Christian 
 students and teachers. It greatly enriches the lives of student 
 ministers to pass through these wonderful awakenings during 
 their college years. Bishop \\'eekley truly says, "Only such 
 e.\])eriences will i:)roperly anchor them and kee]) the great call 
 upon their hearts." 
 
 Second Goal 
 
 "'i'wo million dollars in new funds for e(|uii)ment and en- 
 dowment." J 
 
 This goal was attained ])revious to the financial campaign 
 of the United Enlistment Movement, or within a little less 
 than the first three years of the quadrennium. While some of 
 our institutions did not reach their goal in full, others secured 
 
a good (leal more. It was our ])laii to center ettorts upon the 
 cam])aig:n for one institution at a time. We naturally started 
 with our oldest institution, and came on down the line. Before 
 we made the complete round, the United Enlistment Move- 
 ment was launched, leavini;- the campaij^n for three of our in- 
 stitutions unfinished. 
 
 The two millions i){ dollars secured in these campaigns went 
 in the main for endowment. There is only one notable excep- 
 tion, that of $1<SO,000 expended to erect a!nd equip the new 
 science building for Otterbein College. 
 
 To set it out specifically and in round numbers, about 
 $450,000 was secured for ' Otterl)ein College, $450,000 for 
 Lebanon Valley College. $400,000 for Indiana Central Uni- 
 versity. $200,000 for Kansas City University. $120,000 for York 
 College. $100,000 for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute. $80,000 
 for Philomath College, and $200,000 for Bonebrake Theologi- 
 cal Seminary. 
 
 These figures show a great advance beyond all previous un- 
 dertakings and achievements for our church schools. They 
 bear evidence of the enlarging vision of our denomination rela- 
 tive to the place of Christian education in the w^orld program, 
 give proof of what can be accomplished In' concerted action, 
 and furnish eloqtient testimony to the efficiency of our policies 
 and methods. 
 
 The great achievement iiad its background in the rising tide 
 of interest awakened the quadrennium before. All plans and 
 efforts were shot through and intersticed with prayer. Infor- 
 mation w'as sent out in steady streams to all quarters of the 
 denomination. We instituted an effective organization reach- 
 ing down through the conferences to groups of charges and 
 to the local church. The doctrines of tithing and of Christian 
 stewardship were talked at a hundred thousand firesides and 
 heralded forth in public address from every pulpit in the de- 
 nomination. Yes. and we registered tithing stewards, too ; but 
 the registration was on pledges and subscriptions to the great 
 cause of Christian education. We had the lifting power of a 
 challenging, worth-while goal. We had a good slogan, "Pray, 
 promote, and pay!" And with all this aroused interest and 
 supplication and information and organization, we called out 
 the wdiole army and flung it into the battle. This, in brief, was 
 the cause, and the two million dollars was the elTect. 
 
 The wdiole scheme and i)rocess and result constituted a 
 splendid forerunner and prejjaration for the United Rnlist- 
 ment Movement. In our college campaigns we learned anew 
 the meaning of prayer, the value of concerted effort, the im- 
 portance of calling out the whole army, the necessity of 
 thorough-going processes of information, the efficacy of close 
 and careful organization, and the appeal of a worth-while un- 
 dertaking. The victory gave birth to a desire for more and 
 greater results to be wrought out on kindred lines of attack. 
 Thus the wdiole denomination was recast after a better pat- 
 
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tern, its vision clarified, its horizon pushed back, and, conse- 
 quently, its career henceforth must move toward larger ends 
 and be enacted upon more exalted planes. 
 
 Third Goal 
 
 "An increase of two thousand in student attendance." 
 
 We have made progress toward this goal, but have not 
 reached it. We had about 2000 students at the beginning of 
 the quadrennium. not counting the 176 in Leander Clark Col- 
 lege. That institution closed, as you know, in 1918. To reach 
 this goal, therefore, would mean to raise the attendance from 
 2000 to 4000, a gain of 100 per cent. 
 
 Two unforeseen dif^culties were not taken into account 
 when we set this goal : We did not dream that one of our best 
 endowed colleges would turn from the track, and we did not 
 suppose that the war would take a thousand of our students 
 at a single stroke. Our students were living pure lives and 
 hence sound in body. They were patriotic and ready to go. 
 Large numbers of them enlisted and many became officers. 
 
 The second year of the quadrennium we recovered these 
 losses. The third year we made a gain of about 200. This year 
 we shall reach a total registration of 100 more, or about 2300. 
 In other words we have surmounted the unforeseen obstacles 
 which lay in our pathway in this phase of our work, and have 
 made a gain of 15 per cent. 
 
 In order to attain this goal it will be necessary to have an 
 average of one student in college for every eighty-eight mem- 
 bers of the Church. Some denominations have exceeded these 
 figures, while others are far from them. Those in the former 
 class have a larger number of institutions in proportion to 
 their membership than those in the latter class and than we. 
 The propinquity of the constituency of an institution has much 
 to do with its attendance. It is the exception where large 
 numbers are carried over long distances to attend college. We 
 are suffering now for the want of an institution somewhere in 
 the Mississippi valley. 
 
 Fourth Goal 
 
 "Five hundred adxlitional trained ministers, missionaries, 
 and educational leaders." 
 
 We have made good strides in this direction. Among the 
 graduates from our church schools the last three years, there 
 were a total of 2^)0 who entered the forms of Christian 
 work herein specified. For this year there are 136 more. While 
 these figures show that we have covered only 79 per cent of the 
 distance to this goal, they discount all previous records and 
 lend us much encouragement. ' 
 
 Of the numbers given, 223 arc Christian teachers graduated 
 from full collegiate courses. The other 173 are ministers and 
 missionaries, 66 of them graduating this year. 
 
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Furthermore, there is a big harvest started and already well 
 on the way. The numbers of life-work recruits in training at 
 our church schools this year are as follows : 
 
 Otterbein College, 95; Lebanon Valley College, 50; Indiana 
 Central University, 60; Kansas City University, 42; York 
 College, 55; Philomath College, 26; Shenandoah Collegiate 
 Institute, 17; IJonebrake Theological Seminary, 63; making a 
 total of 408, which is an advance of 132 above the figures of 
 the last quadrennial report. But the sitting of the next 
 General Conference large numbers of these will be out of 
 college, through the Seminary, and into the active work. 
 
 Not overlooking the fact that the Church must have in- 
 creasing numbers of consecrated and well-trained lay leaders, 
 it is at this point, our ministry, that we touch the highest pur- 
 pose of the Board of Education and of the Christian college. 
 And this matter must not be left wdiolly to our Board and the 
 college presidents and teachers. We may lead the way and 
 agitate and exhort and inform ; but Christians everywhere, and 
 all the time, must give their efforts to the task, if the future 
 Church is to be supplied with the requisite number of de- 
 voted and thoroughly-furnished ministers and missionaries. 
 The mandate of the Master, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of 
 the harvest that he will thrust forth laborers into his harvest," 
 should rest heavily upon the hearts of all our people and be 
 the burden of their prayers. Parents, like Hannah of old, must 
 dedicate their children to the holy work of the Church. Every 
 minister must emphasize the need of life-work recruits, and 
 be on the alert to lead young people to a consideration of the 
 ministry and to place them in a listening attitude to the divine 
 call. 
 
 The need of Christian ministers and Christian missionaries 
 W'ill always be the greatest need of the world. The minister 
 himself holds the vantage position for helping to supply this 
 need. Ambassador of the King of earth and heaven, his' high 
 office has an immeasurable lift. He is a prophet and sees the 
 diamond in the rough, the harvest in the seedtime, the saint 
 in the sinner plus the grace of God. He is a shepherd, loving 
 and leading his sheep, proving his interest in them by care and 
 counsel, comforting them in sorrow, encouraging them in 
 duty, helping them in time of temptation. He is a teacher, 
 teaclring and preaching the most important of all knowledge! 
 even those truths upon which men base their hopes for time 
 and for eternity. He is an organizer, setting his people to 
 work and showing them how, thus assuring their development 
 m grace and their safety from the sweeping tides of evil. But 
 above all, and more than all, he is a recruiting officer. All his 
 other functions lead up to and focus in this one. The full 
 glory of his high mission is revealed only when he so incar- 
 nates the ministry as to draw others into it. If he fails in this, 
 his failure is sui)erlatively great ; a tragedy that time cannot 
 efface, a woe that heaven cannot heal. But success in this 
 particular is a monumental achievement, giving an immeasur- 
 
able touch of blessing to earth and unending gladness and 
 glory to heaven. 
 
 The time is here to set in highest j^raise the parent and the 
 home that can produce a minister of the gospel, and to crown 
 with highest honor the man whose ministry reveals an un- 
 broken line of youths following him into this holy office. 
 
 NET ASSETS 
 Institution 
 
 Boncbrake Theological Seminary 
 
 Otterlieiii College 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 
 
 Leancler Clark College 
 
 Indiana Central University 
 
 Kansas City University 
 
 York College 
 
 Philomath College 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute 
 
 Total $1,977,613 $4,250,434 
 
 The figures for 1921 are conservative and show that we have 
 gained more in the last eight years than in the sixty-six years 
 preceding. To go on, steadily on. is our task. 
 
 1913 
 
 1921 
 
 $441,370 
 
 $689,383 
 
 384.642 
 
 l,()17,7(i5 
 
 297,928 
 
 798,405 
 
 310,524 
 
 310,524 
 
 46,814 
 
 632,223 
 
 237,500 
 
 359,000 
 
 185,585 
 
 173,634 
 
 48,250 
 
 132,000 
 
 25,000 
 
 137,500 
 
 
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 PURPOSE 
 
 .'^ome (if the (|uesti(ins whicli arise from time to time about 
 the field and function of the lioard of l^ducation sup]K)rt the 
 conclusion that its mission is not real thoroughly and generally 
 understood. It is well, therefore, to give in this report a brief 
 outline of its duties and ])owers. The said outline 'is as 
 follows : 
 
 "To assist in e\ery way the cause of higlier education in 
 the ("hurch, to awaken and stimulate an interest in this im- 
 
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portant work throughoul tlic Ixirdcrs dt our Zion, to cncuur- 
 aj^c ami aid our educational institutions tliat arc strivin<i^ to 
 bring^ the Church to L;reater efficiency, and t(» unite the friends 
 of education in their efforts, that greater unity of i)lan may be 
 secured, and the forces of the Church combined to give our 
 pet)ple adxantages commensurate witli the needs of the present 
 day. 
 
 "'1\) seek 1)\- the ])ul)licati( in of tracts. pam])hlets. addresses, 
 c)r books u])on educational (piestions. to diffuse among our 
 members a more general knowledge of the \alue of a sancti- 
 fied education and of a well-instructed ministry, and thereby 
 awaken in them a better appreciation of our institutions of 
 learning and of the obligations resting uixni them to give of 
 their substance for their sup])ort. 
 
 "'i\i make an annual re])ort of tlie general and tinancial 
 condition of the colleges and other educational institutions of 
 the Church; to make such recommendations to the managers 
 of these institutions as will tend to make them more effective. 
 
 "This Board shall determine the number of colleges and 
 academies, and the standards for the various grades of institu- 
 tions of learning and the coojjerating territory of each. 
 
 "The l>oard shall determine the standard of colleges which 
 grant the bachelor degree. The remainder of our schools may 
 be junior colleges or academies or may be discontinued, at the 
 discretion of the Board. The courses of study in schools of 
 like grade shall coordinate as far as possible, based upon the 
 minimum of units as outlined by the Board. 
 
 "X(i church school shall be established, discontinued, re- 
 located, or consolidated with another without the consent of 
 this Board, by a two-thirds vote of the entire Board. 
 
 "The Board, through its secretary, shall make to the (Gen- 
 eral Conference a report of all the work done during the pre- 
 ceding four years, including money received by collections, be- 
 quests, or otherwise, the amount paid out, and the purposes 
 for which it was ])aid. The Board may i)ropose to the (ien- 
 eral Conference, from time to time, such plans as it may con- 
 sider useful or necessary for the success of the work com- 
 mitted to it. 
 
 "There shall be an education fund under the control of 
 this Board, to ])e raised by the secretary and members of the 
 l^>oard, in the form of cash, gifts, death notes, beciuests, etc. 
 This fund shall be appropriated at the discretion of the Board. 
 
 "The Board of Education shall raise funds by collection, 
 donation, or becpiest. to aid by loan, witht)Ut interest as the 
 ['Executive Committee may determine, in educating, in l)oth 
 their collegiate and theological courses, worthy young persons 
 who are preparing themselves for the work of the gospel min- 
 istry, or as missionaries in the United brethren Church; j^ro- 
 vided, however, that the Board shall have jxiwer to receive 
 money and use it for other educational ptir])oses. as donors 
 may direct. 
 
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"The General Secretary of Education, under the direction 
 of the Board, shall conduct the correspondence, keep the 
 records, and in all his official conduct shall be subject to the 
 authority and control of the Board. His time shall be entirely 
 employed in conducting the affairs of the Board, and promot- 
 ing its objects by making educational investigations, by travel- 
 ing in its interests, by visiting the schools of the Church, and 
 lending assistance to the officers thereof, by making educa- 
 tional addresses, by soliciting fvmds and students for the 
 schools of the Church, by compiling statistics and other infor- 
 mation for the uses of the Board, and by performing such 
 other labors as will assist the existing schools of the denomina- 
 tion and those hereafter established to a higher degree of 
 efficiency, and perform such other duties as the Board may 
 from time to time require." 
 
 Objectives 
 
 It is apparent from the foregoing that the purposes of the 
 Board of Education are numerous and contemplate a large 
 field of endeavor. But rather than scatter our efforts over too 
 wide a range and make little impression anywhere, we have 
 centered them upon three great objectives: 
 
 1. To create a denomination-wide interest in Christian edu- 
 cation and our own church schools. 
 
 2. To strengthen our institutions of learning by securing 
 better equipment and more adequate endowment. 
 
 3. To enlist and train larger numbers of our young people 
 for Christian service and especially for the gospel ministry. 
 
 These objectives were suggested by the General Secretary 
 in July, 1913, and approved by the Executive Committee. 
 After pursuing them for four years it was the unanimous 
 opinion that there was nothing to add or subtract and that 
 they should be the focal points of endeavor for another four 
 years. So pushing onward to realize as fully as possible these 
 three distinct and unwavering aims, voice and ])en have been 
 utilized to send forth the waves of information to the farthest 
 shores of the denomination. Pastors, conference superin- 
 tendents, editors, general officers, bishops, presidents of insti- 
 tutions, teachers, and students have given fine cooperation. 
 There has been a s.teady rise in the tide of interest, and it is 
 not too much to say that the idea of Christian education, 
 cherished in the hearts of some of our best people since 1847, 
 :has finally found a place among the masses of the 
 denomination. 
 
 Without this deeper and wider interest it would have been 
 impossible in the last four years to make the additions to our 
 equipment and endowment which represent practically a 
 doubling of our assets. This achievement, however, was not 
 easily wrought, but was forged out of almost insuj^erable 
 difficulties and handicaps. Early and late, day and night, 
 without cessation or vacation, we sieged away at the great 
 composite task, exhausting the possible and denting the im- 
 
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possible. The General Secretary has clung to the field so con- 
 secutively that it is almost a travesty on the truth to say that 
 he lives in Dayton. Some of our noble presidents could say the 
 same thing". 
 
 The third link in the chain of aims logically follows the 
 other two. Greater interest, schools stronger in equipment 
 and endowment, larger attendance. The first two would be 
 in vain without the third. Every reason for the creation of 
 interest in Christian education and for the Strengthening of 
 the facilities of our church schools is rooted in the expectation 
 of larger attendance, and hence larger numbers trained for 
 Christian service and especially for the gospel ministry. 
 
 \\'e have not been disappointed in the matter of students. 
 There are in our colleges this year just about all the students 
 we can take care of, and in some instances it has become a 
 serious question as to the limitation of attendance. Some of 
 us have been saying that not as many of our young people 
 attend college in proportion to our numbers, as the young 
 people of many other denominations. The main reason is that 
 we have not made provisions for them. They are now coming 
 more rapidly than we are making room, and unless we con- 
 tinue to speed up with our provisions for them and duplicate 
 again and again what we have already done, the day is not far 
 distant when they will be saying, "We came unto our own 
 and our own received us not." 
 
 UNITED ENLISTMENT MOVEMENT 
 
 We have cooperated in every possible way in this forward 
 movement. The work has not been different — praying, teach- 
 ing, and preaching the glorious gospel of our Lord, winning 
 souls, raising funds — but the method has been different : work- 
 ing together as departments, with a united appeal and a 
 united army. 
 
 \\'hen the council of church leaders was held which even- 
 tuated in the organization of said movement, the General 
 Secretary of Education was absent from Dayton, working 
 away at his task in the field. But the idea was most welcome, 
 and already for years had been cherished in his soul and as 
 early as April 29, 1915, had been expressed in his recommenda- 
 tion to the Board of Education, as follows : "That a commit- 
 tee be appointed to consider the advisability of a united cam- 
 paign for the endowment of all our colleges and the Board of 
 Education, and also for securing appropriate sums for such 
 other Boards as will enter with us into such united campaign." 
 
 The said recommendation is recorded on page 228 of the 
 minutes of our Board. Favorable action was taken, a commit- 
 tee of three was appointed, with the General Secretary as 
 chairman, and instuctions were given "to consider the ad- 
 visability of a united cami)aign for the endownnent of our 
 colleges and for providing funds for the advances contem- 
 plated by the benevolence Boards of the Church." One mem- 
 
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Der of the committee refused to serve on the ground that the 
 aim was impracticable and impossible. The other two went 
 ahead with an effort to secure a united frimt, with failure as 
 the result. 
 
 But the Church marches forward with the years, and the 
 very thing which our leaders counted visionary and imprac- 
 ticable and almost unthinkable in 1915, we could do in 1920, 
 and do it with zest and the swing of victory. 
 
 It is my hope that we shall never go back to the old method. 
 It is so much more sensible and satisfactory to work together 
 and have a united appeal ; to train our people to the broader 
 view of the field and to prize the whole Church, every part 
 being essential ; and to pool our efforts and our money in order 
 to build the Church symmetrically and achie\e an all-round, 
 sustained, steach' advance. 
 
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 Indiana Central University Life-Work Recruits 
 
 Sharing in the Big Fund 
 
 \\'ith()Ut recounting the tedious processes leading up to the 
 fixing of the budget of $4,000,000. and ap])ropriations there- 
 from to various interests, let it suffice to state that thirt}' and 
 two-fifths per cent was apportioned to our educational agencies. 
 All of the allotments to our colleges, however, were set in the 
 n()n-])referre(l class and not realizable until large ])referred 
 claims are satisfied, 'idie said allotments were made on a two- 
 year basis, and arc as follows: Gtterbein College, $200,000; 
 Lebanon Valley College, $200,000; Indiana Central Universitv, 
 $120,000; Kansas City University, $100,000; York Cqllege, 
 $100,0(X); Philomath College, $40,000, and Shenandoah Col- 
 legiate Institute, $40,000. 
 
 In most instances the ct)nferences have a])pr()])riated fiat 
 sums for college operating expense. Some of the con- 
 
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(crenocs have made said a])|)ri tpriatii ms larger lliaii ImIIkmIo. 
 while other ciuiferences ha\e dec reaped them, ami some have 
 made no <;rant at all. 
 
 lloth preferred and non-preterred allotments were made to 
 the Board of i'dueation and to I'onebrake 'rheolos;ical 
 Seminarw Said allotments are as folKjws: — 
 
 Hoard of lulucation : ])referred for administration, $U),(XX); 
 l)referred for ccjllcgiate scholarship fund, $11,.^(X); non- 
 preferred for collei^iate scholarship fund, $63,500. 
 
 Bonebrake Theological Seminary: preferred for administra- 
 tion. $44,000; special, $14,309; non-preferred for building^ fund, 
 $206,000; non-preferred for seminary scholarship fund. $7.\(XX). 
 
 The receipts from the fund from June 1, 1920, to March 31, 
 1921, a period of ten months, are as fcdlows: 
 
 Otterhein College $11,449.95 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 11 ,449.95 
 
 Indiana Central Univer.sit}- 6,S70.()1 
 
 Kansas City University 5,724.9S 
 
 York College 5.724 9K 
 
 riiilomath College 2,289.99 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institnte 2,289.99 
 
 Total ^ $45,799.85 
 
 Board of Education — h'or Adniini>trati(in $ 6.666.65 
 
 For Collegiate Scholarship Fnnd 8,468. 42 
 
 Total ' $15,135.07 
 
 Bonebrake Theological Seminary 
 
 For Administration and I'uildings. .....•■.■ .$,^0',1 19.14 
 
 For Theological Scholarship Fund. ........ 4..305.18 
 
 Special on Promise of $20,00:). 14..309.0() 
 
 Total ■' ^48,733.32 
 
 Grand Total $109,668.24 
 
 These receipts are a sore disappointment to our educational 
 agencies, being only about one-seventh of what sh(juld haxc 
 been received in the case of the colleges, and abotit one-third in 
 the case of the Board of Rducation and .Seminar}\ 
 
 We should renew our efforts and exhaust the jxjssible to 
 secure the four million dollar tund in full. 
 
 SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS 
 
 \\c have allowed the years to pass without making satis- 
 factory provision for assisting the rising ministry of the 
 "Church in securing an education. While the loan fund, grow- 
 ing little by little since 1879, has been a great help to more 
 than LSOO of our student ministers, the sidiolarshi]) funds now 
 give hope of something better for those of s])ecial promise and 
 need. 
 
 The $7.5,000 allotted for seminary scholarships and the 
 $75,000 allotted for collegiate scholarships, as referred to 
 above, will not be received in full unless the campaign for 
 four million df)llars results in securing the entire amotmt. 
 But whatever is received will be a beginning, to which large 
 
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additions should be made at the earhest possible date, and 
 continued additions from time to time until the funds are of 
 sufficient size so that the income from them will enable us 
 to make gifts from year to year to many of our young men 
 and young women in preparation for the ministry. If they are 
 ready to surrender all their time and talents to the work of the 
 Church, we should count it a privilege to help them in prepara- 
 tion for it. 
 
 The importance of this project is so gigantic as to be be- 
 yond all danger of exaggeration. Every problem of the Church 
 is wrapped up in the problem of leadership. The working out 
 of these plans will have a lifting effect upon the grade and 
 efficiency of our future ministry, and facilitate the way to the 
 larger numbers needed right now and for the days ahead. 
 
 Let it be remembered that in our scholarship plans every 
 stake is set solidly. The fund itself will never be dissipated. 
 Only the income will be used. This income will be perennial 
 and its blessed ministry to the culture and training of our on- 
 coming ambassadors of Christ will be projected across the 
 tides of the future years. 
 
 The administration of the seminary scholarship fund has 
 been committed to Bonebrake Theological Seminary. 
 
 The Board of Education is charged with the administration 
 of the collegiate scholarship fund, the plan for which has been 
 drafted and approved. 
 
 Plan for Safeguarding and Administering the Collegiate 
 Scholarship Fund 
 
 I. The Collegiate Scholarship Fund shall be a permanent endow- 
 ment, the income from the same to be used in aiding student ministers 
 in their collegiate course of study in colleges of the United Brethren 
 in Christ, the purpose being that those aided shall repay either in 
 ministerial service to the Church or in money as hereinafter provided. 
 
 II. The principal of said Collegiate Scholarship Fund shall be loaned 
 on good security under the direction of the Executive Committee of 
 the Board of Education. The security shall be either first mortgage 
 on real estate or other security equally good. 
 
 III. The income from the interest on the said Collegiate Scholarship 
 Fund shall be used from year to year to aid student ministers of the 
 United Brethren in Christ acti:^lly engaged in pursuing regular col- 
 legiate courses of study in the colleges of the Church aforesaid, under 
 the following rules and- provisions : 
 
 1. A regular scholarship shall be in the sum of $100. 
 
 2. The recipient of a scholarship or of any part thereof shall be a 
 first rank student, one who is in need of financial assistance, and one 
 who gives more than average i romise of usefulness in the ministry of 
 the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 
 
 3. The recipient of a scholarship or of any part thereof shall be 
 strongly recommended by the faculty of the institution in which he 
 is pursuing his collegiate course of study and also by his conference 
 superintendent. These recommendations shall be in written form. 
 
 4. The recipient of a scholarship or of any part thereof shalf give 
 a legal negotiable note, bearing six per cent interest per annum from 
 date, to the Board of Education of the Church of the United Brethren 
 in Christ for the amount of each scholarship or any part thereof re- 
 ceived. 
 
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It is provided, however, that one year spent in the active ministrj' 
 of the United Brethren in Christ immediately following the cessation 
 or completion of his studies in United Brethren schools shall entitle the 
 recipient to possession of his first note given for a scholarship or any 
 fart thereof. The next consecutive year spent in the ministry of the 
 United Brethren in Christ shall entitle the recipient to possession of 
 his second note given for a scholarship or any part thereof. The same 
 principle shall apply to the third year and to the fourth year. 
 
 5. In the event that any student minister receives a scholarship or 
 any j art thereof under the provisions of these rules and docs not im- 
 mediately, on cessation or completion of his studies in the schools of the 
 United Brethren in Christ, serve in the active ministry of the said 
 Church as hereinbefore provided, then and in such case his note or 
 notes given to the Board of Education of the Church of the United 
 Brethren in Christ under the provisions of these scholarship rules shall 
 become due and payable with six i er cent annual interest from date. 
 
 6. Application for aid from the said Collegiate Scholarship Fund 
 shall be made on the forms provided by the Board of Education of the 
 Church of the United Brethren in Christ, and shall be accompanied 
 with the recommendations hereinbefore referred to. 
 
 An application and its attendant recommendations shall be good only 
 for the scholastic year for which scholarship aid is sought. 
 
 IV. The distribution of scholarships among the several colleges of 
 the United Brethren in Christ shall for any year or any period of 
 years be in proportion to the number of ministerial students of col- 
 legiate rank in said colleges. 
 
 "Ministerial students" shall be interpreted to mean students who are 
 members of the United Brethren in Christ and who actually hold license 
 as ministers in either the quarterly or annual conference. 
 
 BENEFICIARY LOANS 
 
 This feature of our work has been carried forward as usual 
 under the forms and regulations duly authorized. In accord 
 with said regulations loans are made, for a given number of 
 years without interest, to ministerial and missionary students 
 in our own church schools, for the purpose of aiding them 
 both in their collegiate and theological courses of study. After 
 they conclude their school days and enter upon their ministry, 
 they return the money, and it is loaned again in like service to 
 others. It is a circulating fund for the building of ministers 
 as is the church erection fund for the building of churches. It 
 is a great scheme and must be carried forward in growing 
 magnitude with the growth of the denomination. Even with 
 such, help as the scholarship funds will provide, the loan fund 
 will still be a growing necessity because of the rapidly increas- 
 ing numbers giving themselves to the ministry and missionary 
 service. 
 
 Our beneficiary loan work was begun in 1879. Dr. H. A. 
 Thompson, who went to his heavenly home the eighth of last 
 July, was the leader in projecting this form of service. Within 
 the entire period, 1879 to 1921, the Board has made 1873 loans 
 in the total sum of $150,021.75. 
 
 We have made 170 loans within the quadrennium, the aggre- 
 gate amount being $19,055. The following tables show the 
 distribution of these loans among schools and conferences: 
 
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School Exhibit of Beneficiaries and Loans 
 
 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 
 
 Institution Ben. Amt. Ben. Amt. Ben. Amt. Ben. Amt. 
 
 Bonebrake Theological 
 
 Seminary 26 $2,955 26 $3,440 27 $3,850 
 
 Otterhein College 5 310 2 140 10 710 
 
 Lebanon Valley 
 
 College 6 390 2 180 7 540 9 
 
 Indiana Central 
 
 University 3 225 2 105 1 80' 1 
 
 Philomath College.... 1 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate 
 
 Institute 1 
 
 Other Schools 1 100 1 
 
 40' $3,880 32 $3,865 46 $5,280 52 $6,030 
 
 2S 
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 $4,285 
 840 
 
 610 
 
 60 
 60 
 
 75 
 100 
 
 Conference Exhibit of Beneficiaries and Loans 
 
 1917-1918 
 
 Conference Ben. Amt. 
 
 Allegheny 2 $ 205 
 
 California 1 125 
 
 Colorado 
 
 East Ohio 1 75 
 
 East Pennsylvania 4 350 
 
 Erie 1 150 
 
 Florida 
 
 Illinois 2 130 
 
 Indiana 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Kansas 3 350 
 
 Miami 5 330 
 
 Michigan 1 90 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Penns3'Ivania 3 375 
 
 Porto Rico 
 
 Sandusky 4 490 
 
 St. Joseph 2 110 
 
 Southeast Ohio ...... 1 70 
 
 Virginia 5 540 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 White River ........ 3 240 
 
 Wisconsin 2 250 
 
 1918-1919 1919-1920 
 Ben. Amt. Ben. Amt. 
 1 $ 90 1 $ 100 
 
 1920-1921 
 Ben. Amt. 
 
 100 
 
 5 
 
 525 
 
 7 
 
 1,005 
 
 11 
 
 1,355 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 390 
 
 4 
 
 415 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 60 
 
 3 
 
 190 
 
 5 
 
 360 
 
 4 
 
 410 
 
 5 
 
 660 
 
 1 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 50 
 
 3 
 
 425 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 410 
 
 4 
 
 420 
 
 3 
 
 480 
 
 1 
 
 75 
 
 2 
 
 255 
 
 1 
 
 60 
 
 2 
 
 450 
 
 5 
 1 
 
 39() 
 100 
 
 5 
 
 480 
 
 7 
 
 145 
 
 9 
 
 230 
 
 2 
 
 250 
 
 1 
 
 55 
 
 1 
 
 80 
 
 2 
 
 250 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 90 
 
 4 
 
 340 
 
 4 
 
 540 
 
 6 
 
 975 
 
 6 
 1 
 
 625 
 
 75 
 
 ? 
 
 500 
 
 5 
 
 625 
 
 3 
 
 700 
 
 2 
 
 200 
 
 1 
 
 150 
 
 
 
 40 $3'880 3Z $3,865 46 $5,280 52 $6,030 
 
 Rules Governing Beneficiary Loans 
 
 The Board of Education will make loans from the Educational Bene- 
 ficiary Fund to persons properly recommended, who are in schools of 
 our own denomination, preparing for the gospel ministry or mission or 
 deaconess work, in accord with the following rules: 
 
 1. Applications for loans must be made under the forms and i ro- 
 visions determined by the Board. 
 
 2. The student applying for a loan must be properly recomnjended 
 by his annual conference and by the faculty of the school in which 
 he is a student. These recommendations must accompany each applica- 
 tion for a loan and must be of recent date. 
 
 3. Each loan must be secured by a negotiable, legal note, signed by 
 the beneficiary and bearing six per cent annual interest after maturity. 
 
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4. In no case will a note ho made for a longer term than live j'ears. 
 If for any good reason the Board should extend the time, the new note 
 shall draw annual interest from date at six per cent. 
 
 5. Within one year after the beneficiary concludes his studies in the 
 schools of the United Brethren in Christ, he shall begin to repay the 
 money borrowed from the Board, whether the same is due or not, 
 paying at least $50 per year and no less than one-fifth of his entire ob- 
 ligation each year. 
 
 6. Money loaned will be paid to students through some officer of 
 their school in three installments, in November, January, and April. 
 The note shall be given at the date of the last installment. 
 
 7. The amount to be loaned to any student in any year, or in any 
 number of \ears, is determined by the Board and may be made to vary 
 at the discretion of the Board. The loan to a member of the senior 
 class in college shall not exceed $90; to a junior, $80; to a sophomore, 
 $70; to a freshman, $60. To a college graduate who is pursuing a 
 course in Bonebrake Theological Seminary, the loan shall not exceed 
 $200. To others in the said Seminary, loans may be made correspond- 
 ing in amount to that which their class standing would entitle them as 
 indicated above, were they students in college. Experience in the 
 pastorate niay be considered. 
 
 8. Loans may be cancelled by the Board on account of the death 
 of the beneficiary. 
 
 9. If for any reason a beneficiary does not enter the ministry or 
 mission or deaconess work of the Church of the United Brethren in 
 Christ, in accord w'ith the purpose avowed in the application, the entire 
 amount of his loan or loans, whether legall}' due or not, shall be due 
 and payable with six per cent annual interest from date by or before the 
 first meeting of his annual conference after his leaving school. "School" 
 is to be regarded as a school of the United Brethren in Christ. 
 
 10. The beneficiary shall inform the General Secretary of the Board 
 of Education of any change of address. 
 
 11. At the discretion of the Board, loans voted may be withheld on 
 account of unworthy conduct on the part of the beneficiary, or for any 
 other reason. 
 
 12. In case loans are made to beneficiaries outside of the provisions 
 of the above rules, security may be required and interest may be 
 charged at the discretion of the Board. 
 
 13. These rules shall constitute the contract between the Board of 
 Education of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the 
 beneficiary who receives a loan or loans. 
 
 14. The signature of the beneficiary shall be affixed to a copy of 
 these rules, by which signature he binds himself to observe every re- 
 quirement stated in any of these rules and in all of them. 
 
 I hereby agree to the provisions of these rules. 
 
 Name of Applicant. 
 Date 
 
LEANDER CLARK COLLEGE 
 
 At the annual meeting of the trustees of Leander Clark 
 College, in June, 1917, a committee was appointed to consider 
 the proposition of merging with Coe College, an independent 
 institution, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This committee, in con- 
 ference with a like committee from Coe College, drew up 
 terms of union which were approved by the Board of Trustees 
 of Leander Clark College and by Iowa conference ; but were 
 not approved by the other three cooperating conferences nor 
 by the Board of Education, because the said terms of union 
 would transfer large educational and property interests to Coe 
 College without due consideration. 
 
 In May. 1918. the Board of Education met at Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa, and, in conference with representatives of Coe College 
 and Leander Clark College, other terms of union were drafted, 
 which were at that time approved by the Board of Education, 
 soon thereafter approved by the Board of Trustees of Leander 
 Clark College, and the following autumn approved by all of 
 
 York College Life- Work Recruits 
 
 the cooperating conferences. At the time the cooperating 
 conferences approved these terms 'of union with Coe College, 
 under the said terms of union, and with the assurance of 
 Leander Clark College representatives that these terms of 
 union were to be carried out, th-e said cooperating conferences 
 also consented to the sale of the college campus and buildings 
 at Toledo, Iowa. However, these terms of union were never 
 fully approved by the Board of Trustees of Coe College. 
 
 In April, 1919, the Board of Trustees of Leander Clark 
 College laid aside the approved terms of union, and dreSv up 
 other terms, entirely different, which jeopardize and dissipate 
 our educational and property interests as represented in 
 Leander Clark College, and decided to carry them through 
 
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without the" approval of any of the annual conferences or the 
 Boar<l of Education, and over the protest of two of the annual 
 conferences and of the Board of Education. 
 
 Later in 1919 the Hoard of Trustees of Leander Clark Col- 
 lege deeded the campus and buildings at Toledo, Iowa, to H. J. 
 Stiger for the sum of one dollar, and he transferred the prop- 
 erty to the state of Iowa for an orphans' home. At the same 
 meeting of the trustees at which this gift of the realty to the 
 state of Iowa was authorized, the transfer of the endowment 
 fund to Coe College without due consideration was also 
 authorized, it being essentially a gift to Coe College as were 
 the campus and buildings a gift to the State. 
 
 Not hastily, but after careful and deliberate counsel, the 
 Executive Committee of the Board of Education recommended 
 legal proceedings in order to safeguard the rights and interests 
 of the Church. The Board of Education in session at Harris- 
 burg, Pennsylvania, in December, 1919, with more than two- 
 thirds of the members present, by unanimous vote decided to 
 call on the courts for relief. The law firm of James and 
 Coolidge, Dayton, Ohio, was employed and suit filed in the 
 federal court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the case now 
 awaits a hearing. 
 
 Terms of Union Generally Approved, Then Laid Aside by the 
 Board of Trustees of Leander Clark College 
 
 1. Union and Name. Coe College and Leander Clark College 
 hereby agree to enter into a union of said colleges at Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa, the united college to be known as Coe College, and thereafter 
 while these articles of agreement are in force, to operate as one school 
 distinctly Christian in character. In this union Leander Clark College 
 becomes an integral part of Coe College, its name and history and life 
 being preserved and maintained in the united college. Coe College 
 agrees, in order the more distinctly to identify the name of Leander 
 Clark with the consolidated institution, to constitute its own depart- 
 ment of Religious Education into a school to be designated hereafter 
 as the Leander Clark College of Religious Education of Coe College: 
 the said school to have a dean and faculty of its own, with all the 
 powers of voting and the authority vested in the other members of 
 said faculty. It is also further agreed that the first dean of this school 
 may be selected by the trustees of Leander Clark College. 
 
 2. Leander Clark Building. It is also understood and agreed that 
 a building shall be erected by Coe College for the Leander Clark 
 Coll&ge of Religious Education on the Coe College grounds as soon as 
 the necessary funds can be provided therefor. This building shall be 
 equipped with all the necessary conveniences and appliances for the 
 successful conducting of a school of Religious Education, such as an 
 assembly hall, library facilities, archives for the preservation of records, 
 books, pamphlets, pictures and relics, etc., including those things 
 pertaining to the history and life of the United Brethren Church. 
 This l)uilding shall also be a social and religious center for all the 
 students of the College. It is also mutually understood that the 
 members and friends of the United Brethren Church shall be given 
 access to this building whenever desired. 
 
 3. Alumni. Coe College agrees to enroll the graduates of Leander 
 Clark College in its own alumni list, and to furnish and certify to 
 transcripts of grades earned in Leander Clark College by all students 
 who have been in attendance whether graduates or not. 
 
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4. Trustees. Coe College agrees to elect to fill the first vacancies 
 in its Board of trustees five members to be nominated bj^ the Trustees 
 of Leander Clark College, there being four vacancies at the present 
 time; and further agrees to keep a like representation on said Board of 
 Trustees selected in such manner as may be provided bj^ the Board of 
 Education of the United Brethren Church. 
 
 5. Property and Endowment. Coe College to guarantee full 
 fidelity to the fundamental principles of Evangelical Christianity, and 
 to the Bible as the inspired Word of God. And in consideration of this 
 guaranty Leander Clark College agrees to transfer to the Coe College 
 corporation whatever net income from endowment Leander Clark 
 College is now or may hereafter be possessed of that is transferable, 
 and also whatever net income from the property of the college that 
 remains after all just obligations of said college are satisfactorily 
 licjuidated. Coe College contracts that said funds shall be safeguarded 
 and the same expended in strict accord with the terms of the Leander 
 Clark Foundation as expressly stipulated by Major Leander Clark. 
 (See sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in Mr. Clark's proposition for the endow- 
 ment of Leander Clark College.) 
 
 Also it is a part of this agreement and contract that should the time 
 come when in the judgment of the Board of Education of the Church 
 of the United Brethren in Christ declared by two-thirds vote thereof, 
 Coe College is not fulfilling its guaranty of full fidelity to the funda- 
 mental principles of Evangelical Christianity and to the Bible as the 
 inspired Word of God, then the right to the income from said funds 
 shall revert to the Board of Education of the Church of the United 
 Brethren in Christ to be used to carry out the purposes of the Leander 
 Clark Foundation within the territory cooperating with Leander Clark 
 College at the time the union was effected; or if at any time the Board 
 of Education of the United Brethren Church considers that the interests 
 of the LInited Brethren Church are not being conserved by continuing 
 the relationship with Coe College, then on proper action of this Board 
 cooperation with Coe College may be terminated after a j'ear's notice 
 of intention to do so. 
 
 Terms of Union which the Board of Trustees of Leander Clark 
 
 College is Striving to Carry through without the Approval 
 
 of Duly Constituted Authorities 
 
 That the Vice-President of Leander Clark College be authorized to 
 execute a deed to H. J. Stiger in trust for the city of Toledo for all of 
 the College real estate holdings in Toledo, and that Leander Clark 
 College of Toledo, Iowa, be consolidated with Coe College of Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, on the following plan; 
 
 1. That the two colleges be consolidated under the name of Coe 
 College. 
 
 2. That an amendment to the articles of incorporation of Coe 
 College to be approved by the two colleges, be adopted so consolidating 
 them, and that said articles of incorporation i)rovide for the carrying 
 on of the plan of education in accord with the present plan of the two 
 colleges, we finding on exam'nation that plan of education of the two 
 colleges does not substantially dififer, that both aie organized as edu- 
 cational institutions under the laws of Iowa for the purpose of higher 
 Christian education along the same lines and for the same purposes. 
 
 3. That said amendment to the articles of incorporation when so 
 adopted, shall contain the same provisions for the protection of the 
 permanent Endowment I*\nid of Leander Clark College of Toledo, 
 Iowa, as is provided by the articles of incorporation of said Lcbndor 
 Clark College, and that the plan as submitted by Major Leander Clark 
 to Leander Clark College and ratilied and approved by it, be approved 
 and ratified by the consolidated college in the amendment to the 
 articles of incorjioration of Coe College. 
 
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4. That Article XIII of the Articles of Incorporation of Leandcr 
 Clark College he made and become a part of the articles of incorpora- 
 tion of the said consolidated college, the said Article XIII being 
 as follows: "The endowment fund or funds of the College shall be 
 forever jireserved and securely invested as permanent and sacred funds, 
 the interest or income of which only shall be used, and only to defray 
 expenses incurred in the operation of Leander Clark College, and shall 
 never be diverted to any other use; and the endowment fiuid of $15(),(XK) 
 secured under the proposition made by Major Leander Clark and 
 accepted by the Board of Trustees of said corporation in June, 1903, 
 which fund is commonly known as the Clark-Carnegie Endowment, 
 shall be held, invested and its income used only and forever in strict 
 accord with the conditions of tlif iMdiiosition under which it was 
 secured." 
 
 5. That Leander Clark College is to transfer to the consolidated 
 corporation under the name of Coe College, the fund known as the 
 Clark-Carnegie Endowment Fund of $150,0'(10 and additions thereto, 
 and the temporary endowment earned by said permanent fund under 
 the plan as submitted by Major Leander Clark and adopted and 
 ratified by Leander Clark College and it shall be exjjended and used in 
 strict accord with the terms of said Leander Clark Foundation as 
 expresslv stipulated I13' Major Leander Clark in Sections Five, Six, 
 Seven, Eight and Nine (5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) of his proposition for the 
 endowment of Leander Clark College of date June 13, 1903, and that 
 the amendment to the articles of incorporation when adopted by the 
 consolidated college under the name of Coe College, shall provide for 
 the management, control and investment of said funds, as now pro- 
 vided in the articles of incorporation, by-laws and the plan and propo- 
 sition of Leander Clark of date June 13, 1903. 
 
 6. That the present secretary of said Endowment Fund, H. J. 
 Stiger of Toledo, Iowa, shall act as such, with his office remaining at 
 Toledo, Iowa, until the Trustees of the consolidated college under the 
 name of Coe College after said consolidation is fully ])erfected, and the 
 proper amendment to the articles of incorporation adopted and 
 ai)proved, shall if thej^ deem advisable change the location of said 
 office and said Endowment Secretary. 
 
 7. That the real estate, buildings and houses in Toledo, Iowa, 
 including the campus and grounds of Leander Clark College as now 
 located at Toledo, Iowa, cannot be used for any practical purpose by 
 the said consolidated College under the name of Coe College, at Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, the said Coe College as now located there, having ample 
 buildings and equipment for its present olan of education and for the 
 prosecution of the new College work after its consolidation, and we 
 recommend that the real estate belonging to Leander Clark College 
 at Toledo, Iowa, and all of the buildings located thereon, be not trans- 
 ferred to the consolidated college for the above reasons, it being of no 
 value to the corporation located at Cedar Rapids, low-a. 
 
 8. Trustees. That Coe College after said consolidation, asreos to 
 elect , to fill the first tixe vacancies in its Board of Trustees, five (5) 
 members to lie nominated l)y the Trustees of Leander Clark College; 
 it being the purpose and intent of this agreement that a like repre- 
 
 _sentation shall be continued on said Board of Trustees of said consoli- 
 dated college, and after the said consolidation is perfected the said five 
 Trustees so nominated, representing Leander Clark College, shall 
 suggest the names of additional members from time to time as 
 vacancies occur, to the end that said representation of fwe members 
 representing Leander Clark College shall remain permanently upon 
 said Board of Trustees of said consolidated College. 
 
 9. Alumni. That all of the graduates of Leander Clark College are 
 to be enrolled in the Alumni list of the consolidated Coe College, and 
 .said consolidated college will furnish and certify to transcripts of 
 grades earned in Leander Clark College b_v all students who have I)een 
 in attendance whether they are graduates or not. 
 
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10. Faculty. That as soon as the consolidation of the said colleges 
 is consummated the said consolidated college shall take over as many 
 members of the faculty of Leander Clark College as is practicable not 
 to exceed such number as the income from the Endowment Fund so to 
 be transferred will support. 
 
 11. That one of the buildings now on the campus of Coe College at 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or a new building to be erected on its said college 
 grounds when necessary, shall be designated and known as the 
 "Leander Clark College Building" and a department of Christian educa- 
 tion shall be conducted therein as may be agreed upon by the said 
 consolidated college, along the same lines and for the same purposes 
 as provided in the present plan of Leander Clark College under its 
 By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation. 
 
 EDUCATION DAY 
 
 In accord with our Church discipline, "There shall be ob- 
 served annually in each congregation an Education Day, at 
 which time pastor and people shall give special attention to 
 the educational interests of the Church." 
 
 This provision places us in line with the Protestant Chris- 
 tian forces of our country. More than a score of the leading 
 denominations, through their representatives in the Council of 
 Church Boards of Education, have agreed upon the observance 
 of a special day in the interest of Christian education, known 
 as Education Day, and have chosen the last Sunday in Feb- 
 ruary as the date for such observance. This same date has 
 been designated by the World's Christian Student Federation 
 as the Universal Day of Prayer for Colleges and Students. 
 
 We have endeavored to keep step with the Christian world 
 in the matter of observing Education Day, as far as possible 
 cleaving to the regularly appointed date. This year, however, 
 we moved forward to the first Sunday in February at the be- 
 hest of our united movement. This was done in order to 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute Life- Work Recruits 
 24 
 
accommodate an arrangement by which each department 
 should have a period of several weeks for the promotion of 
 interest in its work. 
 
 The period set apart for the promotion of Christian educa- 
 tion was January 1 to February 6, the last date being Educa- 
 tion Day. We issued an illustrated booklet of thirty-six pages, 
 entitled "Christian Culture for Christian Concjuest," which 
 was sent out on order at five cents per copy, and visited about 
 twelve thousand homes. In addition to this, speaking cam- 
 paigns were conducted by our institutions of learning in their 
 contiguous regions, the presidents, teachers, and many of the 
 students taking part. Our editors gave whole-hearted co- 
 operation and our church periodicals carried a large con- 
 tent of educational matter throughout the period. Bishops 
 and conference superintendents helped nobly with voice and 
 pen. And our pastors, hundreds of them, threw their influence 
 into the scale. Thus by prayer, information, the challenge of 
 our youths for the holy work of the Church, and emphasis 
 upon the importance of education under Christian influences, 
 not only Education Day. but the whole period of five weeks, 
 was made a great blessing to our people. 
 
 STANDARD INSTITUTIONS 
 
 To bring each of our institutions up to the requirements of 
 the State Board of Education for full accreditment has been 
 our determined purpose. Several of them have reached this 
 plane. Others are nearing full accreditment. Some yet have 
 a long way to go. 
 
 We are just now on the threshold of a great advance in the 
 requirements for standard institutions. This fact makes our 
 case the more urgent. If the educational world would only 
 stop a few years and hold steady till we catch up. But it will 
 not do so. In no sphere of activity are there such restless im- 
 pulses to move forward. Every hour is new in educational 
 endeavor, and each tomorrow finds us in advance of each today. 
 
 Four years ago a college could gain a foothold on the edge 
 of accreditment by reaching the following standards: — 
 
 1. For admission, four full years of work in a duly accredited 
 high school or academy. 
 
 "2. For graduation, four full years of collegiate study, includ- 
 ing not less than one hundred twenty semester hours. 
 
 3. The master's degree as the minimum scholastic attain- 
 ment of each head of a department of instruction. 
 
 4. Seven distinct departments in liberal arts, with the heads 
 thereof giving full time to college work. 
 
 5. Not more than sixteen teaching hours per week for each 
 professor. 
 
 6. A well-selected library of three thousand volumes. 
 
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7. Laboratory apparatus sufficient to develop and illustrate 
 the courses in the natural sciences and not less than $5000 in 
 value. 
 
 S. A ])roducti\e endowment of not less than $200,000. 
 
 Ilut recent advances in some of the states now call for an 
 endowment of $500,000, a library of 5000 volumes, and eig-ht 
 distinct departments with heads thereof giving full time to 
 collegiate work. While the requirements have been raised at 
 several points, they have been more than doubled in the matter 
 of endowment. The endowment requirement has always been 
 the most difficult one to meet. But now, even before all of 
 our schools have reached this requirement as it was, it is 
 pushed up from $200,000 to $500,000 at a single stroke. 
 
 It will not help us to say that the jump is too big, that 
 the requirement is too rigid, or that we can not meet it. We 
 must undertake the task anew and work away at it with cour- 
 age and determination and clear vision of our ability, our 
 obligation, and our ojiportunity. Of course we can not reach 
 it in one year, and in some instances not in one campaign. 
 "Heaven is not reached by a single bound." So, in order to 
 reach this goal, it will take siege work from year to year and 
 from quadrennium to quadrennium. 
 
 With reference to this all-important matter of endowing 
 our church schools to the i)oint of full accreditment as 
 standard institutions, there are several propositions which are 
 as certain as the stars m their courses : 
 
 1. We have the abilit}-. There is no question about our 
 tinancial strength being equal to the task. It is simply a ques- 
 tion of vision to see the way of duty, of obedience to God's 
 conunand and release for his service that which belongs to 
 him. 
 
 2. A large and lasting success will require the application of 
 our whole strength to the whole task, the strong- helping the 
 weak, the larger constituencies lending part of their resources 
 to the smaller. Every unit is a part of the wdiole, whether 
 that unit be in the east or in the west. Every region needs a 
 standard institution ; and \i it is a region where we oi)erate as a 
 denomination, that need must be supplied, or in time we shall 
 be compelled to ret'ire from the field. 
 
 3. There is little hope of permanence for the church school 
 which does not steadily advance and early gain rank as a 
 standard institution. The key to this ])osition is endowment. 
 Without endowment, accreditment is impossible, the work is 
 depreciated, students go elsewhere. Therefore our institutions 
 must be endowed. Everything waits on this item. It is the 
 first stage in the pathway to success and re])Utation and per- 
 petuity. 
 
 4. The cheai)est way to support our church schools is by 
 means of endowment. We raise money for current expense 
 and it is exi)ended and gone, then it has to be raised again 
 
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the next year and the next — a treatlniill ])rr)cess of guing all 
 the time and never getting- anywhere. lUit money raised for 
 endowment is a permanent fonndation ; it prochioes money for 
 eurrent expenses, this year, next year, anil e\ cry year. It is a 
 stake set scdidly that will not need U) be dug up again, it is a 
 perennial si)ring which sends forth its life-giving waters and 
 never runs dry. 
 
 SURVEY AND NEEDS 
 
 A committee of Christian educators was appointed a few 
 years ago l)v the Association of American Colleges, to pre- 
 sent measures nf what an efticient college should be. This 
 committee made an exhaustive study of sixteen colleges of 
 different denominations, in different parts of the country, and 
 differing in size and strength. The collegiate attendance in 
 these sixteen institutions ranged from 66 to 283, their endow- 
 ments from $44,000 to $540,000, their annual expense budgets 
 from $22,000 to $59,0CO, and the value of their plants from 
 $128,000 to $383,000. 
 
 The study of these institutions enabled them to strike an 
 average in respect to hours per week for students and teachers, 
 number of students, number of teachers, yearly expense 
 budget, endowment, and plant. From these averages they 
 constructed the average college. Then as a result of further 
 study and comparison with a still larger numl)er of institu- 
 tions, they constructed the efffcient college operating at a 
 minimum and also at a maximum. 
 
 This committee made its final report in January, 1917. Tak- 
 ing the conclusions reached, the efffcient college operating at 
 a minimum would have one hundred students in the collegiate 
 department; eight college ])rofessors besides president, 
 librarian, four assistant teachers, and two instructors; fifteen 
 recitation hours per week for students, and fifteen teaching 
 hours per week for teachers ; annual expense btidget of $36,000 ; 
 plant worth $350,000 ; endowment of $400,000. 
 
 This would mean for every collegiate student an investment 
 of $3,500 in plant and equipment, and an investment of $4,000 
 in endowment. In the case of a junior college it was estimated 
 that its academy should be included for total assets of $200,000, 
 and then the regular amount as just given l)e added for every 
 student of collegiate rank. 
 
 'Applying to our colleges the norm reached as a result of the 
 exhaustive study of the committee above referred to, the imme- 
 diate needs of each one in order to become an efficient college 
 is shown in the followinsT: table : 
 
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Present Possessions of our Colleges, and Present Needs in 
 Order to Become Efficient 
 
 Plant and 
 
 Institution Equipment Endowment 
 
 Otterbein College— Should have $1,207,500 $1,380,000 
 
 Now has 625,790 392,915 
 
 Now needs .............$ 581,710 $ 987,085 
 
 Lebanon Valley College— Should have ......$ 735,000 $ 840,000 
 
 Now has 318,510 362,750 
 
 Now needs .......$ 416,490 $ 477,250 
 
 Indiana Central University— Should have ..$ 423.500 $ 484.000 
 Now has ......... . 134.315 423.812 
 
 Now needs.... $ 289,185 $ 60,188 
 
 Kansas City University— Should have .......$ 350.000 $ 400.000 
 
 Now has 226,000 133,000 
 
 Now needs.. $ 124,000 $ 267,000 
 
 York College— Should have ......$ 399,000 $ 456,000 
 
 Now has 122,248 %,967 
 
 Now needs.. .$ 276,752 $ 359,033 
 
 Philomath College— Should have ....$ 350,000 $ 400,000 
 
 Now has 44.000 90.000 
 
 Now needs ............$ 306,000 $ 310,000 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, being a prepar- 
 atory school — Should have total assets of .. .$200,000 
 It has 137,500 
 
 Now needs . . $ 62,500 
 
 This table shows that these seven institutions need a total 
 of $4,517,193 to make them efficient in caring for the students 
 now in attendance. If we were to raise this amount, of course 
 we should not distribute it in exact accord with the figures 
 given above, for obvious reasons. 
 
 While assets ol $200,000 will provide for an ordinary 
 academy. Shenandoah Collegiate Institute is an extraordinary 
 academy, with two or three times as many students as the 
 average; and soon, if not already, will be doing a year or two 
 of collegiate work. Hence its needs are far above $62,500. 
 
 According to the findings f)f the committee, a college with 
 100 collegiate students or less should have an investment of 
 $350,000 in plant and equij)mcnt, and an investment of $400,000 
 in endowment. Philomath College and Kansas City Univer- 
 sity come in this class. York College and Indiana Central 
 University each has more than 100 students of collegiate rank, 
 so their investment in plant and equipment and endowment 
 
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would need to he a little larp^er in order to reach the standard 
 of efficiency. Lehanon Valley Colleg^e and Otterhein College 
 are fiijured on the hasis of their ct)llegiate students, 210 in the 
 former and 345 in the latter. 
 
 Certainly, in estimating the needs of any one instituticMi, or 
 all of them, the constituency served, the reasonahle possibili- 
 ties of growth, accreditment with state boards of education or 
 the lack of it. would all be factors in the problem. 
 
 But viewed from any angle the needs are great, and we must 
 allow Christian education a larger place in' the life of the 
 denomination if we are to fill out God's program for us and 
 become the mighty agency He wants us to be in helping to 
 establish His Kingdom among men. 
 
 ASSETS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, MARCH 31. 1921 
 
 Funded Loans $27,385.40 
 
 Beneficiary Loans 3\Si622\ 
 
 Collegiate Scholarship Fund Loans 8,608.0(1 
 
 Cash on Hand 4.703.83 
 
 $71,759.44 
 Overdraft on Collegiate Scholarship lunid. 139.58 
 
 Net Assets • • .$71,619.86 
 
 We also have beneficiary loans of doubtful value in the sum of $6,035. 
 SoiTie of these loans were made in the old century and some of the 
 parties cannot be found, so I have not listed them as assets. 
 
 The sum represented by the funded loans is the nucleus of a perma- 
 nent fund as authorized by the Board in May, 1918. 
 
 NEEDS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 The assets of the Board are very small as shown above, 
 especially when we consider the fact that we have been oper- 
 ating since 1879, a period of 42 years. The Board's of Educa- 
 tion of some of the Christian bodies of our size and smaller, 
 have as large an income in a single year as our total assets 
 after 42 years' work. 
 
 I have mentioned, in another j)aragraph, the collegiate 
 scholarship fund. There are 345 life-work recruits in our 
 colleges this year, pursuing their collegiate courses of study for 
 the ministry and missionary service. We ought to assist them 
 all, or nearly all, for as a rule they come from humble homes. 
 But ii we were to assist 300 of them in the sum of $100 a year, 
 we should need an annual income of SvSO.OOO for this purpose. 
 It would require a collegiate scholarship fund of $500,000 
 mvested at six percent to prodvice this annual income. 
 
 Not all ministerial students could hope to receive gifts 
 through scholarship funds. Even in the large calculations just 
 given, provision was not made for all. Hence many would 
 have to be satisfied with loans without interest. This class 
 will be large in the days just ahead, for already more than 
 1600 have joined the life work recruits. The most of them 
 will go to college and prepare to make their lives count, and 
 greatly increased numbers will call for help from our bene- 
 
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nciary loan fund. Tt should be more than doubled, hence the 
 need of $50,000 more for this purpose. 
 
 Shall we strive to exercise religious care over the many 
 United Brethren young- people attending state schools? They 
 go for the technical courses and for graduate work, fields not 
 covered in our church schools. They are our own young peo- 
 ple. We shall save them to the Church if we interest ourselves 
 in them and look after them. Other denominations do it. Is 
 there any reason why we should not do so? It will take some 
 money. The sum of $50,000 for this interest would be a fine 
 investment. 
 
 The Board of Education should be in a position to help the 
 colleges in time of special stress. Other denominational 
 Boards of Education do this. The counsel of the Board will 
 mean much more to the colleges when we have some money to 
 go along with it. The sum of $50,000 would be a start ir. this 
 line of service. 
 
 No one will question the necessity of $50,000 for adminis- 
 tration the ensuing quadrennium, to cover postage, express, 
 telephone, of^ce rent, office equipment, stationery, printing, 
 tra\eling expense of officers and members of the Board, 
 stenographic help, salary of general secretary, and fees in inter- 
 church bodies. 
 
 The building of a denomination depends upon the builders. 
 Anv thoughtful person can see at a glance how the supply of 
 these needs would improve and multiply the builders and thus 
 speed up the processes necessary to lift our membership from 
 less than four hundred thousand to a million. 
 
 PROGRESS IN EDUCATION 
 
 In the matter of education, our country early gained rank in 
 the van. There was a period of only sixteen years between the 
 landing at Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard Col- 
 lege. The Virginia colonists took out a charter for a college 
 twelve years after the settlement at Jamesto\\n. These begin- 
 nings were pursued and Imilt upon throughout the colonial 
 days. 
 
 When we came to the' establishment of an independent 
 government, the interest in education continued to grow with 
 the growth of the new nation. Among the earliest acts of 
 Congress was the Bill of 1787, providing for the government of 
 the Northwest Territory, and containing the memorable words : 
 "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good 
 government and the ha])i)iness of mankind, schools and the 
 means of education shall be forever encouraged." One of the 
 provisions of this i\ct was that in every township section 10 
 should be given to education and section 29 should bcigiven 
 for ])urposes of religion, i'.ducation and religion were 
 inseparable in the minds ot the tatlicrs. They were right, and 
 we must come back U> their idea or ultimately face extinction 
 and ruin. 
 
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While the i^TdWlli of education in our ccnntry all tlirnug-h 
 the nineteenth century was soniethini^ niar\elous. the trend 
 toward education has become even stronjjer in this century and 
 men are saving- that "America's ruling jiassion is for education." 
 The World War nn doubt strengthened this imi)ulse. It 
 revealed the need of trained armies, and laid hold of every 
 possible de\ ice that science could in\ent to checkmate and dis- 
 comfit the foe. ( )ut of the great ui)lieaval has come a deeper 
 consciousness of the need of trained citizens. Hence we find 
 the whole realm of civilization now permeated with a new^ 
 interest in education. This new interest in education is espe- 
 ciallv dominant in our own land, (jigantic appropriations are 
 being made for ])ublic schools of all grades from kindergarten 
 to university, with a view' to the increase of knowledge, the 
 greater efiicienc}' in vocation, the training and mobilization of 
 the nation not simply to withstand the attack of armies, but 
 also to preserve the principles of liberty and justice for the 
 human race. 
 
 It is not strange, therefore, that the youths of the nation are 
 going to our institutions of learning in greatly increased num- 
 l)ers. The colleges are crowded to the doors with earnest, 
 expectant students. The church colleges are included among 
 those whose halls are thronged by larger ntimbers, for there 
 has also come a new appreciation of Christian education. 
 Chtirchmen and all thotightful persons understand that "knowl- 
 edge is power." but they are also seeing in clearer light the 
 great truth that power is a dangerous thing when possessed by 
 those who are minded to do evil, and that it is safe and valuable 
 only when possessed by those of good character and right 
 ideals. 
 
 "Xine-tenths of the calamities ^vhich have befallen the 
 human race had no other origin than the union of high intelli- 
 gence WMth low desire." These are the memorable words of 
 ^Iacauley. We do well to bear them in mind. AVithout (jues- 
 tion. the worthy elements in our national character, and those 
 which have made the nation great, have grown out of a union 
 of high intelligence with high desire. This combination is the 
 fruitage of Christian education, and man is at his best when 
 he has the aid of this kind of education. It produces the type 
 of character required by democratic government and by Christ- 
 ian civilization. 
 
 This new awakening in education will stamp our future with 
 gopd, if it is Christianized ; with evil, if it is not. As to wliich 
 it shall be depends upon the attittide of the Church. There i-> 
 no other agency to assume and accomplish this task. If the 
 Church fails, it will be left undone. 
 
 Shall the Church assume this obligation or reject it? To 
 reject it wall result in a decline of Protestant Christianity, 
 retrogression in social, civic and political affairs, and the march 
 of civilization backward to the dark ages. 'J'o assume it half 
 heartedly and to give only feeble efforts toward its accom- 
 l)lishment will mean but little more than to reject it. 
 
There is, therefore, only one pathway left us ; the pathway of 
 duty to assume anew the task of Christian education and 
 prosecute it with the maximum of our means, our vigor, and 
 our determination. It involves bringing all our church schools 
 up to the standard of efficiency and accreditment at the earliest 
 possible date, to do which it will be necessary to make Christ- 
 ian education bulk much larger than ever before in our promo- 
 tional and financial efforts. It also involves the rapid increase 
 of attendance at our church schools and recruiting Christian 
 ministers, Christian missionaries and Christian teachers on a 
 far larger scale than we have hitherto contemplated or 
 attempted ; and also the raising up and sending forth, into the 
 various ])ursuits and professions of this busy world, thousands 
 and thousands of our young men and young women, trained in 
 heart and brain, filled with the spirit of altruism, to take their 
 places as lay leaders in the Church, and to represent Jesus 
 Christ and emulate his example in all the walks of life. Not 
 without a well-qualified and consecrated ministerial leadership, 
 and not without a well-qualified and consecrated lay leadership, 
 shall we be able to make the gospel dominant in our own land 
 and carry it to others. Both are absolutely essential, and to 
 both alike the Cliristian college is the main contributing factor. 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 In the light of our educational obligations and opportunities 
 as a growing Christian denomination, it should be our policy : — 
 
 To build and maintain standard institutions of learning, 
 and to provide generously for them with a view to this end. 
 
 To uphold the noblest Christian ideals in all our educational 
 work, maintaining faculties made up of men and women w^ho 
 are aggressive in both Christian and educational leadership, 
 and ever keeping in mind the basic truth that the Church 
 school is a training agency for Christian service. 
 
 To keep open on behalf of our institutions tlie approach to 
 our Sunday schools and Christian Endeavor societies, with the 
 set purpose of turning greatly increased numbers of our 
 young people to our own church schools. 
 
 My best efforts and wl]ole strength have been given to the 
 task assigned me. The most of my time has been devoted 
 to the field. When absolutely -necessary to be in the office, 
 the days were stretched to the limit so as to get back to the 
 firing line again as soon as possible. Have traveled 122,062 
 miles. deli\ered 572 sermons and addresses l>esides many inci- 
 dental talks, carried a big grist of promotion work, raised more 
 than $100,000 on the field not counting almost as much more 
 secured at dedications and new-church days. I gratefully 
 acknowledge the help of the Executive Committee and mem- 
 bers of the Board, and the kindness of the brethren tlirough- 
 out the Church. A strenuous (|ua(lrennium, l)ut tiic Master's 
 presence has made h.ard toil a delight and caused the long days 
 to overflow with joy. 
 
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Thirteenth Quadrennial Report 
 
 of the Manager of 
 
 U/ie f^oneorake 
 
 U fieo loo leal 
 
 C^emlnaru 
 
 to the 
 
 GENERAL CONFERENCE 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12, 1921 
 
 J. E. FOUT. Manager 
 
The Bonebrake Theological Seminary 
 Thirteenth Quadrennial Report 
 
 To the Bishops and Delegates of the Twenty-eighth General Conference: 
 Greeting: 
 
 In submitting this. n\\ third quadrennial report, we desire first of all to 
 express our thankfulness to Almighty God for His grace and mercy and guid- 
 ance through these years. The work of the quadrennium has been difficult, but 
 pleasant, and we believe successful. The Executive and Building Committees 
 have worked faithfully and given great assistance to the Manager. 
 
 Before giving this report, we pause to note that during the quadrennium 
 two of the faithful members of the Board of Trustees were called to their 
 reward. Mr. A. A. Moore, of Barberton, Ohio, went to his crowning early in 
 the quadrennium, and Mr. C. L. Graj'bill, of Lancaster, Pennsj^vania, one of the 
 very strong business men in East Pennsylvania Conference, was elected to fill 
 the vacancy. Bishop G. M. Mathews. Senior Bishop, and for twelve j'cars 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the Seminary, was called to his reward 
 at the close of the quadrennium, April 3, 1921. Bishop Wm. M. Bell, D.D., was 
 elected President of the Board. 
 
 OLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS 
 
 The dormitory rooms have been re-decorated during the quadrennium and 
 the building kept in as good condition as possible. The halls and chapel were 
 re-decorated, giving the old building a neat and clean appearance. 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 The Librarj' was re-decorated and some new shelving and electric lights 
 installed. Space was given in a room on the second floor for many of the old 
 books, giving place for new books and greater use of those left on the shelves. 
 
 FIELD AGENTS 
 
 Rev. L. P. Cooper worked steadily during the quadrennium until we w^ere 
 requested to take him out of the field on account of the United Enlistment 
 Movement work. He did good work and rendered very faithful service. 
 
 Rev. D. T. Gregor}-, Rev. Paul E. V. Shannon, Rev. Wm. Paul Hollar, 
 Rev. J. W. Wright, the Faculty of the Seminary, and a number of pastors did 
 valuable service in the Seminary campaign which we launched and successfully 
 carried forward until the United Enlistment Drive started. 
 
 FARM LANDS 
 
 The General Conference of 1917 made the following recommendation: 
 "That all feal estate not reserved for Seminary purposes, acquired by purchase 
 or gift, be converted into cash and invested in first mortgages or other safe 
 securities as soon as possible." 
 
 The Gepford property; consisting of a small house and thirteen (\3) acres 
 of ground, located about two and one-half miles from West Salem, Ohio, was 
 sold for $1900.00. This property was on our books at $2000.00, having been 
 taken in on the annuity plan at that valuation. However, Mrs. Gepford. who 
 gave the land, consented to the sale and reduced the annuity bond to $1900.00. 
 
 The Friedley farm, consisting of 132 acres, w-as sold for $4500.00. It was 
 carried on our books at $3885.82. 
 
 The Peckham farm, consisting of 80 acres, located near Sidney, Ohio, was 
 sold for $12,000.00. It was on our books at $11,344.24. 
 
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We have also sold the Kansas Ranch, and all of our un-platted land in 
 Dayton View, except what was reserved for the new Seminary site. 
 
 Concerning the sale of the Dayton View real estate and the Kansas Ranch, 
 we will give you the history in detail. 
 
 DAYTON VIEW REAL ESTATE. 
 
 When the present incumbent took charge of the business management of 
 the Seminary, July 1, 1909, his first work was to secure the closing of Euclid 
 Avenue between First and Monument, under order of. the Board of Directors, 
 at a meeting held in May of that year. The closing of Euclid Avenue was 
 secured, and acting under direction of the Board and Executive Committee, 
 plans were drawn looking toward the remodeling of the old building 
 and the erection of a group of buildings on the old site. Upon investi- 
 gation by actual measurements, we found these buildings would crowc^ 
 the grounds greatly. At the same time, complaints from the student body 
 with reference to odors from the Packing Plant located just a short distance 
 northwest of these grounds were called to the attention of the Executive 
 Committee. After careful investigation, the Executive Committee called the 
 Trustees of the Seminary, residing in the State of Ohio, to a conference here 
 in March, 1911. These Trustees constituted a majority of the Board. They 
 were given the facts and taken to view the ground contemplated for the new 
 site, consisting of about twenty acres. This is the identical ground on which the 
 new buildings are now being erected. 
 
 The Trustees agreed unanimousl}^ with the Executive Committee .and 
 Manager that the ground in Dayton View should be purchased and the Semin- 
 ary moved to that location. Previous to this the Manager had secured an 
 option on these twenty acres until April 1. While the Trustees who were present 
 could take no official action, they each signed the following statement: 
 
 "We, the undersigned members of the Board of Trustees of The Bone- 
 brake Theological Seminary, having met with the Executive Committee and the 
 Manager and considered the matter of improving the grounds and buildings, 
 would recommend — - 
 
 First — That no improvements be made on the present grounds before 
 the next Board meeting. 
 
 Second — That we approve of the Executive Committee and Manager tak- 
 ing advantage of the option on the twenty acres of ground known as the Garber 
 Tract." 
 
 This resolution was signed by Rev. J. W. Lillv, D.D.., Rev. A. A. Long, 
 D.D., Rev. U. M. Roby, D.D., Rev. A. C. Siddall, D.D., Rev. W. O. Fries, D.D., 
 and Judge S. W. Lott, all of whom were members of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Seminary at that time. 
 
 In harmony with this resolution and the unanimous opinion of the Execu- 
 tive Committee, these twenty acres were purchased April 1, 1911. When the 
 Board of Trustees convened in their regular session in May, 1911, the members 
 of the Board were taken in a Uody over the new site selected. The Ways 
 and Means Committee made the following report: 
 
 First — "We heartily commend the • management of the Seminary, and 
 rejoice in the progress it has made in the past year. 
 
 Second — We express ourselves as favorable to the re-location of the 
 Seminary, which, in our judgment, would largely increase its efficiency and 
 bring the entire Church more fully in harmonj' with its purpose and work. The 
 exact location to be determined by the Manager and Executive Committee." 
 
 The "exact location" referred to above grew out of the fact that the 
 Board members, when they saw the ground adjacent to the new site felt that 
 the woods north of the site selected, containing thirty and one-half acres, and the 
 piece of land directly west of it, containing twenty-seven and oine-half acres, 
 should be purchased. If such could be accomplished, the understanding was that 
 the site for our new buildings should be located so that they would occupy parts 
 
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of each of these pieces of ground, thus guaranteeing the institution the privilege 
 of protecting its environment by controlling the sale of lots adjacent to its 
 location. This report was signed bj' the Ways and Means Committee, composed 
 of Bishop W. M. Weokley. Hon. John Al. llulitt, and Judge S. W. Lott. 
 
 I quote from my last quadrennial report '• 
 
 "On July 3 of that year the Manager was asked to meet with the members 
 of the Executive Committee who were in the city and certain other officials 
 and prominent men of the Church for a conference at the Phillips House, July 4. 
 Previous to this time there was no thought of increasing our holdings beyond 
 the two pieces of ground indicated I)y the P)Oard of Trustees adjacent to the 
 site purchased. We met at the Phillii^s House according to appointment. Con- 
 fidence in securing a very large gift from a well-known philanthropist was 
 expressed \)y persons present, which gift comprehended the removal of one 
 of our institutions of learning to Dayton. The Executive Committee and 
 Manager were asked to purchase additional land adjoining what we had until 
 the matter of the gift could be consummated. We oI)jected, and said we could 
 not do it. Then it was stated that it was not the thought that the Seminary 
 should assume any financial responsiliility in the matter; that they were 
 willing to put up a written guarantee to the effect that if the contemplated 
 gift was not secured by October 1, 1911, they would form a company and take 
 t!ie real estate off the hands of the Seminary. In this members of the Com- 
 mittee who were present concurred. These men were honest in their convic- 
 tions and purposes, but it was insisted that we could not purchase additional 
 land, for the Seminary had no money out of which to make the purchase. 
 It was stated that we were willing to make the purchases on the conditions 
 named, in case the Treasurer thought it was feasible and he would furnish the 
 money. We adjourned to the office of the Treasurer and he agreed that it was 
 a desirable thing and that he would undertake to furnish the means. 
 
 If this could have been accomplished, the greatest thing for our educational 
 work, perhaps in our history, would have been achieved. But the gift was not se- 
 cured and the guarantee not met. When the Trustees convened in their regular 
 session, April 26, 1912, they were taken over this real estate and all of it shown 
 to them. B)' request, we met that afternoon in executive session and the 
 guarantee and every fact connected with the entire transaction was explained 
 to the Trustees in detail. Nothing was withheld. The Alanager stated em- 
 phatically that the entire matter was up to the Board of Trustees and that 
 he would abide their decision. No coercion was used, nor undue influence 
 brought to bear upon the Board either by the Manager or anyone else so far 
 as he knows. In answer to a query at that meeting, as to whether we could 
 carry this real estate, the Manager stated that in his judgment we could carry 
 it, provided we had the support of the entire Board of Trustees. At this 
 executive session it was decided that the Ways and Means Committee should 
 report the decision of the Board at its regular session. This committee 
 reported as follows: 
 
 "Item 5. — New Seminary Site: — That we approve of the purchase during 
 the year of the lands adjacent to the new Seminary site and that we recommend 
 that no further purchases be made in connection with said site without the 
 consent of the Board." 
 
 'Item -12. — Appreciation: — In view of the splendid financial achievement 
 of the Management during the last year, we therefore express our most hearty 
 appreciation of the same, and recommend that in the coming year the same 
 policy be pursued in providing for the Greater Seminar}-, and further, we be- 
 speak for the General Manager, Dr. J. E. Pout, D.D., the confidence and hearty 
 cooperation of the whole Church." 
 
 This report was signed by the committee on Ways and Aleans, consisting 
 of Bishop W. M. Weekley, Chairman, Rev. W. O. Fries, Secretary and Judge 
 S. W. Lott. 
 
 Thus the Board of Trustees shared willingly and fully the responsibility of 
 the transaction. When the above action was taken, it released all parties 
 connected with the guarantee for the purchase of the Dayton View real estate 
 and left the matter in the hands of the Board entirely. 
 
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In this same report of the Committee on Ways and Means, Item 8 reads 
 as follows: — "That the Executive Committee be empowered to borrow such 
 sums of money as may be needed to protect present holdings in connection 
 with the new site, and to execute such mortgages as may be required to secure 
 said loans." 
 
 June 21, 1917, immediately following the last General Conference, the Board 
 of Trustees was called to meet in extra session, at which time the Manager 
 gave at length the history of the purchase of this land, and requested that the 
 Board appoint a committee to verify his report by the records. The Chair 
 appointed Bishop C. J. Kephart, Rev. I. E. Runk, D.D., and Rev. C. E. Heisel, 
 D.D. This committee reported as follows: 
 
 "We, your committee to verify the report of Dr. J. E. Fout, General 
 Manager of the Seminary, relative to the inanagement of the institution, report 
 as follows: 
 
 "We have carefully examined the records as to resolutions and action taken 
 by the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee pertaining to the purchase 
 and disposal of our Dayton View real estate, and find they verify completely 
 the statements of Dr. J. E. Fout, General Manager of The Bonebrake Theo- 
 logical Seminar}^ as made in his report.' " 
 
 At the same meeting the Board unanimously adopted, by rising vote, the 
 following resolution: 
 
 "That having made a careful and extended examination of the manage- 
 ment of The Bonebrake Theological Seminary under the supervision and 
 direction of Dr. J. E. Fout, we desire to express our most hearty endorsement 
 of his life of active service and his careful business management of the business 
 of this institution, and commend him to the fullest confidence of the Church 
 and its friends in his untiring efforts for the permanent establishment and up- 
 building of our School of the Prophets." 
 
 At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, May 2, 1919, the Manager 
 reported as follows: 
 
 "With reference to the Dayton View real estate — this has been a problem 
 with which the Manager and Executive Committee have struggled for years. 
 Many times we have been ready to give up in despair and let it go. But the 
 fact that the Manager permitted the deal to go through whereby on a written 
 guarantee against loss to the Seminar}^, by those whom he trusted, we secured 
 this land, held him true and made him resolve to never desert the ship, nor take 
 her into another port than the one which would give her complete protection 
 from loss. My Committee felt the same way about this matter. 
 
 "This morning we are glad to announce to you that the Dayton View real 
 estate has been sold without loss to this institution and $1000 paid to bind the 
 contract of sale until proper transfer can be made. The purchase price is 
 $250,0'00.00 and includes only our unplatted land lying west of Catalpa Drive, 
 south of Salem Avenue, north of Cornell Drive and on both sides of Phila- 
 delphia road, excepting the 19^ acres which you reserved for the new Semin- 
 ary site. This gives you $250,000.00 plus your new site, which, today, is worth 
 conservatively $40,COO; and your 32 lots — 7 of which were sold a few weeks 
 ago for $7000, and for the remainii^g 25 the contract is ready to be signed for 
 $1000 each, if you so order, making a total of $32,000 for these lots. This gives 
 you a total of $322,000 for' this ground, which cost you $207,700 in 1911." 
 
 Not one penny was paid to anybody as commission for this sale. The 
 Board passed the following resolution of appreciation: 
 
 "Resolved, That we hereby express our hearty gratitude to God for Plis 
 kindness in leading us, through the earnest work of our General Manager and 
 others, to the encouraging and helpful disposition of our Dayton View property, 
 and to our hopeful outlook for the erection of our new buildings. And we now 
 turn our hearts to God anew, and also assure Dr. Fout, our Business Manager, 
 of our hearty cooperation in the great work now before him and us and the 
 Church." ' 
 
 At this same meeting the Board of Trustees approved the sale of the 
 Dayton View land, which approval carried with it their obligation to begin 
 
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the erection of two buildings not later tliaii the autumn of 1919, and to complete 
 them, the Administration and Dormitory Buildings, on or about January 1, 1921. 
 This action was conservative on the part of tiic Board and worthy of commenda- 
 tion, because at a meeting of the Hoard of Trustees held October 28, 1914, 
 when one of our prominent churchmen was asked to take over the sale by 
 platting these Dayton View lan<ls, the Board of Trustees at that time adopted 
 the following resolution: 
 
 "That the 17 acres above referred to, be, and it is hereby reserved from 
 sale for the purpose of providing a site for the erection of not less than five 
 Seminary Buildings, which our said agent will be authorized to advertise and 
 represent, are to be constructed at the earliest possible J,ime." However, this 
 gentleman was not permitted to carry out his plan because of his inability 
 to control his time. 
 
 In November, 1919, the Olmstcad Brothers, who were employed as land- 
 scape architects, to give us the proper location for our New Buildings and the 
 parking of our grounds, recommended the securing of the land lying between 
 the new Seminary site and Catalpa Drive. 
 
 The Executive Committee and resident Trustees heartily agreed with 
 recommendations and ordered us to purchase the same, which we did, giving 
 the Upper Dayton View Development Company credit on the second mort- 
 gage we hold from them on the land. The cost was $14,826, or $2100 per acre. 
 The Board members at the meeting last year, when they saw the land, were 
 greatly pleased that it had been purchased. This gave us almost 27 acres for 
 our new site. 
 
 This Dayton View real estate consisted of 269^^ acres of unplatted ground, 
 lying on either side of Philadelphia Road, north of Cornell Drive and south of 
 Salem Avenue, 32 lots in what is known as Otterbein Park Plat, and a lot on 
 River Street on which there is a double house facing River Street and a double 
 house facing Chicago Avenue. 
 
 The unplatted land was sold to Mr. W. A. Keyes, in May, 1919, except 19^ 
 acres which was reserved for the new Seminary site. We sold this land for 
 $250,000.00 without a penny of commission to anyone. Payments were made 
 as follows:— May 1, 1919, $1000 to bind the contract; July 19, 1919, cash $150,000; 
 a second mortgage on the 250 acres sold of $50,000; and stock in the Upper 
 Dayton View Development Company, $49,000. Total $250,000. 
 
 We paid this money out as follows: — West Side Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciation, mortgage, $16,C00; interest and revenue stamp, $50.92; Gem City 
 Building and Loan Association, mortgage, $20,000; interest and release, $113.59; 
 Simon S. Mumma, mortgage $17,840; interest and release, $108.60; Mutual 
 Home and Savings Association, mortgage, $49,500; interest and release; $372.81; 
 Harriet Long, mortgage, $20,000; interest and release, $302.00; legal fees and 
 recording second mortgage, $102.00; total, $124,389.92. This left a balance 
 in the Manager's hands of $25,610.08, which he paid to the General Treasurer. 
 In the earh' part of July, our treasurer had advanced $2000 as part payment 
 on the mortgage on Otterbein Park Plat and $3000, borrowed money from the 
 Farmers and Merchants Bank. He was also carrying an overdraft of $13,740.57 
 July 1. This gave us a balance v^ilh the Treasurer, August 1, 1919, of $8,433.57. 
 
 KANSAS RANCH 
 
 In harmony with the order of the Board of Trustees at a meeting held May 
 2. 1919, we sold the Kansas Ranch. The order was as follows: — "Conditions 
 and prospects in connection with the Kansas Lands are favorable, both as to 
 crops and stock. Likewise the inesent or tlie near future might be an op- 
 portune time to sell advantageously all of our holdings in connection with these 
 lands. In view of the cost and difticulty in managing these various interests 
 at a distance, and uncertainties as to labor and other considerations, it might 
 be well to consider the sale of the property above referred to. The endowment 
 of the Seminary in the form of money loaned on mortgages would not be tax- 
 able, would yield a more steady income, and could be cared for at less cost 
 and risk. 
 
We, therefore, recommend that the Board of Directors of the Seminary- 
 authorize the sale^ of our holdings in connection with said lands, located in 
 Thomas County, Kansas, at a price not less than the present appraisement, the 
 proceeds from the same to be invested in interest-bearing securities, as recom- 
 mended in the action of the late General Conference, and that J. E. Fout, business 
 manager of The Bonebrake Theological Seminary, on the approval of the 
 Executive Committee, be authorized to sign papers and execute any further 
 terms of sale or sales." 
 
 This land was sold last May for $200,000.00. The sale, however, did not 
 include the elevator located at Levant, Kansas, on land leased from the Rock 
 Island Railroad. This is on our books at a value of $8000.00, and we believe 
 it can be sold soon at that price or more. The purchasers of these lands — 
 Mr. E. G. Taylor, of Loup City, Nebraska, and Felton & West, of Omaha, 
 Nebraska, are selling the Ranch to individual farmers. We agreed to accept 
 thirty-five percent of the purchase price in cash, and sixty-five percent in first 
 mortgage, to run five (5) years at six percent. They were to receive also 
 credit for one-fourth of the grain raised on the Ranch this year. 
 
 When they found that they could not complete the sale of all the land 
 last summer, because of the depreciated value of wheat and the stringency of 
 the money market, they asked us to accept their note, bearing six percent 
 interest for one year, for the unsold portions of the land, and also to keep the 
 land in the Seminary's name, delivering deeds only as they sold and settled for 
 the land. To this the committee agreed. 
 
 We have received in Cash and Grain Credits, $52,544.13; in first mortgages, 
 $51,000.00; in notes, $96,455.87; total, $200,000.00. 
 
 The land for which these notes were given in payment has not beer 
 deeded, but is held in the name of the Seminary. It forms the heart of the 
 Ranch because the purchasers were required to sell the outlying sections first. 
 It is agreed by and between the purchasers named above, and the Seminary, that 
 when any of the land for which notes were given is sold, that the Seminary will 
 accept thirty-five percent of the valuation price in cash, and a mortgage for 
 sixty-five percent, bearing six percent interest, payable semi-annually. The 
 notes above referred to are for one year only, these gentlemen agreeing to close 
 the Ranch out during this spring and summer. It is reported to me by them 
 that they have sold the East One-Half of Section thirty-five. Section fifteen 
 and the East Half of fourteen and expect to close out the other sections in the 
 next ninety (90) days. 
 
 For the purpose of distributing the price of $200,000.00 for the land to the 
 land itself, the following prices were placed on each section by mutual agree- 
 ment: 
 
 Section 10—640 A. at $39.625 $25,360.00 
 
 Section 11—640 A. at 45.00 28.800.00 
 
 Section 13—640 A. at 45.00 28.800.00 
 
 Section 14—640 A. at 45.00 28.800.00 
 
 Section 15—640 A. at 39.00 24,960.00 
 
 SE^ofl?- 160 A. at 37.50 6,000.00 
 
 Section 23—640 A. at 34.00 2 21,760.00 
 
 SJ^&NW'^ 25—480 A. at 34.00 16,320.00 
 
 Section 35—640 A. at" 30.00 1 19,200.00 
 
 Total $200,000.00 
 
 This seemed to be a fair and equitable valuation upon each piece of land 
 based upon a price of $200,000.00 As I said, we have already received mortgages 
 aggregating $51,000.00, Cash and Grain Credits of $52,544.13, two notes ag- 
 gregating $96,455.87, which makes a total of $200,000.00. 
 
 This money is credited as follows: — Endowment Fund, $168,950.00, 
 Contingent Fund, $32,050.00. i 
 
 This land consisted of 5120 acres, of which 3840 acres were donated by the 
 Hon. John M. Bonebrake. 
 
OUR DEBT 
 
 After applying all the money we received from the sale of the Dayton View 
 land on our debts, there remained an indebtedness of $87,230.00, April 1, 1920, 
 all of which was against the Dayton View real estate. These facts, you may 
 remember, were given to you in my report one year ago. To offset this 
 debt we have the following assets: 
 
 A second mortgage on the 250 acres sold amounting to $35,174.00; 12 Lots 
 in Otterbein Park Plat, $17,750.00; due from lots already sold in Otterbcin 
 Park Plat, $8,600.00; two double houses on River Street, $10,000.00; Stock in 
 Upper Dayton View Development Company, $49,000.00; total, $120,524.00, 
 which are held against that debt. 
 
 April 1, 1921, our debt, because of the erection of our new buildings, 
 had increased to $159,479.84, or an incrca.'^e of $72,249.84. During the year 
 we received from the United Enlistment Movement, $44,428.14, and $3,305.18 
 for Scholarships. Of the $44,428.14 received, $18,333.30 was for our contingent 
 expenses, $14,439.00, the balance due for taking our men out of field, 
 leaving only $11,655.84 which we could use for our new buildings.' 
 Follow this statement carefully: — We have secured under your order a loan 
 of $200,000.00, which, according to the judgment of the Superintendent of Con- 
 struction, Mr. H. J. Osbun, and others, will complete the two buildings. This 
 would make a total indebtedness of $348,890.00 if we received no money from the 
 United Enlistment Movement or our friends, toward these buildings. Over 
 against this we have the $120,524.00 of assets above named, and this property, 
 known as the old site, for which we certainly ought to receive $50,000.00. 
 
 The Shambaugh land — Section 7-10-36, in Thomas County, Kansas, valued 
 by the committee who appraised it at $22,400.00; New Building Notes amount- 
 ing to $18,644.25; total, $211,568.25. Due from the United Enlistment Move- 
 ment on the basis that only three-fourths of the goal has been reached would 
 be (M of $206,000) $154,500.00. From this deduct the $11,655.84 received this 
 vear, you have due us within the next year, $142,844.16. This' makes a grand 
 total of $354,412.41 with which to pay the debt of $348,890.00. If there is any 
 question about getting this money, that question is for those to answer who re- 
 quired us to go out of the field for this Movement, when we were securing 
 over $30,000.00 per month in the field. If the United Enlistment Budget is paid 
 in full, we will have money enough to pay every dollar of our indebtedness 
 and have our much needed new buildings. 
 
 At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held February 12, 1920, the plans 
 for the new buildings were wiselj' revised by the Board of Trustees to include the 
 use of stone and brick, instead of Terra Cotta and brick, and hardwood and tile 
 floors throughout the buildings. At that time I reported to you that they would, 
 with the changes you had ordered, cost $387,317.00. Up to March 31, 1921, we had 
 spent for Construction Equipment, Architect's services, including $2000.00 for 
 plans for a Central Heating Plant, $156,038.02. It will require $200,000.00 to finish 
 the buildings, making the cost of same $356,038.02, from which the salvage 
 of the construction equipment must be deducted, leaving the cost of the build- 
 ing about $350,000.00. 
 
 NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 
 
 With the approval of the Board of Trustees, we undertook the construction 
 of the new buildings ourselves. We employed a most efficient Superintendent 
 of Construction, Mr. H. J. Osbun, who for a number of years was President 
 of the Gem City Improvement Company. We have bought at a considerable 
 saving to the Seminary all of the materials thus far used in the construction 
 of the buildings. 
 
 INCREASED EXPENSES 
 
 During the years, the Seminary has licen growing in efficiency, entailing 
 greatly increased expense. Its curriculum is more extensive and the standard 
 of work higher. 
 
During the quadreiinium we have continued the custom of giving $2.00 per 
 month to each married student and $1.50 to each young woman to applj' on his 
 or her rent, in lieu of the free room rent secured by single men living in the 
 dormitory. 
 
 The Faculty has received a much needed increase in salary. 
 
 COMPARISON 
 
 The net assets of The Bonebrake Theological Seminary, March 31, 1909, 
 were $245,497.00. The net assets March 31, 1921, were $661,107.28, a net gain in 
 eleven years and nine months of $415,710.28, or over $35,000.00 each year of 
 my incumbency. In addition to this, we have charged off our books as non-col- 
 lectable during these years over $25,000.00. All this has been done while j'our 
 Board of Trustees, Executive Committee and Manager have carried one of the 
 heaviest burdens ever cast upon men in any of the departments of the Church, 
 namely, the indebtedness of the Dayton View real estate. 
 
 OUR NEEDS 
 
 The importance of the place of the Seminarj' in our denominational life 
 cannot be -overestimated. The cry from every quarter of the Church is for 
 men — men who are trained in heart and mind to do the work in the Christian 
 ministry. There is no greater problem before the Church of the United Brethren 
 in Christ today than that of securing more thoroughly qualified men for her 
 pulpits and missionary work. Attention must be given to our one professional 
 training agency. Give the Seminary equipment, and the Board of Education 
 money enough to properly aid worthy students and the Seminary can give to 
 the Church ever}'^ year a hundred trained men for her work. God hasten the day 
 when this may be. 
 
 This General Conference in this very matter may determine to a large 
 extent the success of our beloved Zion during the coming years. We plead 
 for an open door to the Church and an adequate support from the budget and 
 sufficient Scholarships' or Student Aid Funds and practically every graduate 
 from our colleges for the Christian ministry can be saved to the denomina- 
 tion and made an efficient leader and successful pastor in our work. 
 
 We must have: — 
 
 1 — An enlarged productive Endowment. 
 
 2 — An enlarged student body. If the Seminary is to meet the growing 
 demands of the Church, it ought to graduate at least fifty (50) young men 
 every vear. This would mean an average student body of approximately two 
 hundre'd (200). 
 
 3 — A Scholarship Fund which would enable the Faculty to give young 
 men and women the assistance they need above that which can be furnished 
 by the Board of Education. 
 
 4 — Constructive criticism and prayer. 
 
 COMMENDATIONS 
 
 To the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee who have carried 
 the heavy burdens of the finances during these years, and the Building Com- 
 mittee who are dealing with the problems in detail of the erection of our new 
 buildings, I want to express my sincere thanks and believe you should give your 
 heartiest commendation. 
 
 AUDIT 
 
 The books of the institution have been audited each year of the quad- 
 rennium by the. Auditors selected by the Board of Administration. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
 First — That the Seminary, together with other departments of the Church, 
 be given the privilege of direct appeal to our people. 
 
 Second — That you authorize the securing of at least a half million dollars 
 during the next quadrennium for Scholarships and Endowment. 
 
 Third — That you appoint a day when from all our pulpits the clAims of the 
 Christian ministry may be presented to our young people, and that they be urged 
 to hear the call of God for definite service. 
 
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
 
 I submit, herewith, a statement of the finances of thg qiiadrcnnium, ending 
 March 31, 1921: 
 
 CASH RECEIPTS FOR YEAR ENDING MARCH 31 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Footings 
 
 Conf. Budget $10,769.28 $ 11,306.60 $ 12,610.76 $ 6,879.82 $ 41,566.46 
 
 Contingent General 3,117.82 3,564.57 4,057.96 346.31 11,086.66 
 
 Cont. Farm Crops 254.60 2,766.44 462.28 590.13 4,073.45 
 
 Cont. Notes Paid. 5,265.10 6,328.50 7,947.30 4,403.73 23,944.63 
 
 Interest 1,942.10 1,642.73 2,313.74 4,569.60 10,468.17 
 
 Incidental Fees — 153.00 162.00 198.00 171.00 684.00 
 
 Rents 2.391.00 3,230.75 2,881.75 2,427.76 10,931.26 
 
 Property Sold 6,400.00 1,000.00 7,400.00 
 
 Library 57.00 104.25 73.00 57.00 301.25 
 
 Fuel Bill Refund— 236.42 530.63 767.05 
 
 New Endowment- 4,900.00 4,621.20 3,682.19 5,000.00 18,203.39 
 
 End. Loans Ret'd_ 1,425.00 3,775.00 16,826.00 22,026.00 
 
 Property Sold 1,950.00 12,000.00 24,489.44 38,439.44 
 
 End. Notes Paid— 1,448.00 10,061.35 7,006.60 3,799.64 22,315.59 
 
 New Bldg. Fund— 630.00 4,923.18 5.00 5,558.18 
 
 New Bldg. Nts. Pd. 1,817.25 2,692.50 2,400l00 1,102.50 8,012.25 
 
 Cowden Endow't _ 127.67 200.00 50.00 Zll .b1 
 
 Scholarships 380.00 497.88 1,465.00 505.00 2,847.88 
 
 Borrowed Money. 29,200.00 16,100.00 8,500.00 69,745.00 123,545.00 
 
 U. E. Movement— 47,863.32 47,863.32 
 
 Other Notes Paid 257.12 19,187.35 15,953.40 35,397.87 
 
 Sundry Receipts— 15.00 235.82 1,428.35 651.99 2,331.16 
 Davton View Real 
 
 Estate Sale 151,000.00 151,000.00 
 
 Conf. Thank Offg 5,561.00 5,561.00 
 O 1 1 erbeia Park 
 
 Lots Sale 7,355.83 2,018.17 9,374.00 
 
 New Bldgs.. etc.— 4,847.08 4,847.08 
 
 Totals $ 69,535.15 $ 70.054.38 $272,316.71 $197,016.52 $608,922.76 
 
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CASH EXPENDITURES YEAR ENDING MARCH 31 
 
 1918 
 
 Salaries $ 13,614.94 
 
 Interest 14,932.05 
 
 Annuities 3,900.61 
 
 Fuel, Light and 
 
 Water 485.11 
 
 Field Work 2,581.97 
 
 Travel Expense — 2,184.40 
 
 Taxes & Insurance 2,009.04 
 
 Repairs 765.41 
 
 Rents 384.00 
 
 Printing & Supplies 952.54 
 Postage, Telephone 
 
 and Telegraph- 309.19 
 
 Library Expense — 39.55 
 
 Legal Fees 175.31 
 
 Janitor & Supplies 793.98 
 Borrowed Money 
 
 Paid 31,500.00 
 
 Office Help 1,391.41 
 
 Furniture Ap. 64.60 
 
 Mortgage Loans — 
 
 Ranch & Farms.. 647.29 
 
 Fin. Commission 297.50 
 
 Sundry Payments. 177.87 
 
 Scholarship 355.00 
 
 New Site Lands— 150.00 
 
 Totals $ 77,711.77 
 
 1919 
 
 1920 
 
 1921 
 
 Footings 
 
 $ 14,349.93 
 
 $ 14,158.25 $ 
 
 13,774.98 
 
 $ 55,898.10 
 
 14,743.30 
 
 11,519.29 
 
 7,270.35 
 
 48,464.99 
 
 4,679.41 
 
 4,651.25 , 
 
 4,992.81 
 
 18,224.08 
 
 713.54 
 
 812.62 
 
 1,287.91 
 
 3,299.18 
 
 3,567.83 
 
 7,013.50 
 
 1,593.48 
 
 14,756.78 
 
 2,575.72 
 
 1,906.81 
 
 2,645.93 
 
 9,312.86 
 
 1,604.56 
 
 1,374.87\ 
 1,073.26/ 
 
 
 
 7^i.77 
 
 3,006.88 
 
 10,617.79 
 
 855.00 
 
 981.65 
 
 562.81 
 
 2,783.46 
 
 398.20 
 
 1,033.16 
 
 896.48 
 
 3,280.38 
 
 607.82 
 
 yu.iz 
 
 564.78 
 
 2,195.12 
 
 234.79 
 
 61.80 
 
 69.90 
 
 406.04 
 
 1,477.09 
 
 113.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 1,766.40 
 
 1,004.37 
 
 1,228.80 
 
 1,366.44 
 
 4,393.59 
 
 26,508.00 
 
 164,026.00 
 
 8,085.00 
 
 230,119.00 
 
 1,689.09 
 
 2,479.89 
 
 3,018.50 
 
 8,578.89 
 
 
 668.00 
 
 73.80 
 
 806.40 
 
 
 
 8,500.00 
 
 8,500.00 
 
 2,194.98 
 
 5,935.90 
 
 8,869.77 
 
 17,647.94 
 297.50 
 
 187.15 
 
 2,145.34 
 
 4,816.02 
 
 7,326.38 
 
 350.00 
 
 695.00 
 
 305.00 
 
 1,705.00 
 
 400.00 
 
 17,310.63 
 
 156,038.02 
 
 173,898.65 
 
 $ 78,924.55 
 
 $239,902.35 $. 
 
 227,739.86 
 
 $624,278 53 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Cash Balance April 1, 1917 $ 5,611.21 
 
 Cash Receipts 1917 to 1921l . 608,922.76 
 
 Total Receipts $614,533.97 
 
 Payments 
 
 Cash Paid 1917 to 1921 $624,278.53 
 
 Less Overdraft on Treausrer 9,744.56 
 
 Total payments $^614,533.97 
 
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' INVENTORIES COMPARED 
 
 March 31, March 31, 
 
 1917 1921 
 
 Mortgage Loans $ 26.883.63 $110,557.63 
 
 Kansas Lands 167,035.75 
 
 Pike Countv. Illinois Lands 3,250.0() 3,250.00 
 
 1628 West First Street, Dayton, Ohio 2,500.00 4,000.(10 
 
 1566 West First Street, Dayton, Ohio 4,000.00 5,000.00 
 
 Endowment Time Notes 9,141.00 18,493.16 
 
 Endowment Death Notes 42,550.00 45,250.00 
 
 Peckham Farm 11,344.24 
 
 Toledo Life Insurance Company Stock 213.25 
 
 Texas Lands 1,600.00 1,600.00 
 
 Other Notes Receivable 111.841.72 
 
 T. J. Brown Farm 23,000.00 
 
 Shambaugh Land 22,400.00 
 
 Campaign Notes 45.661.75 
 
 Liberty Bonds 11,650.00 
 
 Kansas Ranch Elevator 5.500.00 8,000 00 
 
 Public Utility Bonds 5.000.00 2,000.00 
 
 Grand Rapids Lots 400.00 400.00 
 
 Otterbein Park 17,750.00 
 
 River Street Property, Dayton, Ohio 8,600.00 10,000.00 
 
 Dayton View Real Estate 300.662.57 
 
 Upper Dayton View^ Development Company Stock 49.000.00 
 
 New Site Grounds 75.600.00 
 
 Old Seminary Building and Grounds 40,445.55 40.445.55 
 
 Library _ _' _ 4.453.20 4,970.08 
 
 Furniture and' Fixtures 6,988.37 7,794.77 
 
 New Buildings 154,031.92 
 
 New Building Time Notes 5,366.50 14,544.25 
 
 New Building Death Notes 4,100.00 4,100.00 
 
 Student Chapel Notes 283.00 
 
 Dormitory Memorial Notes 3.600.00 
 
 Alary A. 'Herr Estate 1,407.65 1,407.65 
 
 Shambaugh Wheat Crop 3,725.00 
 
 Cowden Time Notes L875.00 1,500.00 
 
 Cowden Death Notes 6.000.00 6,000.00 
 
 Scholarship Death Notes 1,000.00 
 
 Contingent Time Notes 13.326.52 10,637.96 
 
 Contingent Death Notes 11.700.00 10.125.00 
 
 Friedley Farm 3.885.82 
 
 Kansas Ranch Property 30,161.80 
 
 West Salem, Ohio, Land 2,000.00 
 
 Farmers and Alerchants State Bank, Cash 711.34 
 
 Balance on hand Alarch 31, 1917 5,611.21 
 
 Contingent Overdraft March 31, 1921 4,092.27 
 
 $726,002.76 $834,423.95 
 
 Contingent Overdraft $4,092.27 
 
 Overdraft with Treasurer 9,744.56 13,836.83 
 
 Total Assets $726,002.76 $820,587.12 
 
 Borrowed Money 261,464.00 159.479.84 
 
 Net Assets $464,538.76 $661,107.28 
 
 Comparison 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1917 $464,538.76 
 
 Net Assets Alarch 31, 1921 661,107.28 
 
 . Gain in Assets $196,568.52 
 
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Liabilities 
 
 Present Building and Ground Fund $ 50,859.47 
 
 New Building Fund 142,219.37 
 
 Scholarship Fund 6,550.00 
 
 Cowde'n Endowment Fund 18,735.24 
 
 Endowment Fund 407,673.45 
 
 Endowment Annuity Reserve 5,000.00 
 
 Lectureship Endowment 500.00 
 
 Cash — Overdraft on Treasurer 9,744.56 
 
 Borrowed Money 159,479.84 
 
 Scholarship Income 300.00 
 
 Dormitory Memorial Fund 17,500.00 
 
 Students' Chapel Fund 901.00 
 
 United Enlistment Movement — 
 
 Scholarship Fund 3,305.18 
 
 New Building Fund 11,655.84 
 
 $834,423.95 
 
 Comparison of Funds 1917 with 1921 
 
 Endowment Fund— 1921 $413,173.45 
 
 Endowment Fund— 1917 309,934.66 
 
 Increase in four years $103,238.79 
 
 Contingent Fund— 1921— Deficit $ 4,092.27 
 
 Contingent Fund— 1917— Balance 35,151.05 
 
 Decrease in four years $ 39,243.32 
 
 New Building Fund— 1921 $172,276.21 
 
 New Building Fund— 1917 46,627.89 
 
 Increase in four years $125,648.32 
 
 Seminary Bldg. & Grounds Fund— 1921 $ 50,859.47 
 
 Seminary Bldg. & Grounds Fund— 1917 50,342.59 
 
 Increase in four years a $ 516.88 
 
 Cowden Endowment— 1921 $ 18,735.24 
 
 Cowden Endowmen — 1917 1 18,732.57 
 
 Increase in four years $ 2.67 
 
 Scholarship Fund— 1921 $ 9,855.18 
 
 Scholaship Fund— 1917 3,750.00 
 
 Increase in four years $ 6,105.18 
 
 Unpaid Scholarship— 1921 $ 300.00 
 
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Productive Endowment 
 
 Mortgage Loans $110,577.63 
 
 1628 West First Street, Dayton, Ohio 4,000.00 
 
 1566 West First Street, Dayton, Ohio 5,000.00 
 
 Liberty Bonds 11,650.00 
 
 Public Utility Bonds 2,000.00 
 
 T. J. Brown Farm 23,000.00 
 
 Texas Land 1,600.00 
 
 Notes 111,841.72 
 
 Total - $269,669.35 
 
 The hooks have been audited each year by the auditor selected by the Board 
 of Administration, Air. C. L. Hubbard, who certified that they were correct. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. E. FOUT, Manager. 
 
 IS 
 
SECOND 
 
 QUADRENNIAL REPORT 
 
 O F 
 
 The Otterbein Home 
 
 LEBANON, OHIO 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Twenty-eighth General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 United Brethren Church 
 
 If 
 
 Convening at Indianapolis, Indiana 
 May 12, 1921 
 
Report of the Trustees of the Otterbein Home 
 
 For the Quadrennium Ending March 31, 1921 
 
 To the Twenty-Kightli General Confer- 
 eiux' of the Church of the United Brethren 
 in Christ, in session at Indianapolis, In. i- 
 ana. in May, 1921, the Trustees of the 
 Otterbein _Home present their report for 
 the Quadrennium : 
 
 The Otterbein Home has closed its sec- 
 ^ond four years of official history. At the 
 General Conference at Wichita, in 1917, the 
 general facts of history to that date .uid 
 the plan for further development were 
 presented. That body accepted both, and 
 commissioned the trustees to proceed along 
 the course outlined, which was estimated to , 
 require fifty years for completion. One 
 purpose of this report is to review the work 
 of the second four-year period, to determir.v- 
 how well the surveyed road has been fol- 
 lowed, and point forward to the tasks just 
 ahead. 
 
 To conduct the Otterbein Home this far 
 on its journey of Christian philanthropy 
 has been a constant inspiration. The nature 
 of the work itself is uplifting, for it is con- 
 structive work of the purest character. 
 The universal good will of our people for 
 this kind of service has been most encour- 
 aging. And the fi ^r of those outside our 
 denomination, as' pressed in dollars or 
 their equivalent, has convinced the trus- 
 tees that the work of our Church has an 
 appeal extending beyond our boundary 
 lines. 
 
 Historic Statements 
 
 A few facts and dates will connect the 
 present situation with the past, and link to- 
 gether the Shaker society and the United 
 Brethren communion : Negotiations for 
 the transfer qf the Shaker Estate began in 
 1939. An application for a charter was 
 signed on October 14, 1912. A contract 
 for purchase of 4005 acres of land was 
 signed on October 15, 1912. The charter 
 was granted under date of November 7, 
 1912. The incorporators met on November 
 19, and elected nine trustees, to serve until 
 the meeting of the General Conference in 
 May, 1913. . At this meeting, a constitution 
 was adopted. The deeds were signed and 
 the title was transferred on March 5, 1913. 
 The General Conference put its seal upon 
 
 the Home on May 17, 1913. I->om that date, 
 the Ottcrl)ein Home has had but one pur- 
 pose — to serve those embraced in the scope 
 of its original promise. It is_ not satisfied 
 with its service, of course; but it has 
 counted the privilege of doing good, one 
 greatly to be esteemed. 
 
 The Pl'rch.^se Price 
 
 Three notes were given the Shakers, ag- 
 gregating the $325,000 agreed upon as the 
 purchase price of the farm. At the General 
 Conference eight years ago, $50,000 had 
 fallen due, of which $30,000 had been paid. 
 Nothing more was due at date of the Gen- 
 eral Conference of 1917, although the rest 
 of the $50,003 had been paid, and $60,000 of 
 the next note of $100,000. At the present 
 date, the payments are just even, $150,000 
 having been paid, the last note, $175,000, 
 falling due March 1, 1923. 
 
 The contract permits payment of any 
 multiple of $5,030 at any interest paying 
 period. The trustees have been using all 
 funds for the last three years in main- 
 tenance and development. Money to meet 
 the final payment must be gathered, and the 
 trustees have taken recognition and corres- 
 ponding action. The Shakers have trusted 
 us in a remarkable way, and we must keep 
 faith with them most sacredly. A nucleus 
 for the last payment is in hand, a promise 
 that generous contributions will be made 
 from many quarters as we approach the 
 day. 
 
 Homes Originally Proposed 
 
 Eight and a half years ago, the need of 
 the United Brethren Church was sensed 
 clearly enough to set forth the prospect of 
 six different homes. This was before we 
 acquired title to the Shaker holdings, and 
 the proposed homes were as follows : 
 
 1. Home and training school for or- 
 phans and other needy children. 
 
 2. Home for children of missionaries. 
 
 3. Old folks' home, by cottage and dor- 
 mitory plan. 
 
 4. Home for deaconesses. 
 
5. Home for retired ministers and their 
 wives, cottage and dormitorj- plan. 
 
 6. Healthatorium for Church workers. 
 The first Home has been in operation 
 
 since ^lay 1. 1913. and growing all the 
 time. 
 
 The second was opened in Decem])cr, 
 1917, in a building especially prepared. 
 
 The third was started on April 3, 1913, 
 and tlie applicants have been far more than' 
 could be accommodated. 
 
 The fourth has not l)een set apart for- 
 mally, as it was expected that this service 
 would be called for last. 
 
 The fifth has been in operation almost 
 from the start, although not separated from 
 the general homes for adults. 
 
 The sixth has had a beginning, and far 
 more calls have been made than could be 
 answered afiirmatively. 
 
 At the present time, this outline seems 
 very meager. Numerous special buildings 
 are required to answer the calls of the 
 Church, and the question arises as to 
 whether the Church can afford to maintain 
 deaf ears and a stolid indifference to these 
 necessities. The very operation of the 
 Home on its present scale has revealed the 
 need for other special adjuncts, as follows: 
 
 1. A separate building for a cancer hos- 
 pital, for this disease develops in the Otter- 
 bein family, and a place for segregation is 
 needed, as well as for the occasional recep- 
 tion of afflicted ones from the outside. 
 
 2. A separate building is needed for 
 those developing tubercular troultle at the 
 Home, so that there need be no contact 
 with those in health. The future might 
 bring admission of afflicted ones, provided 
 such hospital were removed absolutely 
 from the present homes. 
 
 3. .\ se])arate building is needed for' the 
 general hospital cases that will be found at 
 the Home always, perhaps supplemented bv 
 additions from without. 
 
 4. A separate building is needed for 
 those of low mentality, whether congenita! 
 or developmental— persons who are not 
 proper subjects for an asylum, segregated 
 wholly from the ordinary life of the Home. 
 
 5. A. separate building is needed for 
 those afflicted with epilei)sy. for these are 
 among the most unfortunate of all and 
 deserve .sympathetic lieli)fulness. 
 
 These five are of such a character that 
 they cannot be joined to the others, or 
 joined to one another. We are persuaded 
 that the Lord would be more pleased with 
 complete ser^'ice than partial. These homes 
 nuist have place in the plans of some Chris- 
 tian heart and brain. 
 
 Buildings Occupied 
 
 Carrying out the above plan thus far 
 means tiie employment of several build- 
 ings. At the last General Conference, one 
 big building was occupied by the boys and 
 girls, and another by the old people. A 
 second home for old people was being re- 
 modeled, which was dedicated on Thanks- 
 givmg. 1918. It was prepared as a home 
 for the helpless, but christened the Good 
 Samaritan home. The old post-office was 
 refitted and enlarged for the accommoda- 
 tion of- children of missionaries. A two- 
 story farm building was moved and made 
 over into an annex for the largest girls— 
 and contains beds for twenty-eight, besides 
 other necessary quarters. The building re- 
 tained for ten years by the Shakers was 
 vacated in the summer of 1920, three years 
 m advance of expiration of lease, and has 
 become headquarters for the Home. Eventu- 
 ally this will be occupied by high-school 
 girls, while the old people's building will 
 be assigned to high-school boys. The 
 school has vacated the Shaker meeting 
 house, as it outgrew the original school- 
 house, and the meeting house is being 
 transformed into a boys' cottage. 
 
 The Development Plan 
 
 The plan of development, as reported and 
 approved four years ago, contemplated the 
 erection of numerous buildings as growth 
 demanded and funds allowed. These in- 
 cluded school, church, combined auditorium, 
 library, and museum, dining hall, adminis- 
 tration building, nine large homes for adults, 
 a corresponding number for boys and girls, 
 with compleniental residences, barns, and 
 others. Of these, three-sevenths of the 
 school building is constructed— twelve of 
 twenty-eight rooms, the administration 
 I)uilding is under way, and half the dining 
 hall is being put up— to projvide five hun- 
 dred sittings. This is for children only, as 
 tile old people will have dining rooms in 
 their several homes. 
 
riiese tlircc Iniildings were an ahsoiute 
 I need to progress. Inaccurate cost figures 
 were relied upon for construction, so that 
 I expense ran out of siglit of income, but it 
 did not seem wise to hold up this improve- 
 ment even though the cost exceeded all cal- 
 culation. After these are completed, the 
 trustees advise no further new w-ork of 
 extension till general or special funds are 
 in hand to pay the bills. Minor improve- 
 ments, such as dairy liani, silos, sheds, 
 should go forward when financial conditions 
 warrant the outlay. 
 
 Spkcifr- Impkovement.s 
 During this quadrennium, an adequate 
 water supply was obtained by excavating 
 some strong springs three-fourths of a mile 
 distant, and pumping the water to the large 
 tank, thence conducted to the various homes 
 bv gravity pressure. Before this was done, 
 three wells were drilled near the head- 
 quarters, but they were not sufficient to 
 supply the needs. 
 
 .A modern laundry has been installed, and 
 is in daily operation. This is much more 
 satisfactory, and much more economical. 
 A .storaac l)attery lighting system was in- 
 stalled to accommodate the Good Samaritan 
 home and surroundiug buildings. The plant 
 used for lighting th^ ntral group of build- 
 ings was reenforced. the Shaker home be- 
 ing wired and attached to this plant, 
 r The silo capacity on the farm was in- 
 i creased from 660 tons to over a thousand 
 \ tons. A most satisfactory cement stave silo 
 was discovered, and three of that class pur- 
 chased, to be followed bj' a fourth in the 
 next few months. 
 
 Farm and Stock 
 One of the resources of the Otterbcin 
 Home is the fertile soil and the good grac- 
 ing land. ^Tore and more are churches 
 adopting the farm as the starting point of 
 ; such philanthropy as this. One sister in 
 ' the Evangelical church, whose heart God 
 f touched, deeded outright seven hundred 
 acres of rich land to establish an old peo- 
 ple's home, whose superintendent is quite 
 well known to Otterbein Home trustees— 
 this gift having been made in the last twelve 
 montlis. State authorities have discovered 
 tile practicability of this plan, and are pur- 
 chasing large farms as the dependence of 
 their institutional w'ork. Our own farmer 
 and .stockman, Mr. R. D. George, was man- 
 a.L;cr of three of the Ohio state farms be- 
 
 fore he took charge of the Otterbein farm. 
 This support of the judgment of our 
 Church is appreciated. 
 
 Tlie land is divided into eight conq)onent 
 farms— and thus was handled by our prede- 
 cessors. Eight years ago, one farm of 
 750 acres was under direct management, 
 the other seven leased to tenants. Four 
 years ago, another farm oi 500 acres had 
 been transferred to direct handling. At the 
 ])resent, three more farms have passed from 
 lease to direct control, so that about 2500 
 acres now are farmed under direct man- 
 agement, and only 1500 leased. Corn, 
 wheat, and hay are the chief products, with 
 oats and alfalfa also cultivated. Sweet 
 corn is raised for neighborhood canneries, 
 as the Home has not yet established its own 
 cannery. 
 
 Cattle and hogs constitute the chief stock 
 raised, though a few sheep are kept. While 
 Big Type Poland China and Chester Whites 
 are reared on part of the grounds, the 
 Durocs are the favorite for general pur- 
 poses. 
 
 For several years, the Home experi- 
 mented with Jerseys, Polled Angus, and 
 Shorthorn Durham cattle, with some 
 Guernseys and Holsteins. On the recom- 
 mendation of Mr. George, with the approval 
 of the farm committee and the support of 
 the superintendent, the Milking Shorthorn 
 was selected as the best dual purpose type 
 procurable. A herd has been started at the 
 Otterbein Home which has no superior 
 blood or breeding anywhere. Edge wood 
 Cyrus is the herd sire, eleven thirty-sec- 
 onds of whose blood is that of imported 
 Duke Buttercup, the best animal of his 
 kind ever brought across the ocean. l!is 
 two most noted sons are General Clay and 
 Cyrus Clay, whose blood flows in profusion 
 in the veins of Edgewood Cyrus. Females 
 were purchased in Ohio, Kentucky, nnd 
 IMichigan, some of them of pure Bates 
 breeding, thus giving direct connection with 
 the original herd in England, carrying back 
 to the early seventies. The Home herd now 
 consists of thirty-six of these blooded ani- 
 mals, ten of wh"ich are calves. Several two- 
 year olds are making fine tests both ifi milk 
 production and butterfat. 
 
 It is the purpose to enlarge this herd by 
 natural production and purchase until i^ dis- 
 places the grade cattle hitherto kept on the 
 farm. At first, the Home had to be s.^tis- 
 fied with the inferior, but tliat compulsion 
 
Iiappily now is passed. While the pure 
 bloods are being l)red, the grades are being 
 improved verj- rapidly by mating only with 
 pure-bred sires. It is the hope of those en- 
 trusted witJi the management that the 
 Otterl^ein Home may become the center of 
 the Milking Shorthorn culture in this coun- 
 try. Thus it would prove a benefactor to 
 mankind, as well as a blessing to its own 
 family. Great credit belongs to Mr. R. D. 
 George, stockman, and Mr. Cecil R. Tray- 
 lor, directly in charge of this blooded stock. 
 
 F"arm Income 
 The Otterbein Home farm always mu. t 
 be counted on to supply revenues for cur- 
 rent e.xpense. It is a fine endowment, al- 
 though friends of the Home must not ex- 
 pect the miraculous in its production. . 
 Manifestly it would be unjust for the owner 
 of a farm of 80 acres or 160 acres to make 
 a horizontal comparison of his operations 
 with the cultivation of the Home farn.. 
 On the smaller farm, the husband, wife, and 
 all children of sufficient age lahcr to pro- 
 duce, and they make no financial reckoning 
 of their time in the computation of ex- 
 pense, neither do they spare themselves 
 when rush seasons in farm work are on. 
 Should they count their time at full value, 
 their net income would show decrease. At 
 the Otterbein Home, there is no husband 
 and father to do free work, and no children 
 to do the work in a way to be compared 
 with the average individual family. Every 
 boy and girl of school age is in school every 
 day, so that during such period help on the 
 farm is very meager. The work done dur- 
 ing the vacation months is subject to inter- 
 ruption by increased training in music, by 
 vacations elsewhere for the boys and girls 
 who have a place to go, by band service 
 outside and various other causes. In other 
 words, the production of crops at the Home 
 is by hired labor and not by the free service 
 of husband and wife. Moreover, these em- 
 ployes are to be maintained at .the Home, 
 and largely at the expense of the Home. 
 This difference between conducting a pri- 
 vately owned farm and one owned by an 
 institution of this kind has escaped the ob- 
 servation of some in their calculation of 
 relative profits. Even so, the Otterbein 
 Home farm has made a splendid showing 
 in these two quadrenniums. The year just 
 closed shows a net profit above all expense^, 
 notwithstanding the high co.st of production 
 and the low sale price. When it would 
 
 have been more profitable for so many, 
 farmers to have taken a vacation rather 
 than to have cultivated their farms, the 
 managers of the Home farm have reason 
 for gratitude that the farm work was not 
 conducted at a loss during the year. The 
 profits are computed on the accrual basis, 
 and for the two quadrenniums show as fol- 
 lows. 
 
 QUADKENNIUM NeT PkOFITS 
 
 1914-1917 $ 78,728.24 
 
 1918-1921 ; 108,158.58 
 
 The Home farm has not reached anything 
 near its cap;u:ity in production. Funds have 
 been insufficient to farm intensively, to cul- 
 tivate seasonably at all times, or to do the 
 tiling that is absolutely necessary to the best 
 production. When it is remembered that 
 there was not a nickel on ha. id to purchase 
 a horse or a cow, a pig or a plow when 
 operations began, the progress which has 
 been made 'seems quite satisfactory. 
 
 Field Work 
 Rev. H. A. Sechrist is serving his eighth 
 year as field secretary for the Home. 
 When he began, the cause was new to our 
 people, and they were not accustomed to 
 giving in large sums for great causes. A 
 few characters stood out as splendid ex- 
 amples of Christian devotion in this field, 
 but they were the exception. Gradually 
 our people have gained an interest in the 
 Home and the cause for which it stands, so 
 that some fine gifts have been made and 
 others planned for. When Mr. Sechrist 
 renders a report, he includes mortuary 
 notes although these notes are not counted 
 either in the gross assets or the net assets 
 of the Home. Inasmuch as they are not ne- 
 gotiable, the Home has felt it the part of 
 wisdom to regard these as intangible as- 
 sets, although it e.xpects to realize as high 
 a percentage on them as on the notes given 
 with a specific time for payment. The re- 
 ports of Mr. Sechrist's work, as given in 
 figures below, include all kinds of cash and 
 all kinds of notes and gifts of real estate or 
 other property which he has secured, but 
 no wills unless they have matured. By 
 quadrenniums, the figures follow : 
 
 Qu.XDRENNIUM AMOUNT SECURED 
 
 1914-1917 $205,458.36 
 
 1918-1921 313,988.75 
 
 The greater part of tiiesc amounts is in 
 the form of mortuary notes. Some of such 
 notes will not mature for twcntv vcars, and 
 
Mine for perhaps thirty years, yet tliey dis- 
 play a fine spirit toward tlic Home and also 
 give promise of funds for future carrying 
 charges and development. The friends in 
 the field are increasing in numlier, and their 
 ■ devotion to this interest is marked by larger 
 sums than even four years ago. Many are 
 tinding it profitable from a spiritual stand- 
 point to pay money to the Home and re- 
 ceive interest on it during life, and others 
 to remember the Home by bequest. Nat- 
 urally, few legacies have been received m 
 the ' short history of the Home, but we 
 may expect that these will be more numer- 
 ous and carry a larger aggregate sum as the 
 _\ ears pass. 
 
 Establishment of Found.\tions 
 Our report to General Conference four 
 years ago called attention to the establish- 
 ment of foundations at the Otterbein Home. 
 This plan comprehends the giving of a 
 minimum sum of $10,000, which makes pro- 
 vision for the reception, care, and culture 
 of five children. Any additional $2000 adds 
 one more child. Thy this money will con- 
 tinue its good work 'iroughout all time. 
 Even after donors have been called to their 
 heavenly home, this money will be rearing 
 and educating boys and girls that otherwise 
 would have no chance or but half a chance. 
 l-nur years ago, four foundations were re- 
 corded, not co'i'iting the bequest of Mr. 
 [ Seth Johnson, of Moravia, Iowa. In con- 
 sequence of the money he left by will, one 
 of the eight farms at the Home was given 
 his name as a memorial. However, the 
 gift serves the same purpose as foundations. 
 This report carries the announcement of 
 thirty foundations established previous to 
 the close of the fiscal year on March 31, 
 1921. Since that date, two more have, been 
 arranged for, so that today thirty-two have 
 been established or papers executed leading 
 thereto. This gives great encouragement to 
 those under the responsibility of financial 
 management. The income from these 
 foundations may be applied to the main- 
 tenance and education of children, or to 
 the care of old people. It was the original 
 conviction that the Otterbein Home would 
 ^ , care for a thousand children and a thousand 
 old people. To carry on such work, four 
 hundred foundations are necessary. Prac- 
 tically one-twelfth of these have been se- 
 cured in six years. We presume that others 
 will be added with greater rapidity he.ice 
 
 forward, and this part of the financing 
 should be completed in less than fifty years. 
 In reckoning foundations, mortuary notes 
 have l>een counted, though no wills have 
 been included. This finance plan has nr.-t 
 with favor because it gives those who have 
 worked hard and lived in economy an op- 
 portunity to put the bulk of their posses- 
 sions into a chainiel of everlasting good, 
 without danger of dissipation and without 
 scattering to no good effect. Childless 
 homes thus are finding children, while sons 
 and daughters are acquiring new parents. 
 These foundations are being -established by 
 those in the Church who have loved the 
 work and the life of the Church for years. 
 However, three of the foundations, includ- 
 ing the largest one yet secured, are from 
 people outside the Church, and are an evi- 
 dence that those who arc well-to-do or 
 wealthy put their seal of approval upon 
 large undertakings for the benefit of man- 
 kind and the extension of the kingdom. 
 Other churches are conducting large affairs 
 that are commanding the attention of gen- 
 eral philanthropists, and there is no reason 
 why the United Brethren Church should 
 not be included in this number. 
 
 Christmas Offerings 
 Before the Otterbein Home was estab- 
 lished, the custom of Christmas offerings 
 for Quincy Orphanage had been established 
 for several years. The plan was continued 
 and enlarged, so that the offerings from 
 churches, Sunday schools, and otjier or- 
 ganizations at the Christmas time were set 
 apart for the benefit of the Homes in their 
 respective areas. This is a fruitful souice 
 of income, and one which has been yield- 
 ing more and more year by year. It is 
 hoped that this plan can become universal 
 and include an offering from every church 
 organization within the territory. riic 
 Christmas offerings to the Otterbein Hnmc 
 are given here year by year, as well as by 
 quadrenniums, to show the growing favor 
 with which this method is regarded by our 
 people : 
 
 Year Cash Gifts Qcadrennium 
 
 1913 
 
 1914 $ 2,400.34 
 
 1915 3,784.56 
 
 1916 3.228.82 $ 9.413.72 
 
 1917 6,183.31 
 
 1918 10.977.78 
 
 1919 12,888.73 
 
 1920 17,170.70 47,220.52 
 
Besides these, the material gifts at Christ- 
 mas have been a wonderful encouragement. 
 In this, all our churches and their organiza- 
 tions can find a part. The very smallest 
 gift is received with gratitude, and in the 
 aggregate there is a mo&t helpful supply of 
 things necessary for the Home. Since the 
 last quadrennium. the gifts of material have 
 been valued as follows : 
 Year Valte Qtadrennium 
 
 1917 $ 900.00 
 
 1918 1,500.00 
 
 1919 4,023.40 
 
 1920 4,606.57 $11,029.97 
 It seems that this field also scarcely is 
 
 touched. These materials cost the indi- 
 vidual members but a small sum, j'et bring 
 the consciousness of helping a good cause. 
 It is hoped that these Christmas ofiferings 
 soon can be lifted to a plane that will bring 
 to the Home all the supplies of this kind 
 that arc needed for twelve months. 
 
 Interim Management 
 
 The trustees and the members of the 
 executive committee are not unmindful of 
 the importance of the trust committed to 
 them by the General Conference. Where 
 large material holdings are involved, where 
 intelligent direction of all these possessions 
 is required, where rapid increase in funds is 
 a necessity, where moral and spiritual values 
 reside both active and potential in the lives 
 of so many in the Otterhein Home family, 
 and wfiere eternal destinies are shaped, 
 there is need both for soberness and devo- 
 tion. The trustees have tried to be faithful 
 to their stewardship. The executive com- 
 mittee chosen by the trustees has rendered 
 an accounting every year, and this has 
 been approved. Upon the committee neces- 
 sarily devolves the direction of this great 
 work. During the first quadrennium, the 
 trustees were called into numerous extra 
 sessions, in order to keep the closer watch 
 upon the development, and to h& consulted 
 the more frequently regarding the financial 
 situation. No mid-year meetings of the 
 trustees were held during the past four 
 years. Practically all the plans of the 
 executive committee were endorsed, with 
 suggestion as to their execution. The 
 trustees themselves had certain other plans 
 from year to year, which the committee 
 carried out. In the successive annual meet- 
 ings the general program for the Home for 
 the next fifty years became more and more 
 
 fixed in the minds and in the hearts of the 
 trustees. The chief business has been to 
 discover ways and means, and to decide 
 upon the best methods to go forward with 
 the standing program, the one presented to 
 the General Conference four years ago. 
 With" the advancement and the enlargement 
 of the Home, other closely related lines of 
 work have had necessary consideration, as 
 given in previous paragraphs of this report. 
 The trustees are gripped by unshakable con- 
 viction that whatever ought to be done can 
 be done, if the work is carried forward in 
 the Divine Will and with the dominant pur- 
 pose to honor God and serve those who 
 are proper objects for this Home's con- 
 sideration. 
 
 The Tenth Anniversary 
 At its April meeting in 1920, the board 
 of trustees decided to celebrate the tenth 
 anniversary of the establishment of the 
 Home in some befitting way. At that time, 
 March 1, 1923, the last purchase price note 
 of $175,000 will be due. In one sense,- this 
 must have a compulsory observance, but 
 all wish to rise above the force of necessity, 
 and make this tenth anniversary one of 
 great spiritual meaning to the Home, and 
 to the Church. The board of trustees at 
 its last annual meeting, April 29, 1921, heard 
 and approved a comprehensive report of the 
 executive committee, which included para- 
 graphs relating to an appropriate observance 
 of the closing of the first ten years of Home 
 history, and its entrance upon a second 
 decade. The paragraphs then approved are 
 made an integral part of this quadrennial 
 report, as follows : 
 
 In two more years, the first decade of 
 Otterbein Home activity will be history. 
 After pausing to thank God for its achieve- 
 ments, we must devote ourselves to prac- 
 tical planning. To let this tenth anniversary 
 pass by without appropriate observance 
 would be inexcusable. To postpone thought 
 and plan another year would be to invite 
 small success. The exigencies of these 
 times forliid awaiting the silver or golden 
 or diamond jubilee. We must act now or 
 always be conscious of dereliction in duty. 
 There are some things we must do, and 
 many things we ought to do: 
 
 I-'iVst, the debt of $175,000 to the Sliakcrs 
 must be paid. This is a sacred obligation, 
 and must be met. Already, money is being 
 paid in for this purpose, and it is being set 
 asitle to apply on tlie debt — not being car- 
 
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riecf merely as a book ^credit. While we 
 have received only $300, this indicates tliat 
 our friends are watching the course of the 
 Home and are sensible of its needs. The 
 executive committee has ordered special 
 notes prepared for use in securing funds 
 to redeem this outstanding obligation. It 
 is the hope that such an organization can be 
 built up here as to permit the superintendent 
 to spend much time among the churches in 
 the next two years, and thus directly and 
 indirectljr promote the payment of this note. 
 
 Second, the temporary debt incurred by 
 building construction should be paid. This 
 is not so imperative as the other, but speedy 
 payment will obviate expense of carrying 
 the del it. Yet, we would not make the 
 clearing of this current indebtedness a 
 primary objective, believing that it can be 
 handled in the ordinary course of business 
 administration, and believing that a major 
 offensive against the.'"'Te big note will carry 
 success in eliminatia f debt for develop- 
 ment. 
 
 Third, the Otterbein Home school ought 
 to be endowed. The educational expense 
 should not be a fixed and permanent liability 
 against the Home. Every consideration 
 calls for the financial independence of the 
 school, and that can be achieved only 
 through adequate endowment. The Home 
 school likely will open next September with 
 seven teachers, with rapid increase in pros- 
 pect. To pay twelve teachers an average 
 salary of $1,000, would require a permanent 
 fund of $240,000 bearing five percent inter- 
 est. This takes no account of capital in- 
 vested, upkeep, or maintenance, compre- 
 hending only salaries of teachers. This 
 ought to have a place alongside the payment 
 of the last note, for it will enable the Home 
 to proceed without making more notes to 
 pay later. We are convinced that friends 
 of the Home will finance its school when 
 the cause is presented. This endowment 
 fund should' begin now. Then its growth 
 will be easier. To wak ten years before 
 starting the fund will invite greater diffi- 
 culties in securing it. If we start now, it 
 will grow with the need. 
 
 .An endowment for manual training as a 
 thing in itself is an equal necessity, though 
 a smaller amount would suffice for a few 
 years. But $50,000 for this work, as a 
 permanent fund, should be included among 
 immediate objectives, to be increased as 
 needed. 
 
 I'ourth, college scholarships are a neces- 
 sity. These should be not less than $5,000 
 each. The Home now has one daughter in 
 college. She will have three brothers as 
 associates next fall. Somebody must pay 
 the bills. It would be criminal to stunt this 
 intellectual growth. A year ago, Dr. J. R. 
 King and wife set aside ten thousand dollars 
 for such permanent fund. For every son 
 or daughter the Otterbein Home furnishes 
 for college, a scholarship of $5,000 should be 
 supi)lied. This calls for another gift of 
 $10,000 by September, or two gifts of $5,000 
 each. If this is taken in time, it will not 
 be hard to keep up ; but catching up will be 
 more difficult. 
 
 b'iftli. development plans should receive 
 strong emphasis. Repair and alteration of 
 some present buildings will be necessary 
 for their use, but we counsel postponement 
 of any further new building till the funds 
 are at command. This does not mean to 
 sit down and await showers of money bless- 
 ing. It advises the most diligent and con- 
 stant search for funds. There are hundreds 
 of thousands of dollars that will come to the 
 Otterbein Home or will not come into the 
 channels of Church work at all. But secur- 
 ing it means complete faith in God, abound- 
 ing faith in men, and an activity on our 
 part begotten of this double faith. We are 
 confident that memorial buildings can be 
 secured. "Hitherto, we have been compelled 
 to devote time and strength to the general, 
 so that special appeals have gone by default. 
 But henceforth the special work must have 
 much attention. 
 
 All these things must have large place 
 in our plans for proper celebration of the 
 tenth anniversary of the establishment of 
 this Home. Both our financial obligations 
 and our financial necessities coincide with 
 an important anniversary, and we recom- 
 mend that this board put the seal of en- 
 dorsement upon these worthy ends as the 
 best way the Home can serve God and help 
 those in its charge to prepare for large 
 service to God and to men. 
 
 Otterbein Homk Family 
 
 There has been a constant effort and an 
 emphasized purpose to keep .the Otterbein 
 ilome on a substantial basis, and to keep 
 it topped with a purpose deserving of the 
 recognition and approval of Heaven. The 
 primary interest is not acres of good soil, 
 not crops of wheat and corn, not droves of 
 
hogs and herds of cattle, not a full equip- 
 ment of farm machinery, not piles of brick 
 and stone in the shape of buildings. All 
 these have a secondary place, though an 
 essential place. They are not the end of the 
 Otterbein Home, though they are a neces- 
 sary means to an end. They are not the 
 object of final consideration. The purpose 
 to keep the proper relation between persons 
 and possessions persists, and this means 
 a confession of trusteeship rather than 
 ownership. If the Master commended a 
 man who made friends by the use of mam- 
 mon, certainly he will not withhold approval 
 from an interest of this kind which has no 
 selfish consideration whatever, if it uses the 
 material blessings of God to provide 
 l)hysical, mental, social, moral, and spiritual 
 Ijlessings for those who have no chance or 
 but a half chance. 
 
 Nor would we assert that mere creature 
 cojn forts are a sufficiently worthy end to 
 command the time, and strength, and con- 
 .lecration that must go with the conduct of 
 r-uch a cause as the Otterbein Home repre- 
 '••ents. Children must be fed and clothed, 
 adults at the end of their productive 
 strength must receive care, and sympathy, 
 and comfort. For the younger ones, there 
 must be plans for education, and training 
 toward some vocation which will make 
 independent and useful citizens. These 
 boys and girls will go out to mingle with 
 I he world and cause some change in its 
 moral and spiritual texture. All this is very 
 important ; yet, we wonder whether, after 
 ;ill, the training received by the children 
 and the care received by the older people 
 should not be regarded first of all a culti- 
 vation of Christian character, so that all 
 these should become more like their Master 
 and their Lord. So, Christlikeness of char- 
 acter is set down as the final purpose in the 
 conduct of this Home. Without this, even 
 productive fields and full granaries fail, 
 eciuipment of stock and machinery, reach no 
 worthy end, the school system comes short 
 of its mark, and everything else that is done 
 is temporal rather than eternal. Hence, 
 spiritual values are placed first, and fore- 
 most, and constant, while everything else 
 must take secondary place. But all these 
 other things are placed under tribute by the 
 high-class, spiritual attainment, and there 
 is a constant transmutation of things of 
 earth into the coin of the heavenly king- 
 dom. This is the goal, and it is the ever- 
 
 lasting purpose to bring the weekly, the 
 monthly, and the yearly achievement up 
 closer to the goal tliat dare not be lowered. 
 
 The applications for entrance seem to 
 liave no limit. The trustees, and through 
 them the members of the executive commit- 
 tee, desire to be impartial in consideration of 
 applications. They hope and pray that the 
 time soon will come when no applicant who 
 is both worthy and needy will have to be 
 turned aside or even held at arm's length. 
 While the Home is unable to admit all that 
 are deserving of a place here, the decisions 
 of those in charge must sometimes appear 
 arl)itrary. The idea is held out, always, that 
 application for admission should be the last 
 resort — after all other plans have failed. 
 Even so, those in. official position have been 
 compelled to limit the number r«,ceiving care. 
 Room is not at command, and funds are not 
 at hand to secure the room. We believe 
 that generous-hearted United Brethren ajid 
 friends beyond our borders will render aid 
 in this material enlargement, with a view to 
 extending the service of the Home, with' the 
 final purpose to construct character fit for 
 heavenly association. To this end we pray 
 for God's guidance and blessing, and this 
 includes prayer for the obedience of men 
 and women to the Divine Will respecting 
 gifts during their life and disposition of 
 their estates when they are called home. 
 
 General Conference Duties 
 
 In harmony with the constitution of the 
 Otterbein Home, adopted by the General 
 Conference of 1913, the trustee terms of 
 J. M. Coga-n, Fred H. Rike, and J. M. 
 Fhillippi expire with this session. These 
 vacancies are to be filled by this General 
 Conference, and nominations are referred 
 respectfully to the nominating committee. 
 The -trusteeship held by Bishop G. M. 
 Mathews was \acated by his death on April 
 3. The constitution provides that vacancies 
 occurring during the quadrennium shall be 
 filled by the toard of trustees until the next 
 meeting of the General Conference. As an 
 appointee by the trustees would have had 
 only fifteen days to serve before the meet- 
 ing of the General Conference, this position 
 was left vacant, and a successor is to be 
 elected by this General Conference for eight 
 years, the unexpired part of the twelve-year 
 term of Bishop Mathews. » 
 
 Tiic trustees, in session on April 29, 
 1921, passed a special memorial to the 
 
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General Conference, that, in tlie financial 
 plan of the Church for the next quadren- 
 ninin, it he given the privilege as hereto- 
 fore of soliciting gifts within its cooper- 
 ative area for the maintenance and enlarge- 
 ment of its work. The trustees did not 
 comprehend any change in the system of 
 Christmas offerings for the benefit of the 
 various l)cnevolent homes of the Church, 
 desiring and expecting that this oppor- 
 tunity for all our people to show the spirit 
 of the Christ in a most practical way will he 
 continued indefinitely. 
 
 C.\REFUL M.\N.\GEMENT 
 
 When extensive holdings are involved, on 
 the careful conduct of which large moral 
 and spiritual interests depend, there is a de- 
 mand for careful management and financing. 
 At the same time, officials must be vigilant 
 that cold-hearted business and figures do 
 not rule faith out of the management. The 
 trustees have l^een conservative. The Otter- 
 bein Home farm is held in the invoice at 
 the original purchase price. No real estate 
 has l^een advanced in the invoice figures. 
 There could be an increase both in the 
 valuation of the Otterbein Home farm, and 
 other real estate deeded to the Home, and 
 still not cross the line of conservatism ; yet. 
 the trustees prefer to err on this side rather 
 than on the other. At the last meeting of 
 the trustee board, was decided to hold all 
 property at present invoice figures for four 
 years more, then make a re-appraisal for 
 report to the General Conference of 1925, 
 and re-appraise just before every succeeding 
 General Conference. 
 
 In addition to some statistical figures on 
 another page, a few general statements are 
 in place : 
 
 The administration building, dining hall, 
 and dairy barn will be completed according 
 to plans, and any secondary construction 
 work that is needed. Other expansion 
 should await t'he securing of funds. 
 
 First attention must be given to the pay- 
 ment of the rest of the purchase price of 
 the ground. Toward this, the Home has 
 some assets in first mortgage notes that 
 may be negotiated. It has other assets in 
 real estate holdings that may be used if a 
 satisfactory sale can be effected. Other 
 means will come into the treasury by the 
 natural course of events, so that with dili- 
 gence in gathering funds there should be 
 
 no insurmountalMe difficulty in meeting this 
 payment. 
 
 For the first year in the history of the 
 Home, the farm did not yield enough, with 
 production at high cost and sales on a fall- 
 ing market, to ixiy maintenance costs, so 
 expense for maintenance the past year is 
 added to partial cost of the new buildings 
 and appears as a liability against the Home. 
 The officials knew that the extensive neces- 
 sary building would require a much larger 
 outlay than the income during the construc- 
 tion period, but the Home has assets which 
 are altogether reliable, and which can be 
 used in course of time to meet this obliga- 
 tion. It would lie a mark of unwisdom to 
 increase liabilities without anything in the 
 asset column to balance. 
 
 While the Home needs hundreds of thou- 
 sands of dollars, and needs it now, those 
 in charge have a spirit of gratitude, and not 
 one of criticism for the attitude of the 
 Church toward the Home. They feel grate- 
 ful because our Church people regard the 
 Home with sufficient favor to apply for the 
 admission of children and adults. They are 
 grateful, too, that so much money has teen 
 consecrated to this sacred use, with the full 
 confidence of the donors that it will be 
 applied honestly and conscientiously. 
 
 Training in Music 
 After the last General Conference, the 
 Otterbein Home band was organized. The 
 instruments were received July 6, 1917. 
 Rev. O. F. Bilger, a pastor in Miami con- 
 ference, was employed as bandmaster and 
 director, and has had charge of this work 
 at the Home ever since. Under his careful 
 and efficient tuition, the music ability of the 
 Otterbein Home boys and girls has been 
 developed in a remarkable way. The band 
 has been on duty at public occasions of high 
 order, and always has won the admiration 
 of the people. Constant shifting of the 
 members is inevitable, so that the more skill- 
 ful players pass out into active life, and new 
 recruits are added to train for the other 
 places. The achievements of the band 
 seem the more remarkable when this con- 
 stant renewal of its membership is taken 
 into consideration, but the anticipated ap- 
 pearance of the band l>efore the General 
 Conference makes any further reference to 
 its accomplishments unnecessary here. 
 
 An orchestra also has been organized at 
 the Otterbein Home by the doubling of band 
 
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instruments and the addition of others. 
 The Otterbcin Home scliool, which was 
 organized during the quadreimium as a 
 special district under the State laws, is 
 assembled daily by a selected number of 
 instruments used by members of the band. 
 
 Several pianos have been presented to the 
 Home, instruments of splendid value. These 
 were supplemented by the purchase of four 
 other instruments from the Williams Com- 
 pany of Chicago, one of them a grand 
 piano, this company recognizing the benevo- 
 lent and philanthropic character of the 
 Home in the prices submitted. 
 
 Vocal music is far ahead in the Home, in 
 which tile boys and girls have instruction 
 both in the Home as such, and in the 
 public school. This has resulted in the 
 organization of a choir, which is very 
 creditable to the Home, and a fine spiritual 
 asset to the Sabbath worship. 
 
 SriKiru.M. Cri.TURE 
 
 b'our years ago. Superintendent John R. 
 King was serving as pastor of the Otter- 
 bein Home church. This duty he was willing 
 to assume in addition to all other labor he 
 was performing, in order that the Home 
 might proceed as economically as possible; 
 but. in the fall of 1920, it seemed best to all 
 to have a regular pastor, and Rev. J. P. 
 Hendrix was appointed. He also assumed 
 the duties of superintendent of the Otter- 
 bein Home schools. This is a conibination 
 which rarely can be made with success, but 
 Mr. Hendrix admirably fills both places, to 
 the spiritual culture of the soul, and to the 
 intellectual development of the mind. 
 
 The Otterbein Home church is organized 
 throughout, maintaining its own Sunday 
 -school and church services and prayer- 
 meeting, and having three as fine Christian 
 luidcavor societies as can be discovered 
 anywhere in the Church. Revival services 
 .are held regularly, and from this the adqlts 
 in the Home receive great encouragement, 
 and those of younger years eitJier confess 
 their faith in Jesus Christ, or are confirmed 
 in that faith. 
 
 Those at the Home have many opportuni- 
 ties to come in contact with our own lead- 
 ing churchmen, and prominent men in other 
 churches and in the world of affairs. This 
 
 gives them an encouraging and wide-vis-, 
 ioned outlook upon life, and enables then^ 
 to reach forward, hopeful of making their 
 own lives influential and useful. 
 
 Rei..\tio\ to Sh.akers ; 
 
 Our relation to the Shakers, both those 
 who reside locally and those having resi- 
 dence at East Canterbury, New Hampshirev. 
 has been a constant inspiration to us. These 
 people of high class and high character- 
 have our sincerest esteem. In a business, 
 way, in a social way, and in a religious way, 
 they have risen in our appreciation with 
 every casual meeting, every social inter- 
 course, every business conference. We can- 
 not speak adequately of their manifest good 
 will and appreciation of the character of 
 our work. We count it an honor to be their 
 successors at the old Union village stand,' 
 and pray the Heavenly Father that the 
 transfer of the holdings they had gathered 
 together through a period of 108 years 
 never may be followed by conduct of affairs 
 at the Home that would bring any disap- 
 proval on the part of the Father in heaven 
 to whom we render mutual service and 
 ascribe mutual honor. 
 
 l'".\cTs IN Figures 
 
 1917 1921 
 
 Old People 36 85 
 
 Children 92 176 
 
 Buildings used 2 6 
 
 House and office help 9 21 
 
 Teachers 2 5 
 
 Scholars M 1 56 
 
 High school 3 31 
 
 College 1 
 
 Honorably dismissed 3 
 
 Deaths in four years 4 2Z 
 
 Christmas Cash" ..$ 6.183.31 $17,117.70 
 Contingent Notes 
 
 oh hand 31.966.00 28,933.50 
 
 Gross Assets .... 478.993.80 788,531.08 
 
 Net Assets 242.759.18 408,501.84 
 
 l""(unidations 5 32 
 
 l":irnis cultivated. . 2 5 
 
 Acres 1250 2500 
 
 Leased 6 3 
 
 Acres 2750 1500 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. M. Phim.ifim, Secretary. 
 
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Distributing the Four Million 
 Fund 
 
 By action of the Board of Adniinistration, which action was published 
 throughout the Church before the pledges were taken, the receipts on the Four 
 Million Fund are being applied on two kinds of causes; namely, il ) Pi'ferred 
 Causes or Claims, and (2) Xoii-Prrfcrrcd Causes. 
 
 I THE PREFERRED CAUSES OR CLAIMS 
 There are two classes of Preferred Claims. 
 
 1. The Preferred Claiuis of the Annual Conferences. 
 
 Based on supveys, a certain amount has been allotted to each annual confer- 
 ence to meet its current needs for the two years. This money is used for Con- 
 ference Extension, the College for current work, and other specified items. 
 
 TWie total amount allotted to annual conferences for the two years, aggregates 
 $tJ12,888; for a year $306,444; for a quarter $76,611; for a month $25,537. This 
 represents a good advance over former years. The conference treasurer sends, 
 on the 25th of each month, to the General Church Treasurer, Dayton, Ohio, the 
 total amount received on the Four Million Fund, less one-twenty-fourth (1 24) 
 of the amount allotted to his conference for the two years, which is the amount 
 due his conference on Preferred Claims. A i-eceipt for this Preferred Claim 
 accompanies the remittance of money each month to the General Church 
 Treasurer. 
 
 2. The Preferred Claims of the General Causes. 
 
 These are divided into two classes. 
 
 (1) $550,000 (less one ijereent inidistributed) liave'heen granted to' the 
 Causes which were represented formerJii in the General Benevolence Budget, to 
 meet their current needs for the two yedrs. This Preferred Claim is 
 distributed monthly on the pei'centage basis approved and in operation for the 
 General Benevolences before the United Enlistment Movement was organized, 
 namely, for 
 
 Month Quarter Year Two Yrs. 
 
 Home Missions $ 7,791.67 $ 23,375.00 $ 93,500 $187,000 34 % 
 
 Foreign Missions 7,791.67 23,375.00 93,500 187,000 34 % 
 
 Church Erection 2,291.67 6,875.00 27,500 55,000 10 % 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 1,833.33 5,500.00 22,000 44,000 8 % 
 
 Board of Education 1,145.83 3,437.50 13,750 27,500 5 % 
 
 Sunday-School Board 1,031.25 3,093.75 12,375 24,750 414% 
 
 Young People's Work-__ 572.92 1,718.75 6,875 13,750 2i.^% 
 
 Evangelism 229.16 687.50 2,750 5,500 1 % 
 
 Total : $ 22,687.50 $ 68,062.50 $272,250 $544,500 
 
This Preferred Claim gives the General Causes a reasonable increase above 
 what they received formerly from the General Benevolence Budget. It enables 
 them to more nearly meet the unusual demands upon them for their current 
 work, but it does not provide for extension. 
 
 (2) The Preferred Claims for Adviinistrative Work. 
 
 For Bishops' salaries, General Church Treasurer's office, and Board of 
 Administration, $50,000 have been granted for the two years: for General Con- 
 ference Expenses, $25,000: for Campaign and Promotional Expenses by the 
 United Enlistment Movement, $102,112 for the two years. Total for adminis- 
 trative work for the two years, $177,112: for a year $88,556: for a quarter, 
 $22,1.39: for a month, $7,379.06. 
 
 II NON-PREFERRED CAUSES 
 For Endowment, Equipment, Extension. Debt, Scholarship, etc. 
 The Board of Administration voted that after the Preferred Claims have been 
 met that "All other interests in the General Budget shall receive in proportion to 
 the amount fixed for them." The Board itself figured out the amount for each 
 of these other interests by deducting the Preferred Claims from the allotments 
 to the various causes in the Four Million Budget which gives to the Non- 
 Preferred Causes, the following 'amounts with the fixed percentage for each: 
 
 Foreign Missions $507,000, 
 
 Home Missions -. 202,000, 
 
 Church Erection 345,000, 
 
 Preachers' Pension Fund 400,000, 
 
 Sunday-School Board of Control 10,250, 
 
 Sunday-School Centennial 40,000, 
 
 Young People's Work 2,250, 
 
 Evangelism 14,500, 
 
 College Scholarship Fund - 63,500, 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 206,000, 
 
 Seminary Scholarship Fund 75,000, 
 
 Otterbein College 200,000, 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 200,000, 
 
 Indiana Central University 120,000, 
 
 Kansas City University 100,000, 
 
 York College . 100,000, 
 
 Philomath College 40,000, 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute ■-^- 40,000, 
 
 Total '- $2,665,500, 
 
 Distribution When Designated Gifts Have Been Made 
 
 Gifts lor the support of special objects such as buildings, missionaries and 
 scholarships, shall be received and applied on the allotment of the Four Million 
 to the Non-Preferred Claims of the societies and institutions for jwhich the 
 gifts are designated. Designated gifts, in the past, have always been applied 
 over and above the General Benevolence Budget, and such gifts now will be 
 applieil over and above the Preferred Claims of the General Causes which are 
 but the former budget lifted to a higher plane. As stated, these large Non- 
 
 or 
 
 19.02% 
 
 or 
 
 7.58% 
 
 or 
 
 12.97% 
 
 or 
 
 15. % 
 
 or 
 
 .38% 
 
 or 
 
 1.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 .09% 
 
 or 
 
 .54% 
 
 or 
 
 2.38% 
 
 or 
 
 7.72% 
 
 or 
 
 2.82% 
 
 or 
 
 7.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 7.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 4.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 3.75% 
 
 or 
 
 3.75% 
 
 or 
 
 1.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 1.5 % 
 
 or 
 
 100.00% 
 
Preferred Claims agrsreprate $2.r>(i.-,.r,on. Every Bishop, and other General 
 Officer. Conference Superintendent and Pastor, is urged to secure special desig- 
 nated gifts to assist in reaching the full quota of the Four Million. 
 
 Hon- shall the distribution be made to the Non-Preferred interests after thv 
 Preferred Claims have been .satisfied, if designated (lifts have beer, reeeiredf 
 • 
 
 -Multiply the amount on hand, including the designated gifts, hy the per- 
 centage due each of the Non-Preferred Claims, as shown under "II-Non-Preferred 
 Causes.- The result will he the amount that should be credited to each of the 
 Xou-Preferred Causes. 
 
 A Practical Illustration 
 
 Suppose that there remains, after the distribution to Preferred Causes 
 $13.;.ls,..30 to be distributed to the Non-Preferred Claims, and that included in 
 th!s amount are the following designated gifts: for Lebanon Vallev College 
 So.ooO: Otterbein College $8,000; Indiana Central College $3,000; Church Erection 
 llo.O.M): Home Missions $8,000; Foreign Missions $10,000. what amount would 
 each of the Non-Preferred Causes receive when the distribution is made? 
 
 Making the calculation on the percentage basis given under 'II-Non- 
 Preferred Causes" we get the following: 
 
 Designated Undesignated 
 t:, . ,,. . Gifts Money 
 
 Foreign Missions . $25,332.26 ($10,000 $15,332.26) 
 
 Home Missions 10,095.61 ( 8.000 2 095 61) 
 
 Church Erection 17,274.42 ( 15.000 2.'274"42) 
 
 Preachers' Pension Fund 19,978.13 
 
 Sunday-School Board of Control 506.11 
 
 Sunday-School Centennial 1,997.81 
 
 Young People's Work 119.87 
 
 Evangelism 719.22 
 
 College Scholarship 3,169.86 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 10,282.08 
 
 Seminary Scholarships 3,755.89 
 
 Otterbein College 9,989.06 ( 8,000 1989 06) 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 9,989.06 ( 5.000 4 989 06) 
 
 Indiana Central University 5,993,44 ( 3,000 2,993.44) 
 
 Kansas City University 4,994.53 
 
 York College 4,994.53 
 
 Philomath College • 1,997.81 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute 1,997.81 
 
 Total $133,187.50 
 
 If for the month or quarter the designated gifts to any Non-Preferred Cause 
 should be greater than the amount coming to said cause on the fixed percentage 
 basis, said cause should be credited with the full amount of the designated gifts 
 no matter how large they may be. If such should occur, then that particular 
 cause will not share in the undesignated money until the undesignated receipts 
 are sufficient to bring up all the other Non-Preferred Claims to the standard of 
 the one which has received the large designated gifts. 
 
Tims when the distribution is made the undesignated money remaining 
 after the Preferred Claims have been satisfied will be used to lift all the causes 
 toward their pro rata share of the Xon-Preferred Claims. 
 
 By adding the amount any cause receives from the Preferred Claim to the 
 amount it receives from the Non-Preferred Claim which includes designated 
 gifts, will give the total receipts of said cause for the Tieriod covered by the 
 distribution. 
 
REPORT OF 
 
 The Ouincy United Brethren 
 Orphanage and Home 
 
 H. J. KITZMILLER, Superintendent 
 
 To THK Dklegatks OF THE Gknerai, Coxff:kex(E. 
 
 Dear Coworkers: 
 
 In the Providence of God this quadrennial report of the Quincy United 
 Brethren Orphanage and Home, representing the first benevolent in- 
 stitution in our denomination, is presented in the sincere desire that 
 all who read may be inspired to cooperate to greater degree with a work 
 which has to deal with issues as far reaching as eternity. World con- 
 ditions which prevailed during the quadrennium are well known and 
 the benevolent institution with other interests had serious problems 
 with which to deal. Thank God, there are the "sounds of a going in the 
 tops of the mulberry trees" and above the horizon of a bleeding world 
 there are the faint glimmerings of the dawning of a better day. 
 
 SURVEY. 
 
 There are in the Home 110 children, 62 boys, 4S girls, and 39 old 
 people. During the quadrennium 75 children were admitted, 47 released 
 under the age limit where relatives provided satisfactory homes, and 
 25 wefe honorably dismissed at the age of eighteen. 
 
 In the Old People's department 28 were admitted, and 18 answered 
 the last roll call and passed to their eternal home; 39 are now in the 
 Home. 
 
 The general health of our children has been exceedingly good, hav- 
 ing had no epidemic or seiious sickness with any of the children. With 
 
the old people, who are in the evening time of life, with frail bodies 
 and organit- troubles, there is naturally more illness to deal with, and 
 the physician's service is regularly needed. Rev. Z. A. ColestOck, the 
 oldest member in the Home, is in his ninety-eighth year, and a number 
 are high in the eighties. These old people as wards of the Church, have 
 every comfort and ministration needed to enable them to peacefully 
 pass the evening time of life, and directed to the home on high. The 
 Quincy Home advocates and practices the spiritual, intellectual, and 
 industrial training of the children under our care. ' 
 
 RELIGIOUS TRAINING. 
 
 Our children are daily in contact with religious influence, by precept 
 and example. Morning and evening they assemble for devotional 
 service, on the Sabbath, Sunday school and preaching service are 
 attended in the local church, and a Junior service held on Sunday after- 
 noon. As a rule our children become members of the church, and at 
 their dismissal, receive their church membership transfer. Obser- 
 vation teaches us that this religious training is of vital importance in 
 after years. 
 
 SCHOOL WORK. 
 
 Oui- school work has been under the supervision of the township in 
 our own school building, and township scholars coming to our building, 
 and our high school scholars going to the township high school. By 
 recent action of our executive committee it has been decided to conduct 
 our own school work in harmony with our industrial work, and that no 
 township pupils will be accommodated in our building. This order is 
 generally followed by sister denominations in their orphanage work, 
 and best results can l)e obtained. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING. 
 
 We are living in an age when vocational training in the public 
 schools is being greatly emphasized, and it is of the greatest importance 
 to the boy or girl passing from the Orphan's Home into the activities of 
 life that they be trained to work, as their resources will be dependent 
 upon their own earning power. Jesus. by precept and example taught 
 the importance of work and the dignity of labor. 
 
 We are constructing an industrial building with equipment which 
 will cost $70,000.00. Our bakery, laundry, machine shop, woodworking, 
 broom making, dairy, and various other departments will be accom- 
 modated in this building, and our boys and girls will here receive 
 vocational training in connection with their school worl- that will be 
 
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of vital importance to them as citizens of the coming day, and a splendid 
 investment by those who help to make it possible. 
 
 In all our operations our l)oys and girls assist in the general work. 
 Thousands of dollars have been saved, and our boys trained to do things 
 by their assistance in all our building operations and general work. 
 Being occupied in industrial work aside from their recreation, not only 
 helps in the general work, but solves the problem of discipline. 
 
 THE FARM. 
 
 Our farm, consisting of 17.'. acres, has been a valuable asset in our 
 work. Our dairy, poultry, fruit, and general farm crops are operated 
 on best modern methods and good results have been obtained, and in all 
 this work our boys render valuable help. Apples and by-products, milk, 
 butter, eggs, poultry, pork, potatoes, vegetables in season are produced 
 from the farm for Home consumption. White leghorn chickens, 
 Guernsey cattle, and Berkshire hogs are the breeds used in our work. 
 During the quadrennium there was sold from the farm in excess of 
 Home consumption, produce to the value of $1.5,133.38. 
 
 BAKERY. 
 
 Our bakery as a department for furnishing the Home with bread, as 
 well as training our boys, has been of vital importance. We serve public 
 trade. On an average we bake twenty-five barrels of flour per week. 
 The bakery for the quadrennium furnished all bread and rolls for 
 Home consumption and over and above all operating expenses made a 
 net cash profit of $950.24. 
 
 FINANCES. 
 
 During the quadrennium we have been without a regular field 
 secretary and our financial income has been from the Christmas annual 
 free will offering, and such voluntary special gifts as came our way. 
 A few small bequests and annuities 'were received. In order to secure 
 the lavger special gifts, bequests, and annuities it is necessary to have 
 an active, efficient field secretary. Total receipts for the quadrennium 
 $27f;,(J47.46, expenditures $288,002.55, balance on hand $48,644.91. This 
 amount of balance is on hand as the result of the sale of bonds for 
 Industrial Building. Our total assets above liabilities amount to 
 $154,231.93. A net gain of assets over liabilities for quadrennium of 
 $49,252.39. 
 
RESULTS. 
 
 In a benevolent work we are dealing with human lives, destined to 
 live forever. Results cannot be reckoned on a commercial basis. Dur- 
 ing the quadrennium fifty-five old people received Christian ministra- 
 tion in the Home. Of this number eighteen were administered to in 
 the time of affliction and death, and received Christian burial. 
 
 Twenty-five boys and girls were honorably dismissed at the age of 
 eighteen. They have gone out into the world, and their record in the 
 various vocations of life reflects credit to the Church that gave them 
 fostering care and training when they were stranded on the threshhold 
 of life without a chance. Since the opening of the Home in 1903, sixty- 
 four have been honorably dismissed, and ninety-five percent of this 
 number are making good in the walks of life. 
 
 OUR NEEDS. 
 
 Our greatest need at present is financial assistance to make possible 
 the payment of bonds sold for the erection of our industrial building 
 now in course of construction. This building with equipment will cost 
 $70,000. We need several cottages to accommodate our large waiting 
 list of children and old people. An endowment fund of $50,000 should 
 be established to help take care of our school work. The building of 
 memorial cottages by personc of means to be occupied by them is in 
 harmony with our plan, and several parties are interested in this line 
 of development. Every congregation in the cooperating territory should 
 cooperate to the full extent of their ability with the Christmas annual 
 free will offering. 
 
 Special donations of clothing, provisions, etc., help decidedly in the 
 work. This is the Master's work, and he needs our cooperation with 
 him to carry forward this benevolent work. 
 
 "Freely ye have received, freety give." 
 
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 COMBINED 
 
 QUADRENNIAL REPORTS 
 
 of the 
 
 General Church Treasurer 
 
 to the 
 
 Twenty-Eighth General Conference 
 
 of the 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 CONVENING AT INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA 
 MAY 12, 1921 
 
 L. 0. MILLER, General Church Treasurer 
 
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To the Bishops and Delegates of the Twenty-Eighth 
 General Conference of the United Brethren in 
 Christ, 
 Christian Greetings : 
 
 The times and the passing of the years prompt one 
 to leave long-beaten paths. Especially is this true 
 when something refreshing entices one into different 
 ways. 
 
 Feeling a real happiness that something very "re- 
 freshing" has struck the United Brethren Steel Safe 
 that holds the silver and gold, the Securities, and 
 Liberty Bonds, I have concluded to bring you this 
 time a combined, consolidated picture of your "Money 
 Chest" that you may see it all as one, and not as so 
 many component parts of a whole, as heretofore. 
 
 I take great pleasure in submitting to you the best 
 financial report ever presented to a United Brethren 
 General Conference. Instead of most of our depart- 
 ments having a poor, sickly, consumptive treasury, 
 with liabilities of borrowed money, you will be pleased 
 to note their present healthy conditions and Credit 
 Balances totaling $345,000, and the closing of the 
 Quadrennium with $192,300 in the Treasury. 
 
 Read carefully the "Re-Cap" and "Condition of 
 the Treasury" on the final pages and rejoice at the 
 splendid results you have achieved and the opportuni- 
 - ties for great things to come. 
 
 Respectfully submitting the following details, 
 L. O. MILLER, General Church Treasurer. 
 
The Home Missionary Society 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 Budget and General Fund $178,135.95 
 
 Thank Offering 8,700.54 
 
 United Enlistment Collections __ 89,488.76 
 
 Contingent Notes Paid 2,876.50 
 
 Interest Collected _ 12,663.74 
 
 Rents from Real Estate 1,332.76 
 
 Otterbein-Boehm Fund 1,103.83 
 
 Contingent Note Converted to Permanent Fund 1,000.00 
 
 New Mexico and Other Specials 6,716.12 
 
 City Missions 39,779.14 
 
 Women's Missionary Association: 
 
 For Current Work $ 89,014.71 
 
 For Santa Cruz _ 4,310.00 
 
 For Alcalde _ 5,666.46 
 
 For Alcalde, Love Offering 4,440.50 
 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money $ 5,680.00 
 
 Mortgage Loans Returned 14,107.51 
 
 Bequests and Annuity Gifts 7,572.84 
 
 Literature Sold ___ 1,343.07 
 
 Santa Cruz Special 11.00 
 
 Sale of Chattanooga Property 450.00 
 
 Sale of Arbor Ave. Property 1,750.00 
 
 Sale of Philomath Property 1,000.00 
 
 Bible Cause Collections 413.86 
 
 Callie' King Special 200.00 
 
 Camp Sherman Special 1,064.71 
 
 Gifts to Permanent Fund 4,029.16 
 
 Special from E. D. Barton 15.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Bond Investment 16,000.00 
 
 Kenmore, Ohio, Church Loan Returned 2,500.00 
 
 $341,797.34 
 
 $103,431.67 
 
 $ 56,137.15 
 
 Total Receipts for the Quadrennium $501,366.16 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 12,970.17 
 
 Total Receipts in the Treas. for the Quadrennium $514,336.33 
 
EXPENDITURES 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 Paid to Home Missionaries $205,211.00 
 
 W. M. A. Specials to Santa Cruz 3,800.00 
 
 W. M. A. Specials to Glendive, Mont 300.00 
 
 Kansas Conference Special, Mellie Perkins 50.00 
 
 Special Allowance for Moving 1,478.03 
 
 School Desks for New Mexico 312.34 
 
 Alcalde Specials 167.80 
 
 New Mexico Specials, Bldgs. and Schools 31,658.42 
 
 Scholarships and Other Expenses 5,415.52 
 
 Administration and Other Expenses: 
 
 Salary of General Secretary $ 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of Treasurer, 7 months 240.00 
 
 Travel, Officers and Board 3,031.73 
 
 Salary of Educational Secretary 5,002.66 
 
 Office Help 3,361.93 
 
 Office Rents 982.50 
 
 Printing and Supplies 4,867.88 
 
 Postage, Telephone and Telegraph 1,928.54 
 
 Field Work 2,757.10 
 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money $ 18,930.00 
 
 Interest 2,134.96 
 
 Annuities 8,330.48 
 
 Legal 24.00 
 
 American Bible Society 413.86 
 
 Home Mission Council 420.00 
 
 Special to Santa Cruz 11.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Investment 25,917.54 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Repairs 959.04 
 
 Literature 528.36 
 
 Finance Commission Expense 1,003.80 
 
 Office Furniture and Fixtures 232.15 
 
 Camp Sherman Fund 902.16 
 
 Auditors 86.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Real Estate, 196.45 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch World Movement __ 15,217.50 
 
 Sundry Small Items 318.61 
 
 Kenmore, Ohio, Church Loan I 4,940.00 
 
 $248,393.11 
 
 $31,172.34 
 
 $ 80,565.91 
 
 Total Expenditures for the Quadrennium__ $360,131.36 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 154,204.97 
 
 Total Expenditures to Balance Credits $514,336.33 
 
COMPARISON OF RECEIPTS FOR THE QUADRENNIAL 
 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget and General Fund 
 
 Collection $ 42,023.26 $ 50,694.22 $ 54,759.83 $ 30,658.64 $178,135.95 
 
 Thank Offering 8,345.00 355.54 8,700.54 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 89,488.76 89,488.76 
 
 Contingent Notes Paid.. 262.00 1,493.00 1,121.50 2,876.50 
 
 Interest Collected 1,968.63 2,277.71 3,992.23 4,425.17 12,663.74 
 
 Rents from Real Estate 382.50 358.50 315.76 276.00 1.332.76 
 
 Otterbein-Boehm Fund— 1,101.23 2.60 1,103.83 
 Contingent Note Con- 
 verted to Per maneat 
 
 Fund 1,000.00 1,000.00 
 
 New Mexico and Other 
 
 Specials 1,031.28 2,997.70 2,687.14 6,716.12 
 
 City Missions 33,279.42 6,499.72 39,779.14 
 
 Women's Missionary 
 Association: 
 
 For Current Work 13,927.94 18,070.66 27,852.29 29,163.82 89.014.71 
 
 For Santa Cruz 3,800.00 510.00 4,310.00 
 
 For Alcalde 5,512.46 154.00 5,666.46 
 
 For Alcalde Love Offer'g 4,440.50 4,440.50 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money 5,300.00 380.00 5,680.00 
 
 Mort'ge Loans Return'd 7,800.00 725.00 2,282.51 3,300.00 14,107.51 
 Bequests and Annuity 
 
 Gifts 2,071.45 5,328.64 45.03 127.72 7,572.84 
 
 Literature Sold 393.70 271.76 86.87 590.74 1,343.07 
 
 Santa Cruz Special 11.00 11.00 
 
 Sale of Chattanooga Prop. 150.00 300.00 450.00 
 
 Sale of Arbor Ave Prop. 1,750.00 1,750.00 
 
 Sale of Philomath Prop. 1,000.00 1,000.00 
 
 Bible Cause Collections.. 162.88 126.92 88.80 35.26 413.86 
 
 Callie King Special 200.00 200.00 
 
 Camp Sherman Special _ 4.65 1,060.06 1,064.71 
 
 Gifts to Permanent Fund 3,100.00 929.16 4,029.16 
 
 Special from E. D. Barton 15.00 15.00 
 Permanent Fund Bond 
 
 Investment 16,000.00 16,000.00 
 
 Kenmore, O., Church 
 
 Loan' Returned 2,500.00 2,500.00 
 
 Totals $ 80,559.24 $126,352.73 $113,406.24 $181,047.95 $501,366.16 
 
 Cash on hand April 1. 1917 12,970.17 
 
 $514,336.33 
 
COMPARISON OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE QUADRENNIAL 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 Paid to Home Mission- 
 aries $ 44,626.97 $ 46,729.59 $ 54,307.22 $ 59,547.22 $205,211.00 
 
 W. M. A. Specials to 
 
 Santa Cruz 3,800.00 3,8CO.00 
 
 W. M. A. Special to 
 
 Glendive, Mont. 300.00 300.00 
 
 Kansas Conf. Special 
 
 Mellie Perkins 50.00 50.00 
 
 Special Allowance for 
 
 Moving 306.62 799.19 372.22 1,478.03 
 
 School Desks for New 
 
 Mexico 140.58 103.86 67.90 312.34 
 
 Alcalde Specials 167.80 167.80 
 
 New Mexico Spec. Bldg. 
 
 and Schools 587.27 7,938.60 23,132.55 31,658.42 
 
 Scholarships and Other 
 
 Expenses 669.00 1,566.52 3,180.00 5,415.52 
 
 Administration and 
 Other £xDenses r 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 7 months — 240.00 240.00 
 
 Travel of Officers and 
 
 Board 657.11 933.10 830.14 611.38 3,031.73 
 
 Salary of Ed. Secretary 1,200.00 1,200.00 1,250.66 1,352.00 5,002.66 
 
 Office Help 869.75 860.18 800.00 832.00 3,361.93 
 
 Office Rents 220.00 312.50 206.25 243.75 982.50 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 674.43 2,190.49 382.16 1,620.80 4,867.88 
 
 Postage, Telephone, etc. 566.43 869.83 231.76 260.52 1,928.54 
 
 Field Work 520.09 1,419.45 622.81 194.75 2,757.10 
 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money 6,550.00 12,380.00 18,930.00 
 
 Interest 1,082.26 1,052.70 2,134.96 
 
 Annuities 1,909.00 1,908.99 2,114.24 2,398.25 8,330.48 
 
 Legal 5.00 3.50 3.00 12.50 24.00 
 
 American Bible Society. 162.88 215.72 35.26 413.86 
 Home Mission Council- 70.00 100.00 250.00 420.00 
 Special to Santa Cruz__ 11.00 11.00 
 Permanent Fund Invest- 
 ment 1,095.62 6,031.30 12,592.64 6,197.98 25,917.54 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Re- 
 pairs 298.24 205.81 170.80 284.19 959.04 
 
 Literature 215.22 205.24 28.64 79.26 528.36 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Committee l,O0'3.80 1,003,80 
 
 Office Furniture and Fix- 
 tures 140.00 , 92.15 232.15 
 
 Camp Sherman Fund __ 902.16 902.16 
 
 Auditors . 23.00 . 33.00 30.00 86.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Real 
 
 Estate 196.45 196.45 
 
 Sundry Small Items 59.48 185.37 13.20 60.56 318.61 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement 15,217.50 15,217.50 
 
 Kenmore, Ohio, Church 
 
 Loan 4,940.00 4,940.00 
 
 Totals _ - $ 68,577.28 $ 81,534.48 $ 86,849.01 $123,170.59 $360,131.36 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 164,204.97 
 
 $514,336.33 
 
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DETAILED REPORT OF APPROPRIATIONS BY CONFERENCES 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 California $ 3,898.91 $ 3.691.65 $ 3,225.00 $ 2,948.75 $ 13,764.31 
 
 Colorado 3.585.10 3,704.12 4,010.23 3,907.93 15,207.38 
 
 Columbia River 1,636.45 2,203.83 2,240.34 2,001.97 8,082.59 
 
 East Ohio 933.47 1,171.85 1,384.93 1.630.53 5.120.78 
 
 Erie 908.34 963.60 1,104.13 1,120.83 4,096.90 
 
 Georgia-Florida 1,183.33 1,541.66 1,272.83 1,378.76 5,376.58 
 
 Illinois 749.98 1,437.09 2,164.58 2,877.33 7,228.98 
 
 Indiana 578.53 700.00 928.03 1,010.96 3,217.52 
 
 Iowa State 850.00 818.73 652.10 927.00 3,247.83 
 
 Kansas 1,468.88 1,593.18 1,801.89 1.714.96 6.578.91 
 
 Kentucky 200.00 291.64 466.62 1,170.83 2,129.09 
 
 Louisiana 379.11 151.12 36.38 566.61 
 
 Lower Wabash 700.00 700.00 
 
 Miami 150.00 250.00 3S0.C0 750.00 1.500.00 
 
 Michigan - 1,356.23 1,457.39 1,469.14 858.64 5,141.40 
 
 Minnesota 1,000.00 1,020.76 1,050.00 1,144.40 4,215.16 
 
 Missouri 1,509.42 1,482.08 1,422.64 1,812.63 6,226.77 
 
 Montana 4,077.47 5,141.92 6,823.47 6,986.70 23,029.56 
 
 Nebraska 791.66 841.65 983.34 1.091.62 3.708.27 
 
 New Mexico 4.613.64 5,203.00 5,855.42 6.879.88 22,551.94 
 
 Ohio German 350.00 412.50 500.00 SOO.OO 1,762.50 
 
 Oklahoma 3,581.27 3,283.39 3,549.53 3,966.88 14,381.07 
 
 Oregon 4,877.16 4,015.64 4,054.33 4,377.41 17,324.54 
 
 St. Joseph 750.00 1,500.00 2,250.00 
 
 Sandusky 67.67 67.67 
 
 Southeast Ohio 800.00 789.27 1.160.90 1,195.87 3,946.04 
 
 Virginia 230.00 230.00 134.20 594.20 
 
 Tennessee 2,722.00 2,838.60 5,060.27 5,458.17 16,079.04 
 
 West Virginia 400.00 383.31 779.13 1,231.28 2,793.72 
 
 White River 293.03 275.00 233.59 203.89 1,005.51 
 
 Wisconsin 7ZS.?,2 836.61 844.20 900.00 3,316.13 
 
 Totals $ 44,626.97 $ 46,729.59 $ 54,307.22 $ 59,547.22 $205,211.00 
 
PRESENT CONDITIONS 
 
 Permanent Fund: 
 
 Capital Account $ 55,529.16 
 
 Loans on First Mortgage $ 38,397.54 
 
 U. B. Publishing House Bonds 4,500.00 
 
 Clippinger Property 800.00 
 
 Dayton, Ohio, Faulkner Ave. Property 3,200.00 
 
 Woodland Cemetery Lot 60.00 
 
 $ 46,957.54 
 
 Awaiting Investment $ 8,571.62 
 
 Current Funds: 
 
 Due to Home Missionaries, Estimated $ 5,000.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Awaiting Investment 8,571.62 
 
 $ 13,571.62 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 154,204.97 
 
 Available for Current Work $140,633.35 
 
 ASSETS 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 $154,204.97 
 
 Permanent Fund Loans 38,397.54 
 
 U. B. Publishing House Bonds 4,500.00 
 
 Clippinger Property 800.00 
 
 Dayton, Ohio, Faulkner Ave. Property 3,200100 
 
 Corning, Kansas, One-half Interest 1,250.00 
 
 Office Furniture 1,100.00 
 
 Woodland Cemetery Lot 60.00 
 
 New Mexico School Property 60,000.00 
 
 Kenmore Church Loan _ 2,440.00 
 
 $265,952.51 
 
 LIABILITIES 
 Due Home Missionaries, Estimated $ 5,000.00 
 
 NTet Assets March 31, 1921—1 '- $260,952.51 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1917 62,542.83 
 
 Increase for Quadrennium _ $198,409.68 
 
The Foreign Missionary Society 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 For Current Work: 
 
 Budget and General Fund Collections $181,939.53 
 
 Thank Offering .— 27,029.00 
 
 United Enlistment Collections 106,953.76 
 
 Self-Denial 46,795.75 
 
 Africa 42,337.30 
 
 China 31,106.42 
 
 Japan 10,769.82 
 
 Philippine Islands 13,469.99 
 
 Porto Rico 9,081.59 
 
 For Buildings: 
 
 Building Campaign Receipts $34,896.18 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary 95.00 
 
 China Buildings 115.00 
 
 Philippine Buildings 4,609.27 
 
 Receipts from Women's Missionary Association: 
 
 For Current Work $44,097.36 
 
 Building Campaign 3,395.05 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary 1,116.10 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary Equipment 405.00 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary Playground 100.00 
 
 Bible Training School, P. I 12,311.96 
 
 Bible Training School Equipment 100.00 
 
 Africa 55,554.10 
 
 China 57,823.43 
 
 Japan 25,069.18 
 
 Philippine Islands 32,310.49 
 
 Porto Rico 19,453.52 
 
 Residences 27,668.37 
 
 Residence, Shively 100.00 
 
 Siu Lam Church 448.30 
 
 Yauco Church, Porto Rico 200.00 
 
 Moyambo Home, Africa 30,223.49 
 
 Missionary Residence, China 400.00 
 
 Boat Fund, China 150.00 
 
 . Kono Hospital, Africa 315.00 
 
 Wimmer Home, Africa 100.00 
 
 Shenge Auto, Africa 86.00 
 
 Siu Lam Playgrounds 100.00 
 
 Furnishing Room, Bible Training School, P. I.-- 250.00 
 Printing Press, P. I. 202.45 
 
 Receipts from Investments: 
 
 Interest on Permanent Fund $13,839.39 
 
 Interest on Albert Academy Fund 1,190.00 
 
 Rentals from Real Estate 443.76 
 
 $469,483.16 
 
 $39,715.45 
 
 $311,979.80 
 
 $15,473.15 
 
Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money $25,000.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Real Estate 2,750.00 
 
 Mortgage Loans Returned 36,116.67 
 
 Literature 1,403.79 
 
 Bequests 4,434.20 
 
 Annuity Gifts 29,300.00 
 
 Rufus Clark Estate 16,746.11 
 
 S. S. Hough, Trustee Clark Estate 865.40 
 
 Special Africa Appropriations 4,083.42 
 
 Special China Appropriations 973.65 
 
 Special Porto Rico Appropriations 96.00 
 
 Special Japan Appropriations 200.26 
 
 Special Philippine Appropriations 4,151.45 
 
 Special Deposit of a Friend 800.00 
 
 Hodges Memorial Library 1,100.00 
 
 Field Agent's Salary 450.00 
 
 G. M. Richter Special 421.24 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary 10.25 
 
 China Boat Fund 839.00 
 
 $129,741.44 
 
 Total Receipts for Quadrennium $966,393.00 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 13,428.29 
 
 Total Receipts in the Treasury for the Quadrennium $979,821.29 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 Africa Appropriations $153,032.63 
 
 China Appropriations 187,339.04 
 
 Japan Appropriations 94,078.69 
 
 Philippine Appropriations 86,142.08 
 
 Porto Rico Appropriations 78,940.88 
 
 Hodges Memorial Library 1,100.00 
 
 Special Boat Fund 989.00 
 
 New Buildings: 
 
 China $ 61,473.91 
 
 Porto Rico 2,000.00 
 
 Japan 38,200.00 
 
 Philippine Islands 21,500.00 
 
 Bovs' Training School, China 4,000.00 
 
 Bible Training School, P. I. 15,614.96 
 
 Building and Equipment ., 24.35 
 
 Africa 5,178.50 
 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money Paid $ 33.075.00 
 
 Literature 4,510.02 
 
 Advanced Rufus Clark Estate 17,434.30 
 
 Office Furniture 124.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Loaned 36,777.51 
 
 Annuity Gift Investment 21,000.00 
 
 National Headquarters, J. R. Mott 704.41 
 
 Anglo-American Work, Robert E. Speer 600.00 
 
 G. M. Richter Special 421.24 
 
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 $601,622.32 
 
 $147,991.72 
 
Lizzie K. Miller Seminary Equipment 450.00 
 
 Equatorial Africa Commission 500.00 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch World Movement-. 20,197.35 
 
 Committee on Latin America 260.00 
 
 Administration and Other Expenses: 
 
 Salary of General Secretary $ 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of Treasurer, 7 months 240.00 
 
 Travel of Officers and Board 3,912.61 
 
 Field Work 5,473.79 
 
 Clerical ._ 4,492.75 
 
 Annuities 7,522.02 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Repairs 370.19 
 
 Office Rents 920.00 
 
 Printing and Supplies 1,791.63 
 
 Postage, Telephone and Telegraph 3,472.10 
 
 Legal 49.92 
 
 Distribution of Finance Commission 1,003.80 
 
 Interests 725.00 
 
 Auditors 79.00 
 
 Sundry Small Items 1,201.59 
 
 Total Expenses for the Quadrennium 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 
 
 Total for the Quadrennium to balance Credits 
 
 $136,053.83 
 
 $ 40,254.40 
 
 $925,922.27 
 53,899.02 
 
 $979,821.29 
 
 COMPARISON OF RECEIPTS FOR THE QUADRENNIUM, 
 Ending March 31, 1921 
 For Current Work: 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget and Gen'l Fund 
 
 Collections $ 40,877.11 $ 50,980.14 $ 58.862.05 $ 31.220.23 $181,939.53 
 
 Thank Offering 26,415.00 614.00 27,029.00 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 106,953.76 106,953.76 
 
 Self- Denial Collections 23,779.66 23,016.09 46,795.75 
 
 Africa 10,302.11 9,846.23 14,693.80 7,495.16 42,337.30 
 
 China 7,257.42 7,760.01 11,520.76 4,568.23 31,106.42 
 
 Japan 2,618.07 2,863.28 3,700.10 1,588.37 10,769.82 
 
 Philippine Islands 2,958.79 3,415.47 4,063.54 3,032.19 13,469.99 
 
 Porto Rico 2,087.20 2,698.94 3,437.09 858.36 9,081.59 
 
 For Building: 
 
 Bldg. Campaign Receipts 12,611.18 7,237.50 10,061.50 4,986.00 34,896.18 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary 25.00 70.00 95.00 
 
 China Buildings 115.00 115.00 
 
 Philippine Buildings 4,609.27 4,609.27 
 
 Receipts from Wom- 
 en's Mission'j' Assn.: 
 
 For Current Work 44.097.36 44,097.36 
 
 Building Campaign 2,923.00 264.05 208.00 3,395.05 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminarv 1,031.10 50.00 35.00 1,116.10 
 Lizzie K. Miller Equip't 405.00 405.00 
 Miller Seminary Play- 
 ground lOO.CO 100.00 
 
 Bible Training School, 
 
 P. I. 12.111.96 46.00 15400 12.311.96 
 
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1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Bible Training School 
 
 Equipment 100.00 100.00 
 
 Africa 14,580.60 20,520.89 20,452.61 55,554.10 
 
 China 16,637.81 19,838.80 21,346.82 57,823.43 
 
 Japan 6,976.49 8,289.93 9,802.76 25,069.18 
 
 Philippine Islands 9,776.68 10,656.03 11,877.78 32,310.49 
 
 Porto Rico 5,614.49 6,621.21 7,217.82 19,453.52 
 
 Residences 10,680.90 16,987.47 27,668.37 
 
 Residence, Shively 100.00 100.00 
 
 Siu Lam Church 75.00 333.30 40.00 448.30 
 
 Yauco Church, P. R. ._ 150.00 50.00 200.00 
 
 Moyamba Home, Africa 22,273.62 7,949.87 30,223.49 
 
 Missionary Home, China 200.00 200.00 400.00 
 
 China Boat Fund 150.00 150.00 
 
 Kono Hospital, Africa.. 315.00 315.00 
 
 Wimmer Home, Africa. 100.00 100.00 
 
 Shenge Auto, Africa 86.00 86.00 
 
 Siu Lam Playgrounds.. lOOOO lOOOO 
 Furnishing Room, Bible 
 
 Training School, P. L 250.00 250.00 
 
 Printing Press, P. I 202.45 202.45 
 
 Receipts from Invest- 
 ments: 
 Interest on Permanent 
 
 Fund 2,736.62 3,119.78 4,297.06 3,685.93 13,839.39 
 
 Interest, Albert Academy 
 
 Fund . . 300.00 300.00 200.00 390.00 1,190.00 
 
 Rentals from Real Estate 141.50 142.50 99.76 60.00 443.76 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money 12,000.00 13,000.00 25,000.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Real 
 
 Estate . 2,750.00 2,750.00 
 
 Mortgage Loans Returned 5,102.84 13,693.83 15,200.00 2,120.00 36,116.67 
 
 Literature 413.56 429.57 250.57 310.09 1,403.79 
 
 Bequests - 571.45 400.00 3,335.03 127.72 4,434.20 
 
 Annuity Gifts 21,150.00 3,650.00 4,500.00 29,300.00 
 
 Rufus Clark Estate ._.. 6,736.11 3,810.00 6,200.00 16,746.11 
 S. S. Hough, Trustee 
 
 Clark Estate 865.40 865.40 
 
 Special Africa Appropria- 
 tion 1,428.58 1,471.60 581.80 601.44 4,083.42 
 
 Special China Appropria- 
 
 tion 300.00 101.20 17.40 555.05 973.65 
 
 Special Porto Rico Ap- 
 propriation 71.00 25.00 96.00 
 
 Special Japan Appropria- 
 tion ___- _-____.-. 137.26 63.00 200.26 
 
 Special Philippine Appro- . ,ci -.e >• iei ^e 
 
 priation . 4.151.45 4,151.45 
 
 Spec'l Depo'sit of a Friend . 300.00. 500.00 80O00 
 
 Pledges Memor'l Library 800.00 300.00 1.100.00 
 
 Field Agent's Salary_.._ 15O00 300.00 450.00 
 
 G. M. Rirhter, Special.. 421.24 421.24 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary 10.25 ^^-^X 
 
 China Boat Fund 839.00 839.00 
 
 Totals ..$214,426.02 $196,924.16 $267,149.74 $287,893.08 $966,393.00 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 ^ 3,428.29 
 
 I $979,821.29 
 
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COMPARISON OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE QUADRENNIUM, 
 Ending March 31, 1921. 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 For Mission Work: 
 
 Africa Appropriation _._$ 26,483.58 $ 47,965.01 $ 38,570.71 $ 40,013.33 $153,032.63 
 
 China Appropriation 27,498.38 44,267.70 51,406.57 64,166.39 187,339.04 
 
 Japan Appropriation ___ 17,538.35 19,565.78 24,472.79 32,501.77 94,078.69 
 
 Philippine Appropriation 15,309.09 17,791.48 20,964.61 32,076.90 86,142.08 
 
 Porto Rico Appropriation 17,002.96 18,540.87 19,478.96 23,918.09 78,940.88 
 
 Hodges Memorial Library 500.00 600.00 1,100.00 
 
 China Boat Fund 989.00 989.00 
 
 New Buildings: 
 
 China 24,447.94 17,442.22 16,968.75 2,615.00 61,473.91 
 
 Porto Rico 2,000.00 2 000 00 
 
 Japan 1,400.00 4,800.00 10,500.00 21,500.00 38,200.00 
 
 Philippine Islands 16,500.00 5,000.00 21,500.00 
 
 Bovs' Training School, 
 
 China 4,CO0.00 4,000.00 
 
 Bible Training School, 
 
 P. I. 5,000.00 10,614.96 15,614.96 
 
 Building and Equipment 24.35 24 35 
 
 Africa 5,178.50 5,178.50 
 
 Miscellaneous Items: 
 
 Borrowed Money Paid __ 18,675.00 14,300.00 lOO.CO 33,075.00 
 
 Literature 2,049.37 789.57 478.94 1,192.14 4,510.02 
 
 Advanced Rufus Clark 
 
 Estate 3,123.75 5,835.28 8,469.44 5.83 17,434.30 
 
 Office Furniture 30.00 94.00 124.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Loaned 8,500.00 7,500.00 3,777.51 17,000.00 36,777.51 
 
 Annuity Gift Investment 21,000.00 21,000.00 
 Nat ional Headquarters, 
 
 J. R. Mott 100.00 lOO.CO 150.00 354.41 704.41 
 
 Anglo-American Work, 
 
 R. Speer 100.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 600.00 
 
 G. M. Richter SpeciaL_ 421.24 421.24 
 Miller Seminary Equip't 450.00 450.00 
 Equatorial Africa Com- 
 mission 5CO.0O 500.00 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement 20,197.35 20,197.35 
 
 Committee on Latin 
 
 America 260.00 260.00 
 
 Administration, Culti- 
 vation of H o m e 
 Churches, and Other 
 Expenses: 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 9,000.00 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 7 months 240.00 240.00 
 
 Travel of Officers and 
 
 Board 8^4 08 565.37 1.359.00 1.154 16 3.912.61 
 
 Field Work 1.067.25 1,729.71 1.681.10 995.73 5.473.79 
 
 Clerical 1,153.80 1,031.70 1,140.00 1.167.25 4.492.75 
 
 Annuities 1,135.25 1,909.26 2,238.76 2,238.75 7,522.02 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Re- 
 pairs 132.54 92.54 85.30 5981 370.19 
 
 Office Rents 95.00 375.00 225.00 225.00 920 00 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 523.12 419.66 308.83 540.02 1.791.63 
 
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1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 Postage, Telephone and 
 
 Telegraph 1,137.27 922.83 538.50 873.50 3,472.10 
 
 Legal 4.00 29.17 1.25 15.50 49.92 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 1,003.80 1,003.80 
 
 Interest 35.00 30.00 660.00 725.00 
 
 Auditors 10.00 39.00 30.00 79.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 173.55 131.66 233.36 663.02 1,201.59 
 
 Totals $195,008.08 $208,499.81 %232,S33.62 $289,880.76 $925,922.27 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 53.899.02 
 
 $979,821.29 
 
 CURRENT FUNDS 
 
 Cash in Treasury March 31, 1921 $53,899.02 
 
 Africa Appropriations Overdrawn 6,621.95 
 
 China Appropriations Overdrawn 17,070.18 
 
 Japan Appropriations Overdrawn 712.02 
 
 Philippine Appropriations Overdrawn 2,306.14 
 
 Porto Rico Appropriations Overdrawn 2,326.13 
 
 Rufus Clark Estate Advances 39,661.56 
 
 $122,597.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Awaiting Investment $ 4.745.00 
 
 We Owe Borrowed Money 13,600.00 
 
 Special Deposit of Two Friends 2,448.34 
 
 Lizzie K. Miller Seminary Credit Balance 120.25 
 
 Building Campaign Credit Balance 14,727.04 
 
 $35,640.63 
 
 Showing Book Credit for Current Work $86,956.37 
 
 Please note that the last item is a "BOOK CREDIT" and does not mean 
 that the balance is cash in the treasury. There is cash in the treasury of 
 $53,899.02, but the appropriations are overdrawn a net total of $29,036.42, which 
 with the cash in the treasury will help to account for the credit to current 
 work account. 
 
 INVENTORY 
 Assets 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1920 $53,899.02 
 
 Permanent Fund Real Estate J 4.000.00 
 
 Permanent Fund Mortgage Loans 25,930.00 
 
 Permanent Fund. Funded U.' B. Publishing House 13,500.00 
 
 Permanent Fund, U. B. Publishnig House Bonds 500.00 
 
 Permanent Fund, Miami Valley Chautauqua 1,600.00 
 
 Albert Academy, Funded U. B. Publishing House 4.000.00 
 
 Albert Academy, U. B. Publishing House Bonds 2.000.00 
 
 Annuity Gifts, Funded U. B. Publishing House 9.000.00 
 
 Annuity Gifts, Funded Otterbein Home 12.000.00 
 
 Africa Property 87.218.50 
 
 China Property 145.773 91 
 
 JapTn Property 71,900.00 
 
 Philippine Property 37.350.00 
 
 Porto Rico Property 39,200.00 
 
 Office Furniture 1,100.00 
 
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Africa Appropriations Overdrawn 6,621.95 
 
 China Appropriations Overdrawn 17,070.18 
 
 Japan Appropriations Overdrawn 712.02 
 
 Philippine Appropriations Overdrawn 2,306.14 
 
 Porto Rico Appropriations Overdrawn 2,326.13 
 
 Rufus Clark Estate Advances 39,661.56 
 
 Contingent Fund Real Estate 1.250.00 
 
 Boys' Training School 4,000.00 
 
 Liabilities 
 Borrowed Money $ 13,600.00 
 
 Two Friends' Special Deposits 2,448.34 
 
 $582,919.41 
 
 $16,048.34 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1921 $566,871.07 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1917 349,631.80 
 
 Increase for Quadrennium $217,239.27 
 
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The Church Erection Society 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 Budget and General Fund Collections $ 57,878.75 
 
 Thank Offering 42,682.00 
 
 United Enlistment Collections 42,717.47 
 
 Church and Parsonage Loans Returned 148,800.44 
 
 Interest 5,677.15 
 
 Contingent Notes Paid 44,777.81 
 
 Annuity Gifts and Bequests 19,315.84 
 
 Sale of Real Estate 34,030.50 
 
 Specials Returned to Lot Fund 1,949.C0 
 
 Specials for Parsonage Fund 175.00 
 
 Allegheny Conference Fund 3,843.59 
 
 East Ohio Conference Fund 1,872.85 
 
 Iowa State Conference Fund 3,139.25 
 
 Kansas Conference Fund 1,215.86 
 
 Lower Wabash Conference Fund 1,345.90 
 
 Miami Conference Fund 237.30 
 
 Missouri Conference Fund 406.00 
 
 Northern Illinois Conference Fund 4,401.82 
 
 Virginia Conference Fund 939.75 
 
 White River Conference Fund 651.00 
 
 Colorado Springs, Special 1,213.00 
 
 Edith McCurdy Memorial 500.00 
 
 Alcalde 25.00 
 
 Rentals 1,977.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 25.00 
 
 Sale of Cypress Trees 300.00 
 
 Literature 409.71 
 
 $420,506.99 
 Cash on hand April 1. 1917 54,233.29 
 
 $474,740.28 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Church and Parsonage Loans 1 $328,035.59 
 
 Lot Fund Gifts 7,400.00 
 
 Annuities '_ : 7,139.75 
 
 Annuity Gift Investment 1,300100 
 
 Salary of General Secretary 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of Treasurer, 7 months 175.00 
 
 Traveling Expenses of Gen. Secretary and Board 4,459.83 
 
 Field Agent's Salary and Expenses 16,502.70 
 
 Clerical 3,189.50 
 
 Office Rents 630.00 
 
 Office Furniture 668.86 
 
 Printing and Supplies 2,359.63 
 
 Postage, Telephone and Telegraph 1,428.26 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Repairs 1,441.26 
 
 Legal 391.96 
 
 Real Estate 12,596.41 
 
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Auditors 310.00 
 
 Home Mission Council 335.00 
 
 C. R. Fralick, Agent, Ross Farm 325.00 
 
 Colorado Springs, Special Applied to Loan 2,170.56 
 
 Distribution of Finance Commission Account 371.80 
 
 Special Loan to Grover Montgomery 250.00 
 
 Traveling Tabernacle 1,468.49 
 
 Refund to Allegheny Conference 2,302.49 
 
 Miscellaneous 315.57 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch World Movement 10,106.78 
 
 Literature 44.50 
 
 Refund, Annuity Gift 1,600.00 
 
 Revenue Stamps 4.50 
 
 $416,323.44 
 
 Balance in Treasury March 31, 1921 58,416.84 
 
 $474,740.28 
 
 COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 Budget and General Fund 
 
 Collections $ 13,791.61 $ 16,996.55 $ 16,177.17 $ 10.913.42 $ 57,878.75 
 
 Thank Offering 41,712.00 970.00 42,682.00 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 42,717.47 42,717.47 
 
 Church and Parsonage 
 
 Loans Paid 29,617.61 41,747.72 32,649.63 44,785.48 148,800.44 
 
 Interest 1,016.29 1,251.96 754.96 2,653.94 5,677.15 
 
 Contingent Notes Paid _ 5,884.10 10,619.60 16,239.61 12,034.50 44,777.81 
 Annuity Gifts and Be- 
 quests 5,834.83 4,274.31 7,751.12 1,455.58 19,315.84 
 
 Sale of Real Estate 31,00a00 1,500.00 330.50 1,200.00 34,030.50 
 
 Specials Returned to Lot 
 
 Fund 1,949.00 1,949.00 
 
 Specials for Parsonage 
 
 Fund 125.00 50.00 175.00 
 
 Allegheny Conf. Fund— 2,037.80 1,805.79 3,843.59 
 
 East Ohio Conf. Fund.. 1,872.85 1,872.85 
 
 Iowa State Conf. Fund- 2,665.25 474.00 3,139.25 
 
 Kansas Conf. Fund 1,215.86 1,215.86 
 
 Lower Wabash Conf. 
 
 Fund 1,282.90 63.00 1.345.90 
 
 Miami Conf. Fund 52.00 185.30 2Z7M 
 
 Missouri Conf. Fund 346.50 59.50 406.00 
 
 Northern III. Conf. Fund 1.508.00 1.801.32 1,092.50 4,401.82 
 
 Virginia Conf. Fund .__ 939.75 939.75 
 
 White River Conf. Fund 651.00 651.00 
 
 Colorado Springs, Special 1,033.00 180.00 1,213.00 
 
 Edith McCurdy Memorial 500.00 500.00 
 
 Alcalde 25.00 25.00 
 
 Rentals 549.05 776.55 651.40 1,977.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 25.00 25.00 
 
 Sale of Cypress Trees.. 300.00 300.00 
 
 Literature 409.71 409.71 
 
 Totals $ 97,821.95 $ 83.355.86 $121,187.68 $118,141.50 $420,506.99 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 54,233.29 
 
 $474,740.28 
 
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COMPARISON OF YEARLY EXPENDITURES 
 Church and Parsonage 
 
 Loans $ 96,305.64 $ 53,879.13 $ 69,534.08 $108,316.74 $328,035.59 
 
 Lot Fund Gifts 3,100.00 3,300.00 1,000.00 7,400.00 
 
 Annuities 1,541.50 1,817.00 1,864.00 1,917.25 7,139.75 
 
 Annuity Gift Investment 300.00 1,000.00 1,300.00 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 2,250.00 9,000.00 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 7 months 175.00 175.CO 
 
 Traveling Expense 883.79 1,182.35 1,287.78 1,105.91 4,459.83 
 
 Field Agents Salary and 
 
 Expense 6,177.46 7,735.06 2,590.18 16,502.70 
 
 Clerical 724.00 722.50 883.00 860.00 3,189.50 
 
 Office Rents 312.50 37.50 117.50 162.50 630.00 
 
 Office Furniture 21.75 219.36 427.75 668.86 
 
 Printing and Supplies.. 349.56 798.16 474.21 72>7.7Q 2,359.63 
 Postage, Telephone and 
 
 Telep-pp'n 252.99 521.91 260.70 392.66 1,428.26 
 
 xaxes, Insurance and Re- 
 pairs 109.48 373.00 661.26 297.52 1,441.26 
 
 Legal 4.00 4.21 283.75 lOO.CO 391.96 
 
 Real Estate 7,348.05 5,248.36 12,596.41 
 
 Auditors 60.00 130.00 120.00 310.00 
 
 Home Mission Council _ 35.00 50.00 250.00 335.00 
 C. R. Fralick, Agent Ross 
 
 Farm ._ 325.00 325.00 
 
 Colorado Springs Special 
 
 Applied to Loan 1,950.56 220.00 2.170.56 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 371.80 371.80 
 
 Special Loan to Grover 
 
 Montgomery 250.00 250.00 
 
 Traveling Tabernacle __ ■ 1,468.49 1,468.49 
 
 Refund to Allegh'yConf. 1,791.66 510.83 2,302.49 
 
 Miscellaneous 67.54 15.68 227.70 4.65 315.57 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement 10,106.78 10,106.78 
 
 Literature 44.50 44.50 
 
 Refund Annuity Gift — 1,600.00 1,600.00 
 
 Revenue Stamps 4.50 4.50 
 
 Totals $115,507.57 $ 82.952.40 $ 89,081.93 $128,781.54 $416,323.44 
 
 Balance in Treasury J>Iarcli 31, 1921 58.416.84 
 
 $474,740.28 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF CHURCH AND PARSONAGE LOANS FOR 
 
 QUADRENNIUM 
 
 Allegheny Conference: 
 
 Jeannette $ 2,500.00 
 
 Colorado Conference: 
 
 Colorado Springs $ 17.201 37 
 
 Colorado Springs, Par. 705.71 . 
 
 Eads 2.a'1000 
 
 $ 19,997.08 
 
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East Oliio Conference: 
 
 Akron 3.000.00 
 
 Akron, North Hill, Par 1,500.00 
 
 Cleveland, Trinity 6!856.12 
 
 East Ohio Conference Board 3ioOO.CO 
 
 Magnolia, Par. 400 00 
 
 Windham 2,300 00 
 
 Kenmore 2,5n0 00 
 
 $ 19,556.12 
 
 East Pennsylvania Conference: 
 
 West Philadelphia ^ 2,800.00 
 
 Georgia-Florida Conference: 
 
 Kissimmee 500 00 
 
 Tampa ' 2,000^00 
 
 $ 2,500.00 
 
 Illinois Conference: 
 
 Bloomington Second 6,986 15 
 
 Peoria 7!700'C'0 
 
 Charleston 4,000.00 
 
 Sterhng 200.00 
 
 Rockford 4,000.00 
 
 Gibson City 3,000X0 
 
 Peoria, Plymouth 7,400 00 
 
 Decatur loioCO^OO 
 
 $ 43,286.15 
 Indiana Conference: 
 
 Vincennes 4,000.0^3 
 
 \ incennes, Par. 100.00 
 
 $ 4,100.00 
 Iowa State Conference: 
 
 Des Moines 3,500.00 
 
 Granger 2,CO0.0O 
 
 Goodcll 2.000.00 
 
 Moville 2,000.00 
 
 Marshalltown 4,555.00 
 
 $ 14,055.00 
 Kansas Conference: 
 
 Wichita, Waco 4,500.00 
 
 Fellsburg " 2i(00.00 
 
 Kansas Board for Waco 600.00 
 
 Wichita, First 2.600.00 
 
 Kansas City, Kansas 3,787.50 
 
 Kansas Conference 400.00 
 
 Herrington, Par. 1,00000 
 
 Columbus 4,0.0.00 
 
 $ 18,887.50 
 Kentucky Conference: 
 
 Columbia Ins. « 13 70 
 
 Lower Wabash Conference: 
 
 East St. Louis 1.6'''8 52 
 
 Rossville 2.731 00 
 
 ? 4,399.52 
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Miami Conference: 
 
 Carrmonte 1,500.00 
 
 Fairview 2,000.00 
 
 Mt. Healthy 700.00 
 
 East Dayton 500.00 
 
 Miami Board for Miamisburg 5,000.00 
 
 Springfield, Coltimbus, Ave. Par. 1,000.00 
 
 Dayton, Troy St. 1,090.00 
 
 Cheviot 3,000.00 
 
 $ 14,790.00 
 
 Michigan Conference: 
 
 Detroit Trinity 3,200.00 
 
 Benton Harbor 6,999.30 
 
 Six Lakes 3,000.00 
 
 $ 13,199.30 
 
 Minnesota Conference: 
 
 Minneapolis $ 2,700.00 
 
 Missouri Conference: 
 
 Brookfield 1,000.00 
 
 Kansas City, Second 693.10 
 
 Nevada 4,200.00 
 
 Trenton 2,500.00 
 
 $ 8,393.10 
 
 Montana Conference: 
 
 Circle 300.00 
 
 Glendive 1,417.68 
 
 Savoy 1,500.00 
 
 Great Falls 9,297.06 
 
 Ollie 3,000.00 
 
 Glendive, Par. 300.00 
 
 Beach 410.00 
 
 Beach, Par. 500.00 
 
 Nebraska Conference: 
 
 Upland 1.000.00 
 
 Hastings, Par. 2,500.00 
 
 $ 16,724.74 
 
 $ 3,SiOO.OO 
 
 New Mexico Conference: 
 
 Santa Cruz _' : $ 1,500.00 
 
 Oklahoma Conference: 
 
 Woodward $ 1,500.00 
 
 Oregon Conference: 
 
 Seattle 499.31 
 
 Vancouver 250.00 
 
 $1 749.31 
 
 Ohio German Conference: 
 
 Clough $ 7,500.00 
 
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Sandusky Conference: 
 
 Toledo 2,OCO.OO 
 
 Freemont 950.00 
 
 Marion, Par. 2,400.00 
 
 Toledo, Colburn St. Par. 1,000.00 
 
 Willard 2,000.00 
 
 St. Joseph Conference: 
 
 Elkhart 1,000.00 
 
 Ft. Wayne Second 8,151.17 
 
 Southeast Ohio Conference: 
 
 Columbus Burgess 12,750.00 
 
 Columbus Burgess, Par. 850.00 
 
 Columbus, St. Clair 2,500.00 
 
 Columbus, Wagner 1,000.00 
 
 Lancaster 5,105.83 
 
 Westerville 1,800.00 
 
 $ 8,350.00 
 
 $ 9,151.17 
 
 $ 24,005.83 
 
 Tennessee Conference: 
 
 Nashville, Weekley Memorial 5,660.96 j 
 
 Marble City 6.200.00 h 
 
 Chattanooga 7,000.00^ 
 
 $ 18,860.96 
 
 Virginia Conference: 
 
 Virginia Conference Board $ 13,000.00 
 
 White River Conference: 
 
 Indianapolis 12,500.00 
 
 Terre Haute 5,000.00 
 
 Lapel 2,500.00 
 
 Portland 5,000.00 
 
 Veedersburg 10,291.00 
 
 Wabash First 6,000.00 
 
 $ 41,291.00 
 
 West Virginia Conference: 
 
 Dunbar 2,500.00 
 
 Fairmont 8,225.11 
 
 $ 10,725.11 
 Total $328,035.59 
 
 PRESENT CONDITIONS AND COMPARISONS 
 
 Church Loans: 
 
 Amount of loans April 1, 1917___ $190,206.08 
 
 Loans made during the Quadrennium 312,229.88 
 
 Rentals, Credits Passed to Profit and Loss 314.50 
 
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 $502,750.46 
 
Loans returned during Quadrennium 138,265.99 
 
 Passed to Profit and Loss 1,20375 
 
 $139,469.74 
 
 Present Amount of Loans $363,280.72 
 
 Parsonage Loans: 
 
 Amount of loans April 1, 1917 10,110.05 
 
 Loans made during the Quadrennium 17,314.31 
 
 $ 27,424.36 
 
 Loans returned during Quadrennium 12,043.05 
 
 Passed to Profit and Loss 1,058.60 
 
 $ 13,101.65 
 
 Present Outstanding Loans $ 14,322.71 
 
 Contingent Notes: 
 
 Amount of invoice April 1, 1917 $ 49,947.61 
 
 New Notes during Quadrennium 68,358.00 
 
 $118,305.61 
 
 Paid during Quadrennium 44,77781 
 
 Transferred to Annuity Gift Investment 250.00 
 
 Passed to Profit and Loss 15,878.55 
 
 $ 60.906.36 
 Amount of Present Invoice $ 57,399.25 
 
 INVENTORY 
 Assets 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 $ 58,416.84 
 
 Loans to Churches 363,280.72 
 
 Loans to Parsonages 14.322.71 
 
 Loans from Annuity Gift Funds 2.650.00 
 
 Special Loan, Grover Montgomery 250.00 
 
 Real Estate Deeded to Society 24.615.91 
 
 Contingent Notes 57,399.25 
 
 Little Miami Railroad Stock 600.00 
 
 Traveling Tabernacle 1,468.49 
 
 Office Furniture and Fixtures 1,600.00 
 
 Lot Fund Overdrawn 883.99 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1921 $525,487.91 
 
 Net Assets March 31, 1917_- •_ 354,505.02 
 
 Increase in Net Assets for Quadrennium $170,982.89 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Not in Church Erection Dictionary. 
 
Bonebrake Seminary 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 Budget Collections and General Fund $ 52,540.74 
 
 Thank Offering : 5,691.00 
 
 United Enlistment Collections 44,428.14 
 
 Contingent Time Notes 22,291.63 
 
 Contingent Death Notes 1,700.00 
 
 Endowment Investment Returned 5,775.00 
 
 New Endowment 10,391.20 
 
 Endowment Time Notes 16,403.59 
 
 Endowment Death Notes 5,500.00 
 
 New Building Fund and Notes 8,597.25 
 
 Pcckham Farm 13,584.43 
 
 Friedley Farm 4,597.13 
 
 Borrowed Money 123,689.00 
 
 Annuity Gifts and Bequests 5,036.00 
 
 Interest Collected 10,464.17 
 
 Incidental Fees 684.00 
 
 Rentals 10,931.26 
 
 Library Fees 297.00 
 
 Scholarships 6,410.18 
 
 West Salem, Ohio Property 1,900.00 
 
 Public Utility Bonds Sold 1,425.00 
 
 Kansas Ranch 25,291.14 
 
 Otterbein Park 9,620.57 
 
 Long Tract 366.52 
 
 Cowden Chair Fund and Notes 377.67 
 
 Liberty Bonds 1.950.00 
 
 Campaign Fund (cash) 6,474.37 
 
 Campaign Notes Paid 34,068.75 
 
 Student Building Fund 446.00 
 
 Student Memorial Notes 172.00 
 
 Jklemorial Notes 900.00 
 
 Memorial Fund 1,500.00 
 
 New Site Lands 151,000.00 
 
 Texas Lands 579.10 
 
 Special Lectureships 104.00 
 
 Seminary Boarding Club 1,646.34 
 
 Mortgage Notes Paid 14,826.00 
 
 Water Main Refunds 99.00 
 
 Fuel, Gas and Water Refund 767.05 
 
 Contingent Time Bonds Sold 1,000.00 
 
 New Buildings 4,847.08 
 
 Brown Farm 155.00 
 
 Herr Estate 15.00 
 
 $608,542.31 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 5,611.21 
 
 Overdraft March 31, 1921 9.744.56 
 
 $623,898.08 
 
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EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of General Manager $ 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of General Treasurer, 7 months 165.00 
 
 Salaries of Faculty 46,733.10 
 
 Travel of Officers and Board 9,309.60 
 
 Salaries of Field Agents 9,633.54 
 
 Travel of Field Agents 4,912.45 
 
 Borrowed Money 230,119.00 
 
 Annuities 18,224.08 
 
 Interests 48,041.53 
 
 Fuel, Gas and Water 3,299.18 
 
 Furniture and Furnishings 806.40 
 
 Janitor and Supplies 4,392.59 
 
 Library 406.54 
 
 Legal 1,768.19 
 
 Office Help 8,445.14 
 
 Printing and Supplies 3.295.08 
 
 Postage, Telephone and Telegraph 2.187.67 
 
 Room Rents 2,783.46 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Repairs 10,792.91 
 
 Friedley Farm 491.51 
 
 Kansas Ranch 15,302.22 
 
 Otterbein Park 520.20 
 
 Peckham Farm 668.46 
 
 Texas Land 52.29 
 
 Brown Farm 1,129.68 
 
 Scholarships 1,705.00 
 
 Distribution of Finance Commission _ 297.50 
 
 Auditors 530.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 680.52 
 
 Architect's Services 400.00 
 
 New Site Lands 250.00 
 
 New Buildings and Grounds 172,679.52 
 
 New Building Travel 311.13 
 
 Special Lectureship 260.00 
 
 Seminary Boarding Club 1,704.59 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch World Movement 4,000.00 
 
 United Enlistment Travel 2 100.00 
 
 Mortgage Loan _. .- 8.500.00 
 
 $623,898.08 
 
 24 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 
 p ^ . AT T^ . ^^^^ ^^^^ ^9^0 1*^21 Totals 
 Budget and Gen. Fund 
 
 Collections $ 13,716.10 $ 14,929.79 $ 16,668.72 $ 7,226.13 $ 52.540.74 
 
 Thank Offern;g — . 5,561.00 130.00 5,691.00 
 United t-nhstment Col- 
 lections 44,428 14 44 428 14 
 
 Contingent Time Notes_ 4,100.10 5,940.50 7,847.30 4 403 73 22'29l'63 
 
 Contingent Death Notes. 1,200.00 400.00 100.00 ' iVoo'oO 
 
 Endowment Investment ' 
 
 Returned 3,775.00 2,000.00 5 775 00 
 
 New Endowment 4,900.00 4,991.20 500.00 lo'39r20 
 
 Endowment Time Notes 1,048.00 5,749.35 6,006.60 3,599 64 16403 59 
 
 Endowment Death Notes 400.00 3,900.00 1,000.00 200.00 5!500'00 
 New Building Fund and 
 
 Notes 1,782.25 3,307.50 2,400.00 1,107.50 8,597 25 
 
 Peckham Farm 157.47 1,108.65 12,318.31 13 584 43 
 
 Friedley Farm 4,597.13 4597 13 
 
 Borrowed Money 29,200.00 16,244.00 8,500.00 69,745.00 123'689"00 
 
 Annuity Gifts & Bequests 36.00 5 000 00 5036 00 
 
 Interest Collected 1,942.10 1,638.73 2,313.74 4^56960 1046417 
 
 Incidental Fees 153.00 162.00 198.00 171.00 684 00 
 
 Rentals 2,391.00 3,230.75 2,881.75 2,427.76 10,93126 
 
 Library Fees 57.00 100.00 73.00 67 00 297 00 
 
 Scholarships 380.00 755.00 1,465.00 3,810.18 6 410 18 
 
 West Salem, Ohio Prop. 1,900.00 1 90000 
 
 Public Utility Bond Sold 1,425.00 r425'00 
 
 Kansas Ranch 801.70 24,489.44 25,291.14 
 
 Otterbein Park Improve- 
 
 ment 345.57 7,256.83 2,018.17 9,620.57 
 
 Long Tract .. 366.52 366.52 
 Cowden Chair, Fund and 
 
 Notes 127.67 200.00 50.00 377 67 
 
 Liberty Bonds 1,950.00 1950 00 
 
 Campaign Fund Cash... 6,364.37 110.00 6,474 37 
 
 Campaign Notes Paid... 18,806.35 15,262.40 34,068.75 
 
 Student Building Fund.. 241.00 205.00 446.00 
 
 Student Memorial Notes 81.00 9100 172 00 
 
 Memorial Notes 300.00 600.00 900 00 
 
 Memorial Fund 1,500.00 1,500 00 
 
 New Site Lands 151,000.00 151,000.00 
 
 Texas Land I43.97 435.13 579 jq 
 
 Special Lectureship 50.00 54.00 104 00 
 
 Seminary Boarding Club 1,378.35 267.99 1 646 34 
 
 Mortgage Notes Paid... 14,826.00 14,826.00 
 
 Water Main Refunds ._ 99.00 99.00 
 Fuel, Gas and Water 
 
 Refunds 236.42 530.63 767.05 
 
 Contingent Time Bonds 
 
 x.^°^i .-.- 1,000.00 1,000.00 
 
 New Buildings 4,847.08 4,847.08 
 
 Brown Farm I55 00 155.00 
 
 Herr Estate 15.00 15.00 
 
 Totals $ 69,385.15 $ 69,823.93 $272,316.71 $197,016.52 $608,542.31 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 _ 5 61121 
 
 Overdraft March 31, 1921 '"__ 9744 56 
 
 $623,898.08 
 
 25 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY EXPENDITURES 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Salary of Gen. Manager $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 9,000.00 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 (7 months) 165.00 165.00 
 
 Salaries of the Faculty.. 11,199.94 12,099.93 11,908.25 11,524.98 46,733.10 
 
 Travel, Officers & Board 2,169.40 2,587.46 1,906.81 2,645.93 9,309.60 
 
 Salaries of Field Agents 1,850.00 2,380.00 4,254.99 1,148.55 9,633.54 
 
 Travel of Field Agents. 741.97 967.04 2,758.51 444.93 4,912.45 
 
 Borrowed Money 31,500.00 26,508.00 164,026.00 8,085.00 230,119.00 
 
 Annuities Paid 3,900.61 4,679.41 4,651.25 4,992.81 18,224.08 
 
 Interest 14,930.26 14,321.63 11,519.29 7,270.35 48,041.53 
 
 Fuel. Gas & Water 485.11 713.54 812.62 1,287.91 3,299.18 
 
 Furniture & Furnishings 64.60 668.00 73 80 806.40 
 
 Janitor and Supplies 792.98 1,004.37 1,228.80 1,366.44 4.392.59 
 
 Library 39.55 235.29 61.80 69.90 406.54 
 
 Legal 177.10 1,477.09 113.00 1.00 1.768.19 
 
 Office Help 1,257.66 1,689.09 2,479.89 3.018.50 8,445.14 
 
 Printing and Supplies... 961.29 404.15 1,033.16 896.48 3.295.08 
 
 Postage, Telephone, etc. 308.19 601.37 7U.2>2, 564.78 2,187.67 
 
 Room Rent 384.00 855.00 981.65 562.81 2,783.46 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Re- 
 pairs 2,527.90 2,810.00 2,448.13 3.006.88 10,792.91 
 
 Friedley Farm 491.51 491.51 
 
 Kansas Ranch 14.44 1,731.09 5,562.40 7,994.29- 15,302.22 
 
 Otterbein Park Improve- 
 ment 412.20 108.00 520.20 
 
 Peckham Farm 144.24 442.49 81.73 668.46 
 
 Texas Land 14.72 21.29 16.28 52.29 
 
 Brown Farm 270.48 859.20 1,129.68 
 
 Scholarships 355.00 350.00 695.00 305.00 1,705.00 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 297.50 297.50 
 
 Auditors 125.00 140.00 135.00 130.00 530.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 1.60 47.15 321.47 310.30 680.52 
 
 Architect Service 400.00 400.00 
 
 New Site Lands 250.00 250.00 
 
 New Build'gs & Grounds 16,641.50 156,038.02 172,679.52 
 
 New Building Travel... 311.13 311.13 
 
 Special Lectureship .-. , 195.00 65.00 260.00 
 
 Seminary Boarding Club 1,493.87 210.72 1.704.59 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement _.. 4,000.00 4.000.00 
 
 United Enlistment Travel 100.00 100.00 
 
 Mortgage Loan 8.500.00 8.500.00 
 
 Totals $ 77.561.77 $ 78,694.10 $239,902.35 $227,739.86 $623,898.08 
 
Board of Education 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 Budget and General Fund Collections $ 25,337.49 
 
 Thank Offering 2,500.00 
 
 United Enlistment General Fund 6,666.65 
 
 Collegiate Scholarship Fund 8,468.42 
 
 Student Loans Returned 20,110.92 
 
 Funded Loans Returned 14,116.70 
 
 Interest 5,354.55 
 
 Educational Day Collections 1,289.56 
 
 Receipts for Speeches by Secretary 778.13 
 
 Miscellaneous 70.00 
 
 Literature 239.85 
 
 U. E. M. Dividends: 
 
 Otterbein College 11,449.95 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 11,449.95 
 
 Indiana Central University 6,870.01 
 
 Kansas City University 5,724.98 
 
 York College 5,724.98 
 
 Philomath College 2.289.99 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute 2,289.99 
 
 Total $130,732.12 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 7,248.96 
 
 $137,981.08 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Loans to Students $ 19,185.00 
 
 Salary of General Secretary 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of General Treasurer (7 months) 105.00 
 
 Traveling Expenses 3,237.49 
 
 Clerical 2,350.70 
 
 Printing and Supplies 2,013.42 
 
 Postage and Telephone 914.98 
 
 Office Rents 310.00 
 
 Furniture 113.50 
 
 Legal 55.00 
 
 Funded Loans 38.500.00 
 
 Church Council 400.00 
 
 Work in Ohio State University 50.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 394.84 
 
 Distribution of Finance Commission 148.75 
 
 Literature 18.14 
 
 Interest Paid on Mortgage Note Purchased 77.90 
 
 Scholar^^hip Fund Loaned 8,608.00 
 
 U. E. M. Dividends and Designated Gifts: 
 
 Otterbein College 11,449.95 
 
 Lebanon Valley College 11.449.95 
 
 Indiana Central University 8,864.69 
 
 Kansas City University 5.724.98 
 
 York College 5,724.98 
 
 Philomath College 2,289.99 
 
 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute 2,289.99 
 
 Total $133,277.25 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 4,703.83 
 
 $1 37.98 l.CS 
 27 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 Budget & Gen. Fund Col- 
 lections $ 5,874.28 $ 7,258.70 $ 7,874.82 $ 4,329.69 $ 25,337.49 
 
 Thank Offering 2,500.00 2,500.00 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 6,666.65 6,666.65 
 
 Student Loans Returned 5,779.30 5,875.20 4,303.42 4,153.00 20,110.92 
 
 Funded Loans Returned- 127.53 1,077.11 5,085.00 7,827.06 14,116 70 
 
 Interest 978.78 702.21 1,476.07 2,197.49 5,354.55 
 
 Ed. Day Collections 1,005.22 284.34 1,289.56 
 
 Receipts for Speeches— 407.45 256.38 114.30 778.13 
 
 Miscellaneous 70.00 70.00 
 
 Literature 239.85 239.85 
 
 Scholarship Fund 8,468.42 8,468.42 
 
 U. E. Dividends — 
 
 Otterbein College 11,449.95 11,449.95 
 
 Lebanon Val. College. 11,449.95 11,449.95 
 
 Ind. Central Univ 6,870.01 6,870.01 
 
 Kansas City Univ 5,724.98 5,724.98 
 
 York College 5,724.98 5,724.98 
 
 Philomath College — 2,289.99 2,289.99 
 
 Shenandoah Col. Inst. 2,289.99 2,289.99 
 
 Totals $ 13,765.11 $ 15,605.01 $ 21,565.69 $ 79,796.31 $130,732.12 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 7,248.96 
 
 COMPARISON OF YEARLY 
 
 Loans to Students $ 3,420.00 $ 3,945.00 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary 2,250.00 2,250.00 
 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 (7 months) 105.00 
 
 Traveling Expenses 505.89 888.88 
 
 Clerical 482.50 535.70 
 
 Printing and Supplies — 276.95 215.15 
 
 Postage and Telephone. 228.42 156.86 
 
 Office Rents 85.00 75.00 
 
 Furniture 11.00 
 
 Legal 45.00 
 
 Funded Loans 9,000.00 8,750.00 
 
 Church Council lOO.OO 
 
 Work i n Ohio State 
 
 University 50.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 10.10 203.90 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 148.75 
 
 Literature • 5.94 2.50 
 
 Int. Paid on Mortgage 
 
 Note Purchased ' 77.90 
 
 Scholarship Fund Loaned 
 U. E. M. Dividends and 
 
 Designated Gifts: 
 
 Otterbein College 
 
 Lebanon Val. College 
 
 Ind. Central Univ 
 
 Kansas City University 
 
 York College 
 
 1918 1919 
 
 Philomath College 
 
 Shenandoah Col. Inst. 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 $ 5,165.00 $ 6,655.00 
 2,250.00 2,250.00 
 
 1,112.65 
 
 690.00 
 
 481.24 
 
 262.32 
 
 75.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 10,600.00 
 
 100.00 
 
 10.99 
 
 730.07 
 642.50 
 1,040.08 
 267.38 
 75.00 
 102.50 
 
 10,150.00 
 200.00 
 
 169.85 
 
 6.50 
 
 1920 
 
 3.20 
 
 8,608.00 
 
 11,449.95 
 
 11,449.95 
 
 8.864.69 
 
 5,724.98 
 
 5,724.98 
 
 1921 
 2,289.99 
 2,289.99 
 
 Totals $ 16.724.55 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 
 
 $ 17,100.89 $ 20,763.70 $ 78,688.11 
 
 28 
 
 $137,981.08 
 
 $ 19,185.00 
 9,000.00 
 
 105.00 
 
 3,237.49 
 
 2,350.70 
 
 2,013.42 
 
 914.98 
 
 310.00 
 
 113.50 
 
 55.00 
 
 38,500.00 
 
 400.00 
 
 50.00 
 394.84 
 
 148.75 
 18.14 
 
 77.90 
 8,608.00 
 
 11.449.95 
 11.449.95 
 8.864.69 
 5,724.98 
 5,724.98 
 Totals 
 2,289.99 
 2,289.99 
 
 $133,277.25 
 . 4.703.83 
 $137,981.08 
 
Sunday Schools 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 Budget and General Collections $ 24,631.60 
 
 Thank Offering 3,000.00 
 
 United Enlistment Collections 10,892.63 
 
 Books and Literature Sold 1,662.30 
 
 Children's Day Collections 4,265.05 
 
 Teacher Training Fees 663.50 
 
 Brotherhood Fees 23.87 
 
 Reading Course 5.00 
 
 U. B. Publishing House, Work for Miss Koontz 1,400.00 
 
 Centennial Collections 2,289.99 
 
 Total $ 48,833.94 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of General Secretary $ 9,000.00 
 
 Salary of General Treasurer (7 months) 99.00 
 
 Salary of M. A. Honline (3 months) 300.00 
 
 Salary of Miss Ida Koontz 4,990.00 
 
 Donations of Literature 2,544.10 
 
 Travel Expenses of Officers and Board 2,847.77 
 
 Clerical 3,594.75 
 
 Postage and Telephone 2,894.35 
 
 Printing and Supplies 5,520.46 
 
 Office Rent 94L25 
 
 Office Furniture 573.50 
 
 Airs. Baldwin, Special Work 60.00 
 
 Col. Cowden Emeritus 627.03 
 
 Miscellaneous 236.71 
 
 Distribution, Finance Commission 208.25 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch World Movement 2,304.97 
 
 Bronze Tablet, Pfrimmer Memorial 250.00 
 
 $ 36 992.14 
 
 Overdraft April 1, 1917 ' 93.20 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 11,748.60 
 
 $48,833.94 
 
 29 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 Budget and General Col- 
 lections $ 7,269.48 $ 6,398.87 $ 7,093.36 $ 3,869.89 $ 24,631.60 
 
 Thank Offering 3,000.00 3,000 00 
 
 United Enlistment CoI._ 10,892.63 10.892.63 
 
 Books & Literature Sold 95.95 496.39 646.00 423.96 1,662.30 
 
 Children's Day Col 131.87 3,0(11.22 638.60 493.36 4,265.05 
 
 Teacher Training Fees. 279.50 161.00 121.00 102.00 663.50 
 
 Brotherhood Fees 10.87 1.00 12.00 23.87 
 
 Reading Course 1.00 4.00 5.00 
 
 U. B. Pub. House, Work 
 
 for Miss Koontz 100.00 400.00 400.00 500.00 1,400.00 
 
 Centennial Collections _ 2,289.99 2.289.99 
 
 Totals $ 7,888.67 $ 10,462.48 $ 11,910.96 $ 18,571.83 $ 48,833.94 
 
 COMPARISON OF YEARLY EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 C^ 9,000.00 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 (7 months) 99.00 99.00 
 
 Salary of M. A. Honline 
 
 (3 months) 300.00 300.00 
 
 Sal'y of Miss Ida Koontz 1,090.00 1,200.00 1,200.00 1,500.00 4.990.0-3 
 
 Donations of Literature 387.94 536.00 1,129.66 490.50 2,544.10 
 Traveling Expenses of 
 
 Officers and Board— 452.29 491.87 597.89 1,305.72 2,847.77 
 
 Clerical 702.25 730.50 904.75 1,257.25 3,594.75 
 
 Postage and Telephone. 725.70 602.23 705.86 860.56 2,894.35 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 872.26 827.76 1,488.44 2,332.00 5.520.46 
 
 Office Rent 210.00 281.25 225.00 225.00 941.25 
 
 Office Furniture 212.00 91.50 270.00 573.50 
 
 M r s. Baldwin, Special 
 
 Work 60.00 60.00 
 
 Col. Cowden Emeritus- 116.64 189,57 175.00 145.82 627.03 
 
 Miscellaneous 33.41 50.00 82.20 71.10 236.71 
 
 Distribution Finance 
 
 Commission 208.25 208.25 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement 2,304.97 2.304.97 
 
 Bronze Tablet, Pfrimmer 
 
 Memorial . 250.00 250.00 
 
 Totals $ 7,719.74 $ 7,250.68- $ 9,028.80 $ 12,992.92 $ 36 992.14 
 
 Overdraft April 1, 1917 9^20 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 11.748 60 
 
 $ 48 8,'!3 04 
 
 30 
 
Young People 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 Budget and General Collections $ 11,885.49 
 
 Thank Offering 2,000.00 
 
 United Enlistment Collections 5,866.58 
 
 Evangelistic Meetings 217.10 
 
 Branch Collections 53.32 
 
 Dollar League 69.95 
 
 Anniversary Offerings 1,816.95 
 
 Literature Sold 723.90 
 
 Revival 75.87 
 
 Special Collection Refund on Travel 517.65 
 
 Pins Sold 2.50 
 
 $ 23 229 31 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 509.95 
 
 $ 23,739.26 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of General Secretary $ 8,899.50 
 
 Salary of General Treasurer (7 months) 24.00 
 
 Traveling Expenses 2,760.02 
 
 Clerical 2.492.28 
 
 Printing and Supplies 3,448.27 
 
 Furniture 12.15 
 
 Postage and Telephone 1,264.84 
 
 Office Rent 300.00 
 
 Books 350.19 
 
 Miscellaneous 3.25 
 
 Distribution of Finance Commission 52.00 
 
 Field Work 77.84 
 
 $ 19.684.34 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 4.054.92 
 
 $ 23.739.26 
 
 31 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 1918 1919 1920 
 
 Budget and General Col- 
 lections $ 2,255.07 $ 3,543.04 $ 3,937.45 
 
 Thank Offering 2,000.00 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 
 
 Evangelistic Meetings 217.10 
 
 Branch Collections 30.74 22.58 
 
 Dollar League 69.95 
 
 Anniversary Offerings _ 6.00 1,664.52 103.95 
 
 Literature Sold 388.53 36.14 213.64 
 
 Revival — 75.87 
 
 Sp'l Collection, Refund 
 on Travel 289.17 228.48 
 
 Pins Sold 2.50 
 
 Totals $ 2,967.39 $ 5,631.32 $ 6,486.02 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 
 
 1921 
 
 Totals 
 
 $ 2,149.93 
 
 $ 11,885.49 
 2,000.00 
 
 5,866.58 
 
 42.48 
 85.59 
 
 5,866.58 
 217.10 
 
 53.32 
 
 69.95 
 
 1,816.95 
 
 723.90 
 
 75.87 
 
 
 517.65 
 2.50 
 
 $ 8,144.58 
 
 $ 23,229.31 
 509.95 
 
 
 
 $ 23,739.26 
 
 COMPARISON OF YEARLY EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary $ 2,149.50 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 8,899.50 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 
 
 (7 months) 24.00 24.00 
 
 Traveling Expenses _._ 387.16 758.92 860.09 753.85 2,760.02 
 
 Clerical 366.53 477.50 689.25 959.00 2,492.28 
 
 Printing and Supplies.. 607.32 1,287.99 761.70 791.26 3,448.27 
 
 Furniture 12.15 12.15 
 
 Postage and Telephone. 278.54 487.46 178.67 320.17 1,264.84 
 
 Office Rent 68.75 81.25 75.00 75.00 300.00 
 
 Books 338.25 7.00 4.94 350.19 
 
 Miscellaneous .75 2.50 3.25 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 52.00 52.00 
 
 Field Work 77.84 77.84 
 
 Totals $ 4,284.20 $ 5,350.12 $ 4,820.40 $ 5,229.62 $ 19,684.34 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1920 4,054.92 
 
 $ 23,739.26 
 
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Otterbein Home 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 General Offerings $ 20,071.68 
 
 Christmas Offerings 47,167.52 
 
 Bequests and Annuity Gifts 64,637.73 
 
 Contingent Notes 39,490.00 
 
 Farms and Creamery 168,112.37 
 
 Admission Fees 18,754.35 
 
 Children's Support 15,084.58 
 
 Old People's Support 5,083.58 
 
 Borrowed Money, Dayton 160,620.00 
 
 Borrowed Money, Lebanon 18,767.76 
 
 Interest Collected 3,457.81 
 
 Rents Collected 4,870.64 
 
 Housekeeping 1,062.18 
 
 Medicine, Clothing and Books 2,148.11 
 
 Band 623.66 
 
 Post Card and Annuals 476.79 
 
 Repairs on Buildings 494.69 
 
 Sale of Mattie Jones Property 1,350.00 
 
 Bond Investment , U. B. P. H. Bonds 6,000.00 
 
 Notes Receivable 100.00 
 
 Building Improvements 845.50 
 
 Burial Expense Account 27.00 
 
 Real Estate Sold 7,450.00 
 
 Delaware Property, Rents 4,365.33 
 
 Estes Park Property 845.45 
 
 New Buildings 1,476.94 
 
 Final Debt 150.00 
 
 Jennie B. Williamson Account 62.00 
 
 G. B. Weaver Funded Loan Account 30.00 
 
 Total $593,625.67 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917, Dayton 2,035.88 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917, Lebanon 1,619.10 
 
 Overdraft March 31, 1921, Dayton 73,026.76 
 
 $670,307.41 
 
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EXPENDITURES 
 
 Paid on Mortgage Purchase of Farm $40,000.00 
 
 New Buildings 142!lO0.58 
 
 Building Improvements 32,291.35 
 
 Farms 1 78,'736.'45 
 
 Creamery 2,404.87 
 
 Farm Improvements 973.52 
 
 Farm Implements and Equipment 13,812.79 
 
 Repairs on Buildings 6!587.54 
 
 Annuities 27^180^59 
 
 Interest 44,686.71 
 
 Legal 5.130.30 
 
 Borrowed Aloney, Dayton 53,320.00 
 
 Borrowed Money, Lebanon 15,439 78 
 
 Clerical 2^297.45 
 
 Furniture and Furnishings 7,870.85 
 
 Postage and Telephone 1,341.46 
 
 Printing and Supplies, including Post Cards and Annuals 9,150.56 
 
 Rents 15.00 
 
 Salaries of Superintendent and Matron 8,299.96 
 
 Salary of General Treasurer 1,190.00 
 
 Salaries of Field Agents 7,950.00 
 
 Taxes, Insurance and Repairs 38,706.82 
 
 Travel of Officers and Board ._ 2,516.35 
 
 Travel of Field Agents 3,170.47 
 
 Auto and Tractor 8,798.50 
 
 Housekeeping 62,838.24 
 
 Medicine, Clothing and Books 9.072.09 
 
 Band 3,529.59 
 
 Orchard 510.00 
 
 Executive Committee Transportation Account 268.92 
 
 Mrs. Mudge Property Account 118.22 
 
 Water Wells 6,994.24 
 
 Accounts Payable 106.75 
 
 Ice Machine 411.00 
 
 Water Tank 430.00 
 
 Mortgage Note, Sells Farm 3,800.00 
 
 Mattie Jones Property Account 663.13 
 
 Auditors 260.00 
 
 Burial Expenses 1.168.61 
 
 Transportation and Freight 6,704.08 
 
 Real Estate 2,000.00 
 
 Delaware Property Expense 2,523.53 
 
 Estes Park Property 2,426.51 
 
 Workman's Insurance 102.68 
 
 James & Coolidge. School Tax 700.00 
 
 Miscellaneous Items 4,045.54 
 
 Seed for Dorcas Farm 300.00 
 
 G. B. Weaver Funded Loan Account 4,000.00 . 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond Funded Loan Account 1,500.00 
 
 Total $668,445.03 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, Lebanon 1,862.38 
 
 $670,307.41 
 i 
 
 34 
 
COMPARISON OF YEARLY RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 
 
 General Offering $ 3,215.14 
 
 Christmas Offerings 6,183.31 
 
 Bequests & Annuity Gifts 10,376.23 
 
 Contingent Notes 12.249.00 
 
 Farms and Creamery 38,415.04 
 
 Admission Fees 2,311.20 
 
 Children's Support 3,468.95 
 
 Old People's Support.— 853.50 
 
 Borrowed Monev, Dayton 29,470.00 
 Bor'ed Money. Lebanon 3,990.00 
 
 Interest Collected 148.69 
 
 Rents Collected 1.091.86 
 
 Housekeeping 255.11 
 
 Medicine and Clothing 
 
 and Books 283.40 
 
 Band 421.50 
 
 Post Cards and Annuals 130.52 
 
 Repairs on Buildings 
 
 Sale of Mattie Jones 
 
 Property 
 
 Bond Investments, U. B. 
 
 P. H. Bonds 
 
 Notes Receivable 
 
 Building Improvements- 
 Burial Expense Account 
 
 Real Estate Sold 
 
 Delaware Prop., Rents.. 
 
 Estes Park Property 
 
 New Buildings 
 
 Final Debt 
 
 Jennie B. Williamson 
 
 Account 
 
 G. B. Weaver Funded 
 
 Loan Account 
 
 1919 
 
 4,049.50 
 
 10,977.78 
 
 22,040.41 
 
 12,824.00 
 
 56,835.18 
 
 3,925.15 
 
 4,243.35 
 
 1,251.48 
 
 17,350.00 
 
 3,591.45 
 
 1,267.09 
 
 1,092.00 
 
 133.48 
 
 399.60 
 95.00 
 84.78 
 
 104.69 
 
 1,350.00 
 1,000.00 
 
 1920 
 6,680.54 
 
 12,888.73 
 
 23,772.09 
 6,579.00 
 
 40,222.29 
 5,275.00 
 3,828.10 
 1,124.00 
 
 40,300.00 
 
 6,434.84 
 
 1,088.33 
 
 1,056.52 
 
 206.00 
 
 748.24 
 
 37.16 
 
 120.99 
 
 390.00 
 
 100.00 
 
 500.00 
 27.00 
 
 300.00 
 2.015.27 
 
 820.45 
 1,426.94 
 
 1921 
 
 6,126.50 
 
 17,117.70 
 
 8,449.00 
 
 7,838.00 
 
 32,639.86 
 
 7,243.00 
 
 3,544.18 
 
 1,854.60 
 
 73.500.00 
 
 4,751.47 
 
 953.70 
 
 1,630.26 
 
 467.59 
 
 716.87 
 
 70.00 
 
 140.50 
 
 5,000.00 
 
 345.50 
 
 7,150.00 
 
 2,350.06 
 
 25.00 
 
 50.00 
 
 150.00 
 
 62.00 
 30.00 
 
 Totals 
 
 $ 20,071.68 
 
 47,167.52 
 
 64,637.73 
 
 39,490.00 
 
 168,112.37 
 
 18,754.35 
 
 15,084.58 
 
 5,083.58 
 
 160,620.00 
 
 18,767.76 
 
 3,457.81 
 
 4,870.64 
 
 1,062.18 
 
 2,148.11 
 623.66 
 476.79 
 494.69 
 
 1,350.00 
 
 6,000.00 
 
 100.00 
 
 845.50 
 
 27.00 
 
 7,450.00 
 
 4,365.33 
 
 845.45 
 1,476.94 
 
 150.00 
 
 62.00 
 30.00 
 
 Totals $112,863.45 $142,614.94 $155,941.49 $182,205.79 $593,625.67 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917, Davton 2,035.88 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917, Lebanon 1,619.10 
 
 Overdraft March 31, 1921 73,026.76 
 
 $670,307.41 
 
 COMPARISON OF YEARLY EXPENDITURES 
 Paid on Mortgage Pur- 
 chase of Farm $ 40,000.00 40,000.00 
 
 Building Improvements _ 9.428.52 $ 14,096.97 $ 3,751.72 $ 5,014.14 $ 32,291.35 
 
 Farms 6,906.39 19,636.84 26,496.82 25,696.40 78.736.45 
 
 Creamery 2,404.87 2,404.87 
 
 Farm Imrovements 514.60 398.92 60.00 973.52 
 
 Farm Implements and 
 
 Equipment 1,404.53 5,081.57 2,924.73 4.401.96 13.812.79 
 
 Repairs on Buildings — 849.94 1,245.27 1,445.44 3,046.89 6,587.54 
 
 Annuities 3.597.83 5,153.00 7,319.17 11,110.59 27,180.59 
 
 Interest 9,871.37 9,081.36 11,218.84 14,515.14 44.686.71 
 
 ♦Legal 11.65 3.35 5,068.20 47.10 5.130.30 
 
 Borrowed Money. Davton 1.400.00 11.795.00 10.125.00 30.000.00 53.320.00 
 
 Bor'ed Money, Lebanon 5,651.16 5,642.41 495.74 3.650.47 15.439 78 
 
 Clerical 431.35 499.75 513.00 853.35 2.297.45 
 
 Furniture & Furnishings 724.75 5.363.28 1.449.88 332.94 7.870.85 
 
 Postage and Telephone.. 205.27 347.82 416.87 371.50 1,341.46 
 
 Rents 15.00 15.C0 
 
 35 
 
1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Printing and Supplies, 
 including Post cards 
 
 and Annuals 1,270.15 1,740.38 1,851.76 4,288.27 9,150.56 
 
 Salaries of Superintend- 
 ent and Matron 1,699.96 2,000.00 2,000.00 2,600.00 8,299.96 
 
 Salary of Gen. Treasurer 290.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 1,190.00 
 Salary of Field Agent— 1,800.00 1,800.00 2,000.00 2,350.00 7,950.00 
 Taxes, Insurance, & Re- 
 pairs 6,450.64 6,252.00 15,461.59 10,542.59 38,706.82 
 
 Travel of Officers and 
 
 Board 357.55 772.42 578.42 , 807.96 2,516.35 
 
 Travel of Field Agents.- 445.11 875.30 866.37 983.69 3,170.47 
 
 Auto and Tractor 959.51 3,574.80 710.00 3,554.19 8.798.50 
 
 Housekeeping 8,184.44 12,104.68 17,572.68 24,976.44 62,838.24 
 
 Medicine and Clothing 
 
 and Books 923.37 1,756.65 2,885.47 3,506.60 9,072.09 
 
 Band 1,123.50 827.99 895.34 682.76 3,529.59 
 
 Orchard 313.01 184.33 12.66 510.00 
 
 Executive Com. Trans- 
 portation Account 113.79 53.70 29.05 72,38 268.92 
 
 Mrs. Mudge Prop. Acct. 27.12 38.22 26.44 26.44 118.22 
 
 Water Wells 203.75 6,585.07 205.42 6,994.24 
 
 Accounts Payable 106.75 106.75 
 
 Ice Machine 411.00 411.00 
 
 Water Tank 430.00 430.00 
 
 Mortgage Note, Sells 
 
 Farm 3,800.00 3,800.00 
 
 Mattie Tones Prop. Acct. 663.13 663.13 
 
 Auditors _ - 85.00 80.00 95.00 260.00 
 
 Burial Expense 136.18 324.25 708.18 1,168.61 
 
 Transportation & Freight 3,364.08 3,340.00 6,704.08 
 
 New Buildings - 50,515.72 91,584.86 142,100.58 
 
 Real Estate - 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00 
 
 Delaware Prop. Expense 1,082.82 1,440.71 2.523.53 
 
 Estes Park Property— • 821.22 1,605.29 2,426.51 
 
 Workman's Insurance 102.68 102.68 
 
 Tames & Coolidge, School 
 
 Tax - - 700.00 700.00 
 
 Miscelleanous Items 1,466.56 1,924.52 547.90 106.56 4.045.54 
 
 Seed for Dorcas Farm _. 300.00 300.00 
 G. B. Weaver Funded 
 
 Loan Account 4,000.00 4,000.00 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Raymond 
 
 Funded Loan Account 1,500.00 1,500.00 
 
 Totals $109,993.44 $117,234.84 $181,538.93 $259,677.82 $668,445.03 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921, Lebanon 1.862.38 
 
 $670,307.41 
 
 * Five thousand dollars legal fees for eight years' service, who contributed a returned 
 
 gift of fifteen hundred dollars included in General Offerings. 
 
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Board of Administration 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 
 
 Budget Collections $ 1,941.58 $ 4,366.99 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 
 
 Thank Offering 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 3,345.91 
 
 United Workers' Quart ly 330.52 113.42 
 
 United Enlistment Bul- 
 letin 
 
 Literature Sold 68.26 44.23 
 
 Emblems 
 
 Miscellaneous 40.00 
 
 Campaign 
 
 Literature Sold 
 
 Borrowed Money 
 
 Interest Refund 
 
 **Return Campaign Areal 
 Account 
 
 Totals $ 5,686.27 $ 4,564.64 
 
 Overdraft March 31. 1921 
 
 1920 
 7,031.51 $ 
 
 1921 Totals 
 
 791.67 $ 14,131.75 
 
 **Due Treasury from Central District, $500.00. 
 
 4,150.24 
 
 49,198.71 
 
 49,198.71 
 4,150.24 
 
 3,345.91 
 443.94 
 
 671.15 
 
 48.16 
 
 16.21 
 
 .83 
 
 234.55 
 165.98 
 
 1.10 
 
 905.70 
 
 326.63 
 
 16.21 
 
 41.93 
 
 180.00 
 
 50,000.00 
 7.83 
 
 180.00 
 
 50,000.00 
 
 7.83 
 
 
 3,500.00 
 
 3,500.00 
 
 $ 12,098.10 
 
 $103,899.84 
 
 $126,248.85 
 _ 70,000 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 $196,248.85 
 
 37 
 
EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salary of Gen. Secretary $ 2,250.00 $ 1,406.25 $ 2,250.00 $ 2,250.00 $ 8,156.25 
 
 Travel 967.87 1,168.27 2,304.89 2,628.59 7,069.62 
 
 Clerical 668.00 515.65 3,996.43 1,737.00 6.917.08 
 
 Postage, Telephone and 
 
 Telegraph 169.71 300.80 4,494.33 543.55 5.508.39 
 
 Printing and Supplies.— 1,456.27 773.46 12,474.06 2,339.94 17,043.73 
 
 Literature 13.52 239.93 1,247.66 52.11 1,553.22 
 
 Rents 100.00 175.00 150.00 150.00 575.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 60.90 3.00 40.00 42.50 146.40 
 
 Field Work 33.76 5,689.10 10.88 5,733.74 
 
 Furniture 41.15 2.93 44.08 
 
 Totals $ 5,686.27 $ 4,616.12 $ 32,687.62 $ 9,757.50 $ 52,747.51 
 
 Campaign 
 
 Salaries of Directors $ 2,625.00 $ 3,962.00 $ 6.587.00 
 
 Travel 1,624.76 11,821.40 13.446.16 
 
 Clerical 1,537.08 4,902.68 6.439.76 
 
 Postage, Telephone and 
 
 Telegraph 1,275.11 5,600.77 6.875.88 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 6.756.79 10.166.51 16.923.30 
 
 Field Work 299.32 6.604.51 6,903 83 
 
 Rents 50.00 101.25 151.25 
 
 Miscellaneous 114.75 482.32 597.07 
 
 Advanced to Areas 3,750.00 250.00 4,000.00 
 
 Literature 22.56 22.56 
 
 Totals $ 18,032.81 $ 43,914.00 $ 61,946.81 
 
 SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURE 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Board of Administration^ 5,686.27 $ 4,616.12 $ 32,687.62 $ 9,757.50 $ 52.747.51 
 
 Campaign 18,032.81 43,914.00 61,946.81 
 
 Underwriting, Interchurch 
 
 World Movement _.__ 30.906.89 30.9G6.89 
 
 Borrov^-ed Money 50.000.00 50.000.00 
 
 Interest 647.64 647.64 
 
 Totals $ 5.686.27 $ 4.616.12 $ 50.720.43 $135,226.03 $196,248 85 
 
 During 1920 and 1921 thcte was such an interlocking of conditions as between 
 Board of Administration and Campaign as to make absolute distributions almost im- 
 possible. The above figures are -in accord with Secretarial orders on expense dis- 
 tributions. 
 
 38 
 
Treasurer's Office 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget $ 1,726.47 $ 4,182.57 $ 5,127.26 $ 5,712.76 $ 16,749.06 
 
 Otterbein Home, on 
 
 Treasurer's Salary 290.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 1,190.00 
 
 Totals $ 2,016.47 $ 4,482.57 $ 5,427.26 $ 6,012.76 $ 17,939.06 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 ♦Salary $ 1,165.00 $ 2,400.00 $ 2,400.00 $ 2,400.00 $ 8,365.00 
 
 Travel 33.41 29.73 209.49 Zll.dl 
 
 Clerical 280.50 889.50 1,449.49 2,108.00 4,727.49 
 
 Postage and Telephone- 133.84 295.17 353.59 354.40 1,137.00 
 Printing and Supplies, in- 
 including loose leaf 
 
 records 198.50 507.64 810.85 586.93 2,103.92 
 
 Rents 61.67 175.00 150.00 150.00 536.67 
 
 Miscellaneous 176.96 19.35 71.10 36.94 304.35 
 
 Auditors 100.00 100.00 90.00 290.00 
 
 Treasurer's Bond 62.50 62.50 125.00 
 
 Furniture 77.00 77.00 
 
 Totals $ 2,016.47 $ 4,482.57 $ 5,427.26 $ 6,012.76 $ 17,939.06 
 
 *The first five months' salary was a direct charge to departments. 
 
 Bishops 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget Credits $ 17,839.46 $ 19,719.10 $ 17,000.00 $ 17,000.00 $ 71.558.56 
 
 General Offerings 18.56 18.56 
 
 Totals -' % 17,858.02 $ 19,719.10 $ 17,000.00 $ 17,000.00 $ 71,577.12 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Salaries $ 17,918.00 $ 18,031.23 $ 17,000.00 $ 17,000.00 $ 69,949.23 
 
 Moving Expenses 998.68 998.68 
 
 Clerical 19.00 19.00 
 
 Totals $ 18,935.68 $ 18,031.23 $ 17,000.00 $ 17,000.00 $ 70.966.91 
 
 Overdraft April 1, 1917 610.21 
 
 $ 71,577.12 
 39 
 
Evangelistic 
 
 1918 
 
 Budget Collections $ 1,346.16 
 
 Thank Offering 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections 
 
 Special Collections 425.10 
 
 Literature 
 
 Totals $ 1,771.26 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1919 1920 
 
 5 1,413.34 $ 1,574.96 
 2,000.00 
 
 1,201.61 
 
 1,069.71 
 
 1921 
 859.99 
 
 3,116.04 
 
 1,945.51 
 
 70.00 
 
 Totals 
 5,194.45 
 2,000.00 
 
 3,116.04 
 
 4,641.93 
 
 70.00 
 
 $ 2,614.95 $ 4,644.67 $ 5,991.54 $ 
 
 15,022.42 
 1,914.34 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Sal. of Evangelists $ 1,121.17 $ 1,556.25 $ 1,059.33 
 
 Travel 252.54 591.10 386.85 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 137.00 10.00 69.50 
 
 Postage and Telephone— 22.41 4.98 10.39 
 
 Sal. of Treas. (7 mo.)— _ 41.50 
 
 Clerical 14.50 
 
 Distribution of Finance 
 
 Commission 37.25 
 
 Literature 
 
 Totals $ 1,626.37 $ 2,162.33 $ 1,526.07 $ 4,666.86 $ 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 
 
 $ 16,936.76 
 
 2,706.64 
 
 886.45 
 
 999.55 
 
 29.22 
 
 45.00 
 
 6,443.39 
 
 2,116.94 
 
 1,216.05 
 
 67.00 
 
 41.50 
 
 14.50 
 
 37.25 
 45.00 
 
 9,981.63 
 6,955.13 
 
 $ 16,936.76 
 
 40 
 
General Contingent Fund 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget Collections $ 836.83 $ 1,413.34 $ 1,574.96 $ 859.99 $ 4,685.12 
 
 United Enlistment Col 
 
 lections 2,140.29 2,140.29 
 
 Interest on Bank Balance 525.20 828.53 1,030.17 1,710.97 4,094.87 
 
 Totals $ 1,362.03 $ 2,241.87 $ 2,605.13 $ 4,711.25 $ 10,920.28 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 Travel Board of Bishops 
 outside their regular 
 
 duties $ 48.34 $ 545.32 $ 382.80 $ 502.09 $ 1,478.55 
 
 Federal Council 300.00 300.00 350.00 450.00 1,400.00 
 
 Ex. to Church Federation 63.16 423.67 486.83 
 
 Treasurer's Bond 62.50 62.50 125.00 
 
 Printing and Supplies— 55.50 150.41 95.00 149.25 450.16 
 
 Postage and Telephone.. 4.93 33.43 8.42 46.78 
 
 Clerical 7.50 95.00 30.00 132.50 
 
 Miscellaneous 18.26 43.00 61.26 
 
 Legal .• 2.35 2.35 
 
 Church Union Extension 34.00 34.00 
 
 Meth. Book Concern 17.00 17.00 
 
 Anti-Saloon League 12.00 12.00 
 
 Charles Gulick, Mayflow- 
 er Commission 50.00 50.00 
 
 Dalton Calculating Mach. 308.70 308.70 
 
 Dictating Machine 300.00 300.00 
 
 Totals $ 560.19 $ 1,029.16 $ 925.15 $ 2,390.63 $ 4,905.13 
 
 Overdraft April 1, 1917 2,539.88 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 3,475.27 
 
 $ 10,920.28 
 
 41 
 
General Conference Expense 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget Collections $ 1,528.11 $ 24,000.00 25,528.11 
 
 Conf. Collections 247.72 $ 763.61 $ 1,479.05 2,490.38 
 
 Funded Loan 1,500.00 1,500.00 
 
 Interest 458.75 458.75 
 
 Totals $ 3,734.58 $ 763.61 $ 1,479.05 $ 24,000.00 $ 29,977.24 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 12,283.45 
 
 $ 42,260.69 
 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Expenses of Gen. Conf._$ 18,704.19 $ 18,704.19 
 
 Refund Conferences $ 580.00 580.00 
 
 Travel — 34.16 34.16 
 
 Printing 12.50 12.50 
 
 Totals $ 18,704.19 $ 626.66 $ 19,330.85 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 22,929.84 
 
 $ 42,260.69 
 
 Pension Bureau 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Totals 
 
 Budget Collections $ 4,063.21 $ 28.29 $ 4,091.50 
 
 United Enlistment Col- 
 lections • $ 22,899.91 22,899.91 
 
 $ 26,991.41 
 
 Cash on hand April 1, 1917 ___ 10,029.45 
 
 $ 37,020.86 
 EXPENDITURES 
 
 Refunds to Conference__$ 13,954.20 $ 13,954.20 
 
 Treasurer's Salary 10.00 10.00 
 
 Clerical 8.00 8.00 
 
 Distribution of Finance , .„ .,r 
 
 Commission 148.75 1^8.75 
 
 ^ 14.120.95 
 
 Cash on hand March 31, 1921 22.899.91 
 
 $ 37,020.86 
 
 42 
 
Budget and U. E. M. Collections 
 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 United 
 
 Budget Enlistment 
 
 3Yrs. 2Mo. 10 Mo. Totals 
 
 ♦Allegheny $ 61,788.47 $ 37,887.45 $ 99,675.92 
 
 ♦California 6,569.50 7,520.20 14,089.70 
 
 Colorado 2,585.97 4,883.09 7,469.06 
 
 ♦Columbia River 3,036.10 1,900.53 4,936.63 
 
 East Ohio 33,462.05 37,273.25 70.735.30 
 
 ♦East Pennsylvania 66,323.65 47,513.23 113,836.88 
 
 East Tennessee 2,428.21 3,310.88 5,739.09 
 
 Erie 8,744.26 11,164.67 19,908.93 
 
 Florida 478.60 545.31 1,023.91 
 
 Indiana 9,497.23 10,532.77 20,030.00 
 
 Iowa State 18,178.68 35,439.37 53,618.05 
 
 Kentucky 28.17 28.17 
 
 Louisiana 1,018.02 580.20 1,598 22 
 
 Lower Wabash 6,270.80 6,270.80 
 
 Miami 46,487.54 65,342.59 111,830.13 
 
 Michigan 4,448.65 5,662.16 10,110.81 
 
 Minnesota 1,518.54 3.133.00 4,651.54 
 
 Missouri 3,994.70 6.651.03 10.645.73 
 
 Montana 1,079.41 858.87 1.938.28 
 
 Kansas 28.692.57 46,687.90 75,380.47 
 
 Northern Illinois 26,716.19 49,216.60 75.932.79 
 
 Nebraska 16,396.35 28,439.09 44,835.44 
 
 New Mexico 868.73 583.79 1.452.52 
 
 Ohio German 5,611.28 10,678.16 16.289.44 
 
 Oklahoma 1,999.29 2,757.15 4,756.44 
 
 ♦Oregon 5,301.72 5.133.36 10,435.08 
 
 ♦Pennsylvania 61,562.94 42,849.78 104,412.72 
 
 St. Joseph 35,979.10 46,184.54 82,163.64 
 
 Sandusky 49,610.07 66,744.00 116,354.07 
 
 Southeast Ohio 21,046.01 46,466.21 67,512.22 
 
 Virginia 16,151.22 21,240.81 37,392.03 
 
 West Tennessee 109.37 109.37 
 
 West Virginia 12,618.37 15,362.56 27,980.93 
 
 White River 26,586.57 35,446.90 62,033.47 
 
 Wisconsin 5,776.90 10,321.48 16.098.38 
 
 Totals _'_ $592,965.23 $708,310.93 $1,301,276.16 
 
 Let is be understood that the first column represents only "Budget" Receipts, 
 
 with no Departmental specials. Neither does it include Annual Conference Work nor 
 Colleges, and other interests as under the United Enlistment Movement. 
 
 ♦It is but just, to note that the conferences marked with an asterisk, did not 
 
 operate under the United Enlistment Movement until the end of their conference 
 year, and therefore their receipts from the United Enlistment Movement were not as 
 large, in comparison as those which began June 1, 1920. 
 
 43 
 
Distribution of Budget and U. E. M. Collections 
 
 United 
 Total Enlistment 
 1918 1919 1920 1921 Budget 1921 
 
 Bishops $ 17,839.46 $ 20,006.14 $ 17,000.00 $ 2,833.32 $ 57,678.92 $ 14,166.68 . 
 
 B6ard of Admin. 1,941.58 4,366.99 7,031.51 791.67 14,131.75 49,198.71 I 
 
 Church Treas. Of. 1,726.47 4,182.57 5,127.26 846.06 11,882.36 4,866.70 ^ 
 
 Gen. Conf. Exp'se 1,528.11 1,528.11 24,000.00 
 
 Contingent Fund_ 836.83 1,413.34 1,574.96 859.99 4,685.12 2,140.29 
 
 Home Missions - 38,638.26 48,053.03 53,548.92 29.239.23 169,479.44 89,488.76 
 
 Foreign Missions. 38,638.26 48,053.03 53,548.92 29,239.23 169,479.44 106,953.76 
 
 Church Erection. 13,461.58 14,133.24 15,749.67 8,599.76 51,944.25 42,717.47 
 
 Bonebrake Sem. _ 10,769.28 11,306.60 12,599.76 6,879.82 41,555.46 44,428.14 
 
 Sunday School— 7,178.35 6,359.98 7,087.36 3,869.89 24,495.58 13,182.62 
 
 Board of Educa._ 5,712.02 7,066.67 7,874.82 4,299.90 24,953.41 6,666.65 
 
 '^DeJt^ Peoples ^ 244 77 3,533.29 3,937.45 2,149.93 11,865.44 5,866.58 
 
 Evangelism'""! 1.346.16 1,413.34 1,574.96 859.99 5.194.45 3.116.04 
 
 Pension Bureau- 4,063.21 28.29 4,091.50 22,899.91 
 
 Otterbein College JMInnc 
 
 Leb. Val. College. 1M49.95 
 
 Ind. Central Univ. c'Kh oJ 
 
 Kansas City Univ. - . , , . Hi.lt 
 
 York College — 5,724.98 
 
 Philomath College o oSooo 
 
 Shen. Col. Inst— ofoc 19 
 
 Col. Scholarships TwIq 
 
 Sem. Scholarships 4,3U5.1» 
 
 * Annual Confer- , „ . - j 
 
 ences Preferred 217,928.43 | 
 
 Loss on Liberty ^ 
 
 Bonds ' 
 
 Totals $145,924.34 $169,916.^1 $186,655.59 $ 90,468.79 $592,965.23 $708,310.93 
 
 ♦See details of same which inimediately follow: 
 
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Annual Conference Preferred Claims 
 
 1921 
 United Enlistment 
 
 Allegheny $ 10,»72.00 
 
 California 2,569.00 
 
 Colorado 1,500.00 
 
 Columbia River 647.00 
 
 East Ohio 12,530.00 
 
 East Pennsylvania 13,374.00 
 
 Erie 4,795.00 
 
 Florida 293.67 
 
 Indiana 6,763.54 
 
 Iowa State 9,170.00 
 
 Miami 13,610.00 
 
 Michigan 3,943.32 
 
 Minnesota 2,860.00 
 
 Missouri 2,570.00 
 
 Montana 810.20 
 
 Kansas 15,660.00 
 
 Illinois 15,000.00 
 
 Nebraska 6,230.00 
 
 New Mexico 407.27 
 
 Ohio German 5,090.00 
 
 Oklahoma 1,416.00 
 
 Oregon 1,505.00 
 
 Pennsylvania 8,645.00 
 
 St. Joseph 14,580.00 
 
 Sandusky 14,840.00 
 
 Virginia — - 7,750.00 
 
 Tennessee 1,670.00 
 
 West Virginia 10,017.43 
 
 White River 11,340.00 
 
 Wisconsin 3,290.00 
 
 Southeast^ Ohio 14,180.00 
 
 Total $217,928.43 
 
 45 
 
Re-Cap 
 
 Showing all Funds in the Treasury for the Quadrennium 
 
 Receipts Expenditures 
 
 Cash in Treasury April 1, 1917 $118,640.80 
 
 Home Missions 501,366.16 $360,131.36 
 
 Foreign Missions 966,393.00 925,922.27 
 
 Church Erection 420,506.99 416,323.44 
 
 Bonerake Seminary 608,542.31 623,898.08 
 
 Sunday School 48,833.94 36,992.14 
 
 Board of Education 130,732.12 133,277.25 
 
 Young Peoples 23,229.31 19,684.34 
 
 Otterbein Home 593,625.67 668,445.03 
 
 Board of Administration 126,248.85 196,248.85 
 
 Church Treasurer 17,939.06 17,939.06 
 
 Bishops 71,577.12 70,966.91 
 
 Evangelism 15,022.42 9,981.63 
 
 General Contingent Fund 10,920.28 4,905.13 
 
 General Conference Expense 29,977.24 19,330.85 
 
 Pension Bureau 26,991.41 14,120.95 
 
 Armenian and Other Relief Funds 144,437.47 144,437.47 
 
 Cash in Treasury March 31, 1921 192,379.39 
 
 Totals $3,854,984.15 $3,854,984.15 
 
 46 
 
Condition of the Treasury 
 
 Showing Departmental Credit Balances and Overdrafts 
 
 Credit Balances 
 
 Home Missions $154,204.97 
 
 Foreign Missions 53,899.02 
 
 Church Erection 58,416.84 
 
 Sunday-School Board 11,748.60 
 
 Board of Education 4,703.83 
 
 Young Peoples' Department 4,054.92 
 
 Evangelism 6,955.13 
 
 General Contingent Fund 3,475.27 
 
 General Conference Expense 22,929.84 
 
 Pension Bureau 22,899.91 
 
 Otterbein Home, Lebanon 1,862.38 
 
 $345,150.71 
 Overdrafts 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary $ 9,744.56 
 
 Otterbein Home 73,026.76 
 
 Board of Administration 70,000.00 
 
 $152,771.32 
 
 Cash balance $192,379.39 
 
 L. O. MILLER, General Church Treasurer. 
 
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REPORT TO 
 
 General Conference 
 
 Of the President of 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 
 
Report to General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 President of Bonebrake Seminary 
 
 Dear Brethren: 
 
 It gives nic pleasure to present to the conference the llrst report called for 
 by this body from the head of the Faculty of the Boncl^rake Theological Semi- 
 nary. "Grace to 3'ou and Peace.'' The aggregate attendance during the last 
 four years has l)eei>249 students. The actual new matriculants have l)een 114. 
 The number of graduates during tlie quadrennium has been sixty-one. making 
 561 graduates during the history of tlie inslituticm, an average of a fraction 
 more than eleven per year from the first class of eight in 1S74, wliereas during 
 this quadrennitmi there have graduated an average of fifteen and one-fourtli per 
 year. This year's class numbered nineteen. 
 
 Of the 114 new matriculants of tlii> (|uadreniiium now closing, above 29 
 percent, almost 30 percent were college graduates. If we add such as had 
 jjartial college courses, the percentage will be ujiward of 42 percent. 
 
 While we could wish that the projxjrtion were much greater it is far 
 above some of the schools, in whicli the ])roi)ortiou of college meu is reported 
 to be as low as 5 percent. .\ recent!}' pu))lished statement, ])uri)orting to be 
 authoritative, announced that in a careful survey of ninct3--six seminaries of our 
 countrj-, 64.5 percent of the students were college graduates, 16 percent had had 
 two years in college. 13.5 percent high-school courses, and six percent (uily 
 grammar school education. 
 
 It will seem to require no argument that everyone nowadays entering the 
 ministry should have as thorough a course of ])rofessional and educational 
 l)reparation as possible. Every other profession requires special training. I 
 cannot admit that the ministry is below other i)rofessions in importance, in 
 responsibility, in dignity, in difliculty of the tasks. Surely real efficiency 
 reqm'res brains, cidture, skill, and knowledge, as well as i)iety and consecration. 
 Our min-istry has not yet become toj^-heavy — we have tlins far escaped the dire 
 peril of too much learning which might awakt-n susi)icion in some I'estns ol 
 madness in our spiritual leaders. 
 
 AS TO THE CURRICULA 
 
 An examination of the catalo.u from page ten to page thirty-two where there 
 is presented a discussicni of the different dei)artments of theological study and 
 their scope, a brief definition of each, ending with the arrangement of the 
 several ".groups" of sul)jects. will reveal that the courses we offer are essentially 
 the equixalent of those vi the best seminaries in the land. 
 
The following arc the "Departments of Instruction," Old Testament in- 
 cluding the study of Hebrew: — with Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic as electives; 
 the exegesis of a number of Old Testament l)Ooks; Old Testament Theology; 
 Old Testament Introduction; Bible Antiquities and (ieography; Doctrines of 
 l'ro])hets; The Monimients and the Old Testament. 
 
 The New Testament Department ofifers the Greek language of the New 
 Testament; History of New Testament Times; Apostolic History; the Exegesis 
 
 of the Gospels and the chief Epistles: Ethics of the New Testament, Biblical 
 Theology of the New Testament. The Department of Systematic Theology 
 
 presents Theological Encyclopedia; Christian Doctrine; Theistic and Christian 
 
 Belief; History of Doctrine: The Self-Kevelation of God and a Compend of 
 
 Theology for the deaconess students. 
 
 The Historical Department offers Ancient. Medieval and Modern History; 
 Old Testament History: Ecclesiastical History: History of the United Brethren 
 Church: the History of Christianity in America. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL THEOLOGY 
 
 Presents Rhetoric; Theory of Preaching: The Alodern Pulpit; The Preacher 
 and His Work; History of Preaching; The Modern Pulpit; The Modern 
 Church; Pastoral Theology or PoinuMiics; Pulilic Worship and Administration; 
 Practice Preaching: Hymnology. 
 
 Department of Religious Education — one of the best courses in any insti- 
 tution — includes General Psychology; Genetic Psychology; Psychology of Child- 
 hood; Principles and Methods of Religious Education; History of Religious 
 Education; Psychology of Religion: Materials of !\eligious Education; Sunday 
 School Organization, Equipment and Administration; Social Psychology and 
 the F'hilosophy of Religious Education. 
 
 Next is the Department of English liible with ten divisions as now out- 
 lined. Then the Department of Missions treating of The History of Religion: 
 Comparative Religion: Modern Missions; Christian Missions; American Mission 
 Eields; L^nited Brethren Missions. Lastly the Department of Sociology, 
 including Elementary Psychology*; Advanced Sociology: The Ethical Teachings 
 of the New Testament, The various institutions, industrial, penal, eleemosynary, 
 civic, etc.. are visited and examined. It is patent that a student will have all 
 he can possibly do in three years, no matter what his native al)ility or his 
 industry. 
 
 METHOD 
 
 Our Methods of instruction we endeavor to direct alon.g scientific lines; for 
 example, in the Semitic tongues we pursue strictly the inductive method. We 
 use text books in class, but also employ lectures, tests, quizzes, and require many 
 papers on assigned subjects. The lil)rary, open all day, is constantly accessible 
 to the students for consultation and study. 'Thus the student is not conlined 
 to one text-l)ook alone, but he becomes acf|uainte(l with a range of literature on 
 the subject in hand .uu! is supposed to acquire the bal)it of and facility in 
 investigation, besides discovering the unspeakai)le valne of constafit writin.g, 
 for as Lord Bacon put it, while "Reading maketh a full man. speaking a readv 
 
 4 
 
man, writing iiiaketli an exact man." Indeed, for tlie most part, thr jM-aetiee is 
 ratlu-r the study of subjects tlian the slaxisli follow iny of a text-hook. Thus, it 
 will he seen, that present day courses are olt'ered and jirestnt day methods are 
 employed. I'ut no faeult\-, however learned or eapahle, ran pour either knowl- 
 ediji^e or culture into a man. There must he proloni'ed. unswervin.i.;, downright 
 hard work on the part of a stmlcnt. I'here sometimes are indolent, good-for- 
 n<ithin,ii: haui^ers on in every school. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS SIDE OF THE SEMINARY 
 
 We believe in education, intelliH-tual culture, learning-, and earnestly seek to 
 foster and promote these elements. l!ut we believe first and most of all in piety, 
 spirituality and consecration. Culture and knowledge are each, a great power, 
 but we know \ery well that "it is not by might iu>r by power, but by my 
 spirit." So knowledge, learning, intellectual ctilture. in this case, are not to be 
 sought so much as ends in themselves, as means to higher ends, as instruments 
 polished and sharpened, to be wielded under the' inspiration and bj-^ the help of 
 the Holy Spirit, who is the mighty Agent in all successful religious activity. 
 Hence we keep constantly emphasizing the necessity of spiritual culture, of 
 growth in grace, of prayer and felbjvvship with (iod. We often hidd up the 
 idea that this school should be a "school of prayer." that is. where we shoubl 
 learn the meaning, the spirit, the power, the habit of prayer, where the revival 
 lires should be kei)t brightly burning. 
 
 THE FACULTY 
 
 The Seminary began with a faculty of two professors and an assistant 
 teacher in the person of the pastor of the Summit street church. For the last 
 several years the teaching force has consisted of six regular professors and one 
 emeritus professor; one in the Old Testament, one in the Xew Testament, one 
 in Systematic Theology, one in History and Knglish Bible, one in the ITomiletics 
 Department and one in Religious Educatiou. The Professor Emeritus has had 
 charge of Seminary Extension. 
 
 In regard to the (lualifications of these instructors I manifestly can s]>eak 
 only of the other men. They are men of piety and intellectual ability, who ha\ e 
 had training in a full college course, in theological institutions, and about all 
 of them have taken additional post graduate courses in universities in this 
 country and in universities abroad. As to their methods I have already 
 spoken. 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 The present day methods of education, as before suggested. rc<|uire the 
 constant use of the library for purposes of investigation, and to broaden and 
 Hberalize the mind, to conduct the student into the rich, luxuriant fields of 
 spiritual and intellectual pastures. Books are among the best instruments for 
 intellectual stimulus and growth. Professor W. G. T. Shedd used to say. The chief 
 means for the intellectual culture of the minister is ''the daily, nightly and 
 everlasting study of standard authors.'- Hence a well stocked librarv of 
 standard works of the great thinkers and scholars of the p.ist and the present 
 
 5 
 
is not only a great desideratum hut a ncccssit}'. Tliis Seminary began without 
 any library except a few hundred volumes temporarily lent to it l)y the 
 generosity of Bishop Glassl)renncr and a few others. Tlic library is yOt far 
 smaller than it should be for the age of the institution, numbering not more 
 than four thousand volumes, j'et it contains a considerable number of the best 
 authors, together with a good supply of cyclopaedias, dictionaries and other 
 works of reference, besides, tlie large Public Library of Dayton, of whose 
 Board [ have the honor to be the president, is open to the free access of our 
 students. But one of our special needs is greatly enlarged and constantly 
 enlarging additions to our shelves. Then, as soon as possible a lil)rary 
 building. 
 
 SEMINARY EXTENSION 
 
 Upon the whole, the ministry of our Church has taken very kindly to the 
 courses of English Bible study outlined by Dr. G. .\. Funkhouser. .\ \cry 
 great number of stron.gly commendatory expressions has reached tht Director 
 of this work. Many who have undertaken these studies have gratefully 
 acknowledged that they have derived much Ijcnefit. The Faculty were some- 
 time ago asked by the Senior Bishop to prepare another four years" course, an 
 outline of which was reported to the Board of Trustees of the Seminary at its 
 session one week ago. Tt can be published in the mid-summer bulletin and 
 be ready for use by the fall conferences. While adhering to the idea that the 
 study of the Bible should be given the larger place, the scope of the four years' 
 curriculum has been broadened and some other modifications have been or will 
 be introduced. 
 
 CHANGE OF PRESIDENCY 
 
 One year ago at tlie meeting of the Board of Trustees I asked to be relieved 
 of the duties of the presidency of the institution, but the Board declined to 
 grant my recjuest. At the late meeting of the Board I renewed the request and 
 they graciously granted it and elected Bishop A. T. Howard, D.D.. as my 
 successor, one of the Ijest known and most respected and honored men in our 
 whole denomination. 
 
 A MISSIONARY CHAIR 
 
 By action of the Women's Missionary Association at tlieir recent annual 
 meeting, action was taken l)y them to undertake the endowment of a special 
 chair of missions. The action was personally i)resented before the Board of 
 Trustees of the Seminary. May 7, and accepted I)y them. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
 It is great!}' to be hoped that the General Conference will .give ciruest .ind 
 adequate attention to this institution, the only one in the Church directly under 
 its control and es]iecially established for the trainin.g of the ministry. I ;im 
 l)rofoundl3' conxinced that no other department or institution of the denomi- 
 nation exceeds this in importance, to put it mildly, for all \\ ill and do allow 
 that the minister is the pivotal man; that no church rises higher as a whole in 
 morals or intelligence or spiritual jiower than its ministry. Without cai'able 
 leadership an army is almost certain to fail, to meet with deleat. This leader- 
 
slii]) for (|uiU' a miinlHT of Ncars I'ast lia^ lartjcly come fnnii oiir own Sriniiiary. 
 W'itli ri';-;ar(l to tlio niiiiistry ol" our (.'luircli. and of tlu' wlioli- country, tlif 
 recent surveys lia\e revealed two lanientalde delieieneies. namely, a K'l^^il 
 iiiadei|uacy of nund)ers and inade(|uaey of preparation or (lualilication for tlic 
 work. The insnlTicicney of numbers to supply the elnirehcs of the land lias 
 induced many institutions to open the doors to many imperfectly ([ualilied to 
 pursue the pre-eril)ed cimr-es. or else to i)rovide interior courses. 
 
 riie most conspicuous need of our Seminary is money: (a) Vo put at the 
 disposal of the Board of Education larger facilities of heneliciary aid to needy 
 and worthy students. We earnestly recommend that the General Conference 
 instruct the Hoard of Education to make the maximum allowance of $30U.()() a 
 year to college tiraduales while in tlie Seminary, of which not more than $3t]0.()() 
 shall he a loan. In other words that not les.-- tlian one-third of what is yranted 
 to students, college graduates and otiiers. siiall he required to l)e returned to 
 the Hoard, (h) To endow a considerable number of scholarships to aiii worlh.v 
 and capable students, and as a stimulus to special proficiency. Wc ha\e a few 
 small scholarships, but there should be many more and a number should be 
 more liberal, (c) To make possible a decided enlargement of the librarj;. which 
 would as a prudential measure, necessitate the construction of a librarv building. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 I. i'. L.WDIS. 
 
REPORT TO 
 
 General Conference 
 
 Of the President of 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 
 
Report to General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 President of Bonebrake Seminary 
 
 Dear Brethren: 
 
 It ^ivcs nic pleasure to present to the conference the first report called for 
 liy this hody from the head of the Faculty of the I'oncljrake Theological Semi- 
 nar}-. "Grace to you and Peace." The agt^regate attendance during the last 
 four jcars has 1)een 249 students. The actual new matriculants have been 114. 
 The numl)er of grachiatcs during the quadrennium has been sixty-one, making 
 561 graduates during the liistory of tlic institution, an average of a fraction 
 more than eleven per year from the first class of eight in 1874, wliereas during 
 this quadrennium there have graduated an average of fifteen and one-fourth per 
 year. This year's class numbered nineteen. 
 
 Of the 114 new matriculants of this (|uadrennium now closing, aI)Ove 29 
 percent, almost 30 percent were college graduates. If we add such as had 
 partial college courses, the pcrcintage will be upward of 42 percent. 
 
 While we could wish that the ])rop<)rtion were much greater it is far 
 above some of the schools, in which the proportion of college men is reported 
 to be as low as 5 percent. A recenth' published statement, purporting to l)e 
 authoritative, announced that in a careful survey of ninety-six seminaries of our 
 country, 64.5 percent of the students w-ere college graduates, 16 percent had had 
 two 3'ears in college, 13.5 jiercent liigh-school courses, and si.\ percent only 
 .grammar school education. 
 
 It will seem to require no argument that everyone nowadays entering the 
 ministry should have as thorough a course of ])rofessional and educational 
 preparation as possible. Every other profession requires special training. 1 
 cannot admit that the ministry is belov\' other professions in importance, in 
 responsibilit}', in dignity, in difticulty of the tasks. Surely real efficiency 
 requires brains, culturi.-, skill, and knowledge, as well as piety and consecration. 
 Our ministry has not yet become top-heavy — we have thus far escaped the dire 
 peril of too much learning wliich might awaken suspicion in some l-'estus of 
 madness in om- spiritual leaders. 
 
 AS TO THE CURRICULA 
 
 An examination of the catalog from page ten to page thirty-two where there 
 is presented a discussion of the different deiiartments of theolo.gical study and 
 their scope, a brief defmition of each, ending with the arrangement of the 
 several '"groups'" of subjects, will reveal that the courses we offer are essentially 
 the equivalent of those of the !)est seminaries in the land. 
 
The following are the "Departments of Instruction." Old Testament in- 
 cluding the study of Hebrew: — with Aramaic. Syriac and Arabic as electives; 
 the exegesis of a number of Old Testament books; Old Testament Theology; 
 Old Testament Introduction; Bible Antiquities and (ieography; Doctrines of 
 l'roi)hets; The Monuments and the Old Testament. 
 
 The New Testament Department offers the Greek language of the New 
 Testament; History of New Testament Times; Apostolic History; the Exegesis 
 of the Gospels and the chief Epistles; Ethics of the New Testament, Biblical 
 Theology of the New Testament. The Department of Systematic Theology 
 presents Theological Encyclopedia: Christian Doctrine; Theistic and Christian 
 Belief; History of Doctrine; The Self-Uevelation of God and a Compend of 
 Theology for the deaconess students. 
 
 The Historical Department ofifers Ancient. Medieval and Modern History: 
 Old Testament History; Ecclesiastical History; History of the United Brethren 
 Church: the History of Christianity in America. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL THEOLOGY 
 
 Presents Rhetoric; Theory of Preacliins^: Tiie Modern Puliiit: Tlie Preacher 
 and His Work; History of Preachinj;: I'lie jModern Pulpit; The Modern 
 I'hnrch: Pastoral Theology or Poinienics: Pul)lic Worsliip and Adniinistratioii : 
 Practice Preaching; Hymnology. 
 
 Department of Religious Education — one of the best courses in any insti- 
 tution — includes General Psychology; Genetic Psychology; Psychology of Child- 
 hood: Principles and Methods of Religious Education; History of Religious 
 Education: Psychology of Religion: Materials of Religious Education; Sunday 
 School Organization. Equipment and .Administration; Social Psychology' and 
 the Philosophy of Religious Education. 
 
 Next is the Department of English Bible with ten divisions as now out- 
 lined. Then the Department 'of Missions treating of The History of Religion; 
 Comparative Religion; Modern Missions: Christian Missions; American Mission 
 Fields: United Brethren Alissions. Lastly the Department of Sociology, 
 including Elementary Psychology: Advanced Sociology: The Ethical Teachings 
 of the New Testament. The various institutions, industrial, penal, eleemosynary, 
 civic, etc., are visited and examined. It is i)atent that a student will have all 
 he can possibly do in three years, no matter what his native ability or his 
 industry. 
 
 METHOD 
 
 Our Methods of instruction we endeavor to direct along scientific lines; for 
 example, in the Semitic tongues we pursue strictly the inductive method. We 
 use text books in class, but also employ lectures, tests, quizzes, and require many 
 papers on assigned subjects. Tlie library, open all day, is constantly accessible 
 to the students for consultation and study. Thus the student is not confined 
 to one text-hook alone, but he becomes acquainted with a range of literature on 
 the subject in hanrl and is supposed to actpiire the habit of and facility in 
 investigation, besides discovering the unsi)eakable value of constant writing, 
 for as Lord Bacon i)ut it. while "Reading niaketh a full man. speaking a ready 
 
 4 
 
man. wriliiiR makotli an exact man." Indocd, I'or the most iiarl, tlio practice is 
 ratluT llic study of sul)jects tlian tlie slavisli follow inti; of a text-hook. 'I'luis, it 
 will I'e seen, that i)resent day courses arc offered and present day methods arc 
 emi)loyed. Cut no faculty, however learned or capahlc, can pour eitiicr knowl- 
 edge or culture into a man. There must he prolonged, unswervin.!^, downright 
 hard work on the part of a student. There sometimes are indolent, yood-lor- 
 nothin!.i han.i^ers on in every school. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS SIDE OF THE SEMINARY 
 
 We l)elieve in education, intellectual culture, learniny, .md earnestly seek to 
 foster and promote these elements. But we helieve first and most of all in piety, 
 spirituality and consecration. Culture and knowledge are each, a great power, 
 hut we know very well that '"it is not hy might nor. by power, hut hy my 
 spirit." So knowledge, learning, intellectual culture, in this case, are not to he 
 sought so much as ends in themselves, as means to higher ends, as instruments 
 polished and sharpened, to be wielded under the inspiration and hy the help of 
 the lioly Spirit, who is the mighty Agent in all successful religious activity. 
 Hence we keep constantly' emphasizing the necessity of spiritual culture, of 
 growth in grace, of prayer and fellowship with God. \\ c often hold v\\> the 
 idea that this school should be a '"school of i)rayer," that is, where we should 
 learn the meaning, the spirit, the power, the habit of prayer, wlure the revival 
 tires .-.hould be kept brightly burning. 
 
 THE FACULTY 
 
 The Seminary began with a faculty of two professors and an assistant 
 teacher in the person of the pastor of the Summit street church. For the last 
 several years the teaching force has consisted of si.\ regular professors and one 
 emeritus professor; one in the Old Testament, one in the Xew Testament, one 
 in Systematic Theology, one in History and Knglish Bible, one in the llomiletics 
 Oepartment and one in Religious Education. The Professor Emeritus has had 
 charge of Seminary Extension. 
 
 In regard to the qualifications of these instructors I manifestly can speak 
 only of the other men. They are men of piety and intellectual ability, who have 
 had training in a full college course, in theological institutions, and about .ill 
 of them have taken additional post graduate courses in universities in this 
 country and in universities abroad. As to their methods I have already 
 spoken. 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 • The present day methods of education, as before suggoted. ret|uire the 
 constant use of the library for i)urposes of investigation, and to broaden and 
 liberalize the mind, to conduct the student into the rich, luxuriant fields of 
 spiritual and intellectual pastures. Books are among the best instruments for 
 intellectual stimulus and growth. Professor W. (I. T. Shedd used to say. The chief 
 means for the intellectual culture of the minister is "the daily, nightly and 
 everlasting study of standard authors." Hence a well stockcl library of 
 standard works of the great thinkers and scholars of tlu' past And the i)resent 
 
is not only a great desideratum but a necessitj-. Tliis Seminary began without 
 any librarj- except a few hundred vohimes temporarily lent to it by the 
 generosity of l>ishop Glassbrenner and a few others. The library is yet far 
 smaller than it should be for the age of the institution, numl)ering not more 
 than four thousand volumes, yet it contains a considerable nunil)cr of the be>t 
 authors, together with a good supply of cyclopaedias, dictionaries and other 
 works of reference. l*>esidcs. tlie large Public Library of Dayton, of whose 
 Board I have the lionor to be the president, is open to the free access of our 
 students. iUit one of our special needs is greatK' enlarged and constantly 
 enlarging additions to our shehes. Then, as soon as possible a library 
 l)uilding. 
 
 SEMINARY EXTENSION 
 
 Upon the whole, the ministry of our Church has taken very kindly to the 
 courses of Englisii Bil)le study outlined by Dr. G. A. Funkhouser. A ^ery 
 great number of strongly commendatory expressions has reached the Director 
 of this work. Many who have undertaken these studies have gratefully 
 acknowledged that they have derived much benelit. The Facultj' were some- 
 time ago asked b}- the Senior Bishop to prepare another four years' course, an 
 outline of which was reported to the Board of Trustees of the Seminary at its 
 session one week ago. It can be published in the mid-summer bulletin an.d 
 be readj' for use by the fall conferences. While adhering to the idea that the 
 study of the Bible should be given the larger place, the scope of the four years' 
 curriculum has been broadened and some other modihcations have been or will 
 be introduced. 
 
 CHANGE OF PRESIDENCY 
 
 One year ago at the meeting of the Board of Trustees T asked to be relieved 
 of the duties of the iiresidency of the institution, but the Hoard declined to 
 grant my request. At the late meeting of the Board I renewed the re(|uest and 
 they graciously granted it and elected Bishop A. T. Howard. DT).. as in\- 
 successor, one of the best known and most respected and honored men in om" 
 whole denomination. 
 
 A MISSIONARY CHAIR 
 
 By action of the Women's Missionary .Association at their recent annual 
 meeting, actiou was taken by them to undertake the endowment of a special 
 chair of missions. The action was personally ])resented before the I'liard of 
 'trustees of the .Seminary. .May 7. ami accepted by them. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
 It is greatly to be hoped that the General Conference will give earnest and 
 adequate attention to this institution, the only one in the Church directlv under 
 its control and especially established for the training of the ministr>. 1 ;iin 
 lirofduiully conxinced that nf) other department (W institution of the denomi- 
 nation exceeds this in importance, to put it mildly, for all will and do ;illo\\ 
 tliat the mim'ster is the pivotal man; that no church rises higher as a whole in 
 morals or intelligence or spiritual i)Ower than its ministry. Without capable 
 leadership an armv is almost certain to fail, to meet with defeat. This leader- 
 
sliii> for (|uilc a mnnl)i'r of yc-ars past ha> Iar.L,'cl\ conic from our own Seminary. 
 W'itli rc.uard to tlic ministry of our C hurcli. and of the whole country, tlie 
 recent surveys liave revealed two hunentalde deiiciencies, namely, a ^ri-'at 
 inadeciuacy of nnmi)ers and iuade(|uacy of preparation or ([ualilication lor the 
 work. Tlie insutViciency oi numbers to supply the churches of the laud has 
 induced many institutions to open the doors to man\ imperfectly ([ualil'ied to 
 piu'sue the i)re>crilied cour-.es. or else to provide inlerior c(uu\ses. 
 
 The most conspicuous need of our Seminary is money: (a) To put at the 
 disposal of the Board of Education larger facilities of l)e.nericiary aid to needy 
 and worthy students. We earnestly recommend that the General Conference 
 instruct the I'.oard of l-'ducation to make the maximum allowance of $30t).()0 a 
 year to college graduates while in tlie Semiiiary, uf which not more than $2(10. 00 
 shall be a loan. In other words tliat not le^^ than one-third of what is granted 
 to students, college graduates and others, sliall be required to be returned to 
 the Hoard, (b) To endow a considerable number of scholarships to aid worthy 
 and capalde students, and as a stiniuhir- to special proliciency. We have a few- 
 small scholarships, but there should be many more and a number should i)e 
 more liberal, (c) To make possii)le a decided enlargement of the library, which 
 would as a prudential measure, necessitate tlie construction of a lil)rary building. 
 
 Respectfully sulniiitted, 
 
 J. P. LAXDIS. 
 
REPORT TO 
 
 General Conference 
 
 Of the President of 
 
 Bonebrake Seminary 
 
\ 
 
Report to General Conference 
 
 OF THE 
 
 President of Bonebrake Seminary 
 
 Dear Brethren: 
 
 It givc> me i)Icasnre to present to the conference tlic first report called for 
 li.\ this body from the head of the Faculty of the Bonebrake Theological Semi- 
 nary. "Grace to yon and Peace." The aggregate attendance during the last 
 four years has been 249 students. The actual new matriculants have been 114. 
 The numl)er of graduates during the quadrcnnium has been sixtj'-onc. making 
 561 graduates during the history of the institution, an average of a fraction 
 more than eleven per j'ear from the lirst class of eight in 1874. whereas during 
 this quadrennium there have graduated an average of fifteen and one-fourth per 
 }'ear. This 3'ear's class nuniljcroil nineteen. 
 
 Of the 114 new matriculants of this (luadrcnnium now closing. alio\e 29 
 percent, almost 30 percent were college graduates. If we add such as had 
 partial college courses, the percentage wiil l)e upward of 42 percent. 
 
 While we could wish that the proportion were much greater it is far 
 above some of the schools, in which the proportion of college men is rcporteil 
 to be as low as 5 percent. .\ reccntl}- published statement, purporting to be 
 authoritative, announced that in a careful survey of ninety-six seminaries of our 
 country, 64.5 percent of the students were college graduates, 16 percent had had 
 two years in college, 13.5 iiercent high-school courses, and six percent only 
 grammar school education. 
 
 It will seem to require no argument that everyone nowadays entering the 
 ministry should have as thorough a course of jjrofessional and educational 
 preparation as possible. Every other profession requires special training. I 
 cannot admit that the ministrj' is below other professions in importance, in 
 responsibility, in dignit\'. in dilficulty of the tasks. Surely real efficiency 
 requires brains, culture, skill, and knowledge, as well as piety and consecration. 
 Our ministry has not yet become top-heavy — we have thus far escaped the dire 
 peril of too much learning which might awaken suspicion in >ome I'estus of 
 madness in our spiritual leaders. 
 
 AS TO THE CURRICULA 
 
 An examination of the catalog from page ten to page thirty-two where there 
 is presented a discussion of the different departments of theological study and 
 their scope, a brief definition of each, ending with the arrangement of the 
 several "groups" of subjects, will reveal that the courses we offer are essentially 
 the e<|uivalent of those of the l)est seminaries in the land. 
 

 The following arc the "Departments of Instrnction." Old Testament in- 
 cluding the study of Hebrew: — with Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic as electives; 
 the exegesis of a number of Old Testament books; Old Testament Theology; 
 Old Testament Introduction; Bible Antiquities and Geography; Doctrines of 
 Prophets; The Monuments and the Old Testament. 
 
 The New Testament Department offers the Greek language of the New- 
 Testament; History of New Testament Times; Apostolic History; the Exegesis 
 of the Gospels and the chief Epistles: Ethics of the New Testament, Biblical 
 Theology of the New Testament. The Department of Systematic Theology 
 presents Theological Encyclopedia; Christian Doctrine; Theistic and Christian 
 Belief; History of Doctrine; The Self-l\e\ elation of God and a Compend of 
 Theology for the deaconess students. 
 
 The Historical Department offers Ancient, Medieval and Modern History: 
 Old Testament History; Ecclesiastical History; History (if the United Brethren 
 Church: the History of Christianity in America. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL THEOLOGY 
 
 Presents Rhetoric; Theory of Preaching: The Modern Pulpit; The Preacher 
 and His Work; History of Preaching; The Alodern Pulpit; The Modern 
 Church: Pastoral Theology or Poimenics; Pul)lic W'orsliip and Administration; 
 IVactice Preaching: Hymnology. 
 
 Department of Religious Education — one of the best courses in any insti- 
 tution — includes General Psychology: Genetic Psychology; Psychology of Child- 
 hood; Principles and Methods of Religious Education; History of Religious 
 Education; Psychology of Religion; Materials of Reli.gious Education; Sunday 
 School Organization, Equipment and Administration; Social Psychology and 
 the Philosophy of Religious Education. 
 
 Next is the Department of English Bible with ten divisions as now out- 
 lined. Then the Department of Missions treating of The History of Religion; 
 Comparative Religion; Modern Missions: Christian Missions; .American Mission 
 Fields; United Brethren Missions. Lastly the Department of Sociology, 
 including Elementary Psychology; Advanced Sociology; The F.thical Teachings 
 of the New Testament. The various institutions, industrial, penal, eleemosynary, 
 civic, etc.. are visited and examined. It is patent that a student will have all 
 he can possii)ly do in three years, no matter what his native ability or his 
 industry. 
 
 METHOD 
 
 Our ^fethods of instructitin we endeavor to direct along scientific lines: for 
 example, in the Semitic tongues we pursue strictly the inductive method. We 
 use text books in class, but also employ lectures, te.sts, quizzes, and require many 
 papers on assigned subjects. Tlie library, open all day, is constantly accessible 
 to the students for consultation and study. Thus the student is not conlined 
 to one text-book alone, but he becomes aci|uainted with a range of literature on 
 the subject in hand and is supposed to acciuire the habit of and facility in 
 investigation, besides discovering the unspeakable value of constant 'writing, 
 for as Lord Bacon i)ut it, while "Rending m;iketli :i full man, speaking a ready 
 
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mail, writiiij; luakotli an exact man." Indood, I'or tlio must jiarl. tlu" itracticf is 
 ratlier the study of sulijects tlian the slavish l'ollo\vin<i: ol a text-hook. Thus, it 
 will 1)6 seen, that present day courses are offered and present day methods are 
 employed. lUit no faculty, however learned or capahle, can pour cither knowl- 
 ed.ye or culture into a man. There must be ])rolont^ed, unswervin.tt, downright 
 iiard work on tiie part of a student. Tiicre >onKlime> are indolent, good-for- 
 notiiin.i; hanj^ers on in every school. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS SIDE OF THE SEMINARY 
 
 We believe in education, intellectual culture, learning, and earnesth' seek to 
 foster and promote these elements. But wc believe first and most of all in piety, 
 spirituality and consecration. Culture and knowledge are each, a great power, 
 but we know very well that "it is not by might nor by power, but by my 
 spirit." So knowled.ge, learning, intellectual culture, in this case, are not to be 
 sought so much as ends in themselves, as means to higher ends, as instruments 
 polished and sharpened, to be wielded under the inspiration and I)y the help of 
 the Holy Spirit, who is the mighty Agent in all successful religious activity. 
 Ilence we keep c6nstantlj' emphasizing the neccssitj' of spiritual culture, of 
 growth in grace, of prayer and fellowship with God. We often hold up the 
 idea that this school should be a "school of prayer," that is. where we should 
 learn the meaning, the spirit, the power, the iiabit of i)rayer, wlure the revival 
 fires should be kept brightlj' burning. 
 
 THE FACULTY 
 
 The Seminar}- began with a faculty of two professors and an assistant 
 teacher in the person of the pastor of the Summit street church. For the last 
 several years the teaching force has consisted of six regular professors and one 
 emeritus professor: one in the Old Testament, one in the New Testament, one 
 in Systematic Theology, one in History and English Bible, one in the Homiletics 
 Department and one in Religious Education. The Professor Emeritus has had 
 charge of Seminary Extension. 
 
 In regard to the qualilications of these instructors I manifestly can speak 
 only of the other men. They are men of piety and intellectual ability, who have 
 had training in a full college course, in theological institutions, and about all 
 of them have taken additional post graduate courses in universities in this 
 country and in universities abroad, .^s to their methods T iiave already 
 spoken. 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 The present day methods of education, as before suggested, require the 
 constant use of the library for purposes of investigation, and to broaden and 
 liberalize the mind, to conduct the student into the rich, luxuriant fields of 
 spiritual and intellectual pastures. Books are among the best instruments for 
 intellectual stimulus and growth. Professor W. G. T. Shedd used to say, The chief 
 means for the intellectual culture of the minister is 'the daily, nightly and 
 everlasting study of standard authors." Ilence a well stocked library of 
 standard works of the great tliinkers and scholars of the ])ast and the present 
 
is not onlj- a great desideratum h)Ut a necessity. This Seminary began without 
 any librarj' except a few hundred vohimcs temporarily lent to it by I he 
 generosity of Bishop Glassbrenner and a few others. The library is yet far 
 smaller than it should l)e for the age of the institution, numbering not more 
 than four thousand volumes, yet it contains a consideral)le numljer of the l)est 
 authors, together with a good supply of cyclopaedias, dictionaries and other 
 works of reference. Besides, the large Pulilic Library of Dayton, of whose 
 Board I have the honor to he the president, is open to the free access of our 
 students. lint one of our s])ecial needs is greatly enlarged and c(tnstanth' 
 enlarging additions to our shelves. Then, as soon as possil)le a lil)rary 
 l)uilding. 
 
 SEMINARY EXTENSION 
 
 Upon the whole, the ministry of our Church has taken very kindly to the 
 courses of English Bible study outlined by Dr. G. A. Funkhouscr. A very 
 great numlier of strongly commendatory expressions has reached the ])irector 
 of this work. Many who have undertaken these studies have gratefully 
 acknowledged that they have derived much benefit. The Faculty were some- 
 time ago asked by the Senior Bishop to prepare another four years' course, an 
 outline of which was reported to the Board of Trustees of the Seminary at its 
 session one week ago. It can be published in the mid-summer bulletin and 
 be ready for use by the fall conferences. While adhering to the idea that the 
 study of the Bible should be given the larger place, the scope of the four years' 
 curriculum has been broadened and some other modifications have been or will 
 be introduced. 
 
 CHANGE OF PRESIDENCY 
 
 One year ago at the meeting of the Board of Trustees I asked to he relieved 
 of the duties of the presidency of the institution, but the Board declined to 
 grant my request. At the late meeting of the Board I renewed the rciiuest and 
 they graciously granted it and elected Bishop A. T. H^oward, D.D.. as my 
 successor, one of the best known and most respected and honored men in our 
 whole denomination. 
 
 A MISSIONARY CHAIR 
 
 B_v action of the Women's Missionary Association at their recent annu.ii 
 meeting, action was taken by them to undertake the endowment of a special 
 chair of missions. The action was personally i)resented before the Board of 
 Trustees of the Senn'nary. Alay 7, ancj accepted by them. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
 It is greatly to be hojied that the (General Conference will give earnest and 
 adequate attention to this institution, tlie only one in the Cliurch directly under 
 its control and especially established ior tlie training of the ministry. 1 am 
 profoundly convinced that no other department or institution of the denomi- 
 nation exceeds this in importance, to put it mildly, for all will and do allow 
 that the minister is the pivotal man: that no ehnnh rises higher as a whole in 
 morals fyr intelligence or spiritn;il jjower tiian its ministry. Witlunit ' eapal>Ie 
 leadership an army is almost certain to fail, to meet witli defeat. This leader- 
 
ship ffir i|niti- a iuiin))Vr of >cars past lias lar.i^cly come liciii our own Sciiiinaiy. 
 Witli regard to the ministry of our I'liurch. and ol" tlie whole eouiitry. the 
 recent surveys have revealed two lamentable delieicncies. namely, a great 
 inadequacy of nund)ers and inadequacy of preparation or <pialit'ication for the 
 work. The insnlViciency of uundiers to supply the churches of the land has 
 induced many institutions to open the doors to many imperfectly iiualilied to 
 inirsue the procrihed courses, or else to i)ro\ide interior courses. 
 
 '["he most consiiicuous need of our Seminary is money: (a) To put at the 
 disposal of the Board of Education larger facilities of l)eneliciary aid to needy 
 and worthy students. We earnestly recommend that the (ieneral L\)nferciice 
 instruct the Uoard of l'"ducation to make the maximum allowance of $300.00 a 
 year to college graduates while in the Seminary, of v.hich not more than $2C0.00 
 shall he a loan. Tn other words that not less than one-third of what is granted 
 to students, college graduates and others, shall he recpiired to be returned to 
 the Hoard, (h) 'J'o endow a considerable number of scholarships to aid worthy 
 and capal)le students, and as a stimulus to special iirolicieuc\-. We have a fe\\ 
 small scholarships, but there should be many mure and a number should be 
 more liberal, (c) To make possible a decided enlargement of the library, which 
 would as a ])rudential measure, necessitate the construction of a library building. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. P. LAND IS, 
 
First Quadrennial Report 
 
 of the 
 
 Board of Administration 
 
 To the General Conference 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 Convening Indianapolis, Indiana, May 12, 1921 
 
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION. 
 
 *G. M. Mathews, Chairman 
 J. S. Fulton, Recording Secretary 
 S. S. Hough, Executive Secretary 
 
 W. M. Bell - - Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 H. H. Pout Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 C. J. Kephart Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 W. H. Washinger Portland, Ore. 
 
 A. T. Howard— Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 W. M. Weekley - Parkcrsburg, W. Va. 
 
 N. Castle - Philomath, Ore. 
 
 A. R. Clippinger Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 V. W. Overton Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 W. F. Gruver. Martinsburg, W. Va. 
 
 C. E. Heisel - - Wichita, Kan. 
 
 J. E, Shannon _ Marion, Ind. 
 
 M. R. Ballinger Findlay, Ohio. 
 
 J. T. Foster - -Mason, W. Va. 
 
 G. E. McDonald - — — -Portland, Ore. 
 
 R. A. Hitt - -Westerville, Ohio. 
 
 W. N. McFaul Baltimore, Md. 
 
 F. P. Geib Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 J. M. Cogan— - Canton, Ohio. 
 
 H. M. Whitcraft *- Logan, Ohio. 
 
 R. H. Bennett — -, Eldorado, Kan. 
 
 J. H. Ruebush— - - Dayton, Va. 
 
 Mark Keppel '- — ' Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 I. T. Good Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 J. R. Engle - — - -- Palmyra, Pa. 
 
 •Passed to reward April 3, 1921. 
 
Quadrennial Report of Board of Administration 
 to the General Conference 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, May 12, 1921 
 
 To the Bishops and Delegates of the General Conference. 
 
 Monored Coworkers: 
 
 As we look back through the tests, sufferings and opportunities of recent 
 years we cannot but praise God for the faith and far-sighted work of the dele- 
 gates to the General Conference four years ago. The United States then had 
 just entered the war, and while our Conference was in session at Wichita, the 
 President of our country signed the Select Service Bill calling ten million of 
 our young men to register for the conflict. It was a time that tested the faith 
 and spirit of Christian leaders. 
 
 Our delegates, in that uncertain hour, knowing well the great sacrifices 
 which the winning of the Avar would require, evinced their loyalty to God and 
 his righteous cause, and their faith in the members of the United Brethren 
 Church by summoning them to more than double their giving and service for 
 the cause of Christ. 
 
 "Recognizing tlie ahvndant resources of God and the needs of the 
 uorld in this decis-ive hour,'' these delegates declared, ''ive propose a > 
 four year program, to meet the challenging opportiinitie-^ before our 
 denomination at home and abroad, as we pass the one-hundredth anni- 
 versary of our first General Conference, and begin a neto century of 
 organized church life." 
 
 The program adopted summoned the whole denomination to a new dedi- 
 cation of life and property to Jesus Christ, our great Commander-in-Chief. It 
 summoned all our members to personal, continuous soul winning as a life long 
 duty and privilege. It called for the enrichment and strengthening of our 
 colleges and Seminary as training agencies for Christian leaders. It sounded 
 forth the call for five hundred additional trained ministers, missionaries, and 
 educational leaders. It made provision for a plan and fund for our disabled 
 and retired ministers, their widows and children. It recommended adequate 
 equipment for Church Erection and Home Alissionary work and for our Foreign 
 Missionary enterprise. It declared the Church should provide, within four 
 years, two million dollars for the endowment and equipment of our institutions 
 of learning. It called for such an increase in funds for all departments of the 
 Church as would meet the enlarged demands upon them. It fixed as the annual 
 minimum amount of cash needed for all our benevolence causes, according to the 
 standard of prices then prevailing, $750,000 for the first year; $800,000 for the 
 second; $900,000 for the third, and $1,000,000 for the last year of this quad'- 
 rennium. 
 
 The last General Conference not only placed before the denomination these 
 (lofinite objectives, but it created the Board of Administration to coordinate the 
 work of the Church with a view to better efiiciency, and to "Direct general 
 campaigns during the quadrennium, to attain such church goals as have been 
 determined by the General Conference." The Conference voted that, "The 
 existing agencies, including the church departments, shall cooperate with the 
 Board in enlisting the whole Church in the whole program." 
 
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FIRST STEPS IN WORK OF QUADRENNIUM. 
 
 The delegates of the General Conference returned to their homes and 
 churches with a new vision and a larger purpose. The Board of Administra- 
 tion organized by electing Bishop G. M. Mathews, chairman; J. S. Fulton, 
 recording secretary; J. S. Kendall having been elected executive secretary by 
 the General Conference. The Board set to work in earnest to help reach the 
 goals fixed by the General Conference. Every society and institution of the 
 Church was conscious of having responsibility in a program for greater 
 achievements, and each began to work for the realization of its share of the 
 advance. 
 
 The leaders had to face two problems: First, that of providing a larger 
 income for their current work to meet war prices; and second, to secure the 
 necessary money for the endowment and equipment authorized by the General 
 Conference. 
 
 The cost of materials, labor, and almost everything else began to rise 
 higher and higher, and the rate of exchange abroad added to the burdens of 
 the foreign work. It became clearly evident that a real crisis was upon the 
 Church. 
 
 SIX SPECIAL OFFERINGS A YEAR BESIDES SPECIAL CAMPAIGNS. 
 
 The General Conference had authorized cacli srjcict}' to lift a special offering 
 in local churches for its current work, in addition to the Inidget. Because of 
 the great pressure for larger funds the societies put unusual emphasis 
 on their six special offerings, at different times of the year. While all this was 
 going on the benevolence budget remained practically stationary and wholly 
 inadequate to meet the needs of the annual conferences, general societies, and. 
 institutions. 
 
 For the endowment and eciuipmeut authorized by the General Conference, 
 Otterl^ein, I^ebanon Vallej', and Indiana Central Colleges early made the canvass 
 in the order named. The results of these campaigns were most inspiring. The 
 Seminary and Church Erection, with trained field workers, began to make 
 separate canvasses of the whole denomination, for what the General Conference 
 authorized them to get, each taking a conference at a time. The Foreign 
 Missionary Society was getting ready to come out for its authorized buildings 
 and equipments. Then, too, the General Conference had instructed the Board 
 of Administration to conduct a strong campaign for funds for disabled and 
 retired ministers. The situation became acute and confusing. 
 
 "I often sat at my desk, heartsick, and not infrequently disgusted," 
 
 wrote a pastor who passed through the ordeal, "wjien I threw into the 
 
 waste basket letters from the various departments of the Church. 
 
 Nobody but the pastor knew what a tool he had become. Every 
 
 Sunday the people wondered what would Ite next." 
 
 With frequent educational campaigns, culminating in special offerings for 
 the current work in addition to the budget, and with the many separate can- 
 vasses for endowment and equipment over the same territory, there was little 
 opportunity for pastors and churches to plan for an orderly advance in si)iritual 
 life, ev^angelism, and other necessary work. 
 
 BIRTH OF THE UNITED ENLISTMENT MOVEMENT. 
 
 The Board of Adininistration held an imijortant meeting October 22-24, 
 1918, at which time, J. S-. Kendall, its • executive secretary, who has 
 done more than any other man in the denomination in recent years to lay deep 
 foimdations for stewardship and other jdiases of work, resigned, desiring to 
 reenttr the pastorate. 
 
 The Board, and heads of departments, took a survey of the condition (if the 
 world and of the Church itself. The world was in dire need. The various 
 departments of the Church faced critical situations. The call for new recruits, 
 for enlarged funds for current work, and for buildings and equipment, became 
 distressingly urgent. 
 
 The Board voted "To inaugurate a united movement to fiUly realize 
 
 the goals fixed for tliis quadrennium, and, to vieet the demands upon our 
 
 Chureh during the next tiro years herausc of tear eonditionfi." 
 
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ORGANIZING FOR UNITED ACTION. 
 
 The Board of Administration elected a Commission to mobilize the activities 
 of the Church. This Commission consisted of the executive heads of depart- 
 ments, editors-in-cliief of literature, and l"lxecutive Committee of the Board of 
 Administration, namelv, Bishops G. M. Mathews, C. J. Kephart, A. T. Howard, 
 and \V. R. Funk. P. M. Camp, A. C. Siddall, Wm. E. Schell, C. W. Brewbaker, 
 A. R. Clippinj>er, J. K. Font. J. S. Fulton, 1. J. Good, J. M. Phillippi, W. O. 
 Fries, li. F. Shupe, O. T. Deever. J. M. Cogan, and L. O. Miller. 
 
 The Board of Administration elected S. S. Hough, the writer, executive 
 secretary, and director of the movement. That I might give myself fully to this 
 task, the Board of I'"oreign Missions accepted my resignation as its secretary, 
 and Bishop A. T. lloward was elected acting secretary of the Foreign Board. 
 
 The Commission organized liy electing P. M. Camp, chairman and O. T. 
 Deever, secretary. It appointed a Campaign Committee consisting of A. C. 
 Siddall, H. F'. Shupe, A. R. Clippinger, J. B. Showers, H. E. Myers, and S. S. 
 Hough, secretary. 
 
 Then began a period of earnest prayer and intense thinking and planning. 
 Sub-committees were organized as follows: On Spiritual Life and Intercession, 
 C. W. Brewbaker, chairman; on Stewardship of Life and Property, O. T. Deever, 
 chairman: on Field Work and Surveys, A. C. Siddall, chairman; and on Pub- 
 licity and Literature, H. F. Shupe, chairman. 
 
 The Bishops at that time, gave the following statement to the Church: 
 "It is the solemn conviction of your general superintendents that the 
 
 success of the United Enlistment Movement will open new visions of 
 
 our mission as a denomination, and make us willing to fullil them. All 
 
 our powers must l)e hitched to this program. Full length cooperation 
 
 is the call of the hour." 
 
 STEWARDSHIP FOURSQUARE, SUPREME NEED. 
 
 As the situation was studied it became more and more clear that the real 
 problem was not that of raising money, but rather that of raising men. There 
 is a perfect equilibrium l)etween man's ability to give and the necessity for the 
 gifts. The proI)lem is how to get men to live so as to give according to their 
 ability as Christian stewards. 
 
 It was recognized that larger sources of spiritual life and power must be 
 discovered by both ministers and lajmen: that emphasis must l)e put on Bible 
 study and prayer, and life in partnership with God; also on setting forth such 
 op])ortunities for giving and service as will inspire to maximum growth and 
 fruitage. It was felt that our people must be called to "pray not for easy lives; 
 not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks." 
 
 Each department and agencj^ of our Church had l)een working too exclu- 
 sively to simplj' get from the Church the largest percentage of money available, 
 without doing much to develop a larger consecration of life and property. 
 
 The whole situation was not unlike that of a dozen different men seeking 
 apples from an orchard, each striving for the largest possil)le share of the 
 fruit, picking largely from the same tree. Then it dawned upon them that by 
 oombining their intelligence and redirecting their energies they could greatly 
 enlarge the numl)er uf fruitbearing trees and so cultivate them that the trees 
 would be renewed, and their fruitage greatly increased, and all needs be met. 
 
 As a Church, two and a half years ago our forces were thus combined to 
 produce a much higher and more comprehensive standard of stewardship — 
 stewardship (1) of intercession, (2) of life, (3) of property, and (4) of the 
 gospel — a stewardship foursquare. 
 
 I. The Steward of Intercession. 
 
 The lirst call was made to enroll intercessors. It was felt ""it Satan cannot 
 beat us in prayer he cannot beat us anywhere." Our mem])ers were asked to 
 pray earnestly for our pastors and the leaders in the individual churches that 
 they might discover the larger resources in God available for them. They 
 were asked to pray for conference superintendents, presidents of our institu- 
 
tions. Bishops and other general officers, that God might direct them in fixing 
 objectives, in making plans, in getting out literature, and in organizing and 
 setting our forces into action. 
 
 There was a ready response. Forty thousand early enrolled to pray for 
 definite objects set before them from time to time. It is our belief that the 
 secret of the victories which have come to many churches can be traced to 
 united earnest praying. The conviction is growing that the greatest thing 
 Christian leaders can do is to enlist others to pray. The ultimate aim for 
 churches is not large attendance, not even large numbers admitted on confession 
 of faith, but rather the development of the largest possible number of inter- 
 cessors who know the secret of prevailing prayer and are willing to do personal 
 work. The larger, richer life and achievements for our denomination await the 
 further development of our members in vital praying. 
 
 2. Stewardship of Life. 
 
 Thousands of young men preparing for the ministry and missionarj'^ work 
 in the various colleges of England, Canada, and United States, went to the 
 front and laid down their lives in the war. The Christian church has been 
 brought face to face with the problem of a shortage in Christian leaders. 
 
 Two years ago there was sounded forth an earnest call for life work 
 recruits. At the end of three months, four hundred had responded, "Here am 
 I., send me." At the end of six months eight hundred had enrolled, and now 
 there are fifteen hundred of the ablest young men and women of the denomi- 
 nation under orders from God for service in America and abroad. Many of 
 these are in our colleges and Seminary in preparation for their life work. 
 
 3. Stewardship of Property. 
 
 An earnest effort was made to get our pastors and people to recognize the 
 privilege and duty of becoming partners with God in making and spending 
 money. Five principles have been emphasized: 
 
 (1) God is the owner of all. 
 
 (2) Man is a steward and must give an account of all. 
 
 (3) God's ownership and man's stewardship ought to be acknowledged. 
 
 (4) This acknowledgment requires, as part of its expression, the setting 
 apart of at least a tithe of one's income. 
 
 (5) The separated portion should be administered for the cause of Christ 
 and the remainder recognized as no less a trust. 
 
 These principles were given special emphasis at the annual conference 
 sessions in 1919 when eighty percent of the ministers and laymen registered as 
 tithing stewards. This high standard of our ministers on stewardship is con- 
 sidered by other denominations as remarkable. 
 
 A campaign of information and enlistment for the whole Church followed. 
 District conferences were held. Messages on stewardship were given in 
 sermons and addresses from the pulpits. The principles were taught in the 
 Sunday schools and young people's societies. One hundred and thirty thousand 
 copies of the l)ooklet "The Test of Stewardship" were placed in our homes for 
 study. Pastors of one-half of our churches reported 14,000 tithing stewards. 
 The campaign has since been carried forward at different periods when the book 
 "The New Christian," and the leaflet "Jesus Money Gospel," and thousands of 
 copies of leaflets by a "Layman" in Chicago, have been widely circulated. It 
 should be said, however, that we, as S denomination, have not yet given our 
 people a fair opportunity to become thorouglily informed on Christian steward- 
 ship. We believe the surest way for our Church to enter into a new era of life 
 and power will be by getting our whole constituency to understand and enter 
 heartily into the practice of the stewardship of property. 
 
 4. The Stewardship of the Gospel. 
 
 A startling truth is this: Redeemed man lias I)een made responsible for 
 giving the gospel to every creature! "We were allowed of God to be put in 
 trust with the gospel." That was the thouf.iht that tired the heart of Paul, who 
 exclaimed, "I am ready," — ready to preach, ready to suffer, ready to die, for 
 Christ and souls. Jesus gave His life to bring salvation: we must give ours 
 to i)nblish it. We are his ambassadors, his "stewards of the manifold grpce of 
 God." The stewardship of the gospel is back of and gives motive to the other 
 phases of stewardship. 
 
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Our United Enlistment Movement has been cooperating witii the Com- 
 mission on Evangelism and with the missionary societies with a view to getting 
 the whole memhershii) to win souls to Christ and to publish the good news to 
 all mankind. Emphasis has been placed on personal soul winning as a life 
 work. Manj' have formed the purpose to seek to lead at least one soul to 
 Christ every year of their lives. In examining our reports for the past three 
 years we tind the humiliating fact that aliout one-third of our individual churches 
 report annually no accessions on confession df faitii. We l)elieve the record 
 this year will he better for the evangelistic and missionary tides are rising in 
 all parts of our Zion. But we are witnessing only the first fruits of the greater 
 harvest tiiat awaits a complete consecration of our people to God as stewards 
 of 11 is blessed gospel. 
 
 SURVEY OF AGENCIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND TASKS. 
 
 It was early decided that careful surveys should lie made of agencies, 
 institutions, and fields in order that we may know exactly what is being done, 
 actual conditions, weak places, and needs; and gather necessary facts to form 
 the basis for a constructive program of advance. Surveys were made of our 
 Home Missionarj' and Church Erection fields and of our live foreign fields, also 
 of our colleges and Seminary and of some of our Homes. A Sunday-school 
 and evangelistic survey was made, also an educational and ministerial survey 
 which brought the names and addresses of 6552 capable young men and women 
 who ought to seek a higher education. The names of these were placed in the 
 hands of the presidents of our institutions of learning and they are being 
 cultivated with a view to entering our schools. 
 
 These surveys, as a rule, covered a period of five years. They have yielded 
 fruit already in helping to standardize the work of departments and institutions. 
 The Church now knows more defmitely than ever before its specific tasks. The 
 facts which will be presented to this General Conference are, in the main, the 
 result of these surveys. 
 
 MEETING CURRENT NEEDS OF 1919. 
 
 The first step taken to meet the current financial needs of the Boards was 
 that of putting emphasis on a full benevolence budget while combining to lift 
 but one self-denial offering in November, instead of having six special offerings 
 in addition to the budget. The number of annual conferences re])orting a full 
 budget or more, increased from six to fourteen and the self-denial offering was 
 the largest cash contribution ever taken in the Church. 
 
 FORMING THE FOUR MILLION BUDGET. 
 
 Two special committees considered, through many sessions, the askings 
 of the various departments and agencies. The needs presented were staggering, 
 and it was a most difticult task to form a budget. 
 
 The United Enlistment Movement did not create these needs or task, 
 neither did the boards and institutions of the Church create them. They grew 
 out of the conditions of the world, the situation of the Church and the com- 
 mand of Jesus Christ. 
 
 The surveys having been made for a period of five years, many thought 
 that the budget should be built to cover a like period, but after considering the 
 fact that the General Conference would convene in 1921 it was unanimously 
 agreed that the budget should be for two years only, and $4,000,000 was fixed as 
 the minimum amount to meet the needs. 
 
 INFORMING AND ENLISTING THE WHOLE CHURCH. 
 
 In order to reach every member with the facts and enlist all to give 
 adequately, the denomination was well organized. The United Enlistment 
 Movement extended its organization by adding three committees; namely, a 
 committee on Preliminary Gifts, Wm. E. Schell, chairman; a committee on 
 Quotas and Statistics, W. A. Weber, chairman; and a Speakers' Bureau, J. B. 
 Showers, chairman. 
 
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Each Bishop was made director of his area, and each conference superin- 
 tendent diector of his conference. The district leader was made responsible for 
 his district, and the pastor the director of his local church. With each was 
 associated an able la3man as coworker. The local church was organized 
 into family groups with captains. Mr. }i. C. Cridland was early employed as 
 office manager for eleven months, and Mr. Olof Gates was associated with the 
 general director as advisory director, for three months. 
 
 The illustrated booklet "Let's Do It," which gave the challenging needs of 
 every department of the Church, was placed in our homes. Many denomi- 
 national and interdenominational conferences and local meetings were held 
 to explain the needs and to train the workers for the every-member-canvass, 
 which took place April 25 to May 2, 1920, when in ten days our denomination 
 pledged an advance of 250% for the extension of the cause of Christ. Con- 
 sidering the facts that this vast work had to be done in haste and in face of the 
 reactions which followed the war the results secured were wonderful. 
 
 A GREAT COUNCIL HELD. 
 
 The conference superintendents were invited to meet with the Board of 
 Administration and other general officers, May 12-14, 1920, to make complete 
 reports of the campaign, and to take steps for the completion of the work. 
 Every active Bishop and all the conference superintendents save one, were 
 present. It was a most significant meeting. It gave to each worker a view of 
 the difficulties, methods, and victories of all the others. Reports from Bishops 
 and conference superintendents which set forth the heroic work of our pastors 
 and individual churches were thrillingly interesting. Five hundred and thirty- 
 three charges had at that time reached, or gone beyond, their quotas; 397 
 charges, representing proIial)ly a thousand local churches, had over-subscribed 
 their quotas to the extent of $16f),555. Many illustrations were given of self- 
 sacrificing service and heroic giving. It was a never-to-be-forgotten meeting. 
 
 PLANNING TO REACH THE FOUR MILLION IN CASH. 
 
 This council voted that the four million dollars represents the minimum 
 needs of the departments for the two years. It voted to go forward with the 
 work in every conference until the full quota is reached. 
 
 (1) By having a careful canvass made where the same had not been 
 conducted. 
 
 (2) By enlisting the Sunday schools. 
 
 (3) By cultivating men and women of means with a view to tlieir giving 
 to special objects. 
 
 (4) By getting every new member received into the Church, to l^ecome 
 acquainted with the great work undertaken and to share in the same 
 immediately by making an adequate pledge on the Four Million Fund. 
 
 The importance of getting every new member to practice immediately the 
 principles of stewardship, and to share in the work of extending the cause of 
 Christ before they settle down to lives of indifference, of covetousness, or self- 
 indulgence was strongly emphasized. A leaflet "The New Church Member" 
 gives the facts intended for each new convert. 
 
 To aid in collecting in full the pledges o'n the Four Million Fund the 
 Council voted that each church should introduce a weekly duplex envelope, 
 or a special envelope; that each should elect a financial secretary and treasurer 
 of this fund; and the treasurer should report on the twentieth of each mouth 
 the amount received, to the conference treasurer; and the conference treasurer 
 should report, on the twenty-fifth of each month, to the general treasurer at 
 Dayton, Ohio. Quarterly statements of receipts should be given to the members 
 of each church and to the charges of each conference. Excellent progress has 
 been made in the development of this system of reporting. 
 
 On September 1, 1920, the total pledges reported aggregated $2,8(^,00(J'. 
 The sessions of the annual conferences tlien lieing held were seasons of unusual 
 fellowship and power. Reports from every Bishop's district were similar to 
 that given by our sainted Bishop Mathews, who said: 
 
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"The unity and fellowship that characterized all the conference 
 sessions were due to the faith, heroism and jajenerosity called forth by 
 the goals, program, and cooperative effort of the United Enlistment 
 Movement, whose challenging aims stirred the best thought and life 
 of the Church." 
 Every conference assumed its share of the Four Million I'^und and allocated 
 
 the same to its charges, which will constitute the benevolence goals for each 
 
 charge for the two years. 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOUR MILLION FUND. 
 
 The l)udget for the Ft)ur Alillion Fund had to be built in the midst c)f the 
 quadrennium to meet conditions then prevailing. The annual conferences, and 
 the general societies which shared previously in the general benevolence budget, 
 were given preferred claims for their current w-ork. The annual conferences 
 were granted $25,537 per month, and the general causes $22,688.50 per month 
 which was distributed according to percentage in operation before the United 
 Enlistment Movement w'as organized. 
 
 For administrative purposes the Board voted $7,379.66 each month as a 
 preferred claim to meet the Bishops' salaries, expenses of offices of the Church 
 treasurer and Board of Administration, and for the promotional work of the 
 United Enlistment Movement, and General Conference expenses. 
 
 All the other interests of the l)udget were constituted a non-preferred 
 claim to share pro rata in the receipts after the preferred claims are met. 
 
 Gifts for the support of special objects such as buildings, missionaries and 
 scholarships are being received and applied on the purposes for which the gifts 
 are designated. 
 
 A full statement of the method of distributing the Four Alillion Fund is 
 available for the delegates of the General Conference. 
 
 THE ENLARGED WORK BEGINS. 
 
 Tile colleges which made their canvass early felt the tirst up-lift of the 
 forward movement. Salaries were rightfully increased; in some cases debts 
 were paid and eeiuipment made, and everywhere the endowment was greatly 
 increased. 
 
 The enlarged work of the annual conferences went into operation as soon 
 as paj'ments began to be made on the Four Million Fund. Salaries have been 
 increased and needs promptly met. The general causes have received, month 
 by month, the amount allotted for their enlarged current work. As yet no 
 large sums have been received for the equipment and endowment part of the 
 budget. These will be increased during the months of September and October 
 when full payments for the year are expected. The sums so much needed for 
 equipment and endowment in the Four Million Fund cannot be met unless the 
 full Four Million is secured in cash. 
 
 CASH RECEIPTS AND COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. 
 
 About three-fourths of the annual conferences began payment on the Four 
 Million Fund with June, 1920, and the remainder in Septeml)er, (Jctol)er or 
 November. 
 
 The total receipts up to March 20, when the treasurers of local churches 
 transmitted their last remittances before the close of the books for the quad- 
 rennium, aggregated $708,310.93. Of this amount $217,928.43 have been applied 
 to the conference claims, and $490,382.50 to general causes of the united work as 
 set forth in the Four Million Budget. 
 
 Tlie average amount received during the past four 3'ears on the former 
 benevolence plan for the five months ending March 20, was about $103,579 or 
 597( of the amount due for that period. 
 
 The receipts on the Four Million Fund for the five months ending March 
 20, 1921, aggregated $353,031, or 61% of the amount due on the pledges for the 
 months named. In other words, tlie churches c()ntril)uted a larger percentage 
 on the Four Million Fund than on the former benevolence plan during the first 
 five months of the conference year. 
 
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TOTAL GIVING TO ALL BENEVOLENCES. 
 
 Following are the goals fixed by the General Conference for the i)ast fonr 
 years, and also the amount our Churches gave each year to all benevolences 
 beyond the Iiounds of the local churches: 
 
 1917 1918 1919 1920 
 
 The Goals $750,000 $ 800,000 $ 900,000 $1,000,000 
 
 Cash Contributed 763,294 1,133,564 1,205,165 1,494,200 
 
 Gifts to Colleges and specials were the chief factors in the large increase 
 for 1918. while for 1919 the payments on College pledges and the united Self- 
 denial offering accounts for the growth. In 1920 the first receipts on the Four 
 Million Fund come in to help swell the amount. 
 
 Growth in benevolences during three quadreimiums: 
 
 (iifts to all Gain every 
 Benevolences Four Years 
 
 1912 $ 430,577 $ 86,731^M 
 
 1916 672,226 241,649 hhhimmi 
 
 1920 1,494,200 821,974 ^^^^hhh^^^^^^hiii^hii^^hb 
 
 AVERAGE PER CAPITA GIVING TO ALL BENEVOLENCES. 
 
 
 1912 
 
 1916 
 
 1920 
 
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 $1.96 
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 $4.35 
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 THERE IS THAT SCATTERETH AND YET INCREASETH. 
 
 The members of many churches feared that their local needs and pastor's 
 salary would suffer when they were asked to put great emphasis on securing the 
 Four Million Fund for the extension of the cause of Christ beyond the bounds 
 of their local churches. It is interesting therefore to note the effect on their 
 work locally. 
 
 INCREASE IN PASTORS' SALARIES. 
 
 The following shows the amount contributed to pastors' salaries for each 
 of the past four years, with the rate of increase: 
 
 Amount Increase over 
 
 Contributed Previous Year 
 
 1917 $1,356,749 $ 66,612 
 
 1918 1,457,848 101,099 
 
 1919 1,607,806 149,958 
 
 1920 1,918,481 310,675 
 
 The contributions for, and gains on pastors" salaries at the close of tiie 
 three past (|uadrenniums were: 
 
 Amount Gain every 
 
 Contributed l"'our Years 
 
 1912 $1,140,129 $210,969 
 
 1916 1,290,137 150,008 
 
 1920 1,918,481 628,344 ^ii"i^^"^^^"ii"i"i^^^"i""^" 
 
 It will l)e noticed that there was a rcniarkal)le gain in pastors' salaries 
 during the year 1920; namely, $310,675, or nearly as much as the increase in 
 pastoral support for the eight years from 19(J8 to 1916. 
 
 AVERAGE SALARY FOR PASTORS INCLUDING PARSONAGE RENT 
 
 AND PRESENTS 
 
 For the year 1912 $ 760 ' 
 
 For the year 1916 860 
 
 For the year 1920 1,255 
 
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INCREASE IN CHURCH PROPERTY. 
 
 Tlicrc lias hecii a .uood j^rtjutli in tlu' valiu- of cliurcli ami parsonage 
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 \'ahie of Iiitroasc over 
 
 l*ri)[n'rt\- I'nvidus Year 
 
 19.17 $16,253,223 $ 738,757 ^hmi^^b^h^ 
 
 1918 16,998,396 745,172 ^^^^^^hi^ 
 
 1919 18,189,955 1,191,559 HiHHH^HiHiiMHi^^ 
 
 1920 19,707,412 1,517,457 ^^^^mmam^^^i^^mma^^^m 
 
 Growth in ehurcli and parsonaye propert}- during three (luadrenniunis: 
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 1912 $12,758,087 $2,521,940 ^^^mmmmi^^m 
 
 1916 15,514,466 2,756,379 mb^^^b^^m^ 
 
 1920 19,707,412 4,192,946 ^^^^^■bbhmhhmhm 
 
 TOTAL GIVING FOR ALL PURPOSES. 
 
 The total i;ilts lor all purposes for eaeh year of the quadrenniuni were: 
 
 -Amount ncrease over 
 
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 1917 $3,762,291 $ 329,111 "^i^B^^Mi 
 
 1918 4,207,675 445,384 mimmmm^^^^ma 
 
 1919 4,530,352 322,676 ^■■^^hh 
 
 1920 5,629,342 1,098,990 ■■^^HH^^^^^^^^^^^HiHHnHH 
 
 Gifts for all purposes at end of three quadrenniums: 
 Amount Gain every 
 
 Contributed Four Years 
 
 1912 $2,750,834 $ 373,409 ■i«M 
 
 1916 3,433,181 682,347^1^^^^ 
 
 1920 5,629,343 2,196,162 ^^^^^^^^^^^h^^ihh^i^ih 
 
 CAMPAIGN EXPENSES. 
 
 A special committee consisting of Hon. A. S. Kreider, Mr. E. S. Neuding, 
 Judge Walter Brewer. Col. H. E. Myers and Mr. H. L. Baker, held two im- 
 portant sessions in forming the Four Million Budget. They placed in it $165,000 
 as their estimate for campaign expenses. 
 
 In organizing our forces it was decided to employ comparatively few field 
 workers deeming it Ijetter to have the work done chiefly by the Bishops, general 
 officers, presidents of schools, conference superintendents, pastors and laymen, 
 many of whom had experience in Liberty Loans and other campaigns. It may l)e 
 that larger immediate results would have been secured had we greatly increased 
 our field force. P)Ut the general opinion is that it was better to do this work, 
 as far as possible, through our regular leaders since we must look to them to 
 continue to promote the causes, and to secure full collection of pledges. 
 
 Economy was used in the office. The de])artment secretaries and their 
 stenogra'phers volunteered large service at different periods without cost to 
 the Movement. The Publishing House furnished, without rental, two large 
 rooms. 
 
 Later when it was shown that many of tlie annual conferences could 
 not possibly carry forward their work with the cpiota of the fund assigned 
 them, the Board was gratified to learn that not all the money allotted for 
 campaign expenses would be needed. Accordingly it took $(>2,<S80 from the 
 campaign expense fund and placed it to the credit of the annual conferences 
 which were in a crisis. This left $102,112 for cam])aign expenses. As will be 
 shown in the report of our General Church Treasurer he was drawn upon to 
 meet campaign expenses up to April 1. 1921. for the sum of $61,946.81, and for 
 the Board's share of the expenses of the interdenominational promotional work 
 of the Interchurch $30,906.89. There remains $9,258.30 of the allotment for 
 campaign exjienses. 
 
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 the Fonr Million Fund bejjan to l)e made, the churcli treasurer has paid only 
 a portion of these expenses from the first receipts of the Movement, for it was 
 felt necessar\' to provide early for the pressing needs of the Boards and insti- 
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 the full amount allotted for the expenses of the General Conference. This will 
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 books of the treasurer. Tliis will he met month by month as funds come in. 
 
 DIFFICULTIES AND FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. 
 
 The way was new. Every plan had to be tested out. Our churches were 
 as illy prepared for their enlarged task as was the nation for the war. Surveys 
 had to be made and results tabulated in haste. Diversified literature which 
 should have been produced during months of quiet study and w-riting, had to 
 be prepared in the midst of other pressing duties. The work of organizing 
 and training the leaders in bishops' areas, conferences, districts and individual 
 churches, was a stupendous task. It was inevitable that grievous mistakes 
 would be made, and that there would be some misunderstandings because there 
 was not sutiicient time for full counsel and explanations. But our people, 
 in the main, went forward in the spirit of willing cooperation. They have 
 evinced wonderful j^atience, being willing to work and wait until the processes 
 of information and enlistment had time for fruitage before passing adverse 
 judgment. 
 
 There were also favorable conditions. The spirit of heoric work, of self- 
 sacrifice and cooperation, released by the war, was abroad. The missionary 
 and stewardship instruction given in our churches during recent years helped 
 immensely. We never could have reached the results reported without this 
 necessarj- instruction. 
 
 HEARTY COOPERATION. 
 
 The achievements represent church-wide cooperation. The credit must be 
 given to the hard work and generous giving of the rank and file of our 
 members. The Movement did not get many large gifts. There was not time 
 to cultivate adequately men and women of means. The heart of the victory 
 was won in individual churches, where thousands of laymen served as captains 
 of teams giving information and securing pledges. These made possible the 
 good reports. 
 
 I cannot speak in adequate terms of appreciation about the unselfish 
 devotioin of pastors, district leaders, conference superintendents, presidents 
 and profesors of institutions of learning, bishops, and executive heads of 
 departments and editors, and of the untiring work of the Campaign Committee. 
 Their faith, earnest thinking, hard work, self-sacrificing spirit, and unI)oundcd 
 patience will be a life-long inspiration. 
 
 SOME BY-PRODUCTS. 
 
 The greatest asset of the work of the quadrennium is not the enlarged 
 amount of money pledged and now being paid, splendid as that has been, 
 but rather the many young lives laid on God's altar for life-long service, and 
 the long list of other talented young people now headed toward our institutions 
 of learning; also the thousands who have become faithful stewards, and who 
 take delight in the study of the Bible, and in work for "others." These are 
 the heaven-born permanent assets for which we should praise God. 
 
 But there are results which may properly be called "by-products" that have 
 b€en reported. 
 
 1. A vision of the whole task given to the whole membership. Members of 
 our church have begun to think and act in terms of the whole denomination. 
 
 2. A denominational consciousness of our mission, possibilities, strength and 
 unity. 
 
 3. Our members have been aroused to pay the debts on their churches, provide 
 better salaries for their ministers and more adequate church facilities. More 
 money was paid to wipe out church debts, buUd new churches, and increase 
 pastors' salaries, the past two years than during any previous five years. 
 
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4. The campaign revealed a missing link — that there is no open way to our 
 individual churches for their cultivation and enlistment in extending the cause 
 of Christ. Our records do not give the names and membership of our local 
 churches but of our charges only. Probably three-tifths of the memljers of 
 our denomination live on charges which liave from two to eight local churches. 
 It has been impossible to properh' inform and enlist these churches because 
 we have had no responsible laymen in each of them with whom to work. It 
 is our conviction that we can never get the meml)ers of individual churches 
 to assme their full share of responsil)ility until we print in our Conference 
 Minutes, Year Book or some other publication, the name of each church on 
 every charge, its membership and other statistics, with the name and address 
 of the benevolence treasurer, stewardship chairman, as well as Sunday-school 
 superintendent and president of the young people's society. This matter should 
 claim our immediate and constant attention until we have the Church thoroughly 
 organized and vitally related to Christ and his cause. 
 
 5. We have discovered the importance of "conference" or "counsel." In the 
 past the United Brethren Church has relied too exclusively on preaching and 
 public addresses. During recent years, in local churches, in annual conferences 
 and in the church at large, groups of leaders charged with responsiblity have 
 come together in counsel, with o])en minds, each seeking to get the viewpoint 
 of the other as they talked over and prayed about the aims and program 
 of their work. The result is that more and more of our people are learning to do 
 team work, and are seeing the same objectives and are praying and working 
 for the realization of the same goals. Possilily the most effective work of the 
 quadrennium was done liy means of these councils which have become an 
 established feature in many annual conferences and in hundreds of local 
 churches. Some of our annual conferences have made remarkable advances in 
 recent years which their leaders attribute largely to this effective district organ- 
 ization and their strong district counsel meetings. 
 
 A conference superintendent, who, because of a serious accident, was 
 prevented from doing field work, sent this message recently to his pastors: 
 
 "The district counsels have done more under the blessing of God 
 to put our conference where it is than anj' other human agency we have 
 employed. Let us not allow anything to interfere with this effective 
 method of doing our work together." 
 
 The district leaders, trained and directed as they had l)een, carried the work 
 forward successfully in the absence of the superintendent. 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE 
 
 In accordance with instructions from the last General Conference the 
 Board of Administration prepared, and sent out in advance to the delegates, 
 recominendations touching a Ministerial Pension Plan, Changes in the Disci- 
 pline, and Suggestions for a program for the ensuing four years. These are 
 quite self-explanatory. We can conceive of no more important work than 
 that of defining the objectives for our denomination for the next four years, 
 and of working out such a program as shall unite all of our forces to do their 
 utmost for the realization of our God-given tasks. 
 
 This General Conference will be' the first one to consider a definite plan 
 for a Ministerial Pension Fund. Adequate provision, without delay, for our 
 disabled and retired niiniste'rs, their widow's and children, will do much to 
 help standardize our ministry. Provision should be made to put into 
 operation, as soon as possible, whatever plan is adopted. 
 
 THE CHALLENGE OF THE UNATTAINED 
 
 The General Conference now in session will register the trend of the 
 activities for the second century of our denominational life. Tiie action taken 
 here will set a pace for the conferences that shall follow. 
 
 While we are grateful for llu- ;uhie\ ements of the past, are we not humili- 
 ated and challenged by the unattained? Think of it! Last year the people 
 of the United States gave to luxuries tiirce Inuidred dollars for every dollar 
 
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tliey i;a\e to inissioiis, Christian (.-ducatioii ami every other l)eiievoleiit and 
 philantliropic work — all this while Europe and China were famishing for hread 
 to keep alive their bodies, and half the race without Christ, the I'read of Life, 
 for their Souls. 
 
 In the midst of such opportunities and conditions can we be satisfied to 
 have only one-tenth of our membership loyal to God as tithing stewards and 
 as personal soul-winners? We have taken only nur fir>t stci)s in vita! organi- 
 zation and in v;i\ inj; to our people, in an orderly way, tlie facts and objectives 
 necessary for their largest development and growth. 
 
 1912 
 
 1920 
 
 PERCENTAGE OF 
 TITHE PAID 
 
 As a denomination we have not yet attained in reaching the reasonable 
 objectives of the Four Million Fund. Our giving to all purposes registers 
 but forty-one percent of the tithe of the income of our people. The fifty-nine 
 percent of the tithe held back should challenge us to bring before our members 
 such information and tasks as will give no one an excuse for not rendering 
 unto God the things that belong to him. 
 
 Many of our institutions of learning are crowded with students and are 
 destitute of facilities for housing and training them. Our Home Missionary 
 and Church Erection Societies have taken but their first faltering steps in 
 the enlarged program for them. Many places in our Foreign fields have 
 been waiting for live years for their new buildings and they will not be forth- 
 coming unless the full Four Million Fund is secured. 
 
 The seven annual conferences which have reached their quota say to 
 the other conferences, "It can be done." The one thousand individual churches 
 which have over-subscribed their ([uota to the extent of $166,554 hark back to 
 the two thousand other churches which have achieveil l)ut a partial victory. 
 "Come on, let's do it." 
 
 Do we not owe it to the needy causes; to the churches which have provided 
 their share; do we not owe it to the members of other churches for their high- 
 est development; that provision be made for reaching the full program now 
 before the Church? We must give to all the laymen in our churches the joy 
 and sense of victory which have come to thousands. One writes, 
 
 ■"We have found Gods' service a keen delight and some of us never 
 knew before what exhilaration there is in cutting expenses for the sake 
 of defeating the devil. There has l>een real excitement of soul in taking 
 hold of God's plans and watching the answers to our iiraycrs." 
 
 Then there is the challenge of the unattained in full payment of the pledges 
 made. Isothing more wholesome could be done than to establish throughout our 
 whole denomination the habit of paying more than we pledge, rather than a 
 dollar less, and of paying week by week, or at the beginning of the year rather 
 than at the close. 
 
 The United Presbyterian Churches, with a membership of 157,0(10, have 
 set a standard for all the Protestant denominations in paying their i)ledges. 
 For 1919 they pledged for their regular benevolences which were apart from 
 their New World Movement. $642,637; they paid $724,097. For 1920 they 
 pledged $655,431, and they paid $725,(X)<) while giving more than twice that sum 
 for their New World Movement. 
 
 Shall we not resolve that the standard of stewardshi]) shall be so lifted 
 in every conference that each shall reach its full quota in cash? 
 
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THE CHALLENGE OF THE UNATTEMPTED 
 
 For centuries no one had attempted to reach the north pole. But after 
 many attempts by different nations the American flag was the first to wave 
 OA'er the top of the earth. 
 
 For countless ages Africa remained but little more than a great interroga- 
 tion point — an unexplored continent. No one was bold enough to penetrate its 
 vast interior until God called David Livingstone to attempt the seemingly 
 impossible. He crossed and recrossed this vast area of suffering, sinning, 
 humanity, and planted the Cross of Christ in its center, dying on his knees in 
 prayer to God for messengers to come and heal the open sore of the world. 
 The unattempted became the attained. Africa is open and thousands of Chris- 
 tian missionaries are workng for the transformation of the dark continent. 
 
 Can you find in the records of history anywhere that an attempt was made 
 to banish strong drink from a nation until a generation ago when heroic souls 
 in Kansas and in Maine struck out for prohibition? For many years they were 
 criticised, persecuted and baffled, but they pressed forward and God called 
 multiplied thousands to join them in their crusade, and today the unattempted 
 of fifty years ago has become the attained, and the Stars and Stripes are float- 
 ing over a nation without a legalized saloon. 
 
 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of 
 witnesss," shall we not attempt what hitherto has never been fully undertaken, 
 the enlistment of our whole constituency to discover and to fully carry out the 
 will of God for the present generation? 
 
 This colossal task of enlisting all, literally all the members of the church, 
 on behalf of all in need, must be seriously attempted as the next great advance, 
 It cannot be attained in a year or two. "Precedent ' and "Prejudice," watch 
 dogs at the gate of progress, will make rapid advance difficult in some places. 
 
 However, many local churches, with exceptional leaders, have been made 
 over in a few years. And we believe' any denomination can be transformed in 
 from ten to twenty years after its leaders see the worthwhile things to be done, 
 and set these things clearly before the eyes of the members of the churches, and 
 give much more attention to train the children and young people early in life to 
 form right aims and purposes concerning Christ and the extension of his cause. 
 
 In general the method of procedure will have to be adapted from time to 
 time so as to decentralize responsibility until the weight of this obligation shall 
 rest upon every man according to his ability. 
 
 This Conference is confronted with the challenge of both the unattained 
 and the unattempted. Shall we not here and now, as delegates, solemnly resolve, 
 by the help of God, to enter into the "regions beyond" in our local churches — 
 regions of doubt, of indifference, of self-indulgence, of unconsccrated lives and 
 property, and open them up for the sway of Christ and for the multitude of 
 souls who will never, never know the way of life unless this is done? 
 
 The call is from above, "Go ye." The call is from without, "Come over 
 and help us." The call is from within, "I am debtor." What an opportunity is 
 ours in this conference to answer this call for our three hundred and fifty 
 thousand members! 
 
 ' 5. 6". Hough, Executive Secretary 
 
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