Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1919 — BISHOP ADVOCATES CHURCH ADVERTISING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BISHOP ADVOCATES CHURCH ADVERTISING

Bishop James Wise of the Episcopal diocese of Kansas is the leading advocate of advertising in his church. Bishop Wise has announced emphatically that the press should be a great medium for the message of Christianity and that churches should advertise their services as intelligently and persistently as a merchant advertises his wares. The bishop was a member of the press committee at the triennial general convention of the church in Detroit add since then has been tourIng the middle West speaking In the Interest of the Episcopal church’s na-tion-wide campaign. To carry out his Ideas, Bishop Wise early inaugurated church advertising throughout his diocese, and as a result was able to. Inform the communicants concerning the progress of the church’s nation-wide campaign when It was proposed to launch one big movement to provide men, women and funds for the expansion and extension of all the Episcopal church’s activities, especially missions, religious education and social service.

The Rt. Rev. James Wise.