Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1920 — INTERCHURCH MOVEMENT TO BE KEPT IN ACTION [ARTICLE]

INTERCHURCH MOVEMENT TO BE KEPT IN ACTION

• New York, July B.—(Special)— । The interchurch world' movement I will be continued, though on a । greatly modified basis. One outstanding modification will be the spending of less money. This was decided by a unanimous vote this ' evening at a special meeting of the general committee of the intercliurch and representatives of the thirty denominations who have been . affiliated with it. This session was held in the assembly hall of the foreign missions council of the United States and ' Canada, attended by 150 men and I women from all parts of the country. Baptista Will Give Aid 1 To the surprise of many, both the , Baptist and Presbyterian denomin-. ; ations were represented, in spite of the fact that both had withdrawn I from the interchurch, the Baptists after arranging to pay so much of the $2,500,000 as their leaders thought their share, for which they had underwritten the movement and .the Presbyterians after agreeing to pay $1,000,000 which their executive commission undertook to raise । for the movement. : The presiding officer was Fred B. : Smith, Vice Chairman. Austin Leader of Baptists i The Baptist church was represented by Ernest L. Austin, director of public welfare in Philadelphia, who, a fortnight ago, in Buffalo, was , elected president of the Northern : Baptist convention; and also by H. R. Greaves, business manager of the board of promotion of the Northern Baptist convention, which has just raised $65,000,000. I The Presbyterian church was represented by two members of the executive commission. They 1 were the Rev. Dr. Henry C. Swearingen, pastor of the House of Hope, St. Paul, Minn., and the Rev. Dr. George B. Stewart, president of Auburn Theological seminary. Auburn, N. Y - „ . . I Today’s meeting was called to ■ hear the report of a business men s •committee, which was appointed a fortnight ago at a meeting of th# executive committee held when it looked as if the interehurch was shipwrecked financially. The chairman of the business men s committee was James H. Speers, presi1 dent of James McCutcheon company and another member was Raymond Robins.