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ments elsewhere. Your Board seeks
earnestly to minister in its field to the
best advantage with the means the
Church provides. It prays that the de
cisions reached may
contribute to a
more effective Home Mission Field. It
can be most effective in its "labor" only
when the Church seeks effectiveness in
its "prayer to God for
YOU HAVE PRAYED, NOW YOU
CAN HELP
By A. J. McFarland, D.D.
Several weeks ago a letter was sent
to the superintendents of the Sabbath
Schools of our church urging coopera
tion in publicizing the financial needs of
the Christian Amendment Movement.
The inspiration for that letter came
from a young
woman in one of our
smaller congregations who urged her
Sabbath School to give the Movement
support so that she would have a good
example to set before other Sabbath
Schools in her city when she went to
ask them to help out. We felt her in
terest and enthusiasm were worth imi
tating, thus we told the story and sug
gested to other Sabbath Schools that
they "go and do thou likewise." This
small congregation of 25 members prom
ised $10.00 per month. We said in our
letter that if 200 Sabbath Schools could
be found who would promise $5.00 per
month the C.A.M. could get along nice
ly.
It was not our intention that these
should be all Covenanter Sabbath
Schools, nor even a fourth of them Cove
nanter Sabbath Schools, but we did hope
for a real drive in
every community
where we have a church, to get other
churches in their community behind the
Movement. A similar letter was sent to
nearly 400 out-of-bound Covenanters
urging them to approach the churches in
their local communities. Preceding that,
some 23,000 letters were sent to minis
ters of all denominations all over the
United States, enclosing a poster which
listed 185 stations that are carrying
"The Way Out," and asking for finan
cial support.
It is not our thought that any of this
money that comes from the Sabbath
Schools is to take money away from the
budget. If any Sabbath School has sent
money to the C.A.M. due to this appeal
which was sent out, that you feel would
have gone to the budget, please let me
know the amount and I will send to the
budget, out of my own funds, the
amount you have sent in.
I happen to know that this question
was up in the Sabbath School that is
sending in the $10.00 per month, and
the reply
was that this was not to in
terfere with the budget. I have seen
Covenanter Sabbath Schools give money
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to the Gideons, the Greeks, the Anti-
Saloon League and many other good
causes. Why should not our Sabbath
Schools give to another national organi
zation such as the C.A.M., if it will serve
as an example and inspiration to other
Sabbath Schools in the community to do
likewise.
The need of the C.A.M. is critical. One
person can do only so much. I have been
asked by the Committee to try to keep
the radio stations booked, up to near
180; to try to take care of all matters
in connection with the stations receiv
ing tapes; to go to Washington to lobby
for the Bill; to keep plugging away at
trying to raise the money. It reminds me
of an elderly
man who used to work
across the fence from us in Oklahoma.
There were four or five of us boys and
our father working on one side of the
fence and this lone man on the other.
He was quite a joker and as we met at
the end of the field one day he said,
"One time there was a lone negro hoeing
cotton in a field, and right across the
fence were ten negroes hoeing. He
looked at the ten negroes and said, "Ten
negroes ten rows, one negro one row.
HOW I HATE ONE NEGRO." I am
getting to the place where I feel almost
like the lone negro. I simply cannot do
everything in this work and do any of
the tasks well. It looked as though we
would be on 300 stations by the end of
the year, April 1, but lack of money has
prohibited that.
To get this money is a job. Sending
letters to complete strangers, or one
man going into new communities and
interviewing complete strangers will not
do this job alone. Where are we going
to get these 200 Sabbath Schools who
will promise $5.00 per month to this
work Most of you laymen know mem
bers of other churches in your commun
ity quite intimately. Why not tell them
of our need, show them the poster list
ing the stations carrying "The Way
Out," give them literature, and urge
them to take this up
with their own
Sabbath School. We will furnish you
with the ammunition if you will fire the
gun. You pastors know neighboring min
isters. Why not ask for an opportunity
to speak in their church We have plac
ards, flannelgraph sets, all kinds of
literature to put in your hands. You
could surely
use the poster and tell of
the 185 stations now carrying
the pro
gram, and urge financial support from
these sister congregations.
We have invested too much money in
the C.A.M.
to see it slow up
at this
point, when a little push by all of us
would give it a new release and send it
on to still greater heights than it has
ever reached before.
One church with only
fifteen active
members,
and without a pastor, has sent
$60.00 ($5.00 per mo. for a year) to this
Movement within recent days,
and I
know this will not interfere with their
giving to the budget. One of their lay
men has a date to present this cause in
one of the largest churches in their city,
using the placards. A few congregations
showing interest like that and we would
be on the way again.
I do not know what plans are made
farther than this, but one of our mis
sions has sent in its first $5.00, and my
guess is the pastor is planning a definite
campaign in his local community to
get other churches to follow his exam
ple. What is your church doing
About eight or ten sets of placards
are on hand, together with the lecture
that goes with them. We will gladly
send these to anyone who feels called
to use them. There are some fifteen or
twenty flannelgraph sets in
pastor's homes, or here,
different
or in the Pitts
burgh office. These can be made avail
able. But everyone, layman as well as
pastor, may have a worker's packet, a
letter together with the poster and other
enclosures which you can use in inter
viewing laymen or ministers of other
denominations and seeking their help
for this worthy cause.
This simply consists in taking an
envelope, with a letter already written,
and with other enclosures, to a neigh
boring
minister or Sabbath School Su
perintendent, telling him that you come
with an earnest plea for the help of
his church for this interdenominational
movement. The letter will explain what
is wanted. Remind him of the great need
for a spiritual awakening in America.
Tell him of "The Way Out" and of the
185 stations that are carrying the pro
gram. Remind him that since he is an
American, and this is a Movement to
save America from destruction he and
his church should get in behind it. Let
him read the letter and ask him if he
will take this up with his Sabbath
School. Your pastor or S.S. Supt. should
have one of these letters at his home
right now. Ask him about it, so you will
know what it is.
This must be the united effort of
everyone who reads this article. How
many of these letters can you use They
are ready and will be sent to you im
mediately upon request. Send to me
here at Sterling, Ks. We know that you
are continuing to pray, for we see con
tinual results. Letters were sent recent
ly to 75 stations carrying "Unshackled,"
urging them to carry "The Way
Out."
From the replies received thus far, two
new states have been added to our list
of those carrying "The Way Out" pro
gram, making forty in all. There have
been some cancellations in recent
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