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Four Good Reasons for a National
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“For God so loved the world, that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on
Him should not perish but have everlasting life.’’

 

 

tainty just ended, the people of Canada have prospered. Yet,
spiritual glories revealed to us in the great Conflict are
being clouded by drifts of class-hostility, mutual suspicion and

LD caus the four years’ fury of War, and the year of uncer-

cynical materialism.

The world is troubled. Olid conceptions are giving place to new. “Yet, the Kingdom of
God remains, firmly grounded on the great principle of love. It has the one remedy for a world

 
 

diseased:—“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

Five Christian Communions—Anglican, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist and Presby-

terian—call their various constituencies and the whole nation to a livelicr and more sacrificial

Christianity. ‘They are making a great financial appeal.

know the reasons.
The sharp rise in

The Decline prices the world over
of the Dollar has aliected injur-

iously the position of
every man working for a fixed salary. Mis-
sionaries are in this category. Stipends
that were ample in 1900, and nearly ade-
quate in 1912, are utterly insufficient in
1920. There has been no general increase
in these stipends. There cannot be, until
the Canadian people scale-up their giving
to balance the decline in purchasing-power
of the Canadian dollar.

International exchange has been unstable.
Money for export has been subject to heavy dis-
counts. In view also of the increased cost of
materials and of labor, any new building pro-
gramme abroad has been out of the question. But
the need for new buildings is imperative. Some
missionaries are living in clay-floored huts.

New Standards Sesssce: a oe

are Necessary tist Conventions,
the Congrega-

tional Union, the Methodist Conferences,
and the Presbyterian General Assembly,
have set new standards for the salaries of
Clergymen actively engaged in Canada.
But, for the Missionaries, and for the Su-
perannuated Ministers, no increases have
been possible.

One of the aims of the Forward Movement is
to show the fine-spirited, generous, Christian peo-
ple of Canada that the old standards of giving for
Missions must be revised. It is impossible to main-
tain existing stations, even on a pre-War basis,
without more men and much more revenue.

Coincident with

2: he Call this financial difficul-

from Abroad ty, new and glorious
opportunities for the

extension of Christian teaching have ap-
peared. In India, literally millions of
outcastes” are pleading for Missionary
preachers and doctors. In China, a new
National spirit has been born. Missionary
teachers are urgently required to help form-
ulate the National system of education.
Hospitals, Missionary nurses, doctors and
dentists, are heartily welcomed by the peo-
ple. From Japan, Africa and the Islands
of the Sea, comes the same story.

The United National Campaign

Representing the Simultaneous but Independent Forward Movements of the Anglican,
Baptist, Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian Communions in Canada ‘.

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4o¢ s1ome the work of evan-

ixesponsibility gelizing Indians
and Eskimos must
now be undertaken wholly by the Canadian
Church. The rapid growth of our cities,
the expansion of the West, the great immi-
gration of the last twenty years, and the
depopulation of rural areas, make a four-
fold problem which can be solved only by
radical readjustments of policy and greatly
increased resources of men and money.

Finally, the de-
cline of the dollar
has created difficul-

The Pressure on
the Colleges ties in financing the
Colleges and Uni-

versities established and maintained for the train-
ing of the Clergy. Last year, one College which
had been able before the War barely to subsist,
faced an additional charge for coal alone of $1600.
All other expenditures have risen in like propor-
tion. Christianity has been the mother of Higher
Education, A thoroughly trained Ministry is the
great need of the times.

. The men of faith, filled with the Holy Ghost,
who proclaim the Gospel story by the frozen Cop-
permine, beneath the cone of Fujiyama, along the
banks of the Yangtse and the Ganges are the pro-
duct of our Canadian Colleges. There the Vision
first appeared to them. The Church must stand
behind these institutions.

These are the
facts. Faced with
such conditions,

The Unity of
Faith and Prayer the church lead.
ers, at first, were

appalled. They went to their knees, first in sep-
arate denominational groups, then in company.
Putting aside for the time being differences of
religious temperament, considering only their
common belief in the Everlasting Father, the
Almighty Son, and the everpresent Holy Ghost,
they prayed together. Then they arose, thrilled
= a artes of the wonderful Missionary op-
portunity, to appeal together to the whole body
of Christians in Gensde
You are a believer in the
The Greatest Lora Jesus Christ, and
: in the Gospel He pro-
of All Gifts claimed. Your country
has become great through
Christianity. The hope and love of the Gospel
have warmed your heart and illumined your life.
Next week you will be asked by the representa-
tives of your Church to show practical proof of
your convictions. Be prepared—not to give a
trifle out of your abundance, but to taste the full
sweetness of Sacrifice.

  
  

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