Criticizes Lack of Aid to Missionaries
By Louis Cassels United Press International
"One Sunday in the Near East I attended a mission church. The building was small, one-room, dilapidated. There was no regular minister or missionary. During the service, chickens kept putting their heads up through holes in the floor and curious children looked in through the broken windows.
"I was ashamed. I thought how many American churches spend more on music alone than it would cost to provide a full-time missionary. For the first time I realized that a Christian church, like an individual, can be self-centered."
Those words were written by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Donald H. Douds of Erie, Pa., in a recent issue of Presbyterian Life Magazine.
THE REV. MR. DOUDS has no monopoly on the sore conscience he brought home from the Near East. Clergymen and laymen in many denominations are concerned about the contrast between the vast sums of money which America's churches spend on themselves, and the relatively insignificant sums which they contribute to the world missions of Christianity.
There are notable exceptions. Some local churches give half or more of their total income to the work of Christ beyond their own parish boundaries. But this kind of sharing is by no means typical.
Statistics compiled by the Year-
book of American Churches show
that the average U.S. Protestant
congregation uses 82 cents of every
dollar it takes in for its own local
expenses.
THE REMAINING 18 cents is parcelled out among a variety of "benevolences." The vast majority of this goes into home missions or other national programs of the parent denominations.
Only about 3 per cent of the contributor's dollar goes outside of the United States to help the struggling Christian churches of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Comparable figures are not available for Roman Catholic churches. But Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Director of the Catholic Mission Secretariat for the United States, said recently American Catholics have not done as well as Protestants in supporting missions.
A liberal estimate of Catholic giving, added to the published Protestant figures, yields a grand total of about $250 million a year contributed by all of the churches of America to the worldwide Christian mission.
THEIS I is one-fourth of the annual amount that U.S. churches are currently spending on handsome new buildings for their own use.
It was not to the man in the pew, but to the people who make up church budgets, locally and nationally, that the Rev. Mr. Douds was speaking when he said:
"How we use our money is the acid test of our faith and our love; and this is true for churches as well as individuals. As we compose our budgets in our local churches, Christ is watching us. Are we obeying his command to love others as we love ourselves?"
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Officials of the Fulbright program today issued a reminder to interested students that the deadline for the submission of applications for Fulbright and Foreign Study awards is tomorrow, Oct. 20, for the academic year 1962-63. Applications must be returned to 306 Fraser on or before that date.
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Church Collects Old IOU From Navy
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — (UPI)— The Mill Methodist Church has won a victory over the Navy.
The church agreed in 1944 to remove its steeple as a flying hazard for a base constructed nearby for World War II training. It was agreed the Navy would replace the steeple after the war.
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But the Navy moved out without carrying out the agreement and no copy of the pact could be found. Church officials recently uncovered the record and the Navy sent a check for $3,500.
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