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McDowell President, Jubilee Commission THE EDUCATIONAL JUBILEE A Chronicle and a Forecast PRAYER JOHN WILLIAM HANCHER Compiler and Editor CLARENCE EDWIN FLYNN 'Associate Editor' PUBLISHED BY THE EDUCATIONAL-JUBILEE COMMISSION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN PRESS CINCINNATI Kin , UNI VI UM 1 Y 8 (VV^-z^si Copyright, 191 BY THE EDUCATIONAL-JUBILEE COMMISSION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ^ebtcatcb TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND TO THE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AUTHORS ^ WILLIAM ERASER McDOWELI. THOMAS NICHOLSON ABRAM WINEGARDNER HARRIS JOHN WILLIAM HANCHER WILLIAM GEORGE BABCOCK CLARENCE EDWIN FLYNN WILLIAM HENRY SHIPMAN EDUCATIONAL-JUBILEE COMMISSION WILLIAM FRASER McDOWELL, President SAMUEL PLANTZ, Secretary THOMAS NICHOLSON, Chairman, Executive Committee I. B. SCHRECKENGAST, Secretary, Executive Committee JOHN WILLIAM HANCHER, Director JOSEPH R. HARKER WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD *WILLIAM A. RANKIN ALFRED E. CRAIG EZRA SQUIER TIPPLE ABRAM W. HARRIS WILLIAM H. McMASTER tHERBERT WELCH JOHN H. RACE LEMUEL H. MURLIN Deceased tRESIGNED CONTENTS AND AUTHORS Book I. Origin and Development I. Pioneering. Bishop Wm. F. McDowell, 21 II. Beginnings. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, 23 III. Touching the Goal. Secretary A. W. Harris, 41 IV. Primaries and Fundamentals, 48 V. Pathfinding, - 72 VI. The Farther Reach, 88 Book II. The Jubilee System VII. The System, 105 VIII. Publicity. William G. Babcock, 116 IX. Organization. Clarence E. Flynn, 197 X. Prayer. William H. Shipman, 257 Book III. Achievement and Outlook XI. Composite Movements, 305 XII. Quest and Conquest, 322 XIII. The Story in Figures, 396 XIV. Annuity Rates, 401 XV. Lights and High Lights, 409 XVI. The Call of Tomorrow, 429 Note.—Chapters not otherwise ascribed are written by the Editor. FOREWORD The announcement of thirt\'-fi\'e millions of resources fheToul added to the treasuries of the academies, colleges, uni- Result versities, theological schools, and \\'esley Foundations of the Methodist Episcopal Church is the formal message of this volume. The development was in progress for nearly two quadrenniums. Howe\'er, fully sixty-two per cent of the total, or twenty-two million dollars, is comparatively new. The gifts, pledges, properties, probated bequests, et cetera, representing it have been realized since the General Conference of 1916, or within the past twenty-eight months. The movement was named the Educational-Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Because the name of the movement and the name of the Educational-Jubilee Commission of the Church were used interchangeably, there has been some confusion in the public thought. The Commission has dealt with the propaganda that looked to this large increase in our educational resources. To this end it conducted many "Jubilee Campaigns." This mes- sage deals with the Jubilee as a whole, and reports returns to the treasuries of our institutions from every kind and type and form of development. Essentially, this is a composite \olume. The writer of A Composite Volume this Foreword is its compiler and editor. He has been assisted most ably by the regular Jubilee workers and others whose names appear in \arious capacities on the title pages. He has been assisted also in no small way by the greater company of men and women who were associated in the Jubilee ser\'ice, and who have responded cheerfully and happily to requests for incidents and ex- periences on the field, which could not have been known to the editor otherwise. Many of these we ha\-e used verbatim. Some we have condensed. In other instances we ha\e joined two or more together. Sometimes we have used them without quota- 13 THE EDUCATIONAL-JUBILEE tion marks. Besides these, there remains a goodly supply not used in any way. This does not mean that we think we have selected the best from the splendid accumulation of matter sent us by the Jubilee workers. It means only that we have selected the materials that have seemed to us to fit best into the general scheme, plan, purpose, and mission of this volume. All these good folks have placed the editor under obligations, and he here and now makes grateful acknowledgment. Special acknowledgment is due The Reverend Clarence E. Flynn, associate editor. To his loyalty, devotion, skill, acumen, and keen discernment the Educational-Jubilee, the Board of Education, the Educational Association, and the Church are under obligation. Wider Ac- It is the aim of this volume to present the faces of the the Episcopal "ment "i^rnbers of the Commission, Advisory Com- mittee, and the Jubilee workers who were employed more or less permanently through the Central OfiSce. This Central Office force numbered forty-two people. It would be a pleasure to our constituents to see in this book the faces of that multitude of other folks who gave of their time, strength, devotion, and efficiency as helpers in bringing the Jubilee task to successful issue. Their name was legion, for they were thousands. Nearly all of them served without money consideration. What need I say more? Their faces are not here, but the best blood of their hearts and the best faith of their lives are embodied in the achievements of which this book is simple story. In addition to the faces which do appear, we have under- taken to carry in halftone one building or campus scene of each one of our institutions of every grade. These have been selected without reference to whether they are rep- resented in the financial returns. Without economy of time, expense, or personal comfort, the group of people responsible for the compilation and presentation of this volume have toiled that it might be accurate as to statement of fact, and competent as to presentation. PM^jWe In dedicating it to the Board of Education of the Errors Methodist Episcopal Church and to the Educational Asso- 14 THE EDUCATIONAL-JUBILEE ciation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, we crave their indulgence. We know full well that notwithstanding the oft-repeated checking and comparing, some errors will have escaped us. We present it to the Church and to the general public with no little concern that it may be pronounced worth- while—the story, not the millions; of course the thirty- five millions are worthwhile. The task was tremendous. It looked impossible. But A Large Task God was on His throne; His generous folks got busy; and all His people seemed to grow interested. The prayers of the multitudes were unbottled; the hundreds grew into thousands, the thousands into millions, and the millions multiplied until they were five and thirty. To God be all the glory. To His Church be the greater opportunity. To His folks be everlasting gratitude. Faithfully and sincerely, John W. Hancher. President Samuel Plantz Secretary, Jubilee Commission Bishop Thomas Nicholson Chairman, Executive Committee BOOK I ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I PIONEERING There have been a good many significant and striking a Telling hours in the history of our Church. One of them was the ^"'" hour when the Bishops adopted the appeal for the Twentieth Century Thank-offering. They had not been of one mind as to the amount they should ask, though they were wholly united in their recognition of the mercies of God through the years. They finally adopted the sum of twenty millions, because they were coming to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. But they were almost overwhelmed by the size of their own conclusions when they did it. Quite as significant as the offering itself was the pro- TenlUillions portion of it which these leaders of the Church decided {?' Christian bducafaon should be given to Christian education. They were not professional educators. They were not college and uni- versity presidents supremely interested in their own in- stitutions. They were general superintendents of the Church, charged with the duty of "overseeing the spiritual and temporal business of the Church." With the whole church and the whole world in their view, they decided to ask the Church to give ten of these twenty millions for Christian education. It is doubtful whether a more hope- ful thing has happened in our recent history than that. All that was twenty years ago. The movement itself The Present "*'*™'"*"* has pretty nearly become ancient history.