AN ECCLESIASTICAL AND STATISTICAL COVERING THE YEAR 1915 PREPARED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL STANFORD LIBRARY H. K. CARROLL, LL.D. ASSOCIATE SECRETARY IN WASHINGTON MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT CONTENTS PAGE V HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL..... Origin, 1905 to 1908-Functions-State and Local Federa- tions-Financial Support-Officers-Denominational Repre- sentatives-Administrative Committee. CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, AND RULES OF ORDER... Evangelism-Social Service-Peace and Arbitration-Chris- tian Education-Foreign Missions-Home Missions—Tem- perance-Family Life-Sunday Observance-The Church and Country Life-State and Local Federations-Feder- DIRECTORY OF THE CONSTITUENT BODIES Chief Denominational Officers-Missionary and Other Boards-Educational and Benevolent Institutions-Period- icals-Etc.-Statistics of the Constituent Bodies. DIRECTORY OF OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES..... DIRECTORY OF INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATIONS... Missionary Federated Agencies-Brotherhoods-Christian PEACE SOCIETIES 167 ..... A FIRST WORD In order to meet a wide general demand for such information as is contained in this Year Book, it was deemed advisable to furnish it for the bodies termed and considered religious bodies by the United States Census Bureau. Indeed, it is impossible to draw any further lines of demarcation other than the distinction which is made between those evangelical bodies which are federated in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and the other bodies not so included. For fuller information regarding the Federal Council, its departments and commissions, its constituent bodies and their departments, boards and committees, reference should be made to the large amount of literature continuously published by the Federal Council, an up-to-date bibliography of which appears at the end of the book. Particularly valuable books in this connection are The Churches of the Federal Council and The Social Service Year Book, 1915. The first Federal Council Year Book is not all its users will wish it to be, nor all its editor would make it. In the next number many things will be added, some things will be omitted, there will be a better arrangement of contents, and it will be issued at an earlier date. It is too much to hope that the first effort will be found without fault; but not too much to say that it is, at least, up to date. The valuable aid of two hundred correspondents is gratefully acknowledged. H. K. CARROLL. |