. Reports of commissions and mission boards, moderator's address, council sermon, minutes, roll of delegates, constitution and by-laws, etc. … July 1-8, 1921. ked out by any single interest among us. These Boardsbegan the period with a rate of 29c. For two years theydropped to 27c but returned to the level of 29c. In 1917,doubtless because of the Jubilee Canvass, they rose to ZAy., upon the conclusion of that eftort they re-turned to the long established record of 29c. The concertedeffort immediately changed the receipts of the WomansBoards until in 1920, the figure had risen to 5
. Reports of commissions and mission boards, moderator's address, council sermon, minutes, roll of delegates, constitution and by-laws, etc. … July 1-8, 1921. ked out by any single interest among us. These Boardsbegan the period with a rate of 29c. For two years theydropped to 27c but returned to the level of 29c. In 1917,doubtless because of the Jubilee Canvass, they rose to ZAy., upon the conclusion of that eftort they re-turned to the long established record of 29c. The concertedeffort immediately changed the receipts of the WomansBoards until in 1920, the figure had risen to 54c, a gain of86% over the standard which had prevailed so steadily,except during the Jubilee Canvass. The receipts of the A. M. A. have increased 116%, goingfrom 19c to 41c. The Church Building Society made an in-crease of 155% over 1918, and the Board of Ministerial Re-lief made an increase of 100%. It is evident, therefore, thatsince all ihe Societies shared in the increased receipts, theimprovement could not have been due to the good fortuneof any one. CONGREGATIONAL WORLD MOVEMENT 119 APPORTIONMENT RECEIPTSBY STATES 1910 W 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 ;. 1910 11 The question next arose as to whether the remarkableincrease was not due to the distinct advance in some par-ticular region, consequent upon local economic variationsor because of the special efficiency of certain state organi-zations. The third graph represents an examination of thereceipts by states. In making out the list it seemed wiseto choose one state from the Atlantic Coast and anotherfrom the Pacific and one from the Interior, one state which 120 CONGREGATIONAL WORLD MOVEMENT was urban, another which was largely rural; a state of thedistinctly home missionary character and a state in whichCongregationalism had no great inherited strength. Forthis purpose we chose Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa, Okla-homa, Georgia and Southern California. Endeavoring to ascertain whether these states were ex-ceptional, we also w
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