. Reports of commissions and mission boards, moderator's address, council sermon, minutes, roll of delegates, constitution and by-laws, etc. … July 1-8, 1921. s. A simultaneous campaign was advocated and liter-ature was prepared presenting the whole set of interests asone great cause. The response to this endeavor was im-mediate and encouraging. The line of the chart indicatesa startling change in the rate of giving, bringing the percapita up to $ For 1920, the Movement followed sub-stantially the same plans, being able, however, to operatethem much more thoroughly and widely. The chart s
. Reports of commissions and mission boards, moderator's address, council sermon, minutes, roll of delegates, constitution and by-laws, etc. … July 1-8, 1921. s. A simultaneous campaign was advocated and liter-ature was prepared presenting the whole set of interests asone great cause. The response to this endeavor was im-mediate and encouraging. The line of the chart indicatesa startling change in the rate of giving, bringing the percapita up to $ For 1920, the Movement followed sub-stantially the same plans, being able, however, to operatethem much more thoroughly and widely. The chart showsthat the rate of increase vv^as again accelerated, rising tothe level of $ per capita. There can be no question as to the fact of this very not-able advance in our giving. There was at first, however,some question as to the explanation of it. It was urged by some that this striking improvement wasdue to the increased activity of some one or two Boards CONGREGATIONAL WORLD MOVEMENT 117 which may have consequently received large contributionseither from a few individuals or because of special emer-gency appeals. APPORTIONMENT RECEIPTSBY SOCIETIES. 1910 It 12 13 14 15 6 17 18 © 20 The graph No. 2 was prepared to ascertain whether theadvance is due to the superior efficiency of some one of theBoards. An analysis was made of the receipts of all theBoards with the exception of the Education Society, where 118 CONGREGATIONAL WORLD MOVEMENT figures could not be compared, due to its will be observed that the American Board, which led allthe Societies in 1910, with a per capita rate of 48c, steadilydeclined in its per capita receipts until in 1917, it had drop-ped to 38c. Immediately, however, with the concertedeffort, the receipts of the Board began to rise, until for 1920they had reached 80c, a net increase of more than 90%over the figure for 1918. The Home Missionary Society, State and National, re-ported in 1910 the rate of 44c per capita, from which fig-
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