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Sunday, March 17, 2019

American Methodists Helping French War Orphans, 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, March 8, 1919

Methodist Work in France Good

Paris, Feb. 15—(By Mail)—American Methodists as part of the church’s $120 million centenary movement, have just completed an investment of $50,000 in purchasing a site at Grenoble for an institution where war orphans may be educated and cared for.

“Burdened down with a tremendous war debt, France finds herself unable to act as foster mother to all the thousands of children who have been left without parents,” said Dr. Frank Mason North, head of the Methodist delegation now in Europe which made the arrangements. “Schools such as the one just founded, are destined to be insurance policies for the future of France.”

$40,000 of the money spent came from the board of foreign missions in the form of special gifts; and the remaining $20,000 from the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. The institution already is endowed with $10,000, which has been contributed towards its maintenance.

Besides the school itself, the property will include a demonstration farm of 250 acres, where peasants of the surrounding districts may learn up-to-date methods for increasing productivity of the soil.


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