Among its 1,323,000 communicants the Protestant Episcopal Church counts many a wealthy man. But the Church is no more proof against financial troubles than any other. Successively its National Council has had to reduce the yearly budgets voted in 1931 from $4,225,000 to $2,898,000 to $2,716,855. Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends. If this is not made up the National Council may abandon missionary work in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska where venerable Peter Trimble Rowe has been laboring as bishop for 40...
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