26, the total objective being nearly $400,000,000. In most cases, for various reasons, the completion of the financial campaigns was delayed, but large sums were secured by all the denominations and the work was correspondingly strengthened.
In continuing the attention of the churches to evangelism (in the larger sense of enlisting individuals in the programme of Chris- tianity) a variety of methods has been employed. The earlier years of the decade saw the development of spectacular mass meet- ings led by a professional evangelist, this method reaching its culmination just before the war. In the latter part of the decade, however, more attention has been given to the work of the pastors themselves. City-wide campaigns, in which all or most of the churches cooperate, with services conducted by them separately but accord-
ing to a uniform plan, became common. Many denominations have departments and secretaries of evangelism, who cooperate with the Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council in developing interest and organizing the work.
Education. Religious education advanced conspicuously during the decade. In 1910 the Sunday-School Council of Evangelical De- nominations was formed, representing the official Sunday-school agencies of the Protestant churches; in 1912 the World's Sunday- School Association added to its executive committee the official representatives of the church boards; in 1914 the International Sunday-School Lessons-Committee took similar action; and in 1920 plans were made to amalgamate the International Sunday-School Association and the Sunday- School Council. The significance of
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