Endowments; Clergy--Pensions; Congregational churches--Clergy--Salaries, etc.; United States; National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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National Council of Congregational Churches; for annuity fund for congregational ministers
PILGRIM MEMORIAL FUND. 100 East 42nd Street New York. Established by vote of the National Council, Columbus, O., October 13 1917. The first minimum objective of $5,000,000 was increased by vote of the National Council, in 1921, to $8,000,000. The prin cipal of this fund is held in perpetuity by the Corporation for the National Council to be invested and reinvested, and the distributable income as determined by said Corporation, is turned over to the Board of Trustees of the Annuity Fund for Congregational Ministers to be used to aid in providing Old Age Annuities and Disability Annuities for Congregational ministers who become members of the Annuity Fund and Death Benefits for their widows and minor orphan children. The Pilgrim Memorial Fund Commission: Henry M. Beardsley, L.L.D., Chairman. Charles S. Mills, D.D., General Secretary. William T. Boult, Financial Secretary. Executive Committee: Lucius R. Eastman, Chairman; Donald J. Cowling D.D. LL.D., B.H. Fancher, Oscar Е. Maurer, D.D., Lewis T. Reed, D.D. The Pilgrim Memorial Fund had January 1, 1923, 106,106 subscriptions, aggregating $6,318,448.06, on which net collections above expenses were $3,739 067.51, including legacies amounting to $15,975. The Fund is singularly attractive to any one who wishes to make any gift or bequest count to the utmost through the years to come. FORM OF BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the Corporation for the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States $...... to become part of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund." [SOURCE: Executive Committee, National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States. The Congregational Year-Book, Statistics for 1922, vol. 45. New York, Cooperstown Press, 1922, pp. 9. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=J20sAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 10 Oct. 2018.] The National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States was a mainline Protestant, Christian denomination in the United States. It was established in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1865 and existed until 1931. In 1928, there were 5,497 Congregational churches in the U.S. with a membership of 939,130. These churches were served by 5,648 ministers. The Congregational churches originated from the Puritans of colonial New England. Congregationalists were traditionally Calvinists strongly committed to congregational polity, from which the denomination took its name. In 1931, the Congregationalists merged with the Christian Connection to form the Congregational Christian Churches. The National Council is a predecessor body to several American denominations, including the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference." [SOURCE: "National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_the_Congregational_Churches_of_the_United_States. Accessed 10 Oct. 2018.]