The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-24

The enterprises of the denomina-
ton may be reviewed under the
divisions of missionary, educational
and charitable.
1. The collection of funds for
home and foreign missions is under
the supervision of a board appointed
by the state association. a secre-
tary represents each department of
the work, and contributions are
divided by designation of the givers
or by an agreed rule among the north
ern and southern boards. There are
not two branches of the denomina-
ton but merely two agencies through
which missions are prosecuted, and
almost every church contributes to
both. The total contributions last
year to this department were $780,
900. \ dozen or more of men and
women have gone to the foreign field
from the state.
The Missouri Baptist General As
ISOLATION was organized in 1884, and
undertakes to spread the gospel
| throughout the state. At first mis-
sionaries were SEM to travel over
wide territories; but in later years
the effort has been to establish mis-
sious in the cities and to assist weak
churches in supporting pastors. The
annual expenditure for this purpose
IS about $4,000 direct, besides the
amounts that are raised incidentally
for church building and for Sunday
SCHOOLS and for colportage. In this
work seventy workers are maintained
and churches brought up to the point
of self support.
There are ~ district associations,
embracing one or more counties in
THEN limits, and the object of these
i. to cultivate the dcnuminational
interests within their W borders.
. ltltN lltlliNtlh llli0Nl'll''iI 'S' ~
/ houscs, foster SUNDAY schools, main
tain academies. gather statistics and
. d fuse Information among the mem
ber-. These eXpeud in preaching
the gospel the sum of S25 900 annu-
ally. In the city districts there are
large sums expended in purely local
work that do not appear in any of
these reports.
From these figures it will be seen
that there is an annual expenditure
for missions at home and abroad of
not less than $50, 900, besides private
gifts and extra work that might find
full place in the report of n denomi-
nation compactly organized.
.. At a very early day the leaders
saw tn" need of a system of schools,
at least of some facilities for training
a ministry, In 1919 William Jewell
College was chartered and put under
the supervision of the general assoc
citation. From the time of its open
necessary suspension during the
civil war, growing classes have
enjoyed reasonable and increasing
facilities for literary, scientific anc
theological training. The institution
has a productive endowment o.
S2l5, 900, besides grounds and build
ing worth 100000. one third of it,
students are preparing for the minis
try. Its location at Liberty puts ii
in reach Of two or three states, and
in the enter of the richest section
of the country.
stephens College, located at Col
umhia, was accepted twenty five
years ago as a gift from the locaI
control to tn" general body, and
since then has sustained this widel
relation to the denomination. 1t has
a handsome property largely the
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