The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-18
GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN
SLlNDAY7SCHOOL WORK
Report Submitted This Year by Dr.. Frost is One Of
the Best the Board Has Ever Presented
to the Convention.

The report of the Sunday school and
Bible board, which was prepared and
read by Rev. DR.. J. NJ. Frost, the secre-,
tary OF the board and the general man.
ager OF the publishing house, was a
strictly business document. The board
has been in existence only sixteen
years, and 1t has proven, under Dr..
Frost's Wise management, one OF the
most successful enterprises the con-
vention has ever set on foot. OF the
past years work the report says
There has been an advance OF sl4,
s7O.66 in the receipts over what they
were last year. This gives a total Of
receipts for the year OF 3161,43s.O7.
This advance though not so great as
last year, Is gratifying, and shows i'm
mense advancement in other things
that cannot be estimated or even tabu-
lated. The work has grown in every
direction and in every department,
Distribution of Funds.
'The work has been conducted upon
basis as economical as is safe and
consistent with aggressiveness in
general UNCONVENTIONAL work. Aft.r
meeting all obligations, so as to Leave
no Indebtedness, we are able out OF
the earnings Of the years business to
place the several amounts herewith
| dcSl RnateQ as 1OllOWS.-.rHs t .s.s
Tho home mission board....S 2,O0c 90
The foreign mission board. 1000 90
Six State boards .......... 1000 90
Permanent Bible fund !. 1900 90
The building fund. .......... $4,000 90
The seminary guarantee fund 4.5oo on
The seminary lectureship 4. $50 90
The seminary chair Sunday
school pedagogy ...,....... 1854 II
The boards field work. ...... 1928 IL
w. NJ. U. expense fund .,.... 400 10
Other UNCONVENTIONAL inter-
ests ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7O5 Is
| t5s. Et * 5s-
Total for tho year ......$41,743 Cd
These several sums represent cash
amounts. And In addition something
over, nine thousand dollars ($9,0OO) in
colportage supplies and in periodicals
| to mission Sunday schools have beer
appropriated to the home board for
eign board and to the several State
mission boards and to district boards
i These large sums represent what tho
board Is yielding to the denomination
In q financial way"
i Comparative Statement.
Il. DR.. Frost furnishes financial tab {
! for the sixteen years OF the boards
life showing wonderful growth. and IL
his report comments as follows:'
"These figures tell their own story
as to success In business, and as &c
what the business has yielded to tho
denomination In, a financial way. Six.
. teen years /. ago the Baptists Of the
South decided to conduct their OWL
publication business and to care fol
4 their own Sunday-school cause. anl
created the Sundays school board Q.
their agency for carrying GU thell
plans and wishes. These are tho re
suit OF the undertakings so far a.
Il the business Is concerned There a,v
other results larger than these tina
cannot be put in tables or figures II
any shape, Through this agency o
their own our people have seen thet
Sunday SCHOOL condition greatly I'm
proved and arc to-day furnishing near
: ly all the Sunday schools In tho ter
: rltory OF the convention with mos
excellent literature which Is owne,
fand controlled by tho convention, 7
Is q hna ILLUSTRATION OF what peopl
: may do when relying upon themselye
4 ana directing their own affairs alonl
4 tile line qof Gods leading ana blessin 8
!. It should always be borne In mind tina
j every school sending Its orderTt to Nasl
/, |syille has part in this remarkabl
= financial exhibit"
: Reviewing In q general way tn