The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-16
CHEERING CHORUS
GRBBTS REPORTS
OF DEPARTMENTS
Good News to Southern Bap-
lists in Figures Shown in
Annual Statement.
Woman's Missionary Union
Elects Officers.
BURROWS REPORT
BURROWS REPORT

Hot Springs. Ark. May ia
cheering chorus of plaudits answered
the presenting to the Southern Bap-
fist convention of the department of
home missions. foreign missions, the
Sunday school board. the Baptist
Young Peoples Union, representing
the younger element of the organiza-
ton, and the Woman's Missionary
Union, all of which In undisputable
form showed the remarkable work
that had been accomplished through
this denomination within the past
year.
| Home Missions Discussed.
The addresses were given largely
to the home mission work. and the
discussion of the best means of ex-
tending the church work within the
south and west and the territory
within the radius of this board.
The $4,000 Indebtedness of the
home mission board was raised at a
mass meeting.
Before its temporary adjournment
officers for the ensuing year were
elected by the Woman's Missionary
Union.
! Miss Fannie f. Heck, of North
I Carolina. was reelected president.
other officers elected were as fol-
lows:
| Corresponding Secretary - Miss
If In rnsla
Recording Secretary-Mrs. A. c.
Johnson, OF Maryland.
| Assistant Recording Secretary
Mrs. +. G. willis. OF Georgia.
Treasurer--Mrs. ". c. Lowndes.
lof Maryland.
Auditor-Mrs. w. Hollingsworth.
of Maryland.
Vice-presidents. representing the
several states, were elected as fol-
lows:
| Alabama, Mrs. ID. b. Malone; Ar
kansas. Mrs. w. T. Amis: Florida,
Mrs. w. ID. Chipley: Georgia, Mrs. f.
G. Wllingham; Kentucky. Miss e. S.
Bradus: Louisiana. Miss Holdings
worth: Maryland. Mrs. j. II. Eager;
Mississippi. Mrs. j. II. Hassell; Mis-
souri, Mrs. j. H. Burnham; North
Carolina. Mrs. w. NJ. Jones; Okla
homa. Mrs. T. c. Carleton South
carolina, Mrs. l.. A. Crutchfield.
| Status of Work.
The report of the convention secre
ltary, Lansing Burrows. shows the
following status of the work in the
fifteen states of the south under the
convention government:
Associations. S11; churches, 21,-
266; increase of membership by bap-
tism, 129,152: total membership, D.
IO15,OSO; contributed for missions.
Is1,134,695: contributed for all pur-
lposes, $7,S63,416: value of church
property. 30,S61,43S; number OF
ISunday schools. 1923; enrolment
lof Sunday schools, 959,795.
| In addition to this the full Baptist
membership is shown by the mem
bership in other states of 1,144, 053 (;
the colored members in the southern
states 1900. 900, which makes total
denominational membership in Amer
lea of 5,O29,133. Canada, Europe,
Asia and other lands bring this to a
grand total Of cool. 905 in the entire
world.
The report of Secretary J. NJ Frost
of Nashville. of the Sunday school
board shows the receipts to have been
ls1S2,326, with the disbursements
IS176 969. and a total on hand of
Is5.357.
Missionary Work.
The report of Secretary b. d. Gray
lof Atlanta of the home mission board
lshows that 919 missionaries are ac-
lively engaged in the field work. This
lis an increase of more than two-fifths
land the reading of the report was
lgreeted with prolonged and enthu-
siastic applause.
The sixty-third annual report oil
1.-The foreign mission board was sub
United through Secretary r. ]. Will
lIngham, of Richmond, and shows o
total of s4O2,12S collected, the col
Elections apportioned by the states OF
1.-The convention being as follows:
Alabama, s2S.255: Arkansas. $10,'
LAS: District of Columbia, $2,665;
Florida. s5.72S; Georgia. $66.769'
Kentucky. sS4,Os9: Louisiana. 81
l9O9; Maryland, $7,66S; Mississippi
s2S,92O; Missouri. s19.41s; Nortl
Carolina, $S5.54o: Oklahoma. So.
ssS; South Carolina, $31,54S: Ten
nessee, s2S,70O; Texas, $44,50si