The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
BROWN |S PLATED
 OVER WORK HERE Birmingham Mission Work Is
 Best Organized
GETTING THE FIGURES
Birmingham Churches Have 23,4s6 Members and They Gave s24S,ss7 to Causes Outside Their Own De-
 velopment Lnst Year

r. A. Brown of Nashville, general secretary of the laymen's missionary movement which is being started in many of the larger cities of the coun- try, who was in Birmingham yester- day to ascertain the progress being made by the local branch of the move ment, said last night:
 "Birminghams campaign is the best efficient local organization of the mis- sionary movement that I have ever seen. l congratulate Chairman Hood and his secretary, K. M. Archibald, on the success and the outlook of the local campaign for foreign missions
 Mr. Brown spent the entire day in Birmingham and met many of the lead CTS of the local missionary campaign at the headquarters of the movement in the Hood building. He addressed and held council with the executive committee of the organization at the Florence hotel and in the afternoon he addressed meeting of the women of all the churches of the city at the First Christian church at which there were r separate churches of the city represented.
 More ch hurches have organized in the Birmingham campaign than in any oth- CT city at present where similar cam paigns are under way" said MT. Brown. After the meeting the church mission ary committee held a short session of business.
 R. J. Muffin, president of the Presby- terian board, will be here today and will probably stay over Sunday. He will be present this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church when what is expected to be the largest general meeting yet held will convene at 3 o'clock. At this meeting reports will be given by the different churches of the city of their progress in getting organized and their plans and what they expect to accomplish during the campaign
 In the every member canvass which takes place during the week following Sunday. March 20. the women have pledged themselves to take an active part and committees of women will canvass the women church members while the men committees will canvass the male church membership of the city.
 MT. Brown was very much elated over the valuable statistics that are be- ing compiled by the local organiza- tion. These will be printed in pamph- let form in the near future and dis tributed all over the country as we'll as in Birmingham. Some of the fig ures that will be given out are the comparative contributions of the Bir- mingham churches to home missions and to foreign missions. They gave s4S,500 to benefits in America and S17,- l90 to foreign missions. The total contributions made by Birmingham churches to all causes were $248,SST in the last year. This means to causes outside of their own individual devel- opment. The statistics will also show that there are 23,4s5 church members in the city of Birmingham.
 William Hood, the chairman of tho Birmingham campaign, is very much pleased with the results already &C., complished by the movement and is en- tn usiastic over the possibilities of the future. He is receiving many congrat- ulations on the excellent work and progress of the campaign.