Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-18
BURROWS HOMORED
BY BAPTIST CHURCH
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SCHOOLS having 1880 scholars There
arc 453 mission schools. with 1881
! students Six Of the mission schools
are devoted to Bible training OF women
there being 191 Students Ninetcer
| medical missionaries treated T4S66 M
tients in nine hospital buildings and
| ten dispcnsarics.
The board announced completion OF
| the Judson centennial fund OF s1a7n
Gao for aiding foreign missions. This
fund virtually was completed last year
The boards cash receipts for the ma 81
yenr have been sS06,T24. and the boards
debt Is 1864.
GOOD WORK DONE
AMONG THE NEtRoEs
Remarkable work among tho negroes
was done by evangelIsts OF the South
ern Baptist Church during the past
year. according to the report OF the
home mission board.
There were 10000 additions to tho
ngro churches az against 500 during
the nrst year OF this work. Tho two
eFangelistS have learned how to organ
iHe their forces for the best results.
ne board says. Better feeling between
the races has been another tangible re
suit of these meetings, according to
the report
Evangelisin made grtifying ad.
vance during the year under the direc-
ZION OF Or. Weston Bruner. AS tho
result or the work of twenty eight
cranEelists there were 27.714 additions
70 the churches and 20.7Oa FOR baptisms
volunteers Tor the ministry number
1856. Most effective work was done
IN Dallas and Washington. D. c.. with
100 additions at the former place and
2'aoo at the latter. Evangelical work
was started in 1907 with five evan
sensts' The first year showed l,oI7
additions.
Much work has been done during
the year among the mountain schoojs
OF which DIR. y. E. Brown is the SUPER
ihtendcnt. There are now thirty four
SCHOOLS with III teachers and 1920
puP,tS' ninctT-four of them being min
's.eIial students. During the year 33l
or tho pupils were baptized into The.
fellowship of one of tha churches
during the year 100000 has been ex-
pended on the property. and 10000
VIII DC spent az soon as the schoois
c'oae Tor the summer. Since these
"chooIs began work thoy have sent
out 5000 to become farmers 3sn
preachers. cO0 LAWYERS. n"5 doc,nrs
10 trained nurses. 30 missionaries. $500
pubic school teachers, 900 merchants
:" workers in banks and Is men who
served in the state Legislatures.
IN oha the rorty-thrcc churches re-
el|ea io' members during the year.
n
now l,S96 Sunday schools. and the eift.
OF the churches for the past veur
amounted to s4.066
lotal receipts of the home mission
board of the past year were s36.Toa
az" TIE board has deficit of $3.50
CHURCH HAS SHOWN
REMARKABLE GROWTH
Enormous growth or the Southern
hapils' church was disclosed by the
epoit maze to tho convention by DR..
'ah"'"s n"rrows, the statistical sec
lethrE The membership has reached
INC great total of 2.6Ss,552. OF which
i"s':"a nave been added since In. last
session. During the wear 2O,oSs bnva
aled: The Baptist population of tho
world is placed a. !.l4l.4l3
mere are 2L45I Baptist churches
Sonth "f Mason and Dixon line, with
iS'ofb SUNDAY schools showing n total
enrolment Of l,T60.S02. The churches
own property valued at $5s,3l9.63s.
Inc prosperity OF the membership
- further reflected in the sum of $40.
:Hi''e5 contributed during tho year for
'hHrch work. or this amount se.564.22o
vas raised for home expenses. and 81
"'".36h for missions.
Negro Baptists In the United States
hummer 6.i33.oo4. of which 2.12S,sso live
in the South
year OF achievement, the most SUE
| 'esslui in the history of the Woman :
missionary Union, was reported to Tn.
convention. IT was Instrumental I'm
! orsahizins more than $500 new unions
/ SINCE last May, and there are now ten
times az many Of these unions than
mere were twenty-eight years ago