Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
FOREIGN MISSION YEAR
CLOSES WITHOUT DEBT
remarkable Record Made by Board
of Southern Baptist
Convention.
is CARRYING ON LARGE WORK
Representatives of Virginia Leave
Tonight for Annual Session of
Convention, To BE Held ut Hot
Springs. Ark, This Week.

So quietly is the work of the for
egn mission board OF the Southern
: Baptist Convention conducted. and 80
largely are It's Contacts with the world
across the seas that Comparatively few
Richmondcrs are aware that this in
stitution IS in Richmond, although IL
has been located in this city since is45
anu has occupied Its present quarters
at Eleventh and Main Streets for thirty
or forty years.
This board has Just prepared It's
sevcnty-third annual report for pre-
scntatiou 10 the Southern Baptist Con-
rcntion al Hot Springs this week. Tne
report VIII show most remarIsab bio
advance made hy Southern Baptists in
Foreign mission contributions during
the past twelve months. a year ago
the board. in special six weeks cam
paign, paid OF an old debt or sIS0.O0O.
but before that year closed another
debt OF $4,000 WAS found inevitable.
, The board therefore. started the year,
which closed with April so. with u
debt OF $4,000. The war has added
Ercaty 10 all foreign mission opera
tons by the severe drop III exchange.
Notwithstanding this fact. the foreign
mission board Of the Southern Baptis,
Convention has met all obligations Of
tho year. paid the sfl,1Q0 and will
present a. handsome cash balance 10
The convention. The foreign mission
contributions OF Southern Baptists for
the year total Sl.00G.00O $4,000 Of
This being contributed to what is
known as tho Judson centennial fund.
for special equipment on the rcspec-
two foreign mission fields, and tho
remainder being contributed to current
support
TWO STATES BREAk
ALL FORMER RECORDS
Two States in the South have broken
all former records and carried their
contributions for current support not
including their Judson centennial con-
tributions above 500. 600. Virginia has
contributed 100000 and Texas sl41.-
900. There Is already much talk in
Baptist circles In Richmond and other
sections Of a still larger advance for
this great Christian enterprise during
the next twelve months.
a remarkable item IN The boards re-
port is this: that it has requires but
l2 cents on tho dollar 10 meet All
home expenses. This IL. We surnisc
an exceptionally small expense ac
count. and viii be i, surprise to mauy
who have entertained the suspicion
that home expenses in such Christian
work eat up "a much larger proportion
OF the contributions made 10 It.
The board has mission work In
Mexico. several OF the South American
republics, Japan, China. Africa and
Italy. The missionary results OF the
year have been gratifying. There have
been 6,2aO bapiisms. The board has
t6i organized churches, OF which IA
have assumed scif-support one hun
dred and four thousand two hundred
and seventy-one treatment. have been
given in the various hospitals. The
board has more shan 200 schools. in
GLIDING all grades among thsm nine
theological schools. It's two Iarscs,
publishing houses are located in Rio
de Janciro and Canton. respectively.
Representatives, OF Virginia are lcav-
Ing this evening and tomorrow for
Hot Springs tor the annual session Of
the Southern Baptist Convention
Among those who are going are DR.
T. Clagett Skinner. DR.. George w. Me
Daniel, DR.. w. c. James. DR. T. J.
Gibson, Dr. W. L. Ball and others. Mrs
w. (. James, prcsidcn, OF the Wolnau's
Missionary Union OF the Southern Bap-
= list Convention, and Mrs. Julian Thorn
as. corresponding secretary Of the
Woman's Missionary Union of Virgini
Will attend the Woman's Missionary
Union convention which meets in Hot
Springs Tuesday