The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
0OUTHERN eAPTieTS PLAN MUCH
LARGER PROVISION FOR ALL
THEIR INSTITUTIONS.
WILL AID RURAL SCHOOLS
Success Of rs Million Campaign Will
Mean strengthening Of Educational
Forces All Along the Line In
Next Five Years.

on the total sum sought in the Bap
tist rs Million Campaign, $4,000, 00C
will 30 to Christian education.
But the educational program OF the
Daptists will not stop there. 1t pro.
poses to lend itself to the creation OF
q public sentiment that will result 10
more efficient public schools in the
territory of the Southern Baptist Con,
vention. especially in the rural dis
tricts. In this connection 1t is pointed
out that 81 per ceDt of the total eIe-
mentary scholastic population of the
nation is found in the South; that the
rural scholastic population of the
South is u per cent Of the whole; that
only oBe-sixth Is much money per
capita Is expended on the education
OF the children of the South as on the
children of other sections of the coun-
try; that only 81 out of every 1000
pupils In the South enter high school
as against 81 from other sections; and
only 10 from the South enter college
a. against II from other sections.
Distributed throughout the territory
OF the Southern Baptist Convention
are 143 educational Institutions, IN
GLIDING academies, colleges, universi-
ties, seminaries, and missionary train
inx schools for women These have q
total enrolment Of Is, 600 annually, but
all OF them are crowded, greatly in
need OF larger facilitie. in every way,
and many OF them must have an en-
dowment II they are TO meet the De
Nnands made upon them. It is IA sap
plying these needs that the $40, 0OO, O06
apportioned to Christian education will
be expended.
To these institutions the 6enomfna.
ton is looking for it's trained leaders
to help carry forward the work along
every line contemplated in the $76,-
GOO GOO campaign. In Texas alone
there &c zoo pastOriess Baptist
churches and probably the same pro
pot on holds in the other states. II ia
hoped the campaign will call out 5000
volunteers for ministerial and mission
AIRY work and these institutions will be
asked TO equip these young men and
women for their work.
last year, reports show, over 5000
students in these institutions took vol
untary courses in Bible and mission
study; nearly 1000 Of them attended
student prayer meetings; ministerial
students %pastoring churches raised
more than $4,000 for church benevo-
! noes and led more than 10000 people
to profess Christ. The campaign hopes
to result in enrolling 81, 200 young men
and women in Baptist schools within
the next five years.
The SOuth-wide institutions that will
benefit from the campaign include
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
and Women's Training School at Louis
vile, KY. Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary and Women'a Trein-
ng School at Forth Worth, Tex, Baptist
Bible Institute. New Orleans and Ne
gro Theological Seminary at Nashville,
while aid will be given to every Bap-
fist institution of learning In all states
Of the convention territory, and to new
Baptist colleges that will be estab-
lished in Arkansas. Florida, Illinois.
Louisiana and New Mexico, along with
one somewhere in the region of the Ap-
pala chian mountains yet to be def
nitely located.