The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-17

Who Gives 100000 to Baptist ID
Million Campaign.
Knoxville, Tenn H. Anderson
Of this city, commissioner for Tennes
see in the Baptist rs Million Campaign
and chairman OF the executive com
mittee of the campaign commission,
looks for larger life to come to the
3aptists CT Tennessee as result OF
he information impaired and the en-,
iistment in Christian service brought
bout in this state through the cam,
paign Mr. Anderson is president OF
the Baptist Convention of Tennessee
and the IIaymen's Missionary Move
ment, and in addition to giving $780,
100 to the campaign, contributed $780,
100 to the erection Of a new church in
his home city.
Discussing what the campaign Will
mean to Tennessee and how the sum
to be raised by the Baptists of this
state will be expended, Mr.. Ander-
son said:
THE most expanding thought that
has ever entered the human brain is
that historic sentence spoken by our
first great world Citizen, nineteen
hundred years ago, Go We into all
the world and preach the Gospel to
every living creature The human
brain is unable to compass one thou
sandth part Of an inch more expan-
sion without encroaching upon the
infinite, and that's Gods realm.
Southern Baptists have been
claiming the above sentence as one Of
their fundamentals all the past years
Why is it, then, we have remained
such little folk with such big
bought in our brain? Is it not be-
cause We have not followed the
thought with action? And this Is one
Of the greatest, indeed, the greatest
blessing that Is going to come out OF
Ghe - Million Campaign to our de
nomination. We are vitalizing that
expanding thought and never more
will we be merely citizens OF our own
little neighborhood, our own county
or state, or nation. Every man OF
us must be, indeed is. world citizen.
Dr. Truett has been hammering this
thought into the minds and hearts Of
our people wherever he has gone dur
ing the past weeks.
For the first time in all history
Baptists have put on a program that
even approaches in magnitude that
world-girdllng order, Go We into all
the world,
Dare | say to my beloved Tennes
see brethren that the opportunity iE
before lis to demonstrate to our
elves and to the world that we have
outgrown proyincialism and have be
come world citizens?
1.-THE pure unmixed blood that has
made our mountain people so fine
and loyal has In the past been the
cause of May say it?) our feeling
Of aloofness from other parts of the
country and world. We have had
no melting pot in our midst, no need
for one, and so have had no training
In extending our sympathy and com
passion for others. The 70 Million
Campaign is going to lift Us out OF
this limited vision, and give us q
vision as wide as the world.
The enthusiasm and confidence ev
erywhere are wonderful. Many OF
our people feel that 100 million dol
lars will be raised instead OF rs mil
lion. We must not allow our over
confidence to cause us TO relax our
efforts. Day and night. let us work
with hand and heart and brain loI
these few remaining days to make
certain the greatest VICTORY ever
won for God and humanity.
'Tennessee's task in this big cam
paign is to raise the sum of $4,54S,.
600, this sum to be subscribed during
Victory Week, November 30-Decem
Der Z, but to be paid during the next
five years. The money that we raise
will be apportioned among the various
interests of the campaign as follows:
Foreign missions, $1,102,437; home
missions, ss4S,000; state missions
$425,000; Christian education. $1,437.
437; hospitals, 100000; orphans
home, $24S 900, and ministerial relief,
$1sT 1876"