The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-09-26
OR. J. r. LOVE.

TO be made during Victory Week, No
yember 30.December :. s43.000000 will
te devoted 10 missions, and S20,000;000
OF this sum will be devoted TO enlarg-
in; the WORK on the ten important
foreign fields occupied already and to
opening up new fields where countless
millions OF people have not yet heard
the story OF Jesus Christ
Asia. Africa. Latin America Unclud-
, ing Mexico as well as South America)
and Europe are the four continents in
,shich the missionaries OF Southern
ljaptists are operating today. but in all
OF the ten countries OF these cont.
nents. Southern Baptists have only 3l6
missionaries. 7s7 native workers. 1872
OF whom ara ordained, 10 foreign ply.
sicians. foreign trained nurses, 81 ma
tive physicians and 90 native nurses.
Our missionaries already on the
field have wrought wonderfully for the
Master. considering the difficulties
they have Lad to confront" DR.. ]. +.
Love. secretary OF foreign missions,
declares. "brt We at hcme have not
suoported them as We ought with help
ers Of all kinds and with schools. hos.
pitfalls and other agencies to enable
them 10 do a larger work in every way.
The smallness OF the work we have
done already can be realized when we
look at the vast number OF people who
have not been reached in the foreign
fields we are occu,Sing today. China.
for instance. has a population four
times that Of the United States. or one.
fourth the reputation OF the entire
world. and our force there consists OF
only 90 men 81 married women, 40
unmarried women. 81 ordained natives
and 420 unordaincd native helpers.
Japan. which has half as many people
as the United States. is being served
BY . men, married women. unmar
ried women. II ordained natives and 6
unordained native helpers. In Italy
there are a third as many people as
there are in the United States. yet we
have there only men. married won.
en-, 35 ordained natives, and unordain-
cd native helpers. Mexico has 5000 900
people. aud we have In that country
and on the border a missionary force
consisting OF IL men. IL married won.
en-. unmarried women. "a ordained
natives and 10 unordained native help
ers. Argentina has a population OF
s. 100000, and our missionary force
there consists OF 7 men, married
women, IA ordained natives. and Z I'M
ordained. native helpers. In Africa.
we have entered only one state. that
Of Nigeria. but this state hasa popu-
lation OF 10000. 00o. and to serve those
people we have only men mission.
aries. 6 married women. unmarried
women. ordained natives and SO uu-
ordained native helpers. Brazil has a
territory larger than all the United
States and population OF $4,000. 900.
Serving those people we have a force
OF "a men. ?3 married women, 2 un.
married women, GO ordained natives.
and SO unordained native helpers. Our
work in Chile, where there are 3.000,-
900 people. is only two years old. but
we have ~ churches, and 10 out.sta-
tons. in which last year there were
1872 baptisfns. We need at least
200 more missionaries now and from
the proceeds of this campaign We hope
TO employ them and then equip them
and those on the field already for do
ing the largest work for the Master"