The Adair County news., 1919-11-19
MISS KATHLEEN MALLORY
Corresponding Secretary, w. NJ u.
Baltimore.

Evideneing the larger sphere EhictE
women have come to occupy in etaEzT
life, as well as other activities, wfssI-
the Baptist 70 Million Campaign Was
Decided upon at the meeting of A2
Southern Baptist Convention IL *
lanta last May, the women, thruug2,
their regular organization, the H.
mans Missionary Union, at aDcs
agreed to be responsible for one-fittB
of the sum sought, or $4,000, 900. Tine
means that the Baptist women OF the
South will raise for missions OF ala
kinds, Christian education and BsneE=
olenceg, the sum of $4,000 400 q ye1r
for the next five years, in addition to
their contributions to local enterprise
and special work.
Through the channels OF the Woe
mans Missionary Union, With head
quarters at Baltimore, Nd, the Bap
fist women of the South haEa since
their organization contributed mDrS
than $4,000. 600 in cash to various de-
nominational proposes. With the al
dition of boxes Of food and cIothine
sent to orphanages and other bensyor
lent institutions, the total of tEels
contributions through this channel haz
reached $5,710,433.71.
Miss Kathleen Mallory is the coKes
spending secretary Of the Wont11iE
Missionary Union, and in appreciates
of the service she has rendered ia
that connection the Baptist wOmeTC %
Alabama have established the HaLh
leen Mallory Hospital for Women a.
Lairhow-Fu, Shantung, China, Mis-
Mallory being a native Of Alabama
Women of many Of the other state;
have also undertaken special enter
prises of their own. Those Of Georgia
for instance, established the Ayers
Hospital for Women at Hwangmen
China, girls school at TumaHsObOs
Japan, the Catherine Bryan Kinder,
garten School at Canton, China, anc.
the Mary P. Willingham School foo
Girls at Blue Ridge, Ca, school de
signed especially for the educatiOn OF
girls in the mountainous section o.
that state
Many OF the other state unions have
special projects such as Good VII
Centers in the tenement, factory and
mining districts, where effort Is MAIDS
to bring more sunshine and enIfgbzsz
ment and love into the home arr
lives of needy families, sspecIaus
those of foreign birth; church buiIdfnE
funds, scholarships for young womek
who want to obtain training for sUe
cial Christian service, and similar m
dertakings.
The general w. NJ u, representing
all the women Of the Southern BapSis
Convention, owns and operates rs
Women's Training School at LO1Ls
Vile, KY, which has already sent eD
700 trained women for special serEi4
in all parts of the world; and has e.
tabhshed the Margaret Fund for rs
education in the Baptist schools OF Us
South the sens and daughters o. ms
sfonaries on the foreign fields an
the Fannie E. S. Heck Memorial. &
church building fund established Il.
honor Of one of the greatest Leaders
Southern Baptist women have knogn
But money for the support Of thss<
institutions as well as that for me pay
ment OF the women's pledge OF SIS.
100000 in the Is Million CRnHpsfsB
win BE- raised by the actual WORK o
the women and through economy XXX
sacrifice. Church fairs, bazazrs, ztEs
pers. ice srealn socials and the IKE
are frowned upon by the organfzer
Baptist women Of the South as IN
worthy means for raising funds ~
carrying forward the work Of the kfnE
dom Of God and their contrba51nn
wiz nof cone from this source. = 81