The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 Birmingham Baptist association. It is the largest one in the state having around seventy churches.
 It met this year with the Brighton Baptist church, and pr. J. R. Hobbs, pastor of the First Baptist church, Blr- mingham made a fine moderator, pre- siding with ease and dignity, but dis patched business.
 The big thing before the body was the Baptist 75 Mi1uon Campaign" Now the war sets new records in all lines and the various denominations caught the vision of big things and most of them are set on raising large sums for educational, benevolent and missionary purposes.
 The Southern Metnodists recently went over the 8 million dollar mark which had been set goal; and the Presbyterians have also raised large amount; and now Southern Bap- lists are in the midst of their great drive for twice the amount with good prospects of oyersub ubscribing the amount asked. It is confidently ex- pected by the leaders that hundred million dollars will be raised.
 The territory covering the south has been carefully marked out and organiz- ed and now the mobilization of all the forces is in process and in nearly every talk and sermon and article Baptists are having their attention drawn to showing to the world that they intend to take their full par, evangelizing those sitting in the snaoow of dark ness.
 Southern Baptists are organizing for fullest effectiveness every resource in every church by appointing and put ting to work 925 associational organiz- CTS 925 publicity directors, 925 wo- mans missionary union organizers. 24,- s55 church directors, 24,S55 church or ganizers, 24,S55 W. Nj. U. organizers, 74,655 church boosters, 248.S50 team workers It is a marvellous mobilza- ton of religious forces for effective service.
 The 24,S55 Baptist churches in the south will hear the ,nrpirational ad- dresses of 125,o0O Baptist-fou minute speakers, whose task will be to in form, energize and vitalize three mil lion Baptists for the Victory Week by putting the campaign upon their hearts and consciences. Sunday, November the 30th opens the great week, day which promises to b. an outstanding | day in the annals of Southern Baptists. | The seventy-five millions will enable the denomination to equip more ade- 1 quately the 1909 missionary workers of the foreign mission board and the more than 1000 home and state board missionaries. It will enlarge and raise | to better efficiency the 132 Baptist schools in the south. A half million will go to the Southern Baptist Theological one in the world. The same amount will be appropriated to .ne Southwest ern Seminary at Ft. Worth. Two hun dred thousand will be set aside for a negro seminary.
 The part of Alabama Baptists is tc raise four million dollars and a half million of that sum Is appropriated to this great Birmingham district heard Darby Brown state at the asso- citation that the sum one hundred l side Baptist church but at meeting | of the leading layIner it had beer agreed that it was not enough and that the church would go beyond the sum apportioned to it.
 
 pr. billiard says every dollar of the seventy-five millions Is needed, be- cause it is the first tune in the his tory of Southern Baptisrs that adequate of the denomination The task is tc raise forty millions for missions twenty million for christian education and fifteen million >ur other object. and benevolences. There is no extra. vagance planned but every penny car be wisely usel in the upbuildng of tn, work of Baptsts.
 Baptists have come through man, prosecutions. During fne Dark Ages Baptist were compelled to live in caves to hide out wherever rney might hid, in order to have public worship; ant even here in America Baptist preacher were put in jail for no other offens than in being true to their conviction in fearless preaching. I have heard pr . A. P. Montague relate how his grea
 grand father was imprisoned in Vir ginia because he refused to be silenced
 But today in America the Baptis have grown to be mighty peopl numbering around seven millions an here in Alabama there are over 225.o0
 white Baptists. Through the age Baptists have been great spiritual de mocrats, but heretofore they have no been adopts at magnifying their ow history, but the raising and the wis
 expenditure of the seventy-fiv million
 will greatly magnify the worth of Bap lists to the world
 But the object of the campaign is no , to impress the world but to arous [ Baptists themselves to their own powe and strength. The raising of the stu
 pendous sum will mane them a nor universally liberal peopie than the :