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SPEND 100000
UPON EDUCATION
SOUTHERN 5APTIsTs PLAN MUCH
LARGER PROVISION FOR ALL
THEIR INSTITUTIONS.
WILL AID RURAL SCHOOLS
Success Of rs Million Campaign VIII
Mean strengthening Of Educational
Forces All Along the Line On
Next Five Years.

OF the total sum sought in the Bap-
fist Is Million Campaign, $40, 00o, 900
will 60 to Christian education.
But the educational program Of the
Baptists will not stop there. It pro-
poses to lend itself to the creation Of
q public sentiment that will result In
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 cent of the total ele-
mentary scholastic population of the
nation 10 found in the South; that the
rural scholastic population of the
South 10 II per cent of the whole; that
only one-sixth as 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
as against 81 from other sections.
of the Southern Baptist Convention
are 142 educational institutions, in
Guiding academies, colleges, universi-
ties, seminaries, and missionary train
Ing schools for women. These have a
total enrolment of $4,000 annually, but
all of them are crowded, greatly in
need of larger facilities in every way,
and many of them must have an en-
dowment If they are to meet the de.
mands made upon them. Il is in sup
plying these needs that the $40, 900, 900
apportioned to Christian education will
be expended.
To these institutions the denomina.
ton Is looking for it's trained leaders
to help carry forward the work along
every line contemplated In the $75,.
100000 campaign. In Texas alone
there are 700 pastorless Baptist
churches and probably the same pro.
portion holds in the other states. 1t is
hoped the campaign will call out 5000
volunteers for ministerial and mission.
airy work and these institutions will be
asked to equip these your men and
women for their work. o
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.
lences and led more than 10000 people
to profess Christ. The campaign hopes
to result in enrolling $4,000 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's Train
ing School at Fort 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
VA thO SoANOhtioh IOAiiIOiy, anu W 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-
palachian mountains yet to be def
Brownsville.-After travelling near.
ly thirty minutes ahead of schedule
three-fourths of the day and being re-
ceived cordially by 5000 ship by truck
and good roads delegates as far as
Lauderdale county, the Memphis ship
by truck caravan arrived at the lively
little town of Brownsville five hours
behind time. o