Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-09-11

to be made during Victory Week, No
vember 30-December Z, $43,000,0 900 will
be devoted to missions. and $40, 600, 900
OF this sum will be devoted to enlarg-
ing 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 (includ-
! ing Mexico as well as South Americal
and Europe gre the four continents in
which the missionaries of Southern
Baptists are operating today, but in all
OF the ten countries of these CONT
nents, Southern Baptists have only 316
missionaries, 787 native workers, 1872
Of whom are ordained, IL foreign ply
sicians, 6 foreign trained nurses, Il ma
tive physicians and. % native nurses.
sour missionaries already on tbs
field have wrought wonderfully for the
Master. considering the difficulties
they have had to confront" DR.. J. F.
Love, secretary of foreign missions,
declares, "but we at home have not
supported them as we ought with help
ers OF all kinds and with schools, hos
pitals and other agencies to enable
item to do larger work in every way.
Tue 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 occupying today. China,
for instance, has population four
times that OF the United States, or one.
fourth the population Of the entire
world, and our force there consists OF
only S. men. 81 married women, 40
unmarried women, 81 ordained natives
and 420 unordained native helpers.
Japan, which has half az many people
as the United States, is being served
by 3 men. 8 married women, 8 unmar.
ried women, IL ordained natives and 6
unordained native helpers. i In Italy
there are third as many people as
there are in the United States, yet we
have there only men, 2 married WON
en-, IS ordained natives, and 3 unordain-
ed native helpers. Mexico has IL, 0OO. 900
people, and we have in that country
and on the border a missionary force
consisting OF II men, IL married WON
en-, 3 unmarried women, "a ordained
natives and Is unordained native helm.
ers. Argentina has a population OF
100000, and our missionary force
there consists Of 7 men, Z married
women IA ordained natives, and Z un.
ordained native helpers. In Africa.
we have entered only one state, that
Of Nigeria, but this state has a popu.
lation Of 10000, 900, and to serve those
people we have only men mission. |
aries, s married women, 8 unmarried |
women, 8 ordained natives and 50 I'm.
ordained native helpers. Brazil has a |
territory larger than all the United
States and population of so 1000 600
Serving those people we have force
of 81 men, 80 married women, 2 un
married women, SO ordained natives
and So unordained native helpers. Our
work in Chile, where there are 5000,
900 people, is only two years old, but
we have IL churches, and Is out-sta
tons, in which last year there were
122 baptisms. We need at leas,
200 more missionaries now and from Il
the proceeds Of this campaign we hope
to employ them and then equip then
and those on the field already for do
Ing tie largest work foE tie h1aster.