The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-10-28
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UPON EDUCATION
SOUTHERN eAPTIsTs 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 in
Next Five Yea 5.

OF. the total sum sought In the Bap.
fist rs Million Campaign, $4,000, 900
will go to Christian education.
But the educational program Of the
Baptists will not stop there II pro.
poses to lend itself to the creation of
a public sentiment that will result in
more efficient public schools in the
TERRITORY of t1e Southern Baptist Con,
vention, especially in the rural dis.
1 tricts. In this connection It is pointed
out that 81 per cent of Che total ele
mentary scholastic population of the
nation is found in the South; that the
rural scholastic population OF the
South is n per cent of the whole; that
only one-sixth as much money Der
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.
Distributed throughout the territory
OF the Southern Baptist Convention
are 142 educational institutions, in.
GLIDING academies colleges, universi
ties, seminaries, and missionary train II
ing schools for women. These have a
total enrolment of $4,000 annually, but
all of them are crowded, greatly in y
need of larger facilities in every way. q
md many Of them must have an en- (
9wlnent If they are to meet the de- 6
L uds made upon them. 1t Is IN sun. z
lying these needs that the $40. 900. 900 \
pportioned to Christian education will 6
e expended. 4
10 these institutions the denomina :
on is looking for its trained leaders -
help carry forward the work along =
very line contemplated in the s75'. FL
'O'oOC campaign. In Texas alone
ere are 700 pastorless Baptist r.
lurches and probably the same pro.
'rtlon holds in the other states. 1T is
'ped the Campaign will call out 5000
'lunteers for ministerial and mission.
y work and these institutions will he
ked to equip these young men and
omen for their work,
Last year, reports show. over 5000
udents in these institutions took vol.
Itary courses in Bible and mission
ndy; nearly 1000 of them attended
1dent prayer meetings; ministerial a.,
ldents pastoring churches raised
IRE than $4,000 for church benevo-l N
ices ana led more than 10000 people nm
profess Christ. The campaign hopes It'll
result il enrolling $4,000 young men. Hi
women in Baptist schools within iii
) next five years. iii
The South wide Institutions that will III
nefit from the campaign include I'M
lthern Baptist Theological Seminary I'LL
q Women's Training School at I,ouis. lii
le' NY, southwestern Baptist T'heo- I'LL
Scal Seminary and Women's Train. Hill
School at Fort Worth, Tex, BAPTIST I'LL
Bile Institute, New Orleans, and Ne. Hi
Theological Seminary at Nashville I'LL
lie aid will be given to every Ran. iii
institution Of learning in all states nv
the convention territory. and to new Hill
ptist colleges that will be estah- I'LL
ned in Arkansas Florida, Illinois
lisiana and New Mexico, along with =
somewhere in the region of the An.
achian mountains yet to be def. HI
ely located. q