The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-11-05

Evidencing the larger sphere which
women lave come to occupy in church
life, as well as other activities, when
the Baptist Is Million Campaign was
decided upon at the meeting Of the
Southern Baptist Convention in At
lanta last May, the women, through
their regular organization, the Wo-
mans Missionary Union, at once
agreed to be responsible for one-fifth
Of the sum sought, or SIS, 900 900. This
mean lat the Baptist women of the
South will raise for missions of all
kinds, Christian education and benev
olences, the sum OF $4,000, 900 a year
their contributions to local enterprises
and special work.
Through the channels of the Wo-
mans Missionary Union, with head
quarters at Baltimore, Md, the Bap-
fist women of the South have since
their organization contributed more
than $4,000, 900 in cash to various de-
~nominational proposes. With the adj
dition of boxes Of food and clothing
sent to orphanages and other benevo-
lent institutions, the total Of their
contributions through this channel has
reached $5,71O,433.71.
Miss Kathleen Mallory is the CORE
spending secretary of the Woman's
Missionary Union, and in appreciation
of the service she has rendered in
that connection the Baptist ome of
Alabama have established the Kath.
leen Mallory Hospital for Women at
LairhOw-Fu, Shantung, China, Miss
Mallory being a native of Alabama.
Women of many Of the other states
have also undertaken special enter
prises of their own. Those OF Georgia,
TOR instance, established the Ayers
Hospital for Women at Hwanghien,
China, a girls school at TumamotO,
Japan, the Catherine Bryan Kinder
garten School at Canton, China, and
the Mary P. Willingham School for
Girls at Blue Ridge, Ga, a school de.
signed especially for the education OF
, girls in the mountainous section OF
t that state.
5 Many of the other state unions have
special projects such as Good Viii
Centers in the tenement, factory and
mining districts, where effort is made
to bring more sunshine and e%nlighten
ment and love into the home and
1 lives Of needy families, especially
1 those of foreign birth; church building
e funds, scholarships for young womer
/ who want to obtain training for spe
cial Christian service, and similar un
~dertakings.
all the women of the Southern Baptis
Convention, owns and operates tn
Women's Training School at Louis
vile, KY, which has already sent GU
700 trained women for special servic,
in all parts of the world; and has es
tablished the Margaret Fund for tn
education in the Baptist schools OF tn
South the son and daughters of mis-
~sionaries on the foreign fields, an,
the Fannie e. S. Heck Memorial,
church building fund established fl
honor of one of the greatest leader
Southern Baptist women have known
But money for the support Of thes
institutions as we'll as that for the pay
ment of the women's pledge OF SIS
600, 900 in the rs Million Campaign
will be raised by the actual work o
the women and through economy an
sacrifice. Church fairs, bazaars, sur
pers, ice cream socials and the like
are frowned upon by he organize
Baptist women of the South as VI
worthy means for raising funds 70
carrying forward the work of the kin;
dom OF God and their contribution
will not come from this source, it
announced.