The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-12
BAPTIST WORKING
VICTORY DRIVE
MANY TOWNS AND CITIES MAX
ING FINE REPORTS

nv NSCA 81 A1pePhA'N
has opened with fine prospects Dur
ing the week of February 9th to 18th
Atlanta Baptists are planning to raise
$50 600 for Georgia Baptist Hospital
and the Baptists of the rest of the
state are to raise 100000 for their
schools and colleges, including Mer-
Ger University at Macon, Bessie Tiff
College at Forsyth and the seven Bap-
tist High Schools.
The minimum goal set for the in
dividual Teamworker is $500 and the
minimum for each team of Ten $1,000.
The reports already received indicate
that the effort is being made with sue
cess and enthusiasm in many sections
and with determined purpose in prac-
tically every section. Although it is
showing in some places and raining
in others, these Baptists are pushing
on They are weather-proof. Their slo-
gan is Pray for good weather, but
work rain or shine"
The first Team to report. "Over the
top with full thousand dollars was
a Team at LAGRANGE. They did it on
the first day of the Drive-a habit
with drives at LAGRANGE, and now
they are after a record breaking re-
port.
The faculty and students of Mercer
University set their pegs for $4,000
but went over the mark with tide
Of enthusiasm for the goodly sum of
$500 and members of the faculty
thirty of the leading students volun-
teered for service in the Drive in
other parts of the state
In Athens the Drive was opened
with luncheon at which seventy
Team-workers were present. The At
henians believed in doing the thing
themselves before asking others to
do it,. So they started the ball to roll
ing with their own subscriptions to-
falling more than $1,000. After one
days work they reported $3223.OO and
aim at 100000.
The Lawrenceville Association, one
Of the smaller Baptist Associations
in Georgia, which had already given
about two thousand dollars, reports,
that it is within easy reach of the
three thousand dollar mark.
Atlanta Baptist began their cam
paign with a luncheon for the Key
men of their more than forty Teams.
Great enthusiasm prevailed and was
largely generated by the rensrts that
the Atlanta preachers had raised one
thousand dollars in their Ministers
Conference Monday morning and that
the doctors at the Hospital had raised
twelve hundred dollars with more to
come.
The Flint River Association, center
ign around Griffin celebrated the
opening of the Victory Drive by COM
pleting their original apportionment
on the Debt-Paying Campaign and
'blotting out the nineteen thousand
dollar debt on Locust Grove Institute
for which they were responsible. Now
they are lining up for noble part in
the Victory Cash Drive.
Macon Baptists are hard after their
aim 100000 which will make full $40,- |
600 from Macon on the Debt-Paying
Campaign.
So the good news grows apace. Re-
ports are coming in with every mail
AS fast as possible the figure will be
tabulated and given out to the press
of the state. Cash, Liberty Bonds, |
War Saving Stamps and personal !
notes for thirty days are the fruitful
evidence that Georgia Baptist are de-
termined to liquidate every obligation
and set their institutions free to do
the larger work of the of the larger
days that are ahead