The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-10-31
SOUTHERN BAPTlsTs 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 Years.

OF the total sum sought in the Bap-
tist 70 Million Campaign, $20,000,Q 900
will go to Christian education.
But the educational program of the
Baptists will not stop there. 1t pro-
poses to lend itself to the creation of
a public sentiment that will result in
more efficient public schools in the
territory of the Southern Baptist Con-
yention, especially in the rural dis
tricts. In this connection it is pointed
out that 81 per cent of the total ele-
mentary scholastic population OF the
nation is found in the South; that the
rural scholastic population of the
South ID 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 21 from other sections
Distributed throughout the territory
OF the Southern Baptist Convention
are 142 educational institutions, in
cluding 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.
aud many OF them must have sn en-
iowment il they are to meet the de.
nands made upon them It IL In sup.
plying these needs that the 500, 900 900
apportioned TO Christian education will
be expended
To these institutions the denomina.
tion Is looking for its 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. It is
hoped the campaign will call out 5000
volunteers for ministerial and mission.
airy work and these institutions will be
asked to equip these young men and
women for their work.
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 beneyo-
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 Womens 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-
tist institution of learning in all states
OF the convention territory. and TO new
Baptist colleges that will dbe estab-
lished in Arkansas. Florida, Illinois.
Louisiana and New Mexico, along with
one somewhere In the region Of the AID,
mountains yet to be defI-
nitely located.