Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-11
one HUNDRED MILLION
Rev. 0. L. Jones Looks For Big
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ALL GOOD BAPTISTS MEASURE UP

Many Churches Have Already Begun
to Test Their Faith-Liberal Gifts
From Men Who Are AbIe-Humble
Members Show ZeaI-lndian Chief
Takes Prominent Part.
Many remarkable facts are being
brought to light by the Publicity De-
partment of the big Baptist drive for
Is Million Dollars, both of local and
general nature and touching the ad-
vance and movement Of religious ac-
tivitles Of a worldwide nature. 1t
Is announced by Rev. o. L. Jones, OF
| Glover, organizer Of this work in York
county that reports come from every
corner of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention indicating that the rs Million
Dollar goal will be over subscribed
during Victory Week, Nov. 80 to Dec.
! 7, it being the general belief, among
leaders in all the '18 states that the
subscription will exceed 500, 900.
Mr.. Jones gives the following CLEAN
ings from reports that have been Civ
en- out during the last week as ex-
pressing the general awakening of the
Baptist conscience throughout the
south, and typifying the spirit Of
earnestness and sacrifice that charac-
terizes the campaign activities every
where:
The assignments of quotas to the
24,S84 Baptist churches in the South
ern Baptist Convention was made on
the basis II total Of $75,0OO,000. If
every church raises the quota assign
ed, the total will be that amount. In
hundreds of cases, churches have been
dissatisfied with the smallness Of the
quota and have raised the figure vol
UNFAIRLY from 10 to so per cent. Not
only so, but in scores of churches rep
resenting every state, the members
have not been willing to wait until
| Victory Week to actually take their
subscriptions and have forged ahead
and taken the subscriptions. In not
single case Of the many that have
done this, has the total failed to show
an over-subscription, ranging from 10
per cent. to 40 per cent more than the
church was asked to subscribe. .
Johnson Owl, leading Cherokee In
fdian Of the reservation. in North Caro-
lima, who was recently converted to
the Christian religion, is the first In
dian to volunteer for special mission
ary work under the influence of the
Baptist rs Million Campaign.
At recent training school for
workers, held in the disternmost dis
trict of North Carolina, following an
earnest talk by one of the attendants,
on the need of 5000 volunteers for
the ministry and missionary work,
prayer was offered that God would
then and there call out from among
the number present several special
workers.
Johnson Owl joined in the prayer
as follows: Dear Jesus, l have seen
thy light from heaven and it is beau
tiful. But it shines on a broad har-
vest field in which is much ripe grain,
but the grain is falling down and be-
ing wasted for lack of laborers. There
fore 1 volunteer and go now into the
field to gather grain for Thee"
Five other young men and three
young women volunteered for the
world wide field at the same time.
Another large gift to the Baptist Is
Million Campaign comes from Texas
in the form Of a $4,000 contribution
from ]. c. Stribling, of Houston. r.
E. Burt of that city has given $4,000,
NJ. II. Wolfe, OF Dallas, 100000, while
under the terms of the will Of the
late w. H. Thomas, of Dallas the cam
paign receives s1,OO0,OOO from his es-
tate. The Waynesboro, Ga, church
with a membership of 275, has accept
ed a quota of $4,000, or practically
$500 per capita, while Mr.. and Mrs.
James E. Sheehan, Of Crawford, Ga,
give $4,000.
Here is how the $12,O00,O0O allotted
the Home Mission Board Of Southern
Baptist Convention by the Baptist rs
Million Campaign for the next five
years is to be expended:
Cooperative missions in which WORK
is done jointly with other agencies,
$1,2OO,OOO; gifts to much needed new
buildings throughout the south, 49,
25O,OOO; enlarging church building
loan fund, $625,OOO; promoting evange-
lism, s1,OOO,OOO; promoting the de-
velopment of weak churches, $777,-
900: mountain school and other school
work. $1,1OO,OOO; work among foreign
ers, negroes and Indians, s1,10O,OOO;
work in Cuba, $797,OOO; work in Pana-
ma, $4,000; work among soldiers,
sailors and marines, 100000; enlarge
ment and endowment Of Southern
Baptist Sanatorium at El Paso, ST.
OOU.O 900; and other work, s625,000.
From 1916 to 1911 missionaries of