The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-11-05

70 Million Campaign this institution
will receive 100000 for the erection
Of additional buildings and 100000
for an endowment that will enable
the sanatorium to minister to those
INDECENT patients who are unable to
pay for treatment.
That there is an imperative need
for an institution of this character
is shown IN the fact that all institu'
tons in the South and Southwest for
the treatment of tuberculosis have a.
total capacity of only S,757 beds, or
one bed for only one person out of
every sixty in this section who are az
flicted
Everything connected with the Bap.
fist Sanatorium is modern and of the
very best, but its present equipment
is far too small to cope with the de-
mands that ae made upon it. OF the
Improvement fund that is to be pro
vided, 100000 is available already
and architects are already designing
new buildings worth s450,o00. These
will be constructed just as rapidly as
possible.
While the sanatorium is being op-
Grated by the Baptists, it will be open
to the people of all creeds and no
creed Due to the crowded conditions,
however, it is necessary that arrange
ments be made in advance by commu-
nieating with Dr. H. F. yermillion, su.
perintendent, at Ell Paso.
The sanatorium is under the gen.
eral supervision of the Home Mission
Board OF the Southern Baptist Con.
yention, and in addition to treating
patients who have already contracted
tuberculosis, it will seek, through a
campaign of publicity, to so inform
the people of the South and South
west on the nature and prevention Of
this disease that the alarming death
rate from the white plague can be i'm.
mediately lowered and finally reduced
to the minimum
plying these needs that the 100000, 900
apportioned to Christian education will
be expended.
To these institutions the denomina-
Z LAOd 10 lOOA1lleo lis tIdluCu lSduCIS
to help carry forward the work along
every line contemplated in the $50
100000 campaign. In Texas alone
there are ZOO pastorless Baptist
churches and probably the same pro-
portion holds in the other states. 1t 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 benevo-
lences and led more than 10 900 people
to profess Christ. The campaign hopes
to result in enrolling So, 900 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 Wonlen's Training School at Louis
vile, KY Southwestern Baptist Thee
logical Seminary and Women's Train
ing School at Fort Worth, Tex, Baptist
Bible Institute. New Orleans, and Ne
gro Theological Seminary at Nashville,
while aid viii be given to every Bap-
tist institution of lesrning in all states
OF the convention territory, and to new
Baptist colleges that win be estab.
iished in Arkansas, Florida. Illinois,
Louisiana and New Mexico, along with
one somewhere in the region Of the APP
4 palachian mountains yet to be def
1 nitely located.