New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-11-21


Evidencing the larger sphere which
women have come to occupy in church
life, as well as other activities, when
The Baptist rs 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 $4,000, 900, This
means that the Baptist women of the
South will raise for missions of all
kinds, Christian education and benev-
olences, the sum of $4,000, 600 a year
for the next five years, in addition to
tkeir contributions to local enterprises
and special work.
Through the channels OF the Wo.
mans Missionary Union, with head
quarters at Baltimore, Md. the Bap-
list women of the South have since
II cir org IMITATION contributed more
than S5,000,000 in cash to various de-
nOminatiolal purposes. With the ad-
ditiou of boxes Of food and clothing
sent to orphanares and other benevo-
lent institutions, the total of their
contributions through this channel has
reached $5,7lO,la3.1l.
Miss Kathleen Mallory is the CORE
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Missionary Union. and in appreciation
Of the service she has rendered in
that connection the Baptist women OF
Alabama have established the Kath-
leeE Mallory Hospital for Women AZ
Laichow-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,
for instance. established the Ayers
Hospital for Women at Hwanghien
China, a girls school at Kumamoto,
Japan, the Catherine Bryan Kinder
garten School at Canton, China, and
the Mary p. W|illingham School for
Girls at Blue Ridge. Ca, a school de-
signed especially for the education of
girls in the mountainous section OF
that state.
Many OF the other state unions have
special projects such as Good VIII
Ccnters in the tenement. factory and
mining districts. where effort is made
10 ring more sunshine and enlighten.
ment auI love into the homes and
lives of needy families, especially
those OF foreign birth; church building
funds s., holarships for young women
who want to obtain training for spe-
cial CHRISTIAN service, and similar I'M
dertl ings.
The general w. NJ. e.. representing
an The women Of the Southern Baptist
G mention. owns and operates tie
y ln ems Training School at Louis.I
Vile. Ky, which has already sem out
100 trained women for special service
IN all parts OF the world; and has es-
tablished the Margaret Fund for tn
education in the Baptist schools Of the
south the sons and daughters of mis-
siOnaries on the foreign fields, and
the Fannie L. : Heck Memorial. al
building fund established in
honor of one. Of the greatest leaders +
Southern Baptist women have known.
But money for the support of these
Institutions as well as that for the pay.
of the women's pledge Of s15,.
0 5000 in the Is Million Campaign.
will be raised by the actual work OF
the women and through economy and
sacrifice. Church fairs bazaars. sup
pers. ice cream socials and the like,
are frowned upon by tie organized
Baptist women OF the South as I'M.
worthy means for raising funds for
carrying forward the work of the king.
OF God and their contributions
will not come from this source. IT ID
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