The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-14
AIM OF BAPTIST
DRIVE SVASTI IN
PRACTICAL WORK
Pastors Will Be Supplied to
1000 Churches and Life
of Rural ReIigiOniStS viii
Be UpIifted.

NASHVILLE, n Nov. 13.-Whila
a higher state of spiritual development
and religious activity for the 20, 900 ru-
raj Baptist churches of the South is
one OF the aims of the Baptist $751;
OO0,0O0 campaign, the provision Of we'll
trained pastors for the 1000 pastorless
churches, the provision OF houses of
worship for the 1000 homeless churches,
better houses Of worship for thousands
Of congregations which occupy very
poor buildings at present, better Sunday
schools and more of them, better edu-
cational opportunities in both the de-
n~ominational and public schools, and
improved sanitary conditions calculat-
ed to promote physical health and per-
Sonal efficiency, are also held in mind
by the campaign leaders.
Under the direction of the enlistment
department of the home mission board
large attention will be given to the de-
velopment of the 10, 900 or more weak
rural churches Of the South during the
next five years in the hope Of per-
manently conserving the enlarged in
formation, inspiration and activity that
have come to these churches during
the campaign, while large sums will be
employed by this board and the several
state mission boards, in gifts to weak
struggling churches to enable them to
get on their feet, and in loans to other
churches that need assistance in pay
ing off Indebtedness against their build
ings that have already been erected.
More Ministers Wanted.
AS the result Of 10, 900 young people
responding to the call for volunteers
for the ministry n other special forms
that an adequate number of pastors
will soon be available for all the
churches, while the strengthening of all
the academies, colleges and seminaries
Of the denomination will make it pos
sible to provide much more general ed
u~cational facilities for the pastors, in
GLIDING special vocational training that
will enable them to take the leadership
in their communities in the matter of
promoting public health. education. and
other civic interests. The location of
the pastors in the communities which
they serve, where better salaries and
pastors homes will be provided, is ex-
pected to make them vital factors on
the fields.
Not only will the AZ mountain schools
fostered by the home mission board be
greatly strengthened by the campaign,
but the drive will have a large effect
Upon the Improvement of the public
school system as well, the Southern
Baptist convention having gone on rec
ord al ~favoring better salaries for pub
lie school teachers as well as preach
ers, for better school buildings as well
as Church houses, ana Tor a more gen
eral dissemination of knowledge as well
as religion, To this end a more liberal
support Of the public schools all along
the line is favored.
And the Baptists are making a de-
termined warfare upon tuberculosis,
which heretofore has made much great
inroads upon the rural as well as the
urban districts OF the South, the
economic loss to the South from thi;
malady being $175, 900, 900 per year
More than $50 people die from tubercu-
losis daily in the territory of the South
ern Baptist convention and in the hope
of saving this awful toll Of life, 81, 900,
900 will be appropriated by this cam
paign to the enlargement Of the facili-
ties of the Southern Baptist sanatorium
at Eel Paso, Tex, where patients Will
tuberculosis are treated, and the dis
semination of a ~South-wide propaganda
calculated to inform all the people as
to how they can combat this disease.
The country churches have been thu
great c~onservators of religion in thu
past, it is declared, and it is the hop
Of the campaign commission that rura
life in the South will be so reVitalizet
r~eligiously, educationally, socially, ant
physically that 1t will be able to sue
cessfuIly combat the lure of the cit'
and continue to provide the world witt
the strong Christian manhood am
womanhood that it has contributed t.
society since the world began.