Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-11-20
MISS KATHLEEN MALLORY
Corresponding Secretary, w. M. U.
Baltimore.

Evidencing thu larger sphere which
women have come to occupy in church
life, as well as other activities. when
the Baptist rs Million Campaign wal
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 $15,OOO,000. This
means that the Baptist women of the
South will raise for missions of all
kinds, Christian education and benev.
olences, the sum of $3,0OOO0O a year
for the next five years, in addition to
their 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
their organization contributed more
than $5,000000 in cash to various de.
nominational purposes. With the ad.
dition of boxes of food and clothing
sent to Orphanages and other benevo.
lent institutions, the total of their
contributions through this channel has
reached $5,710,433.71.
Miss Kathleen Mallory is the corre-
spending secretary Of the Womans
Missionary Union and in appreciation
of the service shy has rendered in
that connection the Baptist women of
Alabama have established the Kath-
leen Mallory Hospital for Women at
Laichow-Fu, Shanturg, 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,
Tor instance, established the Ayers
Hospital for Women at Hwanghien.
China, girls school at Kumamoto,
Japan, the Catherine Bryan. Kinder
yarten School at Canton, China, and
he Mary P. Willingham School for
Girls at Blue Ridge, Ca, a school de-
igned especially for the education Of
sirls in the mountainous section OF
hat state.
Many of the other state unions have
pecial projects such as Good viii
Ienters in the tenement, factory and
mining districts. where effort is made
o bring more sunshine and enlighten-
1ent and love into the homes and
ives Of needy families, especially
hose Of foreign birth; church building }
lnds, scholarships for young women
Tho want to obtain training for spe-
ial Christian service, and similar UNI
ertakings. "
The general W. NJ. u, representing
II the women of the Southern Baptist
owns, and operates the
iomen's Training School at Louis
lille, KY. which has already sent out
10 trained women for special service
all parts of the world; and has es- Il
lblished the Margaret Fund for the 81
lucation in the Baptist schools of the ;
outh the sons and daughters Of mis-
onaries Oh the foreign fields, and Il
Ie Fannie e. S. Heck Memorial, ST
lurch building fund established in J,
)nor of one of the greatest leaders
outhern Baptist women has known. 81
But money for the support of these g
stitutions as well as that for the pay r
ent Of the womens pledge OF $751;
$1,000 in the Is Million Campaign. IN
III be raised by the actual work OF w
g women and through economy and u
crifice. Church fairs bazaars, sup ~
RS, ice cream socials and the like, 4
g frowned upon by the organized -
Iptist women of the South as un-
,rthy means for raising funds for
frying forward the work of the king
m OF God and their contributions
II not come from this source. Il In
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