Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-11-20


Who Gives 100000 to Baptist Is
Million Campaign.
Knoxville, Tenn. H. Anderson
OF this city, commissioner for Tennes-
see in the Baptist rs Million Campaign
and chairman of the executive com
mittee Of the campaign commission,
looks for a larger life to come to the
| Baptists Of Tennessee as a result of
! the information impaired and the en-
| listment in Christian service brought
about in this state through the cam
paign. Mr. Anderson is president OF
the Baptist Convention of Tennessee
and the Laymen's Missionary Move
ment, and in addition to giving $780,
900 to the campaign, contributed $780,
900 to the erection Of a new church in
his home city.
Discussing what the campaign will
mean to Tennessee and how the sum
to be raised by the Baptists Of this
state will be expended, Mr.. Agder-.
son said:
THE most expanding thought that
has ever entered the human brain is
that historic sentence spoken by our
first great world Citizen, nineteen
hundred years ago, Go We into all
the world and preach the Gospel to
every living creature The human
brain is unable to compass one thou
sandth part of an inch more expan !
sion, without encroaching upon the
Infinite, and that's Gods realm.
Southern Baptists have been
claiming the above sentence as one of /
their fundamentals all the past years.
Why is it, then, we have remained
such little folk with such a big
thought in our brsin? Is it not be-
cause we have not followed the
thought with action? And this is one
of the greatest, indeed, the greatest
blessing that is going to come out of
The rs Million Campaign to our de-
We are yitalizing that
expanding thought and never more
will we be merely citizens of our own
little neighbOrhood, oM own county,
or state, or nation. Every man of
Us must be, indeed is, world citizen.
Dr.. Truett has been hammering this
thought into the minds and hearts of \
)ur people wherever he has gone dur n
ng the past weeks. d
For the first time in all history
3aptists have put on a program that /.
wen approaches in magnitude that III
order, Go ye into all vi
he world Hi
Dare | say to my beloved Tennes- Y
ee brethren that the opportunity is n.
efore us to demonstrate to our
elves and to the world that we have
utgrown provincialism and have be- HI
ONE world citizens? y
1.-THE pure unmiXed blood that has I#
lade our mountain people so fine "
nd loyal has in the past been the y.
ause of MAY / say itD our feeling
aloofness from other parts of the
ountry and world. We have had Y
D melting pot in our midst, no need d
II one, and 50 have had no training 4
extending our sympathy and com. x
lsslon tor others The 10 Million n
ampaign is going to lift us out OF A,
lis limited vision, and give us a
sion as wide as the world.
1.-THE enthusiasm and confidence ey-
ywhere are wonderful. Many OF
If people feel that 100 million dol N
rs will be raised instead OF rs mil.
IN. We must not allow our over.
nfidence to cause us to relax our
forts Day and night, let us work
tn hand and heart and brain for
csc few remaining days to make y
rtain the greatest VICTORY ever '.#
N for God and humanity. IN.
'Tennessee's task in this big cam. H
ign IS to raise the sum OF $454S .
D, this sum to be subscribed during \
Glory Week, November 30-Deeem VIM
+ Z, but 10 be paid during the next I.H
e years The money that we raise N
u be uppOrtioned among The various It'll
erc-ts Of The campaign as follows .
reign missions. $i102,437: home 4
ssions, S6tS,000; state missions, F0
IS 600; Christian education, S1,437.. 'a.lI
I; hospitals, 100000; orphans I
ne, s24S,0O0, and ministerial relief, fNII
1926" .H#g