The Nevada County picayune., 1920-04-08

Several outstanding results of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign will be noted in the larger development of the rural churches. This development will take the form of a more efficient church and Sunday School life and in better houses of worship around which the church and Sunday School activ- ities will center.
 Through the enlistment department of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Atlanta, Ga. weak, struggling churches will be aided in development to the point where they can become self-supporting and employ a competent pastor for much more of his time than has been given these churches before, while plans fer the betterment of the rural Sunday Schools through series of institutes for the training of teachers in all the Southern states this summer will be carried out by the Baptist Sum- day School Board
 Best Plans Are Recommended.
 Plans have been perfected by the architectural department of the Bap- tist Sunday School Board at Nashville. Tenn, in cooperation with the Church Building and Loan Department of the Home Mission Board, whereby local building committees can procure de- tailed plans of the best modern church buildings for either large or small con- gregations. These plans have been so drawn as to take care of every phase of church activity. the Sunday School and other departments being so pro- vided for as to enable them to do their most efficient work And a modern building. containing all these essential provisions, can be provided by any community that is able to build an old fashioned cne-room church building, as the cost for the modern structure is no more than that Of the old-style one.
 Bia Loan Fund Provided.
 To aid deserving congregations in building adequate houses of worship, the church building loan department was established six years ago and all ready more than TOO churches have been helped in building needed houses. The initial fund, established for this purpose, was fixed at $l,000, 900 and an additional s1,000 900 will be re- ceived from the 75 Million Campaign. Applications pending now aggregate $1 ,000 900 and loans are being made at the rate of s50,000 per month. No loans are being made in excess of one third of the value of the property, and the loan made must clear the property of all other indebtedness and thus make it possible to dedicate the build ing
 From the 75 Million Campaign the Home Mission Board will receive, also, S2 800 GOO to be used as gifts in the building of additional churches during the next five years, but this sum will be expended largely in aiding churches in stragetic points, among them being educational centers where it Is de- sired to erect churches for promoting .he religious life of students, especially of those students affiliated with Bap- tist churches
 Or the 25,000 Baptist churches in the South, 21,0o0 are Tn the rural dis tricts and in small villages, and 19,000 of them have preaching services only once month While the work of the enlistment forces will be to help these weak congregations solve their prob. lems and help them develop in mum. bers and efficiency, the other denomi- sational agencies will help these strug-