Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-07

Several outstanding results of the
Baptist rs Million Campaign will be
noted in the larger development of the
rural churches. This development will
take the form Of more efficient
church and Sunday School life and in
better houses of worship around which
the church and Sunday School activ-
tiles 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
end employ a competent pastor for
much more of his time than has been
given these churches before, while
plans for the betterment of the rural
Sunday Schools through series OF
institutes for the training of teachers
In AL the Southern states this summer
will be carried out by the Baptist Sun
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 modern
building, containing all these essential
provisions, can be provided by any
community that is able to build an old.
fashioned one.room church building,
as. the cost for the modern structure
is no more than t1at Of the old-style
one.
Big Loan Fund Provided.
To aid deserving congregations In
building adequate houses of worship,
the church building loan department
was established six years ago and al.
ready more than 700 churches have
been helped in building needed houses.
The initial fund, established for this
purpose. was fixed at S1,000,00O and
an additional s1,OOO,OOO will be re-
ceived from the Is Million Campaign.
Applications pending now aggregate
81 100000 and loans are being made at
the rate of $4,000 per month. No
loans are being made in excess of one
third OF the value of the property, anu
the loan made must clear the property
Of all other Indebtedness and thus
make it possible to dedicate the build
ing.
From the Is Million Campaign the
Home Mission EoarG will receive, also,
100000 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 strategic points, among them being
educational centers where it is de-
sired to erect churches for promoting
tho religious life of students, especially
of those students affiliated with Bap.
tist churches.
OF the $4,000 Baptist churches in
the South, $1,000 are in the rural dis
tricts and In small villages, and $4,000
OF them have preaching services only
on~e a month. While the work of the
enlistment forces will be to help these
weak congregations solve their prob.
lens and help them develop in mum.
bers and efficiency, the other denomi-
national agencies will help these strug-'