The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-04-01

Chairman Conservation commlssioa
Baptist 75-million Campaign.
T.. L. II. Scarborough. who wa
F-neral director Of The Baptist Ts-
Million Campaign, and who was Lated
elected chairman OF the Conservation
Commission that Is seeking to con,
serve all the interests of that cam
paign, has issued a report from the
Nashville headquarters showing the
various interests that have profited
from the S16,S51. 100.6s collected on
campaign pledges up 10 Dec. /. 1890.
With rs receipts OF 32958, sos. OF,
the Foreign Mission Board has added
TO It's territory five new provinces In
China and made the beginning fot
opening up work in the new fields al
Spain, Hungary, Roumania, Jugo-
Slavia, and the Ukraine in Russia.
strengthened It's work in Syria and
Palestine, made a beginning in East.
ern Siberia added 100 new workers
TO It's force OF American missionaries
in foreign lands. provided new houses
OF worship, hospitals, schools. pub.
fishing plants and other institutions
needed in the prosecution Of mission
airy work. What is OF even more Ina
portance, in the estimation OF Secre-
tary Love, Is the completion OF many
institutions and undertakings thai
had been held up for lack Of funds.
Home Missions Doubles Budget
BY reason OF the larger receipts
from the campaign, the Home Mis-
sion Board has been enabled to prac-
tically double its annual budget fer
Its work OF evangelism, church build
ing. work among the foreigners. In.
dams and negroes, mountain mission
schools, enlistment, and general mis-
sion work in Cuba and Panama. The
appropriations to evangelism have
been practically doubled, those to
church building increased between
900 and 600 per cent, those TO the
mountain schools forty in number.
100 per cent, and those 10 the work
OF enlisting undeveloped churches.
800 per cent
In the realm OF state missions.
which embodies such work as provid-
ing Missionaries and other special
workers for needy fields within the
states and aiding weak congregations
in the building Of houses OF worship.
the advance made possible by the
campaign ranges from rs to 100 per
vention territory.
Returns TO the Conservation Com
mission by forty-five OF The Baptist
institutions OF learning which are
sharing in the returns from the cam
paign. show that they have received
s2.7l3,756 so far. OF this sum, ST.
640. 600 has been expended on i'm
100000 has gone TO en-.
dowment. several hundred thousand
dollars in old debts have been wiped
out and other Improvements are un-
der way.
Ten New Hospitals Provided
Southern Baptists were operating
fourteen hospitals when the campaign
began. and as a result OF the new IN
terest in this work aroused by the
ten additional hospitals
have been launched These hospitals
have received sl,ll1 ,t3946 from the
80 far, while local commu-
mites in which the hospitals are 10
Gated have subscribed approximately
s.. OOO. 900 additional. The hospitals
have practically Sl,0OO,O 600 in i'm
under way. The seven
teen Baptist orphanages have like
wise come in for much larger support
IA a result OF the campaign, their
from this source being
81 .O1S,7sS.67. As a result OF this in
come the orphanages have been en-
abled to make improvements valued
At $4,000.
Tho work OF aiding aged preachers
Is a new one among Southern Bap-
lists as a whole. bat as a result OF
The campaign the Relief and Annuity
Board has received sl0S.1lS.S2 from
hat source and 100000 from Mr..
ST.