Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-01
Baptist Commissioner For Europe.


Collections in cash totaling $25, 1OS,-
424.64 have been made for general
causes fostered by the Baptist rs Mil
lion Campaign since the campaign
was launched in 1919, according to
report to the Southern Baptist Con-
vention, which has just adjourned its
Chattanooga session, by DR.. L, R.
Scarborough, general director of the
campaign, and chairman Of the Con.
servation Commission. The fact that
$12,924, 943.60 of this amount was col.
lected during the past year. under the
most depressing conditions known In
years, is very encouraging to the de
nominational leaders, they say.
viii Seek the unsaVed.
Feeling the need of conserving the
spiritual interests of the people as
we'll az the financial aspects of the
campaign, the convention asked the
Conservation Commission to seek to
enlist, through the state and associa-
tional organizations. all the $1,000 10
cal Baptist churches In the South in a
larger evangellstic effort during the
next twelve months, the aim being to
induce as many individual members OF
the churches as possible to win at least
one soul to Christ during the new year.
Reports to the convention showed that
there were 17a595 persons received
into the local Baptist churches by hap.
tism during the past year, and much
larger number will be sought during
the year ahead.
Would EWanseIIze Europe.
> One OF the interesting actions Of the
convention was the decision to back
up fully the Foreign Mission Board in
its program for the evangeliEation Of
the new European territory of Spain
Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Roumania, the
Ukraine and Southern Russia. DR.. J.
H. RushbroOke, Of London, Baptist
Commissioner for Europe, addressed
the convention, telling how he had dis
tributed the relief funds contributed
by Baptists for the needy families Of
those countries and how the giving Of
this relief had opened wide the door
of missionary opportunity.
Work on the older foreign fields
during the past year was unusually
successful, the board reporting re-
ceipts of $2,404.9SS for its missionary
operations and $27S,OO0 for relief
work, as wen as 100000 worth of
clothing; 6,9SS baptisms on the for
eign fields; 1877 Of the Gil churches
self-supporting, with total of 4O5 for
eign missionaries and 97S native work.
ers employed.
Home Mission Board Active.
The Home Mission Board reported
77072 additions to the churches
through its instrumentalities church
extension operations Of s1,24S,0OO and
2SS patients treated at the TubercuIar
Sanatorium at FL PaSo.
During the year the receipts of the
Sunday School Board reached $i,147,
721.7S, and the board turned back into
general work Of the denomination the
sum of $1S9,OOO.
Although only three years OF age,
the Relief and Annuity Board, which
seeks to supply the needs of aged, de.
pendent ministers and their families,
has doubled the number Of beneficiar
les receiving aid from the denomina.
ton as well as the amount of relief
given. It now has permanent 70
sources In excess of 100000.
There are 119 Baptist educational
institutions in the South, with a total
enrolment of 10000 pupils, the report
of the Education Board showed. and
2,185 Of these pupils are preparing for
special Christian service, such as the
ministry, missionary and other special
religious work.
The Woman's Missionary Union
representing the organized women OF
the South, reports a total of Is, 4s5 or
ganiEed societies Of women and young
people, while the cash contributions
by the women to the various causes
fostered by the denomination during
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