Imperial Valley press., 1921-06-23
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PROGRESS
MADE BY
SOCIETY
Baptist Home Missions Has
Accomplished Great Edu-
cational Results Among
Negroes, Indians and
Others During Year.

DIES MONIES, Ia, June 23.-Not-
able progress in educational work
among negroes and Indians in this
country and among the people Of Cen
trail America, the opening Of an inter-
national Baptist seminary to train
preachers for work among foreign
speaking people, establishment of a
boys camp applying the "Plattsburg
idea" to religious training, and crea-
ton Of an architectural bureau to help
make religious buildings more effect
i've, We're among features of the 89th
annual report of the American Bap-
fist Home Mission society, presented
tary, at the Northern Baptist con-
vention here today. 80
Schools for negroes and Indians
have been taxed to their utmost ca
pacity, according to DR.. George r.
Hovey of the education department.
Through gifts from the general edu-
cation board and John d. Rockefeller,
the salary of teachers in these schools
is being increased and new buildings
provided at Bacone Indian College,
Bacone, Okla, and Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta, Ga. Indians of Okla
homa have given $4,000 to aid Ba-
cone College. Need for further ex-
tension of this educational work is
urgent, declares DR.. Charles A. Brook
in charge Of negro missions. An in
tense race consciousness is furnishing
a perplexing problem for the negro
churches. Training of Young people
for more adequate service in church
and community centers is one help to
the solution of this problem. go
In the United States, says DR.. Lem
uel Call Barnes, the society is coop
Grating in 166 towns and cities in mis-
sionary and church extension work.
Recommendation is made for more ag-
gressiye organization for smaller
cities. In sparsely settled areas six
general missionaries, 43 assistants.
and 1863 missionary pastors have had
charge of 22O churches and covered q
vast territory where thee is no chuch.
There ae Is Indian missionaries work
ing among their own people. Recla-
nation projects in the Northwest,
says DR.. Barnes, foreshadow a big
task along missionary lines in the
near future.
Churches are recognizing communi-
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and in several cities community work
ers are being employed. Laymen are
also organizing for voluntary service
of this sort. Surveys are being made
in several migratory labor groups of
opportunities for religious and social
service; ALSO of hospitals and homes
controlled by the denomination.
Schools for rural pastors, just insti-
tuted during the last year are shown
to be valuable. Increased use of auto
mobiles to enable pastors to cover
more territory is also found to help
Need of training for more lay preach
ers is emphasized as a means of meet
ing rural and community service prob
lens.
In addition to establishing a boys
camp at Cranberry Lake in the Adir-
ondacks, where selected boys will be
given training along religious lines
the Baptist Brotherhood Federation
has increased its membership during
the year and now includes 600 groups
A marked turning to the church ant
a revival of interest in mems work is
shown, says j. Foster Wilcox, director
of the Federation.
Baptist women are to have larger
place of responsibility in the coming
year than ever before. DR.. John Y
Aitchison, general director of thu
general board of promotion declared
today. His statement was made il
the course of his response to an ad
dress made by Mrs. Andrew Mac
Leish of Glencoe, H., home admin
istration vice president of the Won
ems American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion society.
"Never before in the history of on
work have the women been so largel
represented in the councils of the gen
eral work of the denomination as a