The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-03-23

Sndlfmdn SOnSeFNdIlOn SO.IiHi'oS4Sis
Baptist rs Million Campaign
DIR. L. r. Scarborough who vas
general director of the B&p -zS To-
Million Campaign, and who X 5 SzteT
elected chairman of the Cons ~FJtiou
Commission that IS seeking 10 con-
serve all the interests of that cam
paign, has issued a report fTCE the
Nashville headquarters show ~ the
various interests that have yFctitec
from the $685., 100.6S collected Oh
campaign pledges up to Dec. I, 1920.
With its receipts Of S2,95G, SG&OFS
the Foreign Mission Board has SsdeS
to it's territory five new provinces iIk
China and made the begiHnin% fox
opening up work in the new fields OF
Spain, Hungary, Roumania, Jugo7
Slayia. and the Ukraine in RuSSias
strengthened it's work in Syri& anCA
Palestine, made a, beginning in LAST
ern Siberia, added 100 new W0I AerS
to its force of American missiona rie9
in foreign lands, provided new houses
of worship, hospitals, schools, CUB
fishing plants and other institute onS
needed in the prosecution of mission
ary work. What is of even mcr5 I'M
portance, in the estimation Of S-GreS
tary Love, is the completion OF zsany
institutions and undertakings hat
had been held up for lack Of fur s.
Home Missions Doubles 5udgcs
By reason of the larger receipts
from the campaign, the Home dis
sion Board has been enabled to Frac~
ticaIly double it's annual budget for
| it's work of evangelism, church build
| ing, work among the foreigners. IN
| dians and negroes, mountain mission
| schools, enlistment, and general mis-
! sion work in Cuba and Panama The
appropriations to evangelism nave
| been practically doubled thoss to
church building increased between
500 and 500 per cent those To the
mountain schools, forty in number
100 per cent, and those to the work
of enlisting undeveloped churches, 300
per cent.
In the realm of state mis- a0nss
which embodies such work as proyid-
ing missionaries and other special
workers for needy fields within tins
states and aiding weak congregations
in the building of houses OF worship
the advance made possible by the
campaign ranges from 25 to 100 per
cent in the eighteen states of the con-
ventiCn territory.
Returns to the Conservation Conn
mission by forty-five OF the. R&8tise
institutions of learning which are
sharing in the returns from the cam
paign. show that they have recetgso
s2,713,756 so far. OF this sun. ST.
$4,000 has been expended on inn
urovements, $500 900 has gone 20 en-
dofneut, several hundred thoUsan&
dollars in old debts have been wipeG
out and other improvements are UNI
der way.
Ten New Hospitals Provided
Southern Baptists were operating;
fourteen hospitals when the canoaigE
began, and as result Of the new in
terest in this work aroused by the
campaign ten additional HOSPITALS
| have been launched. These hcsssitaIs
have received $1,111. 439.45 treaa the
campaign so far, while local 'aimmu.
mites in which the hospitaJss are 10
Gated have subscribed approximately
$4,000, 900 additional The hOspita Is
have practically 100000 IL i'm
provements under way. The EeYeH-
teen Baptist orphanages' have Ike
wise come in for much larger support
as a result Of the CAMPAIGN, theIf'
receipts from this source being
$1,01S,7sS.6T. AS a result OF this I'M
come the orphanages have been en-
abled to make Improvements yaaness
at $S25 e "Ss.
The work OF aiding aged preachers
4 is a new one among Southern BaR-
lists as a whole. but as q rasuit q
the campaign the Relief and Annntk1
Board has recef1edo <4oo, 81 n1pm
that source ana 100000 frow -
! Rockefener, Sra