The Rice belt journal., 1921-06-04

Baptist Commissioner foT Gu'opS
Collections in cash totaling S25, !
424.64 have been made for general
causes fostered by the Baptist 70 Mil !
lion Campaign since the campaign
was launched in 1919, according to a
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.
Will Seek the Unsaved.
Feeling the need Of conserving the
spiritual interests of the people as
we'll as 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 $4,000 To-
cal Baptist churches in the South in
larger evangelistic 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 1885 persons received
into the local Baptist churches by bap-
tism during the past year, and much
larger number will be sought during
the year ahead.
Would EVangelize Europe.
One of th- interesting actions Of the
convention was the decision to back
up fully the Foreign Mission Board in
its program for the evangelization 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 $2,4O4,9SS for its missionary
operations and $27S,0O0 for relief
work, as well as 100000 worth of
clothing; 6,99S 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
W072 additions to the churches
through its instrumentalities, church
extension operations Of $1,24S 900, and
2S8 patients treated at the Tubercular
Sanatorium at Ell Paso.
During the year the receipts of the
Sunday School Board reached s1147.
721.73, and the board turned back into
general work of the denomination the
sum of $4,000.
Although only three years of age
the Relief and Annuity Board, which
seeks to supply the needs of aged do.
pendent ministers and their families
has doubled the number of, beneficiar.
les receiving aid from the denomina.
tion as well as the amount Of relief
given. It now has permanent re.
sources in excess of 100000
There are 119 Baptist educationa,
institutions in the South, with a total
enrolment of 10000 pupils, the renort
of the Education Board showed and
2,1S5 Of these pupils are preparing for
special Christian service, such as the
ministry, missionary and other spenlal
religious work.
The Woman's Missionary Union
representing the organized women ~
the South, reports total of 19.4s5 or.
ganized societies Of women and young
people, while the cash contributions
by the women to the various causes
tostered by the denomination during
the year amounted to s3,11s4S7