The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-06-08


Baptist Commissioner For Europe.
Collections in cash totaling $25, ,103,'
424.64 have been made for general
causes fostered by the Baptist Is 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
s12,924,94360 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
well as the financial aspects of the
campaign, the convention asked the
Conservation Commission to seek &
enlist, through the state and associa-
tional organizations, all the $4,000 To-
cal Baptist churches in the South in
larger evangelistic effort during thu
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 1855 persons received
into the local Baptist churches by bap-
tism during the past year, and much
larger number will be sought durin"
the year ahead.
Would EVanaeIize Europe.
One Of the interesting actions Of the
convention was the decision to back
up fully the Foreign Mission Board in
It's program for the evangelization OF
the new European territory of Spain,
Jugo7Slavia, Hungary, Roumania, the
Ukraine and Southern Russia. DR.. ].
II. 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 $2,404,9S8 for its missionary
operations and s27S,OO0 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 405 for
eign missionaries and 97S native work
ers employed
Home Mission Board Active.
The Home Mission Board reported
1902 additions to the churches
through it's instrumentalities. church
extension operations of s1,24S,000, and
29S patients treated at the Tubercular
Sanatorium at Ell Paso.
During the year the receipts Of the
Sunday School Board reached s1,147,-
72173, and the board turned back into
general work of the denomination the
sum of s189,000.
Although only three years Of sge,
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-
tion as we'll as the amount of relief
given. 1t now has permanent re-
sources in excess of $500 900.
There are 119 Baptist educational
institutions in the South, with total
enrolment of 10000 pupils. the report
of the Education Board showed. and
2,1S5 Of these pupils are preparing for
special Christian service. such as t.
ministry, missionary and other special
religious work.
The Woman's Missionary Union.
representing the organized women Of
the South, reports a total Of 19,4S5 Or
ganized societies Of women and young
people, while the cash contributions
by the women to the various causes
fostered by the denomination during
the year amounted to s3,115,437.