Cleveland County herald., 1921-07-14

Dr. L. R. Scarborough, who was yenoral director of the Baptist 75- Million Campaign, and who was later elected chairman of the Conservation Commission that is seeking to con serve all the interests of that cam paign, has issued report from tAe Nashville Headquarters showing the various interests that have profited from the $16,551 .1006S collected on campaign pledges up to Dee. 1, 1920.
 With it's receipts of $2,958, ,S0S.07, the Foreign Mission Board has added to its territory five new provinces in China and made the beginning for opening tip work in the ne@ fieiGs of Spain, Hungary, Roumania, JGgo- .5lavia, and the Ukraine in Russia; s.rengthe ned it's work in Syria and Palestine made a beginning in East ern Siberia added 100 new workers to its force of American missionaries in foreign lands, provided new houses of worship. hospitals, schools, pub fishing plants and other institutions needed in the prosecution Of mission ary work. What Is of even mere i'm portance, In the estimation of Secrc- tary Love, is the completiol of many instituticns and undertakings that had boen held ID for lack of funds.
 Home Missions Doubles Budget
 By reason of the larger recel2tE from the campaign, the Home Mis- sion Beard has been enabled to prac- tically double it's annual budgot fer it's work of evangelism. church build ing, work among the foreiGncrs. ln dians and negroes, mountain mission schools, enlistEent, and general mis- sior work in Cuba and Panama. The appropriations to evangelism have heen practically doub'ed. those tc church building increased between 800 and eco per cent, those to tEe mountain schools. forty in number, 100 per cent, and those to tho Wori of enilstIng undeye,oped churches 3a0 per cent.
 In the realm of state mi5aions which embod,es such work as proYid ing missionaries and oth.r specia, workers for nordy fields within the states and aiding weak congregations in the building of houses of worship the advance made possible by the campaign ranges from 9 to 1G0 Icr cent in the eighteen states of the c1n yention territory.
 Returns to the Conservation Com. mission by forty-five of the Baptist institutions of learning which arc sharing in the returns from the cam. paign. show that they have received S2.71S,756 so far Of this sum, $1.- 640,000 has been expended on i'm. provements, $409,000 has gone to ea. dowment, several hundred thousand dollars in old debts have been wiped out and other improvements are un- der way.
 Ten New Hospitals Provided
 Southern Baptists were o'esratine fourteen hospitals when the campaign began, and as result of the new in terest in this work aroused by the campaign ten additional hospitAs have been launched These hospitals have received s1.111,439.4, from the tdIupe,iCu SO ict, M-siit iOC0t CGHtttG- mites in which the hospitals arc To, cate1 have subscribed approximately s2.0G0,o30 additional. The hospitals have practically sfooo.ooos in i'm, provements under way. The seven. teen Baptist orphanages have like wise come in for much larger support as a result of the campaign, their receipts from this source being s1.o1S,79S67. As a result of this in. come the orphanages have been en- abled to make Improvements valued at s325,0o0.
 The work of aiding aged preachers is a new one among Southern Bap- lists. as a whole, but ss a result ct the campaign the Relief and Annuity Board has received s40S14S.S2 from that source and sS00,000 from Mir. Rockefeller ST. 1