Deming graphic., 1921-08-09


Or. l.. r. Scarborough. who wst
general director of the BAPTIST u
Million Campaign. and Who was late'
elected chairman Of the Conservation
Commission that is seeking to con
serve all the Interests Of that cam
paign. has Issued report from the
Nashville headquarters showing the
various interests that have profited
from the SI6.S5f.i 0S6 collected oI
campaign pledges m To Dec. I, 1920.
With it's receipts Of t29jS.SoS.O3.
the Foreign Mission Board has added
TO IT'S territory fivz new provinces IN
China and made the beginning fci
oponing M work in the now folds OF
spain. Hungary. Roumania. Jugo
Slavia. and the Ukraine In Russia;
streng.haned It's work In Syria and
Palestine. made n beginning In East
arm Siberia. added 100 new workers
TO its force OF American missionaries
in foreign lands. provided new houses
NJ worship. hospitals. schools. pub
fishing plants and other institutions
needed In the prosecution OF mission
sry work. What is OF even more i'm
poItance. in the estimation Of Secre
tary Love. is the completion OF many
institutions and undertakings that
had been held up for lack Of funds.
Home Missiona Doubles Budget
nv reason Of the larger receipts
from the campaign. tho Home Mis-
sion Board has been enabled 10 prac
tically double it's annual budget for
ts work ~ evangelism, church build
lnE work among the foreigners. In
dams and negroes. mountain mission
schools. enlistment. and general mis-
sion work in Cuba and Panama. The
concentrations 10 evangelism have
beep practically doubled. those OF
church building increased between
800 and 500 per cent, those to the
mountain schools. forty in number,
100 per cent, and those 20 the work
n enlistlng undevelopd churches. 800
per cent.
In the realm Of state missions
which epbodies such work as provid'
ing missionaries and other special
workers for needy fields within the
states and aiding weak congregations
in the building of houses NJ worship
Tho advance made possible by the
campaign ranges from % 10 100 per
cent in the eighteen states Of the con
ventIon territory.
Returns to the Conservation Com
mission hy forty-five Of the Baptist
institutions Of learning which are
sharing In the returns from the cam
nairn. show that they have received
s97ts7Ss 40 far. or this sum. 81,
$40. 600 has been expended on I'm
oroyemcnts. s4OO. 900 has gone to on
| sowmant. several hundred thousand
dollars ~ old debts have been wiped
ont and uther improvements are nm
| der way.
Ten New Hospitals Provided
southern Baptists were operating
tour,een hospitals when the campaign
hcran. and as a result Of the now In
,erest III this ~crk aroused hN the
Ncsmpairn ten additional hospitals
have heen launched Those hospitals
have received s1.ili,43s.45 from the
campaign so far. while local commu
r,tIes In which the hospitals arc 10
Gated have subscribed approximately
s9 600. 900 additional The hospitah
have practically si,Ooo.oca in i'm
provements under way. The seven
teen Baptist orphanages have like
wise come In for much larger suppor
as result OF the campaign. thei
receipts from this source beinl
u.0ls.7sS.67. As result Of this IN
come the orFhanages have been en-
abled to make improvements valued a
1926 600.
The work Of aiding aged preacher
IA new one among Southern Bar
tlsts as a Whole. but as n result q
the campaign the Relief and Annuit
BOARD has received S4oS.l4S.S2 froi
| eonn OON froun NJ