The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-25

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Baptist 75-Miilion Campaign.
DR.. l. r. Scarborough, who was
general director of the Baptist IS
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 the
Nashville headquarters showing the
various interests that have profited
from the S16,S51, 10O.6S collected on
campaign pledges up to Dec. 1, 1920.
With its receipts of $2,958, $3.50
the Foreign Mission Board has added
to its territory five new provinces in
China and made the beginning for
opening up work in the new fields OF
Spain, Hungary. Roumania, Jugo-
Slavia. and the Ukraine in Russia;
strengthened its work in Syria and
Palestine, made 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
airy work. What is Of even. more i'm.
portance, in the estimation Of Score
tary Love, is the completion of many
institutions and undertakings that
had been held up for lack of funds.
Home Missions Doubles Budget
By reason of the larger receipts
from the campaign, the Home Mis-.
sion Board has been enabled to prac.
tically double its annual budget for
its work of evangelism, church build.
ing, work among the foreigners, In.
dams and negroes, mountain mission
schools, enlistment, and general mis-
sion work in Cuba and Panama. The
appropriations to evangelism have
been practically doubled. those to
church building increased between
500 and 800 per cent, those to the
mountain schools. forty in number,
100 per cent, and those to the work
Of enlisting undeveloped churches,
800 per cent.
In the realm of state missions,
which embodies 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 of worship.
the advance made possible by the
campaign ranges from 25 to 100 per
cent in the eighteen states of the con.
vention territory.
Returns to the Conservation Com.
mission by forty-five of the Baptist
institutions OF learning which are
sharing In the returns from the cam
paign, show that they have received
$2.713,756 so far. OF this sum, ST.,
$4,000 has been expended on i'm.
proyements, 100000 has gone to en-.
dowment, several hundred thousand
dollars in old debts have been wiped
out and other Improvements are I'm.
der way.
Ten New Hospitals Provided
Southern Baptists were operating
fourteen hospitals when the campaign
began, and as result of the new in.
terest in this work aroused by the
campaign ten additional hospitals
have been launched. These hospitals
have received s1,111,439.45 from the
campaign so far, while local commu.
mites in which the hospitals ars 10
Gated have subscribed approximately
$4,000, 900 additional. The hospitals
have practically $1,OOO,OO0 in inn
proyements under way. The seven
teen Baptist orphanages have like
wise come in for much larger support
as ! result Of the campaign. theii
receipts from this source being
$1,018, 1887. As 9 result Of this in
come the orphanases have been en-
abled to make improvements values
1t $325,00O.
The work Of aiding aged preachers
Is ! new one among Southern Bap
fists IS whole. but - result Of
the campaign the Relief and Annuity
Board has received $4OS,14S.82 from
that source and 100000 from Mr.
Rockefeller, Sr.