The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-03-17


DR.. L. r. SCARBOROUGH,
Chairman Conservation Commission
Baptist rs Million Campaign.
DR.. l.. II. Scarborough, who was
General. director Of the Baptist 70.
Iillion Campaign, and who was later
elected chairman Of the Conservation
Commission that is seeking to con.
'erve all the interests Of that cam
'aign, has issued a report from the
Nashville headquarters showing the
arious interests that have profited
rom the $16.S5l. .10O.6S collected on
;ampaign pledges up to Dec. 1, 1920.
with it's receipts Of $2,95S,80S.O7,
he Foreign Mission Board has added
it's territory five new provinces In
nina and made the beginning for
opening up work in the new fields of
spain, Hungary, Roumania, Jugo-
'lavia, and the Ukraine in Russia;
.trengthened it's work in Syria and
palestine, made a beginning in East
>rn Siberia, added 100 new workers
% Its force of American missionaries
in foreign lands, provided new houses
If worship, hospitals, schools, pub
ishing plants and other institutions
needed in the prosecution of mission
ny work. What is Of even more i'm
,ortance, in the estimation of Secre-
ary 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.
.ically double it's annual budget for
It's work OF evangelism, church build.
ms. work among the foreigners, In
ians and negroes, mountain mission
schools, enlistment, and general mis-.
sion work in Cuba and Panama The
appropriations to evangelism have
Ieen practically doubled, those to
hurch building increased between
100 and 600 per cent, those to the
mountain schools, forty in number,
100 per cent, and those to the work
If enlisting undeveloped churches, 800
ser cent
In the realm of state missions
which embodies such work as proyid-
Ing missionaries and other special
'oricrs for needy fields within the
states and aiding weak congregations
IN the building Of houses OF worship,
he advance made possible by the
campaign ranges from 25 to 100 per
Hent In the eighteen states OF the con-
vcntion 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
Dagn show that they have received
i2,713,756 so far OF this sum, ST..
$4,000 has been expended on i'm.
provements, 100000 has gone to en-.
dofment, several hundred thousand
dollars in old debts have been wiped
out and other improvements are lin.
der way.
Ten New Hospitals Provided
Southern Baptists we're operating
fourteen hospitals when the campaign
began, and as result of the new In.
terest in this work aroused by Ahe
campaign ten additional hospitals
have been launched. These hospitals
have received Sill ,439.45 from the
campaign SO far, while local commu.
mites in which the hospitals are To-
Gated have subscribed approximately
$2,000,000 additional. The hospifals
have practically 100000 in i'm.
provements under way. Hhe seven.
teen Baptist orphanages have like.
wise come in for rpuch larger support
as resultsof the. campaign thair
receipts from this source being
s1.018,79S.67. AS a resalt or shis 9in.
come the orphanaGes have been on.
ahled to make improvements valued
at, 1926, 900. .s.~2'S '.''
The work Of aiding aged preachers
is 2 new one among; southern nap.
lists as whole, but ASA result .of
the campaign the ReHef and ANNUITY
Board kas received 4US;1A8.82 from
Tat g -, source and 100000 asoGn Mr.,