Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-03-12
'BAPT|STS REPORT
WHERE MONEY GOES
GENERAL DIRECTOR 75-MlLLloN
CAMPAIGN TELLS PURPOSES
TO WHICH MILLIONS GIVEN.
EVERY CAUSE is BENEFITED
State, Home and Foreign Missions,
Christian Education, Hospitals,
Orphanages and Ministerial
Relief Share in Receipts.

DR.. l.. K. Scarborough, who was
| general director of the Baptist To-
| 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 a report from the
| Nashville headquarters showing the
various interests that have profited
from the $16,S51 ,100.6S collected on
campaign pledges up to Dec. 1, 1920.
With its receipts of $2,95S,S0S.07,
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 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
airy work. What is of even more i'm
| portance, 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 Missions Doubles Budget
BY reason of the larger receipts
! from the campaign, the Home Mis-
| sion Board has been enabled to prac-
| tically double it's 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 600 per cent those to the
mountain schools. forty in number,
100 per cent, and those to the work
of enlisting undeveloped churches, 300
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 % to 100 per
cent in the eighteen states of the con-
vention territory.
Returns to the Conservation Com
% ho
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
provements, 100000 has gone to en-
dofment, 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 operating
fourteen hospitals when the campaign
began, and as a result of the new in
terest in this work aroused by the
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
S2.0O0,00O additional The hospitals
have practically $l,000,0OO in inn
proyements 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
S1,01S,79S.67. AS result of this in
'ome the orphanages have been en-.
1bled to make improvements valued
at 1926, 900,
The work of aiding aged preachers
is new one among Southern Bap.
fists as a whole, but as a result y:
the campaign the Relief and Annuity
Board has received $40S, 1852 from
that source and 5000 DOC from Mr.