Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-23
BApTISTS' WORK
IN HOME MISSIONS
Notable Progress Made Among
Negroes and Indians, Con-
vention Report Shows

Les MONIES, iowa, une 10
Notable progress in educational
work among negroes and Indians
in this country and among the
people of Central America, the
opening of an international Bap-
fist. Seminary to train preachers
for work among foreign-speaking
people, establishment of boys
camp applying the "Plattsburg
idea" to religious training, and
creation of an ARCHITECTURAL bureau
to help make religious buildings
more effective, were among fea-
lures of the 89th annual report of
the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society, presented by DR.. c,
L. White, executive secretary, at
the Northern Baptist convention
here today.
Schools for negroes and In
dams have been taxed at their ut,
most capacity, according to DIR.
George r. Hovey, of the educa-
tional department. Through
gifts from the General Education
Board and John D. Rockefeller,
the Salary Of teachers in these
schools is being increased and
new buildings provided at Bacone
Indian COLLEGE. BaCOne. Okla.
Ga. Indians of Oklahoma have.
given $175,0O0 to aid Bacone
school. Need. for further extern
sion of this educational work is
urgent, declares DR.. Charles A.
Brooke, in charge of negro mis-
sions. An intense race conscious
ness is furnishing a perplexing
problem for the negro churches.
Training of young people for
more adequate service in church
and community centers is one
help to the solution of this prob
lem.
In the United States, says Dr..
Lemuel Call Barnes, the society is
cooperating in 100 towns and cit
les in missionary and church eX-
tension work. Recommendation
is made for more aggressive or
ganization for smaller cities. In
sparSely settle areas six general
missionaries, 43 assistants, and
169 Missionary pastors have had
charge of 20 churches and cover
ed vast territory where there is
no church. There are IS Indian
missionaries working among their
own people. Reclamation pro-
jects iii the northwest, says. DIR.
Barnes, foreshadow big task
along missionary lines in the near
future.
Among the foreign born an at
titude of bitterness, due to sus-
piciousness and indiscriminate
charges of radicalism, to the com
ing Of prohibition and propagan-
da about Sunday restrictions, DIR.
Brooks reports, has hampered
characterization. However. on
the Pacific coast, much has been
accomplished among Orientals,
workers being sent among Chin-
csc and Hindoos. Mexicans too
have responded well, and Mexi-
can department of the Interna-
tional Seminary has been opened
in Los Angeles. In the training
of leaders from other lands, DIR.
Brooks says, the International ;
Seminary will solve many present
Thirteen Christian religious,
education, social centers are now
in operation, supported jointly by |
the two Home Mission Societies. !
Ten others are definitely planned |
and five others are conditional |
upon financial conditions.
Churches are recognizing COM
obligations, reports Roll !
vix Harlan, and in several cities
community workers are being
employed. Laymen are also or
ganizing for voluntary service of
this sort. Surveys are being
made in several migratory labor
groups Of opportunities for relig-
ious and social service; also of
hospitals and homes controlled by
The denomination. Schools for.
rural pastors, just instituted dur
ng the last year are shown to bel
valuable. Increased use of auto
mobiles to enable pastors to COW
n more territory is also found to
help. Need of training for more