Fitzgerald leader. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1921-1921, 1921-03-12


Dr. L. r. Scarborough, who was
general director of the Baptist 75-
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 protitcd
from the $16,851 ,100.68 collected on
campaign pledges up to Dec. 1, 1920.
With it's receipts of $2,958, 808.07,
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 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.
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 fol
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 b
church building increased between
500 and 900 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 Is 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.
provements, 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 q result of the new in.
terest in this work aroused BY the
campaign ten additional hospitals
have been launched. These hospitals
have received Sill, 43945 from the
campaign so far, while local commu-
mites in which the hospitals are 10
Gated have subscribed approximately
100000 additional. The hospitals
have practically 100000 in i'm
provements under way. The seven.
teen Baptist orphanages have like
wise come in for much larger support
as result Of the campaign, their
receipts from this source being
$1,01S,79S.67. As a result of this in.
come the orphanages have been en-.
abled to make improvements valued
at s325.000.
The work Of aiding aged preachers
Is new one among Southern Bap-
lists as whole, but as q result Of
the campaign the Relief and Annuity
Board has received $40S,14S.s2 from
that source and 100000 from Mr..
Rockefeller, Sr.
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