The Nevada County picayune., 1922-10-26
DR. L. R. SCARBOROUGH General Director Baptist 75 Million
 Campaign.

and benevolent work for the three years preceding the Campaign.
 The confirmation of larger gifts to religious work has been accompanied by larger spiritual results in the focal churches, it is pointed out. For ill., stance, Southern Baptists baptized 150,000 more converts during the first three years of the Campaign than they did in the three years before, gained 5000 new Sunday schools and 100000 new pupils, enhanced the value of their local church property by $33000,000, enlarged their contri- buttons to local causes by S22,390 900, and increased their contributions to all causes by s43, 3,480, ,490.
 Baptist Institutions Grow
 Some other phases of denomination al progress made possible by the Campaign include increasing the num- Der of Baptist hospitals ill the South from 12 to 19 with three others un- der construction and four more def intely planned; strengthening of IT Baptist orphanageS and the establish ment of two new ones, lifting $3,000,- 900 indebtedness On 119 Baptist schools, colleges and seminaries, com pletion and projection of permanent improvements there in the sum of $4,000,0 900, and the addition Of sub stantial sums to the endowment funds. Over g,500~ ministerial students are enrolled at Southern Baptist schools.
 Church Loan Fund Raised
 Among the outstanding accomplish ments in the work of the Home Mis- oin rd churches in building new houses of worship, the completion of the mil. lion-dollar Church Building Loan Fund, strengthening the work among the foreigners and Indians and the 38 Mountain mission schools. The Board has employed an average of ,49s workers during the Campaign and re- ports for that period 134832 bap- tlsms, 21s,371 additions to churches, 2,276 Sunday schools and 759 church es organized, and ,409 houses of wor- ship built or repaired.
 On the foreign fields the equipment for mission work has been practically doubled, more than 250 new foreign missionaries have been sent out, more than 400 new native workers have been employed, and the Board has
 
 Slavia Hungary, Roumania, Southern Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The Board reports for the period of the Campaign IT new churches on the foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211 new Sunday schools gain of 17,576 pupils, native contributions of $1.003.- 39068, and 529,642 treatments admin istered by medical missionaries.
 Another result of the Campaign is that the Relief and Annuity Board, which is seeking to care for the aged dependent ministers and their fam flies, has been enabled to double the number of such persons helped and the amount that is given these bene- ficiaries. Last year the Board was able to dispense $128,966 among needy ministers. 1t has invested as- sets of $1,149,0SS.
 Receive 50o,ooo New Members
 More than 500,000 new members have been received into the local Baptist churches of the South since the Campaign began, and in the hope of enlisting all these in the Cam paign. as we'll as reaching the older members of the churches who have not shared in the forward movement heretofore, tho month of November B. December 3 has been designated as Reinforcement Month by the Cam paign Conservation Commission. Dur ing this month it is planned that ev- cry Baptist church in the South wifi call upon all it's members who are not already participating in the Cam paign and secure subscriptions from