Washington telegraph., 1922-04-21

EUROPE on LoTts ana - v. PaNlofT Of
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
rs Million Campaign to January, 1922,
a total OF s3O,356,319.41 had been paid
In TO objects fostered by the Cam
paign, It is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount s2S,799.97115 came In
through the payment Of regular Cam.
paign subscriptions and the remaining
sl.556,34S26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, 1901 ,194.76; Ark,
s71i,6S30s; D. OF c., s123,2S0.O1; Fla,
s46s 1888; Ca, s3.O0O,174lO; ILL.,,
$2sS, 576.13; Ky, SO 1s7, ,65615; La,
sSO7 es1.13.; Nd, sS93,51746; Miss,
s1.243, ,s46.5O; Mo-, 81 190.7547O; N M,
s145,229.97; N. c.. s2.211,741.5O; Okla
sS4o.56165; s. c., 1888, ,s40.53; Tenn.
81. 1877. .iS31O; Tex, s5.162. $685. Va,
s3,27s .OS5. More than 25O,OOO baptisms
we're reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributed
Seyen general objects of the demon.
nation were embraced in the Cam.
paign program, and from the regular
Campaign contributions those objects
have received the following amounts
according to a compilation by the head
quarters office; Foreign missions, s5.-
434,o1253; home missions, $500,
600 81; state missions in the seventeen
states and local work in the District
Of Columbia, s4,s54,s1326; Christian
education. s7192.442.7s; Baptist hos
pitfalls. s2OO4, 4,Oss.16; orphanages, s2.'
1O3,7S733; and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged de-
peadent ministers and their families
S799, 1869.
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance
ranging from 200 to 300 per cent, In
the contributions OF Southern Baptists
to their general missionary, educa
tional and benevolent work, prior &c
the Inauguration of the Campaign, and
have enabled the boards and other
agencies to greatly extend their serv'
ices in all departments. In addition
to sending out more than 1S0 new mis-
sionaries since the Campaign began
and providing many church buildings
mission residences, schools, theolog
ical semlnaries, publishing houses
hospitals and the like on the Older
fields The Foreign Mission Board has
been enabled to open work in the new
fields OF Spain, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary
Roun aiia and Southern Russia IN
Europe, and Palestine, Syria and 81
IBERIA in Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, fol
many years a missionary in Italy, bui
more recently pastor in Kansas City
has been named special European rep
resentative to supervise the greatly
expanded work on that continent DR.
Gill is giving much Of his time to dis
tributing Baptist relief funds in Rus
sia and otherwise looking after the in
terests Of the denomination there.
Home Work Enlarged
Among the outstanding accomplish
ments of the Home Mission Board are
the aiding of more than 1000 churches
with loans and gifts for church build
ings, completion Of the big tuberculo
sis sanatorlum at Ell Paso, enlarge
ment OF the work In Cuba and th'
Canal Zone, strengthening OF the g
mountain mission schools and the de
velopment OF all eleven department.
OF the work of the Board. In all sev
enteen states of the Southern Bsptls
Convention the state mission work has
been greatly extended, the number @
Baptists hospitals in the South ho'
been increased from eleven to twenty
three, all OF the older eighteen Baptis
orphanages have been aided in mate
rial ways and two new ones have beer
established, while the number of aget
dependent ministers and their families
has been doubled and the amount o.
aid given them increased 100 per cent
Collections Are Pushed
While the collections so far repre-
sent a big gain over the contribution
of Southern Baptlsts to their work be
fore the Campaign. thetsum COLLECTED
is not all that Is due and in all tn,
South an effort Is being made to col
lect as much moro as possible by the
close of the Convention year. May
that none NJ the work may suffer.