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and benevolent work for the three
| years preceding the Campaign.
The contribution of larger gifts to
religious work has been accompanied
by larger spiritual results in the local
churches, 1t is pointed out. For i'll
] stance, Southern Baptists baptized
10000 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 $33,000,000, enlarged their contri-
buttons to local causes by $22,390,000,
| and increased their contributions to
all causes by $43,4S0,490.
Baptist Institutions Grow
Some other phases Of denominations
al progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the num-
Der of Baptist hospitals in the South
from II to 10, with three others I'M
der construction and four more def
intely planned; Strengthening of II
Baptist orphanages and the establish
ment Of two new ones, lifting $3,O0O,-
900 Indebtedness on 119 Baptist
schools, colleges and seminaries, COM
pletion and projection of permanent
improvements there in the sum of
$4,00O,000, and the addition of sub
stantial sums to the endowment funds.
Over $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-
sion Board are the aiding of 1000
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 SO
Mountain mission schools. The Board
has employed an average of 1,495
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period 1882 bap-
tisms, 218,371 additions to churches,
2,276 Sunday schools and 759 church
es organized, and 1,409 houses of wor-
ship built or repaired.
On the foreign fields the equipment
for mission work has been practically
doubled, more than $50 new foreign
missionaries have been sent out, more
than 400 new native workers have
been employed, and the Board has
entered the new fields of Spain, Jugo-
Slavia, Hungary, Roumania, Southern
Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The
Board reports for the period of the |
Campaign III new churches on the |
foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211 |
new Sunday schools, gain of 1855 |
pupils, native contributions of 81, 0O3,- |
39068, and 529,642 treatments admin |
istered by medical missionaries.
Another result of the Campaign ia |
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
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 $1,149,0S8.
Recsive 100000 New Members
More than 100000 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 b
paign, as well as reaching the older
members of the churches who have
not SuhTcu III Tue kOkWdIu movement :
the month of November s.
December has been designated az
Month by the Cam
paign Conservation Commission. Dur
ing this month it is planned that eV-
Try Baptist church in the South will !
,all upon all its members who are
aot already participating in the Cam
Daign and secure subscriptions from
hem covering the two remaining
Tears of the movement, and cash OF.
erings to the Campaign from all the
DR.. L. r. Scarborough, OF ,
Fort Worth, Texas, who was general
lirector Of the original Campaign. has
)een elected to serve in that capac-
ty for the Reinforcement program, !
the details are being work
ID out in the various states under
he leadership of the secretaries OF
he stute nilsson boards. 1t is hopei
o secure several million dollars in
additional subscriptions and several S
lion in cash IS won by Decem. e
Ier L.