Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-19

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, it is pointed out. For ia
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 S33,0G0,000, enlarged their contri-
buttons to local causes by S22290,O00
and increased their contributions TO
all causes by $43,480,49O.
- Baptist Institutions Grow
Some other phases Of denomination
81 progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the num-
Der Of Baptist hospitals in the South
Arom Il to 10, with three others I'M
der construction and four more def
tntsly planned; Strengthening of II
Baptist orphanages and the establish
Dent OF two new ones, lifting. $1,000
900 Indebtedness on 119 Baptist
schools, colleges and seminaries, COM
Hletion and projection Of permanent
tmprovem ents there in the sum Of
100000, and the addition Of sub
stantiaI 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 l,495
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period 1882 bap-
tisms, 21S,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 25G new foreign
missionaries have been sent out, more
than 400 new native workers have
been employed, and the Board has
eulGICO luC new l1CiOS VI lJGlllg
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. eli
new Sunday schools, gain of 1876
pupils, native contributions OF 1,003,-
390.68, and 529,642 treatments admin
istered by medical missionaries.
that the Relief and Annuity Board,
which is seeking to care for the aged
dependent ministers and their fam
lilies, 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 S128,966 among
needy ministers. 1t has invested az
sets of S1,149,0SS.
Receive 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
paign, as well as reaching the older
members of the churches who have
not shared in the forward movement
heretofore, the month of November s.
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 will
call upon all its members who are
not already participating in the Cam
paign and secure subscriptions from
them covering the two remaining
years of the movement, and cash Of
ferings to the Campaign from all the
members. DR.. L. r. Scarborough, of
Fort Worth, Texas, who was general
director of the original Campaign, has
been elected to serve i'll that capac-
ity for the Reinforcement program,
although the details are being work
ed out in the various states under
the leadership the sec aries. of