The Adair County news., 1922-10-24


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 In
stance, Southern Baptists baptized
.150, 900 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 $SS,oo0,00o, enlarged their contri-
buttons to local causes by $22,390 900,
and increased their contributions to
all causes by $43, 3,4S0, 400.
Baptist institutions Grow
Some other phases of denomination
al progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the num-
ber of Baptist hospitals in the South
from IL to 10, with three others un-
der construction and four more def
intely planned Strengthening of II
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, 900, 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 80
Mountain mission schools. The Board
has employed an average of 1,495
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period 134,832 bap-
| tisms, 1881 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 1T new churches on the
foreign fields, 21,723 0aptisms, 211
new Sunday schools, gain of 1876
| pupils, native contributions of $1,003,-
| 390.6S, 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 $I2S,966 among
needy ministers. 1t has invested as
sets of $1,149,08S.
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 thase 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 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 it's members who are
! no, 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
beer elected to serve in that capac-
/ ity for the Reinforcement program.
although the details are being work
ed out in the various states usder
] the leadership of the secretaries OF
the state nilsson boards. tits hoped
TO secure several million dollars in
additional subscriptions and several
million in cash as well by Decem-
her /