Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-03-15

Al ftusoian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
rs Million Campaign to January, 1899,
a total OF ss0,S56.s1S.41 had been paid
IN TO pb5ects fostered BY the Cam.
paign. Il Ia announced by the general
Headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount 92s,7s9.s71.16 came in
through tho payment ct regular Gam.
paign subscriptions and tho remaining
41.b6e,S+s-2e In special contributions
Regular reoeipts from che various
etatos hollow: Ala. $1.ao1,1s4.7s; Ark,
8714.s33.os; d. Of c., t113. .1so.o1, fla
$48s.TkS.5a; Ga. t3.o00,174.10, III,
$2p8,tis.1S, Ky. tS.1s7.eBs.1S; La,
1901, ,asl.Is., Nd, essS,b17.4s, Miss,
sl.44B,s+s.60; No, t1.lso,76A7o; N. n.
s146. 6.sae.DT; n. @, @4.111,74l.be; Okla,
ssAo.bS2,Ss; 3. g., 37,esS,s4o.Bs; Tenn
s1,7sf ,4Ss.1o; Tex, &5.1s3,e6s.sS; Va
e8,17S .esb. More than 100000 saptisnaa
were reported by Southern Raptisa
churches last year.
Aew Money Was Distributed
gsvon general objects Of the denom.
inatton were embraced In the Cam
patsn program, ana from the regular
Campaign contributions those objects
have received tho following amounts,
according to q compilation by the head.
QuAytars ostioo EorslEn mlssions So
&8S;6ia:5s; homo mihsions, sa,b82,.
t00.tF; state miAsious in tho ssventeen
atA.eR. anG local work in the District
Of Columbia, eA.a64.s1s.i0; Christian
odvoatlon. t7.1s2.44a.7p; Baptist hos
pitsis, es.004.0so.16; orphanagea, o.
100. .7s748; and Relief and Annuity
naArd. which ministers TO aged de.
ponasn< ministers and their famillea.
9Tsa.l3a.9s.
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance.
ranging from 800 to 800 per cent, In
the contributions ok Southern Baptists
TO .hsif general missionary. educa-
tsesd aRA benevolent work, prior 20
The Inauguration OF the Campaign. and
have enabled the boards and other
aGeaolas TO Sreatly extend their serv.
Ices ta ell departments IN addition
to aeading otk moro than 180 new mis-.
scenarios since the Campaign began.
pnd providing many church buildings,
sAhsstaa residences, schools, thsolos.
isal ssxainartea. publishing houses.
ssoa1sAais ana &As Like on the older
tiesas NAs Foreign Mission Board hes
baan esasled 70 epsu work n tho new
nes&a OF npaia, 1ugo.siavia. Hungary.
E0sssasusa ana 8oAthsra Russia n
Tnyopa, and Palsstine. Syria and 81.
bsqts Ia Asia, Aaa DR.. Everett 0ill for
msay yssss . saissioaary IN ltaly. bus
iooss Rooontly 4 pastor IN Kansas Csty.
has been narasd special Hurepsaa re.
resoata$lvs 20 supervise the greatly
expanded work on that continent. Ds.
GU Ss giving nauah OF hia Atnae - die
sribaEing Baptist RELIEF funds In Ras.
Fla and otherwise looking after the IN.
terastS Of tho denomination there.
ktoH.s Work Enlarged
Among the outstanding accomplish
snants OF the Home Mission Board arc
the aiding Of more than 1000 churches
vita loane and gifts for church build
.ngs, completion Of the big tubsroulo-
sIs aenaAorium at III Paso, enlarge.
sasnt OF the work IN Cuba and the
Canal Zone, strengthening Of the ~
mountain mission schools and the Dc.
felopment OF all eleven departments
&C tho work Of the Board. In all sew
enteen states OF the Southern Baptist
Convention the state mission work has
been greatly extended, the number Of
Bsptiats hospitals in the South has
been Increased from eleven to twenty.
three, all OF the older eighteen Baptist
orphanages have been aided In mate
rial ways and two new ones have been
established, while the number OF aged
dependent minister's and their families
has baen doubled and the amount Of
aid given them Increased 100 per cont.
COLLECTIONS Arc Pushed
While tho collections 50 far repre-.
cent q big gain over the contributions
OF southern lBaptists to their work be.
fore the Campaign, the sum collected
lis not all that IL due and In all the
South IN efkOrt In heinU rnada tn coI.