The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1922-11-10

Or. E. Gill saptist hePresentativo IN
Europe, on GeN. nnd p. v. PaVioN Of
Al Russian BSptist Union.
From the beginning Of the Baptist
IS Million Campaign to January. 1922,
total Of s8O.S56,S19 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Cam.
palgn, It is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount $2S.799,s7116 came IN
through the payment Of regular Cam
paign subscriptions and the remaining
k1.556.34S26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, 81 .3O1 .13476; Ark,
S714, 4,6S3Os; d. OF c., S123 3,2SO.O1; F1a1
t469 1888; Ca, $4,000, 0,l7410; ILL.,,
S29S,576l3; Ky. S3,1S7656.t5; La.
tSO7 7,99l13.; Md, 3,51746; Miss,
S1,243, ,S46.6O; Mo, $1,19O.754.7O; n. NJ,
45.22Ss7; N. c.. f2.211,7415O; Okla,
tS4O, O,58265; S. c., S2,6S3, 3,S4O.5S; Tenn,
l1.797, ,4s9lO; Tex, $5.162, ,65s.s5; Va,
s3,279 ,Os5. More than 100000 baptismS
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects OF the denom'
ination we're embraced In the Cam
palgn 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, Rb,-
434,O1269: home missions, $S,569,
500 81; state missions in the seventeen
states and local work In the District
Of Columbia, S4,954,s18.26 Christian
education, S7192,442.7s; Baptist hos
pitfalls. $1,000. 4.O9s.18; orphSnagss, S2,-
lOS, 1878: and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged do
pendent ministers and their families,
H7ss, ,126ss
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance,
ranging from 200 to 800 per cent. in
the contributions Of Southern Baptists
to their general missionary, educa-
tional and benevolent work, prior TO
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 1B0 new mis-
sionares since the Campaign began,
and providing many church buildings,
mission residences, schools, theolog'
ical seminaries, 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-SlaviR Hungary
ROumania and Southern Russia IN
Europe, and Palestine, Syria and 81
beria in Asia, and Or. Everett Gill, fol
many years a missionary in Italy, bul
more recently a 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 die
/ trfbuting 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 arr
I the aiding OF more than 1000 churches
/ with loans and gifts for church build
ings, completion OF the big tuberculo
ais sanatorium at El PRao enlarge
ment OF the work In Cuba and th'
/ Canal Zone. strengthening OF the 3,
| mountain mission schools and the de
velopment OF all eleven department.
/ Of the work Of the Board. In all sew
enteen states Of the Southern Baptis
Convention the state mission work ha
been greatly extended, the number q
Baptlsts hospitals in the South ha
been increased from eleven to twenty
three, all OF the older eighteen Baptia
orphanages have been aided In matt
rial ways and two new ones have bee
established, while the number OF age
dependent ministers and their familie
has bsen doubled and the amount
aid given them increased 100 per cen