Pocahontas star herald., 1922-03-31

Or. e. Gill, Baptist Representative In
Europe, on Left, and p. ". PavIoff OF
An Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
75 Million Campaign to January, 1922,
a total OF SS0,356, ,319.41 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Cam
paign, II is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount s2S,7ss,s71.16 came in
through the payment Of regular Cam
paign subscriptions and the remaining
31,556,348.26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, $1,301. .13476; Ark.
s714. $500; d. of c., s123 3,2SO.01; Fla,
s469 1888; Ga, s3,000,l74.10; ILL.,,
$29S, ,57s.1S; Ky, s3,1S7,65615; La,
1907 ,991.13.; Md, sSsS,517.46; Miss.
$1,24S,S ,S46.5O; Mo-, t1,190, ,754.70; N. M,
s145, ,22s.s7; N. c.. s2,211,741.5o; Okla,
S40,562.65; s. c., s2,63s s.S4053; Tenn.
1,797, ,4S3.10; Tex, $5.162 ,65s.S6; Va,
s3,279,0S5. More than 250.OO0 baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects OF the denom-
nation we're embraced in the Cam
paign 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. So
434,012.53; home missions, sS,562,-
6O0.67; state missions in the seventeen
states and local work in the District
of Columbia. s4.954, 4,S13.26; Christian
education. t7,192,442.79; Baptist hos
pitfalls, $1,000 ,O99.16; orphanages. ST.
los, 1878; and Relief and Annuity
Board. which ministers to aged de-
pendent ministers and their families.
s79s, 1869.
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance,
ranging from 200 to 300 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 1870 new mis-
sfonaries 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-Slavia, Hungary,
Roumania and Southern Russia in
Europe, and Palestine, Syria ard ST.
IBERIA in Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, for
many years a missionary in Italy, but
more recently pastor in Kansas City.
has been named special European rep
resentative TO supervise the greatly
expanded work on that continent. DIR.
Gill is giving much of his time to dis
tributing 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 are
the aiding of more than 1000 churches
with loans and gifts for church build
ings, completion of the big tuberculo-
sis sanatorium at FL Paso, enlarge
ment Of the work in Cuba and the
Canal Zone. Strengthening of the 81
mountain mission schools and the de-
velopment OF all eleven departments
OF the 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
Baptlsts 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 ministers and their families
has been doubled and the amount of
aid given them increased 100 per cent.
Collections Are Pushed
While the collections so far repre-
sent big gain over the contributions
of Southern Baptists to their work be-
fore the Campaign. the sum collected
is not all that is due and In all the
South an effort is being made to col
lect as much more as possible by the
close of the Convention year, May 1.
that none Of the work may suffe.