Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-08

DR.. L. r. SCARBOROUGH
General Director Baptist rs Million
Campaign.
and benevolent work for the three
years preceding the Campaign.
1 The contribution of larger gifts to
religious work has been accompanied
lily larger spiritual results in the local
churches, it is pointed out. For III.
stance, Southern Baptists baptized
100000 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 $33,O00000, enlarged their contri'
buttons to local causes by 100000,
and increased their contributions to
all causes by $43,4S0,4s0.
Baptist Institutions Grow
Some other phases of denomination.
al progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the num-
Der of Baptist hospitals in the South
from IL to 19, 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 $3,009,.
900 indebtedness on 119 Baptist
schools, colleges and seminariess com.
pletion and projection of permanent
improvements there in the sum Of
S4,OOO,OOO, 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 SO
Mountain mission schools. The Board
has employed an average Of 1896
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period 134,832 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 ESQ 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 lit new churches on the
foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211
new Sunday schools, gain of 1873
pupils, native contributions of S1,003,.
390.sS, and 529,642 treatments admin.
istered by medical missionaries.
Another reeult 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 s12S,s66 among
needy ministers. 1t has invested as.
sets of s1,149,08S.
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 enlissing all these in the Cam.
paign, rs we'll as reaching the older
members of the churches who have
not shared in the forward movement
heretofore, the month Of November 5.
December 3 has been designated as
Reinforcement Month by the Cam.
paign Conservation Commle-.. q. Dur.
ing thig month it is planned that ev.
ery Baptist church in the South will
eau upon all it's 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. f. Scarborough, OF
Fort Worth, Texas, who was general
director of the original Campaign, has
been elected to serve in that capac.
tty for the Reinforcement program,
although the details are being work
ed out in the various states under
the leadership OF the secretaries OF
the state Nilsson boards. 1t Ia hoped
10 secure several million dollars in
additional subscriptions and several
million In cssh as we'll by Decem'
Der !.