Iron County register., 1922-04-27


Europe, on Left, and p. v. PavIoff Of
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
rs Million Campaign to January, 1922,
a total of $30,S56,319.41 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Cam
paign, it is announced by the general
headquarters office at. Nashville. OF
this amount $2S,799,971.15 came in
through the payment Of regular Cam
paign subscriptions and the remaining
$1,556,34S26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, $1,3O1, ,13476; Ark,
STA, 4,6S3.O9; D. of c., $12S,2S0.O1; Fla,
s469,753.53; Ca, $3,000,174.10; H.,
s298,576.13; KY, $9,1S7,65615; La,
sSO7 7,991.13.; Md, $393,517.46; Miss,
s1,243, ,S46.5O; Mo-, $1,19O,754.70; N NJ,
$145, ,229.97; N. c., $2,211,741.50; Okla,
$S4O,562.65; S. c., $2,6S3,S4o.53; Tenn,
s1,797, ,4S3,10; Tex, $5,162,658.S5; Va,
$3,279,OS5. More than 250,0OO baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects of the denom-
nation were embraced in the Cam
paign program, and from the regular
Campaign contributions those objects
have received the following amounts,
according to compilation by the head.
quarters office: Foreign missions, $5,-
l34,01253; home missions, $780,.
600.67; state missions in the seventeen
states and local work in the District
pf Columbia, $4,954,S1326; Christian
education, $7,192,442.79; Baptist hos
bitals, $2,004,099.16; orphanages, $2,.
l09,7S7.33; and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged de-
pendent ministers and their families,
s799,126.99
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance,
:anging from 200 to 800 per cent, in
he contributions of Southern Baptists
o their general missionary, educa-
tional and benevolent work, prior to
he inauguration of the Campaign, and
nave enabled the boards and other
agencies to greatly extend their serv-
ces in all departments. In addition
10 sending out more than 1870 new mis-
Iionaries since the Campaign began,
Ind providing many church buildings,
mission residences, schools, theolog-
nal 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-Slayia, Hungary,
Roumania and Southern Russia in
Europe, and Palestine, Syria and 81.
beria in Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, for
many years missionary in Italy, but
more recently pastor in Kansas City,
has been named special European rep.
tesentative to supervise the greatly
Expanded work on that continent. DR..
Eill is giving much of his time to dis
lributing Baptist relief funds in Rus
sia and otherwise looking after the In.
Ierests of the denomination there.
FfSiuV VOIN -Iiai 9CO
Among the outstanding accomplish
nents 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 Ell 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
Baptists 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 a 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
iect as much more as possible by the
close Of the Convention year, May i,
that mono Of the work may suffer.