Rockingham post-dispatch., 1922-10-26

Campaign.
and benevolent work for the tnree
years preceding the Campaign.
The contribution of larger gifts 10
religious work has been accompanied
by larger spiritual results In the local
churches, it is pointed out For In.
stance, Southern Baptists baptized
10000 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 $4,000, 900, enlarged their contri-
buttons to local causes by $22,3sO,OOO,
and increased their contributions TO
all causes by $4S,4S0, 400. /.
Baptist institutions Grow
Some other phases Of denomination
at progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the mum.
her of Baptist hospitals in the South
from 12 to 19, with three others un-
der construction aud four more def.
intely planned; strengthening Of IL
Baptist orphanages and the establish
ment OF two new ones, lifting SS,000,.
/ 600 Indebtedness on 119 Baptist
! schools, colleges and seminaries, corn
/ pletion and projection Of permanent
/ improvements there in the sum OF
| $4000,000, and the addition of sub
| stantial sums 10 tSe endowment funds.
! Over 2,500 ministerial students are
enrolled at Southern Baptist schools.
! Church Loan Fund Raised
! Among tae 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.
liolsdollar Church Building Loan
! Fund, strengthening the work among
! the foreign ars and Indians and the 81
Mountain mission schools. The Board
has employed an average of 1s4Se
workers during the Campaign and re
ports for that period 1882 bap
tisms, 2lS,371 additions to churches
! 2.276 Sunday schools and 759 church
es organized, and 1,469 houses OF wor
ship built or repaired
On the foreign fields the equipmen
I. for mission work has been PRACTICAL.
doubled, more than ESQ new foreigl
|
4 than 400 new native workers hav
4 been employed, and the Board ha
entered the new fields of Spain, Jugt
/, Slavia, Hungary, Poumania, Souther
/ Russia, Palestine and Siberia. Th
Board reports for the period of tn
Campaign lit new churches on tn
foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 21
new Sunday schools, gain Of 1857
pupils, native contributions Of $1,003
390. .68, and 529,642 treatments admin
/, istered by medical missionaries.
Another result OF the Campaign
that the Relief and Annuity Boar
Y which is seeking to care for the age
!. dependent ministers and their far
n lilies, has been enabled to double Il
j number of such persons helped az
the amount that is given these ben
a ficiaries. Last year the Board W;
q able TO dispense sl2S,966 amor
II needy ministers. It has invested a
e. sets of $1.14s,0SS.
e Receive 100000 New Members
o. More than 100000 new membe
i have been received into the loc
= BAPTIST churches of the South sin
: the Campaign began, and In the no
= of enlisting all these In the Ca
paign, as well az reaching the old
le members of the churches who ha
nj mot shared In the forward moveme
,eI heretofore, the month OF November
4 December 8. has been designated
" Reinforcement Month by the Ca
uaign Conservation Commission. D.
Ing this month It is planned that /
ery Baptist church In the South y
can upon all its members who .
not already participating in the Ca
paign and secure subscriptions frt
them covering the tw0 remaini
ks wears OF the movement. and cash
: ferings to the Campaign from all I
Z members. DR. L. r. Scarborough.
re Fort Worth, Texas, who was gene
II director Of the original Campaign,
been elected to serve in that cap
Or ity for the Reinforcement progra
]. although the details are being wo
a ed out in the various states unl
the leadership Of the secretaries
- the state nilsson boards. It is hoT
= 10 secure several million dollars
additional subscriptions and seve
n. nafjlhon in cash Dis we'll BY Dece
beF !.