The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-17

Dr. &. Gill. Baptist Representative In
Europe, on Left. and p. v. PavIoff Of
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
70 Million Campaign to January, 1922,
a total OF $30,356,319.41 had been paid
In 10 objects fostered by the Cam
palgn, it is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount 32S. 7s9,971.1b came In
through the payment Of regular Cam
paign subscriptions and the remaining
t1,556.34S.26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, 81. 3O1. 134.76; Ark.
$714. 6S3.09 D. OF c., 1928. 2SO.O1; Fla,
$46S, 1888; Ga, s. 5000, 174.1O; ILL.,,
! s29S.576.13; Ky. ~S7.656.15; La,
1907 .991.13.; Md, $393,517.46: Miss,
s1,243,S46.5O; Mo-, 31,190, 1910; y. M,
$145,22S.S7; n. c., s2,211 .741.50; Okla,
$s40,562.65; S. c.. $2.633. S4O.53; Tenn,
ST. 97,4S3.10; Tex, S5.162. 658.85: Va.
S3,279,0S5. More than $50. 900 baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects of the demon.
ination were 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, t5,-
434,012.63: home missions. $3,562,-
6O0.67; state missions in TIE seventeen
states and local work in re District
Of Columbia, 34,954 1896: christian
$7,192 ,442.79; BAPTIST hos
$1,000, 09S.16; o~rphanages, ST.
1C..>7.33; and Relief and Annuity
ECarf. which ministers TO aged de-
pendent ministers and their families.
9t.i...Gq.
What Money Has Done
These fHnds represent an advance,
f:Jm 200 to 300 per cent, in
he contributions of Southern Baptists
o their general missionary, educa-
ional and benevolent work, prior TO $
Inauguration Of the Campaign. and
enabled the boards and other =
Igencies 10 greatly extend their serv- ,
ces In all departments. In addition Z
O sending out more thar $50 new mis- 7
ionaries since the Campaign began,
nd providing many church buildings, 7
mission residences, schools, theolog- |
cal seminaries, publishing houses, >
Ospitals and the like on the older =
Ields the Foreign Mission Board has
cen enabled to open work In the new m
.elds Of Spain. Jugo-Slavia, Hungary. S
.oumania and Southern Russia in L
and Palestine, Syria and 81.
eria in Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, for ~
lany years a missionary In Italy, but
Iore recently q pastor In Kansas City,
rs been named special European rep n
sentative to supervise the greatly n
work on that continent. DR.. le
Ill is giving much OF his time to dis ia
Baptist relief funds in Rus be
a and otherwise looking after the in TO
rests of the denomination there. Oh
Home Work Enlarged ~
Among the outstanding accomplish on
ents OF the Home Mission Board ara tis
q aiding of more than 1000 churches
It'll loans and gifts for church build en-
IS, completion OF the big tuberculo- en-
J sanatOrium at Ell PasO, enlarge lid
Of the work in Cuba and the a.
nal Zone, strengthening OF the 81 DC
'untain mission schools and the de- th,
OF all eleven departments tel
the work Of the Board. In all sew.
teen states Of the Southern Baptist sig
INVENTION the state mission work has
en- greatly extended, the number of
hospitals in the South has
increased from eleven to twenty
all Of the older eighteen Baptist
damages have been aided in mate
| ways and two new ones have been
ablished, while the number of aged
ministers and their families
been doubled and the amount OF
given them increased 100 per cent.
Collections Are Pushed Gu
While the collections SO far repre- \
t a big gain i've the contributions Cor
Southern Baptists to their work be- Sur
the Campaign, the sum collected Prit
all that is due and in all the "
tn an effort ia baing moda ~ col neis
&c m,,cb moro &C. noaa;hIo " :. and
~ lno of
e of The Convention c Nay l. n
ncno Of the work may suffer. was
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