The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-15
MORE PROGRESS
MADE LAST YEAR EAR
.gapfists Now Have 600 Mis-
son Increase

YSDIANAPOLIS; Ind. June 10.
1unprecedented advance IN
eYangeIismpn The last year on
variousgforeign fields was report
edstodayatthe fifteenth annual
corventionso ftheaNorthern Baptist
convention, by DR. Frederick L.
andersono fNewton Center, lass,
aIiairmanEof$the board Of managers
8 theAmerican Baptist Foreign
MfssIon@Society
poctorSAnderson declared that IN
snite8of5unsettled world conditions
stheaperiodsfr May 1.1921 TO May
I922,sshad proved a record yer
IN spreading Gospel IN foreign
sTn%Africa an evange1istic In
rafharing ShasMbeen taking place
Whfch@ hasSserved to recall the his
forfcaPentecost%on the Congo thlr-
fiyyeSa8yea &ago,n8he stated. the
Rurnla#5Mission reports 4,1S3
HssmsS5duringsthe year, mak1ng a to,
cIurch-membership OF 1886.
81 eof#the most encouraging re-
snortsScomesgby@cablegram from the
new field north Of K~engtung, Bur
faa@acrossgth Chinese border,
MISUNDERSTANDING 1, 1922, more
than ,5Oosconverts nave been pap
,ra
written unusually large Access
ssjons ofsaSchurch membership. In
Northumberland tx have been SO
syidaEopen 5tosthe Gospel as 1T is to-
55daY. IN South India missionaries
mor Favorable response
onNtheSsspaaarto f the higher classes,
Observation-Disclosures a been
s5caedingIy@difficult Missionaries
in#Japan#haye expressed the, opln-
ionthat8the lastSyear will prove to
hayeHbeensthe best year in the MS
tory ofJapan in evangel1stlc
achievements. From countries OF
turop have come stories or re-
@vviyais and aSof#denominational prog
regs. Notwithstanding the hardship
and suffering of recent years
Observation-Disclosures declared that
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is concerned
for8thesphysical existence of people,
as weIIsas fortheir spiritual vel
q Aforementioned the relief OF
Efamine8conditions in Russia as an
Observation-Disclosures Of the rei1et
@workSnowgbeing done by the Ameri
can@Baptist|Foreign Mission So
ciety.AS55substantial part of IL
SI66.O00ssetsaside by the society for
relief work lin Europe had been
spent forTelfeving conditions in
Russia. he Teported.
asEetters from Russia reveal an
astonishing groWth in Baptist
schurches there said Dr.. Ander,
d Accordfng%t TO the estimate of
Observation-Disclosures the proposed union
Of the two Baptist bodies now
nownassth All-Russian Baptist
Union and the A1lRussian Evan
geIicaISC nSUnion, would con-
stifute#the second largest Baptist
bodyHin@@sSthe world, with about
100000 members.
As&an example OF relief work
sdone@bySNorthern Baptists. Dr. An
dgrson#menttoned the $1,000,OO0
sGhfistmas cargo of relief supplies.
sofFilI&Aa ship with fellowship,
fame,Ssent#by the denomination to
the%GeYastated lands of Europe
9TheEtotaI shipmentScomprised 1,75b
clothing and shoes, ITO
barre1sSofsoap and 40 barrels OF
~In#calling attention to the meet
singSofSthe Baptist World Al1iancc,I
in July, 1923, in Stockholm. Swe
sden,#Doctor Henderson said, "VVorld
conditions make it appropriate that
SBaptists#from all lands send repre-
ssentatiVes to this meeting, to conf
s5derSnot8only the promotion Of de-
snomfnational solidarity, but also
Observation-Disclosures which the de-
nomination car make at this cru-l
scsaIEour IN history.
AS ansevidence of the advance of
stheSworkin foreign fields, Doctor!
anderson cited the development of
sss1f.support in many of the mis-
sions:
INSTRUMENTATION world can
never be$#evange1ized by the for
Anderson declared.
The task:sis too large and too ex-
stensfre.Any increase in self-sup
port u any larger financial par-l
~sficipation by the native consitu-I
sencySisatherefore of unusual signifi-
scancessas
Doctor#Anderson reported that
titeresaTe now more than 900 mis-
ssIonariesS#sof the American Baptist
Foreign Mission Society," includ-
ia those OF the Woman's Ameri-