The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-03-23

Or. Z. Gill; .ssptIst representative II
Europe. on Left, and p. v. Pavloff Of
Al Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
~ Million Campaign to January, 1924,
. total Of $3O,356.319.41 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Cam.
paign. 1t Is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount 32S,799,s71.16 came In
through the payment Of regular Cam.
paign subscriptions and the remaining
I.556.34S.26 In special contributions, g.,
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, 81 1,SOl, ,134.76: Ark.
$714,6S3.Os; d. OF c., $12S. S.28o.O1: Fla.
&46S,753.53; Ga. $4,000, ,174.1O; ILL.,,
$2ss.576.13; Ky, s3,1S7, ,656.15; La.
1907, 1918; Nd, $393,51746: Miss.
l.243, ,s46.50; Mo-. $1,1sO,7547O; N. M.
$145.22s.s7: N. c.. s2,211.7415O; Okla.
3S40.562.65; 5. c., $2,633,s40.53; Tenn.
N.797,4 ,4S3.1O; Tex, $5,l62 .658.S5; Va,
&3.27s.085. More than $50, 900 baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributes
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 a compilation by the head.
quarters office: Foreign missiona, 36.-
<34,Ol2.b3: home missions, $780,
6o0.67; state missions In the seventeen
states and local work In the District
Of Columbia. 94.s54, ,S1S2s; Christian
education, $T1s2.442.7s; Baptist hos
pitfalls. 004.osS.1S; orphAnases. -.
los.7s7.33; and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged d.
pendent ministers and their families.
S7sS,if5.ss.
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance,
ranging from zoo TO 500 per cent In
the contributions of Southern BAptists
to their general missionary, educa,
tional and benevolent work. PRIOR -
tho Inauguration Of the Campaign, and
have enabled the boards and other
agencies to greatly extend their serv
ices in all departments. In addition
to sending out more than 1SO new mis-
sionaries since the Campaign began,
and providing many church buildings,
mission residences. schools, tAcoloS.
ical seminaries, publishing houses.
hospitals and the like on the Older
fields the Foreign Mission Board has
been enabled to open work In tho now
fields OF Spain, Jugo-Slay!a, Hungary.
Roumania and Southern Russia In
Europe, and Palestine. Syria and 81
IBERIA in Asia. and Or. Everett Gill, for
many years a missionary In Italy, but
more recently a pastor in Kansas City,
has been named special European rep.
resentative to supervise the grestiy
expanded work on that continent. DR..
Gill is giving much Of his time to dis,
tributing Baptist relief funds In Rus
sia and otherwise looking after the In,
terests Of the denomination there.
Home Work Enlarged
Among the outstanding accomplish.
ments 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
HlcHl ol tno WOrh III CuDa and the
Canal Zone. Strengthening Of the 81
mountain mission schools and the de.
velopment OF all eleven departments
o. the work OF the Board. In all sev.
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 ard 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 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.
lect cS -iuch more as possible by the
close Of the Convention year, MAY I.
that none IT the work may .uffsr.