The Little River news., 1922-03-29


 Europe, on Loft, and p. V. PavIoff of
 All Russian Baptist Union.
 From the beginning Of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign to January, 1922. B total of $30,356,319.41 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 paiEn subscriptions and the remaining t1,656,34S.26 in special contributions.
 Regular receipts from the various states follow: Ala, t1 ,301, ,134.76; Ark, S714.es3.Os; D. of C.. SIPS .2so.o1: Fla. t4es, s,753.53; Ga, $3,O00.174.10; Ill.,. 12ss,57S.13; Ky. $3,1s7 .66s.16; La. eso7 7,ss1.13.; Md, $39s,517.4e; Miss, S1.243,S46.5o; Mo, $1,19o,754.7o; N. M.. t145,229.97; N. c. $2,211,741.50; Okla, es40,562.65; s. O., $2,es3,s4o.53; Tenn, s1,797,4 ,483.1O; Tex. $5,162.658.85; Va. $3,279,OS5. More than 250,000 baptisms were reported by Southern Baptist churches last year.
 How Money Was Distributed
 Seven general objects of the denom- lnation were embraced in the Cam paign program, and from the regular Campaign contributions those objects have received the following amounts. according to compilation blythe head quarters office: Foreign missions. $5,- 434,012.53; home missions, $3,562,- 600.67; state missions in the seventeen states and local work in the District of Columbia, $4,e54,S13.26; Christian education, $7,192,442.79; Baptist hos pitals, $2,0O4 ,0S9.16; orphanages, D.. 103,7S7.33; and Relief and Annuity Board, which ministers to aged de- pendent ministers and their families. $799,126.99.
 What Money Has Done
 These funds represent an advance. ranging from 200 to 300 per cent. in the contributions of Southern Baptists to their general missionary, educa- tional and benevolent work, prior to the 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 1S0 new mis- stonaries since the Campaign began, and providing many church buildings, mission residences, schools. theolog- ical seminaries, publishing houses, hospitals and the like on the older fields the Foreign Mission Board has fields of Spain, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Roumania and Southern Russia in Europe, and Palestine, Syria and s. beria in Asia, and pr. 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 greatly 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 El Paso, enlarge ment of tho work in Cuba and the Canal Zone, strengthening of the 37 m oupt Q in yojSajOn acAooIc opd tho da. velopment of all eleven departments of 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 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 gixsn them increased 100 per cent,
 Collections Arc Pushed
 While the collections so far repre- sent big gain ovor the contributions of Southern Baptists to their work be- fore tho Campaign, the sum collected is not all that Is duo and in all the South an effort Is being made to col lect as much more as possible by the close of the Convention year, May | that none Of the work may suffer