The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1922-03-16

Dr. 6. Gill, Baptist Representative h
Europe, on Left, and P. V. Pavloff Of
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning Of the Baptis
u Million Campaign to January, 1922
. total Of $3O,356319.41 had been paii
in to objects fostered by the Cam
paign, It is announced by the genera
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount $2S,799,971.15 came In
through the payment Of regular Cam
f1ign subscriptions and the remaining
H,556,S48.2S in special contributions
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, S1,3O1,13476; Ark.
@714.ss3os; D. Of c., s123,2SOO1; Fla.
S4ss,753.63; Ga, sS,OOO,174.1O; Ill.
t2ss,676.13; KY, s3,1S7,s5s.16; La,
eS07,ss113.; Nd, s99S,51746; Miss,
S1,243,S4s.5o; Mo-, N,19O,754.7O; N. NJ,
(146,22s.s7; N. C, S2.211,7415O; OKLA,
SS40.6s2.6b: s. c., 33,S4O.53; Tenn,
s7,4S3.1O; Tex, $5,1s2,65S.S5; Va,
@3.l7S 0S5. More than 100000 baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year,
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects OF the demon.
nation were embraced in the Cam.
paisn 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, S..
la4,o12.6S; home missions, $780,.
sO0.67; state missions In the seventeen
states and local work in the District
= Columbia, Y4,s54,S132s; Christian
education, l7,1s2,442.7s; Baptist hos.
pitfalls, @s.oo4,oss.1s; orphanages, g..
10s,7S7.33; and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged de-
pendent ministers and their families,
(7sj,126.s9.
What Money Has Done
These funds represent an advance,
ranging from 200 to 800 per cent, in
tho contributions Of Southern Baptists
% their general missionary, educa
tionsl and benevolent work, prior to
the Inauguration Of the Campaign, and
have enabled the boards and other
AGENCIES to greatly extend their serv.
Ices b all departments. In addition
% sending out more than 1870 new mis-.
Dionaries since the Campaign began.
ana providing many church buildings,
mission residences, schools, theolog.
lcal seminaries, publishing houses,
hospitals and the like on the older
1eld1 the Foreign Mission Board has
Nan enabled to open work In the new
1slds q Spain, Jugo-Slayia, Hungary, |
scansnia and Southern Russia in |
Europe, and Palestine, Syria and 81.
'eria IN Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, for
many years missionary in Italy, but
more recently q pastor In Kansas City,
- been named special European rem.
sentative to supervise the greatly
expanded work on that continent. DR..
|in y giving much Of his time to dis
Baptist relief funds In Rus
Y and otherwise looking after the in.
Aests OF the denomination there.
Home Work Enlarged
Among the outstanding accomplish.
tents Of the Home Mission Board are
= aiding Of more than 1000 churches
IA loans and gifts for church build.
~ completion Of the big tuberculo.
: Aanatorium at FL Paso, enlarge.
enf Of the work In Cuba and the
maj Zone, Strengthening Of the az
onnsain mission schools and the de.
)lopment Of oil eleven departments
~ work Of the Board. In oil sew.
lseen states Of the Southern Baptis,
invention the state mission work has
- greatly extended, the number q
lpsists hospitals In the South has
= Increased from eleven to twenty. I
-. I'll q the older eighteen Baptist i
phanases have been aided In mate. !
! wayD and two new ones have been
Iahlishsd, while the number q axed
pendent ministers and their families =
J been doubled and the amount Of 9
given them increased 100 per cent. =
Collections Ar Pushed
VhAs the collections 10 far repre-. e
4 : blg gain over the contributions I
southern Baptists to their work b. !,
! ths Campaign, ths sum collected i,
not ~ that + due and IN all M
T. y effort i being made to al.
= much more = possible ~ IL :
: q tAs ccavsatiea ysar, w /
aaas q ~ vosk NAY suifsr.