Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-10-19

and benevolent work for the three
years preceding the Campaign
The contribution of larger gifts to
religious work has been accompanied
by larger spiritual results in the local
churches, it is pointed out For i'll
stance, Southern Baptists baptized
10000 more converts during the first
three years of the Campaign than
they did in the three years before,
gained 1900 new Sunday schools and
100000 new pupils, enhanced the
value of their local church property
by $33,0O0,000, enlarged their contri
buttons to local causes by $22,39O 900,
and increased their contributions ia
all causes by $43,4S0,4 400.
Baptist Institutions Grow
Some other phases of denomination
al progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the mum
Der of Baptist hospitals in the South
from IL to 10, with three others un,
der construction and four more def
intely planned strengthening of II
Baptist orphanages and the establish
ment of two new ones, lifting $4,000,
600 indebtedness on 119 Baptist
schools, colleges and seminaries, com
pletiOn and projection of permanent
improvements there in the sum OF
$4000,000. and the addition of sub
stantial sums to the endowment funds
Over $500 ministerial students are
enrolled at Southern Baptist schools
Church Loan Fund Raised
Among The outstanding accomplish
ments in the work of the Home Mis-
sion Board are the aiding of 1,OOG
churches in building new houses OF
worship, the completion of the mil
lion-dollar Church Building Loan
Fund, strengthening the work among
the foreigners and Indians and the SS
Mountain mission schools The Board
has employed an average of 1,495
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period 1882 bap
tisms, 21S,371 additions to churches
2,276 Sunday schools and 759 church.
es organized, and 1,409 houses of wor
ship built or repaired.
On the foreign fields the equipment
for mission work has been practically
doubled, more than $50 new foreign
missionaries have been sent out, more
than 400 new native workers have
been employed, and the Board has
entered the new fields of Spain. Jugo
Slavia, Hungary, Roumania, Southern
Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The
Board reports for the period of tho
Campaign 1T new churches on the
foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211
new Sunday schools, gain of 1856
pupils. native contributions of $1,000.
S90.6S, and 529,642 treatments admin.
istered by medical missionaries.
Another result of the Campaign IA
that the Relief and Annuity Board
which is seeking to care for the aged
dependent ministers and their fam
lilies, has been enabled to double thu
number of such persons helped and
the amount that is given these bene,
ficiaries. Last year the Board was
able to dispense $l2S,966 amons
needy ministers. 1t has invested az,
sets Of $1.149,0SS.
Receive 100000 New Members
More than 100000 new members
have been received into the local
Baptist churches of the South since
the Campaign began, and in the hope
of enlisting all these in the Cam.
paign, as well as reaching the older
members or the churches who have
not shared in the forward movement
heretofore, the month of November &
December has been designated as
Reinforcement Month by the Cam.
paign Conservation Commission. Dur
ing this month it is planned that ev.
cry Baptist church in the South will
call upon all its members who ara
not already participating in the Cam.
paign and secure subscriptions from
them covering the two remaining
years of the movement, and cash of
ferings to the Campaign from all the
members. DIR. l.. R. Scarborough, OF
Fort Worth, Texas. who was general
director of the original Campaign. ha,
been elected to serve in that capac.
ity for the Reinforcement program
although the details are being work.
ed out in the various states under
the leadership of the secretaries OF
the state nilsson boards. 1t ia hopsd
TO secure several million dollars in
additional subscriptions and several
million in cash as well by Dsssna.
Der !.