Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-16

DR.. 1. X. SCAhBOhOOS7
General Director Baptist rs Million
Campaign.
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 5000 new Sunday schools and
100000 new pupils, enhanced the
value OF their local church property
by $4,000 900, enlarged their contrio
buttons to local causes by $22,390, OO0o
and increased their contributions to
all causes by $43,4So,490.
Baptist Institutions Grow
Some other phases Of denominations
al progress made possible by the
Campaign include increasing the num-
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 $3,000,-
600 Indebtedness on 119 Baptist
schools, colleges and seminaries, COM
pletion and projection of permanent
improvements there in the sum of
100000, 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 1000
churches In building new houses OF
worship, the completion of the mil
Iion-dollar Church Building Loan
Fund, strengthening the work among
the foreigners and Indians and the SO
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,S71 additions TO churches.
R,276 Sunday schools and 76s church
es organized. and 1,40s houses Of woro
ship built or repaired.
On the foreign fields the equipment
for mission work has been practically
doubled, more than ESQ 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-
SIavia, Hungary, Roumania, Southern
Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The
Board reports for the period Of tho
Campaign 1T new churches on the
foreign fields, 21,T23 baptisms, I'll
new Sunday schools, gain Of 1876
pupils, native contributions Of $1,003,.
S90.6S, and 529,642 treatments admin.
istered by medical missionaries.
Another result of the Campaign il
that the Relief and Annuity Board,
which Is seeking to care for the aged
dependent ministers and their fam
flies, has been enabled to double the
number of such persons helped and
the amount that is given these bene'
ficiaries. Last year the Board was
able to dispense S12S,s66 among
needy ministers. 1t has invested az
sets Of s1,l4e,0Ss.
y 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 e0llBttuA dl Luebe III Llo SdiL
paign, as well as reaching the older
members o. the churches who have
not shared In the forward movement
heretofore, the month Of November s
December s has been designated al
Reinforcement Month by the Cam
paiRn Conservation Commission. Dur
ing this month 1t is planned that ev
cry Baptist church in the South viii
call upon all its members who are
not already participating in the Cam
paign and secure subscriptions from
fhem covering the two remaining
I seinars of the movement, and cash of
1ugs to the Campaign from all thu
- beEs. DR.. L. R. Scarborough, o
~ Worth, Texas, who was genera
the original Campaign, ha
=. 10 serve in that capac
Enforcement program
- are being work
IS states unde
secretaries o
= It 10 hope
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