Mountain advocate., 1922-10-20

General Director BAPTIST rs Million
Gang aion.
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, 1t is pointed out. For III
stance, Southern Bapusts 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 S33,000,000, enlarged their contri.
buttons to local causes by $22,39O,0OO,
and increased their contributions 20
all causes by $43,4S0,490.
Baptist institutions Grow
Some other phases Of denomination
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 IT
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
$4,000 900, 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
liondollar Church Building Loan
Fund, strengthening the work among
the foreigners and Indians and the 3S
Mountain mission schools. The Board
has employed an average OF 1,495
workers during the Campaign and re-
ports for that period l34,S32 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 250 new foreign
missionaries have been sent out, more
I IMAM AUU new ndl.NN WI hIAo AllNN
been employed, and tie Board has
entered the new fields Of Spain, Jugo
Slavia, Hungary, Roumania, Southern
Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The
Board reports for the period or the
Campaign III new churches on the
foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, IL
new Sunday schools 5ain OF l7,57t
pupils, native contributions OF Sl,OO3'
800. .6S, and 529,642 treatments admin
istered by medical Missionaries.
Another result o. t.e Campaign Il
that the Relief and Annuity Board
which is seeking to care for the ageC
dependent ministers and their fam
flies, has been enable TO double th'
number of such persons helped anC
the amount that is given these bene
ficiaries. Last year the Board wa
able to dispense Sl2S,966 amonj
needy ministers. II has invested as
sets of $1,149,0Ss.
Receive $4,000 New Members
More than 100000 new member
have been received lto the loca
Baptist chmches of the South sine
the Campaign began, and in the hop
of enlisting all thes. in the Cam
paign, as well as reaching the olde
rembers of the churches who hay
not shared in the forward movemen
heretofore, the month o. November
December has beer designated q
Reinforcement Month by the Car
paign Conservation Commission. Dun
ing this month il is l.nned that e'
ery Baptist church in The South WI
call upon all its members who ar
not already participants in the Can
paign and secure subscriptions trol
thom covering the two rema!nin
wears of the movement, and cash o
ferings TO the Campaign from all IN
members. DIR. l.. r. Scarborough,
Fort Worth, Texas, who was genera
director OF the original Campaign, h;
been elected TO serve in that capa
ity for the Reinforcement program
although the details are being wor
ed out in the various states und'
the leadership of the secretaries
the state nilsson boards. IL Is hops
20 secure several million dollars
additional subscriptions and sever
million In cash an well by Decel
!. Der i.