Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-03-16

Or. e. Gill, Baptist Representative In
Europe, on Left, and p. v. PavIoff Of
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning OF the Baptist
70 Million Campaign to January, 1922,
total of $3O,356,S19 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Cam
paign, 1t is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. OF
this amount $28,799,9 Bills came in
through the payment Of regular Cam
Daign subscriptions and the remaining
$1,556, 348.26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala, 81, 301, 134.76; Ark,
STA, 683.OS; D. of c.. $123,280O1; Fla
$469, 753,53; Ga, $4,000, 17410; ILL.,,
9S,57613; KY, sS,1S7,s56.15; La
1907 ,991I3.; Md, 1898, 517.46; Miss,
$1,24s, 1850; Mo, $1,190, 1870; N. NJ,
$145,z29-S7; N. c., $2,211, 74T5O;. Okla,
$84G, 1895; S. c.. $685., S4O.5S; Tenn
$1,797 ,4S31O; Tex, $5,162 ,658,85; Va,
$3279,0s5- More than 100000 baptisms
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
EbSN MSiL%J W GO GioAt ibAINA
Seven general objects of the, denom
fnatioh we're embraced in the Cam
paign program, and from the regular
Campaign contributions those objects
have. received the following amounts
according to a compilation by theshead
quarters office: Foreign MISSIONS. $5,.
434, 012.5S; home missions, $3,562,.
600.GTs state missions in the seventeen
states and local work in the District
Of Columbia, $4,954,S1326; Christian
education. $7,192,442.79; Baptist hos
pitfalls, $2,004 ,09916; orphanages,. 81,
1d3, 787.3Ss and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged de
pendent ministers and their families
$799, 1868.
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,
AS21 Al Oil uOpdA LAAAOAb6s LA 4A0AtAOA
to sending out more than 1870 new mis-.
sionaries since the Campaign began,
and providing many church buildings
mission residences, schools. theolog
zeal seminaries, publishing houses
hospitals and the like ON the Older
fields the Foreign Mission Board has
been enabled to open work in the new
fields of Spain, Jugo-slavia, Hungary
Roumania and Southern Russia II
Europe, and Palestine, Syria and 81
IBERIA in Asia, and DR.. Everett Gill, fol
many years a missionary in Italy, bui
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
STA 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 CT the big tuberculo
sis sanatorium at FL Paso, enlarge
ment of the work in Cuba and the
Canal Zone, strengthening of the 81
mountain mission schools and the de-
velopmsnt of all eleven departments
Of the work of the Board. In all sew
enteen states of the Southern Baptis
Convention the state mission work ha
been greatly extended the number o.
Baptists hospitals in the South has
been Increased from eleven to twenty
three, all of the older eighteen Baptist
orphanages have been aided in mat
rial ways and two new ones have bee
established, while the number of age
dependent ministers and their families
has been doubled and the amount 0
aid given them increased 100 per cent
Collections Are Pushed
While the collections SO far repre-
sent big gain over the contributions
of Southern Baptists to their work b.
fore the Campaign the sum eollecte
is not all that is due and in all tn
South an effort is being made to CO
lect as much more as possible by tn
close Of the Convention year, May ]
that none Of the work may suffer.