The Nevada County picayune., 1923-03-15


 Tp 10 January 1. 1923, Southern Baptists had paid in cash on the 75 Million Campaign. their five-year pro- gram for the advancement of the gen eral missionary. educational and be- nevolent activities of the denomina- ton the sum of $3S. S.91S19110, accord. ing to report issued by the general headquarters office
 These contributions have come from the various states and other sources as follows Alabama. $1653. .73940 Arkansas. Sf.IG5 15235: District of Columbia s143 .5647o; Florida. s609,- 016.02; Georgia. $3669 ,516.70. Illinois, s3204S295: Kentucky. s4122. .0397S; Louisiana 035.64023; Maryland, s4S9. .49429 Mississippi. s1.591 .01134; Missouri. s153I0G749; New Mexico, s170 99S.36: North Carolina. s3365,. 33021: Oklahoma. s1.O52.43S 20: South Carolina. &2,30925260; Tennessee, S2 $40 ,766.77, Texas. s5,002. .7S532; Virginia S41o280212. Special desig- mated funds. Texas. $12236 $40 s; New Mexico, $403 072 GS; Louisiana. slQ5,- loo. Illinois. S14259111; Tennessee, s19285325 Oklahoma $59, GOO. re- eefved direct by Home Mission Board. sf5340; received from special sources by Foreign Mission Board $S6103 contributed by native churches on for elgn field and expended by them di- reetlv on their work there, s1.003,- S5G GS
 Indicating something of the prog ress which the impetus of the Cam paign has brought to various phases of denominational effort in the South, it is reported that during the three years of the Campaign period that have expired Southern Baptists have had 150 GOO more baptisms than they did for the three years immediately preceding the Campaign; organized 3.000 more new Sunday schools with 400000 new pupils; enhanced the value Of their local church property by $32,000 GOO, increased their contr- buttons to local causes by S22000002; gave BIS .Q3S. .S62 more to missions ana henevolonces. and advanced their con trihutions to all causes by $43,4So49V during the three years of the cam paign over what they gave to all causes for the three years immediate
 
 Gains in Special Fields.
 Tho Campaign has enabled the VaFi- oUs state mission boards to greatly eH' large their programs of state ana as' sociational missions within thef fe' spectye boundaries. it is pointed out made it possible for the Home Mission Board to complete it's $l'7o0'VV99 Church Building Lean Fund, eXteho it's work among the foreigners. indians and Negroes. administer 134,3s2 pap tisms, secure 21S,371 additions to the local churches, provide larger equlp' ment for it's system of 3S mouhta,n mission schools. establish the South' ern Baptist Tuberculosis Sanatorlunl, and greatly increase its work III otheiI directions. -,
 some other gains in the homelaha include the better equipment anu ao maintenance of the more than os academies, colleges and semiaafie' other than the mountain schools in creasing the number of Baptist nos. pitals from Is to 20, and PfefIaihne ha. better equipment and maintenance i all of them increasing the numRef U, Baptist hospitals from 12 to - anu beginning the erection of three otiei7 at tae same time all the older oiy9 have been better equipped; whlle ,ao yao number of aged ministers helped n"D been doubled and the stipend si'o' each has been greatly increased,
 Mission Work Extended .,o
 In the realm of foreign missions 'no Foreign Mission Board has been Ja abled to send out about 25O new P,,oI ma sionaries employ over 500 additlonha, !ha native workers, greatly increase ;id, !nL equipment in the way of church pu,,h ,h ings. chapels, schools, hospitals p"u oos fishing houses and mission reslaenoT' in the older fields of China 1apaa' npa' Africa, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, pney JTrupnav Chile and Mex1co-