Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
DR.. Q. E. BRYAN

for Southern Baptists
District of Columbia, $2O2,5s315;
Florida, $732,21396; Georgia, s4,O1S,.
0O8.99; Illinois, 1929, OS7.87; Kentucky,
$4937,270.93; Louisiana, S1,144,39879;
Maryland, $556,5S925; Mississippi,
$2,329, 29367; Missouri, $1,S22,353.66:
New Mexico, $21LS2S.33; North Car
DINA, $3.50, 998.S3; Oklahoma, ST..
113,7S1.19; South Carolina, $3516,.
853.19; Tennessee, $2,953, O50.09 Tex.
as, $6,468,098.42; Virginia, $685. 25.'
"a. Specials: Louisiana, S110,03513;
New Mexico $419,7391S; Oklahoma,
100000; Illinois, $191, 175.11; Home
Board Specials, $15,340,OO; Foreign
Board Specials, $S6,103.0O; raised by
local churches on foreign fields and ex
pended by them there, $1,OO3,39O6S.
Large Results Achieved
These larger resources have made
possible large advances in every de-
partment of work fostered by South
ern Baptists. Indicating the growth
in the homeland during the campaign
period. it is announced that there has
been gain of 81 district associations.
SS1 active ministers, 3068 local
churches, 3,2S7 Sunday schools with
459,223 pupils, 1888 Baptist Young
Peoples Unions with 233,917 mem
bers, and 1904 Woman's Missionary
Union organizations. During this
time there have been 762,S80 persons
baptized into the local Baptist
churches, $45, 4O5,118 has been in
vested in local church property, and
the increase in offerings to missions
and benevolences has been more than
328, 100000 over the corresponding
period preceding the Campaign.
Among the many gains on foreign
mission fields are included 34544
baptisms, 1856 churches, 1900 mission
stations, 80 houses of worship 1866
members, 687 Sunday schools with
1929 pupils, the sending out OF 2f5
new American missionaries, the ap-
pointment of 2,O29 native workers.
entry into six new foreign countries
and the larger equipment for all
forms or Work On SlAIeeH AiSiNS
Workers of the Home Mission
Board have baptized 1852 persons
during the Campaign period, have re-
ceived 277.96S persons into the mem
bersbip of the churches. enlisted H.
772 young persons in definite forms
of Christian service, built or lmproyeu
1872 church houses, organized $50
churches and 2,S9S Sunday schools.
Stabilize Church Finances
To. reach the original goal 1t VIII
no necessary for Southern Baptists
to raise SS1, 100000 additional for the
Campaign program by the END Oh Una.
movement in 1924. In the hope OF
bringing the churches of the denoml'
rotion 70 a better system of finances
ord the church members to ruler
~ao,;votion of their obligation to sup
mort religious work, the Campalgn
ron,mission has employed DR.. 0. f.
prvan Of Atlanta, superintendent Oh
oonoo1ism and enlistment. OF the
Home Mission Board, as stewardship
and church budget director.
Dr Bryan has assumed MS ne"
drties and working through the va,
vIone state offices and the agencies
Of the district associations he Is seek :.
mo 70 bring the Baptist churches OF
ne south to the adpotion OF yearly
hudget for both their local work ana
the general missionary ana UeNeEo
lent interests of the denomination 'ne
aim being to enlist every member OF
avery church in weekly and monthly
contributions to religious causes