Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-03-15

Up to January 1, 1923, Southern
Raptists had paid in cash on the IS
Million Campaign, their five-year pro-
gram for the advancement of the gem
eral missionary, educational and be-
nevolent activities of the denomina-
ton the sum of 28,918, 1910, accord
Ing to report issued by the general
headquarters office.
These contributions have come from
the various states and other sources
as follows: Alabama, 1853, 739. 40;
Arkapsas, $1,165.15335: District Of
Columbia, $143,564.7O; Florida, $685.
016.O2; Georgia, 1868, 516.7O; Illinois,
1920, 4S2.95; Kentucky. $4,122, 1893. 78;
Louisiana, $1,O35 .640.23; Maryland,
$4S9 ,49429; Mississippi, 1851 oil "a;
Missouri. 1887 ,067.49; New Mexico,
$170,99S.36 North Carolina, 1885,
S3O.21; Oklahoma, 81 ,O52, 43S 20; South
Carolina, $4,000, 25260; Tennessee,
$2.340766.77; Texas. $4,000, 7S5. 80;
Virginia, $4,1O2,SO212. Special desig-
mated funds. Texas. 1929. 64O.55; New
Mexico, $403,0726S: Louisiana, $685..
100; Illinois, $14S.591.11; Tennessee,
$192,853,25; Oklahoma. $4,000; re-
ceived direct by Home Mission Board,
$15,340; received from special sources
by Foreign Mission Board $8S103;
contributed by native churches on for
eign field and expended bv them di-
rectly on their work - there, $1,OO3,-
S5G.6S.
Indicating something of the prog
ress which the impetus Of the Cam
nm hn hrn NNrr1NN L. u
OF UNCONVENTIONAL effort In the South,
1t is reported that during the three
years of the Campaign period that
have expired, Southern Baptists have
had 100000 more baptisms than they
did for the three years Immediately
preceding the Campaign organized
5000 more new Sunday schools with
100000 new pupils; enhanced the
value OF their local church property
by $4,000, 900; increased their co:.tri-
buttons to local causes by $4,000, 900:
gave $1S,93S.S62 more to missions and
benevolences, and advanced their con-
tributions to all causes by $43, 4S0. 400
during the three years of the Cam
paign over what they gave to all
causes for the three years immediate
ly preceding the Campaign.
Gains In Special Fields.
The Campaign has enabled the vari-
GUS state mission boards to greatly en-.
large their programs Of state and as
sociational missions within their re.
spective boundaries. it is pointed out
made it possible for the Home Mission
Board to complete it's $1,000, 900
Church Building Loan Fund, extend
its work among the foreigners, Indians
and Negroes, administer 134,3S2 bap-
tisms, secure 21S,371 additions to the
local churches, provide larger equip.
ment for its system of 3S mountain
mission schools. establish the South.
ern Baptist tuberculosis Sanatorium,
and greatly Increase its work in other
directions.
Some other gains in the homeland
include the better equipment and
maintenance of the more than sc
academies. colleges and seminaries
other than the mountain schools; in,
creasing the number of Baptist hos.
pitfalls from Is to 20. and providing
better equipment and maintenance for
all Of them; increasing the number of
Baptist hospitals from IL to 20 and
beginning the erection Of three others,
at the same time all the older ones
have been better equipped; while the