Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-20

District of Columbia, $2O2,5S3.15;
Florida. $732.213.96; Georgia, S4,O1S..
OOS.93; Illinois, 1929, O87.S7; Kentucky.
S4937.27O.93; Louisiana, $1,144,39S. 70:
Maryland, $3.50, 5S925; Mississippi.
$2,329,29S.67; Missouri. $1,S22,353.66
New Mexico. $217S2S.33; North Car.
DINA, $3,630,99S.S3 Oklahoma, ST.,
113,7S1.19; South Carolina, S3,516,-
S5S19; Tennessee, S2.953 O5O.O9; Tex.
as $6,46S,O9S.42; Virginia $4,923,225..
"a. Specials: Louisiana, $11OO35.13;
New Mexico, $4l9,7S9.1S; Oklahoma,
$59OO0.0O Illinois, $191,175.11; Home
Board Specials, $15,34OOO; Foreign
Board Specials. $S6.103.oO; raised by
local churches on foreign fields and ex
pended by them there. $1,003 ,390.6S.
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,
ISL active ministers, 3,06S local
churches, 3,2S7 Sunday schools with
1929 pupils, S5SS Baptist Young
Peoples Unions with 25S,317 mem.
bers, and 1904 Woman's Missionary
Union organizations. During this
time there have been 1872 $50 persons
baptized into the local Baptist
churches, $45,40511S has been in.
vested in local church property, and
the increase in offerings to missions
and benevolences has been more than
$2S,000,000 over the cores ponding
period preceding the Campaign.
Among the many gains on foreign
mission fields are included 34344
baptisms, 3S6 churches 1900 mission
stations, SO houses of worship, 1866
members, 6S7 Sunday schools with
1892 pupils, the sending out of PTS
new American missionaries, the ap-
pointment of 2,O29 native workers,
entry into six new foreign countries
and the larger equipment for all
forms of work on sixteen fields.
Workers of the Home Mission
Board have baptized 173.602 persons
during the Campaign period, have re-
ceived 277,96S persons into the mem
bership of the churches, enlisted H.
772 young persons in definite forms
of Christian service, built or improved
1872 church houses, organized 935
churches and 2,S9S Sunday schools.
Stabilize Church Finances
To reach the original goal 1t will
be necessary for Southern Baptists
to raise $31 100000 additional for the
Campaign program by the end of that
movement in 1924 In the hope of
bringing the churches of the denomi-
nation to better system of finances
and the church members to fuller
realization of their obligation to sup
port religious work. the Campaign
Commission has employed DR.. o. E.
Bryan of Atlanta. superintendent Of
evangelism and enlistment Of the
Home Mission Board, as stewardship
md church budget director.
Or. Bryan has assumed his new
duties and working through the va.
rious state offices and the agencies
Of the district associations he is seek,
ing to bring the Baptist churches of
the South to the adoption of yearly
budget for both their local work and
the general missionary and benevo-
lent interests of the denomination, the
aim being to enlist every member OF
every church in weekly and monthly
contributions to religious causes.