Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
BAPTISTS REPORT ON
MONEY DISTRIBUTED
Detailed Statement As to Where
IS Million Campaign ColIec-
tons Have Gone Is Issued

indicating the objects to which tbe
money collected on the Bantist ~
Million Campaign goes. the bood
quarters of that movement in Noab
vile has issued the following go
ment OF the distribution of the aka
37IOS4.4S, representing the revisod
figures on the sum collected ON that
movement up to May l, 1924. Foraipn
missions S9,898,830.3O; home missions
S5,76IS2O,O9; state and associationol
missions $9,093,76927; Christian edu'
cation $14,849,08351: hospitaIs 90
S72,692.43; orphanages S4464 o65 81.
ministerial relief S1.570.356 "a. ev
penses and fixed charges NOT otbor
wise absorbed $2,091 sos Sc. snecia1
GREATS and miscellaneous items 81
b9O,S90.47; purchase and operation NJ
state denominational paners SEQ
2OO.38; foreign relief $67 602 is. Nm
distributed balance S152. 22O ~, H..
Mission Board specials $15,34O; For
e1gn mission Board specials S861O3.
raised by churches on foreign fields
and expended by them in work there
$1,000, 390.6S. - '"0' {
| Every department of the general
missionary, educational and bpneyo.
lent work fostered by Southern Ban.
lists has been greatly enlarged and
strengthened by the campaign. il is
reported, while a suggestion Of tho
development that has come in the
activities and liberality of the local
churches as result of this forward
movement Is furnished in the follow.
ing statement of progress along gen
eral lines, furnished by the head.
quarters office:
Comparing the growth of the de.
nomination during the five wears pre.
ceding the Campaign with the five
years since that program was pro-
Jected 1t is shown that during the
last five years the following advances
were recorded over the previous cor
responding period: 1862 more new
churches organized gain of 229
per cent; 241, 1855 more new members
gained, an advance of &C. Der cent,
209,002 more baptisms administered
a gain of q per cent; 1903 more
new Sunday schools organized.
gain of 118 per cent; 354,727 more
new Sunday school pupils enrolled
q gain Of 1872 per cent; $35,086, $40 SO
more reported in gifts to missions
and benevolenCes, a gain of 1877 per
cent; S51,153,873S8 more noted in
gifts to local church purposes, a gain
Of 95 per cent; $84,417 ,36155 more
reported in gifts to all causes, a gain
of III per cent; and $57147,O04 ad-
vance shown in the value of local
church property, a gain of 81 per
cent
In the hope of completing the col,
lection of all Campaign subscriptions
by the close of this year and secur
ing cash offerings from those Bap-
lists who did not subscribe to the
five-year program an intensive effort
during the remainder of the summer
and fall will be waged throughout
the South under the general leader
ship of Dr. L. R. Scarborough, gen.
eral director, with the cooperation OF
the various state mission offices and
the officers and workers ig the near
ly 1000 district associations. 1t is
planned that the interests of the de
nomination shall be adequately set
IOi III at oil VI lIt0G CloOCNluLiOho III
their annual meetings in the hope
that the delegates to the associations
will in turn carry the message back
to their local churches and secure
the cooperation OF these churches in
fully completing the Campaign pro-
gram so as to clear the way for the
next forward program, beginning Jan
uary 1, 1925.
DR.. C. E. Burts, former general
secretary of the Baptist work in
South Carolina, has assumed his du
ties as general director of the 1925
program and announces that he be
lieves the program for next year
can be most successfully launched
by the satisfactory completion of the
rs Million Campaign during the re
naming months of 1924 While max,
ing his plans for the projection Of
the new program, he is cooperating
fully with DR.. Scarborough in the
completion Of the old one.