Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-14


Indicating the objects to which the
money collected on the Baptist rs
Million Campaign goes, the head
quarters of that movement in Nash
Vile has issued the following state
ment Of the distribution of the $685.
377,O84.43, representing the revised
figures on the SUM collected on that
movement up to May 1, 1924: Foreign
missions $9,898, 5000; home missions
s5,757, $1,000; state and associational
missions $9.093. 1927; Christian edu-
cation $14,849,O83.51; hospitals $2,-
672, 69243; orphanages $4.464, 966.87;
ministerial relief $3.50, 1854: ex-
penses and fixed charges not other
wise absorbed $2,0%, 60S.56; special
credits and miscellaneous items ST.
$50 1904; purchase and operation of
state denominational papers $685.
20O.38; foreign relief $67,602.16; I'M
distributed balance $152,330.77; Home
Mission Board specials $15.340; For
eign Mission Board specials $50, 103;
raised by churches on foreign fields
and expended by them in work there
1,008, 390.68.
All Work Goes Forward
Every department Of the general
missionary, educational and benevo-
lent work fostered by Southern Bap-
lists has been greatly enlarged and
strengthened by the campaign, it is
reported, while a suggestion OF the
development that has come In the
activities and nberality OF the local
churches as a 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 years pre-
ceding the Campaign with the five
years since that program was pro-
jected it Is shown that during the
last five years the following advances
were recorded over the previous cor.
responding period: 1852 more new
churches organized, gain OF 229
per cent; 241,9 1866 more new members
gained, an advance Of Sc per cent;
2O9, 002 more baptisms administered,
a gain of 81 per cent; 1908 more
new Sunday schools organized, q
gain Of 11S per cent; 354,727 more
new Sunday school pupils enrolled,
a gain Of 132 per cent; $36, 086, .88
more reported In gifts to missions
and benevolences, gain OF 1877 per
cent; $51, 153,873.88 more noted In
gifts to local church purposes, a gain
Of 96 per cent; $84 ,361.55 more
reported In gifts to all causes, q gain
of lit per cent; and $67 ,147, 004 ad.
vance shown in the value of local
church property, a gain Of 81 per
cent.
Complete Collections Now
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 in the near.
ly 1000 district associations. It 10
planned that the interests Of the de-
nomination shall be adequately set
forth at all of these associations in
their annual meetings in the hope
that the delegates to the associatfone
will In turn carry the message back
/, " tA0AA AONeA SAO4 VnOo eA40 6S00A y
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 1895
program and announces that he be-
lieves the program for next year
can be most successfully launched
by the satisfactory completion Of the
Is 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.