Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-11-12

esx q Rsw record not only for SoNth
err Bapeists, but for any evangelical
BODY In America, the records reveal.
This achievement 10 equivalent TO
"a baptisms for every hour. SIC for
every day. $3.50 per week. 1888 per
month and so7.S1o per year
Prominent In. the achievement OF
this result has been the Home Mis-
sion Board Of the Southern Baptist
Convention. with headquarters in
Atlanta, Ga. This board. organised
eighty years ago has. within that
time, moro than a million baDtisms
and 1,42s.3ss additions to the
churches To show for the labors Of Its
missionaries, while the agents OF the
board have within that period raised
and disbursed In mission work In
the South, Panama and Cuba the
sum Of $ls,213, 336.10.
Last q Years Productive
The larger part Of these achieve
msnts Of the Home Board has
come during the past 10 years. Gov
ering the secretaryship Of DR.. B. D..
Gray. Under Dr.. Gray's administra-
ton the workers Of the board have
bsptissd ssi,As persons. received l.
119,1M Dsrseas into the churches
ana sssaaissA A.sN new churches.
WlsAM tAs same period the sssHts
Of sAs board have raised and Gis-
burweA IN missioa work tho saM sS
aiA.T1s.Se&s7.
rAs svaagelistis department Of the
Hozas AEssstea Board has hsea It's
greatest single evAASelisttc asSet.
TAis department has been without
an aetive head recently. but the
board has just called to that posi-
tioa Dr.. Ellis A. Fuller Of Green
vile. 8. G., and hs catered upon
his work October l. He 10 . youns
man Of college and seminary tTain-
ing and has been unusually success
tul IN soul winning and oehss phases
Ut cork ~ pastor.
Southern Baptists have been TAR
more sucoessful in winning converts
and church members than they have
been in the general spiritual develop
mont Of tho members. It II pointed
out. In the hope Of bringing about
a development Of the S.S74.Ss1 msnn-
bers q the denomination to the
point where all OF them will have q
share in supporting all the mission
AIRY, eAueA tienal and benevolent work
fostsrsA by the denomination. an
Every Member Canvass viii be con
ducsad In a majority Of tho 6N@e
Bapt1st churches throughout the
SoatA. during the late fall ana vim
tor. the majority Of the states s@-
ploysuE the week Of Dec. els.
Wsuld ENiIst Every Msmhss
YAs canvass win b eeAAusssA u,
Aas sAs general aasDicss e che o.
enssasave ProSrem, which n fosess-
azs state, home aAd foreign Missioas,
sAs Bapti1t schools, hospitals ana
oeSAanagss. and ne work Of minis-
eerial relief. The ideal toward which
gAs commission 10 striving 10 that ct
evogy member. giving every wesk
20 every cause in proportion to his
ahflity, through his local church A.
fully a. possible individual BaDtists
are being urged to give q tenth Of
THAR income to Christian work.
90 extensively have the various
missionary aud benevolent enter
prises fostered by Southern BaDtists
grown in recent years that Il now
requires q minimum Of @la,NoO 100
per year to keep the work growing.
Each state ID being ASKED to pro
vide its uroportionats share q tAis
amount. The state boards. IN tarn.
ere asking the respective assoeia-
tons In their states % accept Gsai-
rite quotas for 1875. and Tie ssssaia-
tioas, IN turn. are asking the 3eeAi
churches to assume definite pgo-
portion Of the AssociAsasaA ebteeeave