Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-11-14


euperinte ndent Of Evangelism.
Aet o new record not only for South
ern Baptists, but for any evangelical
body in America, the records reveal.
This achievement Is equivalent to
"a baptisms for every hour. 576 for
every day, 1890 per week, 1892 per
month and 2O7,510 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, organized
eighty years ago has, within tina.
time, more than million baptisms
and 1,426,386 additions to the
churches to show for the labors OF It's
board have within that period raised
and disbursed in mission work in
the South, Panama and Cuba the
sum Of $1S.213,336.1O.
Last % Years Productive
The larger part Of these achieve
ments of the Home Board has
come during the past % years, GOV.
ering the secretaryship Of DR.. B. d.
Gray. Under DR.. Gray's administra
tion the workers Of the board have
baptized 662497 persons, received l.
1884 persons into the churches
and organized 1897 new churches.
Within the same period the agents
of the board have raised and dis
bursed in mission work the sum Of
$14,723,595
The evanCelistic department Of the
Home Mission Board has been it's
greatest single evangelistic asset.
This department has been without
an active head recently, but the
board has just called to that posi-
ton DR.. Ellis A. Fuller OF Green
vile, S. c., and he entered upon
his work October 1. He IL young
man Of college and seminary train
ing and has been unusually success
full in soul winning and other phases
of work as a pastor.
SOuLn6IN FsdpIISLS nave UCCu tdi
mora successful III winning converts
and church members than they have
been In the general spiritual develop
lnent of the members, 1t is pointed
out. In the hope of bringing about
a development of the 1874 ,531 mem
beers of the denomination to the
point where all of them will have
share in supporting all the mission
airy, educational and benevolent work
fostered by the denomination, an
Every Member Canvass will be con-
Quoted in a majority of the 27,OOO
Baptist churches throughout the
South, during the late fall and win
ter, the majority Of the states EN-.
ploying the week Of Dec. S-13.
Would Enlist Every Member
The canvass will be conducted I'M
der the general auspices OF the Co
operative Program. which Is foster
ing state, home and foreign missions,
the BaptiIt schools, hospitals and
orphanages, and the work Of minis
terial relief Tho ideal toward which
the commission irving is that OF
every member. :''rg every week
to every cause T.. proportion to his
ability, through his local church. AS
fully as possible individual Baptists
are being urged to give a tenth OF
their income to Christian work
So extensively have the various
missionary and benevolent enter
prises fostered by Southern Baptists
grown in recent years hat it now
requires a minimum CT $12,000,000
per year to keep the work growing.
Each state Is being asked to pro-
vide it's proportionate share Of this
amount The state boards, in turn.
are asking the respective associa-
lions in their states to accept def
mite quotas for 1926, and the associa
tions, in turn, are asking the local
churches to assume definite pro
portion Of the associational objective
for the year.