Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-11-05
Or. ELLIS A. FULLER,
euperInten dent Of Evangelism.


Get q new record not only for South
Srn Baptists, but for any evangelical
body in America, the records reveal.
This achievement is equivalent TO
81 baptisms for every hour 67s for
every day, $500 per week, 1893 per
month and 207, sic 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 that
time, more than a million baptisms
and 1,426,3Se additions to the
churches to show for the lsbors Of its
missionaries, while the agents Of the
board have within that period raised
and discussed In mission work In
the South, Panama and Cuba tbs
sum of $1S,21s, 336.1e.
Last % Years Productive
The larger part Of these achieve
ments Of the Home Board has
come during the past 81 years. Gov
Sring the secretaryship of DR.. B. D.
Gray. Under DIR. G9ay's administrar
ton the workers of the board have
baptized $751; persons. received l.
1884 persons into the churches
and organized 1897 new churches.
Within the sans period the agents
of the board have raised and dis
bursed in mission work the sum OF
414,72S, 1851
The evangelistic department Of the
Home Mission Board has been Its
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, 8. c., and he entered upon
his work october /. He Is q young
man Of college and seminary train
ing and has been unusually success
tuI In soul winning and other phases
Of work as a pastor.
Southern Baptists have been far
more successful in winning converts
and church members than they have
been in the general spiritual develop
ment Of the members, 1t Is pointed
out. In the hope Of bringing about
q development of the 3,b74,6S1 mem
bers of the denomination to the
point where all Of them will have a
share in supporting all the mission
ary. educational and benevolent work
fostered by the denomination, an
livery Member Canvass will be con-
Quoted in a majority of the $1,000
Baptist churches throughout the
South. during the late fall and win
tor. the majority Of the states en-
ploying the week Of Dec. 6-13.
Would Enlist Every Member
The canvass will be conducted un
der the general auspices OF the Co
operative Program, which is foster
ing state, home and foreign missions,
the Bapti3t schools, hospitals and
orphsnages, and the work Of minis.
terial relief. The ideal toward which
the commission is striving Is that OF
every member, giving every week
to every cause in proportion to his
ability, through his local church. AS
fully as possible Individual Baptists
are being urged to give 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 that 1t now
REQUIRES a minimum Of $12,0OO,OO0
per year to keep the work growing
Each state is being asked to pro
vide its 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 1925, and the associa-
lions, In turn, are asking the local
churches to assume . definite pro
portion Of the Associational objective
for the year.