Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-23

Gated at Richmond, Va, Is just COM
pleting ten years of service in that
capacity, and the survey conducted by
DR.. ADdredge shows that during that
time the receipts of the board have
been $16,149,994.64, whereas the re-
ceipts for the entire Is years of the
boards history have been $24,915,-
70486 showing that two-thirds of the
total receipts of the board since Its
organization in 1845 have come In
during DR.. Loves administration.
Results on Foreign Fields Large
Indicating the results which these
larger receipts h ave made possible
on the foreign fields, 1t is pointed out
that whereas the Foreign Mission
Board was operating in only seven
countries ten years ago, it is now at
work in seventeen countries, repre-
senting Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America. In that brief Pc
riod of time the number of foreign
churches has grown from $50 to 1905,
the number Of mission stations other
than churches from 43 to 308, number
of baptisms per year from 5,252 to
1886, members of the churches from
29,991 to 111,S72, number of houses Of
worship from 248 to $40, number of
Sunday schools from SAP to 1911, pu-
pills enrolled in the Sunday schools
from 22,022 to 76,504, contributions by
the foreign churches from $91, 1899
per year to $444,568 number of Amer
lean missionaries on the field from
278 to 544, number of native Chris.
tian workers employed from 634 to
2,494, number of mission residences
owned by the board from &c to 1923,
number of mission schools from 339
to $50, number of pupils in these
schools from 339 to $50, number of
pupils in these schools from which so
per cent of all the converts won by
the missionaries come. from 1915 to
35.1O6, number of American medical
missionaries employed from II to 10,
and number of medical treatments
given per year from 74,829 to 294,422.
So extensive has become the foreign
mission work, as well as that OF home
missions, state missions, Christian
education, hospitals, orphanages and
the work of ministerial relief fostered
by Southern Baptists, that the demon
nation has grouped all these interests
into one general program known as
the 1925 Program of Southern Bap-
lists. and all the $4,000 local white
Baptist churches of the South are
being asked to put on budget that
will adequately provide for all these
causes, the budget to be raised
through an every-member canvass OF
the churches every year.
Take Special Offerings in April
Inasmuch as a number of the
churches have not yet completed their
canvass and many churches which put
it on did not enlist every member, the
HEADQUARTERS Committee of the 1925
Program, in cooperation with the
various state secretaries, is asking
that Sunday, April 10, be observed
as a day of special offerings in the
churches for all the objects embraced
in this general Program. Where
| church holds its regular services on
some other Sunday than April 10, that
/ congregation is asked to observe the
dav of it's regular worship with spe-
cial offerings for these causes BY
reason Of the recent rapid expansion
Of all the general causes of the de-
nomination. and to enable the boards
and other agencies to discharge their
heavy Obligations an effort is being
made to raise a minimum of $4,000
GOO in cash during the first four
! months Of 1925 1t is with view to
/ enlistng as nearly as possible every
one OF the 9,5Go,o0O white Baptists Of
the South in this undertaking that
the special offerings for the month of
April were suggested.