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1M0N BAPTISMS
HAD BYJAPTISTS
New Evangelistic Record for
Nation for Five Years Set
Up in South.
WOULD DEVELOP MEMBERS
Effort to Enlist Entire Constit
uency of 3,500,000 in
Regular Giving Plan
ned Soon.
THUR4
More than one million new mem
ton hare been received Into the
Baptist churches of the South by
baptism alone during the past five
years, according to a survey by Dr.
E. P. Alldredge, statistical secretary
of Uka Southern Buptlst Convention.
Tat waet fig urea, 1.037,550 baptlama.
V Just For One
S tor. J
DR. CLLIS A. rULLCPt,
&Qcr!ntcndent of Evangelism.
set u uw reoord not only for Houth
arn flautists, but for any evangelical
body In America, the records reveal, j
This achievement Is equivalent (0 I
24 baptisms for every hour, 676 for !
every day. 3. Ml) per week. 17.292 per
month and 207,510 per year
Prom Incut In the achievement of
thiH result has been the Home Mis
sion Heard of the Southern Haptlit
CnnveDIion, with headquarters in
Atlanta, Ga. This board, organized
eighty years ago has, within that
time, more than a million baptisms I
and 1,426,386 additions to the J
churches to show tor the labora of its
missionaries, while, tho agents of the .
bourd have within that period raised I
and disbursed in mission work la j
I lie boutn, rauama ana i uuu tun
Bum of $1H, 213, 336, 10.
Ls'. 22 Years Productive
Tho larger part of these achieve
ments of the Hume Board has
conic during the past 22 years, cov
ering the secretaryship of Dr B. D.
Gray. Under Dr. ('rav's administra
tion t) workers of the board have I
baptised C62.497 persons, received 1,-
122,344 persona Into the ahurches
and organized 4,997 new churchei.
Within t.,' same period the agents
of the bo.,1' 1 have raised aud (lis
Ibursed in m! slon work the sum of
.'$14,72.1. 6f5.?7.
The evan eiiatlc department of the
f!,.me Mission Hoard has bj. n its
ferrate-! sitisle ov:iDi;elistic asset.
'lartr.ient has b. , n without
an ;.,:r,e head recently, but the !
h an! has Just called to that poel-
tloa I)r ! 1 1 h A. Fuller of Crceii
Ttlle. S ('.. and he entered upon 1
his work October 1. He is a youn
lean of college itud seminary tra;n- 1
lug and has been unusually succos- j
iol In seal winning and other phases ;
td work us a pa tor.
Sou;'"-n I'.apliats have been far ,
ii- si,., ssful in winning converts:
and church members than they !).. .) J
been In the general spiritual de 1 p
men l of the members it Ib po,:.i"d
In the hope of brinnlnn about
developmeit of the 8,674.531 mem-
of the denoinliiallon to tno
Dolnt whire all of them will have a
share in supporting all .he mission
ary, educational ami benevolent work
fostered by the denomination, an
Every Member Cunvass will be con
ducted In a majority of tae 27.000
Baptist churches throughout the
South, during the late fall and w!.i
tor, (he majority of the states env
ploying the week of Dec. MI.
u.u rnllt Evarv Member i
Taa aanvass will be oondueted un
der the general auspices of the Co
operative Program, whlah hi foster
ing state, home and foreign missions,
the Baptl-.t schools, hospital and
orphanages, and the work of minlB-
tarlal relief. Tha Ideal toward wnicn
the eommlsslon Is striving la that of
every member, giving every week
tn every cause In proportion to hla
ability, through bis local church. Aa
fully a possible individual Baptists
are being urged to give a bantu of
their income to Christian work
So extensively have the various
missionary and benevolent enter
nrlses fostered by Southern Baptists
grown In recent yean that It now
requires a minimum of $11,000,000
per Tar to keep the work growing.
Each state Is being asked to pro
Tide Its proportionate share of this
amouBt. The state boards, is turn,
re asking the respective associa
tions In their states to acoopt defi
nite quotas for 1926, and the associa
tions. In torn, are asking the local
churchss to assume a definite pro
portion of the assoclatlonal objective .
out.
bers
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