About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1925)
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 5. 1925 Mnim BAPTISMS HAD BY BAPTISTS 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. More than one million new mam ken have keen received into the Baptlat churches of the South by baptism alone during the past five years, according to a survey by Dr. K. P. Alldredge, statistical secretary •f the Southern Baptist Convention. Ths exact figures 1,017,550 baptisms, B ' * s DR. ELLIS A. FULLER, Superintendent »f Evangelism. Set a new record not only tor South j orn Baptists, but for any evangelical body in America, the records reveal. This achievement Is equivalent to' >4 baptisms for every hour, 676 for every day, 8,990 per week, 17,198 per month and 207,510 per year. Prominent in the achievement of this result has been the Home Mis-| Bion Board of the Southern Baptist ' Convention, with headquarters In ’ Atlanta, Ga. This board, organised > eighty years ago has, within that' time, more than a million baptisms and 1,426,886 additions to the 1 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 Bum of 818,213.336.10. Last 22 Years Productive The larger part at these achieve ments of the Home Board has come during the past 22 years, cov ering the secretaryship of Dr. B. D. ! Gray. Under Dr. Gray’s administra tion the workers of the board have baptised 662,497 persons, received 1,- 122,844 persons into the churches and organized 4,997 new churches.' Within the urns period the agents of the board have raised and dis bursed in mission work the sum of 114,723,595.87. 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 tion Dr. Ellis A. Fuller of • Green rille, 8. C„ and he entered upon his work October 1. He is a young man of college and seminary train ing and has been unusually succes tul 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, It is pointed out. In the hope of bringing about a development of the 8,674,531 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 Every Member Canvass will be con ducted In a majority of the 27,000 ‘ Baptist churches throughout the South, during the late fall and win- ' tor, the majority of the states em 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 Baptist schools, hospitals and, orphanages, and the work of minis terlal relief. The ideal toward which the commission is striving is that ot every member, .giving every week to every cause In proportion to hie ability, through his local church. As fully as possible Individual Baptists are being urged to give a tenth ot their income to Christian work. So extensively have the various missionary and benevolent enter prises fostered by Southern Baptists grown in recent years that It now requires a minimum of $12,000 00C per year to keep the work growing. Each state 1b being asked to pro vide its proportionate share of thia amount. The state boards, in turn, are asking the respective assocla tlons in their states to accept defi nite quotas for 1926, and the assocla tlons, in turn, are asking the local churches to assume a definite pro portion of the associations! objective for the year. The deepest hole in the Atlantic ia off Porto Rico and goes down 27,- 965 feet. BOOTS AND HEP BUDDIES ' Poor Horace “CMara,? I j fT BAG I ' XtJ SHO DON YD TRY 6WAN WAX <W C-ALS IOrA OF A 6000 MEAL AM °™-’ JCL-J I 1 F 'LUN HER OP GOOD *** -AlNl MC>OF>T XV EE MiEALS A DAY , I HT SUH 1 ONCE OE.N MECfeV PAT WHAT AH*. ACTS. AS. 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