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BAPTISTS REPORT
dN LAST 14 YEARS THEY HAVE
;, ADDED OVER MILLION MEM
. BERS IN SOUTH.
WILL MEET IN CHATTANOOGA
Many Matters Related to Future Work
Will Come Up for Consideration
at the Annual Conventioa
: May 12 to 18
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DR. E. Y. MULLINS
President Southern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary, Who is Touring South.
Following the close of the second
year of the Baptist 76 Million Cam
paign April 30, several thousand mes
sengers from the local churches are
oexpected to assemble at Chattanooga,
Tenn.,, for the seventy-sixth annual
session of the Southern Baptist Con
vention, The Convention met in
Chattanooga last in May, 1906, and
during the interim there kas been a
marked growth in every department
of the Convention’s activities and in
the numbers and work of the local
churches as well. The total number of
Baptists reported to the Convention in
1906 was 1,855,784, while last May,
fourteen years later, when the body
met in Washington, the total member
ship of the local churches as reported
was 2,961,348, or a gain of 1,105,664,
‘The returns for this year are not yet
available, but inasmuch as it is known
there were practically 175,000 addi
tions to the local churches last year
by baptism alone, there is every rea
son to belteve the showing for 1921
"will be even larger.
Growth Shown in All Lines.
At the same time there has been a
marked increase in the membership
of the ehurches, therg has been a dis
tinct advance in all departments of
local and denominational work, it is
eet out. The total number of local
churches has grown from 20,129 in
1906 to 26,303 in 1920; the total num
bver of Sunday Schools from 11,332 to
17,686; and the number of Sunday
School puplls from 857,244 to 1,835,
936, an increase of more than 100 per
cent. The value of local church prop
erty has mounted from 4,501,122 in
1906 to $74,273,728 In 1920, an increase
of more than 1600 per cent, while con
tributions to missions and benevo
lences in 1906 were $1,601,396.67, &as
compared to $7,331,266.55 in 1920, an
advance of practically 500 per cent.
Fourteen years ago thg contributions
to all purposes in a year were $6,941,-
283.44, as against $21,327,446.67 for
1920. 3
Next Meeting Important.
The approaching session of the
CGonventjon is regarded as vitally im
portant to the future of the denomina
tion’'s work. It is hoped that by the
Convention two-fifths of all subscrip
tions to the 76 Million Campaign will
have been paid in cash and that the
program for the completion of the
remainder of the campaign task can
be formulated at this time. Dr. J. B.
(Gambrell, president of the Convention,
and Dr. E. Y. Mullins, who recently
completed a tour of Europe, where
they carried fraternal greetings to the
Baptists of that continent, will give
their impressions of Baptist opportu
nity in that country, while Dr. George
W. Truet and Dr. J. F. Love, who rep
resented the Foreign Mission Board
at the London Conference last sum
mer when the mission fields of Europe
were considered, will tell of the new
territory of Spain, Jugo-Slavia, Hun
gary, Roumania and Southern Russia,
which Southern Baptists are asked to
occupy. This territory is as large as
the Southern States and has a popu
lation of 128,000,000.
All the boards of the Convention
will report the largest year's accom
plishments in their history, the Home
Mission Board being scheduled to re
port the completion of its million dol
lar loan fund for church building, in
addition to the aidlng of a thousand
churches during the year with gifts
and loans for the erection of new
houses of worship., The Sunday School
Board will report more than $1,000,000
in sales for the year and with collec
tions as well as sales beétter than at
any previous time ln its history.
Londun’s First Theater.
ft 1s a little difficult to realize that
fn Loudon, the Mecca of the English
speaking theater devotee, there was &
time when au order was passed by
parllament for the compulsory clos
ing of these “palaces of amusement”
and making it a crime to be present
as a spectator at a play. This hap
pened in puritan times in 1642, when
snly two English theaters existed.
Falls Excavate 30-Mile Chasm,
The waters of the grand falls of
Labrador have excavated a chasm 30
miles long.
Origin of Boston’s Tremont Street.
The origin of Boston’s Tremont
street is said to he a corruption of Tri
mountain, by which name the town of
Boston was first known owing to
the presence of three high hills serv
ing as a background to the peninsula.
Siberian Bread Substantial.
The small ringed bread of Siberia
!s declared to be the most substantial
of all the aardtack breads of the uni
verse.
My - A Business kevival
W ~ Requires An
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ADVERTISING
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of Business _
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back into circulation @GR
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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS- MONDAY, MAY 2nd, 1921
Discovery Credited to Cattle.
It was owing '« ~attle refusing te
drink from an unpregnated spring on
Epsom common in 1618 that Epsom
sgit was discovered. Doctors exame
med the spring, and In consequence
of their verdict all the aristocracy of
England were hurrying to Epsom 8
few years later to take the waters.
Reading.
The reading which has pleased, will
slease when repeated ten times.—
Horace. ¥
Appetite Not Quite Gone.
Mary had reached the stage of sa
tiety where she steadfastly r:{used all
offers of “a little more turkey,” “a
bi® more dressing or mashed potato,”
or “another pilece of bread.” Nothing
apparently could tempt her to eat an
other mouthful. Finally, however, the
nuts, raisins and candles were passed.
“Yes, | will have some,” sald Mary,
and theén, apparently thinking her con
duct needed some expianation, she
added: “I can still eat little thingsi”
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