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BAPTISTS PLAN RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM
BODY CHARGED WITH DUTY OF OUTLINING HOW 75 MIL
LION CAMPAIGN CAN PROMOTE THAT TASK LEACHES
FIELD—DR. LOVE OUTLINES THE NEED AND ISSUES CALL
To make a genera', survey of the
economic, social and religious condi
tions in Europe with a view to recom
mending to the I3aptists of the South
where and how they can aid most ef
fectively in the reconstruction of that
continent through the Baptist 75 Mil
lion Campaign, a commission, com
posed of Ur. J. F. Love, secretary of
the Foreign Mission Board at Rich
mond, Va.; Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor Bap -j
tier Courier, Greenville, S. C., and Rev. 1
Everett Gill, missionary at Rome, i
Italy, who Is returning after a leave |
of*absence in this country, and who;
will serve as guide and interpreter to '
the other members, is now in Eng
land for a conference with the Bap
tists of Groat Britain and will go from
there tor an inspection of France and
Belgium.
Another brief conference will be
held with the Baptists of Switzerland,
after which a trip will be made through
Italy and a survey of the new repub
lic of Czeclio-Slovakia conducted. From
Prague, capital of Bohemia, the com
mission will go into sitch parts of Rus
sia as are open, and the foreign trip
will be concluded with an inspection
of Palestine, where the missionary
work formerly done in Syria, Persia
and Galilee by the Illinois Baptist As
sociation has been turned over to the
Foreign Mission Board.
There are approximately 4.250 Bap
tist churches in Europe today, with
3,000 pastors and missionaries and 566,-
800 church members, if is announced
by the headquarters of the Baptist 75
Million Campaign, and a considerable
sum from this campaign will go toward
succoring needy families of Baptists
and others in the war-torn regions as
well as in the propagation or the gos
pel and the establishment of Chris
tian institutions there, it is announced.
Before sailing on the Adriatic on his
-SJRnAROUND toe world with f\
(%' jf HE AMERICAN RED CROSS, gj j
Arriving at one of the most critic.il stages of the war, when the Teutons
were forcing the Italian army hack to the Tiave, the American Red Cross
rushed emergenc? relief from Paris and revived the drooping spirits of the
whole country. In addition to furnishing rations and comforts and medical
attention to the lighting men, the American Red Cross instituted 42 soup
kitchens. SO children's hospitals, 10 children's dispensaries, 14 artificial limb
factories, live homes for refugee children, 10 rest stations for refugees.
This photograph shows a group of Italian refugee children being fed by
the American Rod Cross at one of tbs numerous relief stations.
1 European mission, Dr. Love made the
! following statement outlining the pur
! pose of the commission:
“When the cail came to help save,
promote and secure democracy in Eu
rope there came a louder call to help
save, promote and secure evangelical
Christianity in Europe. That which
alone will now preserve and perfect
the democracy for which brave men
have died on the battlefield of Europe
is the Christianity of the New Testa
ment. Southern Baptists can not long
er profess New Testament Christian
ity and decline a challenge like that
which is now presented to them to
bear witness to their faith among the
peoples of Europe. Our people never
I before faced such a challenge and such
| a responsibility.
‘Of course we can not go to the men
and women of Europe who have been
stripped of earthly fortune and reduced
to direst necessity with a message of
Christian love and brotherhood if we
decline in our abundance to carry
some substantial pledge of our love
aud compassion. Mothers will not be
able to stay the crying of their little
ones to hear us preach if we decline
to practice the gospel of compassion
and feed these little ones and build
fires at which they can during the com
ing winter warm their frosted toes.
Southern Baptists are under tfye most
solemn obligation to help relieve the
want and suffering of Europe. But if
there were iio reconstruction work in
Europe, Southern Baptists have mo
tives numerous enough and strong
enough to compel them to make a com
plete success of the Baptist 75 Mil
lion Campaign. 1 would therefore, as
:n; parting word to my brothers and
sisters cf the South, implore them to
give themselves to this campaign and
carry it to a triumphant conclusion
during Victory Week, November 30-
December 7.”
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