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 A resume of the purpose and progress of 
 Northern Baptists since 1919 
 
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 The Northern Baptist Convention 
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Do You Remember ’Way Back 
 
 When we could point to no concrete and distinctive denomina¬ 
 tional aims? 
 
 When we had not yet recognized the oneness of all phases of 
 the Christian’s task? 
 
 When Mr. and Mrs. Average Church-Member contributed to 
 missions strictly by accident—were they present on the Sunday 
 missions was presented? 
 
 When we had not learned to think in terms of a Northern 
 Baptist army, a million and a half strong, with Christ as Com- 
 mander-in-Chief? 
 
 When the three I’s of our Responsibility did not yet mean the 
 Importance, the Immediacy, and the Indivisibility of our whole 
 Baptist task? 
 
 When foreign mission enthusiasts knew little about the great 
 home mission opportunities, and vice versa? 
 
 When our denominational giving was per capita instead of per 
 cardia? 
 
 When in missionary education the motive was strong but the 
 methods were weak? 
 
 When our more than 9,000 churches did not know the unifying 
 power of a definite common objective? 
 
 When denominational recognition and advocacy of stewardship 
 in time and talents, mind and money, were local rather than 
 national ? 
 
 IF SO, THEN THE NEW WORLD MOVEMENT 
 HAS A CLAIM UPON YOUR INTEREST 
 
First Baptist Church 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 The 'Home of the Pr esident of 
 
 Judson Memorial Church 
 New York 
 
 Ministering lo the Multitude^ 
 of a Great City. 
 
 the Northern Bwpfist Convention 
 
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 Ouvn Church (Negro; Chicago 
 feriargesl Sipiist Oiurchmtt* World. 
 
 Calvary Baptist Church 
 
 WASHINGTON. 
 
 %e Church of the President 
 of the United State*. 
 
 First Baptist Church, Providence 
 
 Hie Oldest Baptist Church in America. 
 
 “Sotdiefr Summit Church, Wah 
 Serving art Isolated 
 
 intern Community. 
 
 Lake Avekue Church, RocnEsrER 
 
 A Church with 3n Oulsiandihq 
 ''Program and Equipment 
 
 First Slovak Church 
 
 tIINNEAPOllS 
 
 She Home of a New Ameriun Church. 
 
 Enter into His gates with, 
 thanksgiving an£ into 
 His courts with praise* 
 
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“ There's a church in the valley by the wildwood, 
 No lovelier place in the dale, 
 
 No spot is so dear to my childhood 
 As the little brown church in the vale” 
 
 T O MANY of us, the “wildwood” and “dale” are metaphorical, for 
 memory presents a quiet village street or a crowded city thoroughfare; 
 to most of us the brownness and the littleness are not literal terms 
 but simply suggestive of endearment and remembered quietude. But to 
 each of us alike there comes a deep glow of affection and we feel a quick 
 warmth of interest as we recall the church, wherever it may stand, which 
 first knew our consecration of heart and life to the service of Jesus Christ. 
 The church where we first worshiped God in spirit and in truth holds for 
 us hallowed memories and its influence we can never entirely escape. 
 
 A missionary administrator said the other day of a talented and gracious 
 young woman applying to be sent out into a difficult field of service, “She is 
 one of those trickles of influence flowing out from a church that isn’t 
 much on the map.” It is these very “trickles of influence” that flow to¬ 
 gether to make the mighty stream of Christian power. Without these 
 trickles there would be no stream; the churches that send them forth, in¬ 
 stead of being on the map, are helping to make the map. It is to these 
 churches that are with quiet faithfulness, often in the face of discourage¬ 
 ments, carrying on the great Kingdom tasks, to these churches which we 
 as Northern Baptists all hold dear, that this book is dedicated. 
 
 It is to the members of these churches, the true strength, humanly 
 speaking, of our great denomination, that this message is “broadcasted.” 
 
 A Glance Back 
 
 The hundreds of Baptists who gathered at Denver in 1919, as repre¬ 
 sentatives of local churches in the Northern Baptist Convention, listened 
 to the report of their Committee on Survey and many of them for the first 
 time saw the world as their whole field of action. They caught their first 
 view of the needs of the world as interrelated needs, none of which would be 
 completely met until all were met. They recognized that the Christian 
 education of the boys and girls of Idaho might be a factor in the evangeliza¬ 
 tion of the natives of far-away Africa; that provision for the old age or ill- 
 health of our missionaries and ministers was not only simple justice in 
 itself but would justify us in continuing to call into these lines of service 
 many of our finest young men and women. 
 
 In the conviction that the forms of activity and types of work suggested, 
 the aims and ideals recommended, would hasten the time when “the 
 kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His 
 Christ,” the representatives present voted to enter upon the tasks proposed. 
 In taking this action, they endorsed no visionary plan for the general up- 
 
 “How soft the music of those village bells!” 
 
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lift and betterment of the world, but they undertook a campaign for the 
 accomplishment of definite objectives presented in printed form and 
 adopted. These objectives had been chosen after months of prayerful con¬ 
 sideration by the organizations which had for years been carrying on these 
 various forms of work. They had been selected as the most pressing needs 
 which the denomination might reasonably be expected to meet within a 
 period of five years. 
 
 The undertaking thus entered upon, which was later named THE NEW 
 WORLD MOVEMENT, was not primarily a financial campaign. The 
 consideration of money entered into it no more than into the planning of a 
 child to make a gift to his father. The child must of necessity be guided 
 in the choice of his gift by the amount of money he can afford for it; he 
 may say, “ My gift to my father will cost $3,” but uppermost in his mind 
 is the desire to give expression to his love and gratitude. 
 
 And so uppermost in the minds of Northern Baptists was their grati¬ 
 tude to God, together with their new conception of the world’s great need. 
 They recognized their ability, under God’s guidance, to meet a part of 
 that need, and assuming the responsibility which that ability entailed, 
 they set for themselves the goal of One Hundred Million Dollars as “com¬ 
 mensurate with our resources.” 
 
 Baptists Had the Money 
 
 That one hundred million dollars to be given in five years was not an 
 unreasonable expectation from the denomination was proved in several 
 different ways. From statistics of governmental and other reports re¬ 
 garding the average wealth and income in the United States, it was shown 
 that if all Northern Baptists receiving salaries should devote two-fifths of a 
 tithe of those salaries each year for five years to the causes presented in the 
 Survey, the financial part of the program would be assured. Similarly, 
 if every Northern Baptist receiving an income from any source (labor, 
 rental, invested funds, etc.), should contribute one-fifth of a tithe of his 
 income each year for five years to the New World Movement, the entire sum 
 would be raised. Furthermore, since the number of Northern Baptists is 
 approximately a million and a half, an average gift of $15 a year for five 
 years would more than meet the financial objective. And the financial 
 objective had to be met if the work already under way was to be main¬ 
 tained and the advance work voted was to be made possible. 
 
 Since, then, the securing of money was essential to the carrying out of 
 the program, a country-wide campaign of pledge-taking was planned and 
 carried through. But so fully had the denomination understood the spirit¬ 
 ual significance of the Movement and the true character of the undertaking, 
 that the very securing of pledges was itself attended with great blessings; 
 one church reported that as a result of that day’s work twenty-six were 
 baptized; from others came the announcement of widespread revivals. 
 One director of promotion wrote that in his state there was “almost a 
 Pentecost.” So does God richly bless our efforts “above all that we ask or 
 think.” As “ asters by the brook-side make asters in the brook,” so a genu¬ 
 ine devotion to the King of Kings and a determination to share in the bring¬ 
 ing in of his Kingdom had an immediate spiritual reflection in the lives of 
 those that were close by. 
 
 “Our only greatness is that we aspire ” 
 
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And Now 
 
 Three years have passed and the denomination is in the fourth year of 
 the five-year period it had outlined for itself. On all sides are heard the 
 eager questions: What of the New World Movement? We set out to do a 
 definite task; how much of it have we done? Have we been able to bring 
 many people into personal relations with Jesus Christ? Northern Bap¬ 
 tists are giving larger amounts than ever before; how have their gifts been 
 used? Are there more churches, more hospitals, more schools, more Chris¬ 
 tian homes in the world because of our efforts? It is to furnish answers to 
 such questions that the pages which follow have been prepared. 
 
 The report of the Committee on Survey was presented at Denver as a 
 photograph of needs. No specific mention was made of the societies and 
 boards through whose eyes it had been possible to view these needs, and 
 through whose pockets the money contributed to meet them would pass. 
 Great opportunities upon the foreign field were presented not as problems 
 facing the two Foreign Mission Societies alone, but as conditions which 
 challenged the denomination as a whole. Similarly with other questions 
 such as the homeless condition of many churches and the churchless condi¬ 
 tion of many homes, the importance of Christianizing our millions of immi¬ 
 grants as a “double safety device,” protecting alike our country and the 
 newcomers themselves—these were given a denominational significance 
 and received a guarantee of denominational attention. How far this de¬ 
 nominational attention has gone, however, could be reported only by those 
 organizations which received the funds and expended them for the purposes 
 authorized by the denomination. And so questionnaires were sent out to 
 these organizations and upon their replies this information is based. The 
 initial aims were definite; the results to date are no less definite. The fol¬ 
 lowing pages will present descriptions and pictures of many of the New 
 World Movement material achievements; they will present statistics which 
 record some of the spiritual results. It is not possible to record com¬ 
 pletely and in detail all that the Movement has accomplished. Such a 
 record could be found only in the books to which God alone has access. 
 
 No attempt is made to claim that the New World Movement is to be 
 credited with all the advance which the denomination has made since 1919. 
 It is fully recognized that not all that has been done during the period of the 
 New World Movement is directly attributable to its influence. Organi¬ 
 zations participating in the Movement have received generous gifts, which 
 although not included in the New World Movement funds, have enabled 
 those organizations greatly to expand their work. 
 
 One thing the replies to the questionnaires indicate with a clearness 
 which cannot be mistaken: that what the New World Movement has done 
 for the spread of the gospel throughout the world is no less signal than 
 what it has done within the churches themselves. Reference has already 
 been made to the spiritual results of the first pledge-taking campaign. In 
 the following pages, many references will be found to the unity, the finer 
 type of cooperation, and the deepening of the spiritual life among those 
 who took part in the Movement. A new and fuller dependence upon 
 prayer has been constantly evidenced. The very bigness of the under¬ 
 taking has brought to each one the realization that “except the Lord build 
 the house, they labor in vain that build it.” 
 
 “Nothing with God can be accidental ” 
 
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HONEY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH, WISCONSIN 
 “blessed is that nation whose god is the lord” 
 
 The State Conventions 
 
 “He setteth the solitary in families” 
 
 T HE state convention is the family for the churches of the state. The 
 family is designed to meet the individual’s need for protection, com¬ 
 panionship, sympathy, interests outside of self, aims in common with 
 others. So the state convention meets these needs for the individual 
 church. Through the family the individual widens his contacts and is 
 able to take a larger part in the affairs of the nation and of the world. Through 
 the state convention the churches are able to have a larger share in denomi¬ 
 national life and a wider participation in the entire Christian enterprise. 
 
 There are thirty-six states which share in Northern Baptist work. Their 
 combined constituency is the constituency of the Northern Baptist Conven¬ 
 tion. From their membership are chosen the members of each missionary soci¬ 
 ety of the denomination. Their strength is the strength of Northern Baptists. 
 
 The state conventions have stood whole-heartedly back of the New 
 World Movement. They have worked for its success and prayed for its 
 ultimate victory. They have been “not slothful in business, fervent in 
 spirit, serving the Lord.’’ The state convention’s relation to the New World 
 Movement is a twofold one. Each state convention is represented by an 
 executive secretary, upon whom rests the responsibility for the direction of 
 Baptist work within the state. He is interested in securing for his state 
 
 “E Pluribus Unum” 
 
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funds sufficient to care adequately for the missionary work, church building 
 enterprises, opportunities for evangelism, and the many other objectives 
 set by the state in the performance of its own part of the common task. 
 In addition, there is in each state the office of director of promotion, this 
 position being, in an increasing number of states, filled by the executive sec¬ 
 retary himself. The director of promotion has charge of advancing, within 
 the state, the interests of all denomination-wide activities, and of receiving 
 and transmitting the funds contributed for all forms of Baptist work. His 
 aim is to develop in the churches a power of vision which enables them to look 
 beyond the confines of the state and see that the work centered within the 
 state is an integral part of a great world of work. His motive is not merely 
 to get the churches to share in this larger work, but to get them to want 
 to share in it. In recording the results of the New World Movement in 
 the states, it is necessary to bear in mind this double cooperation. 
 
 The requirements of the state conventions were listed in concrete terms 
 in the Survey (pages 81-84). As stated there, the conventions are primarily 
 missionary organizations, but their missionary tasks vary with their loca¬ 
 tions. There was therefore a great variety of needs listed. The first need 
 of all the states has of course been to secure funds to carry on their regular 
 missionary work, such as the payment of missionaries’ salaries, the assistance 
 of small churches, the maintenance of missionary chapels. 
 
 Church Erection 
 
 The most widespread of the other needs listed was that of funds to aid 
 in the erection of new church buildings (1) for mission churches, (2) for 
 churches self-supporting as to current expenses but without adequate finan¬ 
 cial resources for building. The fact that we did not secure the full One 
 Hundred Million Dollars has made it necessary, in view of the imperative 
 need of making provision first for the operating budgets, for some of the 
 states to postpone building enterprises as well as other plans which had 
 been projected. Of the twenty-two states which reported the need for 
 church buildings as a pressing one, it is evident from the replies which came 
 in response to the questionnaire, that at least fourteen of them have been 
 able to meet the need in a greater or less degree. It is understood that the 
 buildings reported are in addition to those erected by churches without con¬ 
 vention aid. Naturally it is the western and far western states which have 
 shown the greatest activity along this line. (The order followed in this 
 report is that followed in the Survey). 
 
 Maine reports a new chapel being erected at a strategic new center of 
 Portland. 
 
 Michigan reports the securing of eight building sites and the erection of 
 temporary buildings on three of them. 
 
 Wisconsin has erected the first unit of the South Church at Milwaukee, 
 located at an important point. 
 
 Minnesota, in cooperation with the Home Mission Society, has erected 
 a fine stone church, through the splendid equipment of which a great 
 work will be done for the students at the State University. 
 
 North Dakota is now erecting two church buildings. 
 
 Wyoming has purchased and improved three buildings, remodeled two 
 others and erected the first units of three modern buildings; has also 
 
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 “Each for all and all for each” 
 
been able to house two chapels in the outlying districts of the rapidly 
 growing city of Casper. 
 
 Colorado has erected twelve new churches and parsonages, although not 
 all of these were made possible by New World Movement funds. 
 Nevada has been able to pay $1,400 on one church’s indebtedness, $500 to 
 secure a lot for another church and $1,000 for a parsonage. 
 
 Arizona has supplied three places of worship for Mexican churches, one 
 being entirely new. 
 
 Washington, West, has put up three buildings for foreign-speaking mis¬ 
 sions, and has been able to make use of a building fund of $10,000 for 
 American churches, $60,000 being given by the churches themselves. 
 Washington, East, has paid off a large indebtedness to the Home Mission 
 Society for churches erected in other years. 
 
 Oregon has twelve church buildings finished or just begun. 
 
 California, North, has paid $10,000 for church edifices this year and 
 secured for the Convention property valued at $35,000. 
 
 California, South, has erected eleven churches, built additions to six 
 others, made some progress in providing chapels for the foreign popula¬ 
 tion and put up six parsonages. 
 
 New Americans 
 
 The need reported by the next largest number of states was that for 
 extended work among the New Americans, the foreign-speaking population. 
 This was in eighteen different states a problem which demanded immediate 
 local attention, in addition to the great program of work of this character 
 being put on by the two Home Mission Societies. The Survey.said of this 
 work, “The Church has few services of greater importance to render the 
 nation than to teach these strangers within our gates the real spirit of Amer¬ 
 ica, which is the spirit of Christian brotherhood. If the mind of Christ can 
 become the mind of the Americans, old and new, the problem of America 
 is solved.” Among the results which followed the endeavor to share in solv¬ 
 ing this problem, the states have reported the following: 
 
 Maine has begun a much needed work among the Russians and Poles. 
 Massachusetts has intensified its work for New Americans, and has two 
 additional missionaries, one Russian and one Polish. 
 
 Rhode Island has secured three women workers among its foreign popula¬ 
 tion and a missionary pastor for the Russians. 
 
 Wisconsin is about to use the old plant of the South Church, Milwaukee, 
 as a Christian center. 
 
 Ohio has enlarged its work among the Rumanians and Hungarians. 
 Minnesota has secured a fine building for its Slovak work in Minneapolis. 
 Kansas reports giving $7,500 toward the Bethel Neighborhood Center in 
 Kansas City. Located in a cosmopolitan center, it maintains a child’s 
 clinic, kindergarten, day nursery, domestic science classes and other 
 activities. 
 
 Idaho has opened work at Pocatello among the Greeks, Italians and other 
 foreign populations. 
 
 Arizona has established a new mission for the Mexicans. 
 
 Washington, West, has been able to employ three Scandinavian mission¬ 
 aries and two Japanese; also to establish one additional Japanese mission. 
 
 “Qur hearts, our hopes, our aims are one” 
 
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California, North, has established missions among the Japanese in 
 Sacramento, the Portuguese in Alameda, the Armenians in Turlock and 
 the Mexicans in three places in the San Joaquin Valley. 
 
 Evangelism and Religious Education 
 
 Progress in evangelism, the great primary aim of every Baptist organ¬ 
 ization, is inextricably interwoven with the establishment of new churches 
 and the activities of state missionaries and evangelists. Furthermore, the 
 need for a program of religious education follows immediately in the wake 
 of true and permanent results of evangelism. Therefore these aims, al¬ 
 though not explicitly listed by all the states, are underlying ones in the 
 plans of each state convention. 
 
 The following definite achievements along these lines have been reported: 
 
 Vermont: “We have a man constantly employed, preaching stewardship 
 of service and time as well as of money, which results in souls being 
 saved and added to our churches.” 
 
 New York: A director of religious education and a director of rural work 
 secured. 
 
 Wisconsin: A director of city work employed. 
 
 Ohio: Three district superintendents and a director of evangelism ap¬ 
 pointed. 
 
 Indiana: Seven new churches organized. 
 
 Minnesota: A hospital minister visiting among the thousands of patients 
 at Rochester. 
 
 North Dakota: Four new churches organized. 
 
 Nebraska: Four new churches organized, three foreign-speaking churches 
 reorganized as English-speaking. 
 
 Montana: Six new churches, a general evangelist and a full-time director 
 of religious education. 
 
 Wyoming: Three new churches organized. 
 
 Colorado: Fourteen new churches organized, also sixteen Sunday schools, 
 each one a possible church. Two thousand baptisms during the past 
 year. 
 
 Washington, West: Two new churches, twelve additional missionary 
 pastors, one new district missionary, and one new evangelist. 
 Washington, East: Higher salaries paid to missionary pastors. 
 
 Oregon: One new church organized, two convention missionaries, one con¬ 
 vention evangelist, and a superintendent of evangelism secured. “The 
 results in the stimulating of the work and actual reception by baptism 
 have given us a great deal of rejoicing.” 
 
 California, North: One new church organized, and several missions 
 started that will result in church organizations later. 
 
 California, South: Twelve new churches organized. Southern California 
 has shown an unparalleled increase in population since 1920. New towns 
 are springing up almost over night, and it is impossible to meet the ur¬ 
 gent demand for new Sunday schools, churches and places of worship. 
 There is immediate need for the organization of twenty-five to thirty 
 more churches. This convention’s unusual record in the erection of 
 church buildings is an effort to meet this sudden great need. 
 
 “How far that little candle throws his beams!” 
 
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Student Work 
 
 Perhaps one of the greatest services that the Christian Church can ren¬ 
 der to a community is to come into intimate contact with the life of its 
 students. The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. If they can 
 be Christianized today, tomorrow is safer in their hands. Several of the 
 states are cooperating with the Board of Education in the maintenance of 
 university pastors, whose work is described in the section “General Edu¬ 
 cation.” 
 
 Rural Activities 
 
 The importance of a vital Christianity in our rural districts, for the sake 
 both of the community itself and of the country at large, can hardly be 
 overestimated. The states which felt the need for increased attention to 
 work in rural communities were not numerous, but were found in all sec¬ 
 tions of the country. Only three have reported progress toward this goal: 
 Ohio: Has employed a director of rural work. 
 
 Minnesota: Has established one rural center. 
 
 Montana: Has employed three rural special workers “with splendid re¬ 
 sults.” 
 
 Varied Lines of Advance 
 
 New Hampshire: “More individuals have been reached in isolated places 
 than ever.” 
 
 Vermont: “While we have been able to do something along the line of 
 meeting the definite needs which we set forth in the Survey, we have 
 not by any means been able to satisfy them all.” 
 
 Pennsylvania: “The definite needs in the state have been met a little 
 more fully by reason of a slight increase in the amount of money ex¬ 
 pended.” 
 
 Ohio: “The definite needs set forth in the Survey have been met.” This 
 means that Ohio has been able to establish missionary work in many 
 of its large cities which had no standard city mission organizations. It 
 has also begun an extensive work for the Negroes, who settled in that 
 state in large numbers after the war. 
 
 Indiana: “We have secured a state superintendent for our Negro work. 
 
 Our Edifice Fund has helped us with some building.” 
 
 Illinois: “We have made progress toward reaching the goals.” 
 
 Missouri: The State of Missouri is cooperating with both the Northern 
 and the Southern Baptist Conventions, three churches contributing 
 entirely to the Northern Baptist Convention and about forty others 
 dividing their gifts equally. Word comes from Missouri that those 
 churches cooperating have shown good interest in the denominational 
 work and that the national program (referring to the advance of both 
 conventions) has greatly increased the amount of money received for 
 the state convention. 
 
 Kansas: “About $6,000 have been added to our permanent funds.” 
 
 From the foregoing it would appear that there has been definite progress 
 toward New World Movement goals by nearly every state in the Northern 
 Baptist Convention. A few states report that they were hindered by local 
 
 “Lore, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity ” 
 
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conditions, such as industrial disturbances, failure of crops, etc., from shar¬ 
 ing very largely in the Movement. 
 
 The thirty-five states from whose records these facts have been compiled 
 report their total number of churches to be 7,990, of which a considerable 
 number are small and many without leadership. Of this number, 5,257 
 have made a genuine effort toward all the goals of the Movement, and many 
 other churches are reported as contributing to part of the work represented 
 in the Movement. 
 
 Some Questions Answered 
 
 It will be of interest to give here three of the questions sent out to the 
 states and the general character of the replies received: 
 
 (1) “Have you noted among the churches in your state a growing in¬ 
 terest in the work of the denomination as a whole and a deepening sense 
 of responsibility for sharing in that larger work?” Of thirty-five who re¬ 
 plied to the questionnaire, two did not answer this question; one said, 
 “Could not say ‘Yes’’’; and thirty-two answered in the affirmative. 
 
 (2) “Are you able to cite instances where participation in the New 
 World Movement has resulted in a marked deepening of the spiritual life 
 of the members, and in accessions to the membership roll?” Of thirty- 
 five who replied to the questionnaire, three did not answer the question; 
 two said “No”; one said “Not with certainty”; and one said “No striking 
 cases.” Twenty-eight replied in the affirmative. Many of the replies 
 stated that the deepening of the spiritual life and the accessions to member¬ 
 ship were in direct proportion to participation in the New World Move¬ 
 ment. One state reported that the “increase in giving is reflected in the 
 increase in baptisms.” Another replied with “an emphatic affirmative.” 
 The majority of our churches have actually been “born again” as one of the 
 by-products resulting from the deepening consciousness of fellowship with 
 Christ in the more serious effort to bring the world to him. With practi¬ 
 cally no exception, the churches that have had the largest increase in bap¬ 
 tisms have been those churches which have taken most seriously the work 
 as outlined in the New World Movement. 
 
 (3) “What effect, if any, has participation or non-participation in the 
 New World Movement had upon the church finances and the amount avail¬ 
 able for local needs?” The replies to this question were conclusive proof 
 that “as one lamp lights another, nor itself grows less,” so believing in and 
 giving to the wider interests of the Kingdom do not lessen the ability or 
 the desire to support the nearer forms of Christian work. Of thirty-five 
 w T ho replied to the questionnaire, four made no reply to this question. One 
 said, “Nothing special has come to my attention along this line.” Three 
 implied that opinions might vary. One reported that participation had 
 not increased local receipts, and twenty-six agreed that participation in the 
 New World Movement had made it easier to raise money for local church 
 expenses. The following are some of the comments made: 
 
 Connecticut: “I think, without exception, the churches that have put 
 
 through in earnest the New World Movement have found their own 
 
 finances improved.” 
 
 Indiana: “Our churches that participated in the New World Movement 
 
 have found it easier to raise money for local expenses than before.” 
 
 “They serve God well who serve his creatures” 
 
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Montana: “Almost without exception, there has been an increase for 
 current expenses in proportion to the increase for benevolences.” 
 Oregon: “It is emphatically true that the churches which have partici¬ 
 pated most earnestly in the New World Movement have had their finan¬ 
 ces multiplied from 100 per cent to 300 per cent for their own local work. 
 Churches that are engaged in building parsonages or houses of wor¬ 
 ship, and have undertaken to finance building programs they would 
 not have dreamed possible four years ago, are at the same time churches 
 who have given generously to the New World Movement.” 
 
 Wisconsin: “I think it is invariably true that churches which have pushed 
 the hardest the great Kingdom affairs have been able to increase their 
 local expenses even beyond their expectation.” 
 
 Nebraska: “ During the year 1920-21, the churches of Nebraska gave more 
 than they ever have given to world evangelization. During that year, 
 I find there was an increase of 10 per cent in the amount given to current 
 expenses. ‘The light that shines farthest shines brightest at home.’ ” 
 Pennsylvania: “Participation, as a rule, has resulted in increased con¬ 
 tributions to local support and has been a stimulus in the liquidation of 
 church debts and in permanent improvements.” 
 
 Vermont: “I believe participation in the New World Movement has had a 
 good effect upon the finances of the local church.” 
 
 Washington, West: “Hearty participation improved church finances.” 
 West Virginia: “Large giving for the general work increased the giving 
 for local needs.” 
 
 Rather a “cloud of witnesses,” all bearing evidence that “there is that 
 scattereth and yet increaseth.” 
 
 A Further Question 
 
 The advance work noted above as being carried on by the state conven¬ 
 tions might lead one to believe that more money than ever before was being 
 spent for convention purposes. But could this be possible at a time when 
 the churches of the state were giving more largely than previously to denomi¬ 
 national interests outside of the state? The states were asked to show how 
 expenditures for state work during the three years of the New World Move¬ 
 ment compared with the expenditures for the same purposes during the 
 three years prior to the Movement. In thirty-five replies, two reported 
 the amount practically the same; three reported the amounts spent during 
 the New World Movement were not larger than they had intended to 
 spend. The other thirty reported an increase in the yearly amount spent 
 for state convention work. This increase varied from “a small amount” in 
 Delaware to over 400 per cent in Wyoming. In the fifteen states ex¬ 
 clusive of Wyoming which gave the percentage of increase the average 
 rate was about 75 per cent. 
 
 It must of course be borne in mind that not all of this increase has been 
 available for advance work in the states. In common with the other organ¬ 
 izations, they have suffered from the increased cost of conducting all forms 
 of work. During the years of the New World Movement, all the partici¬ 
 pating organizations have been in somewhat the strait of Alice in Wonder¬ 
 land, who found it necessary to run just as hard as she could in order to 
 remain in the same place. The greater cost of carrying on even the same 
 amount of work would have required a somewhat larger expenditure on 
 
 “ There is a tide in the affairs of men” 
 
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the part of the states than it required in other years. It is cause for great 
 gratitude that they have been able to achieve the splendid results indicated. 
 
 In Conclusion 
 
 There follow a few from the many expressions of appreciation of the 
 New World Movement and its impression upon the life of Baptist people. 
 Three are from states in the Mississippi Valley, and two are messages which 
 record, in some detail, what the Movement has meant to the great western 
 stretches of our country. 
 
 Illinois: “ The progress in the direction of unity and cooperation has been 
 most marked.” 
 
 Iowa: “ I believe that there is at present an under-current of healthy, vigor¬ 
 ous interest that will find expression in better giving as the months go by.” 
 Wisconsin: “There is no question that the New World Movement has 
 been a success in this state.” 
 
 Oregon: “I record, as my firm conviction, that the New World Movement 
 effort in our state has been of profound blessing both as to direct financial 
 results and indirectly in its financial and spiritual results. We have en¬ 
 larged our evangelistic program; we have in progress now a building 
 program equaling the entire expenditures for church edifices and par¬ 
 sonages in all the previous history since 1844 in our convention; we 
 have a group of pastors who have become 100 per cent more zealous 
 and efficient because of the challenge the New World Movement brought 
 into their own lives and, generally speaking, our people are giving five 
 times as much as they did previous to the New World Movement.” 
 Montana: “There is a marked increase in denominational consciousness 
 and the spirit of cooperation due to the New World Movement. One 
 of the outstanding proofs of this is the response of the churches to the 
 call for new workers. During the first thirty-five years of the life of our 
 convention, not over five or six persons felt the call to become ministers, 
 missionaries or special workers. At the present time there are not 
 less than fifty of the finest young men and women of the state who have 
 taken a more or less definite stand for special service. The young people 
 of our state were never so eager and willing for types of Christian ser¬ 
 vice as now. This is a distinct result of the New World Movement. 
 Again, at no time in the history of our denomination in Montana have 
 we had such a number of well informed men and women. There were 
 never so many organized guilds for young girls, circles for women, and 
 classes in Sunday school definitely studying missionary and denomina¬ 
 tional literature. All of this, I would say, shows a distinct advance.” 
 Surely, “ The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.” 
 
 Note 1—The committee in preparing this report has sought to secure accurate 
 and adequate information concerning every line of progress made in the states during 
 the period of the New World Movement. If any notable advance work inaugurated 
 by any state does not find a place in this statement it is because such work was not 
 brought to the attention of the committee. 
 
 Note 2—There are some phases of denominational work upon the home fields 
 which are a joint responsibility and are supported by two or more of the following 
 organizations, The American Baptist Home Mission Society, the Woman’s American 
 Baptist Home Mission Society, The American Baptist Publication Society, the State 
 Conventions and the City Mission Societies. Some of these projects, such as Christian 
 centers, chapel cars, etc., are mentioned in more than one of the sections of this report 
 in order that attention may be called to the share which each organization has had in 
 inaugurating or supporting them. 
 
 “God’s errands never fail” 
 
 15 
 
 i 
 
PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH (NEGRO), CHICAGO 
 
 FORMERLY A HEBREW SYNAGOGUE, NOW A CHRISTIAN TEMPLE 
 
 City Mission Societies 
 
 T HREE years ago the Survey set forth in detail the problems with 
 which our denomination, in common with others, is faced, because of 
 the congestion of population in the cities. The United States census 
 which has been taken since that time reveals interesting facts bearing upon 
 this situation. 
 
 There are in the United States seventy cities with a population of 
 100,000 or more. In the Survey the interesting statement was made that 
 the population of our two largest cities, New York and Chicago, exceeded 
 that of the Mountain and Pacific states by nearly 400,000. While these 
 western states have now slightly passed these two cities, the combined 
 population of New York and Chicago in 1920 was more than 8,300,000, an 
 increase of 1,400,000 since 1910. The growth of the city population through¬ 
 out the country is startling. In 1910 the total population of the country 
 was 91,972,266; in 1920 it was 105,710,620. In 1910 the urban population 
 was 42,166,120 and in 1920 it was 54,304,603. In other words, while the 
 total population increased not quite 15 per cent, the urban population in¬ 
 creased nearly 29 per cent. Our city mission societies today are confronted 
 with problems of the same character as they were at the time the Survey 
 was made. The problems have simply been intensified. 
 
 When the survey was published twelve standard city mission societies 
 were recognized by the Northern Baptist Convention in the following cities: 
 New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleve- 
 
 “Hear ye not the hum of mighty workings?” 
 
 16 
 
land, Chicago, Minneapolis, Des Moines, St. Louis and Los Angeles. 
 Since that date societies have been recognized in the cities of Boston, 
 San Francisco, Denver, Rochester, Omaha and Kansas City. 
 
 In the Survey (pages 85-89) a splendid program of objectives was pro¬ 
 posed in connection with the work in the cities which reflected a purpose on 
 the part of Baptists to endeavor to make the gospel effective in these great 
 centers of population. Owing to the fact that we have not yet secured the 
 One Hundred Million Dollars it has not been possible to reach all these ob¬ 
 jectives. This has been a source of disappointment to those who live closest 
 to these problems and feel the pressure most forcibly. On the other hand a 
 survey of the present situation reveals a most encouraging progress in 
 reaching our goals. At many points the equipment has been improved 
 and increased. New contacts have been made with hosts of people in our 
 great cities. It is impossible to recite all the details of our developing work 
 but some of the typical results may be cited. 
 
 Brooklyn (Brooklyn and Queens): The reorganization of the Brooklyn 
 work was in progress when the New World Movement was inaugurated. 
 This society has profited greatly by the New World Movement. Certain 
 specific things accomplished are: purchase of site suited to future develop¬ 
 ment at King’s Highway, a newly developing section of Brooklyn, and the 
 erection of a temporary structure; the purchase of site and erection of first 
 instalment of building at Glendale in an area of the Borough of Queens 
 where there is no other religious work, Protestant, Catholic or Jewish; 
 the establishment of a new center of work in one of the finest developments 
 in the Borough of Queens where the population is prevailingly Protestant 
 and underchurched; a commodious site has been given and a chapel is 
 about to be constructed. Probably the largest aid ever given by Baptists 
 denominationally in this area is being extended to the Jamaica Baptist 
 Church in enabling it to erect a model church structure in the most strate¬ 
 gic location in the Borough of Queens. The advance has brought about 
 the organization of a new Spanish-speaking church and a new Italian 
 church at East End. It has inspired the Strong Place Church to purchase 
 a site for a new Christian center and enabled the Extension Society to re¬ 
 model an old building on the property for temporary service and to put 
 on a constructive program. The Emmanuel House, for thirty years oper¬ 
 ated by the Emmanuel Church, has been placed under the society 
 with an enlarged program. The Brooklyn Society has brought into ser¬ 
 vice during this period twenty-nine workers, all but two of whom are new 
 appointees. These represent the following languages: English, Norwegian, 
 Italian, Hungarian, Spanish. 
 
 Buffalo has accomplished an outstanding task in the establishment 
 of a Hebrew mission in a district of about 20,000 Jews. This occupies a 
 building worth $20,000 and its operating expenses amount to about $2,000 
 a year. There has also been established the Prospect Hudson Neighbor¬ 
 hood House, in the heart of the better Italian residence district, costing 
 $25,000 with improvements and equipment. The Williams Street Com¬ 
 munity House and the Trenton Avenue Mission have been remodeled at a 
 cost of $10,000 and $12,000, respectively. 
 
 Cleveland has one Christian center in operation and has erected two 
 churches. The Christian center serves a Negro community of 35,000 peo- 
 
 “The cities more and more determine the character of the nation” 
 
 17 
 
pie, where housing conditions are extremely poor, vice is rampant and 
 many of the people, who in rural districts in the south were faithful church 
 attendants, are drifting into immorality. At the community house a 
 varied social, educational and religious program is being conducted for 
 men and women, boys and girls. Last year over 4,000 individuals came 
 under its direct influence. One of our new churches serves a community 
 of 8,000 Rumanians, many of whom are breaking away from the faith of 
 their fathers and are drifting into agnosticism. The Cleveland Association 
 has erected the only Protestant chapel that has been provided to serve 
 these people and has engaged the only Protestant missionary who is at 
 work among them. Another church is now being erected in Lakewood, 
 one of Cleveland’s best residential districts. There are 40,000 people in 
 this district and the only Baptist church has until now been worshiping 
 in the basement. All of these projects were made possible by New World 
 Movement funds. 
 
 Detroit. When you think of automobiles you think of Detroit. 
 It is not only the “Ford City” but the “Motor City.” The growth of this 
 city during the past few years has surpassed everything else in the history 
 of American cities. This has put a heavy burden upon the churches of the 
 city. The Baptists have not been “slothful in business” during these stir¬ 
 ring days. Monier Road, for example, is eight miles out on Grand River 
 Avenue. When the Survey was made that was open country. Now there 
 is a flourishing church with a great future. Another church moved a mile 
 further out. It now has a fine Sunday school building with an average at¬ 
 tendance each Sunday of over 500. Detroit has been one of the focal points 
 of the great immigration of Negroes and the churches have found it hard 
 to keep up with the inrushing tide. The Calvary Baptist Church is only 
 two years old but it already has more than one thousand members. 
 
 When the buildings now under construction are completed Detroit 
 will have added eight good buildings and three smaller chapels for the white 
 churches and four permanent buildings and four small chapels and a Chris¬ 
 tian center for the Negroes. In a number of cases only the first unit of the 
 plant has been provided and the completion awaits the receipt of further 
 funds, but this progress made possible by the New World Movement is one 
 of our most noteworthy advances. 
 
 New York City. The 53 per cent advance in the current work budget 
 of the New York City organization does little more than care for costs of 
 operation and make provision for an expansion of the field of activity to 
 take in Staten Island and that portion of Westchester County lying in 
 and below Tarrytown and White Plains, including Yonkers, Mount Ver¬ 
 non and New Rochelle. 
 
 Extensive property alterations by virtue of special designated gifts have 
 been made to the following properties: The Central Park Church, a down¬ 
 town church center in a district prevailingly foreign and housing extensive 
 activities, evangelistic, educational, social, has been renovated at an expense 
 of approximately $46,000. A building for a homeless Czecho-Slovak 
 Church has been purchased. Work is now in progress on the property 
 occupied by the Fordham Italian Church at an estimated expense of 
 $35,000. This church occupies a field deserted first by an English-speaking 
 Baptist church, later by a United Presbyterian church, both because of 
 
 ‘Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain ” 
 
 18 
 
adverse conditions. The Italian church bids fair to become self-supporting 
 and in time as American as either of the churches which left the field. This 
 church has now six students in colleges and ten in high schools. 
 
 The New York Society has received a special gift of approximately 
 $500,000 from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the use of which is restricted 
 by a special trust agreement. It has also received outside of the New World 
 Movement $99,715.21 for its endowment funds. 
 
 An important item of advance work is the establishment of a religious 
 education department in cooperation with the Brooklyn Society, served 
 by a full time secretary. 
 
 The only city having a separate promotional board is the New York 
 metropolitan area. Results have been very gratifying. The following con¬ 
 tributions have been received: From churches and individuals aside from 
 special gifts, for the years 1917-18 and 1918-19, $405,664; for the years 
 1920-21 and 1921-22, $2,493,966. 
 
 Note: The year 1919-20 is not used as a basis of comparison, because it was a year 
 when the new basis of giving had not yet been established, while nevertheless there 
 was a marked increase due to the Laymen’s $6,000,000 Campaign. 
 
 Rochester. A standard city mission society (Class A) has been 
 organized in Rochester to include the old historic Monroe Baptist Associa¬ 
 tion. The new program of work is based on a careful survey for the entire 
 area comprising twenty-two town and country churches and fourteen 
 in the city of Rochester. This new organization and the appointment of 
 a full time executive secretary have greatly strengthened the foreign-speak¬ 
 ing, church extension and cooperative work generally of the Baptist 
 churches of this area. Through the cooperation of the Home Mission So¬ 
 ciety and the Board of Promotion an equipment movement involving 
 $100,000 is under way. Italian work has been strengthened and reen¬ 
 forced by the establishment of a Christian center. 
 
 Omaha. The Omaha Baptist Union has established two Christian 
 centers, for one of which property has been purchased and for the other 
 rented. Two churches have been assisted in the erection of new buildings. 
 There was no future for either of these churches without new buildings, 
 but the future is now bright for both. 
 
 Philadelphia. In Philadelphia a Christian center has been secured 
 for Italians, together with a fine, stone church building. A new stone church 
 has been provided for an English-speaking congregation, Und it is proposed 
 to help two others in the near future. 
 
 Pittsburgh has secured a director of religious education and two new 
 missionaries. One major project has been made possible by the New World 
 Movement, the erection of a Christian center at Rankin, the building to 
 cost $75,000. There is no other Protestant denomination touching vitally 
 the life of this community of 10,000 people, mostly foreign-speaking. One 
 church has been aided in the construction of a new building. 
 
 Chicago has made some decided progress during the period. Through 
 the leadership of the Executive Council two fine church buildings, one of 
 them a former Jewish synagogue, have been purchased for the rapidly 
 growing Negro churches. A Christian center has been instituted in the 
 most congested section of South Chicago in the steel mill district. Work 
 
 “All but God is changing day by day ” 
 
 19 
 
 A 
 
has been undertaken among the Lithuanians and also the Rumanians. 
 This is the only Baptist work among Lithuanians in the country. Three 
 new English-speaking churches have been assisted in organization and es¬ 
 tablishment of their work and one new church building has been erected 
 at an important center. 
 
 Boston. Special attention has been given to development of promising 
 work among Portuguese, Italians and Russians. A director has been se¬ 
 cured and two new Italian ministers have been added to the force, one of 
 whom baptized nine within a few months. The Portuguese have paid 
 $2,000 on a building lot and the Italians are also moving likewise. There 
 is a new awakening among the churches in reaching foreigners. 
 
 San Francisco with adjacent cities around the Bay, organized in 
 1920 as San Francisco Bay Cities Baptist Union. This society has well 
 organized its work, employing a superintendent for full time. Five new 
 churches and four missions have been organized, five church buildings 
 have been dedicated and four other churches have been assisted in procuring 
 new lots for future use. In cooperation with the Presbyterians a neigh¬ 
 borhood house has been opened among Russians, and in cooperation with 
 the Home Mission Society a home for neglected Chinese boys is being es¬ 
 tablished. Since 1919 there has been an increase of over 600 per cent in 
 missionary giving, and over 50 per cent in church expenses. 
 
 These cities are turning out future leaders especially in foreign-speaking 
 work. One single mission center in one of these cities has brought into 
 Christian service within ten years eleven Christian workers, Italian, Polish, 
 Greek, Hungarian and English-speaking. New York City rejoices to have 
 sent to Sweden both Captain Schroeder, the pioneer missionary and Col. 
 K. O. Broady, the pioneer educator. These same mission centers are turn¬ 
 ing volunteers into city work. One such church released 38 volunteers for 
 one particular type of service alone during a single season, practically every 
 one of whom had been recruited from a home which had recently been 
 brought into our evangelical ranks. 
 
 For several years these cities have pioneered among Russians, Poles, 
 Czecho-Slovaks and others. We must think of this period of our city work 
 of the newer type as analogous to the pioneer work of Judson, Ashmore and 
 Clough. The significant thing is that they have helped to create a new type of 
 denominational leadership whose influence during coming days will be telling. 
 
 These societies in cooperation with The American Baptist Publication 
 Society are establishing, as funds are available, religious education depart¬ 
 ments with directors. The arrangement in Chicago antedated the New 
 World Movement. During the New World Movement directors have been 
 appointed in Detroit, Buffalo and Pittsburgh, and in New York and Brook¬ 
 lyn cooperatively. 
 
 In spite of the failure to reach our financial goal the city organizations 
 report unanimously that during the three years of the New World Move¬ 
 ment the amounts spent for city mission work are above the scale of expen¬ 
 diture of former years. In nearly all cases there has been a large increase 
 in the local budget. Brooklyn receipts for 1917-18 were $12,906.63, but 
 this does not include special receipts for church edifice work in the Forward 
 Movement account amounting to $57,057.03. Receipts for 1921-22 were 
 $69,909.46 and the receipts in the Forward Movement account for the same 
 
 “Tomorrow it may be too late” 
 
 20 
 
period were $22,503.38. Buffalo reports an increase of about 20 per cent; 
 Chicago 33 per cent; St. Louis 50 per cent; New York 53 per cent; Cleve¬ 
 land 75 per cent. The Detroit budget in 1918 was $29,805; in 1922 it 
 was $46,416.08. 
 
 These are some of the more tangible results of the New World Move¬ 
 ment in the work of the city mission societies. There are other results, 
 however, which will be quite as significant for the future. Progress has 
 been achieved in the creation in the cities of a sense of denominational 
 solidarity which cannot fail to react beneficially, not only upon local work 
 but upon the work of the denomination as a whole. Nearly all of the 
 societies report the existence of a strong “city mission consciousness” 
 and many of them attribute its development to the influence of the New 
 World Movement. 
 
 The standard city mission societies of Class A have been recognized by the 
 general societies and state conventions as their agents for work in their 
 cities and have gradually assumed administrative responsibility for church 
 extension, evangelization and Americanization of foreign groups, estab¬ 
 lishment of Christian centers, down-town church centers, and religious 
 education, and in some cities have become directly responsible for the 
 promotional program. 
 
 This has had good results in the local churches, both in respect to 
 finances and in respect to spiritual quickening and growth in membership. 
 Buffalo reports that during each of the last two years the accessions to the 
 churches have been greater than in any other year since 1910, with the ex¬ 
 ception of the year when the Billy Sunday Campaign was held. Detroit 
 reports a real deepening of the spiritual life in a number of churches and 
 an unusually large number of conversions and baptisms. In San Fran¬ 
 cisco two of the strong churches which subscribed their full allotment in the 
 New World Movement campaign have since that time had periods of 
 unparalleled growth in every way. Other cities make similar reports. 
 
 Corresponding results are noted in the matter of financing the local 
 churches. Hearty participation in the New World Movement has been 
 beneficial to the individual churches in the matter of their own finances. 
 Churches which threw themselves most earnestly into the campaign are 
 reported to have had as a rule no difficulty in meeting local needs. In many 
 cases participation has awakened the church to a realization of its possibil¬ 
 ity. Local budgets have been more easily raised, mortgages carried for 
 years have been paid off and a sense of latent ability aroused. 
 
 From practically every city it is reported that there is a stronger bond 
 of sympathy and interest among the churches by reason of their united 
 facing of a common task. There has been developed also a growing interest 
 in the work of the denomination as a whole and a deepening sense of respon¬ 
 sibility for sharing in that larger work. One city makes a significant report: 
 “ The bigness of the scheme and the boldness of it arrested the attention of 
 both pastors and people, and as by a force which they could not withstand 
 has drawn them into cooperation.” 
 
 “Pp fail!) pou can mobe mountains, 
 hut tl)C important thing is, not to mobe 
 the mountains, hut to habe the faith." 
 
 21 
 
“so LONELY IWAS THAT GOD HIMSELF SCARCE SEEMED THERE TO BE” 
 
 BUT THIS HOPI INDIAN CHURCH WITNESSES TO HIS PRESENCE 
 
 The American 
 
 Baptist Home Mission Society 
 
 W E ARE recording in this book, let us remind ourselves again, not 
 merely the achievements which have been made with funds derived 
 from the New World Movement, but the entire progress which has 
 been made in our Kingdom work during these three years, under the 
 providence of God. During this period our American Baptist Home 
 Mission Society has received large gifts from the General Education Board, 
 from some of our prosperous North American Indians and from other 
 generous benefactors. While these gifts do not form any part of the receipts 
 of the New World Movement, they have enabled the Society to make most 
 gratifying progress in the achievement of the program set forth in the Survey. 
 
 Our North American Indians 
 
 The original inhabitants of this continent are still our first obligation. 
 Despite the presence of the Christian Church in America for more than 
 three hundred years, there are still thousands of these first citizens who 
 are living in the darkest paganism. The program set forth in the Survey 
 for their evangelization (page 59) made provision for a steady develop¬ 
 ment in our efforts to give them the gospel. Changing conditions have led 
 the Home Mission Society to alter this program somewhat, as new demands 
 have arisen, but these three years have seen marked progress in the devel¬ 
 opment of our Indian work. This has been due in large degree to the gener¬ 
 ous gifts of some of the Indians themselves. They are setting a most 
 worthy example of stewardship as they seek to help their less fortunate 
 brethren. These gifts have made possible a large development of our college 
 at Bacone, Oklahoma. This is now the best school in the country for the 
 Indians and has an enrolment of 225, representing twenty different tribes. 
 « 
 
 “ Indians—The original Americans” 
 
 22 
 
In connection with this school we maintain the Murrow Indian Orphans’ 
 Home. Over $300,000 has been invested in new buildings for these institu¬ 
 tions and the endowment has been largely increased. Nearly all this money 
 came from the Indians themselves. The evangelistic spirit at Bacone is 
 strong and during these three years ninety students have professed faith 
 in Christ and have been baptized. The school is now developing a depart¬ 
 ment for. training Indians for the ministry and for other forms of religious 
 work. 
 
 In 1920 the Home Mission Society took over, at the request of another 
 denomination, their work among the Crow Indians in Montana. 
 
 We have now 20 Indian churches with 2,395 members as follows: in 
 Oklahoma eleven churches with 1,695 members among six tribes, Kiowa, 
 Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Caddo; in Montana six churches 
 with 209 members, all Crow Indians; in Arizona three churches with 69 
 members in two tribes, Navajo and Hopi; in Nevada one church with 59 
 members in the Paiute tribe; in California six churches with 251 members 
 among the Mono Indians; in Alaska one church with 22 members. 
 
 Tw T o-thirds of these members are able to read the Bible despite the fact 
 that the majority of them were born in paganism and savagery. The 
 Society has recently appointed a superintendent who devotes his entire 
 time to this work among the Indians. 
 
 The Negroes 
 
 The Survey was issued just as the great migration of the Negroes from 
 the South to the North, incident to the war, was at its height. While many 
 of them have returned to the Southland, hundreds of thousands are making 
 their permanent home in the North. The Home Mission Society set itself 
 vigorously to meet the demands of this new situation. 
 
 In carrying out its program outlined in the Survey (page 63) the Society 
 has appointed a General Director of Negro Work in the Northern States, 
 a thoroughly trained and respected member of the race. He is advising 
 and counseling with the Negro churches, seeking to establish them on per¬ 
 manent foundations. 
 
 The number of our Negro churches has multiplied in the last five years. 
 In Detroit, for example, in 1917 there were five Negro Baptist churches; 
 at present there are thirty-eight. In Chicago the number has increased 
 proportionately. Some of these churches are of mushroom growth but 
 many are strong and vigorous. It is interesting to note that the largest 
 Baptist church in the world is the Olivet Church of Chicago, with over 
 10,000 members. It has two houses of worship, one of them the magnificent 
 former home of the First Baptist Church. 
 
 This multiplication of churches has made heavy demands upon the 
 church edifice fund, for the Society has had to make loans and gifts to 
 assist in erecting new church homes in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pitts¬ 
 burgh, Buffalo, Omaha, Milwaukee and other cities affected by the immi¬ 
 gration. In accordance with its program the Society has established four 
 Negro Christian centers at Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago. 
 These new emigrants to the North have been herded together in the most 
 congested and poorest centers of our great cities where they have been sub- 
 
 “ Negroes—Americans by Compulsion” 
 
 23 
 
HOMES OF UNEDUCATED NEGROES 
 
 BEFORE AND— 
 
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 jected to all sorts of temptations. They greatly need places of social 
 recreation under Christian influences. These the Society is seeking to 
 furnish in these Christian centers, in which it is making a great contribution 
 to their uplift. 
 
 In its efforts for the education of the Negroes of the South the Society 
 has made marked progress. It has spent considerable sums in the improve¬ 
 ment of school buildings and has erected several new ones. It has also been 
 able by the aid of the General Education Board greatly to increase the 
 compensation of the teachers. 
 
 The Society is in large measure supporting seven colleges in the South 
 where boys and girls may secure a real college education. It is also assist¬ 
 ing in the support of eight other schools of varying grades. These schools 
 now enroll more than 7,000 students, an increase of 2,000 in three years. 
 Six hundred of them are in college classes, 3,000 in high school departments 
 and the balance in industrial and grade classes. More than 500 of these 
 students are preparing for the Christian ministry. Over 300 professions of 
 faith are made year by year in these schools, which are strongly Christian 
 and evangelistic. 
 
 “When you educate the Negro, or any other class or race of people, you 
 are removing them from the liability side of the book and putting them on 
 the asset side.” The American Baptist Home Mission Society, through 
 these schools, has greatly reduced the liabilities of this country and greatly 
 increased its assets during the past three years. 
 
 The New Americans 
 
 It was an ambitious program which the Society set before itself in 1919 
 for its ministry to the New Americans (Survey page 67). It is most en¬ 
 couraging to note how far it has gone in the development of this ministry. 
 The nation has wisely stemmed the tide of the new immigration during 
 the past two years but we have by no means caught up with our task of 
 Christianizing these new comers. The first hope of the Society in this 
 
 “We need their help—shall we help their need?” 
 
 24 
 
THE HOME OF AN EDUCATED NEGRO 
 
 AFTER TAKING 
 
 direction was to found a new training school for preparing the representa¬ 
 tives of several races to be ministers and evangelists among their own peo¬ 
 ple. This dream has been realized in the new International Baptist Semi¬ 
 nary which has been established at East Orange, New Jersey, and which 
 combines various training schools which previously existed in different 
 parts of the country. It is splendidly housed on a fine great estate 
 which has been refitted for the purpose. It has departments for training 
 preachers for the following races: Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, Polish, 
 Rumanian. Affiliated with this Seminary is the Italian Department of 
 Colgate University. The number of students has almost doubled in three 
 years, and includes 12 Russians, all of whom were converted in German 
 prison camps during the war. This school has a most important mission 
 just now in training preachers, not only those who will work in this coun¬ 
 try, but also many who are returning to their own countries to evangelize 
 the great hosts who are now turning to the Baptists for a new faith. 
 
 The Society has also opened in Los Angeles a Spanish-American Train¬ 
 ing School for ministers for the Mexican churches in the southwestern part 
 of our country, where these people have been settling in large numbers. 
 This school has twelve students. 
 
 The mission work among these New Americans has been prosecuted 
 vigorously during these three years. This has been especially true of the 
 work among the Mexicans in the United States. This is a comparatively 
 new work. The General Missionary has explored new fields, strengthened 
 old stations and discovered new workers, so that last year more baptisms 
 among the Mexicans were reported in these new stations in the United 
 States than in our old stations in Mexico itself. In cooperation with the 
 state conventions more adequate equipment is now being provided for 
 the new and expanding work. 
 
 Marked advance has been made in our work among the Chinese and the 
 Japanese on the Pacific Coast. Two splendid church buildings and Chris¬ 
 tian centers, one for each people, have recently been dedicated in Seattle, 
 
 “New Americans—Americans from choice ” 
 
 25 
 
INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY AT EAST ORANGE, N. J. 
 “how shall they hear without a preacher?” 
 
 costing with the land $75,000. Another Christian center has been erected 
 in Locke, a distinctively Chinese town in California, while new fields have 
 been occupied in California and Washington for work among the Japanese. 
 
 Three years ago the two Home Mission Societies declared their con¬ 
 viction that one of the most efficient means of reaching these New Ameri¬ 
 cans would prove to be the Christian centers and stated their purpose to 
 develop this work strongly. At that time there were only three of these 
 centers. Today there are 29, with one other under construction and plans 
 drawn for three more. They have proved most effective in reaching these 
 people for the gospel. In one field where we had formerly made scarcely 
 any impression upon a difficult foreign language community we had a 
 number of baptisms during the past year and a revolutionary change of 
 attitude toward evangelical Christianity in the entire community. 
 
 Latin America 
 
 The demands of Latin America are becoming more numerous and more 
 imperative every year. For many years the Home Mission Society has 
 been at work in Mexico and, since the Spanish-American war, in Cuba and 
 Porto Rico. Only a few years ago Central American work was inaugurated 
 in Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. The work is growing constantly 
 as these lands are opening to the gospel. In Latin America it has been our 
 policy to discover native leaders, train them and put the responsibility 
 for evangelizing their lands upon them. In all these fields we have 87 native 
 pastors and only 14 American male missionaries, of whom five are teachers 
 and doctors. Three years ago there was only one self-supporting church in 
 Latin America, now there are nine; five in Mexico, two in Cuba and two in 
 Porto Rico. During this period the membership has increased from 6,322 
 in 134 churches to 7,168 in 139 churches. Their benevolences have in¬ 
 creased from $26,965 to $51,851, a most commendable gain. 
 
 In cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention the Home Mis- 
 
 “Not what we give, but what we share” 
 
 26 
 
NEW HOSTEL AND TRAINING SCHOOL IN PORTO RICO 
 “how far that little candle throws his beams” 
 
 sion Society maintains at Saltillo, Mexico, a theological seminary with an 
 enrolment of 45 students. These young men came from all parts of our Latin 
 American field. This year a boys’ high school has been opened in connection 
 with the Seminary with an enrolment of 210 students. Land has recently 
 been purchased and the buildings must soon be erected. 
 
 In Mexico we maintain the best equipped hospital in the entire repub¬ 
 lic, with fifty beds. It has done much to break down the prejudice against 
 our missionary work. 
 
 In Nicaragua, where the Woman’s Home Mission Society has main¬ 
 tained for several years a school at Managua, the general Society has 
 purchased land and buildings for a boys’ school. 
 
 In Cuba our prosperous school at Cristo, the Colegios Internacionales, 
 now has an enrolment of 250 students, of whom 108 are in the college de¬ 
 partment, twice as many as three years ago. 
 
 Our theological school, located near the University of Porto Rico, is 
 developing finely. Two new church buildings have been erected in Porto 
 Rico, one in Salvador, Central America, and a Sunday school building in 
 Mexico City. 
 
 At the request of the British Baptist Missionary Society our Home Mis¬ 
 sion Society has begun to cooperate with them in the rehabilitation of the 
 Baptist churches of Jamaica. This has taken the form of strengthening 
 the Christian Workers Training Department of Calabor College and sup¬ 
 porting a missionary superintendent. 
 
 The Island of Haiti was assigned to us several years ago. The field 
 has now been surveyed. A school for training Christian workers has been 
 opened and land has been purchased at Jacmel for the new school. 
 
 The Older Americans 
 
 The work of the Home Mission Society began in an effort to build and 
 foster churches among the English-speaking people in the new districts 
 of a rapidly developing country. There has now been developed in each 
 
 “A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind” 
 
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THE COLPORTER'S CALL UPON FRONTIER FOLK 
 
 state an independent state convention which has assumed responsibility 
 for work of this type, and direction of it. The Society, however, still main¬ 
 tains its helpful relations and has an extensive ministry of various types. 
 
 The Society maintains a department of evangelism and has a force of 
 twenty-one field evangelists. It employs a “church invigorator” who takes 
 hold of churches that have lost heart and are about to quit. More than 
 twenty churches of the “down and out” class have been put on their feet 
 and sent on their way rejoicing. The Society has five directors of town and 
 country church work who are seeking to help the country churches in the 
 more effective organization of their work. In connection with the Ameri¬ 
 can Baptist Publication Society it maintains forty-one colporter-mission- 
 aries working among the people in the sparsely settled areas. The six chapel 
 cars are also still busily at work. 
 
 The Home Mission Society has organized a Department of Architec¬ 
 ture and employs a highly trained and widely experienced architect. During 
 the last year over 310 churches have consulted the department about new 
 buildings or the rebuilding of old structures. The architect has traveled 
 40,000 miles and visited and advised on the field with 223 churches during 
 the year. Our Baptist churches are going to be better housed in the future. 
 
 The Society conducts a department known as the Baptist Brotherhood 
 Federation which is seeking to organize Baptist men in local groups and to 
 stimulate their interest in all such activities as should engage the attention 
 of Christian men. 
 
 The progress of the Society can be no better reflected than by the state¬ 
 ment that for the three years preceding the Survey the income of the Society 
 for all purposes was $1,876,284.75. For the three years since the Survey the 
 receipts applying on the New World Movement have been$2,755,936.06. Ad¬ 
 ditional receipts, not counting on the Movement have amounted to $1,625,420. 
 
 “Long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light” 
 
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 CLASS DAY AT SPELMAN SEMINARY 
 
 SUMMER ON THE CAMPUS AND A NEW SUMMER IN THEIR LIVES 
 
 Woman's American Baptist Home 
 Mission Society 
 
 HE work of the Woman’s Home Mission Society closely parallels that 
 
 of the general Society but never duplicates it. The two organizations 
 
 work together in the heartiest cooperation, each contributing to the 
 joint work that which it can most naturally offer. The Survey combined 
 into one presentation the activities and interests of the two organizations 
 (pages 57-80). It is not easy to separate these activities now and to assign 
 to each its full share. But let us pass in review again the achievements 
 on the home field during the past three years and note the great contribu¬ 
 tion which has been made through the Woman’s American Baptist Home 
 Mission Society. 
 
 The work among the Mono Indians in California is of comparatively 
 recent origin but its development has been most remarkable and encourag¬ 
 ing. A great change has taken place in the character of the Indians them¬ 
 selves and therefore in their relations with their white neighbors. So shift¬ 
 less and unreliable were they before the missionaries came that the white 
 men would not have them around as workmen if any others could be found; 
 but so complete has been the transformation that now they cannot be 
 secured in sufficient numbers to work in the vineyards and on the ranches. 
 So much for the influence of the teacher and the evangelist. 
 
 Since the New World Movement began the Woman’s Society has opened 
 
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 “Christ in every home ” 
 
a new station among the Mono Indians at the Sycamore Mission, Toll 
 House, California. The work was successful from the beginning, eight of 
 the Indians having been baptized within six months. There has been great 
 increase of interest among the Crow Indians in Montana with many con¬ 
 versions and baptisms. Several of the settlements have decided to give 
 up their heathen dances. This is a long step in advance. 
 
 The work among the Hopi Indians in Arizona is most encouraging. 
 They are catching the evangelistic spirit. The tribes live on the mesas, 
 the high table lands, but when the Indians are converted they move down 
 to the Christian settlements. These Christian Indians have now taken up 
 street preaching. They go back up on the mesas in the evening and hold 
 street meetings. The Indians give their testimony and the evangelist 
 preaches. The work is telling among the non-Christian Indians. 
 
 The Woman’s Society has erected a rather unusual but most useful 
 community house for the Hopi Indians at Polacca, Arizona. It is a com¬ 
 bination of laundry and bathhouse. It has a sewing-room and bathrooms 
 and accommodations for a large number of the Indian women to do their 
 laundry. Only those who know conditions in this dry country can appre¬ 
 ciate what this will mean to the Indians. But it is to be an evangelizing 
 center as well. Is not cleanliness next to godliness? The Christian women 
 will be at the house every day mingling with the non-Christian women 
 and talking with them about the “Jesus road.” 
 
 The Woman’s Home Mission Society has always had an extensive work 
 among the people of the South. It furnishes a large group of teachers in 
 our many schools for the Negroes. As in the case of the general Society 
 the salaries have been necessarily low but the receipts of the New World 
 Movement have enabled the Society to make considerable advance in these 
 salaries. That does not mean that the compensation is as yet adequate— 
 far from it—but we rejoice in the improvement. 
 
 During this period, through a gift entirely outside the New World Move¬ 
 ment, there have been erected a home for nurses and a domestic science 
 building at Spelman Seminary at Atlanta. The Society has established a 
 new department for normal and missionary training at Shaw University, 
 Raleigh, purchasing a house and adapting it to the new purpose. The 
 training of women missionaries to work among their own race is one of the 
 greatest contributions to the uplift of the Negro people. The Society has 
 extended its Fireside School work by adding new field workers who visit 
 among the Negro women and encourage the study of the Bible and good 
 reading in the homes. 
 
 The Society has shared largely in the development of the new Christian 
 centers for the Negroes at Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. 
 The Negroes themselves are cooperating generously in the development of 
 this work, especially at the Olivet Church in Chicago, where they bear a 
 large part of the cost, but the assistance of the Woman’s Society is greatly 
 needed in building up this most successful phase of work among our Negro 
 neighbors. 
 
 In its work among the New Americans the Woman’s Society, while 
 compelled to make serious reductions in its budget this present year, has 
 been able to take some advance steps. For example, it has increased the 
 number of workers among the Hungarians, added to the staff of the suc- 
 
 “Mothers are the gardeners of the human race” 
 
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CHRISTIAN CENTER IN LOS ANGELES 
 “let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man” 
 
 cessful school for Chinese children in San Francisco, and increased its 
 work among the Chinese in Seattle. The Society is especially gratified 
 with the results of the work in the Chinese community at Locke, California. 
 The Society has an American woman and a Chinese woman at this station. 
 The new building has proved a great asset and the work is developing 
 steadily. There have been several conversions, especially among the young 
 people. 
 
 The conditions among the many immigrants detained at Ellis Island 
 under the restricted immigration law have appealed strongly to the women 
 and they have established a nursery at the Island to help the mothers 
 care for their children. The missionaries are able to render a most helpful 
 service to these prospective citizens by teaching them how to bathe and 
 care for their babies. 
 
 The Society has opened a new work among the Mexicans at Phoenix, 
 Arizona. The work is so promising that a Christian center is now being 
 constructed to house the expanding work. These Christian centers make 
 possible all kinds of Christian service to our new neighbors, that we may 
 make them good citizens of our republic and, more important still, citizens 
 of the Kingdom. It must not be forgotten that the Woman’s Society has 
 a large share in establishing and maintaining this work. It will be inter¬ 
 esting to list the new Christian centers, all but three opened since the New 
 World Movement began: 
 
 1. WITH RESIDENT STAFF 
 
 1. Baptist Christian Center, Los Angeles, Calif. (Spanish-speaking people) 
 
 2. Bethel Neighborhood House, Kansas City, Kans. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 3. Brooks House of Christian Service, Hammond, Ind. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore ” 
 
 31 
 
JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER, SEATTLE 
 
 A FACTORY OF RACIAL FRIENDSHIP 
 
 4. Chinese Christian Center, Seattle, Wash. 
 
 5. Christian Center for Negroes, Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 6. Christian Center for Negroes, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 7. Christian Center for Chinese, Locke, Calif. 
 
 8. Davenport House of Christian Service, New Haven, Conn. (Italians) 
 
 9. Fellowship House, Omaha, Neb. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 10. Italian Settlement House, Camden, N. J. 
 
 11. Japanese Women’s Home, Seattle, Wash. 
 
 12. Judson Neighborhood House, New York City (Italians) 
 
 13. Katherine House of Christian Fellowship, East Hammond, Ind. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 14. Kleenburn, Wyo. (Mining population) 
 
 15. Morgan Community House, Pittsburgh, Penn. (Negroes) 
 
 16. Prospect Hudson and Trenton Avenue Neighborhood Houses, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 (Italians) 
 
 17. San Juan Community House, Puerta de Tierra, Porto Rico (Porto Ricans) 
 
 18. South Chicago Neighborhood House, Chicago, Ill. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 19. Strong Place Christian Center, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 20. Weirton, W. Va. (Mining population) 
 
 2. WITH NON-RESIDENT STAFF 
 
 1. Aiken Institute, Chicago, Ill. (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 2. Christian Service House, Dayton, Ohio (Cosmopolitan) 
 
 3. Dietz Memorial, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Italians) 
 
 4. Olivet, Chicago, Ill. (Negroes) 
 
 “ Unity of spirit is of more importance than unity of race” 
 
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New centers are being erected for the Mexicans at Phoenix, Arizona, 
 for the Italians at Providence, Rhode Island, and for the mining population 
 at Rankin, Pennsylvania. 
 
 The first and primary purpose of these Christian centers is to bring 
 the people personally to an understanding and acceptance of the saving 
 power of Jesus Christ. But they also minister to a multitude of the needs 
 of these “strangers within our gates.” Just note this list of activities, not 
 all of them found in any one center, the work being adapted to the needs 
 of the various groups: Bible classes, Boy Scouts, boys’ and girls’ clubs, 
 Camp Fire Girls, camp training, citizenship clubs, clinics, concerts, cooking 
 classes, day nurseries, daily vacation Bible schools, dispensaries, dress¬ 
 making classes, embroidery classes, employment bureaus, English classes, 
 Girl Scouts, gymnasium, housekeeping classes, industrial schools, kinder¬ 
 gartens, lectures, libraries, literary clubs, millinery classes, missionary so¬ 
 cieties, mothers’ meetings, notary public service, patriotic meetings, pub¬ 
 lic baths and laundry, reading room for men, recreational games and exer¬ 
 cises, social clubs, story hours, Sunday schools, visiting nurse and classes in 
 nursing for women, young people’s meetings. 
 
 Central America 
 
 • 
 
 The Woman’s Society has a deep interest in Central America and has 
 made noteworthy progress in developing this comparatively new work. 
 
 1. The Society has recently opened a day school for girls in the city of 
 San Salvador. 
 
 2. It has increased its staff of foreign workers in Central America to 
 nine and increased the native staff of teachers by a considerable number. 
 
 3. The school property at Managua has been enlarged to accommodate 
 the rapidly increasing number of pupils. 
 
 4. The school at Santa Ana has increased in popularity and has a long 
 list of girls anxiously awaiting acceptance. 
 
 5. Boarding departments have been opened at several of the schools, 
 to be the foundation of departments for the training of missionary workers. 
 
 6. A missionary training department has already been established in 
 the school at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. 
 
 7. Schools have been opened in the new fields at San Turce and Yauco, 
 Porto Rico. 
 
 8. A Christian center has been opened at San Juan with an industrial 
 department. Girls are being trained to do drawn and other fancy work 
 that they may become self-supporting and may pay for their education. 
 
 9. The governor’s mansion at Puebla, Mexico, has been purchased for 
 the girls’ school, which now gives all the grades from the kindergarten to 
 the sixth, inclusive, including a normal and missionary training department. 
 Other grades will be added from year to year until the full high school 
 work is given. 
 
 10. A new day school has been opened in Mexico City. 
 
 11. Two new missionary teachers have been sent to Mexico and the 
 native staff has been increased. 
 
 The total receipts of the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission 
 Society for the three years previous to the Survey were $869,567.99, and for 
 the three years since have been $1,098,089. 
 
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 “We live in deeds, not years” 
 
 % 
 
Non-English-Speaking Baptists 
 
 W E HAVE in our country an increasing number of non-English- 
 speaking Baptists. They have come to this land to share our lot with 
 us. They are earnest Christians and loyal Baptists. Many of them 
 have entered our fellowship through great trials and suffering. We welcome 
 them heartily, sure that they have a contribution to make to our common 
 faith and life. 
 
 The English-speaking Baptists will be interested to note the considerable 
 list of conferences into which our brethren are organized: 
 
 American Magyar (Hungarian) Baptist Union 
 
 Czecho-Slovak Conference 
 
 Danish Baptist General Conference of America 
 
 English and French-speaking Conference of New England 
 
 Finnish Baptist Mission Union of America 
 
 German Baptist Churches of North America 
 
 Italian Baptist Association 
 
 Lettish Baptist Conference 
 
 Norwegian Baptist Conference of America 
 
 Polish Baptist Conference 
 
 Rumanian Baptist Association of America 
 
 Russian Baptist Conference 
 
 Swedish Baptist General Conference of America 
 
 There are other groups which are not formally organized into confer¬ 
 ences. Among them may be mentioned the Esthonians, Chinese, Japan¬ 
 ese, Mexicans, Lithuanians, Slovenians. 
 
 All these conferences are linked in one way or another more or less 
 closely with the Northern Baptist Convention. Some of them were able 
 to participate directly in the New World Movement and have had much to 
 do in helping to achieve the degree of success which we have reached. 
 Others had their own plans for advance so far perfected at the time that it 
 seemed best to them to go on independently. 
 
 We should be glad to include a report from each one of these conferences 
 but the scope of this book will not permit. We have therefore selected 
 four statements, three of them being reports from the older groups and one 
 from one of the latest, as indicating the progress of our non-English- 
 speaking brethren. Others would make reports equally significant. 
 
 The German Baptist Churches 
 
 At the same time that the Northern Baptist Convention laid its plans 
 to raise One Hundred Million Dollars the General- Conference of the Ger¬ 
 man-speaking Baptist Churches of North America launched an enterprise 
 called the “Million Dollar Offering.” It was the hope that the constitu¬ 
 ency of about 30,000 members would contribute this sum in the period 
 September 1, 1919, to July 31, 1922. This was a heroic undertaking. 
 There is great rejoicing now for not only did they raise the full million dol¬ 
 lars but the measure “was pressed down and running over,” several 
 thousands more than the million having been raised. At the session of the 
 Conference in August, 1922, plans were made for a further advance. 
 
 “Our land theirs—their interests ours” 
 
 34 
 
The Conference is realizing the necessity for more attention to religious 
 education and has secured the services of two field representatives who give 
 their full time to fostering this work among the young people. 
 
 As a result of the successful “Million Dollar Offering” the German¬ 
 speaking Baptists have been able to enlarge their foreign mission work. 
 They have long cooperated with the American Baptist Foreign Mission 
 Society in work abroad, but during the last two years, at the suggestion 
 of the Society, they have undertaken an extensive independent work in 
 Europe: Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, 
 Lithuania, Esthonia and Germany. They are only waiting for the door to 
 openinto Russia, which may proveto betheirlargestand most successful field. 
 
 The Norwegian Baptist Churches 
 
 The report from the Norwegian Baptist Conference is so encouraging 
 and stimulating that we present the whole statement herewith: 
 
 “The New World Movement has proved itself to be of great blessing 
 and help to the Norwegian Baptist Conference of America. 
 
 “When the Movement was first inaugurated it was viewed somewhat 
 with suspicion and amazement in many different quarters. A thorough¬ 
 going campaign of education in regard to its meaning and purpose was 
 effected, and although the figures involved seemed to be almost staggering, 
 the churches—practically without exception—went into the Movement 
 wholeheartedly and with the most encouraging results. 
 
 “Our Conference is at present on a more solid financial ground than 
 ever before, owing largely to our cooperation in the New World Movement. 
 Instead of having a special field agent for the purpose of raising the neces¬ 
 sary funds for our general work, all our efforts are now bent towards the 
 evangelistic side of the work, always having in mind, of course, the steward¬ 
 ship principles. 
 
 “We have, in all the states where we have any work, cooperated with 
 the respective state conventions so as to avoid overlapping or duplication of 
 efforts, and this has brought us into closer relationship with and better 
 understanding of our American brethren, and this, we are confident, is a 
 great benefit to us. 
 
 “Our denominational school had great difficulties to overcome in its 
 struggle for existence on account of shortage in funds. We still have diffi¬ 
 culties, but the New World Movement has greatly relieved the burden. 
 
 “Our churches have in more than one way felt the blessings resulting 
 from the participation in the New World Movement, and it is significant 
 to notice that the last year, according to statistics, saw more additions by 
 baptisms than any previous year in the history of our Conference. 
 
 “We thank God for the New World Movement and for the broader 
 view of the Kingdom and of the responsibilities that it has given to us as 
 churches and individuals.” 
 
 The Danish Baptist Churches 
 
 The outstanding feature of the work of our Danish Baptist Churches 
 during the last three years, according to the report from the Danish Bap¬ 
 tist General Conference, is their rapid progress toward Americanization. 
 
 “Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds ” 
 35 
 
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CZECHOSLOVAK CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY 
 
 A CENTER OF CHRISTIANIZATION AND AMERICANIZATION 
 
 Some of the churches now use the English language exclusively in their 
 public services. In other churches three-fourths of the services are in 
 English, while in all the churches English is used in the evening services, 
 where the attendance is predominantly of young people. The Sunday 
 schools are all conducted in English. 
 
 “ Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs” 
 
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The Danish churches are strongest in Iowa. Here an affiliation amount¬ 
 ing almost to consolidation has been effected with the State Convention. 
 
 An effort has been carried on during the last three years to secure a 
 material increase in the salaries of the pastors. The effort has been remark¬ 
 ably successful, though some pastors are still badly underpaid. 
 
 The spiritual progress of the churches has been most encouraging. 
 During the past year the churches have been carrying on a “mission cam¬ 
 paign,” which has had for its aims the upbuilding of the spiritual life of the 
 churches and the conversion of those who have not accepted Christ. 
 There has already been a good ingathering and the work is still going on. 
 
 The Czecho slovak Churches 
 
 A most interesting report is made by our brethren of the Czecho¬ 
 slovak churches. We will let the statement appear largely in their own 
 graphic and impressive language. 
 
 “The first and most important thing for the future happened between 
 the Czecho-Slovaks, that in the year 1920 our Czecho-Slovak churches 
 started gathering money for the New World Movement and nearly every 
 church gathers every year so much money as was asked from us for that 
 purpose. With this for the future our churches learned first to contribute 
 richly for the Kingdom of God and second from that that our churches 
 got a desire to work more and higher and to do our duty in missionary 
 work, and this means a lot between us Czecho-Slovaks. By this watch the 
 development in missionary work and the result is that for the last three 
 years we nearly did as much between our people as before in the whole 
 twenty years. During the last three we gained 706 members. We bought 
 and built buildings for seven churches, organized four new churches and on 
 five fields we started missionary work besides the new places on which our 
 organized churches work. 
 
 “Also during the last three years eight ordained new ministers went 
 to do missionary work, three missionary wmrkers and two colporters. 
 
 “Besides this through the last three years we started a new organiza¬ 
 tion with the name of ‘The Missionary Union in Chicago of Czecho¬ 
 slovak Baptists.’ This Union gathers money for Baptist orphans of 
 Czecho-Slovakia and every month they have their meeting where by lectur¬ 
 ing they educate mission workers. Also in Chicago we started missionary 
 work among the Jugo-Slavians and for that work voted $1,000 yearly. 
 
 “Also we got a desire in our churches to start missionary work in every 
 large city where there is colonies of Czechs and Slovaks and for this in our 
 conference of 1921 we elected a general missionary. 
 
 “Through the last three years we established a society having 
 the name ‘Bible Circle Publication Society,’ which issued thousands of 
 tracts of different sorts. Not only that but our Conference started issuing 
 a monthly magazine Pravda (The Truth) and also a non-denominational 
 magazine was established Slavna Nadej (‘The Glorious Hope’). 
 
 “In our last conference in Minneapolis in 1922 it was decided that we 
 will collect $5,000 from our churches so that we could help our weaker 
 churches and also to increase our work. What was the most interesting 
 happened the last day by the table for about fifteen minutes from about our 
 80 delegates was promised $2,400 on that conference. This is the ideal of 
 the Czecho-Slovak conference under the inspiration of the New World 
 Movement.” 
 
 “He hath no power who hath no power to use ” 
 
 37 
 
JAMSHEDPUR MARKET, BENGAL-ORISSA 
 
 American Baptist 
 Foreign Mission Society 
 
 “Oriental peoples have been swept into one of God’s great creative hours” 
 
 I T WOULD be difficult to find or to phrase a more graphic description 
 than this of the situation which has confronted the missionaries of the 
 American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. In every land there is evi¬ 
 dence that God himself has been going before, preparing the hearts of the 
 native people to understand and to accept the gospel message. The foremost 
 aim of the Society is made clear in the following statement issued by the 
 Board: “Every foreign missionary, regardless of his increasingly manifold 
 duties, must be primarily an evangelist. His chief aim is to win men to 
 personal allegiance to Jesus Christ.” It is worthy of note that the mission¬ 
 aries of the Society reported more than 12,000 baptisms during 1921. 
 
 From Burma, the oldest and largest of all our foreign mission fields, comes 
 the report that during the last year 4,783 were baptized into membership 
 in the churches there. Across the border of northern Burma a new mission 
 station has been opened, where an evangelistic ingathering has already 
 resulted in the baptism of 3,350 converts in two years. 
 
 From Assam, where according to the Survey (page 10) there are races 
 and tribes speaking 67 different languages and dialects, and literacy is 
 almost at the vanishing point, we have the following remarkable report: 
 
 “In Christ there is no East or West” 
 
 38 
 
At Tura, a station among the hill tribes, there were 634 baptisms during the 
 year 1920, more than during any except two of the previous twenty-five 
 years; in 1921, there were 932 baptisms. In the native state of Manipur, 
 which until recently was entirely closed by its government to all forms 
 of missionary effort, there were 569 converts during the past year. 
 After a tour of the missionary through the mountain villages, three large 
 and important villages came over entirely to Christianity, and a number of 
 others had groups of believers forming half or three-fourths of the village 
 community. The Society has opened a new station at Kangpokpi, in this 
 native state of 375 villages. 
 
 In South India a missionary who was just about to leave on furlough 
 held a baptismal service and baptized thirty-two people, representing nine 
 different castes. From Waragunda, a small village near Ongole, comes word 
 of an organized church of forty members, where last year there was not a 
 single Christian. All through the southern section of this vast land which 
 315,000,000 people call home, and in some part of which there is famine all 
 the time, there is appearing evidence of the presence of that leaven which 
 will leaven the whole. 
 
 In Bengal-Orissa an entirely new station has been opened at Jamshed¬ 
 pur, one of the most interesting cities in all India. In 1908 Jamshedpur 
 was a barren desert with a few mud huts. Today it has a population of 
 100,000 and is one of the most modern and up-to-date cities in the Indian 
 Empire. Its phenomenal growth is due to the establishment there of the 
 Tata Iron and Steel Company, a native organization which has 44,000 on 
 its payroll, 4,000 more than the reported payroll of the Western Electric 
 Company in the United States. This company is turning out about 1,500 
 tons of finished product daily. Jamshedpur is called the “Pittsburgh of 
 India.” Here is a field which both needs and responds to earnest mission¬ 
 ary effort. Appropriations have been made for a church building and a 
 pastor's house, in addition to a missionary bungalow already put up. The 
 land was given to the Society by the Tata Company. 
 
 In Africa the past few years have witnessed a most remarkable evan¬ 
 gelistic ingathering. More people have applied for baptism and admission 
 to the churches than could possibly be taken care of. The church leaders 
 have been careful in testing the genuineness of conversion on the part of 
 those applicants and have postponed receiving many of them until their 
 acceptance of the Christian message should be thoroughly proved. 
 
 In Japan the churches united in a Baptist Forward Movement in 1918, 
 the year before our New World Movement was inaugurated. The words 
 used in a report from Japan which describes the progress of that Movement 
 might well be used to describe our own: 
 
 “As compared with four years ago there is certainly a new spirit moving among 
 our Baptist folk. There is a new self-consciousness, a new sense of responsibility, 
 and a new willingness to put the shoulder to the wheel and push; a new coming for¬ 
 ward on the part of the layman. After all, probably the biggest contribution to the For¬ 
 ward Movement has been that of raising new standards, erecting new ideals, giving 
 new visions, pointing out new goals, and creating a new morale among our Baptist 
 people, both in the pulpit and in the pew.” 
 
 As one result of the Movement, the contributions from the churches 
 were increased from Yen 13,502 (about $6,760) in 1917 to Yen 27,902 (about 
 $13,950) in 1921. The number of self-supporting churches has increased 
 
 “Great things thro ’ greatest hazards are achieved—and then they shine” 
 
 39 
 
EVANSTON HALL, SHANGHAI BAPTIST COLLEGE 
 
 WHERE THE MEN OF THE EAST FACE THE FACTS OF THE WEST 
 
 ♦ 
 
 from four to eight, while a number of others are about to become self-sup¬ 
 porting. This is gratifying when we recall that in the Survey (page 33) one 
 item listed in the program for Japan was: “To develop the independence 
 of the Japanese churches under their own leaders just as soon as possible. 
 This is the only way our cause can commend itself in Japan.” 
 
 And so on every field might be cited instances of the way in which God 
 is greatly blessing the preaching of the missionaries. Nor does this turn¬ 
 ing to Christ on the part of many follow only the distinctively evangelistic 
 type of missionary service. “All our institutional work is permeated with 
 evangelistic fervor, and our schools, hospitals and philanthropic institu¬ 
 tions are evangelistic agencies of major importance.” 
 
 It has become increasingly clear that intensive development of the 
 work in sections already occupied is for the immediate future a more im¬ 
 perative duty than entrance upon new fields. Many of the stations of the 
 Society are inadequately supplied with workers and equipment. Effort 
 has therefore been directed to the establishment, at strategic points, of 
 strong Christian communities, which are to become permanent forces of 
 evangelization and which are gradually to assume full responsibility for the 
 extension of the Kingdom in their own lands. Preaching of the gospel by 
 foreign missionaries must continue but must in each region give place as 
 soon as practicable to evangelization by the native Christian forces. With 
 this objective in view the Society has emphasized the importance of train¬ 
 ing native leaders through Christian education, in order that such leaders, 
 when properly trained, may carry forward the work of evangelization and 
 the building up of the Christian community. 
 
 Buildings 
 
 The Society is able to report the erection upon its ten fields of nearly 
 seventy buildings during the first three years of the New World Movement. 
 
 “ They shall he my people and I will he their God ” 
 
 40 
 
Many of these buildings have been paid for with funds which could not prop¬ 
 erly be credited as New World Movement contributions. Some of them 
 have been made possible through the Laymen’s Victory Campaign and 
 others through the interest and generosity of friends who desired their 
 gifts to be in addition to New World Movement contributiohs. But the 
 purpose in the erection of each of them has been the same—the desire 
 to do honor to the Lord God and to be of service to those whom he has 
 made “of one blood.” 
 
 Nine of the buildings thus erected are churches, and there is great cause 
 for thankfulness that in these new church homes crowds of those for whom 
 Christ died are afforded an opportunity to “worship the Lord in the beauty 
 of holiness.” Twenty-seven of the buildings are missionary residences, most 
 of them replacing temporary shelters or relieving crowded conditions where 
 a number of missionaries found it necessary to occupy the same house. 
 There are sixteen new school buildings covering the wide range from pri¬ 
 mary grade to college. Six are dormitories where students are surrounded 
 with an atmosphere of Christian love and are able to see Christianity 
 exemplified in the daily lives of those in charge. Five hospitals, a hospital 
 ward, a dispensary and several hostels complete the list. 
 
 If there were space to write in detail of the far-reaching influence for 
 good made possible by each of these buildings, the story would be a fasci¬ 
 nating and a heart-stirring one. Only the briefest mention can be made, 
 however, and this will need to be supplemented by the reader’s sympathetic 
 missionary knowledge. 
 
 Burma. According to the Survey (page 3): “In Burma we have con¬ 
 vincing evidence of the relation of education to evangelism. The schools 
 of this mission have trained hundreds of effective evangelistic workers and 
 multiplied the influence of the missionaries many fold.” 
 
 At Rangoon there has been built a dormitory for the Cushing High 
 School, where there were wretched living conditions for student boarders. 
 This school is one of a group of schools in connection with Judson College, 
 and last July it celebrated the fact that it had enrolled 10,000 students since 
 1876. The new dormitory provides accommodations “than which none in 
 Burma are better.” 
 
 Three school buildings have been or are being erected in Burma; one of 
 them, the Union Hall building in Rangoon, will be, when completed, one of 
 the finest school buildings in all of Burma, the buildings and equipment cost¬ 
 ing 250,000 rupees (about $83,000). Four new missionary residences have 
 also gladdened the hearts of Burma missionaries. 
 
 Assam. Here the Society has been able to provide five new missionary 
 residences, out of the six called for in the Survey, also one of the five new 
 school buildings listed there. A substantial appropriation has been used 
 for the development of the Jorhat Christian Schools, where boys and young 
 men from fifteen tribes have been in attendance. Some of them have 
 walked two hundred and fifty miles to attend the school. These schools 
 give industrial, academic and Bible training, and will make a tremendous 
 contribution to the buildingof the manhood of this, “the most backward pro¬ 
 vince of India,” where less than five per cent of the people can read and write. 
 
 South India. It is estimated that there are nearly 100,000,000 people 
 in India without adequate medical aid In spite of the fact, therefore, 
 
 “See heathen nations bending before the God we love” 
 
 41 
 
CHURCH FOR NATIVE INDIANS, KHARAGPUR, BENGAI^ORISSA 
 
 A BEACON LIGHT IN A DARK COUNTRY 
 
 that only one man in ten and one woman in one hundred can read or write 
 and the need for Christian schools is imperative, it would seem that the 
 need for hospitals is a paramount if not a greater one. The Society has 
 put up one additional hospital ward. This looks like only a drop of the 
 bucket of need but at least it is a drop. In the city of Madras, where there 
 are more than four thousand students, a student hostel has been erected 
 where our missionaries will be able to come in contact with these students 
 and exert a Christian influence at this formative period in their lives. Four 
 missionary residences have also been made possible in South India. 
 
 Bengal-Orissa. In this field, which has been called “one of the most 
 difficult and at the same time one of the most important sectors in the 
 great foreign mission battle-line,” two new churches have been built during 
 the New World Movement period. One of these is at Kharagpur, the great 
 railroad center of India. It is the Ward Memorial Church and is entirely 
 self-supporting. The Indian pastor reports having baptized Hindu con¬ 
 verts every month during the past year. One school building and three 
 missionary residences have also been put up in Bengal-Orissa. One of the 
 residences is at Jamshedpur, the remarkable city mentioned earlier in this 
 article. It is a commodious bungalow, with a large room in which will be 
 held Sunday services until better accommodations are provided. 
 
 South China. The damage done by the recent earthquake at Swatow 
 was hardly repaired before there came word, in August, 1922, of a typhoon 
 which lasted from early evening until the next morning. About midnight 
 
 “For needs abound the world around” 
 
 42 
 
a tidal wave added to the terrible catastrophe. Between 40,000 and 50,000 
 lives were lost, and the damage to our mission property was estimated at 
 about $35,000. None of our missionaries was injured, although unfor¬ 
 tunately several of our native Christian helpers as well as many Chinese 
 Christians lost their lives. Almost all of our buildings in Swatow were 
 - damaged, some of them being completely wrecked. There was of course no 
 provision in the Society’s budget for this emergency expense but a campaign 
 to raise funds for it was authorized by the Finance Committee of the 
 Northern Baptist Convention. 
 
 A fine new boys’ dormitory has been built at Swatow during the period 
 of the New World Movement. This is a handsome stone school building. 
 Two other school buildings, a hospital, and a church building have been 
 erected, in an endeavor to meet the needs upon the South China field. 
 
 East China. In the city of Shanghai, which is the political, commercial 
 and intellectual center of China, on a magnificent site overlooking the river, 
 is the Shanghai Baptist College, which Northern and Southern Baptists 
 cooperate in maintaining. Over four hundred students are enrolled, from 
 all parts of China. America’s leading universities accept the graduates from 
 this fine institution, which is doing much to provide a Christian training 
 for the future leaders of China. Upon this campus have been placed dur¬ 
 ing this period two fine dormitories and a handsome new science building. 
 
 Other buildings erected in East China include a church, one school 
 building, one hospital and two missionary residences. 
 
 West China. In the great West China region, two thousand miles up 
 the Yangtse River, there have been built one church, one hospital, two 
 school buildings and five missionary homes. 
 
 Japan. “In Japan,” says the Survey (page 31), “Christianity has an 
 influence upon the civilization out of all proportion to the number of its 
 adherents. Christianity is transforming the institutions of the new Japan.” 
 In Yokohama, where the governor of the province and the mayor of the city 
 have assisted the Society to secure the finest location in the city, has been 
 established the Mabie Memorial School, a great Christian school for boys. 
 When it was opened, 326 boys applied; only 143 could be accommodated. 
 At the beginning of this last term only 130 new students, about one-half of 
 those who applied, could be admitted. The enrolment of 450 taxes the 
 present capacity. This institution is essentially a New World Movement 
 product. Two sections of the building have been erected and further con¬ 
 struction awaits available funds. 
 
 In Tokyo, where at Waseda University and its related schools there is a 
 student population of 12,000 young people—all but thirty of them young 
 men—the Society was invited by the University itself to establish a social 
 and religious work among the students. Here have been erected two fine 
 buildings. Scott Hall is a beautiful center for the student activities and 
 is the home for the Waseda Christian Guild. A Bible class which has grown 
 into an organized student church is housed in Scott Hall. Here, without 
 the expense of general educational work, we have the opportunity to reach 
 hundreds of students through Bible classes, social meetings and athletics. 
 Hovey Memorial Dormitory, another splendid building in connection with 
 Waseda University, has just been completed. 
 
 Four new church buildings have been put up in Japan. One of them, at 
 
 “ Where missionaries re-present Jesus” 
 
 43 
 
SCOTT HALL, WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN 
 
 &.N IDEA NEVER TAKES POSSESSION OF A NATION UNTIL IT HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF ITS STUDENT CLASS 
 
 Shiogama, was dedicated on April 29,1922. It is “a churchly looking build¬ 
 ing with a tower on the front,” located in the center of the town. It is com¬ 
 pletely equipped for kindergarten and Sunday school work, has an artistic 
 auditorium seating two hundred and a white-tiled baptistry where thirty- 
 six people were baptized the week after the dedication of the church. An 
 interesting fact is that of the entire cost of this church, furnishings, land, 
 etc., Yen 33,207, (about $16,600), the native membership raised Yen 4,728 
 (about $2,360)—probably the largest sum given by any Japanese Baptist 
 church for a similar purpose. 
 
 Another interesting church erected is the Hakes Memorial Church, the 
 first church building in the Inland Sea. It is located at Shigei, a small island 
 town. It has one of the masts of the old “Fukuin Maru” for a central 
 pillar, and bears a bronze tablet in memory of Captain Bickel, the culmina¬ 
 tion of whose life work it marks. Two other church buildings have been 
 made possible in Japan. 
 
 Philippine Islands. In the Philippine Islands, the scene of “the 
 greatest experiment in the preparation of a people for self-government 
 that has ever been tried,” the Society has been compelled to limit its build¬ 
 ing operations during this period to one dispensary. 
 
 Africa. In this dark continent, where the appeal lies “in the utter 
 desperateness of its need and the depths from which it must rise if it is to 
 attain to the Christian ideal of social and religious life,” there have been 
 built one new hostel and four missionary homes. One hospital also now 
 stands where before the New World Movement there was not a single hos¬ 
 pital worthy of the name. 
 
 European Appropriations 
 
 For the extensive program of relief reconstruction in Europe the Society 
 has appropriated during the last two years approximately $325,000. In 
 
 “The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me ” 
 
 44 
 
addition there has been appropriated for regular work in Europe, during the 
 three years of the New World Movement, over $300,000. This does not 
 include the value of the immense shipment of relief supplies forwarded on 
 the “Ship of Fellowship” in the fall of 1921 or the supplies forwarded on 
 the second “Ship of Fellowship” in the fall of 1922. 
 
 Because of the immediate and generous response of the denomination 
 to the appalling need in European countries, these ships carried thousands 
 of bales of w T arm clothing to those who would otherwise have suffered and 
 many of whom would have lost their lives because of the intense cold. It is 
 not possible to sound the depths of the gratitude felt by these people in 
 return for this striking evidence of Christian love. It undoubtedly had 
 much to do with their ready response to the gospel message taken to 
 them by representatives of the Society during the summer of 1922. 
 
 Missionary Recruits 
 
 The Survey (page 53) suggested as one of the objectives of the denom¬ 
 ination within the period of five years the sending to the foreign field of 
 228 new missionary families, in addition to the women missionaries sent out 
 by the Woman’s Foreign Society. During the first three years of this per¬ 
 iod 125 of this number have been sent out. They have gone to the field in 
 the spirit and with the motive of one young candidate who, when asked 
 by the Chairman of the Board what message he would take to the people 
 of India, replied without an instant’s hesitation, “That men without Jesus 
 Christ are lost.” 
 
 Automobiles 
 
 According to the Survey (page'52), “If one missionary with an auto is 
 equal to three missionaries without one, it is sound business policy to fur¬ 
 nish the auto. Autos are cheaper than missionaries.” Therefore, since 
 there are in many of the countries thousands of miles of fine roads, and with 
 an auto a missionary can make in a few hours the evangelistic or inspection 
 trip that would otherwise take him several days, seventy-five automobiles 
 were included as one of the objectives for increase of equipment. Of this 
 number, twenty-nine are already making their honks heard in the Orient. 
 
 Response From the Field 
 
 There are many evidences of the encouraging and inspiring effect that 
 the New World Movement has had upon the missionaries, toiling in remote 
 lands as representatives of churches which sometimes seemed to be unmind¬ 
 ful of their work, if not of their very existence. In South India the following 
 action was recorded: 
 
 VOTED: Whereas the Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention 
 has undertaken to raise for all our denominational purposes one hundred million dol¬ 
 lars during the next five years, therefore 
 
 Resolved: That we, the missionaries of the South India Mission, shall undertake to 
 raise and contribute five thousand rupees or one thousand each year to this fund, be¬ 
 ginning -frith 1920. 
 
 The official letter from the Burma Mission to the Board of Managers 
 stated: 
 
 The report of the Survey Committee, the estimate of the probable needs of Burma 
 for the next five years, the Board of Promotion, all these things are truly such good news 
 
 “ He’s true to God, who’s true to man” 
 
 45 
 
from a far country as is like cold water to a thirsty soul. We are filled with wonder and 
 admiration at the largeness of the task which the denomination at home is setting 
 itself. We hope that we shall not fail to measure up to the calls of the new situation. 
 
 In Burma the missionaries voluntarily requested that there be withheld 
 from each of them a month’s salary, to be applied upon the indebtedness of 
 the Society. 
 
 The native Christians, too, have interpreted the New World Movement 
 of Northern Baptists as a challenge to their own devotion to the great 
 Lord of all. One very practical result of this challenge has been seen in their 
 attempts to finance, either in whole or in part, some of the buildings which 
 were so greatly needed. The Burmese have contributed 6,000 rupees (about 
 $2,000) toward the erection of a dormitory for their seminary at Insein. At 
 Bassein the Sgaw Karens raised 432,000 rupees (about $144,000), for 
 a high school building and a girls’ dormitory in memory of Ko Tha 
 Byn, the first outstanding Karen Christian. The high school building is 
 called the Ko Tha Byu Memorial Hall and is the finest school and 
 chapel building in the province, containing twenty-two large classrooms, 
 offices, library and an auditorium seating 1,500. In the clock tower is a 
 set of American chimes. The heroic self-denial and consecrated steward¬ 
 ship evidenced in the raising of this—for those people—enormous sum, 
 are convincing evidence of the sincerity and genuineness of the Chris¬ 
 tianity which has set its seal upon them. A number of contributions have 
 been received from native Christians toward the reduction of the Society’s 
 deficit. Characteristic of their attitude is the following letter from the 
 church at Sadiya, Assam: 
 
 We, the few and in worldly goods poor members of the First Baptist Church of 
 Sadiya, Assam, have learned with deep sorrow of the heavy debt now resting upon all 
 of us who are loyal members of the great Baptist brotherhood in Christ. We beg to 
 assure you of our most fervent and prayer-filled hope that this burden may soon be 
 removed from the heart of our Redeemer and from the hearts of all who are pledged 
 to be his helpers in winning a lost world to him. 
 
 We have not forgotten that it was Sadiya where Rev. Nathan Brown and Mr. Cut¬ 
 ter arrived from Burma in March, 1836, to open the first mission station of our So¬ 
 ciety in the province of Assam; we respectfully beg to acknowledge with lasting grati¬ 
 tude your great love and good will that has brought unto us the immortal love of him 
 who is now our portion and inheritance. 
 
 As a small token of our deep appreciation of what our noble friends in America 
 and our loving missionaries at this and other stations have done for the bringing of the 
 knowledge of the Light of the World to us and to our countrymen, we beg to enclose 
 our check for Rs. 150 (about $50) with the hope that it may in a slight way help to lighten 
 the burden resting upon your hearts at the Rooms in New York City and other places 
 where in the zeal of the Spirit and power of prayer together with good works and gen¬ 
 erous offerings you are striving to keep the mission torches burning undimmed, nay 
 with increased brilliancy, in all lands. [Signed by the pastor and two deacons]. 
 
 Summary 
 
 It is clear, from this bird’s-eye view of achievements upon the foreign 
 field, that Northern Baptists have cause to be grateful to their God and to 
 “come before his presence with thanksgiving” for the tangible results of 
 their efforts to advance his Kingdom. These efforts can be measured in 
 part by the increase in the receipts of the Society. During the three years 
 immediately preceding the New World Movement the total receipts were 
 $3,098,811.42. During the first three years of the Movement the total 
 receipts applying on the Movement were $4,717,935.28. Additional receipts 
 not counting on the Movement amounted to $1,574,351.52. 
 
 “Naught hut God can satisfy the soul” 
 
 46 
 
NOWGONG GIRLS’ SCHOOL, ASSAM 
 
 MINING FOR CHARACTER BY UNDERMINING SUPERSTITION 
 
 Woman's American Baptist Foreign 
 
 Mission Society 
 
 T HE report of the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 
 makes most interesting reading for those who are concerned about the 
 progress of the Kingdom. These have been years of development 
 overseas. The denomination has been able to see many of the goals set 
 forth in the Survey already attained, although many other projects could 
 not be undertaken, and there has been no advance made in some of the 
 plans which the Society has deeply cherished. New buildings which have 
 long been imperatively needed have been erected; plants already in exis¬ 
 tence have been improved and enlarged. 
 
 It is interesting to note that this progress is due in large measure to 
 three things: 
 
 1. The Jubilee Fund, which the Society raised in celebration of its fiftieth birthday. 
 
 2. A generous legacy of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller received by the Society prior 
 to the New World Movement. 
 
 3. A specific gift for definite building needs received from the Laura Spelman Rocke¬ 
 feller Memorial Fund. 
 
 Although plans for securing the Jubilee Fund had been made a year 
 before the New World Movement began, the money was not paid until 
 after the Movement was well under way, and the Woman’s Foreign 
 Society expressed its willingness that Jubilee contributions should be 
 counted as New World Movement funds. The receipts from this unique 
 celebration of its Fiftieth Anniversary have enabled the Society to take 
 many of its advance steps. The Jubilee goal was $365,000, a thousand dol¬ 
 lars for each day of the Golden Jubilee Year. The sum actually received 
 before the celebration was over amounted to $494,750. 
 
 “They shall shine in their beauty , bright gems for his crown ” 
 
 47 
 
The Woman’s Foreign Mission Society is now in the unique position of 
 being rich and yet poor. It has received many specific gifts designated for 
 some particular project, some new residence or dormitory or school build¬ 
 ing, but at the same time its receipts for the maintenance of its regular 
 work have not kept pace with the advance demanded by these specific 
 gifts. The result is that the Society is at the present time finding difficulty 
 in holding some of its advances; in fact it is retrenching at some points, 
 and keeping some missionaries at home; and it is burdened with a most 
 embarrassing deficit. What the Woman’s Foreign Mission Society greatly 
 needs now is friends who are interested in providing for the maintenance 
 and support of the work to which the Society is already committed. 
 
 Achievements 
 
 Many would test the progress, perhaps, by the number of new mission¬ 
 aries sent to the field. In the Survey the Society stated its desire to send 
 out within five years 176 new single women missionaries. Of this number 
 83 have already been appointed and sent to the field. This of course does 
 not represent a net gain, for there have been some losses, but the number of 
 missionaries has increased from 212 to 283. 
 
 It will be interesting to follow through field by field and see just what 
 the developments have been. 
 
 Burma. Burma is our oldest field. The first Baptist mission was 
 founded there in 1814. Sandoway is one of our isolated stations. The 
 missionary residence was poorly located and in bad condition. The land 
 was under water in the rainy season, the thatched roof was rotten and the 
 spiders often dropped through to the floors, which were covered with mud 
 from the rains. Not a very interesting place for a missionary to live 
 thousands of miles away from her home land. Prayer has been continually 
 offered for five years for a new site and a new bungalow. At last the answer 
 has come in the gift of $5,000 made in memory of a father. The missionaries 
 are rejoicing therefore in a new home on a new site. 
 
 At Bassein a residence for the two teachers has been completed though 
 it is not yet entirely paid for. The Karens have loaned the Society $3,500 
 in order that it may be finished. The missionaries are teachers in the inter¬ 
 esting Sgaw Karen School, which is supported entirely, save for the two 
 missionaries, by the Karens themselves. These native Christians have 
 recently given $100,000 for the new high school building, and they have also 
 erected a girls’ dormitory. It pays to help those who help themselves. 
 
 Another greatly needed residence has been finished at Toungoo, Burma. 
 
 The equipment of the girls’ schools has been very greatly increased. 
 At Henzada land has been purchased as a new site for the Burmese Girls’ 
 School and a new dormitory has been erected for the Karen Girls’ School. 
 At the old station at Moulmein new buildings are in process of erection for 
 the Mizpah Hall School, though funds are still needed for their completion. 
 . A missionary on the field made a gift to the Jubilee Fund which has 
 provided a new dormitory for girls at Taunggyi, a beautiful hill station 
 among the interesting Shan tribe, where very little has been done for 
 women and girls. 
 
 The plant for our splendid school at Mandalay has now been completed 
 by the erection of the high school building. This school has over 300 girls 
 
 “The non-Christian world stands or falls with its women” 
 
 48 
 
GIRLS’ SCHOOL, BALASORE, BENGAL-ORISSA 
 
 CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD IS THE STRENGTH OF A NATION’S HOME 
 
 in attendance. The famous Kemendine School at Rangoon, one of the three 
 largest schools for girls in Burma, with an enrolment of over 400, is rejoic¬ 
 ing in the completion of Bennett Hall. 
 
 A memorial gift has been made which will provide the new girls’ dormi¬ 
 tory at Judson College in Rangoon. The interest of the girls in higher edu¬ 
 cation is evidenced by the fact that in 1919 there were 20 girls in attendance, 
 while this year there are 48 enrolled. 
 
 The girls’ school at Pegu, which has 80 pupils, has secured a new build¬ 
 ing. Equipment has been furnished for the Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hos¬ 
 pital at Moulmein. 
 
 Assam. In Assam new mission residences have been provided at Impur, 
 a hill station among the Naga tribe, and at Nowgong. The need at Now- 
 gong was particularly pressing, for the old house had been condemned and 
 the lives of the missionaries were in jeopardy. 
 
 The money has been provided and is now in hand for the Gale Memorial 
 Woman’s Bible School at Jorhat, the only school of its kind in Assam. The 
 building will soon be constructed. 
 
 The initial payment has been made for the Woman’s Jubilee Hospital 
 in Gauhati, but the Society has no funds with which to run the institution, 
 so further construction has been postponed, although there is in the entire 
 province no hospital for women. The Reeder Memorial building for the 
 orphanage at Gauhati has been erected and a cottage for girls has been 
 built at Manipur. 
 
 Bengal-Orissa. In Bengal-Orissa funds have been provided for the 
 completion of the girls’ school building at Balasore and for the establish¬ 
 ment of a new school for girls at some other point. The second location has 
 not yet been determined and since this will be new work it must await the 
 improvement of the Society’s finances before the work can be inaugurated. 
 
 South India. We are glad to record progress in our old fields in South 
 India. The names of the stations are familiar to many of us who have never 
 seen those sunny climes. A building for the girls’ school at Ongole has been 
 
 “Where life is as tedious as a twice-told tale ” 
 
 49 
 
provided. The woman’s hospital at Mahbubnagar is now being erected. 
 A Christian center for the Telugu women has been established at Madras. 
 
 The missionary and students of the Woman’s Bible Training School in 
 Nellore have never had a building of their own. For more than a year 
 they have prayed earnestly for one. The answer came in the gift of the Gur¬ 
 ley Memorial Building, in memory of a devoted mother, and a cable carried 
 the news to the field. 
 
 The prayers of two missionaries, one at home on furlough and the other 
 at work in India, praying together at regular, stated times, have been 
 answered. Buildings have long been needed for the Elementary and Nor¬ 
 mal School at Nellore, the only normal training school in all South India. 
 A cable has announced to the missionaries a gift of $15,000 to provide for 
 the Emilie S. Coles Memorial Building. 
 
 The prayers of other missionaries in India have also been answered. 
 They have been waiting for years for improvement of the property of the 
 Girls’ School at Donakonda. At last the answer has come and the Anderson 
 Memorial Building is now being completed. 
 
 East China. Encouraging progress has been made in our great fields 
 in China. Ningpo is one of our oldest stations, having been one of the first 
 treaty ports to be opened to foreigners. Here a fine new building has been 
 provided for the Woman’s Bible School. At Ningpo we have entered into 
 cooperative arrangements with the other boards working in that city, and 
 are establishing a union girls’ school. It will be known as Riverside 
 Academy, for the new buildings are located on a beautiful site on the river 
 bank, just outside our compound. It will be a delight to the eye as well as a 
 joy to the heart. We are also cooperating in the Union Girls’ High School 
 in Hangchow, one of the finest girls’ schools in all China. The Society has 
 recently furnished our share in the new dormitory which will provide for the 
 rapidly growing attendance. The Society has also given the Baptist share 
 of the new building to house the Bible Teachers’ Training School at Nan¬ 
 king. The building is completed and in use. The Woman’s Society has 
 provided $25,000 for the Nurses’ Home, in connection with the Margaret 
 Williamson Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Shanghai. This 
 building is also being erected. 
 
 South China. In South China the familiar name is Swatow. On the 
 beautiful island compound at Kakchieh, one of the most beautiful com¬ 
 pounds in the Far East, the Society has built a substantial house for the 
 women missionaries. It looks out across the wonderful harbor of Swatow 
 upon which Dr. Ashmore gazed for so many years. Here also a new build¬ 
 ing for the girls’ high school is now under construction, and also a dormitory 
 which has been provided by the girls of the World Wide Guild as their 
 Jubilee building. It was this beautiful compound which suffered so fear¬ 
 fully in the disastrous typhoon of the summer of 1922. It will cost thou¬ 
 sands of dollars to repair the damage wrought in that terrible night which 
 brought death to nearly 50,000 people. 
 
 A residence for the missionaries has been erected at Kaying and the 
 funds have been provided for a new girls’ school building at Kityang. The 
 school is now housed in an old worn-out building and needs new equipment 
 greatly. 
 
 One of the most interesting and successful experiments in China is the 
 “They shall never fail who die in a great cause ” 
 
 50 
 
ENTRANCE TO NELLORE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, SOUTH INDIA 
 
 “i WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME” 
 
 I 
 
 Mothercraft School at Huchow, where young married women are being given 
 an education and taught how to manage comfortable, sanitary homes and 
 to bring up their children. The experiment has worked so well that it is 
 to be repeated in South China. A group of Hakka women determined to 
 know more about Jesus Christ. They demanded a training in Christian 
 homemaking, living meanwhile in small rented rooms, sacrificing to make 
 ends meet and praying all the time for a suitable building. Their prayer was 
 answered; $5,000 was given to found the first school of mothercraft in 
 South China. 
 
 West China. We are not able to report so much material improvement 
 in West China, but land has been purchased for the William Howard Doane 
 Hospital for women and children at Suifu, and the first unit, the dispensary, 
 is now being built. A Chinese residence has been purchased at Chengtu 
 and is being remodeled. This will furnish a home for five missionaries 
 and also a center for their work among women. It is interesting to note 
 that it is located on the street of Three Spirits. These women will be the 
 good spirits who wall undermine the superstitious fear of their Chinese 
 sisters in the spirits of evil. 
 
 Japan. Land has been purchased for the new buildings of the girls’ 
 school at Himeji, which is now housed in old, crowded quarters, but the 
 money has not yet been provided for the new structures. A residence for 
 the missionary and a building for the kindergarten have been provided at 
 Tono. In the capital city of Tokyo the Cox Memorial Kindergarten has 
 been built as a part of the new plant of one of our growing churches. The 
 chapel of the Mary L. Colby school at Yokohama has been enlarged to pro¬ 
 vide a place of worship for this popular and growing institution located at 
 the prosperous port city. 
 
 “ The day begins to break and night is fled" 
 
 51 
 
Osaka is the Pittsburgh of Japan, the center of the great steel business, 
 with all the problems of a rapidly growing industrial city, intensified by the 
 living conditions of the Orient. Here an attractive Christian community 
 center has been built, but the funds of the Society for operating expenses 
 are so low that no provision can be made for the maintenance of the work 
 so well provided for and so desperately needed. 
 
 The land has been purchased for the enlargement of the school for girls 
 at Sendai. There are only two girls’ schools of this grade in northern Japan. 
 Until very recently this growing and popular school for girls was so over¬ 
 crowded as seriously to imperil its usefulness. A new dormitory which the 
 missionary who is acting as principal called “our greatest evangelistic op¬ 
 portunity” seemed a necessity. Through the faith and prayer and initia¬ 
 tive of one of our friends who visited the school and saw the needs, the neces¬ 
 sary funds have been raised. The good news was cabled and the new Mary 
 E. Safford Dormitory, named in honor of the faithful former secretary of 
 the Society, will soon be ready for occupancy. 
 
 Philippine Islands. Iloilo is a school center with government high 
 schools. In an effort to help provide protection and Christian home 
 influence for the*girls who come up from the villages to attend these high 
 schools, a home and dormitory has been built near the public school. Here 
 also the Society has undertaken a new work in the establishment of the 
 Bible and Kindergarten Training School. A site was secured near the gov¬ 
 ernment school and equipment will be provided. The public school system 
 of the Islands is so admirable that all we need is to supplement it with the 
 Christian influence and provide the training for Christian workers. 
 
 Europe. A wonderful new work has been begun in Prague as a direct re¬ 
 sult of the Jubilee. Madame Kolator, whom many will remember as one 
 of the foreign Jubilee guests of the Society, raised the funds from Czecho¬ 
 slovak Baptist churches in the United States to house an orphanage in that 
 city. Madame Kolator’s salary and the equipment and upkeep of the 
 orphanage were provided by a special gift, and the first year of this lively 
 experiment in international friendship and evangelism has already been 
 completed. The orphanage is named “ The Peabody-Montgomery Home.” 
 Another gift has made it possible to secure a school and Christian center for 
 girls and women in Esthonia, “Old Russia” of romantic memory. 
 
 This is a fairly complete list of the buildings and equipment secured by 
 the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society during the past 
 three years. If only the amount sufficient to operate these plants and to 
 provide missionaries enough to run them can be given, what will it not mean 
 to vast multitudes in the non-Christian world! 
 
 The total receipts of the Society for the three years preceding the New 
 World Movement were $1,259,013.03; for the first three years of the Move¬ 
 ment they were $2,483,113.43. By far the major portion of this increase 
 was in the permanent equipment budget; the budget of operating expense 
 received an increase of only 29.8 per cent. 
 
 “ii?elft£rt)nc6£i attb bcbotion to Christian £er= 
 bice toill tteber be founb in tfje game life” 
 
 52 
 
CHAPEL AUTO CAR 
 
 ROLLING A CHURCH TO THE CHURCHLESS 
 
 The American Baptist Publication Society 
 
 T HE work of The American Baptist Publication Society is conducted 
 under two great divisions, the Business Department and the Mission¬ 
 ary Department. The Society is the agent of the denomination for the 
 publication of general religious literature. Few of our people appreciate 
 how extensive are the business operations of the Society. This is reflected 
 in the fact that the total receipts of the Business Department in 1921-1922 
 were $2,109,272.07. 
 
 There are fifteen editors and assistants on the editorial staff and over one 
 hundred employees in the printing house. There are issued annually more 
 than 50 million copies of Sunday school publications, with 1,600,000,000 
 pages. The shipping clerks send out about 400,000 copies of periodicals a 
 week, in their busy seasons. This means about five tons a day or 150 tons 
 of paper a month. There is something doing down in Philadelphia. 
 
 The Business Department is entirely self-supporting and it is the policy 
 of the Society to turn over the profits—often of considerable magnitude— 
 year by year to the Missionary Department for the extension of the dis¬ 
 tinctly religious work. Following the war, when the cost of printing 
 mounted so high, the Business Department incurred a heavy deficit which 
 necessitated a mortgage of $200,000 on the property of the Society, in addi¬ 
 tion to a previous deficit of $100,000. This is now being reduced and 
 should be canceled in three years, when the profits again will be available 
 for the general work. 
 
 In the Survey of 1919 the work of the American Baptist Publication 
 Society is presented under the subject of “Religious Education,” (pages 
 111-114). The activities of this Society are decidedly varied and reach out 
 in many directions but they all relate in one way or another to the work of 
 
 “The entrance of thy word giveth light ” 
 
 53 
 
religious education, the education of our people in those things that bear 
 upon the development of the religious life. 
 
 Bible Instruction. At the center of these activities is the Sunday- 
 school. That institution may not be perfect but it is the most effective or¬ 
 ganization yet devised for the religious training of our children. The Society 
 is now conducting a vigorous campaign for “Bigger and Better Baptist 
 Sunday Schools,” in an effort to help every church of whatever type to 
 study its own local situation, to select the best objectives and to determine 
 on a program for most effective work. The interest in the effort is reflected 
 in the fact that at the close of December, 1922, there were 2,000 schools 
 enrolled in the campaign. 
 
 Most directly related to the problem of better schools i^ the problem 
 of better trained teachers. The Society reports that notable gains have been 
 made in this direction. Large numbers have been enrolled in the teacher 
 training classes. 
 
 While the Sunday school must always remain our chief agent, interest 
 is rapidly developing in the church weekday schools. These are no longer a 
 dream. Their practicability has been demonstrated. In January, 1920, 
 less than 25 cities had established the church weekday schools. On Decem¬ 
 ber 1,1922, over 400 cities and towns had such schools actually in operation 
 or in process of preparation. 
 
 Vacation Activities. The vacation schools are also developing rapidly. 
 In 1922 there were over 700 such schools with an enrolment of 70,000. 
 
 The Society is taking advantage of the summer vacation period also in 
 developing institutes and summer assemblies. Five day institutes have 
 been held in such centers as Philadelphia, Wilmington, Detroit, Cleveland, 
 Cincinnati and Akron. In Detroit institutes have been conducted for the 
 Negro Baptists. The Society cooperated during 1922 in 26 summer assem¬ 
 blies at which over 7,000 Baptist young people were in attendance. The 
 programs of these assemblies are being standardized and correlated on a 
 three-year cycle. 
 
 The boys are not forgotten during the vacation and last summer 
 Adirondack Camp, operated jointly by the Home Mission Society and the 
 Publication Society, gathered 100 boys for a six weeks period. These boys 
 are trained for future leadership in similar camps. 
 
 Correspondence Courses. The Society is seeking to extend its help¬ 
 fulness to many who desire to pursue further study in preparation for their 
 life work. For this purpose it has inaugurated correspondence courses 
 covering four years of work in such subjects as Biblical History, Baptist 
 History, Life and Teachings of Christ, Making of Sermons, Winning and 
 Training Converts, Missions and other themes. Many ministers, mission¬ 
 aries, colporters, Bible workers and others have reported their appreciation 
 of the courses. 
 
 The new Christian Culture Course also covers a wide range of subjects. 
 
 Directors of Religious Education. In order to further and develop 
 this work of religious education, the Publication Society now has working 
 agreements with twenty-four state conventions and five city mission soci¬ 
 eties whereby they cooperate in the employment of directors of religious 
 education. Besides these salaried directors the Society is utilizing a large 
 force of voluntary women workers of the denomination. These workers are 
 
 “The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day” 
 
 54 
 
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, SECOND AVENUE CHURCH, NEW YORK 
 
 TEACHING SELF-GOVERNMENT BY PRACTISE 
 
 rendering a notable contribution to denominational life, in helping others 
 to develop and raise the standards of their religious education. 
 
 Publication of the Scriptures. The Society is making steady prog¬ 
 ress in the publication of the Scriptures in many languages. The Bible is 
 now printed by the Society in whole or in part in 15 different languages, as 
 follows: The whole Bible in German, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Dan¬ 
 ish; the New Testament in Hungarian and Polish; the Gospels in Bohem¬ 
 ian, Spanish, Italian, Slovak and Naga. Work is now in progress on the 
 New Testament and Psalms in Esthonian. The new Russian Bible marks 
 an epoch in Bible publication. It will play an important part in the spir¬ 
 itual regeneration of Russia. The Society has given $10,000 worth of 
 Scriptures and tracts for work in Poland. This is in accordance with the 
 general policy of the Society, which annually appropriates large sums of 
 money for the distribution of the Scriptures. 
 
 Cooperative Work. Reference has been made in the Home Mission 
 section to the cooperative work of the Publication Society and the Home 
 Mission Society in the employment of colporters and the maintenance of 
 chapel cars and autos. We simply repeat here that 43 colporters are at 
 work in 30 different states; six chapel cars and 29 automobiles are in ser¬ 
 vice. The idea of the chapel car originated with this Society, which has 
 had them in operation for more than 25 years. The latest addition of 
 equipment is a chapel auto car, a picture of which appears on page 53. This 
 auto furnishes the home and the pulpit for a missionary and his wife, and 
 also has a tent for an audience room. 
 
 With its permanent funds in the General Administration and Field Work 
 Department, the Society now has gross assets of $2,150,395.20 with a net 
 debt of $30,209.69. In its Business Department the Society has gross assets 
 of $1,925,939.35 against which must be charged the $300,000 present debt 
 as indicated above. 
 
 “A glory gilds the sacred page, majestic like the sun” 
 
 55 
 
BERKELEY BAPTIST DIVINITY SCHOOL, BERKELEY, CALIF 
 
 “teaching them to observe all things” 
 
 CHEMICAL LABORATORY, BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 "IT IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR A MAN TO KNOW SCIENCE WITHOUT JESUS CHRIST.”—A CHRISTIAN CHINES* 
 
General Education 
 
 The Board of Education and the Schools and Colleges 
 HE Surveyof 1919 presented a definite program of Christian education. 
 
 It outlined a plan for developing the interest of our Baptist people in 
 
 the education of their children, for caring for the moral and religious 
 welfare of our students, and for placing all our institutions on a solid founda¬ 
 tion whereby they might give an adequate education to our young people. 
 The first three years of the New World Movement have witnessed a decided 
 development in our Baptist educational interests and considerable progress 
 in reaching our goals. 
 
 The most important fact is that for the first time in our history we have 
 nationalized our educational work. Hitherto each state has had its own 
 school or educational interest, which it has endeavored to develop. In the 
 older states this policy has been fairly successful but in the newer states, 
 where the number of Baptists is small, the development of the institutions 
 has been slow and a heavy burden. The New World Movement changed 
 this situation. At Denver, as a denomination, we assumed responsibility 
 for the development of our schools and have been endeavoring to secure for 
 them adequate support. What this has meant to our newer institutions 
 only those who have borne the heavy burdens can know. 
 
 What are the results of this educational policy? How far have we real¬ 
 ized the program in the Survey? 
 
 Our Baptist Students 
 
 It is too early to estimate accurately, if indeed we ever can, the influence 
 of the New World Movement in increasing the number of students in our 
 Baptist schools. This period has synchronized directly with the great up¬ 
 ward movement in educational interest, w T hich has been so marked since 
 the days of the war, and our institutions have shared largely in the results. 
 The reported attendance in our Baptist schools in 1919, the year the New 
 World Movement began, was 24,462. The reported attendance in 1922 was 
 34,804. The comparative attendance at a few institutions for the two years 
 will indicate the progress: Shurtleff from 108 to 192; Bethel from 177 to 
 236; Franklin from 252 to 386; Ottawa from 237 to 284; Redlands from 231 
 to 381; Carleton from 450 to 842; Colgate from 599 to 678; Bates from 447 
 to 555; Stephens from 270 to 423; Grand Island from 65 to 154; Coburn 
 from 113 to 175; William Jewell from 238 to 307; Bucknell from 765 to 
 859; University of Chicago from 8,635 to 12,439. 
 
 The denomination has certainly developed a new interest in education. 
 Our Baptist people have been aroused to a new realization of the importance 
 of the education of their children. This assures us that a larger proportion 
 of our young people are going to have the opportunity of becoming leaders 
 in the civil and religious life of the world. The place of the trained man and 
 woman in American life has now been established. Whether it is in tilling 
 
 “’Tis education forms the common mind” 
 
 57 
 
the soil or building a house or teaching a school or constructing a railroad 
 or preaching the gospel, it is training that counts. It is almost indispens¬ 
 able. 
 
 It is worthy of note that in 1913 we had a reported attendance of one 
 Baptist student in college for every 176 Baptist church members. In 1922 
 we had a reported attendance of one Baptist student in college for every 
 95 Baptist church members. 
 
 The University Pastors 
 
 In 1919 the Board of Education in cooperation with state conventions 
 and a few local churches was maintaining pastors at 17 of our large univer¬ 
 sities. During these three years the number has been more than doubled 
 and these pastors are now caring for our Baptist students in more than 35 
 large colleges and universities, most of them state institutions. The rapid 
 development of our interest in the care of our own boys and girls in these 
 institutions is evidenced by the fact that in 1913 we had two such univer¬ 
 sity pastors, while in 1922 there are 33 different men on the payroll of the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 These university pastors are the “Big Brothers” of our boys and girls. 
 Did you ever go away to school and have you forgotten those first lonesome 
 and homesick weeks, or those days when a new world of ideas was opening 
 before your mind with all the confusion and questions that attend a new 
 experience like this? If you remember those days you will be glad that 
 when your boy and girl go away to one of these big universities there will 
 be a Big Brother there to be their friend, counsellor, helper. These men are 
 located in the institutions which, by the laws of the state, are forbidden to 
 provide for the religious interests of their students. They are ministering 
 to thousands of our young people during these most critical years of their 
 lives, are conserving to the future leadership of our denomination hundreds 
 of our best boys and girls, are helping many of them to decide upon their 
 life work and are inducing not a few to dedicate their lives to the service of 
 the Kingdom. It is a great service which the Board of Education is render¬ 
 ing through these university pastors to our lads and lassies. 
 
 New Residences for University Pastors 
 
 The workshop of the university pastor is his home. The latchstring is 
 always out. The student is always welcome. In the intimate fellowship 
 of the home the pastor brings cheer, advice and strength to the student 
 and dispels the sense of homesickness which is the bane of many a student’s 
 life. When a student has spent an hour at the dinner table in the home of a 
 university pastor he is usually won for the rest of his course. Whenever he 
 recalls his college days he will think of that blessed place. 
 
 With the New World Movement funds several new residences for univer¬ 
 sity pastors have been provided. 
 
 1. The Board of Education has purchased a residence at Ithaca, N. Y., 
 for the pastor at Cornell University. 
 
 2. With the assistance of the Board of Education, the State Convention 
 of Iowa has erected a beautiful new house at Iowa City for the pastor at the 
 University of Iowa. 
 
 “Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts” 
 
 58 
 
UNIVERSITY PASTOR’S HOME, IOWA CITY, IOWA 
 
 A HOME FOR THOSE WHO ARE FAR FROM HOME 
 
 3. The Wisconsin State Convention has purchased a home for the pastor 
 at the University of Wisconsin. 
 
 4. The Nebraska State Convention has purchased a fine property at 
 Lincoln, including two houses, one of which is occupied by the University 
 pastor and which will be replaced later by a residence and student center. 
 
 5. The Wayland Foundation has been established at Columbus, Ohio, 
 and with New World Movement funds valuable properties have been ac¬ 
 quired at the gates of the University. When the project is completed it 
 will include residences for Baptist boys and girls, a student center, a resi¬ 
 dence for the pastor and a fine church building. 
 
 A Baptist Church for Students 
 
 With the assistance of the Minnesota State Convention and The Ameri¬ 
 can Baptist Home Mission Society, the University Baptist Church of 
 Minneapolis has erected a beautiful new church building at the gates of the 
 University of Minnesota. This splendid stone building includes audience 
 room, Bible class and social rooms, office and gymnasium, all fully equipped 
 to minister to the moral and spiritual as well as the physical and social 
 needs of the students of the University. 
 
 The College Visitors 
 
 The New World Movement has enabled the Board of Education not 
 merely “to secure one man of peculiar gifts to devote his entire time to 
 reaching our students for the Christian life,” but to maintain three people 
 in the field, two men and one woman. These visitors are experienced in 
 dealing with the problems of student life. They spend their time in the 
 field, visiting the schools and colleges, making addresses and holding con¬ 
 ferences with faculties and students, seeking to incite teachers to a keener 
 personal interest in the lives of their students and helping students to solve 
 the many personal problems which are constantly giving them concern. 
 
 “The business of evangelism has forced us into the task of education ” 
 
 59 
 
These visitors are greatly sought after and according to an unending stream 
 of testimonies from students and from teachers are rendering a wonderful 
 service to our boys and girls. Just note a few of these messages: 
 
 “ He has exactly the type of approach and the kind of message that we needed here 
 on this campus. He took with the students instantly, and has, I believe for the first 
 time in the history of the institution, carried the message of the gospel into the dormi¬ 
 tories and as many of the fraternities as he had time to reach. I do not know that hith¬ 
 erto the men of the dormitories have ever been known to invite a man who was on the 
 campus with the single purpose of talking religion to come in and speak with that mes¬ 
 sage to them. 1 do not know that atany previous time any of the fraternities have done 
 that here, but that was the case with your college visitor .”—A State University. 
 
 “In my opinion he has done more good for the religious strengthening and awaken¬ 
 ing of the students than any other man we have ever had. He approaches the subject 
 from the standpoint that will get the scientific man and hold him for the fundamentals 
 of religion. He drove home the fundamentals and preached truth and righteousness 
 and Christian manhood .”—A Christian College. 
 
 “Your university visitor’s work is to my way of thinking of quite incalculable 
 value. In wonderfully effective fashion he correlates the gospel with the studies of the 
 college course and makes us aware of God in the laboratory as in the chapel. He has 
 strengthened the faith of us all and given us a new sense of the paramount importance 
 of religion in college life .”—A Christian College. 
 
 Strengthening Our Baptist Schools 
 
 The New World Movement has actually saved to the Baptist denom¬ 
 ination at least four of our Baptist schools. The cost of education has in¬ 
 creased so rapidly since the war that several of our schools have been put in 
 jeopardy. The trustees of four of our schools have openly stated that had 
 it not been for the help received from the New World Movement, they would 
 have been compelled to close their doors, unless help had come from some 
 other source of which they have no knowledge. If adequately sustained 
 these four colleges are destined to play a most important part in the devel¬ 
 opment of our Baptist cause in the Western states. To have saved these 
 schools is alone worth much of the effort we have put forth in the New 
 World Movement. In the words of Daniel Webster, they may be small col¬ 
 leges but there are those who love them. There are other schools also which 
 have been relieved from most embarrassing situations. 
 
 An endowment is to a college what the water behind the dam is to the 
 mill. It furnishes the power. When the water is low the mill slows down. 
 During the last two years in which the schools and colleges participated 
 in the receipts of the New World Movement there have been added to their 
 funds the sum of $4,060,578.44. A large part of this has been collected 
 by and paid through the General Board of Promotion. Some of this money 
 has been absorbed in the current expenses of some of the weaker schools. 
 Quite a portion has been used in improving the equipment, but the larger 
 portion has been used to increase the greatly needed endowment funds of 
 the schools. 
 
 When the budget of the New World Movement was adopted, it included 
 $30,000,000 for the endowment and equipment of the schools. This 
 was to be 30 per cent of all the moneys received. When the pledges were 
 taken, however, and it was discovered that less than one-half of the Hun¬ 
 dred Million Dollars had been pledged and that a division of the receipts 
 on this basis, according to the original percentage, would involve our mis¬ 
 sionary societies and state conventions in serious financial embarrassment, 
 
 “To make a church influential we must make it intelligent” 
 
 60 
 
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH, MINNEAPOLIS 
 
 THE CHURCH HOME OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS 
 
 the representatives of the schools and colleges generously agreed to accept, 
 for the time being, a reduction of receipts. For this reason the schools and 
 colleges have received at the close of the last fiscal year only 11 per cent of 
 their allotment. But even the small percentage received has greatly 
 strengthened our institutions. We must now go on to secure them their full 
 share of receipts. 
 
 New Equipment Provided 
 
 It is impossible in this short sketch to report all the improvements which 
 have been made in our school plants. Some of the new buildings are pic¬ 
 tured in the pages of this book. We enumerate here a few of the improve¬ 
 ments made to meet the advancing needs of our schools: 
 
 1. Grand Island College, Grand Island, Nebraska, has been entirely 
 renovated and has been reopened for work. 
 
 2. Keuka College and Cook Academy in New York have rebuilt their 
 plants and reopened their work after having been closed for several years. 
 
 3. Vermont Academy in Vermont has also been renovated and reopened 
 after a suspension of several years. 
 
 4. Bucknell University in Pennsylvania has erected a new engineering 
 building and enlarged its chemistry building. 
 
 5. Carleton College in Minnesota has erected a splendid new chemistry 
 building. 
 
 6. Linfield College in Oregon has built a new gymnasium and refitted 
 a science laboratory. 
 
 7. Sioux Falls College in South Dakota has just begun the erection of a 
 gymnasium. 
 
 8. Colorado Woman’s College is paying for a new dormitory and 
 chapel erected just before the New World Movement began. 
 
 9. The University of Redlands in California has erected a science build¬ 
 ing, a new dormitory and an art building. 
 
 10. Berkeley Theological Seminary in California has completed a new 
 building, including chapel, dormitory and classrooms. 
 
 11. Broaddus Junior College in West Virginia has built a physical edu- 
 
 “As the twig is bent the tree's inclined" 
 
 61 
 
cation building which also provides for the library and several classrooms. 
 
 12. Alderson Academy in West Virginia has finished a most complete 
 school building which houses nearly all its activities. 
 
 13. Des Moines University in Iowa is paying for the large plant which 
 it purchased three years ago from the Presbyterians. 
 
 14. The Frances Shimer School for Girls, in Illinois, is erecting a new 
 dormitory to house its rapidly growing classes. 
 
 15. Perhaps the finest building erected is the new chapel at Denison 
 University in Ohio, the gift of one generous Baptist layman. 
 
 16. Stevens College in Missouri has built a new science building and 
 two new dormitories and has purchased the plant of the Baptist church to 
 provide equipment for its Bible class and other religious work. 
 
 More and Better Paid Professors 
 
 The teaching profession is one of the poorest paid of all the professions in 
 America. Earnest devoted men and women dedicate their lives to the train¬ 
 ing of our children and receive a compensation which would be spurned in 
 almost any other profession and which gives them a meager living and no 
 provision for old age. How to remedy this situation is one of our great 
 problems. The receipts of the New World Movement have enabled several 
 schools to make a real beginning at this needed reform. Some of our col¬ 
 leges have had material assistance for this purpose from the General Edu¬ 
 cation Board. Not a few schools have been enabled to increase their staffs 
 as these instances will illustrate: 
 
 1. Linfield College in Oregon has just added three new teachers to its 
 staff. 
 
 2. Northern Baptist Seminary has doubled the number of teachers. 
 
 3. Des Moines University has very greatly increased the number of its 
 teachers. 
 
 4. Nearly all the schools have increased the salaries of teachers. For 
 example, Frances Shimer has increased its salaries by 10 per cent; Colby 
 Academy, 20 per cent; Broaddus, 20 per cent; Colgate, 18 per cent; Wayland 
 Academy, 15 per cent; Peddie Institute, 20 per cent; Linfield College, 25 
 per cent; Bethel Institute, 31 per cent; Shurtleff College, 33 per cent; 
 Coburn Classical Institute, 40 per cent; Ottawa University, 40 per cent; 
 Bucknell University, 50 per cent; Bates College, 50 per cent; Hillsdale 
 College, 50 per cent; Franklin College, 100 per cent. And so we might go 
 through the entire list. 
 
 New Departments of Religious Education 
 
 With a desire to minister more fully to the religious life of their students, 
 several colleges have erected new or strengthened already existing depart¬ 
 ments of religious education. 
 
 1. Colby College in Maine has secured a college pastor to give all his 
 time to the care of the moral and religious interests of the students. 
 
 2. Denison University in Ohio has established a new department of 
 religious education. 
 
 3. William Jewell in Missouri has added a full time teacher. 
 
 4. Cook Academy in New York has provided regular biblical instruction. 
 
 “Education is the only power that makes an independent race” 
 
 62 
 
FRANCES SHIMER SCHOOL, MT. CARROLL, ILL. 
 
 A HOME AS WELL AS A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 
 
 5. Grand Island College in Nebraska has a professor in religious 
 instruction. 
 
 6. Linfield College in Oregon has a full time professor in religious in¬ 
 struction. 
 
 7. Carleton College in Minnesota has increased its opportunities for 
 instruction in religion. 
 
 8. Newton Theological Institution in Massachusetts has added a new 
 department for instruction in what is technically known as religious 
 education. 
 
 9. Des Moines University in Iowa has a full time professor in this de¬ 
 partment who offers nine courses. A student is required to take two 
 courses before he may graduate. 
 
 10. University of Redlands has given the Bible and missions a more im¬ 
 portant place in its curriculum. 
 
 11. Ottawa University has a man giving full time to this department. 
 
 12. Bethel Institute has opened a new Bible and missionary training 
 course. 
 
 13. Sioux Falls College is organizing a new department of religious 
 education. 
 
 14. Stephens College has established a remarkable department of relig¬ 
 ious education which puts it in the forefront of institutions giving religious 
 instruction. It is the most popular department in the college. 
 
 This does not exhaust the list by any means. These selections are given 
 to illustrate the increasing interest which our schools are taking in the relig¬ 
 ious education of their students. It is most encouraging and inspiring. 
 
 The New World Movement has therefore thus far marked a most grati¬ 
 fying progress in carrying out our program for Christian education. We 
 have gone a long way in three years. But every new year brings a new 
 
 “A nation that rides in automobiles should not permit its children to walk in 
 ignorance” 
 
 63 
 
SWASEY CHAPEL, DENISON UNIVERSITY 
 
 A CHRISTIAN CENTER FOR A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 
 
 vision of greater things which must be undertaken by reason of the rapidly 
 advancing standards of education and the increasing number of our young 
 people who are begging for an opportunity to secure a better training for 
 life. The large universities are turning them away by the thousands and 
 unless we can respond to this new demand many of our most deserving 
 children may have no opportunity to prepare themselves for life. Our 
 schools need their full $30,000,000. 
 
 The receipts of the Boaid of Education for the three years prior to 
 1918-1919 were $296,889.86. For the last three years they have been 
 $457,274.68. 
 
 “Education opens windows for the mind 
 
 64 
 
Missionary Education 
 
 A T THE session in Denver in 1919 when the Northern Baptist Conven- 
 r\ tion adopted the Survey and inaugurated the New World Move- 
 ^ ■*“ ment, it enlarged the field of the Board of Education and instructed 
 it to organize and maintain a Department of Missionary Education. It 
 recognized that the maintenance of a high level of missionary interest was 
 dependent upon the education of our people in our great missionary work. 
 Missionary education was not a new venture for the denomination, for ac¬ 
 tivities of this character had been carried on for a series of years; but the new 
 instructions looked to a comprehensive plan of missionary education for the 
 entire local church. The objective in mind was a correlated program suited 
 to all types of churches and to all the various groups within the churches. 
 
 In accordance with these instructions an extensive program of mission¬ 
 ary education has been inaugurated. The first task was the preparation of 
 material. The first literature to be issued was the handbooks for use in the 
 study of the Survey. This was followed by graded missionary stories, 
 charts and exercises which have been used in over 2,000 Sunday schools. 
 Material of this nature had previously been prepared and issued by the 
 national missionary organizations. The publication was now taken over 
 by the Department of Missionary Education and a continuity of presenta¬ 
 tion was thus secured. Missionary programs and materials have been pre¬ 
 pared for young people’s societies and for Sunday school periodicals. 
 Reading courses for various ages have been issued. 
 
 The mission study class, where missions are studied consecutively and 
 systematically, is the center of the whole program. The Department is 
 cooperating with the two woman’s missionary societies in the campaign. 
 Last year (1921-1922) 5,567 mission study classes were reported, a gain of 
 25 per cent over the preceding year. In addition, 3,253 other groups used 
 the mission study books in reading circles and program meetings. 
 
 An effort is now being made to organize whole churches in systematic 
 mission study, in what are called church schools of missions. The interest 
 is remarkable, last year 332 such schools being reported, an increase of 69 
 per cent for the year. In order to stimulate the reading of missionary books, 
 reading contests are conducted each year among adult groups, in connection 
 with the woman’s missionary societies, among young people and among the 
 children. There was an increase of 53 per cent in such contests last year. 
 
 The World Wide Guild and the Children’s World Crusade were organ¬ 
 ized by the Woman’s Societies several years ago for the purpose of educating 
 young women and children in Christian missions. As organizations for mis¬ 
 sionary education these are now under the oversight of the Department of 
 Missionary Education in cooperation with the Woman’s Societies. Their 
 growth and development during these three years have been most gratify¬ 
 ing. There are now 4,000 chapters of the World Wide Guild with 50,000 
 members, 1,310 new chapters having been organized during these three 
 
 Through which it looks at life and God” 
 65 
 
MEN’S STUDY CLASS, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, INDIANAPOLIS 
 
 THE CHURCH SCHOOL OF MISSIONS REACHES ALL GROUPS 
 
 years. The Guild conducted 698 mission study classes last year and con¬ 
 tributed $37,000 to the Woman’s Continuation Campaign. 
 
 During this period 1,336 new companies and bands of the Children’s 
 World Crusade have been organized. Nearly all the companies study the 
 junior books. Forty traveling libraries are kept in constant circulation. In 
 1921-1922 the Crusaders gave $11,000 to the Continuation Campaign. 
 
 The Department has during the three years edited and secured the pub¬ 
 lication of seven missionary books. It cooperates in the direction of sum¬ 
 mer conferences and assemblies. It is also maintaining a costume service 
 through which it rents costumes, flags, etc., to churches for dramatic 
 presentation of missions. 
 
 Gratifying progress has thus been made toward the goal of a thoroughly 
 correlated and extensive program of missionary education, widely used by 
 Northern Baptists. 
 
 “3 hull place no balue on anptljing 3 Imbe or map possess, 
 except in relation to tl)e llingbom of Christ. 3f anptbing 
 3 babe toill abbance ttje interests of tfjat lUngbom, it shall 
 be giben aboap or kept onlp as bp gibing or keeping it 3 
 map promote tfje glorp of ^trn to bobom 3 oboe all mp 
 bopeS in time anb in eternitp.”— David Livingstone. 
 
 66 
 
The Ministers and Missionaries 
 
 Board 
 
 T HE last three years have been years of wonderful progress in the devel¬ 
 opment of the work of The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. 
 This has been made possible not primarily by receipts from the New 
 World Movement, for these have been relatively small, but by the generous 
 gifts of a few individuals, notably the gift of $5,500,000 from Mr. John D. 
 Rockefeller. The progress can be reflected no more clearly than by saying 
 that when the Board reported at Denver three years ago it had permanent 
 assets of approximately $2,000,000, while today these assets amount to more 
 than $9,000,000. With the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board “it is 
 money that counts,” for its business consists in making grants to disabled 
 and aged ministers and their widows. 
 
 It is not in terms of money only, however, that the development of this 
 work can be stated. It can be told also in terms of life. When the 
 Survey was made the Board was making grants-in-aid to 450 beneficiaries. 
 It is now making grants-in-aid to 1,385 beneficiaries. When the last annual 
 report was made there were 1,255 beneficiaries, of whom 501 were men, 
 479 women and 275 children. 
 
 Stated in terms of dollars and cents the Board has been able, owing to 
 the large gifts of a few friends, to go even beyond the program mapped out 
 in the Survey, to wit: “To increase the permanent fund of the Board to 
 $5,000,000 within the next five years, and to $10,000,000 within the next 
 ten years.” Only three years have passed and the fund is already $9,000,000. 
 
 The progress of the work of the Board is visibly reflected in this dia¬ 
 gram which represents the annual payments to beneficiaries. In the year 
 1913-1914 the payments were $2,525.79. 
 
 1913 - 14 
 
 1914 - 15 
 
 1915 - 16 
 
 1916 - 17 
 
 1917 - 18 
 
 1918 - 19 
 
 1919 - 20 
 
 1920 - 21 
 
 1921 - 22 
 
 Despite the splendid growth, however, we are some distance from the 
 goal we ought to reach. When the Survey was made (1919) the Board esti¬ 
 mated (page 102) that there were “at least 750 Baptist ministers in dire 
 
 "They also serve who only stand and wait” 
 
 67 
 
v ant.” It is now the conviction of the Board that 1,385 beneficiaries, 
 including ministers and missionaries, their widows and orphan children, 
 do not represent more than half the cases of need. The number and 
 amounts of grants should both be doubled. We cannot stop until we are 
 able to do justice to all. 
 
 As we progress in the development of this work we realize how much 
 greater the need is than we thought. It is reflected in the fact that while 
 the Episcopalians started out to secure $5,000,000, they did not stop until 
 they had raised $14,000,000. The Methodists have $16,000,000 and are 
 now seeking $10,000,000 more. The Presbyterians are endeavoring to 
 make their fund $25,000,000. The Baptists will certainly need more than 
 $ 10 , 000 , 000 . 
 
 In 1919 the Board had only one method of assisting its beneficiaries. 
 They simply made grants-in-aid to those persons who were in great 
 need. This was of necessity the first thing that must be done. But since 
 then the Board has been able to establish its cooperative Retiring Pension 
 Plan, whereby it is now possible for any minister to make some provision 
 for his later years. This is already proving a great boon to hundreds of 
 ministers, who have quickly responded to the opportunity which the 
 Board has offered. Over 1,100 ministers have already applied to be placed 
 on the pension roll. 
 
 Realizing that it is impossible for the older men to avail themselves 
 of the advantage of the pension system the Board has made provision for a 
 special retiring pension for men who are too old to avail themselves of the 
 regular pension and who retire for good reason. The Board has set aside 
 $100,000 to meet this temporary need. The Board is also making 
 special grants-in-aid to men whose pensions are not sufficient to meet their 
 needs. 
 
 Increase in Membership in Retiring Pension Plan 
 
 Dec. 31, 1920 — 
 
 Dec. 31, 1921 — 
 
 Dec. 31, 1922 ——— ... ■ —— 
 
 It is nothing less than remarkable that the Board has been able to make 
 such progress within three years. It has surpassed our greatest hopes. We 
 had not dared to entertain such a hope three years ago. How the heart of 
 Dr. Morehouse must rejoice as from the heights of glory he sees the develop¬ 
 ment of this great project to which he gave so lavishly of his heart and life. 
 
 No work of the denomination has made a stronger appeal to our people, 
 especially our well-to-do laymen, than this effort of the Ministers and Mis¬ 
 sionaries Benefit Board to make provision for our retiring pastors and mis¬ 
 sionaries. It is one of the most gratifying evidences of the place which the 
 minister holds in the life of the church. We must complete this fund and 
 that right soon. • 
 
 The receipts of the Board for the three years previous to the Survey 
 were $291,073.16 and for the three years following, exclusive of Mr. Rocke¬ 
 feller’s gift of $5,500,000, they were $1,750,067.06. 
 
 “The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister ” 
 
 68 
 
Our Baptist Journals 
 
 I N THE Survey there was a rather revolutionary recommendation: 
 “That we establish a denominational weekly paper, which shall be of 
 high grade and under the ownership and control of the Northern Bap¬ 
 tist Convention.” The adoption of this recommendation committed the 
 denomination to a new publicity policy. The purpose that lay back of it 
 was primarily _ y ,eure a much wider circulation of Baptist news among our 
 Baptist people, in an effort to carry out this policy four weekly papers then 
 in existence were purchased and merged in the new journal, The Baptist. 
 
 This has proved to be an interesting experiment. The path has not 
 always been strewn with roses. There have been many difficulties to be 
 overcome but real progress has been made. The main purpose has been ac¬ 
 complished. Baptist news is going into many more homes than formerly. 
 The Baptist has a circulation much larger than that of the four former papers 
 combined. This paper is the official organ of the Northern Baptists. Its 
 purpose is not partisan nor controversial. It seeks to give Baptist news 
 and the news of the wider Kingdom, and to interpret the currents of modern 
 life in the light of Baptist principles. 
 
 Missions moves on its way with ever increasing success. It was born 
 away back near the beginning of organized Baptist life in America. Today 
 it is going into more than 60,000 Baptist homes, most of them in America, 
 but some of them far beyond the seas, in fact in almost every land under the 
 skies. Baptists are not a little proud that Missions stands foremost among 
 the missionary periodicals of the world. Each month it carries to its thou¬ 
 sands of readers the story of the on-going of the Kingdom of God, the 
 news from the far-flung battle line, the account of the triumph of our Lord. 
 
 In addition to these two periodicals, owned and controlled by the de¬ 
 nomination, there are two papers privately owned, The Watchman-Examiner, 
 and The Baptist Record of Iowa, and two papers owned by the state 
 conventions, The Baptist Observer of Indiana, and The Baptist Banner of 
 West Virginia. In addition to these weekly papers several of the state con¬ 
 ventions issue monthly bulletins outlining the progress in their own states. 
 
 By these various avenues an increasing number of Baptists are becom¬ 
 ing conversant with the progress of the Kingdom of their Lord and as their 
 vision widens their interest deepens. 
 
 “Give to a gracious message a host of tongues” 
 
 69 
 
IFhy Our Debts 
 
 I N THIS book we have recorded some of the noteworthy advances which 
 have been made by our various organizations in an effort to reach the 
 goals which the denomination set for itself in the adoption at Denver of 
 the report of the Committee on Survey. This recital of facts must be a 
 cause of thanksgiving to everyone who loves the Kingdom of our Lord and 
 prays for its coming. We stand aside and behold what God hath wrought. 
 
 There is one shadow that casts itself over the record of these years and 
 we cannot run from it. It persists in following us. Despite all this splendid 
 record of achievements and this greatly increased giving our national mis¬ 
 sionary societies are embarrassed by debts. They are the burden not of 
 administrators only but of every sympathetic Baptist into whose heart has 
 entered the burden of our “Marching Orders.” 
 
 The debts of these organizations at the close of the last fiscal year, 
 April 30, 1922, were reported as follows: 
 
 American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. $914,262.50 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. . 398,415.90 
 
 The American Baptist Home Mission Society. 176,326.23 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society. 182,340.73 
 
 The American Baptist Publication Society. *30,209.69 
 
 General Board of Promotion. tL066.760.98 
 
 Total. $2,768,316.03 
 
 *This does not include the debt on the Business Department, as explained on page 53. 
 
 tOf this indebtedness, 1846,954.76 was for the balance of the unmet expenses of the Interchurch World 
 Movement. In accordance with the vote of the Indianapolis Convention this balance has been pro rated 
 among organizations participating in the New World Movement as follows: 
 
 National Societies and Boards . $427,339.50 
 
 Schools and Colleges . 245,972.60 
 
 ^ State Conventions . 121,792.09 
 
 ' Standard City Mission Societies . 51,850.57 
 
 This leaves a balance of indebtedness for the Board of Promotion on account of its own expenses as of 
 April 30, 1922, of $219,806.22. 
 
 But why these heavy deficits when our receipts have been on such an 
 increased scale? The reasons should be known to all. 
 
 1. The adoption of the report of the Committee on Survey was rightly 
 construed by the organizations as the instructions of the denomination to 
 plan their work on the basis of a great advance. Accordingly the organiza¬ 
 tions planned their work immediately after the Denver Convention on an 
 advanced basis. The denomination ordered the colors forward, but scores 
 of our churches did not come up to the colors. 
 
 2. None of us has forgotten how the cost of living leaped forward in 
 1918-1920. There is a “cost of living” in the missionary world and it rose 
 to unheard-of peaks. Missionary salaries had to be increased, missionary 
 transportation exceeded any previous standards, building materials soared 
 in the Orient and the Occident. Missionary societies like thousands of 
 business firms, were “caught.” 
 
 “With friends there is not such a word as debt” 
 
 70 
 
3. Missionary operations on the foreign field have to be financed in the 
 currency of the country in which they are carried on. In the Orient this 
 currency is in silver and following the war the value of silver rose xo un¬ 
 precedented heights. An American gold dollar would buy less silver as it 
 w r ould buy less butter, as we all know to our sorrow. This unexpected rise 
 in the price of silver cost our foreign mission societies over $200,000 in a 
 single year. 
 
 4. It will be readily recognized that all of our missionary societies must 
 provide, first of all, for the maintenance of their regular work. That is, 
 they must pay the salaries of their missionaries; they must pay their travel 
 to and from the home land; they must keep their buildings in repair; they 
 must supply their colporters with their Bibles. To fail to do these things 
 would be to break trust with their missionaries. If the societies were free to 
 use all their first receipts for these regular expenses, letting the meeting of 
 equipment and building needs be conditional upon the receipt of funds in 
 excess of these operating expenses, then, although the work would suffer—- 
 missionaries continuing to live in unsuitable and unsanitary houses, stu¬ 
 dents being turned away from over-crowded schools, compelled to give up all 
 hope of a Christian education, many left to suffer and die when medical 
 assistance would save their lives, churches being disheartened and perhaps 
 disbanded because of no buildings in which to worship and untold oppor¬ 
 tunities to “turn many to righteousness” lost—still there would probably 
 have been no deficits. But the societies are not free to do so. 
 
 5. Many of our generous donors became interested in seeing particular 
 specific projects carried through. They designated their money to build a 
 hospital, or a missionary home, or a school building or a chapel. The 
 money so designated must be used for these purposes and always is so used. 
 This has made possible the splendid advance which has been outlined in 
 these pages, but these new projects have added to our running expenses 
 and money invested in them has not been available for meeting these first 
 obligations. So though the receipts of the societies have been greatly in¬ 
 creased, they have found themselves without sufficient funds to care for 
 their regular expenses and have thus been involved in heavy deficits. 
 
 These deficits are, it is true, a heavy burden, but we shall not allow 
 ourselves to be disheartened by them. We shall accept them as a challenge 
 to attempt even greater things for our Lord. 
 
 “Crulp our gibing is tfje straight 
 measure of our Christianity” 
 
 71 
 
The General Board of Promotion 
 
 “I will go anywhere, -provided it is forward” 
 
 I T WAS more than 100 years after David Livingstone gave to the world 
 these words with their courageous and eager ring, when in 1919 Northern 
 Baptists, in something of the same spirit, set their faces toward a distant 
 goal and began to move confidently toward it. The story of progress al¬ 
 ready made in reaching this goal is told in the preceding pages. In them is 
 recorded the distance traveled by the societies, conventions, boards and 
 institutions which united in the move. But no mention has yet been made 
 of the organization which has been at once the servant and the friend of 
 these fellow-travelers, the General Board of Promotion. 
 
 When the Northern Baptist Convention, at its meeting in Atlantic 
 City in 1918, requested the National Committee of Northern Baptist Lay¬ 
 men “to make a study of the general needs of the denomination from the 
 standpoint of the laymen, with a view to recommending a plan for securing 
 more efficient cooperation in their finances between the societies and boards 
 of the Convention,” it could not foresee the far-reaching effects of this ac¬ 
 tion. The laymen’s committee presented as a part of its report to the 
 Northern Baptist Convention in Denver, in 1919, the reports of two sub¬ 
 committees which it had appointed to make a detailed study of the situa¬ 
 tion. One of these was the report of the Committee on Survey, which 
 pointed out the goals to be reached; the other was the report which recom¬ 
 mended the creation of the General Board of Promotion, as a factor in 
 making those goals possible of attainment. The Northern Baptist Con¬ 
 vention adopted both of these reports so fraught with significance for the 
 future of Northern Baptists. 
 
 The General Board of Promotion was created as a body “large enough 
 to be thoroughly representative, and small enough to be genuinely delibera¬ 
 tive.” It has not been an organization apart from and independent of the 
 national, state and other organizations which it was created to serve. It is 
 these organizations functioning together cooperatively in the accomplish¬ 
 ment of a task which is common to all. It has within its membership 
 officers of all these organizations, together with other members, including 
 women, laymen and ministers, widely representative of the denomination. 
 
 From the date of its organization to the present time, the Board has 
 endeavored to discharge the responsibility which the Convention entrusted 
 to it, namely: “That it serve the denomination as the cooperative agency 
 of the various boards, societies, state conventions, city mission societies 
 and educational institutions for disseminating information about them and 
 raising money for them.” 
 
 The Board has not assumed or been expected to take over any of the 
 administrative functions of these organizations. It has no responsibility 
 whatever for the manner in which the money it raises for the various or¬ 
 ganizations is administered. Its supreme concern is to disseminate infor- 
 
 “To he satisfied is to stand still” 
 
 72 
 
mation concerning their work and to seek to arouse the interest and sup¬ 
 port of Northern Baptists in behalf of these activities. 
 
 The widely varied activities of the Board may be classified as follows: 
 
 a. Preparation and Distribution of Literature. Provision has 
 been made in the expense budget of the Board for the printing and distribu¬ 
 tion of the promotional literature on behalf of all the organizations. This 
 literature was formerly printed and distributed at the expense of the sev¬ 
 eral societies and boards. 
 
 b. Publicity. The Board has furnished to the denominational and 
 secular press material calculated to give the widest publicity concerning 
 all phases of our denominational activities. 
 
 c. Special Programs. The Board furnishes suggested programs for the 
 use of local churches, embracing such important topics as stewardship, the 
 prayer life, life enlistment, the every-member-canvass, the use and distribu¬ 
 tion of literature, etc. 
 
 d. Stereopticon Lectures and Moving Pictures. This activity has 
 been developed more largely during the last two years than in any previous 
 period of our history. We are not yet, however, able to supply the full de¬ 
 mands of our people for stereopticon lectures and motion pictures. 
 
 e. Missionary Conferences and Institutes. The holding of mis¬ 
 sionary conferences and institutes in various parts of the country for the 
 purpose of stimulating interest in the varied activities carried on by the 
 denomination is a vital part of the united program. 
 
 /. Deputation Work. The Board assigns speakers, including national, 
 state and city secretaries and board members, home and foreign missionaries 
 and volunteer workers (ministers, laymen and women) to state conventions 
 and associational and other group meetings, as well as to the local churches. 
 
 g. Publication of The Baptist and Missions. Northern Baptists have 
 two periodicals which are owned and published by the Northern Baptist 
 Convention— The Baptist and Missions. 
 
 h. Collection and Distribution of Funds. The Board receives and 
 distributes all funds contributed through it to the work of the denomination 
 in accordance with the wishes of the donors. 
 
 Tangible results of the activity of the Board are revealed in the 
 subscription by our people of pledges amounting to $48,724,510 payable 
 on or before May 1, 1924. Up to April 30, 1922, there had been collected 
 and distributed $27,405,672.35. In spite of adverse economic condition? 
 the last two years have yielded far larger income for the common work o" 
 Northern Baptists than any previous two years of our history. According 
 to the statistics compiled for the United Stewardship Council, embracing 
 the record of giving for 25 denominations, the per capita giving of North¬ 
 ern Baptists for 1922 for missions and benevolences was $7.16. This is the 
 largest per capita contribution of any of the 25 denominations with a mem¬ 
 bership of 500,000 or more. 
 
 The expense of the Board for the service rendered to the denomination 
 up to April 30, 1922, was $2,526,853.32. This is 9.2 per cent of the amount 
 collected. This figure includes the expense of promotional work in the 36 
 states which are cooperating in our program. It represents also the neces¬ 
 sarily heavy cost incident to the beginning of so large an undertaking. The 
 heavy expenses of the first two years are not being repeated. 
 
 . “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” 
 
 73 
 
The Board is now conducting its work on the basis of an operating bud¬ 
 get of $300,000 a year. At least 75 per cent of this expense is for types of 
 work formerly carried on by the participating organizations themselves. 
 
 In view of the receipts the last two years, the amount due on pledges 
 already in force, and the probable income from other sources during the 
 current year, the Convention at Indianapolis unanimously accepted as our 
 
 ( MO.BAPT. C0NV. Q3^ FOREIGN-SPEAKING l 
 jB.y.RU.OFA. Q3/£ /BOOIESjr* 
 
 IFEDV COUNCIL 
 OF CHURCHES 0.4% 
 
 ho^ 
 
 HOW OUR GIFTS ARE DIVIDED 
 
 goal for the current year $10,000,000 of distributable funds in addition to 
 and apart from designated gifts. 
 
 Receipts for the year are to be distributed in accordance with the fol¬ 
 lowing provisions: 
 
 1. All designated funds to be paid to organizations for which the donors 
 designate them. 
 
 “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" 
 
 74 
 
Note: All contributions not applying on pledges made prior to Novem¬ 
 ber 15, 1921, and designated for the work of any society or board will be 
 paid to the organization for which donors designate them in addition to the 
 organization’s pro rata share of distributable funds. 
 
 2. The first $7,000,000 of distributable funds to be pro rated on the 
 
 following percentage basis: 
 
 Amount Per cent 
 
 American Baptist Foreign Mission Society... $1,148,350 .16405 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 408,660 .05838 
 
 The American Baptist Home Mission Society. 508,410 .07263 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society. 310,100 .04430 
 
 The American Baptist Publication Society. 187,390 .02677 
 
 The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. 548,450 .07835 
 
 The Board of Education. 120,050 .01715 
 
 Schools and Colleges. 1,859,970 .26571 
 
 Northern Baptist Convention. 23,500 .00337 
 
 Baptist Young People’s Union. 20,000 .00285 
 
 State Conventions. 931,420 .13306 
 
 State Conventions (promotion budgets). 200,000 .02857 
 
 Standard City Mission Societies. 392,070 .05601 
 
 General Board of Promotion. 280,000 .04000 
 
 Foreign-speaking Bodies. 36,630 .00523 
 
 Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. 25,000 .00357 
 
 $7,000,000 1.0000 
 
 3. The first claim upon distributable funds beyond the first $7,000,000 up 
 to about $750,000 to be used to meet one-half of the under-payments of 
 previous years to The American Baptist Home Mission Society, The Ministers 
 and Missionaries Benefit Board, fifty-two schools and colleges, and. two 
 state conventions (Wisconsin and Michigan). 
 
 4. After the total distributable income has reached $7,750,000 all 
 additional distributable funds shall be paid to participating organizations 
 on the pro rata percentage basis of their askings in the New World Move¬ 
 ment Survey as revised at Indianapolis, November 14, 1921. 
 
 In its work as an agency to promote the entire denominational pro¬ 
 gram, and in its endeavors to win the allegiance of all to the whole task 
 of Northern Baptists,the General Board of Promotion is confident that" we 
 are responsible for more than we can do—what we can do alone and what 
 Christ can do through us.” 
 
 4< ®0c face tf )t trageby of a bytttg toorlb, anb tfjc 
 peril of a nation, riel) beyonb all compare, calleb 
 of (Sob to serbice, anb hesitating in bet choice 
 bettoeen a life of selfish tnbulgence anb a life of 
 sacrificial ettbeabor. QTbis constitutes an emer¬ 
 gency unparalleleb in all the Christian centuries.” 
 
 75 
 
Table I.—A STRIKING COMPARISON 
 
 This column indicates how This column indicates how 
 we gave the year previous we gave the first year after 
 Contributing to payments on New World securing New World Move- 
 Group Movement pledges ment pledges 
 
 Apr. 1, 1919-Apr. 30, 1920 May 1, 1920-Apr. 30, 1921 
 
 Arizona. $9,799.85 $26,879.31 
 
 California, North. 50,727.00 150,846.89 
 
 California, South. 140,328.00 420,980.86 
 
 Colorado. 29,165.00 137,030.48 
 
 Connecticut. 56,384.00 287,108.55 
 
 Delaware. 8,311.00 12,441.96 
 
 District of Columbia. . . . 11,336.00 25,825.63 
 
 Idaho. 10,422.00 28,129.36 
 
 Illinois. 100,160.00 703,719.43 
 
 Indiana. 102,989.39 327,679.99 
 
 Iowa. 130,235.39 271,634.36 
 
 Kansas. 71,368.00 260,056.77 
 
 Maine. 65,999.00 167,192.68 
 
 Massachusetts. 184,941.00 946,430.06 
 
 Michigan. 93,906.00 377,760.16 
 
 Minnesota. 90,857.00 222,667.47 
 
 Missouri. 1,122.16 78,866.35 
 
 Montana. 9,163.20 20,866.29 
 
 Nebraska. 62,966.91 152,937.14 
 
 Nevada. 1,536.00 5,580.99 
 
 New Hampshire. 61,800.00 99,299.62 
 
 New Jersey. 126,327.88 621,490.76 
 
 New York State. 374,756.74 1,226,003.63 
 
 New York City. 685,887.00 1,735,192.02 
 
 North Dakota. 5,582.00 35,846.24 
 
 Ohio. 110,056.34 637,303.64 
 
 Oregon. 11,790.00 92,325.87 
 
 Pennsylvania. 264,131.78 1,021,597.43 
 
 Rhode Island. 23,505.00 173,869.07 
 
 South Dakota. 20,000.00 55,682.84 
 
 Utah. 2,092.00 4,217.19 
 
 Vermont. 38,453.86 83,065.98 
 
 Washington, East. 26,969.00 87,035.06 
 
 Washington, West. 27,805.00 88,946.93 
 
 West Virginia. 40,237.00 229,266.59 
 
 Wisconsin. 37,596.17 122,637.64 
 
 Wyoming. 4,513.00 13,184.80 
 
 Total. $3,125,755.18 $10,508,468.02 
 
 Table II.—AMOUNTS PAID ORGANIZATIONS ON THEIR 
 ASKINGS THE FIRST THREE YEARS * 
 
 Askings 
 Revised as of 
 
 Name of Organization November 1, 1921 
 
 American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. . . . $17,263,766.00 
 Woman’s American Baptist For. Miss. Soc.. . . 6,044,305.00 
 
 American Baptist Home Mission Society. 10,173,790.00 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Home Miss. Soc.. .. 3,542,503.00 
 
 American Baptist Publication Society. 2,299,925.00 
 
 Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. 8,550,500.00 
 
 Board of Education. 930,000.00 
 
 Schools and Colleges. 30,010,000.00 
 
 Northern Baptist Convention. 60,000.00 
 
 Baptist Young People’s Union of America .... 75,000.00 
 
 State Conventions. 11,938,200.00 
 
 Standard City Mission Societies. 4,974,932.00 
 
 General Board of Promotion. 4,000,000.00 
 
 Receipts 
 April 1,1919, to 
 April 30, 1922 
 $4,737,711.48 
 2,075,637.15 
 2,897,006.66 
 993,358.68 
 784,818.05 
 1,253,118.56 
 325,815.79 
 4,229,211.06 
 40,424.22 
 36,928.55 
 3,902,119.40 
 1,323,047.47 
 2,235,716.78 
 
 $99,862,921.00 $24,834,913.85 
 
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State Conventions: 
 
 Arizona. 
 
 California, North. 
 California, South., 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 Delaware. 
 
 Idaho. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 Maine. 
 
 Massachusetts... . 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Montana. 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Nevada. 
 
 New Hampshire. . 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 New York. 
 
 North Dakota.... 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 Oregon . 
 
 Pennsylvania..... 
 
 Rhode Island. 
 
 South Dakota 
 
 Utah. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 Washington, East. 
 Washington, West 
 West Virginia 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Standard City Mission Societies: 
 
 Brooklyn.. 
 
 Buffalo.. 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Cleveland. 
 
 Detroit. .. .. 
 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 New York. 
 
 Philadelphia.*, 
 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 St. Louis. 
 
 San Francisco. 
 
 $114,343.00 
 
 670,001.00 
 
 565,723.00 
 
 276,721.00 
 
 251,313.00 
 
 18,054.00 
 
 152,060.00 
 
 369,057.00 
 
 673,435.00 
 
 487,750.00 
 
 272,250.00 
 
 284,760.00 
 
 754,876.00 
 
 602,641.00 
 
 479,411.00 
 
 123,000.00 
 
 419,447.00 
 
 26,000.00 
 
 124,874.00 
 
 610,862.00 
 
 736,356.00 
 
 116,706.00 
 
 826,863.00 
 
 429,173.00 
 
 413,787.00 
 
 108,427.00 
 
 206,466.00 
 
 25,954.00 
 
 201,990.00 
 
 293,543.00 
 
 373,230.00 
 
 188,026.00 
 
 602,436.00 
 
 138,665.00 
 
 $11,938,200.00 
 
 $528,027.00 
 
 379,592.00 
 
 577,236.00 
 
 384,830.00 
 
 673,448.00 
 
 192,405.00 
 
 1,081,855.00 
 
 587,651.00 
 
 472,388.00 
 
 50,000.00 
 
 47,500.00 
 
 $4,974,932.00 
 
 $41,503.61 
 
 173,064.35 
 
 305.114.99 
 
 90.920.78 
 
 112,758.93 
 
 8,106.55 
 
 38,920.56 
 
 152,923.09 
 
 222,731.42 
 
 116.876.68 
 103,779.40 
 
 84.894.79 
 176,879.85 
 
 108.995.81 
 
 162.473.68 
 27,551.11 
 
 177,163.35 
 
 9,237.16 
 
 70,002.28 
 
 172,563.78 
 
 253,220.25 
 
 37,966.68 
 
 264.829.82 
 79,359.37 
 
 165.551.99 
 60,741.34 
 59,063.70 
 
 6,208.21 
 
 132,246.34 
 
 104,963.48 
 
 143,026.98 
 
 93,730.33 
 
 112,352.52 
 
 32,396.22 
 
 $3,902,119.40 
 
 $132,387.98 
 
 89,194.82 
 
 119.648.79 
 
 85,974.24 
 
 157,950.36 
 
 131,835.87 
 
 332.520.93 
 134,098.89 
 
 107.498.93 
 19,482.70 
 12,453.96 
 
 $1,323,047.47 
 
 *These figures in fact, only represent two years of increased giving, as the higher 
 standard of giving did not become effective until the second year. 
 
 77 
 
Table III.—SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 
 
 ALLOTMENTS IN ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET 
 AND RECEIPTS TO MAY 1, 1922 
 
 Colleges 
 
 Bates. 
 
 Brown. 
 
 Bucknell. 
 
 Carleton. 
 
 Colby. 
 
 Colgate. 
 
 Denison. 
 
 Des Moines. 
 
 Franklin. 
 
 Grand Island. 
 
 Hillsdale. 
 
 Kalamazoo. 
 
 Keuka. 
 
 Linfield. 
 
 Ottawa. 
 
 Redlands. 
 
 Shurtleff. 
 
 Sioux Falls. 
 
 William Jewell. 
 
 Junior Colleges 
 
 Broaddus. 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 Frances Shimer. 
 
 Hardin. 
 
 Rio Grande. 
 
 Stephens. 
 
 Cedar Valley. 
 
 Academies 
 
 Alderson. 
 
 Coburn. 
 
 Colby. 
 
 Cook. 
 
 Hebron. 
 
 Higgins. 
 
 Keystone. 
 
 Maine Central. 
 
 Peddie Institute. . . . 
 
 Pillsbury. 
 
 Ricker. 
 
 Suffield. 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 Wayland. 
 
 Theological Seminaries 
 
 Berkeley. 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Crozer. 
 
 Kansas City. 
 
 Newton. 
 
 Northern. 
 
 Rochester. 
 
 Swedish. 
 
 Training Schools 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Danish. 
 
 Norwegian. 
 
 Residences. 
 
 Adjustments. 
 
 Survey 
 
 Allotment 
 
 $500,000 
 
 500,000 
 
 1,500,000 
 
 1,000,000 
 
 850,000 
 
 1,450,000 
 
 3,500,000 
 
 1,785,000 
 
 1,250,000 
 
 385,000 
 
 745,000 
 
 1,000,000 
 
 833,334 
 
 700,000 
 
 850,000 
 
 1,142,500 
 
 725,000 
 
 525,000 
 
 500,000 
 
 500,000 
 
 520,000 
 
 332,000 
 
 100,000 
 
 155,000 
 
 350,000 
 
 100,000 
 
 175,000 
 315,000 
 475,000 
 416,666 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 190,000 
 160,000 
 830,000 
 400,000 
 175,000 
 ^ 00,000 
 200,000 
 150,000 
 
 565,000 
 
 250,000 
 
 100,000 
 
 350,000 
 
 800,000 
 
 250,000 
 
 500,000 
 
 375,000 
 
 375,000 
 
 375,000 
 
 25,500 
 
 50,000 
 
 100,000 
 
 210,000 
 
 $30,010,000 
 
 Received to 
 May, 1922 
 $57,433.63 
 
 66.410.28 
 172,336.15 
 113,693.17 
 
 96,655.03 
 
 295,134.13 
 
 396,273.23 
 
 223,071.37 
 
 219,537.91 
 
 74.924.38 
 103,712.12 
 114,755.36 
 
 95.843.28 
 
 79.647.67 
 96,868.22 
 
 144,247.80 
 
 82,461.17 
 
 59.874.77 
 
 56.270.67 
 
 70,817.06 
 
 74,359.55 
 
 50,771.66 
 
 11,311.71 
 
 17.603.39 
 
 39.868.13 
 18,885.00 
 
 77.426.77 
 35,751.41 
 63,832.24 
 
 53.800.95 
 11,370.81 
 11,465.32 
 
 31,584.80 
 
 18.287.40 
 
 94.320.13 
 
 46.166.95 
 19,830.74 
 22,768.65 
 
 122,000.80 
 
 17,080.91 
 
 64,683.88 
 
 17,954.53 
 
 11,336.98 
 
 49,325.20 
 
 91,063.22 
 
 28.406.96 
 61,256.52 
 42,042.31 
 
 42,638.06 
 
 42,638.79 
 
 2,882.93 
 
 5,667.80 
 
 12.203.28 
 
 $3,930,555.18 
 
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Table IV 
 
 1.—AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY 
 
 Income 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. 12,127,512.03 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 255,024.27 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities. Legacies, etc.—General Purposes. 716,275.12 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—Specific Purposes. . 
 
 Total.i.. 
 
 Received for Permanent Endowment. $117,961.30 
 
 Received for Annuity Agreements. 702,006.94 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Applying on New World Movement: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $3,379,455.85 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 399,004.47 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes... 838,474.90 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—Specific Purposes.. . 101,000.00 
 
 Total. 
 
 Not Applying on New World Movement: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $484,928.31 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 449,191.33 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes... 403,554.12 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—Specific Purposes... 236,677.70 
 
 Total. 
 
 Grand Total 
 
 Received for Permanent Endowment, including gifts of Mr. Rockefeller $5,096,036.97 
 Received for Annuity Agreements. 415,104.06 
 
 Outgo 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 For Operating Budgets, including Specifics. $3,091,395.78 
 
 For New Buildings and Property. 417,823.55 
 
 For Temporary Funds. 35,910.30 
 
 Total. 
 
 Added to Permanent Endowments. $117,961.36 
 
 Added to Annuity Reserve. 762,006.94 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 For Operating Budgets, including Specifics.. $5,378,406.05 
 
 For New Buildings and Property. 1,274,959.40 
 
 Total. 
 
 Added to Permanent Endowment.. $5,090,036.97 
 
 Added to Annuity Reserve. 415,10406 
 
 Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the Years Ended 
 March 31, 1919 anu April 30, 1922 
 Assets and Deficit 
 
 Mar. 31, 1919 
 
 Investments: Permanent and Temporary Fund and Annuities. $3,412,599.52 
 
 Cash and General Funds. 134,559.57 
 
 Accounts and Notes Receivable. 474,134.39 
 
 Advances. 68,700.10 
 
 Home Treasurer’s Sight Drafts—Contra. 753,000.00 
 
 Accumulated Deficit. 446,318.21 
 
 $5,289,311.79 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Reserves for Permanent and Temporary Funds, and Annuities. $3,412,599.52 
 
 Miscellaneous Reserves. 98,523.60 
 
 Notes Payable. 225.000.00 
 
 Accounts Payable. 15,727.33 
 
 Mission Treasurers' Deposit Liabilities—Net. 34,679.10 
 
 Foreign Field Appropriation Balances against which charges have not 
 
 yet been reported. 749,782.24 
 
 Home Treasurer's Sight Drafts—Contra. 753,000.00 
 
 $5,289,311.79 
 
 including permanent fund established by Mr. Rockefeller. 
 
 $3.098,811,42 
 
 $4,717,935.28 
 
 1,574,351,52 
 
 $6.292,280.80 
 
 $3.545,129,63 
 
 $6,053,306.05 
 
 Apr. 29, 1922 
 
 *$8,612,337.91 
 
 530,279.78 
 
 1,101,597.00 
 
 274,210.05 
 
 110,000.00 
 
 914,262.50 
 
 $11,542,087.24 
 
 $8,612,337.91 
 
 453,959.95 
 
 1,050,000.00 
 
 20,292.05 
 
 90,747.22 
 
 1,205,350.11 
 
 110,000.00 
 
 $11,542,687.24 
 
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2.—WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY 
 
 Income 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $1,020,172.90 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 140,750.98 
 
 From Endowments, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes. 98,089.09 
 
 From Endowments, Legacies, etc.—Specific Purposes. . 
 
 Total, 1917-1919... $1,259.013.03 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Applying on New World Movement: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $1,339,049.03 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 703,364.32 
 
 From Endowments, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes. 112,731.16 
 
 From Endowments, Legacies, etc.—Specific Purposes. . 
 
 $2,155,144.51 
 
 Not Applying on New World Movement: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $6,643.75 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. 14,486.91 
 
 Jubilee Gifts Counting on Victory Campaign. 28,629.63 
 
 Transferred from Rockefeller Legacy. 96,770.12 
 
 Victory Campaign Gifts. 181,438.51 
 
 $327,968.92 
 
 Total, 1920-1922 . $2,483,113.43 
 
 Outgo 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 Operating Budget. $1,322,543.41 
 
 Specific Budget. 11,492.16 
 
 Specific Budget (Rockefeller Legacy Fund). 124,686.14 
 
 $1,458,721.71 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Operating Budget. ,. $1,882,920.97 
 
 Specific Budget. 142,343.22 
 
 Specific Budget (Rockefeller Fund). 138,795.12 
 
 Specific Budget (Jubilee Fund). 188,293.62 
 
 Specific Budget (Victory Campaign). 47,848.96 
 
 For Deficit of 1917-18. 39,256.01 
 
 For Deficit of 1918-19. 26,248.73 
 
 $2,465,706.63 
 
 Balance Sheet, March 31, 1919 
 Assets 
 
 Investments. $356,203.51 
 
 Total Assets. $356,203.51 
 
 Deficit. $26,248.73 
 
 $382,452.24 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Cash, Permanent and Temporary Funds. $356,203.51 
 
 Accounts payable to American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 26,248.73 
 
 Total Liabilities. $382,452,24 
 
 Balance Sheet, April 29, 1922 
 Assets 
 
 Investments. $842,965.34 
 
 Accounts receivable—General Board of Promotion. 45,708.65 
 
 Total Assets. $888,673.99 
 
 Accumulated deficit. $398,415.90 
 
 $1,287,089.89 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Cash, Permanent and Temporary Funds. $842,965.34 
 
 Accounts payable to American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 444,124.55 
 
 Total Liabilities. $1,287,089.89 
 
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3.—THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY 
 Summary of Income Received During the Three Years Ended March 31, 1919 
 
 Contributions from Churches and Individuals: 
 
 For General Purposes. $1,178,810.32 
 
 For Specific Purposes. 55,678.69 
 
 Income from Invested Funds, Annuities, Legacies, etc., for Ceneral 
 Purposes: , 
 
 Income from Investments. $217,670.61 
 
 Matured Annuities (Net). 17,527.85 
 
 Legacies. 359,617.24 
 
 Income from Invested Funds, Annuities, Legacies, etc., for Specific 
 Purposes: 
 
 Income from Investments. $20,800.91 
 
 Miscellaneous (includes General Education Board appropriations)... 26,179.13 
 
 Total. 
 
 Additions to Permanent Trust Funds during the three years (including 
 
 legacies to be held in trust). $68,844.21 
 
 Annuity Gifts received during the three years. 666,518.78 
 
 $1,234,489.01 
 
 594,815.70 
 
 46,98004 
 $ 1,876,284.75 
 
 Summary of Income Received During the Three Years Ended April 30, 1922 
 
 New World Movement Receipts: 
 
 Contributions from Churches and Individuals for General Purposes. . 
 Contributions from Churches and Individuals for Specific Purposes.. 
 Income from Invested Funds, Annuities, Legacies, etc., 
 
 for General Purposes: 
 
 Income from Investments. $299,066.60 
 
 Matured Annuities (Net). 31,292.63 
 
 Legacies. 506,617.46 
 
 $1,678,918.87 
 
 240,040.50 
 
 836,976.69 
 
 Receipts Outside New World Movement: 
 
 Contributions from Churches and Individuals for 
 Specific Purposes: 
 
 National Committee Northern Baptist Laymen. . . . $356,642.14 
 
 For Murrow Indian Orphans Home. 79,800.00 
 
 Miscellaneous... 13,531.79 
 
 Income from Invested Funds, Annuities, Legacies, etc., 
 for Specific Purposes: 
 
 Income from Investments. $701,845.10 
 
 General Education Board. 473,600.97 
 
 $449,973.93 
 
 1,175,446.07 
 
 $2,755,936.00 
 
 1,625,420.00 
 
 Total.. 
 
 Additions to Permanent Trust Funds during the three years (including 
 
 gifts from Mr. Rockefeller and legacies to be held in trust). $5,298,067.30 
 
 Annuity Gifts received during the three years. 362,168.85 
 
 $4,381,356.06 
 
 Summary of Outgo During the Three Years Ended March 31, 1919 
 
 Operating Budget—General Fund. $1,802,205.50 
 
 Designated Fund Expenditures. 61,540.75 
 
 - $1,863,746.25 
 
 ♦Equipment: 
 
 Operating Budget (including specifics). $143,272.71 
 
 Designated Funds. 32,213.74 
 
 - 175,486.45 
 
 $2,039,232.70 
 
 Summary of Outgo During the Three Years Ended April 30, 1922 
 
 Operating Budget—General Fund. $2,711,480.26 
 
 Designated Fund Expenditures. 449,988.92 
 
 - $3,161,469.18 
 
 ♦Equipment: 
 
 Operating Budget (including specifics). $311,504.14 
 
 Designated Funds. 822,043.04 
 
 - 1,133,547.18 
 
 $4,295,016.36 
 
 ♦New buildings, improvements and equipment and appropriations to churches for buildings. 
 
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Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the Years Ended March 31, 1919, and April 30, 1922 
 
 Total Assets 
 
 March 31, 1919 April 30, 1922 
 
 a. Cash in Banks and in Transit. 
 
 b. Securities—Stocks, Bonds and Mortgages. 
 
 c. Real Estate. 
 
 d. Notes Receivable. 
 
 e. Accounts Receivable—General Board of Promotion. 
 
 f. Other Assets—School and Mission Properties and Miscellaneous 
 
 Items. 
 
 g. Deficit... 
 
 Total Liabilities 
 
 a. Notes Payable.. 
 
 b. Unpaid Appropriations. 
 
 c. General Fund (represented principally by school and mission 
 
 properties).. 
 
 Designated Funds. 
 
 Church Edifice Loan Fund. 
 
 Permanent Trust Funds. 
 
 Annuity Fund. 
 
 Conditional Fund. 
 
 Legacy Reserve Fund. 
 
 Insurance and Retirement Allowance Reserve Funds. 
 
 $ 210 , 866.22 
 
 3,025,071.54 
 
 273,847.47 
 
 45,852.00 
 
 1,441,248.85 
 
 $4,996,886.08 
 
 $207,000.00 
 
 42,026.80 
 
 1,228,611.10 
 
 80,371.09 
 
 213,587.95 
 
 1,464,587.95 
 
 1,357,049.96 
 
 241,241.98 
 
 162,409.25 
 
 $4,996,886.08 
 
 $569,558.09 
 
 *8,689,112.55 
 
 136,039.58 
 
 219,699.85 
 
 65,982.08 
 
 1,757,463.27 
 
 176,326.23 
 
 $11,614,181.65 
 
 $225,000.00 
 
 127,931.96 
 
 1,764,243.04 
 
 389,874.86 
 
 229,865.78 
 
 6,762,655.25 
 
 1,544,257.49 
 
 234,388.53 
 
 208,236.83 
 
 127,727.91 
 
 $11,614,181.65 
 
 ♦Includes $5,105,420.00 book value of securities received from Mr. John D. Rockefeller. 
 
 4.—WOMAN’S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY 
 
 Income 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $727,773.16 
 
 Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes... . 
 
 Income from Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes. 141,794.83 
 
 Grand Total for Three Years. $869,567.99 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Churches and Individuals—General Purposes. $831,071.68 
 
 Churches and Individuals—Specific Purposes. . 
 
 Income from Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—General Purposes. 114,280.06 
 
 Grand Total for Three Years.... $945,351.74 
 
 Receipts not to count on Hundred Million, Victory Campaign and Northern Baptist 
 
 Laymen Campaign. $122,201.43 
 
 Receipts on Deficits. 30,535.83 
 
 $1,098,089.00 
 
 Receipts on Victory Campaign and Laymen’s Campaign were used to clear up the deficits of the three 
 years 1916-17, 1917-18, 1918-19, and establish a Building and Equipment Fund. 
 
 Outgo 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 For Operating Budget. $847,323.65 
 
 For New Buildings and Endowment. 82,652.46 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 For Operating Budget. $1,193,932.94 
 
 For New Buildings and Endowment. 107,821.97 
 
 General Balance Sheet March 31, 1919 
 Assets 
 
 Real Estate and Other Fixed Assets. $282,315.61 
 
 Securities. 336,992.48 
 
 Cash. 43,571.47 
 
 Total Assets. $662,879.56 
 
 82 
 
Liabilities 
 
 Funds and Annuity Bonds. 
 
 Protective Annuity Reserve. 
 
 Capital Surplus. 
 
 Total Liabilities 
 
 Balance Sheet, April 30, 1922 
 Assets 
 
 Real Estate (Appraised, Donated, and Purchased Values). 
 
 General Investments. 
 
 Cash... 
 
 Accounts Receivable—General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention 
 Advance Travel Expense Funds. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Reserves for Special Funds. 
 
 Protective Annuity Reserve. 
 
 Notes Payable. 
 
 Borrowed Money. 
 
 Net Capital. 
 
 Total. 
 
 5.—THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY 
 Business Department 
 Income 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention, 1916-17 to 1918-19: 
 
 From Gross Profit on Sales. $1,175,966.87 
 
 From Real Estate, Investments, Advertising, etc. 142,803.91 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention, 1919-20 to 1921-22: 
 
 From Gross Profit on Sales. $1,750,448.65 
 
 From Real Estate, Investments, Advertising, etc. 255,304.69 
 
 Outgo 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention, 1916-17 to 1918-19: 
 
 For Salaries. $599,187.12 
 
 For Interest. 32,841.36 
 
 For Depreciation. 77,459.99 
 
 For General Expenses. 405,229.36 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention, 1919-20 to 1921-22: 
 
 For Salaries. $996,504.50 
 
 For Interest. 51,617.65 
 
 For Depreciation. 127,695.28 
 
 For General Expenses. 598,351.63 
 
 General Administration and Field Work Department 
 Income 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention, 1916-17 to 1918-19: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For General Purposes. 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For Specific Purposes. 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For General Purposes. 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention, 1919-20 to 1921-22: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For General Purposes. 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For Specific Purposes. 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For General Purposes 
 
 Outgo 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention, 1916-17 to 1918-19: 
 For Operating Budgets. 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention, 1919-20 to 1921-22: 
 For Operating Budgets. 
 
 $370,352.40 
 
 41,063.00 
 
 $411,415.40 
 
 251,464.16 
 
 $662,879.56 
 
 $384,098.20 
 
 404,872.53 
 
 152,473.03 
 
 36,099.80 
 
 500.00 
 
 $978,043.56 
 
 $430,781.57 
 
 41,063.00 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 335,084.41 
 
 169,114.58 
 
 $978,043.56 
 
 $1,318,770.78 
 
 $2,005,753.34 
 
 $1,114,717.83 
 
 $1,774,109.06 
 
 $434,423.96 
 
 35,512.98 
 
 415,379.47 
 
 $885,316,41 
 
 $482,069.84 
 
 6,416.36 
 
 571,732.24 
 
 $1,060.218.44 
 
 $927,126.85 
 
 $1,052,417.82 
 
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Balance Sheet, March 31, 1919 
 Business Department 
 Assets 
 
 Inventories of Merchandise and Periodicals. $291,273.49 
 
 Accounts and Notes Receivable. 140,730.82 
 
 Cash. 30,932.27 
 
 Real Estate, Plant, and Equipment.:. 927,635.17 
 
 Securities (consisting of Ground Rents and Bonds). 5,600.00 
 
 Advanced Petty Cash (Agencies). 725.00 
 
 Advanced to Branch Houses. 650.00 
 
 $1,397,546.75 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Prepaid Accounts: Subscriptions to Periodicals. $12,613.22 
 
 Mortgages. 100,000.00 
 
 Unexpended Interest. 3,012.55 
 
 Bills Payable. 60,000.00 
 
 Reserve Account. 50.000.00 
 
 Capital Account. 1,171,920.98 
 
 $1,397,546.75 
 
 Balance Sheet, April 30, 1922 
 Business Department 
 Assc ts 
 
 Inventories. $620,260.06 
 
 Accounts Receivable. 206,898.74 
 
 Cash. 107,591.41 
 
 Real Estate, Plant and Equipment. 966,738.27 
 
 Securities (consisting of Ground Rents and Bonds). 41,083.94 
 
 Advanced Petty Cash to Seattle Agency. 300.00 
 
 $1,942,872.42 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Prepaid Accounts: Subscriptions to Periodicals. $7,614.04 
 
 Mortgages. 300,000.00 
 
 Unexpended Interest. 7,605.92 
 
 Undistributed Incomei7-Los Angeles Branch. 308.11 
 
 Church Vacation and Week-day Religious Schools Material. 1,405.00 
 
 $316,933.07 
 
 Mortgage Sinking Fund. 84,971.78 
 
 Business Reserve. 35,000.00 
 
 Capital. 1,505,967.57 
 
 $1,942,872.42 
 
 Balance Sheet, March 31, 1919 
 General Administration and Field Work Department 
 Assets 
 
 Cash. $44,310.73 
 
 Investments, Inventory and Receivables. 1,875,191.54 
 
 $1,919,502,27 
 
 Liabilities - 
 
 Funds.. $1,873,133.23 
 
 Unexpended Interest. 6,369.04 
 
 Bills Payable... * 40,000.00 
 
 $1.919,502.27 
 
 Balance Sheet, April 30, 1922 
 General Administration and Field Work Department 
 Assets 
 
 Cash. $61,278.54 
 
 Investments, consisting of Stocks, Bonds, Mortgages, etc. 2,084,199.08 
 
 Inventory of Merchandise. 3,010.62 
 
 Betty Boswell Trust Fund, Principal. 625.00 
 
 Accounts and Notes Receivable. 1,281.96 
 
 $2,150,395.20 
 
 Debt. 30,209.69 
 
 $2,180.604.89 
 
 Liabilities - 
 
 Funds. $2,139,239.24 
 
 Bills Payable. 40,000.00 
 
 Unpaid Annuities held by request of Annuitants. 478.75 
 
 Accounts Payable. 886.90 
 
 $2,180,604.89 
 
6.—THE MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES BENEFIT BOARD 
 
 Income 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 Churches... 
 
 Individuals. 
 
 Legacies. 
 
 Annuities. 
 
 Investments. 
 
 Churcnes. . . 
 Individuals. 
 Legacies.... 
 Annuities... 
 Investments 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Outgo 
 
 1917-1919 
 
 Operating Budget.. 
 
 Work of the Board. 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 Operating Budget. 
 
 Work of the Board. 
 
 Set aside as Reserve for Retiring Pension Fund. 
 
 ♦Received in addition $637,802.16 not to be counted in New World Movement. 
 
 7.—THE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 Income 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For General Purposes. 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For Specific Purposes. 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For General Purposes. 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For Specific Purposes. . 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention: 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For General Purposes. 
 
 From Churches and Individuals—For Specific Purposes. 
 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For General Purposes 
 From Endowments, Annuities, Legacies, etc.—For Specific Purposes. 
 
 Outgo 
 
 Three Years Preceding Denver Convention: 
 
 For Operating Budgets. 
 
 For New Buildings and Endowments. 
 
 Three Years Succeeding Denver Convention: 
 
 For Operating Budgets. 
 
 For New Buildings and Endowments. 
 
 Bank Balance 
 
 Balance Sheet—1919 
 Assets 
 
 Annuities 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 Balance Sheet—1922 
 Assets 
 
 Bank Balance: 
 
 Annuity Fund. $517.99 
 
 Frances Shimer Fund. 114.20 
 
 University Residue Fund... 10,942.50 
 
 General Account. 10,564.74 
 
 Permanent Fund: 
 
 Bonds and Certificates 
 Annuity Fund: 
 
 Bonds. 
 
 Annuities. 
 
 Liabilities 
 
 $134,655.69 
 
 4,623.22 
 
 22,573.93 
 
 8,500.00 
 
 120,720.32 
 
 $291,073.16 
 
 $630,302.69 
 
 127,215.69 
 
 1,219.31 
 
 32,050.00 
 
 *321,477.21 
 
 $1.112,264.90 
 
 $36,576.99 
 
 129,173.06 
 
 $165.750,05 
 
 $72,770.77 
 
 364,459.32 
 
 981,293.50 
 
 $1,418,523.59 
 
 $118,386.65 
 
 176,477.26 
 
 2,025.95 
 
 $.296.889.86 
 
 $286,546.18 
 
 167,701.20 
 
 3,027.30 
 
 $457,274.68 
 
 $84,208.33 
 
 184,550.00 
 
 $268.758.33 
 
 $277,024.70 
 
 177,753.98 
 
 $454,778.68 
 
 S34.596.7S 
 
 $600.00 
 
 $22,139.43 
 
 44,165.55 
 
 1,600.00 
 
 $07,904.9S 
 
 $2,100.00 
 
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 440-IV-25M-Apri: 1923—Free