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BAPTISTS RAISE (30,000,0011 CAS' ILL GENERAL WORK STRENGT ENED BY 75 MILLION CAMPAIGN, IT IS SHOWN. WHERE THE MONEY GOE 9 lumi That Have Been Approprlat To Varloua ObjecU Set Forth By Headquai -era Office At -r.?n nifiivius, ? . ifyjjfi Or. E. GUI. Baptist Rspreaentatfve Europe, on Left, and P. V. Pavloff ol All Russian Baptist Union. From the beginning or the Bapt T5 Million Campaign to January, 19 a total of $30,356,319.41 had been pi In to objects fostered by the Cs naivn i* < onTionnred by the gene headquarters office at Nashville, this amount $28,799,971.16 came through the payment of regular Cs paign subscriptions and the remain! 1 .556,348.26 in special contributio Regular receipts from the vari< tatea follow: Ala., $1,301,134.76; Ai $714,683.09; D. of C.. $123,280.01; F $469,753.53; Ga., $3,000,174.10; 1 $298,576.13; Ky.. $3,187,656.15; I $807,991.13.; Md? $393,517.46; Mi: $1,243,846.50; Mo.. $1,190,754.70; N. $145,229.97; N. C.. $2,211,741.50; Ok $840,562.65; S. C, $2,633,840.53; Ter $1,797,483.10; Tex., $5.162.658.S5; \ $3,279,085. More than 250,000 baptis were reported by Southern Bapl churches last year. How Money Was Distributed Seven general objects of the dent lnation were embraced in the Cs palgn program, and from the regu Campaign contributions those obje have received the following amour according to a compilation by the he Quarters office: Foreign missions, ! 434,012.53; home missions. $3,6: 00.67; state missions in the sevent< states and local work in the Disti of Columbia^ $4,954,8J3.26; Christ IP.1I 1 pci u PI ? M ? II M * M ? M A M * M ? $ H x H * L*X*X?2 education, $7,192,442.79; Baptist ho* j pitals, $2,004,099.16; orphanages, $2,? 103,787.33; and Relief and Annuity II ! Board, which ministers to aged dell I pendent ministers and their families, || $799,126.99. What Money Has Done These funds represent an advance, H- ranging from 200 to 300 per cent, in the contributions of Southern Baptists to their general missionary, educational and benevolent work, prior to q the inauguration of the Campaign, and have enabled the hoards and other agencies to greatly extend their served ices in all departments. In addition to sending out more than 180 new missionaries since the Campaign began, nrovidine many church buildings, mission residences, schools, theological seminaries, publishing houses, hospitals and the like on the older fields the Foreign Mission Board has been enabled to open work in the new fields of .Spain, Jugc-Slavia, Hungary, j Roumania and Southern Russia in I Europe and Palestine. Syria and Siberia in Asia, and Dr. Everett Gill, for < many years a missionary in Italy, but more recently a pastor in Kansas City, has been named special European rep rebentative to supervise the greatly pxpanded work on that continent. Dr. i Gill is giving much of his time to die- J tributing Baptist relief funds in Russia and otherwise looking after the Interests of the denomination there. Home Work Enlarged Among the outstanding accomplish- ; ments of the Home Mission Board are the aiding of more than 1,000 churches with loans and gifts for church buildings, completion of the big tuberculosis sanatorium at El Paso, enlargement of the work in Cuba and the )n Canal Zone, strengthening of the S7 ' mountain mission schools and the dot velopment of all eleven departments ' "" of the work or tne rsoara. ia au s?renteeu states of the Southern Baptiat ft Convention the state mission work has im" been greatly extended, the number of Baptists hospitals In the South has ^ been Increased from eleven to twentythree, all of the older eighteen Baptist orphanages have been aided In mate* rial ways and two new ones have been ! ns* established, while the number of aged dependent ministers and their families has been doubled and the amount of aid given them Increased 100 per cent. Collections Are Pushed J&" While the collections so far repre?8" sent a big gain over the contributions * " of Southern Baptists to their work bea"' fore the Campaign, the sum collected I"'* is not all that Is due and In all the a" South an effort Is being made to col lect an much more as possible by the 18 close of the Convention year, May 1, that none of the work may suffer. >m" _ im- ?? lar MO newspaper can succeed withct? out advertising, therefore we ltB* solicit the patronage of our readers a_" for those who by their advertising help to make this paper possible. ien ? -. ict ? * ian $1 .HO a year for The Chronicle ri? Fire, c< Hund bargains w If you an opporti We ai Come earl S. A I Own A Ford i It's A Smile A Minute ! "An Investment in Happiness" Why not make your dreaim come true , Buy a Ford spic, span and new Give baby more fresh air Keep gray from out your hair Reach your work on time each day Have ai'-rc hours in which !o play * Jtieip ine wiie lorgut ner cure Save the price on railroad fare i I Dissappointment in cars are almost as frequent as disappointments in love. Better buy a Ford and play safe. Let the Ford be your man Friday. It will work every day, including Sunday. -0!0Save Time?Drive A Ford With prices on all Ford Models lower than J ever brfore in the history of the Ford Motor Co,, one had little reason to expect the reduction which 1 T n . \t i?__j L 1 f occurred m January, out ivir. l oru nas aiways i believed in giving the public the benefit of even the slightest saving in manufacturing costs. Genuine Ford Parts Spells Genuine Satisfaction. Found at the ' i Cheraw Motor Sales Co. Cheraw, S. C. i" ? ontinues In Ft reds of persons have taken ad1 'e are offering. don't come to our store durii mity of buying merchandise at re going to make a clean swe( y and get a pick of the barg'ai p i nriMY CHERAW, SOUTH CAR' I Playhouse Theatre, Bennsetcville' Tues., April 4th J The Biggest Musical Comedy in the History of Bennettsville I wf IBB H| rlJSg Hwfr'-w iff ig - laMBUHKMHMM Mar-v.r.v ':.4 d5^$x^^236SSBW3i*SE?^lfiSZ8M^Bj H? V*V 'if. \ 'V' ^B |KJBP R 1 W 2 , 2 Carloads of Scenery and Special Electrical Effects 2 Prices: $2.50, $2,00, $1.50, $1.00, Plus Tax. Seat Sale Friday, March 31^1 At Crosland & Tyson's Office. Phone 274 ? , ^ TT i tn n YOU READ the Ojjimg i miv Other Fellow's Ad js Building Time ; You are reading this one. T , , . , That should convince you Let US Supply yOU With '* ' that advertising in these , f Son- thatpritfitw,u Lumber, Shingles, Lathes and Other /v rfbTt""tsM Building Materials ; probably'thereason'SJie is SMALL PROFITS FOR CASH OUR MOTTO i getting more business than __ !st Cheraw Lumber & Supply Co. the other fellow a chance ^? F Cheraw, S. C. ??T?eadrYr A9 King & Maynard in 1 hese Columns? d McBee, S. C. in 1 ii id dmoice i * M ill Force | I 1*1 vantage of the wonderful W V ig this sale, you will miss $ almost give away prices. of our entire stock. ? ! ' <x yiw, i w X OLINA ??x.g.x?f^?S?x*s?x?s?x?S?x*S?x?^^*~f^?x*S?x?S?X^J * I ' \.