Foreign Mission Doard Rooms
April 14, 1943
The Foreign Mission Board net in semi-annual session on Wednesday, April 14,
1943 .at 9:30 A. M. , with President Jenkir.s ir. the chair.
The meeting was opened with a devotional led by Dr. Ralph A. Herring.
Present: State nembers - J. D. Franks, Mississippi; J. 17. Storer, Oklahoma-
Vf. R. White, Texas; John L. Slaughter, Alabama; D. C. Stringer, llew Mexico; W. A.
Gray, Illinois; Mrs. George A. McWilliams, Missouri; Otto Rhitington, Arkansas;
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K. Falkenstein, Maryland; II. M. Fugate, Virgii ia; W. R. Pettigrew, South Caro¬
lina; Ryland Knight, Georgia; T. C. Lcton, Kentucky;
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Egerton, Tennessee;
H. H. Hobbs, Louisiana; Ralph A. Herring, North Carolina.
Local - J. G. Loving, Mrs. Sineon Atkinson, Theodore F. Adams, Wade H. Bryant,
C. S. Prickett, Miss Alta Foster, Harold
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Seever, John C. Williams, Jesse F.
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C. Coleman, Mrs. J. J. Wicker, Jr., J. Levering Evans,
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M. Gwathney,
R. Aubrey Williams, Ivlrs. T. Justin Moore, Hill Montague, L. Howard Jenkins, R. E.
Gaines.
Visitors - fir. .1. Enete, Dr. and Mrs. John Lowe, Mrs. George J. Sadler, Mrs.
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E. Maddry, Miss Douglas Oliver, Mrs. Everett Gill, Jr., W. Dewey Moore, M. G.
White, R. S. Jones, Miss Blanche White, Mrs.
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II. ’Westbrook, Mrs. M. T. Rankin,
Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Quarles, Mrs. C. G. McDaniel, L. B. Olive, Rev. and Mrs. A. R.
Gallimore, Dr. W. J. Crowder, Rev. D. K. Nelson, Dr. and Mrs. C. Newton, Miss
Kitty Thonstad, J. B. Hipps.
Officers - Charles E. Maddry, M. T. Rankin, George VI. Sadler, Everett C-ill, Jr.
E. p. Buxton, Miss Marjorie E. Moore, Miss Nan F. Weeks, Miss Mary II. Hunter.
The minutes of the March meeting we re approved as read.
Or. motion of T. F. Adams Ryland Knight was unanimously elected Vice-President
to succeed F. C. Feezor.
Dr. Maddry read the following report of the Executive Secretary:
I . Rigid Economy
We are happy indeed to record the fact that the Foreign Mission 3oard is out
of debt for the first time in more than a generation. So far as we know the Board
does not owe a cent to any person or object in the world. We are profoundly grate¬
ful for the co-operation of the Board and all of the friends of foreign missions
throughout the world who have helped us to lift the burden of debt from our foreign
mission enterprise.
Now that the debt is behind us wo wish to take this occasion to reassure the
members of the Board and the friends of foreign missions in the churches that we
propose to do everything within our power to stay out of debt. Jo never have be¬
lieved that it was the mind of the Holy Spirit that foroign mission work should be
carried on with borrowed money. For ten years we have practiced the strictest
economy possibile in the conduct of the affairs of this Board. We now plan to con¬
tinue this rigid program of economy and caution in the matter of the expenditure of
mission funds. We intend to guard carefully the natter of expansion and extension
of the work of the Foreign Mission Board at home and abroad. Much of our trouble
in the past came from unwise and over expansion. !e now propose to guard carefully
the natter of hasty unsafe programs of expansion.
In view of the fact that within rocent months the Board has committed itself
to the establishment of new work in Hawaii, Colonbia, Paraguay, to the entrance
into Russia when peace comes, if possible, and to the extension of our already exist
ing mission in Free China, wo recomnond that for the present, no further expansion
in new lands be undertaken. We believe it will be the part of wisdom to wait until
the war is over and the nations have returned to sanity and economic stabilization
before our Foreign Mission Board undertakes any great program of expansion. This
Board must set its face like flint against the possibility of another paralyzing
debt.
