Foreign Mission Board Rooms
January 10, 1946
The Foreign Mission Board met in monthly session at 4:00 P.M, on Thursday,
January 10, 1946 with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L.H. Jenkins, J. C. Williams , J.L. Evans, E.P. Buxton, B.J. Cauthen,
T. Rupert Coleman, R. Aubrey illiams, Clyde V. Rickerson, E.C. ^outh, Mary M.
Hunter, R.E. Gaines, T. F. Adams, C.C. Coleman, Mrs. Earle Wood, Mrs. Simeon
Atkinson, Mrs. J.J. Wicker, J.G. Loving, Hill Montague, B.M. Gwathmey, M.T.
Rankin, Gene Newton, Marjorie E. Moore.
The president welcomed the following visitors: H.C. Goerner, Frank Means,
Joe Burton, Mrs. Una Roberts Lawrence.
Dr. Rankin reported the death of J. Henry Hagood in Nazareth on January 5th.
He stated that Dr. Sadler had left Richmond for plane passage to Palestine. He
plans to be gone for three or more months, visiting Palestine, Italy and the
Balkan countries which he can enter. He took with him §18,000 of relief funds
for Europe.
Edwin Dozier and Maxfield Garrott have applied for passports to Japan, but we
understand that passports are not yet being granted to missionaries to Japan.
The reports which continue to come from Japan lead us to believe that there is
going to be no question about an open door in Japan.
Dr. Rankin spoke of the conference on Missionary Education which had just been
completed and which was attended by representatives of the Home Mission Board,
.'.Oman's Missionary Union, Sunday School Board, the Baptist Brotherhood, Foreign
Mission Board, the seminaries, the state boards and state papers. This group
will serve as an agency that will constitute a framework in providing mission
material .
Dr. Rankin reported that the Foreign Mission Board is continuing to handle
relief funds as it has in the past. A committee representing our Foreign Mission
Board, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Baptist World Alliance
will issue an appeal for clothing, using the facilities of the Church Committee
on Overseas Relief and Reconstruction for gathering the clothing and shipping
overseas.
In planning on the number of missionaries that can be sent to Japan in the
next five years, Dr. Rankin said that 48 is all that can conscientiously be re¬
commended. He pointed out that in 1945 Southern Baptists spent one hundred and
sixteen and a half million dollars on themselves and three and a half million
dollars on foreign missions.
The president welcomed the new secretary for the Orient, Dr. B.J. Cauthen, who
spoke of the unique phase of mission service it is our privilege to render. He
spoke of this as being a day of encouragement. There is a changed financial con¬
dition in the churches and they should invest in world-wide causes. Our mission¬
aries are ready to go back and do a work of sacrifice. The missionaries are
going out with a new appreciation of the nationals. There is going to be a
vanishing place for a missionary who employs a group of workers. He must go to
work by the side of his brethren. The future affords one of the most challenging
and demanding chances to witness. We must think in terms of ultimate goal of
thousands of missionaries but we must lead Southern Baptists to a healthy pro¬
gram of world missions.
On motion of Mr. Gwathmey it was voted to receive and file the report of the
treasurer:
TREASURER’S REPORT DECEMBER 1945
Balance in Banks, December 1, 1945 (Available for Budget) -I 413,544.82
RECEIPTS
Co-operative Program
Designated Gifts
Centennial Offering
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Income from Securities
Legacies
Income from Post War Rehabilitation Fund
Miscellaneous Income
§ 162,268.96
55,885.57
39,776.66
2,831.47
3,007.71
455.61
315.67
198.99
