- Title
- Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1923
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- Date
- 16 May 1923 - 20 May 1923
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- Creator
- ["Southern Baptist Convention. Foreign Mission Board"]
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- Coverage
- ["Kansas City (Mo.)"]
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Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1923
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APPENDIX A
SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
of the
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
J. F. Love, Corresponding Secretary,
Richmond, Virginia
1923
In submitting to the Convention and tlm churches of the South this the
Seventy-Eighth Annual report of the Foreign Mission Board, we would cite the
statistical tables which appear at the end of this report as ground for gratitude
and thanksgiving to Him whose blessings have crowned the year. Figures are
cold and inadequate symbols of grace and spiritual achievement, but they do,
in this instance at least, show that God has in the past twelve inonLks richly
blessed the foreign mission work of the Southern Baptist Convention. We re¬
port a much larger number of baptisms than have ever been reported at the end of
any previous year of the Board's history. Even baptisms are, however, but an
outward sign of spiritual blessings which cannot be tabulated and of the grow¬
ing power and success of this enterprise.
Jesus has kept His promise and has been with those who have gone forth
bearing the witness, and opposition and indifference have steadily given way on
the mission fields to brotherliness for the missionaries and hospitality for the
truth. Converts on most of the fields have shown growth in grace and the
churches have advanced in spirituality, activity and self-support. By many
tokens assurance is given that the most glorious years in missionary achieve¬
ment are just ahead of us.
Some of the gains for the
present year over last year
are shown
in the
following figures:
1921-22
1922-23
Gain
Churches .
.
«22
891
269
Baptisms .
. 7.891
12,611
1,720
Church Membership .
.
«1,251
103,328
39,077
Houses of Worship . -. . . .
. 875
412
67
Sunday Schools .
. 971
1,117
176
Sunday School Scholars .
. 53,691
67,107
13,716
Students in School .
. 26.507
32,789
6,282
Foreign Missionaries .
. 451
501
17
Native Missionaries .
. 1.172
2,820
1,647
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