- Title
- Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1917
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- Date
- 16 May 1917 - 21 May 1917
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- Creator
- ["Southern Baptist Convention. Foreign Mission Board"]
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- Coverage
- ["New Orleans (La.)"]
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Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1917
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Seventy-Second Annual Report
OF THE
Foreign Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
In humble and grateful acknowledgment of the goodness of
God which has crowned the year, and in thankfulness for the
loyalty of a noble constituency, the Foreign Mission Board offers
to the Convention and to Southern Baptists at large its annual
report.
At Asheville last May the Board received from the Convention
its commission in which was defined the task which was to en¬
gage it for twelve months. In addition to administrative duties
and the collection of Judson Centennial notes, this task included
a determined effort to pay off the accumulated indebtedness of
the Board within sixty days from the close of that session of
the Convention and an appeal to the churches for $616,750 with
which to meet current needs of the work for the year.
PAYING THE DEBT.
The Board took its instructions seriously, and In prayer for
divine guidance and help, entered at once upon the execution of
the Convention’s orders. Accordingly the machinery of the Board
was immediately put in operation and the campaign to raise
$180,000 within sixty days was begun. So Instant was the re¬
sponse and so hearty the cooperation of Southern Baptist
churches and denominational agencies, that the campaign was
carried to a swift, complete and glorious issue. The missionary
annals of the denomination do not show another instance of such
spontaneous, beautiful and heroic missionary giving and conse¬
quent achievement. We are happy in reporting the sum of
$190,589.05 gathered in cash. This was sufficient to discharge
the debt, to meet the expenses of the special campaign, and to
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD. S.
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C.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
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