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BULLETIN
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NORMAL, ILLINOIS, MAY 1919
NO. 1
State Convention Finances
We have said almost nothing concern-
ing our State Convention finances for the
past four months, while the great drive
was on to raise the Apportionments of
the churches for the Societies whose year
ended March 31st and while the over and
above drive was on for the Victory cam-
paign in April. We have not yet lecirned
just what the result of these campaigns
has been. We know that the Baptists ot
Illinois raised more than $65,000 on the
Ministers and Missionaries' Benefit Fund
in reaching the $750,000 to be raised
for that purpose. We wanted to put all
the strength of the State Convention back
of these great drives, and as our year
ends and our books close October 1st, we
felt there would be time for this after
the final effort had been made for the
National Societies. But now is the time
to begin to push for our State Conven-
tion Apportionment.
As time goes on, and the work of the
denomination seems to develop, the State
Convention occupies a more important
place in all our work and this seems to
be rapidly increasing. More and more
every year the influence of the State Con-
vention is increasing. It is expected to
get behind almost every denominational
rttivity in the State. The greatest detri-
ment to all our work in any state is a
weak and decrepit State Convention.
Some churches made up their entire ap-
portionment including State Convention
March 31st, but not many did that. Some
aimed to make up one-half their State
Convention contribution the end of
March, but the great majority of our
churches left the Convention off entirely
or almost so until late in the year. That
would be all right if these churches
would rally to pay their full apportion-
nient'5 for the state before October 1st,
but it is so difficult to get up a strong
Mis^ioai enthusiasm twice a year. Many
of the churches drift along and allow
the year to close with all their Mission-
ary offerings made up except for the
State Convention. The apportionment in
Illinois this year for the State Conven-
tion is $25,000. This is only a reason-
able sum compared with what the
churches raise for other things. It would
be very easy to raise it if all the pastors
and churches would begin working for it
now. Much of this money ought to come
in in May and June. July and August
is vacation time for many pastors and
churches and September is the month for
starting up the churches after the hot
weather and October is likely to come
with hundreds of our churches behind
on State Convention apportionments.
We plead with the pastors and officers
of the churches to give close attention to
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the State Coin ention otYeriiigs now. The
State Conventiwn has for its mission :
helping all the churches in Illinois it pos-
sibly can, in revival work, in locating pas-
tors, helping to pay the salary, etc. It
is back of much of the 'Educational work
in the state, co-operates with and helpi
the charitable institutions, and stands
back of the work of supporting Foreign,
Home and Women's Missions in the
State. It does all in its power to aid the
B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School work in
the State. Why should not every pastor
and every member loyally support the
State Convention? They almost all in-
tend to do this, but many become careless
about doing it. From now until October
1st we shall have much to say and write
about State Convention Finances.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE
The Illinois Baptist State Convention
is now and has been for about eight years,
back of Shurtleff College in its moral
influence. The Convention is not respon-
sible for any of the finances, but encour-
ages and helps every onward movement.
It was three members of the State Con-
vention Board that found and nominated
Prof. Geo. M. Potter as President of the
institution. Since that time very rapid
progress has been made at Alton. The
real estate held by the college in St. Louis
was not only a source of no income, but
a very heavy expense to the college.
In 1912 this investment had increased
in various ways to $56,261.13. The trus-
tees would have sold the lots for from
$20,000 to $30,000 but could not find a
buyer. After Potter was elected Presi-
dent, the Executive Committee expended
$10,000 in improving the property by
paved streets, sidewalks and other things.
Finally the amount invested was $72,000.
Now the college has sold lots in this St.
L(juis property amounting to $79,815.00
and the college still owns two lots valued
at about $12,000. This nearly $80,000
is now invested in Illinois farm mort-
gages.
In the summer of 1914 the trustees
purchased, according to the earnest wish
of President Potter, the Leavett home and
grounds. This gave the college posses-
sion of a ten-roomed home and almost
an acre of ground adjoining the college
grounds. President Potter's far-sighted-
ness and good judgment led the trustees
in 1916 to purchase the entire Justis
Bulkley property which was sold for
$8,700. This property is across the cor-
ner from the campus and consists of two
large dwellings and four cottages, with
some ideal vacant ground for college pur-
poses. This Bulkley property purchased
added six acres to the college property.
The Mrs. Eunice Evans bequest added
$11,000 to the college two years ago and
the Mrs. Mary Flagg Estate added
$12,732.80 to the college a few weeks ago.
The income of the institution has
increased from .$20,000 to $30,000.
The enrollment of actual college stu-
dents is the largest in the history of the
college.
Dr. Myron W. Haynes is now raising
$500,000 endowment for the institution.
He began January 1st and has now se-
cured about $100,000 and has not yet fin-
ished three Associations. Let everybody
say a good word for Shurtleff this year.
Let every one who can, give something
to help Shurtleff now.
The Baptists of Illinois have not been
asked for any large thing for college
work for the past forty or more years.
During that time their wealth has in-
creased greatly. Now is the time to give
liberally to Shurtleff College.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
THIS is the eleventh year in the his-
tory of The Bulletin. Can we not
make this year the best in the history of
the paper? The Superintendent of Mis-
sions is not an Editor, he just picks up
a few scraps of time to write for this
paper and to keep it going.
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THE Editor cannot take time from the
State Convention work to keep up
and advance the subscription list. That
must be done by the pastors and by
everyone who desires to see The Bulle-
tin go into the homes of the people.
MANY churches and pastors seem to^
be satisfied when they get a club
of twenty names and in some of those
churches there should be fifty or one hum-
dred subscribers.
SHORTLY after this issue of Tlie
Bulletin reaches the readers, the de-
nomination of thirty-three states will be
assembled in Convention at Denver. This
meeting of the Convention will probably
be the most important in the history of
the Convention. We expect a large at-
tendance from Illinois. Many desire to
go who cannot. We hope the people at
home will earnestly pray for the work of
the Convention.
1HE indications are that it will be
necessary for the Editor of The Bul-
letin and Superintendent of the Blinois
State Convention to be present in Denver
a few days before the Convention and
possibly a few days after the Conven-
tion closes. It is not yet known what
work the Report of the Committee of
Five will involve. Possibly the state
members of the Planning Board will be
called for a meeting after the Convention.
WHILE the Editor will be out of the
O'fiice for two full weeks, the office
will be open. All correspondence will be
attended to. The office stenographer will
keep the Superintendent posted each day
with regard to the mail received, and im-
portant items will be answered from
Denver. All Bulletin affairs will be at-
tended to by the office stenographer.
THE readers are invited to notice the
financial column for the month of
April. More than $11,000 for one
month. Of course much of this is for
invested funds and the interest only can
be used for missionary work, but every
$8,000 increase in our permanent funds
means $450 permanent increase in our
ccurrent expense fund.
One of our very successful pastors
writes, "The monthly visitor, the Bulle-
tin, with its spicy news from all over the
state of Baptist doings and with its
pointed editorials, is one which we all
look forward to with great interest. This
little paper should be in every Baptist
home in the state."
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TEN YEAIiS OLD
The April issue of The Bulletin com-
pleted the tenth volume. This May issue
starts on the eleventh year. When the
lioard voted to start this paper the buper-
intendent said, "I know its issue will in-
crease my work very much, but if we can
get it into 1000 homes 1 am willing to do
the work." l^efore the paper was two
years old it had reached nearly 5000 sub-
scribers and still retains nearly that num-
ber. It has averaged about 4750 the past
year. We could greatly increase its cir-
culation if we would give time and ex-
pense to it, but we cannot do that. We
never send a copy after the time expires
and (lei)end upon the pastors and people
to show their appreciation of the paper
by sending in subscriptions. We ought
to increase the number of readers this
next year by several thousand. This
Bulletin should not interfere with any
other paper. We do not believe it does.
Every Baptist family in Illinois ought to
have the Standard, a weekly Baptist
paper, and Missions, a monthly mission
magazine, and beside these they ought to
take The Bulletin, which is a breezy
little message from State Convention
headquarters once a month.
The Northern Baptist Convention
meets in Denver, Colorado, May 21-27
inclusive. The indications are that
there will be a large attendance. No
doubt a large number will attend from
IlHnois. It is expected that this will be
an unusually interesting meeting. As
full a report as our space will allow will
be given in the June issue.
People who live on the plains and
prairies of the Central States will be de-
lighted to spend a few days in the moun-
tains of Colorado, and the great inspira-
tion of the meetings will be helpful for
all who attend.
SEMI-ANNUAL. MEETING OF THE
BOARD
The semi-annual meeting of the State
Convention Board was held in Peona,
April 10th. Several of the departments
of the Convention and two special com-
mittees held meetings at the same time.
The pastor, Rev. Joseph C. Hazen and
the church entertained the meeting splen-
didly. It was one of our best semi-an-
nual meetings.
Several missionaries w^ere appointed
and the Superintendent authorized to be
on the outlook for two other general
workers. Much time was given to a dis-
cussion of the report of the Committee of
Five which was published in all the de-
nominational weeklies some weeks ago.
The Board finally voted as follows :
( 1 ) We express ourselves as in har-
mony with the general proposition as pre-
sented in the report of the Committee of
Five, on the relation of the Boards of
the Societies of the Northern Baptist
Convention.
(2) We appoint as a representative to
represent the State Convention on the
General Planning Board of the Northern
Baptist Convention, if such Board is
created. Dr. Samuel J. Skevington.
(3) That Dr. E. P. Brand be consid-
ered as an administrative officer of the
State Convention and as such our repre-
sentative on the General Planning Board
of the Northern Baptist Convention.
The Board was in session about six
hours. The young ladies of the Peoria
church provided an excellent supper and
Dr. S. J. Skevington and Rev. Louis H.
Koehler gave addresses at night.
OHUROHES
Rev. H. T. Abbott, pastor of the First
Baptisf church of Murphysboro recently
closed a very interesting meeting. H<;
secured Rev. J. M. Smith of Ohio, to lead
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the singing. The pastor himself did the
preaching. There was very great inter-
est manifested and more than 100 mem-
bers were added to the church during the
twelve days' meetings. The Sunday
School averages more than 400 and the
continued overflow of crowds in all the
services has lead the church to desire to
build a new meeting house or enlarge the
old building.
Dr. W. E. Mundell who recently be-
came pastor of the First Baptist church
of Belvidere, expresses himself as well
pleased with that field and delighted with
the kindness and appreciation which the
people have shown him and his family.
He says, "They promise to send me to the
Northern Baptist Convention and also to
the State Convention meetings. You
know that sounds good to me."
Rev. J. H. Bagwill held a two weeks'
meeting in his church at Taylorville,
which resulted in twenty-five additions
to the church. The congregations were
large. The church gave $525 on the
Mctory Drive, $150 to Hudelson Home.
$3,625 to Shurtleff College, in addition
to paying $650 back debts. The pastor
will deliver the Odd Fellows' 100th An-
niversary address on the 24th of April
and the annual sermon to the soldiers
in May.
Rev. B. E. Allen, pastor of the church
at Osceola, writes : "Our new building
plan is coming along fine. We have the
contracts let and surrender the old build-
ing the 28th of this month. The new
plant is to be completed by September
1st."
Rev. Herbert W. Hines, who has been
at El Paso, a little more than four years
is having a fine revival spirit in that
church. On April 6th he baptized five
persons, three of them men who are heads
of families.
Rev. J. S. Oranger, pastor First bap-
tist church, Rock Island, writes: "Our
work is progressing with great interest
and the attendance is very good. The
Sunday School attendance is the largest
in the history of the church. Six have
been baptized recently and a number re-
ceived by letter."
Rev. Joseph C. Dent of Chicago, hela
a meeting at Utica from March 17th to
March 28th. The congregation was in-
creased from fifty to two hundred fifty.
The church is greatly revived. Eighty
four came forward and publicly professed
Jesus Christ as their Saviour. About
fifty of them are members of the Sunday
School. Several signified their desire to
be baptized and unite with the church.
Rev. J. R. Spickerman who had been sup-
plying the church for the past six months
assisted in the meetings.
The Virden church, of which Rev. H.
A. Belton is pastor, is doing well. A
communication from that church says,
"Our church is getting along fine. We
have gone over the top with our appor-
tionments. The church has sold its par-
sonage and bought a better one at a cost
of $3,500. The pastor is well pleased
with the change of properties."
The Chatsworth church, of which Rev.
E. C. Shute is pastor, seems to be pro-
gressing quite well. They succeeded in
raising the entire apportionment and
something over. The pastor says, "The
power of Rome in this community makes
our work 'hard pulling,' but God is bless-
ing truth. Several have united with the
church recently. Our Sunday School has
nearly one hundred per cent increase in
attendance over last year."
The Normal church, of which Dr. D.
O. Hopkins is pastor, is doing fine work.
The congregations and prayer meetings
have greatly increased. He preached
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each night during the week preceding
Easter and on Easter morning he baptized
thirty-seven boys and girls from the Sol-
diers' Orphans' Home, and he baptized
thirteen on the Sunday following. The
church will send the pastor to the North-
ern Convention in Denver.
Rev. Orlo Breese, who was pastor at
Hillsboro, went into the Y. M. C. A. work
of the army last year. He is now back
on the field and supplying the Hillsboro
church. Last year that church paid a
$1,100 debt, and it is now preparing to
decorate the building. The B. Y. P. U. is
fine and the Sunday School is in a pros-
perous condition with an attendance from
about eighty to one hundred.
The Austin Baptist church in Chicago
had a "Red Letter Day" Easter Sunday,
April 20, 1919. At that time the mort-
gage of indebtedness was burned by Dea-
con E. S. Osgood, who was a charter
member of the church. The church was
organized in 1871 with fifteen members.
The first meeting house was dedicated in
1872. The present house of worship was
dedicated November 23, 1902. The pres-
ent membership of the church is 892.
The Toulon church, which has been
pastorless since the first of last Septem-
ber, has called Rev. J. H. Pierce, who
has been for several years pastor at
Princeton. Brother Pierce has accepted
the call and located on the Toulon field,
Toulon is a good field and Pastor Pierce
and his wife are excellent workers. We
shall expect a successful work there.
John D. Rockefeller gave $250,000 on
the Ministers' and Missionaries' Benefit
fund, bringing the invested funds for
that organization now up to $2,000,000.
He has also offered $500,000 on the
$6,000,000 drive in case the full $6,000,-
000 is secured. The following letter
comes from Dr. Haggard, "Answering
inquiry. Rockefeller's pledge holds to
December. Would be unfortunate if this
delays early completion Victory Fund."
From this we infer that if the full
$6,000,000 is not reached by April 30th
the denomination will have until Decem-
ber first to reach enough to secure the
Rockefeller $500,000.
MONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR APRIL
Only a few of the churches send the full
apportionment at one time. Whenever a
payment reported in The Bulletin com-
pletes the apportionment, it will be indi-
cated by a (*) star.
*Alton, Cherry St. Church $ 93.00
Aurora, Marion Ave. Church 6.20
Arthur Church 27.34
Atlanta Church 21.50
Aurora, First Church 39.00
Auburn Church 9.00
Aurora, Claim St. Church 4.12
American Baptist Home Mission
Society — Hungarian Mission.... 82.50
American Baptist Home Mission
Society, Evangelism 9.23
American Baptist Publication
Society — Advertisement 10.00
Alton, Mrs. Mary Flagg Bequest.. 6,366.40
Advertising in Bulletin — Shurt-
leff College 7.00
Belvidere, South Church 38.2{>
*Benson Church 19.00
*Bunker Hill Church -... 35.00
Big Rock Church 13.63
Barry Church 2.00
Belleville Church, Edw. A. Keil
(S. E. P.) 9.00
Bulletin Subscriptions 62.15
*Bradford Church 2.25
Canton Church 4.40
Chicago Epiphany Church 10.00
Chicago First Church 11.33
Chicago, Hyde Park Church 225.00
Chicago, Maplewood Church 16.00
Chicago, Immanuel Bohemian
Church - 3.68
Chicago, Second Church 27.15
Chicago, Auburn Park Church 15.00
^Chicago, Roseland, First Ch 26.45
Chicago, Swedish Finnish Ch 3.00
Chicago, Garfield Park Church.... 73.00
Chicago, Morgan Park Church.... 17.01
♦Chicago, Western Ave., Church 14.37
Chicago, Englewood Church 238.00
Chicago, Irving Park Church 23.43
Chicago, Normal Park Church 33.65
Chicago, Immanuel Church 50.00
Chicago, Woodlawn Church 73.87
Chicago, Second Church .-. 240.43
Centralia Church 27.40
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Champaign, First Cliurch 41.70
Cornell Church 4.23
Carlinville Church 17.40
Carthage Church 36.50
Carterville Church 4.40
Chrisman Church 6.31
*Clyde Church 5.01
Collected on Mission Field — Hi
F. Jones 203.39
Cambridge Church 21.85
Divernon Church 1.00
Danvers Church 14.50
Delavan Church 20.00
DeKalb Church 33.07
Dixon Church 23.54
Downer's Grove Church 8.15
*Decatur, Riverside Church 10.00
Damascus, Clara E. Phillips, Me-
morial Fund 1,000.00
Elgin, First Church 49.49
Evanston Church 34.19
Elgin, Immanuel Church 19.70
Edinburg Church 5.00
Fairbury Church 32.64
Freeport Church 28.46
Oilman Church 6,19
*Greenville Church 40.00
Galesburg Church 12.30
Glasford Church 7.38
Hafer N. T. (S. E. F.) 14.00
Harvey Church 2.10
Hudson Church 17.24
*Hillsboro Church 20.00
Interest 200.00
Jerseyville Church '. 42.00
*Joliet, Eastern Ave. Church 17.19
Joliet, First Church 23.59
Joliet, Ridgewood Church 25.00
Kinderhook Church 19.00
LaMarsh Church 6.00
Lena Church 5.00
Littleton Church 16.25
Lexington Church 3.92
LaSalle Church 13.00
Missionary Committee, Quincy
Association .-.. 20.22
Marissa Church 4.50
■•McLean Church 5.00
Murphysboro Church 30.00
Momence Church 2.80
Mt. Sterling Church 1.80
Moline, First Church _.. 70.00
Marengo Church 22.31
Moore, B. M 5.00
Nokomis Church 13.16
Normal Church 9.08
Oreana Church 15.00
Oak Park, Lombard Ave. Ch 10.00
Percy Church .81
Piano Church 5.30
^Princeton Church 63.94
'•■•Petersburg Church 1.79
Plainville Church 3.00
Pittsfield Church 18.29
Pontiac Church 6.93
Rochelle Church 13. vo
Roseville Church 37.00
Rockford, State Street Church.... 22.68
Rock Island Church 25.00
Rockton Church 5.00
Rents, Tonica Parsonage 75.00
St. Mary's Church 30.00
Sterling Church 25.25
Shabbona Church 2.00
Sandwich Church 36.44
Sycamore Church 1.00
Somonauk Church 8.00
Tremont Church 16.00
*Timewell Church 56.17
Toulon Church 34.41
Tonica, T. C. Henning 50.00
Upper Alton Church 60.00
Virden Church 18.63
Wilmette Church 13.89
*Woodburn Church 5.00
Warren Church 1.7u
Woodstock Church 3.55
Wilton Center Church 2.06
Wood River Church 2.50
Waukegan Church 50.72
Wheaton Church 16.77
Walnut Church 15.50
York Church 13.20
Yorkville Church 2.20
Total $11,051.64
HUDELSON ORPHANAGE
Rev. N. T. Hafer, the Superintendent,
writes, "We will soon raise up the north
building preparatory to excavating base-
ment and remodeling." Brother Hafer
and his wife are already located at Irving-
ton and are active in the work of the or-
phanage. Their four children will re-
main in Princeton until after school
closes.
"There are at least seven stations in In-
dia, with good equipment, waiting for mis-
sionaries. There are bungalows for the
missionaries but no missionaries for the
bungalows. Undermanned — that tells a
pitiful story. The war should provide a
remedy in part for this condition of affairs,
and this is where the recruiting work
comes in that Dr. Padelford is directing.
To turn the thoughts of the soldiers soon to
be relieved from military service to a life-
work in the ministry or the mission fields
is most timely, and there should be a good
list of recruits. The money to send them
out? Well, that is one of the things that
v/ill be accomplished by the six million dol-
lar campaign. It will take money to send
the men and women. With the money in
hand we surely will not have to wait long
for candidates."
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PERSONALS
Evangelist L. D. Lamkin recently
closed a meeting at Gallon, Ohio. The
papers of that town reported the meet-
ings of very great interest.
The CarroUton church gave a farewell
reception to Dr. and Mrs. Mundell about
the time they closed their work on that
field. There were one hundred fifty
members of the congregation present and
many friends from other churches. The
following is a part of a resolution passed
by the church: "In accepting the resig-
nation of our pastor, W. E. Mundell, who
feels that he is called of God to another
field of work, the Baptist church of Car-
roUton, Illinois, desires to express its
deep regret that he is to leave us, and
further to express hearty appreciation of
the excellent and conscientious service he
and Mrs. Mundell have rendered to the
church in the past six years."
Rev. Edmond A. Hobbs and Miss
Katherine Wd>ber of Pekin, were mar-
ried on Sunday, the 23rd of March. Miss
Webber spent quite a number of years
as matron of the Hudelson Orphanage
and was familiarly known by the children
of that institution as "Aunt Kate." They
will make their home for the present in
Pekin.
Missionary John H. Howard and his
wife of Collinsville, Illinois, who have
been seven years in India, recently re-
turned for a year of rest. They and
their two children are now located near
his wife's home in Collinsville and he
doubtless will visit some of the churches
in Illinois during the coming year. He
is a son of Rev. J. F. Howard, so
well known in Illinois, who was buried
at El Paso a few months ago.
STATE CONVENTION WORKERS
Our missionary pastor at Gilman, Illi-
nois, Rev. Ernest N. Cox, was elected
on the 15th of April, Mayor of Gilman
by a large majority.
Evangelist F. M. Dunk held a success-
ful meeting in Auburn the latter part of
March and the early part of April. At
this writing he is holding a meeting at
Canton. On Sunday, April 13th, "Thirty-
six persons declared themselves for the
Christian life."
Rev. A. D. Rinnier, our missionary
pastor at Erie, writes, "God is blessing
the work of this field in the salvation of
souls, in the quickening of Christianity
and in the financial end. The pastor's
salary is all paid up to date and money
in the bank."
Rev. T. O. McMinn, our State Mis-
sionary for southern Illinois, spent a
portion of April in special meetings with
the Second Baptist church of Creal
Springs. The meeting started off nicely
in the beginning but we have not heard
how they closed up. The Board of the
Southern Illinois Association has planned
an intensive campaign for this quarter.
Brother McMinn is doing good work
among the churches in that end of the
state.
Our missionary at Chicago Heights,
Rev. Henry Duff, writes very encourag-
ingly concerning the work on that field.
He says, "This has been one of our best
quarters financially and you will notice
that our missionary contributions have
gone away up. We will increase about
fifty per cent on last year's offerings
Our attendance at church services is very
good. Our branch work is doing well.
We had out at our Friday night meeting
a week ago thirty-two and the Sunday
afternoon service and school is well at-
tended.
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Rev. J. W. McKinney, who is supply-
ing the Second Baptist church in Marion,
writes, "We now have our building in
good repair at a cost of $1,200. Our
audiences are increasing in number ana
interest and the Sunday School soon will
have doubled its membership. Eleven
have united with the church and a num-
ber of others contemplate uniting with us.
Rev. George R. Wood, our missionary
pastor at Marseilles, writes, "Our report
shows five baptisms. These were bap-
tized last Sunday, among these a husband
and father, his wife and young son. Four
others have been received for baptism.
We hope to have five or six to baptize
Easter Sunday. Two are awaiting their
letters from ]\Ioline to unite with us and
one asks to unite by experience, having
formerly been a member at Ottawa.
Evangelist Dunk's services were very ac-
ceptable and helpful and I wish to bear
testimony that I have never had a co-
laborer in special services with whom I
could work in greater harmony. Brother
Dunk has a fine spirit of earnestness,
sincerity and enthusiasm which takes
with the people."
Rev. John W. Simpson, our mission-
ary pastor at Dixon, writes encouragingly
of an every-member canvass which he is
making. ^Many of the contributors are
increasing very much beyond former con-
tributions. He says, "One man who had
been giving about $40.00 a year cheer-
fully agreed to pay $2.25 per week."
The Lexington church, by unanimous
vote passed strong resolutions concern-
ing the work of Evangelist Frank M.
Dunk, who held a meeting at that place.
These resolutions say in part, "The re-
vival services conducted by the Rev. F.
M. Dunk, State Evangelist, from March
2nd to March 14th, were of great benefit
to our church and the entire community.
This was the people's chance to hear the
Gospel in its simplicity and power. Four
confessed Christ, but all were blessed.
Brother Dunk is a strong man, presents
Christ our Saviour in a clear and concise
manner with power and demonstration
of spirit."
Rev. T. O. McMinn writes, "I closed
my meeting at Willisville last Sunday
night, March 30th. I found the church
in a very bad shape but we had a very
successful meeting, not in professed
Christianity, but in the quickening of the
church and helping them to get a real
vision of the mission of the church.
They called Rev. T. H. Evans to the pas-
torate and he is on the field and pastor
and people are hopeful for the future."
Rev. Charles W. Wolfe, our mission-
ary pastor of the Glasford and LaMarsh
churches, writes quite an encouraging
letter in sending in his second quarterly
report. In raising the benevolent appor-
tionments LaMarsh went over the top
splendidly and Glasford did a little less.
The pastor says, "The work is strenuous
and sometimes discouraging but we have
some things to be thankful for. I have
a crowd of Boy Scouts to help some."
Rev. Ray E. Barber, our missionary
pastor at Tampico, seems to be enthusi-
astic and hopeful with regard to the
work on that field. He says, "Some of
our plans for the coming year are to get
new windows for the church, redecorate
the inside, make some new repairs on the
parsonage and buy a stereopticon to help
in the social atmosphere of the work and
perhaps also in the religious aspect. In
the further distance, if the church pro-
gresses as we hope, we plan to build an
addition to the church building for social
purposes and put a bath room into the
parsonage. This is quite enough to take
up our minds for the present. We have
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finished buying new hymn books for the
evening service."
Rev. C. W. Webb, our missionary pas-
tor at Wood River, in writing a letter
March 31st, says, "We had one hundred
thirty-three in Sunday School yesterday
morning and we asked for the otfering
for missions and we got $16.69. We had
two fine congregations yesterday, and
three adults for special prayer last night.
I have ten more who will soon line up
with us. I have lined up fifteen since
the middle of February to date. This
makes sixty-nine members in all. We
are striving for 100 in the near future
and 200 in the Sunday School."
Rev. J. W. Patterson, pastor Second
P>aptist church, ]\It. Vernon, writes
March 27th as follows, "We have been
engaged in a revival meeting for two
weeks with Rev. D. H. McGillivray.
The meeting will close tonight and as a
result we have had seven conversions and
five additions to the church, three by bap-
tism and two by letter. McGillivray not
only preaches the truth in all its fullness
but with authority and directness and
with power and love."
Rev. A. G. Prestage of Oglesby says,
"This quarter has been one of great
blessing among the Christian people here.
(3in' meetings have been well attended
and what has cheered my heart is the
great interttst shown in our prayer meet-
ings. Not only have we had our week
night meetings but have also held cottage
prayer meetings every Friday night, hav
ing as many as thirty in attendance. Our
Sunday School is on the increase."
annual meeting next October. The en-
tire church seems to be interested in the
coming of the Convention and are making
preparations to give us a royal welcome.
That church has made great advance-
ments within the past few years. They
have erected one of the best meeting
houses in the state outside of Chicago,
and have been coming up regularly on
their missionary offerings. The pastor
writes, "I think our offering to the Vic-
tory Campaign will reach $1,500, if so,
with the Armenian fund and apportion-
ment we have raised $2,685 for missions
which does not include our contributions
to the Red Cross and United War Work."
The Superintendent spent Saturday
night and Sunday morning, April 5th and
6th with the Jerseyville church trying to
interest the people in the coming of the
State Convention to that church in its
PASTORAL, CHANGES
Rev. E. Lansing Holland of Wheaton,
Minnesota, has accepted a call to become
pastor of the Hudson church in the
Bloomington Association. He begins
work May 18th.
Rev. J. L. Watson of Sullivan, closed
his supply pastorate with the Lincoln
church Wednesday night, April 9th at
which time he baptized five, two boys and
two girls and one woman. The pastor
of the Lincoln church, who has been for
some time in France, returns to his work.
The members of the church seem to have
been very well pleased wath the supply
work of Brother Watson.
Rev. L. W. Hostetter will soon close
his work at Greenfield. The church is
not able to sustain preaching for full
time during these times of high cost of
living. They perhaps could arrange for
a pastor for one-half time. Brother Hos-
tetter is ready to consider some other
field.
The Girard church has called Rev. J.
R. Hastings of Littleton to become its
pastor. Brother Hastings has been at
Littleton about one year and seems to
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have done good work there, but he enters
upon a much larger field at Girard. We
hope he will have good success on that
important field.
Rev. J. W. Harnly, who resigned the
Momence church to take up Y. M. C. A.
work in the army, has accepted a call
to become pastor of the church at Chris-
man. He has removed to that field and
will begin work immediately.
PASTORAIi CHANGES
Rev. W. E. Pool, who has been pastor
of the Olney church for two or three
years, has accepted a call to Carrollton
to become the successor of Dr. Mundell.
Brother Pool and his wife are efficient
workers and Carrollton is a good field.
OHUROHES
The LaMoille church of which Rev.
xA^lbert A. Gordonier is pastor, seems to
be doing excellent work. The pastor
says, "My people have done exceedingly
well in the Victory Drive and we have
just closed a very interesting contest in
the Sunday School. We decided to
raise a mile of pennies, more for the fun
of the contest than anything else, as we
were in no pressing need of funds. We
went over the top Easter morning in
seven Sundays with over $900 worth of
pennies. The funds will be used for im-
proving and repairing the church prop-
erty. We have made April 'Go To
Church Month,' and the results have been
splendid."
The Marion Ave. church of Aurora,
of which Rev. Henry Clay Miller has
been pastor for quite a number of years,
is having encouraging success .The
prayer meetings are well attended with
indications of a deepening spiritual con-
sciousness. The church has made up its
full apportionment for missions and in
addition to this sum their offering for the
Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Fund
was $1,628 and the total offering on the
$6,000,000 drive was $2,082. The pastor
baptized eight young people Easter night*
The church has an excellent choir trained
by the pastor.
A member of the Roseville church of
which Rev. G. W. Claxton is pastor,
sends the following news item : "Ap-
portionment met before March 31st and a
good substantial offering to the $6,000,000
drive. Hardwood floors are being put
in the parsonage and a fine range was
placed in the parsonage a short time ago.
The contract has been let to paint the
church building and one hundred new
song books for the Sunday School and
eveninof service have been ordered."
"When a missionary on furlough comes
to your church to present missions, see to
it that the visitor has the very best en-
tertainment and most cordial welcome. A
missionary life is not so full of pleasant
and easy and comfortable experiences that
genuine Christian hospitality and interest
will not be appreciated. Remember, these
visitors are not beggars but ambassadors
of the King, and should be treated accord-
ingly. To use an apostolic phrase, this is
said simply to stir up your pure minds by
way of remembrance."
"THE WAY DR. HAGGARD PUTS IT
If we can put millions of men upon the
field of battle, we ought to be able to put
at least thousands of men and women on
the mission field. As we backed the war
with ten million workers, so every member
of the Christian church who is debarred
from personal service on the farther fields
must put his individual powers back of
the great task at home. This drive is to
be a thank offering for victory and an ef-
fort ending in victory for denominational
work. We dare not give less than millions
to the spiritual problem which necessarily
follows the conflict of powder and shell."
"The war value of the negro and Indian
has been amply demonstrated and is being
widely recognized. This value is fast em-
phasizing the peace value of the same races
and is giving both of them a higher place
in the estimation of the average citizen."
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CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, LLLJNOIS
R«T. D. H. MacGIUirray, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGillivray, MAtron
HUDRLSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Kev. N, T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
The end of April finds us still waiting
for the rain to cease and so give us a
chance to prepare the soil and plant our
garden. April showers have been abund-
ant and have fallen regularly. But we
know that "Somewhere the sun is shin-
ing," and are still hopeful.
To the churches and Sunday schools,
who remembered the children so gener-
ously with fresh eggs for Easter time, we
wish to take off our hats, and extend a
hearty thank you. If time and space per-
mitted, we would love to tell you how
much good you are doing by this special
donation.
Miss Pearl Beaty, of Mount Vernon,
is adapting herself very nicely to the
work laid down by Mrs. King.
One very pleasant event, and worthy
of special mention, was the party given
the children of the Home by friends of
the Oak Park church. The verdict of the
boys and girls was "It was a genuine
party." Mr. Clark, of one of the Oak
Park schools, supervised the games, with
tact and enthusiasm, and Miss Knapp en-
tertained old and young alike, with
stories told in a most delightful manner.
Last, but not least, was the abundant re-
freshments of ice cream and home made
cake.
Thirty-eight boys and the same number
of girls, are with us at present. Good
health and general good feeling prevail.
Steps are being taken to enlarge the
children's dining room, as the capacity
of present one does not accommodate our
present number.
At this writing (April 28th) we are in
the midst of transition work. Retiring
Superintendent Kelly is finishing his re-
port preparatory to turning over the
financial affairs to the new superintend-
ent, who with Mrs. Hafer, has been
since early in April endeavoring to get
into the swing of this larger family life.
Spring seeding on the farm is late on ac-
count of the two scourges, influenza and
scarlet fever, which prevented fall work.
The improvement work is being resumed
and the north building is now being put
on blocks preparatory to excavating for
basement and remodeling for school
rooms, hospital, olitice, etc. The main
building will hereafter be used exclu-
sively for houseing and feeding the chil-
dren and care-takers. These plans create
a need for immediate payment of all
pledges now due and the securing of
many new ones. Friends, kindly assist
with prompt support both for the current
expenses and the improvement plans.
The new superintendent and matron
appreciate the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Ol-
son are to remain, as their two years
with the Home will make it easier to get
hold of the work. Mrs. Olson will con-
tinue to be assisted in the teaching work
by her sister, Miss Bessie Hastings, who
also will do some work in the office.
Hereafter all checks for the benefit of
this institution should be made payable to
Dr. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Alfred C. Kelly.
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13
Department of Sunday School and
Young People s Work
Louis H. Koehler, 2006 £. Jackson St., Bloomington, Director
Our Elementary Director
At a recent meeting of the State De-
partment, J\Iiss Marian E. Kimble of
Galesburg, was elected to the office of
state elementary director. Miss Kimble
comes to the work with a splendid prep-
aration and training. At present she is
conducting a private kindergarten, teach-
ing a class in the primary department of
the main school, and a class of Juniors
in one of the mission schools. Miss Kim-
ble is now ready for service in any part
of the state and we hope that pastors and
superintendents who are desirous of rais-
ing the standard of work in the elemen-
tary grades of their schools will seek her
assistance. We want you to feel that
Miss Kimble is a state worker, seeking no
compensation or contribution because of
the service she may render. The work
in our eleemntary grades should be the
most attractive and the brightest spot in
our schools and every superintendent
should not rest until these grades are
brought up to standard. Miss Kimble's
home address is 427 Locust Street,
Galesburg.
Standard Schools and Societies
There were eighty-four schools that
reported their standing on the report
blank sent to each superintendent. Only
one was standard, that at Kewanee.
There were twenty-two star schools as
follows: Areola, Aurora (First), Au-
rora (Marion Ave.), Blandinsville, Cor-
dova, El Paso, Fairmount, Hillsboro, La
Moille, LaSalle, Lincoln, Minonk, Mon-
mouth, Mt. Carroll, New Berlin, Os-
ceola, Piano, Ouincy (Central), Rock
Island ( First), Springfield (Elliott Ave.)
Taylorville, Urbana (First). There were
twenty-eight striving schools.
This report does not cover the Chica-
go Association. Director Gage reports
ten standard schools there. Chicago has
certainly put it over the state and our
one lone school must seem lonesome. At
the Atlantic City Convention of the N. B.
C, Illinois reported six standard schools
outside of the Chicago Association. Some
of these failed this year partly because
their pastor had accepted "Y" work in
France, and one or two others because
of illness.
Forty societies have reported to th,^
office on the standard of excellence. Two
are standard, Oglesby and Princeton.
Several miss by only four or eight points.
The star societies number nine as fol-
lows : Chatsworth, DeKalb, Delavan, El
Paso, Hoopeston, Kewanee, LaSalle,
Normal, Upper Alton. Eleven societies
are striving societies. At Atlantic City
nine societies were reported standard.
We will have to count on the Chicago As-
sociation to help us out of this hole also,
otherwise the report made at Denver will
be unworthy our young people.
Some schools did not report because
they were not attempting the standara.
This is a mistake. The director wants
the report blank returned for other rea-
sons and hopes that superintendents will
continue to report according to the re-
quest sent them. Let us all plan to try
for the standard this coming year.
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Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
>lrs. .Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
El^ln
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
The Central District of the W. A. B.
F. M. Society held its annual meeting in
Detroit, Michigan, April 23-24. In every
respect it was a fine meeting. Part of
the time was given to the W. A. B. H.
Mission Society and was filled by repre-
sentative speakers. There was splendid
hospitality, good program and good at-
tendance. The Woman's Baptist Mis-
sion Society of Illinois was represented
by its president and treasurer, Mrs. W.
P. Topping and Mrs. H. W. Tate. The
state secretary of the W. A. B. F. M. S.,
Mrs. L. A. Vinnedge and Miss Mildred
Bush, W. W. G. secretary director, also
Dr. Etta R. Hilton of the State Board,
w^ere present. Dr. Hilton was elected to
the ofifice of Home Administration Vice-
President of the Central District to suc-
ceed Mrs. D. W. Beggs. There was an
attendance of about three hundred at the
W. W. G. banquet on Thursday evening.
Mrs. E. C. Copelin, District Secretary-
Director for the W. W. G. work, living
in Aurora, 111., was toastmistress.
To many women of our churches and
communities during the strain and stress
of war times has come a new vision as
they have answered the question, "Who
is my neighbor?" Surely there could be
no better time than the present for our
missionary organizations to take advan-
tage of the interest in suffering humanity
all over the world, to push the claims of
our mission fields at home and abroad
In thus furthering the interests of mis-
sions the Interdenominational Commit-
tee of the Central West for Missions is
glad to announce the 15th session of the
Summer School of Missions to be held
at Winona Lake, Indiana, June 19 to 26,
and the first session of a new school to
be held at Conference Point, Lake Gene-
va, Wis., June 26 to July 3. Fine pro-
grams have been prepared for both these
schools, mission study classes using the
new books for both home and foreign
missions, normal classes for those wish-
ing to do advanced work and classes in
methods for women's, young women's
and children's work. There will also be
evening addresses and lectures, twilight
hours with the missionaries and oppor-
tunities for rest and recreation. Money
could not be better spent than for our
Circles to send one of their representa-
tives to one of these schools. A week
spent at either Lake Geneva or Winona
Lake will make a pleasant outing.
Write to Mrs. A. A. Hunter, 242.5
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, for program
and full information.
The State Convention Board showed
its appreciation of the wife of the Super-
intendent on account of her many years
of helpful work in the interest of the
denomination by voting to send her to
the Conventioo in Denver. She has
misswd but three meetings of the North-
em Baptist Convention and in twenty-
one years but one of the State Conven-
tion.
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I THE BAPTIST OLD PEOPLE'S HOME |
5 MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS =
E The members of the Home are all fairly well and welcoming the =
= first evidences of spring. They are especially interested just now that =
E the goal set by The National Committee of our Northern Baptist Lay- E
E nien be reached. E
E Some of them who are almost 90 years old, are watching, praying, E
E working and giving for the success of this great movement, and the dear E
E Father knows Iwzv to measure our gifts. E
E Our spring cleaning began with a generous donation by Mr. Ingalls E
E (husband of the chairman of our House Committee), who has refin- E
E ished free of cost to the Home, the floors of dining room, halls, pantry E
E and bath rooms. E
E We are still hoping some one will make the Home a present of an =
E elevator, so the older people on the second floor, who are weak or crip- =
E pled may get up and down to the dining room without climibing two E
E flights of stairs. E
E Five of the necessary twenty to give $100 per year for five years to E
E the Endowment Fund have been secured, where are the others ? This E
E is the first thing necessary to the enlargement of our work. May 6th E
E is our Annual Birthday Party of the Home — How about a special of- =
E fering for the Old People's Home at that time, especially if your church E
E has not made a contribution this year ? Our people did not worry about E
E Easter hats, but were delighted with a crate of eggs sent by the church E
E ar Cornell. A crate from here and there would be much appreciated E
E and could easily be collected if some good soul would look after it. E
E Mrs. A. W. Runyan, Field Sec. E
E 5742 Maryland Ave., Chicago. E
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Shurtleff College
Endowment
One-half Million Dollars from the
Baptists of Illinois
What Will It Mean?
1. iVn adequate endowment of $700,000.
2. Permanency of "The Pioneer School."
3. A greater field of Influence.
4. A College to which we Baptists can point with ever increasing
pride.
5. A never ending stream of trained men and women for the fu-
ture.
6. Another great step forward in denominational work and effort.
SHURTLEFF-The Pioneer School
In 1827 John M. Peck laid the foundation not only for Christian,
Baptist Education in Illinois, but also for public education. His pur-
pose was to make the foundations sure for a Christian State in the midst
of the wilderness.
SHURTLEFF-A Christian College
"Shurtleff College is of good parentage. Missionary zeal and de-
nominational vision started the child on its course almost 100 years ago.
This college was established not alone because the great Mississippi Val-
ley needed a college but 'because it needed a Christian College."
Address Pres. George M. Potter or Dr. Myron W. Haynes, Alton,
111.
BC
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VOI^ XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, JUNE 1919
NO. 2
The State Convention
Every meeting of the Northern Baptist
Convention seems to bring the State Con-
ventions into more striking prominence
and lays upon them heavier burdens. In
the last meeting, in Denver, by passing
the report of the Committee of Five,
practically the success of the whole move-
ment will rest with the State Conven-
tions. If $100,000,000 are raised in five
years it must be done by Planning Boards
organized by each State Convention. The
State Convention must now get behind
all our missionary propaganda, our edu-
cational interests and our philanthropic
institutions. This cannot be done by a
weak or poorly supported State Conven-
tion. In Illinois we did not push the
State Convention finances while the ap-
portionments were being raised for the
other missionary organizations nor during
the Victory Campaign, but now during
the month of June a strong effort should
be made all over the state to bring up
the State Convention apportionments. A
few churches have made their full ap-
portionment, but very few. We have
had to borrow money to keep our mis-
sionaries paid up.
At the April meeting of the Board,
the superintendent was authorized to
find three District Missionaries as soon
as possible to put over definite districts
in the state and a fifth one as soon as
our finances would allow it. One of
these men is now at work in the field.
Two more, and possibly three, are in
sight to be secured this fall. These must
be first class men and a fair salary must
be paid to secure them. However, we
have so planned our work as to do all
this within our income if all the churches
will pay up all their apportionments.
Now is the time to push this matter
without delay. People have plenty of
money now, and if the pastors will ask
for it for the State Convention in the
right way they will give it. Where there
is no pastor some layman should take it
up and push the matter of the State Con-
vention offerings.
We cannot save this great world unless
we can save our states, we cannot
evangelize the heathen world while three-
fourths of the people in our states know
nothing of the true way of salvation.
State work is foundation work.
A 100% INVESTIVIENT
The greatest opportunity in the history
of the denomination. If the denomina-
tion will raise $500,000 to complete the
$6,000,000 undertaken last year, Mr.
John D. Rockefeller will give another
$100,000 and in addition to that $2,000,-
000 more for Home and Foreign Mis-
sions. Illinois is back about $39,000 on
what it undertook to raise. A strong ef-
fort will be made to raise it. We have
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already raised $181,000 in Illinois and
still lack $39,000. The State Convention
and tlie Executive Council in Chicago
have been promised 10% of the $220,000
or any portion of that sum raised in Illi-
nois. Now is the time for everybody to
do something, and those with considera-
ble means to do largely.
PERSONALS
Rev. John Howard sends out a circu-
lar letter to his friends giving some ac-
count of the Mission fields in Southern
India before he left it and their trip
across the water. Brother Howard and
his wife attended the Convention in Den-
ver. He has fine sets of stereopticon
slides and would be willing to visit
churches at any time and give addresses
upon missionary work. Brother Howard
is an interesting speaker.
Rev. W. A. Pitman of Tamaroa, Illi-
nois, is now engaged in tent meetings.
He just closed a meeting at Christopher
with thirty-five professions. There were
thirty-two additions to the church, twen-
ty-eight by baptism. The Christopher
church is now planning to build a new-
meeting house. Mr. Pitman is now hold-
ing a union meeting with his tent in
Tamaroa.
Rev. Harold F. Holbrook, pastor of
the Orion church has published a little
booklet on the subject of The New Birth.
His text is John 3 :5-7, "J^sus answered,
marvel not that I said unto thee, ye
must be born again, etc." There are
twenty-four pages in the booklet and it
is quite readable. The price is thirty-
five cents.
Evangelist J. N. Edmondson of At-
wood, will be available for supplying
churches during the summer. Brother
Edmondson is a strong preacher and any
church desiring supply work will do well
to communicate with him.
CHURCHES
Rev. Orlo Brees who recently returned
from a chaplaincy in the army and took
up his work at Hillsboro, is having good
success. He recently conducted a meet-
ing, assisted by Rev. P. C. Land of
Mississippi. Twenty-one persons made a
profession of faith. Seven have united
with the church by baptism and seven by
letter and experience and more will come.
Brother Brees sends in sixty-one sub-
scriptions for the Bulletin.
The Young People's organizations of
the Champaign and Urbana churches held
a very interesting social afi'air Friday
evening, May 23. The purpose of the
meeting seemed to be to work up an in-
terest in attendance of the International
B. Y. P. U. A. Convention to be held in
St. Louis in July. There will doubtless
be a large attendance from the Young
People's organizations of the twin cities.
Rev. R. T, Gasaway recently located as
pastor of the Mendota church. He says,
"We are very comfortably located in the
fine parsonage here and ] am looking for-
ward with a great deal of optimism to a
successful work. These people seem to
be quite anxious for a spiritual awaken-
ing and they have great hopes that the
Lord will be able to bring that about."
The Ridgewood church, Joliet, of
which Rev. J. E. Corwin is pastor, seems
to be making progress with its success-
ful work. Recently they put on a verv
strenuous program of evangelistic serv-
ices. On May 5th the pastor writes,
"Last night I gave the first invitation of
the meetings and had five come forward
for church membership and baptism. I
feel that this is just the beginning of the
harvest God is going to give us. This
field oflfers great prospects and each day
I see the need more and more clearly."
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20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
ILLINOIS interest in great denomina-
tional affairs was shown by the at-
tendance of one hundred fifty-eight Illi-
nois people at the Convention in Denver.
^ 5(C ^
IT seems to be true that nearly all the
large number of pastors who attended
the Convention in Denver were aided by
their churches to pay the expense of the
trip.
ONLY a few of the pastors who at-
tended the Convention had their
wives with them. Evidently in many
cases the women of the churches did not
make a strong effort to have their pas-
tor's wife go.
THE Convention in Denver voted to
establish a great denominational
paper to cover the whole country of the
Northern Convention. They have offered
to buy out the four papers, viz.. Watch-
man Examiner, Journal and Messenger,
Standard and Pacific Baptist. If any or
all of these papers do not sell out it will
make it harder for them to succeed. If
they do, there will be still greater need
for state weeklies such as West Virginia,
Indiana and Iowa have and for State
Convention monthly Bulletins. W^e need
the great paper, but it cannot do all the
local work needed.
* * *
SOME of the viewpoints about Denver
are the finest in the country. Ex-
President Taft says that Inspiration
Point is the best in the world. Mount
Lookout where Buffalo Bill is buried, and
from which one can see into four states,
is very fine.
^ ^ ^
DENVER is a splendid city for great
conventions. The streets are fine
and well kept. The great auditorium is
well located. The hotels are numerous
and well situated. The people of Denver
seem to be kind and consid_erate of
strangers.
THREE associations this year will
meet in June. Viz., Chicago, Rock
River and Aurora. Two, Ottawa and
Rock Island, that met last year in June,
have gone back to September.
* * *
THE Superintendent and Editor of
the Bulletin cannot take time to work
up subscription lists. This must be done
by the pastors and laymen if done at all.
The people have been good about this,
but they could do better.
LET Program Committees in making
programs for the local associations
remember that the primary purpose of
the organization of the local association
is to cultivate its own field. Every as-
sociation should give plenty ci time to
discuss the pastorless churches, the weak
churches and points where a mission
should be started in its own territory.
Many committees plan a program to dis-
cuss the whole world except their own
field.
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MEETING OF THE NORTHERN B.\PTIST
CONVENTION
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Convention was held in Denver, Colo-
rado, May 21-27. The Editor of the
Bulletin, his wife. Evangelist F. M.
Dunk and State Missionary George H.
Yule went on the Santa Fe Railroad to
Denver, ariving there Sunday morning,
May 18. The weather was delightful
during the trip and the Colorado weather
was ideal during the Convention. The
wheat fields through Kansas are fine.
There did not seem to be much corn,
not much oats, a considerable amount
of alfalfa and immense quantities of
wheat and it all appeared to be first class.
The ride for about seven hours after
dayHght in Colorado to Denver was very
fine, the scenery splendid. At Colorado
Springs we had a good view of Pikes
Peak, in fact we had a good view of it
for about one hundred miles. The other
mountain scenery was good. Denver is
a beautiful city of about 280,000 people.
The city and its public buildings and its
parks are kept up in splendid shape.
Clyde B. Taylor, formerly of Cam-
bridge, Illinois, gave us a fine automobile
ride through the beautiful parks.
An Evangelistic Conference was held
on Sunday and Monday. These meet-
ings were well attended and very fine in
interest. The State Convention Secre-
taries and Superintendents Organization,
of which E. P. Brand of Illinois, was
President and J. T. Crawford of Kansas,
Secretary, held a meeting Tuesday fore-
noon, afternoon and evening. The at-
tendance was good, nearly every State in
the Northern Baptist Convention being
represented. The last session was held
from 7:30 p. m. until 11:00 o'clock at
night. Some of the vital questions of
the denomination were thoroughly dis-
cussed.
The Convention held its first session
Wednesday, May 21. The number or
delegates and visitors registered the first
day was 1,956. President F. W. Ayer
of New Jersey, gave a good address
Wednesday forenoon and Dr. W. H.
P. Faunce, President of Brown Univer-
sity, spoke for one hour on "The Church
and Social Reconstruction." Wednesday
night Rev. S. R. Vinton of New York,
gave an interesting address accompanied
with a fine display of pictures. Dr. W.
F. Padelford of Boston, Massachusetts,
read the report of the Survey Commit-
tee. It was a very fine report and re-
quired one hour and six minutes to read
it.
Denver furnished the finest choir that
has ever appeared before the Northern
Baptist Convention. There were two
hundred sixty voices and they sang well.
The total enrollment of the Convention
was about 2,200 and there were one hun-
dred fifty-eight from Illinois.
Dr. Haggard read the report of the
$6,000,000 drive by the laymen. At the
time of the report $5,456,000 had been
raised. Of this amount an unnamed man
gave $200,000. Mr. Haskell of Boston,
$100,000, and John D. Rockefeller
$250,000 on the IMinisters and Missionar-
ies Benefit Fund and $300,000 uncondi-
tionally on the other portions and an-
other $100,000 when approximately $5,-
000,000 was raised and promises anoth-
er $100,000 if approximately $6,000,000
is raised. The denomination has done
far better financially than in any former
year of its history.
Thursday forenoon Dr. J. B. Gambrell
of Texas, President of the Southern
Baptist Convention, gave a very interest-
ing address. Dr. Gambrell is always
heard with interest. He is now quite an
old man but seems to be vigorous in
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thought and speech. Thursday afternoon
was given up largely to business.
- On Thursday night there was the in-
troduction of new missionaries and a
short address by Dean Shailer Mathews.
This service was very different from last
year at Atlantic City. Then, there were
only five or six sent out by the General
Board and a few by the Women's Board.
This year the women introduced twenty-
one women that they have appointed and
the General Board thirty-nine mission-
aries, sixty in all. Of these, thirty-nine
were women and twenty-one men. The
demand for workers is so great that the
societies do not seem to demand so high
a standard of preparation as formerly.
All those going are fairly well educated,
none with less than high school or normal
schoou education, but many of them were
not college or seminary graduates. Quite
a number were practical teachers.
According to the great report of the
Survey Committee we cannot put off the
evangelization of the world for a few
generations. It must be done soon or
the heathen and underworld will sub-
merge Christianity. We must use
every effort within the next five years or
our civilization will be greatly imperiled.
Dr. Gambrell told us that the Southern
Baptist Convention recently voted to
make an effort to raise $7.5,000,000 with-
in the next five years.
The auditorium was crowded at almost
every session. Illinois had an exceeding-
ly large attendance from all parts of the
state.
Shurtleff Banquet was held on Thurs-
day evening. It was largely attended.
So many came in that two or three extra
tables had to be provided. There were
two trustees, several returned missionar-
ies, several of the old teachers, many of
the alumni and other friends of the in-
stitution. It was voted unanimously to
request the trustees to provide for the
expense of President Potter and wife to
attend each annual meeting of the North-
ern Baptist Convention. It comes not
long before commencement but Shurtleff
cannot afford to lose the influence that
the president would have at the Northern
Baptist Convention.
One of the finest trips near Denver, is
an automobile trip to Mount Lookout.
It is a distance of twenty-eight miles from
the city, about eighteen miles very fine
concrete road. Twelve of us hired two
automobiles for the trip. The driver
went over fifteen and one-half miles of
concrete road in seventeen minutes. The
climb up the mountain is very fine. A
good road was built across this mountain
a few years ago by convict labor. The
view at different points in climbing the
mountain was exceedingly grand. On
the top of Lookout Mountain the visitor
can see into four states. Right on the
highest point of this mountain is the
grave of William Cody (Buft'alo Bill).
His monument is a medium sized pile of
common stones cemented together, with
-1. bronze tablet giving his name and 'his
special request to be buried there.
Friday, May 23
The report of the Committee of Five
of which Professor Ernest D. Burton,
D.D., was chairman, and on which he
had done an immense amount of work,
was read. It does away with the Lay-
men's Organization; puts the work of
planning finances and raising the funds
of all the Societies and State Conven-
tions in the hands of a large Board of
Promotion consisting of one hundred
thirty-eight members. The State Con-
ventions will have about sixty-six mem-
bers on this board. After the matter
had been thoroughly discussed it passed
by a unanimous vote of the Convention.
The plan is for this board to be organ-
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ized during this meeting of the Conven-
tion. Dr. S. J. Skevington of Chicago,
and Superintendent E. P. Brand are the
representatives for Ilhnois on this Board
of Promotion.
A meeting of the Women's Home Mis-
sion Society was held in the afternoon
and was very interesting. At each even-
ing one-half hour was given to a splen-
did show of pictures and talk by Rev.
S. R. Vinton.
The address of the evening was given
by Rev. C. W. Gilkey of Illinois, on
"The War and the Religious Outlook."
After the services were over the Gover-
nor of the State gave a reception to
about 2,000 Baptists at the finest hotel
in Denver.
President Montgomery of the Wom-
en's Foreign Alission Society gave les-
sons each morning at the Albany Hotel.
They were largely attended and greatly
enjoyed.
The meetings on Saturday were of
very great importance. On Saturday
forenoon, May 24, the report oi a spe-
cial committee on interdenominational
union that has served for several years
was read by Dean Shailer aMthews. It
was one of the strongest Baptist docu-
ments ever read in a public assembly. It
took the ground, and gave reasons for it,
showing how organic church union with
other denominations was and is and ever
will be an impossibility so long as Bap-
tists believe fundamental principles that
have always been dear to them. The re-
port was passed by a unanimous vote and
the Convention voted to have the docu-
ment published in our denominational
papers and to go to the expense of
having it published in the secular maga-
zines so far as the Executive Committee
may think wise. Another interesting
feature of the forenoon session was the
report of a committee on the "Inter-
church World Movement of North Amer-
ica."
Dr. Gambrell of Texas was sent as a
Fraternal Delegate from the Southern
Baptist Convention. His address was in-
teresting and the old man was treated
with great courtesy, but he knew that
the question of Interchurch Movement
would be up and he took special pains
to say that the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion had voted it down and spent a con-
siderable portion of his time m talking
against it. Possibly he did not intend to
try to create a division in the Is^orthern
Convention, but it looked that way. The
Committee reported certain conditions on
which the Baptists of the north would
participate in the "Interchurch Move-
ment." This document is so miportant
that we print it in full as follows :
THE INTERCHURCH WORLD
MOVEMENT
Resolved, that the Northern Baptist Con-
vention, reaffirming the imperative duty of
Baptists to bear full testimony to the full
truth in Jesus Christ as they find it taught
in the New Testament, and recognize the
right of each local -^hurch to determine its
own duty without dictation or control by
any outside human authority, expresses its.
readiness to co-operate in the Interchurch
World Movement of North America on the
following conditions:
First, that we be represented in the joint
survey of the home and foreign fields by
members of our denomination appointed by
the denomination, and while giving careful
consideration to the report of such survey,
we reserve unimpaired the freedom to fol-
low our own convictions of truth and the
leadings of divine providence.
Second, that a joint campaign of infor-
mation and inspiration be conducted for
the promotion of stewardship.
Third, that a simultaneous financial cam-
paign be promoted in which each denomin-
ation shall present its own budget to its
own constituency, securing its own pledges,
collect the same, and administer its own
program of expansion.
Fourth, that the Baptists who are offi-
cers of the Interchurch World Movement,
members of its Executive Committee and
of its General Committee be selected by
the Northern Baptist Convention
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Fifth, that in our co-operation with the
Interchurch World Movement we act
through the Generg.! Board of Promotion of
the Northern Baptist Convention. It is as-
sumed that the State Conventions will act
through their respective State organiza-
tions.
Sixth, that evangelical denominational
bodies only be represented in the Inter-
church World Movement.
Seventh, that the Interchurch World
Movement do not promote organic union of
denominations or of local churches, or the
establishment of local church federations,
or non-denominational churches.
Eighth, that the literature and promo-
tion methods of the Interchurch World
Movement be not in contravention of these
principles, and that we reserve the right to
supplement the literature of the Movement
by literature prepared by our own denom-
ination.
With these conditions fully understood,
the Convention voted for the movement,
about 2,000 in favor and three votes op-
posed. Saturday afternoon and night wq
had the regular business of the Conven-
tion with addresses on Home aiid Foreign
Missions and PubHcation Society.
Sunday was a great day. Baptist min-
isters preached in all the Protestant
church pulpits and the auditorium was
crowded. The annual sermon was
preached by Rev. Harry E. Fosdick of
New York. Many freely expressed
themselves in saying it was the greatest
sermon they ever heard. There is no
question about its being a masterly ser-
mon.
Sunday afternoon was given to B. Y.
P. U. work but the Editor was in a spe-
cial committee meeting for three hours
and missed it. Sunday night was a long
session. The last address was by Dr.
Francis of Los Angeles and was a great
effort. It was nearly ten o'clock when he
began, but nearly the entire great con-
gregation remained to hear him.
The General Planning Board met Mon-
day night. May 26, and made a tempor-
ary organization. It continued in ses-
sion until midnight and all the next day
and until a reasonably late hour at night.
It finally made a temporary organization
with Mr. Ayer of New Jersey as chair-
man and an effort was made to finish up
the work of the Laymen's Organization,
under this temporary organization. A
nominating committee of twelve, three
pastors, three laymen, three secretaries
and three women were appointed to
nominate all the officers of the new or-
ganization and when the time comes call
a meeting of all the members of the
Board. This meeting may possibly not
be called until the regular meeting in
November, but an earlier meeting will be
called if possible. One of the most im-
portant features of this Board of Promo-
tion will be the State Board of Promotion
to be arranged in each state by the State
Convention Board. The State Boards
will have charge of raising all the mis-
sionary and philanthropic funds outside
of the work of the local churches.
On account of attending the meetings
of the General Planning Board, the
Editor could not attend the Convention
the last day, but has learned that the
meermgs were well attended and very in-
teresting until the close of the last ses-
sion.
WAR AND PEACE
One year ago, we American people
were engaged in the greatest war by sev-
eral times, that the world had ever
known. We were raising and drilling
troops by millions and spending money
by billions. About 75,000 of our xA.mer-
ican boys sacrificed their lives in that
Struggle, and perhaps $30,000,000,000
were spent. This was to save and pro-
mote the democracy of the world and to
save the world from being trampled
down under German autocracy. The
victory was won, and won from one to
two years earlier than the most hope-
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ful people and nations expected. The
Central nations of Europe surrendered
practically unconditionally. But now,
while fighting in the great battle lines
ceased six months ago, and democracy
was saved, the condition ojf tlie world
seems to be growing worse. In much of
Europe civilization has gone to pieces.
Bolshevism seems to be growing. That
word expresses about everything that is
contrary to the true spirit of Christianity.
It means ignorance, selfishness, lawless-
ness, theft, robbery, murder, infidelity;
everything that is against Christian civili-
zation. Now is the time as never before
when Christianity in America and the
British Empire should arouse itself. Now
is the time when we are greatly needing
many thousands of intelligent and heroic
young men and women to give themselves
to the ministry and mission work. It
millions of young men could go into the
army when needed, certainly thousands
could and should go into the active Chris-
tian service. And if the country could
spend many billions in saving our democ-
racy certainly the churches can spend
many millions in saving our Christianity
and through it in saving the world. Our
great American wealth will not amount
to much if we cannot save our civiliza-
tion. So far as the work of the church
is concerned, we are perhaps in a more
critical condition than we were one or
two years ago.
MONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
OOXiENTION FOR MAY
Only a few of the churches send the full
apportionment at one time. Whenever a
payment reported in The Bulletin com-
pletes the apportionment, it will be indi-
cated by a (*) star.
Aurora, John W. Moncreif (S. E.
F.)
Aurora, D. W. Simpson (S. E. F.)
Aurora, Sarah J. Walker (S. E.
F.)
10.00
15.00
10.00
Assumption, W. C. Morteton (S.
E. F.) 5.00
Berwick, Mrs. E. J, Sheldon (S.
E. F.) 10.00
Belvidere, Geo. W. Sterling (S.
E. F.) 10.00
Belleville, Mrs. Cyrus Thompson
(S. E. F.) 5.00
Bulletin Subscriptions 77.61
Berwick Church 25.00
Erimfield Church 1.00
Collected on Mission Fields by
F. M. Dunk 263.26
Centralia, J. H. McGuire (S. E.
F.) 5.00
Centralia, J. M. Gambill (S. E
F.) 5.00
Carrollton, J. M. Widdowson (S.
E. F.) 5.00
Cairo, Jas. E. Clutts (S. E. F.).... 3.00
Chrisman Church 2.76
Cornell Church 2.49
Canton Church 4.19
Chicago, Austin Church 135.90
Deer Creek Church 25.00
Decatur, East Park Church 9.49
Educational Commission, North-
ern Baptist Convention 75.00
Error corrected 36.40
El Paso, Joseph Wadsworth (S.
E. F.) 5.00
Freeport, Mrs. J. M. Bailey 5.00
Forest City Church 7.00
Galva Church 30.00
^Hammond Church 20.00
*Hoopeston Church 34.00
Interest on Hinckley Church note 24.00
Jacksonville, Chas. H. Story (R.
E. F.) 5.00
Kinderhook, Wm. H. Fantz (S.
B. F.) 5.00
Kankakee Church 30.00
Kewanee Church 19.05
Kirkwood, B. C. Duke (S. E. F.) 5.00
Lincoln Church 16.17
Missionary Committee, Peoria
Association 25.28
Minonk, H. P. Parks (S. E. F.).. 15.00
Murphysboro, Melia K. Smith (S.
E. P.) - 5.00
Marengo, Mrs. F. W. Patrick (S.
E. F.) 10.00
Missionary Committee, Bloom-
field Association 30.00
*Manlius Church 20.50
Marengo Church 7.07
Normal, Mrs. Emma C. Blake (3.
E. F.) 5.00
Normal Church 13.20
Ottawa, O. C. Baldwin (S. E. F.) 5.00
*Otterville Church 8.25
Ottawa Church 50.00
Oquawka, M. H. Allaman (S. E.
P.) 5.00
Percy Church -89
Plainfleld Church 21.00
Plainfield Sunday School 5.65
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Roseville, Norman E. Pinney (S.
E. F.) 5.00
Rockford, State St. Church 27.50
Rent of Greenup meeting house.. 18.75
Superintendent Supply 10.00
Taylorville, Jas. M. Taylor (S.
E. F.) 5.00
Tiskilwa Church 13.75
Troy Chruch 9.38
University Church Fund 125.00
Wyanet, J. T. Herrick (S. E. F.) 5.00
Wyanet, Frank B. Johnson (S. E.
F.) 2.00
Wheaton Church 20.00
Woodstock Church 2.05
Warren Church 2.07
Total $1,418.66
YOUNG BAPTIST MEN AND WOMEN
OF ILLINOIS
Now is the time, it seems to this writer,
for Baptist young men and women of
lUinois, young people of talent, energy
and piety, to give themselves to the Chris-
tian ministry and missionary work, at
home and abroad. No one should con-
sider the ministry of the Gospel of
Christ, if he has any disposition to com-
pare the ministry with other occupations
so far as finances are concerned. When
Saul said, "Lord, what wilt thou have me
to do?" if he had added, I will preach
the gospel if I can make as much out of
it as I can in selling stocks or in insur-
ance or some other business, God would
never have sent him into the ministry.
God's true servants in the ministry do .not
as a rule, get rich, but neither do they,
as a rule, sufifer want. No young person
should be so foolish as to enter the min-
istry or missionary work without the best
preparation it is possible for him to
make.
In this country, poverty is an excuse,
but no reason why a young person should
not get a good education. Everyone who
wants an education and is determined to
have it, can get it. Now is the time for
young people to make preparation. They
ought not to do it for the purpose of get-
ting a large salary, but as a matter of
fact the churches and missionary societies
are going to give a much better support
in the near future than now. Some of
them have made great advancement dur-
ing the past year and others will come up.
There is no reason for anyone to hold
back from the Christian ministry be-
cause of lack of support.
RURAL CHURCHES
The Bois d'Arc church in the Spring-
field Association, held a community rally
May 4th. It had been quite rainy during
a few days preceding and the roads, were
quite muddy for autos but the attendance
was quite good. Services were held
morning and afternoon with dinner in the
basement. This old church "built a splen-
did new meeting house two years ago
and it is doing good work in that com-
munity. Four other churches were or-
ganized, three of them in railroad towns
and one in a country community short
distances from this church. They all
drew a considerable proportion of their
membership from this old mother church
and it was greatly discouraged a few
years ago, but is now building up again
in good condition. Rev. Boston Oldham
of Taylorville, preaches for them one-
half time.
Superintendent E. P. Brand was pres-
ent at the rally and preached in the fore-
noon. President George M. Potter gave
an educational address in the afternoon.
Dr. H. C. Leland, pastor of the Divernon
church and Rev. J. H. Cozad, pastor at
Moweaqua, were present at the afternoon
service.
The Providence church in the Rock
Island Association, five miles across the
river from Muscatine, Iowa, has com-
pletely remodelled its meeting house. It
has been about two years doing it and
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during the past year it has had no pastor,
but it did good work in it!s repairs.
The cost of remodelling the whole build-
ing was $2,800. The church was re-dedi-
cated ^lay IL There was a debt of
$1,200. The day was beautiful and the
roads were fairly good. An all day serv-
ice was held with dinner and supper at
the church. The attendance was large.
Rev. Mr. Rogers, pastor of the Muscatine
church, preached a splendid sermon in
the afternoon and Superintendent Brand
preached morning and evening and raised
the entire indebtedness with nearly $150
over. Pastor Rogers of Muscatine will
supply the church on .Sunday afternoons
until they can locate a pastor. They have
a fairly good parsonage and if the field
were properly worked up they could sup-
port a pastor for full time. There are
some excellent Baptist people on the field.
PASTORAL. CHANGES
Rev. Clinton A. Xeyman, pastor of the
Eastern Aye. Church, Joliet, became a
Chaplain last year in the United States
Navy and the church called his father,
Rev. J. W. Neyman to supply the church
in his place during his absence. Recent-
ly the young Mr. Neyman resigned the
pastorate of the church in order to re-
main as a Chaplain in the United States
Navy. The church accepted his resigna-
tion and gave a unanimous caP to his
father, Rev. J. W. Neyman, to become
the pastor of the church. The elder Mr.
Neyman accepted and continues on the
field. This is a , fine recognition Oi
appreciation by the church of the good
work of this brother as a supply in his
son's place.
Rev. L. C. Taylor, our missionary pas-
tor at Benson has resigned the pastorate
of that field to take effect June 29th, and
has accepted the pastorate of the Kin-
derhook church. Brother Taylor was
greatly appreciated in his work at Ben-
son and resigned because a much larger
field called for his services. We hope
that the Benson church, which i? an ex-
cellent Baptist field, will not be pastorless
long.
' Rev. A. D. Rinnier, who located about
six months ago at Erie, has been com-
pelled to close his work on account of a
nervous break-down. This was Brother
Rinnier's first pastorate and he was doing
very good work and the church was in a
prosperous condition. The clerk of the
church writes, "We trust that we may
have a pastor on the field again soon as
our work here is very encouraging now."
Rev. O. W. Shields who has been pas-
tor at Carlinville several years, and has
done successful work on that field, has re-
signed the work there to accept a hearty
call to the New Stonington church.
Brother Shields did a fine work at Car-
linville and was greatly appreciated by
the people. The field to which he goes
is a comparatively young church, but one
of a great deal of strength and with a
spirit to do work in accordance with the
times in which we are living. We hope
that Carlinville will not be long in finding
a suitable man for that field.
Rev. Mr. Simmons of the Northern
Baptist Theological Seminary has ac-
cepted a call to become pastor of the La-
Salle church and will soon locate on that
field.
The Carrollton church of which Dr. W.
E. Mundell was pastor for about seven
years, has called Rev. W. E. Pool of Ol-
ney, to become its pastor. Brotlier Pool
has accepted the work and is now on the
field.
The Martins Prairie church in the
Greene-Jersey County Association, has
advanced from one- fourth to one-half
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time preaching and has secured Rev.
Wm. Lumley of Jacksonville as pastor.
The Sunday School and Young People's
work seem to be in good condition. The
church has established an electric light
system in its building, seated the base-
ment, and secured a good bell for the
meeting house.
Rev. W. E. Schliemann, paster of the
Edgewood church in Rock Island, has re-
signed the pastorate of that church and
will close his work the last of June.
Rev. Edgar Ford of White Hall, has
accepted a call to the ^Morrisonville
church in the Springfield Association. He
says, "Things look real inviting."
Rev. L. W. Hostetter of Greenfield,
has accepted a call to the pastorate of a
church in Indiana and leaves the state
of Illinois.
STATE CONVENTIOX ]\nSSIO\.\RIES
State Convention Missionary, George
H. Yule, held a two-weeks' meeting in-
cluding three Sundays with the Hoopes-
ton church. There were few conversions
and additions to the church, but the spe-
cial work at which Brother Yule aimed
was the development of the present mem-
bership. He increased the financial sub-
scription $1,300. From the influence of
this budget the pastor was given $115
to go to the Xorthern Baptist Convention
and they increased the pastor's salary
$400. Everybody seems greatly encour-
aged and the church is better prepared
than ever to push on in a larger work.
Rev. Wm. Barringer, pastor of the
Cambria church in southern Illinois,
writes : "Yesterday T baptized nine
happy converts at Crainville. This is
some of the results of the revival held
by Rev. T. O. AIcMinn, our State Con-
vention Missionary, at that place recent-
ly-"
A member of the Hoopeston church
writes concerning the meeting held on
that field by Missionary Yule. He says :
"He also organized a Tithers' League of
fifteen. I believe it is the best meeting
we have ever held, not for results but
for the best interests of the church. He
has put us on our feet, shown us how
to do things and made it possible for us
to have a vision. Brother Yule certainly
knows how to approach people when it
comes to getting money."
The Tampico church of which Rev.
Ray W. Barber is our rhissionary pastor,
has increased the pastor's salary for next
year and raised a sufficient amount of
money to enable him to attend the North-
ern Baptist Convention at Denver. All
branches of the church and Sunday
School work at Tampico seem to be en-
couraging.
The Riverside church of Decatur, of
which Rev. Irving Fox is our missionary
pastor seems to be doing aggressive
work. During the month of April and
one week in ^lay there were twenty-six
additions to the church, sixteen of them
by baptism.
The Normal church was represented by
five delegates at the Northern Baptist
Convention in Denver.
It is reported that Dr. J. L. Jackson is
having encouraging success with the
Bloomington church. The meetings
which he held for two weeks preceeding
Easter are said to have been quite suc-
cessful.
The Pekin church is planning to build
a new parsonage on the church lot.
The Charleston church has just located
a pastor, Rev. V. L. Edwards, of Te.xas.
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"CASUAIiTIES IN AMERICAN ARMY
Washington, D. C.,* April 23. — Revised
casualty totals, announced today by the
war department, placed the total of dead
in the army and marine corps at 75,344,
of which 3 3,887 were killed in action.
Prisoners reported were 4,791, including
fifteen reported now held by the bolshe-
viki.
Of prisoners previously held by the cen-
tral powers the records show 281 died dur-
ing internment and 118 of doubtful status.
The grand total of wounded in the list
is 201,230, of whom it has been estimated
more than 85 per cent returned to duty."
— Chicago Ti'ibune.
Rev. E, L. Krumreig, D.D., has re-
signed the pastorate of the First Baptist
chtirch in Danville, to take effect Septem-
ber first. This will close up six years on
that field. The Baptists seem to have
made great progress in Danville, since Dr.
Krumreig began his pastorate there. The
membership of the church has more than
doubled. They have one of the best
meeting houses in the state and in many
other ways the Baptists have been recog-
nized as a prominent denomination in
Danville. We hope some good church in
Illinois will locate Brother Krumreig in
the pastorate by the time his work closes
in Danville. His daughter, a graduate of
Shurtleff College, is preparing herself for
a medical missionary.
Rev. Frank M. Dunk recently closed
quite a successful meeting at Mt. Sterl-
ing, the county seatof Brown county
We hope that a pastor may soon be
located between Pittsfield and Mt. Sterl-
ing, two county seat towns where a good
strong man could do the work on the
two fields preaching on alternate Sun-
days. Evangelist Dunk is engaged for
tent meetings during the summer until
September.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, ILJilNOIS
Rev. D. H. MacGillivray, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGillivray, Matron
The end of May finds the children busy
with tests and examinations preparatory
to closing of school, which will give them
greater greedom for outdoor life. Our
girls in high school are jubilant over the
fact that their record is such that they
all escape the finals.
The garden work is well under way
and girls and boys alike are ready to en-
list for active service.
One of our workers, Miss Newell, who
has been with us for more than four
years, leaves for a two-months' vacation,
which will be spent with relatives in On-
tario, Canada. We are glad she is to en-
joy change of scenery and freedom from
duty, which has been well earned,
We have had several cases of measles
this month, and again we are so thank-
ful for the clean comfortable little cot-
tage where they can enjoy the quiet and
receive good nursing. Some have recov-
ered, others are convalescent.
Donations this month have been few,
but this is generally true at this time of
the year. However, those sent fitted our
needs and we are thankful.
Canning season will soon begin and we
are going to ask right now for a volun-
teer in each church, who will take the
responsibility of soliciting, packing and
shipping to us next fall a barrel of
canned fruit and vegetables. This is true
missionary work and can be done with-
out going abroad or interfering with
other work. Many friends whom we
have never seen we ihave learned to
know and appreciate because of their
work along these lines.
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29
Department of Sunday School and
Young People s Work
Louis H. Koehler, 2006 E.Jackson St., Bloomington, Director
Last Call — Not to breakfast, but to
St. Louis. Spend your vacation week
with the hvest bunch of young people in
the middle western states — the Oskawa-
was. These Indians will go to St. Louis
on the 2nd of July and remain over the
6th. Write to transportation or fellow-
ship committee chairman (name on this
page) for further information. A letter
will be sent to all the societies very soon
giving the very last word. Look for it.
Here They Are — Here is the roster of
the revived State Union.
Baptist Young People's Union of
Illinois
President — Harold J. Howard, Mt.
Vernon.
First vice-president — Victor A. Sund-
berg, 1034 Massasoit Ave., Chicago. .
Second vice-^president-^Henry A. Liv-
ingston, Minonk.
, Third vice-president — Miss Goddina L.
Welden, 125 So. Sycamore St., Centralia.
Treasurer — F. G. Harsch, Central Na-
tional Bank, Peoria.
General Secretary — Miss Ailie G. Dav-
is, Benton.
Field Secretary — Rev. Louis H. Koeh-
ler, 2006 E. Jackson St., Bloomington.
Committee chairmen : Finance — ^Miss
Elsie Oberg, 7046 Stony Island Ave.,
Chicago.
Fellowship — Carey R. Johnson. Prince-
ton,
Transportation — Edwin Phelps, Trib-
une Bldg., Chicago.
Advisory Council — Rev. Herbert W.
Hines, El Paso, Chairman Dept. Sunday
School and Young People's Work.
The New Keystone Lesson? — Here
is good news for our teachers, especially
those in the elementary grades. The first
issue of the newly revised and rewritten
graded lessons will be sent out October
first. The Beginners lessons will be re-
written by Miss Frances Weld Danielson,
the leading kindergarten specialist in the
field of religious education. In our
judgment there is no one on earth bet-
ter fitted to write these lessons and Bap-
tists may rejoice that her services are se-
cured. It is likely that the Primar}' series
will be rewritten by Mrs. A. A. La-
moreaux, the well known author of "The
Unfolding Life." Miss Nan Weeks, a
specialist with boys and girls will write
the lessons for the junior grades. The
intermediate lessons will be revised by
Dr. Frank O. Erb and these will un-
doubtedly be very much in favor. It will
take some years to complete the entire
course, but our Publication Society is
determined to give us the very best and
all our teachers may look forward with
interest to each forth-coming issue. The
seniors and adults will be pleased to know
that many elective courses will be put on
the market, such as "The Patriarchs," an
elective in the parent-training series;
"Some Great Teachings of the Bible'' for
men's classes; and "Studies in the Lives
of Peter and John," a new six months
course. All of these will be issued in
permanent bindings. The lessons for
the elementary grades will be arranged
so that they may be used in rotation.
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ILLIXOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
Elfin
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., Eranston
There are two important gatherings
this month so located that one or the
other can be reached by most of the wom-
en in the state. They are the Interde-
nominational Summer Schools of Mis-
sions held at Winona Lake, Indiana,
June 9-26, and at Conference Point, Gen-
eva Lake, June 26-July 3. Think about
it, then "pack up your grip" and go to
one or the other.
News of Our Foi-mer State VV. W. Guild
Leadei's
Miss Alice -S. Brimson is the new
Americanization Secretary under ap-
pointment of the W. A. B. H. M. S., and
will be found in her delightful office in
our Baptist Missionary Training School,
2969 Vernon avenue, Chicago. Miss
Brimson will lead a course in "American-
ization" at the Summer School of Mis-
sions at Conference Point, Lake Geneva,
June 26th to July 3rd.
Miss Gladys M. Topping, World Fel-
lowship Secretary for the Northeastern
Field, Y. W. C. A. will present the For-
eign Mission Study Book, "A Crusade
of Compassion" at the Y. W. C. A. Col-
lege Conference at Silver Bay, Lake
George, June 20th to 30th. She also has
a study class at the Y. W. C. A. Indus-
trial Conference in July at same place.
]\Irs. W. P. Topping, recently returned
from a trip to Porto Rico, writes of the
dedication of the new students' home,
"Villa Roble," in Rio Piedras, Porto
Rico, on April first.
The building has been erected by the
Woman's American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society for the young women of
Porto Rico attending the university. Its
aim is not only to provide a delightful
place for these young women to live but
a real Christian center from which will
radiate principles that will influence the
homes and lives of all those who are for-
tunate enough to stay within its walls.
The name Villa Roble means Oak Hall,
and was chosen on account of the many
beautiful roble or oak trees that are on
the grounds. These trees diflfer material-
ly from the oak of the north, as they grow
only twenty or thirty feet high and have
most beautiful clusters of pin'k flowers,
somewhat resembling the flower of our
locust tree. In the large living room,
made most attractive with bamboo palms
and flowers, a notable gathering of
friends and citizens assembled. Men,
prominent in the political affairs of the
island, missionaries of all denominations,
native pastors and native church mem-
bers all rejoicing in the new element of
helpfulness that this building inaugur-
ated. The sniging of Americn appro-
priately opened the program, followed by
prayer.
The principal addtess of the evening
was by Hon. Fmileo del Toro, judge of
the supreme court of Porto Rico, chair-
man of the religious committee in the
San Juan Y. M. C. A. and prominent in
all lines of civic activity.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
31
ASSOCIATIONS
The Rock River Association met June
3-4 with the Mt. Carroll church. The
very rainy weather made it impossible to
drive automobiles over the roads. With-
in recent years a large proportion of
those who attend the Associations plan to
drive to the place in their machines and
if the roads are muddy they do not try
to attend. This makes the attendance in
muddy weather very much smaller than
in former years, but while the attendance
■It Mt. Carroll was quite small the interest
was very good. The writer has never
attended the Association when there
seemed to be so deep an interest in the
line of Christian work. The Missionary
offerings from that Association were
quite good but the Association lost in
membership. There were only thirty
seven baptisms and fifty-one deaths.
The new officers and Missionary Com-
mittee seemed disposed to take hold ct
the work with a strong hand for the com-
ing year.
The Chicago Association met with the
Memorial church, June 5-6. While there
was an enrollment of more than 400 there
were not many present in any one ses-
sion. Rainy weather had something' to
do with the attendance at this meeting.
The churches reported 1,259 baptisms,
nearly 400 more than last year. The Mis-
sionary offerings of the Association in
making up the regular apportionments of
the churches and in the special drives was
much more this year than ever before.
The Executive Council is doing first class
Missionary work in the city of Chicago.
152 have found their place in the Sunday
School again.
Rev. Edgar Woolhouse began in the
pastorate of the Messiah church in Chi-
cago, April first. There seems to be
some encouragement in the work. All
debts against the property have recentiv
been paid.
The State Street church of Rockford
has called Rev. Raymond S. Carman of
Fairport, N. Y. It is not yet known
whether or not h^ will accept the call.
Rev. J. M. Osborne, after having been
pastor for nine years among the group
of churches at East Moline, Watertown
and Silvis within a radius of three or
four miles, closed his work the first of
June and will probably accept a very flat-
tering call which he had received in the
state of Indiana. The assistant pastor
will continue the work at Watertown and
Silvis and we hope that a pastor can soon
be located at East Moline.
The Apportionment Committee wiU
meet in Chicago, June 13, and shortly
after that the apportionments will be sent
out to the churches for the coming year.
We will work on these as in former years
and the great $100,000,000 drive for the
next five years will be started about Jan-
uary first. We hope the churches will
make a strong effort to raise the appor-
tionments just as they have been doing
in former years.
Two hundred sixty-eight young men
went from the First Baptist Sunday
School of Englewood, of whom 152 have
now returned to Chicago and the Super-
intendent reports that every one of those
Among the recent graduates at the
Normal University were several Baptist
girls. These go out to different places
in the state and nation, and will do ef-
fective service for Christ.
A very large number of Baptist stu-
dents are attending the summer school at
Normal. The pastor, D. O. Hopkins, is
delivering special messages for these
young people.
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I THE BAPTIST OLD PEOPLE'S HOME |
= MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS =
E (From the Annual Report of the Recording Secretary of the Board of =
E Managers.) E
E Each year of work as it passes from our hands into Eternity reveals a E
= certain character of its own which distinguishes it from others. Last year E
E the call "To Arms!" brought to us extra outside work, extra calls for E
— money and advancing prices, so that our ordinary local work required un- E
E usual effort. This year our task has been to "Carry On," and it has been E
= a hard steady pull, with some discouragements, some mistakes and many E
= problems to solve. E
E The Home Household now includes forty members and six helpers. E
E The salaries amount to $280 per month, and the entire monthly expense is E
E nearly $700. The wages of all employes have been raised this year. E
= Our list of applications keeps quite ahead of our accommodations, yet E
E by careful planning no one has been kept waiting an uncomfortable length E
^ of time. E
E The table service has been made easier and more satisfactory by fin- E
i: ishing the table tops and dispensing with long table cloths. Linen needs E
E were estimated and provided for by an Easter Linen Shower. E
E The little gray "coal sacks" given out by Mrs. Runyan have given sub- . E
E stantial aid to our heavy heating expenses. Our Matron has been made E
= more comfortable by having the office removed from her room into the E
E corridor. =
E The Board has adopted the plan of organizing an auxiliary in each E
E church, which it is hoped will awaken an interest among the young mar- E
E Tied women and be of great future benefit to the Home. This plan will =
E take time and has not yet been worked out. The new "Record of Mem- E
E bership" will surely prove a book of great interest and permanent value. E
E The attendance at Board meetings has been smaller than the two Z
E years previous, but is no doubt due to the extra demands upon our wom- E
E en's time and the unusual amount of illness in their homes. Some of our E
E women have dreamed dreams and some have seen visions which have not E
E as yet come true, — dreams of a laundry dryer and an electric refrigerating =
E plant which should lighten labor and frighten away the ice man, — visions E
E of some magical plan which should provide an unfailing source of income E
E for our current expenses, — but these have not as yet become practical real- E
E ities. Nevertheless we approach our tenth birthday with the assurance =
E that our old people have been well cared for, the Home and its equipment E
E are in excellent condition, and there is great cause for gratitude. E
i MRS. EMILY BOYER, Rec. Sec. =
E May 26 was Chicago Tag Day for Adult Charities, including oui Home. =
E A strenuous day for our Chicago women. The 10th birthday of the Home =
E v/ill be celebrated June 7th. Come if you can, and see the Home. Other- E
E wise if you are sorry to not have a part in either of these events just en- E
E close a Birthday Offering and send to Mrs. Ella Wangoman, Treas., 316 =
= Fourth St., Maywood, 111., in time for the party. =
E MRS. A. W. R., Field Sec. 5
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VOI^ XI.
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, JULY 1919
NO. 3
A Great Need
The Baptist denomination has made
great progress within the past few years
in some respects, and it is planning
gigantic things for the future in the way
of finances. But if all the plans that are
now proiX)sed are fully carried out in
the raising of money, the whole thing-
will be a practical failure unless we can
enlist many thousands of young men and
women in the ministerial and missionary
work. Churches that are giving thou-
sands of dollars and some of them many
thousands of dollars for religious and
missionary and educational work are not
giving any of their young people for this
work. There are many large churches
ill Illinois that often become pastorless
and always look to some other church to
furnish them a pastor while that church
has perhaps not given a preacher or mis-
sionary to the denomination for thirty
years. We wrote an article upon this
subject last month. It is of so great im-
portance we cannot keep silent. It
seems to this writer that the greatest op-
]X)rtunity in this world for the coming
fifty years is in Christian Service. On
the foreign field much of this service will
be in the line of teaching, nursing, hos-
pital work, domestic science, agriculture
as well as preaching the gospel. But
along all these lines it should be for
Christ's sake and for humanitv's sake
and not simply for the sake of a salarw
Scores and hundreds of our young men
and women every year should be led to
fully decide to say, "Lord here am I,
send me." 'T will go anywhere, and I
will do anything you want me to do."
"For Christ's sake I will make all the
preparations in my power for His serv-
ice." How many young people are mak-
ing that kind of a decision now ? How
many pastors are looking for and pray-
ing for young people tO' be consecrated
to ministerial and missionary service?
How many parents are praying God to
call their own children into this service?
How many Christian people are looking
among the young people of their own
church and encouraging some of them
to enter the ministry? If the great pur-
])ose of the few years we have in this
life is making money and seeking worldly
pleasure, these young people should not
l^ecome ministers or missionaries, but if
the great purpose in life is to do all the
good possible, and if it is true, and it
certainly is, that there is greater happi-
ness in His service than in serving self
and the world, then our brightest young
l)eople should give themselves to this
work. The writer took many years to
decide this matter. He has always had
hard tasks and much of them on rather
undesirable fields
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FROM THE APPORTIONMENT
COMMITTEE
There has been an unusual delay this
year in reporting apixsrtionments to the
churches for the reason that it seemed
wise to defer the meeting of the commit-
tee until after the meeting of the North-
ern Baptist Convention at Denver in or-
der that we might conform to any plans
which might be adopted at that time. All
who are informed concerning the Denver
convention know something of the en-
thusiasm with which the greatly enlarged
program of the denomination was
adopted. That enthusiasm was regis-
tered in the adoption of a fihancial goal
such as would not have been dreamed
of a few years ago. Yet, in adopting
one hundred million dollars as our goal
for the coming five years, we were but
taking our proper place beside the other
great denominations who have had the
same vision of world conditions and
needs that also appeals so strongly to us.
These are times in which it is of the
utmost importance that the churches
everywhere shall face our common task
with a deeper sense of its seriousness and
with the determination that in this great
crisis, when we are permitted to co-oper-
ate in the re-making of the world, we
will not be found wanting. If we are
to achieve the larger program of the
denomination we shall need first of all
to see to it that our regular apportion-
ments are fully met.
The aggregate amount apportioned this
year exceeds that of last year by about
twenty per cent and we trust that each
church will faithfully endeavor to meet
its full apportionment and to exceed it
if possible.
The Committee makes some definite
suggestions as follows :
( 1 ) That in every church there should
be a Board of Missions, or Missionary
Committee whicli should have the re-
sponsibility for cultivating the mission-
ary spirit, encourage more earnest prayer
for missions, and see that the apportion-
ments are raised.
(2) That in every chuich there should
be a fresh study of the subject of stew-
ardship as taught in the Bible, in the light
of present conditions.
(3) That the practice of tithing be en-
couraged.
(4) That the every-member canvass
be faithfully made annually.
The committee urges, especially, that
remittances be made to Dr. A. S. Car-
man, 417 South Dearborn St., Chicago,
by the end of each quarter and that at
least one-fo'irth of ^he entire apportion-
ment be sent each quarter. This is very
important as it will help to save many
thousand dollars which the societies, in
the past. hav<! had to pay annually as in-
terest on money borrowed.
AI. W. Twing, Chairman.
STATE CONVENTION WORKERS
Evangelist F. M. Dunk is keeping busy
during this hot weather. He assisted
Pastor J. W. Campbell in a meeting at
Waverly during the latter part of May
and the early part of June which was
quite a good meeting with a few addi-
tions to the church. Quite a number of
meetings were held in the streets. He is
now assisting Rev. T. F. Klotzche in a
meeting at Andalusia.
Rev. George H. Yule gave a part of
one week to the Mattoon church assist-
ing Pastor James Lively in the develop-
ment of the church. The meeting was
very successful and about $1300 were
added to the current expenses of the
church. The pastor's salary was sub-
stantiallv increased
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
quarter of the year and more than half
the State Convention budget has not been
raised. This should now have the special
attention of the churches.
w
E are now beginning to enter the
new era of Baptist work in the
Northern Baptist Convention.
THE General Promotion Board is
called to meet in Chicago July 2nd.
It is expected that the new plan of work
will be organized more completely and
definite steps taken for a forward move-
ment.
* * *
A special meeting of the Illinois Bap-
tist State Convention Board is called
for July 10, to meet in Chicago. It will
imdertake to organize a State Promotion
Board and transact other important busi-
ness.
THE people of Illinois are not quite
ready yet for anything new, but can
get ready in a very few weeks. The
raising of $40,000 in Illinois to help com-
plete the $6,000,000 and get Rockefel-
ler's $2,000,000 is not yet complete.
Every Baptist and every church should
help complete that little matter.
THE State Convention finances has
had but little attention throughout
the year. It has been sidetracked for the
large drives. Now we are in the last
NO church will be quite ready to en
ter upon the $100,000,000 drive as
long as it is back a few dollars on the
apportionment for its own State Conven-
tion Let no cluirch hi the state fail to
raise its full Convention apportionment
this year.
* * *
ONE of the first things our people
should do in entering upon the new
day is to set apart one- tenth of their
gross income for the ^Master's work
Not one-tenth after the family has lived,
but one-tenth after the necessary ex-
penses have been paid, such as taxes,
hired help, repairs on machinery or new
machinery, etc.
* * *
IF a man honestly and sincerely tithes,
he will put a fair rental upon his own
house, make a fair estimate of his garden
stufl:", butter, milk, eggs, chickens, etc.
It is easy to cheat the Lord in tithing
if one has the disposition to do so. If
all the Baptists of the Northern Baptist
Convention would tithe their income
there would be no trouble about the
$100,000,000 in five years.
* * *
IF the work of the General Promotion
Board and the $100,000,000 drive suc-
ceeds it must be done largely through
the State Conventions. But no State
Convention can do large things in this
respect unless it is well supported. There
is no work that our churches are called
upon to do that is so far reaching as the
support of the State Convention.
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JLLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
MONEY KKliKIVl^nJ VOR THE STATE
CX>NVENTION FOR JUJVE
Only a few of the churches send the full
apportionment at one time. Whenever a
payment reported in The Bulletin com-
petes the apportionment, it will be indi-
cated by a ( *) star.
Aurora, F. M. Jones, (S. E. F. )....$ 20.00
Alpha, Mrs. W. O. Allison, Life
Membership (6) 5.00
*Atwood Church 14.00
Baptist Board of Education 150.00
Big Rock Church 5.71
Champaign, First Church 15.00
♦Campbell Hill Church 13.00
Chrisnian Church --.. 4.08
Collected on Mission Fields by F.
M. Dunk 48.84
*Dixon Church 31.50
DeKalb, First Church 15.05
Fosterburg Church 21.00
*Gifford Church 48.75
Interest 118.75
*Joliet, Eastern Ave. Church 20.26
Lincoln Church 22.68
LaSalle Church 2.75
Missionary Committee, Bloomfield
Association 131.67
Momence Church 2.79
Mattoon, Central Church 6.51
*Oak Park, Lombard Ave. Ch 43.00
♦Osceola Church 75.00
Percy Church .89
Rents, Okahoma house rent 18.00
Rockford, First Church 6.88
Rock Island, First Church 25.00
Rockford, State Street Church .. 14.34
Roseville, Mrs. Minnie C. Ray-
burn (S. E. F.)- 5.00
Shurtleff Colege Advertisement.... 7.00
South Wilmington Sunday School 3.00
Sidell Church 14.11
Upper Alton Church 52.00
University Church Fund .f..- 34.40
Woodstock Church 2.22
Wilmette Church 8.19
Walnut Church 6.00
Total $1,012.37
his ordination. Tlie ordination services
were carried out in the evening.
ORDINATION
A council of all the pastors and some
laymen of the Ottawa Association was
called to meet in LaSalle Friday, June
20 to consider the matter of ordaining
Rev. W. G. R. Simmons. Rev. W. L.
Markland of Streator was made chair-
man of the council and Mr. E. M. Young
of Princeton, clerk. The clerk writes
that at the conclusion of the examina-
tion the unanimous vote recommended
tX>RREOTION
In the May issue of The Bulletin the
Editor wrote concerning the Greenfield
church, "The church is not able to sus-
tain preaching for full time during these
times of high cost of living. They per-
haps could arrange for a pastor for one-
half time." Tlie church clerk writes that
this is not correct concerning that church.
She writes that beside the fact that the
church has a parsonage they can make
a fair salary and that no man has left
the church without being paid. She says,
"We expect to call a pastor for full time
in the near future and pray the church
will prosper again with God's help." We
are very glad indeed,, to make this cor-
rection. It was not our intention to
misrepresent this or any other church, but
that impression was made upon our
minds that the church was not able to
sustain full time work. We are very
glad to know that we are mistaken and
very glad to make this correction.
The most northwestern Baptist church
in the State of Illinois is at the town of
Warren. This is a beautiful town and
the Baptists have a splendid stone meet-
ing house, kept in good repair and a good
parsonage. Last year their pastor ac-
cepted a call to the Buda church and the
Warren .church now has student supply.
The congregations and Sunday School
are quite large for a church of that
membership and the interest seems good.
At Lena the church is quite small, only
ten or fifteen active members there, near-
ly all women, but they are very faithful
in the work. They have a splendid meet-
ing house sufficiently large for a church
of five hundred members. They keep it
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in good repair and although they have
had no pastor for two years or more they
keep up a Sunday School and prayer
meeting service. We hope that we can
arrange for some preaching there in the
near future.
The Damascus church is in the coun-
try about seven miles from Lena and
eight or nine miles from Freeport. It
is a comparatively new church interest,
but has gained considerable strength
within the last few years. It now has a
good meeting house, well equipped with
a good 'auditorium and basement. The
church has been pastorless for nine
months but is now disposed to secure a
good pastor.
The Moderator of the Rock River
Association and the Editor of the Bulle-
tin spent Saturday evening and Sunday
morning and afternoon, June 28-29 with
the Lena and Damascus churches.
The Freeport church is greatly encour-
aged and doing good work. The new
pastor, Mr. Sayers has been on the field
nine months. Sunday night, June 29th
was a special song service and a twelve
minute sermon. The congregation was
large and the interest was very good.
There was a good attendance and good
interest at the B. Y. P. U. meeting. The
\\ork at Freeport seems to be much in
advance of what it has l^een for quite
a number of years.
After the close of the services in the
Uaptist church at Freeport, Sunday night,
June 29th, the Editor of the Bulletin
stepped to the door of the large Metho-
dist church nearb}' and looked in at the
door when they were singing the closing
livmn. There were not more than one-
fourth as many in the Methodist church
that night as in the Baptist church. In
coming a few blocks farther down the
street we saw at least one hundred and
possibly more people standing in front
of a picture show waiting to get
m.
PERSONALIS
Dr. L. A. Abbott of Alton, who is
well along in his 96th year of age, re-
cently wrote a very interesting letter to
the Editor of The Bulletin. His hand-
writing is clear and easily read. He does
some kind pf work, either preaching or
addressing Sunday School classes or
something of the kind almost every Sun-
day. He is quite vigorous. Mrs. Ab-
lx)tt is past 83 years of age and they
have lived together in married life 65
years. The Doctor says, "We are quite
well and so we are journeying on happily
and able to do a little."
Rev. W. O. Shank, former pastor of
the Baptist church in Quincy, closed his
work in Quincy and took the work as a
chaplain in the army more than one year
ago. He did quite a successful work
while he was across the water but is now
ready to locate in the pastorate again.
His address is Quincy.
Rev. G. W. Stoddard, pastor of the
East Park church in Decatur, has recent-
ly purchased a nice home in that city
six blocks from the postoffice and six
blocks from the James Millikin Llniver-
sity. His church has voted him a vaca-
tion of one month.
Rev. Frank Metcalf had a very suc-
cessful pastorate at Bradford a few years
ago. He resigned his work and went to
his old home in Australia to care for his
mother. She has since died and he is
now on his way back to America and into
Illinois where he hopes to locate again
in the pastorate. Brother Metcalf will
make a desirable man for some one of
our vacant fields.
Rev. Walter I. Fowle, who went from
Galesburg to France in Y. M. C. A. work
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about one year ago, has recently returned
and taken up his work again in Gales-
burg. The church was ably supplied
during his absence by Rev. Dr. Lapp.
The Des jMoines College at its recent
commencement bestowed the title of Doc-
tor of Divinity upon Pastor Fowle. This
was a title worthily bestowed. Des
Moines College honored itself in giving
it. We are glad to have Brother Fowle
back into the work in Illinois. The
Galesburg church has "added a goodly
sum to the pastor's salary."
The program of the State Convention
to meet in Jerseyville October 20-23 is
partly made up. Among other speakers
three of the strongest men of the denom-
ination have been secured as speakers at
that time. One of these men is from
Illinois, one from Kentucky and one
from New York.
ORGANIC CHURCH UNION
An invitation was given to the North-
ern Baptist Convention at Denver to ap-
point a committee to confer with some
other denominations upon the subject of
Organic Church Union. The reply to
this invitation was read by Dean Shailer
Mathews of the University of Chicago
and is such a strong and thorough Bap-
tist document that we give place for the
whole paper in the Bulletin. The report
of the committee to consider the matter
as read by Dean Mathews, was adopted
enthusiastically and unanimously by the
Convention and the executive committee
was ordered to have it published in the
denominational press and in other maga-
zines. The report follows :
The Resolution
Whereas, The Northern Baptist Con-
vention has been invited to send delegates
to a Council looking toward Organic Un-
ion of the Protestant denominations, it is
Resolved, That the Northern Baptist
Convention, w'hile maintaining fraternal
relations with all evangelical denomina-
tions in extending the influence of the
gospel of Jesus Christ, does not believe
that Organic Union with other denomina-
tions is possible. It therefore declines to
send delegates to the proposed Council.
The Statement
In declining this invitation, however.
Christian courtesy demands that the
Northern Baptist Convention should state
its position as to Organic Church Union
with other Christian denominations. This
we make not with any desire to pose as
judge of our Christian brethren, but in
the interest of mutual understanding.
The Baptist denomination is a collec-
tion of independent democratic churches.
Not one of these churches recognizes
any ecclesiastical authority superior to it-
self. They are grouped in associations.
State Conventions and a National Con-
vention, but none of these groups has any
control over a local church, beyond that
which lies in common faith, practice and
service. The denomination, in so far as
it has unity, is a federation of independ-
ent democracies. In the nature of the
case, therefore, anything like organic
church union of the Baptist churches with
other denominations is impossible. There
is no centralized body that could deliver
the Baptist churches to any merger or
corporate unity. If Baptist churches do
not have organic unity among themselves,
they obviously cannot have organic unity
with other denominations. By the very
nature of our organization, we are
estopped from seeking organic union with
other denominations.
This situation does not arise from any
desire on the part of the Baptists to with-
hold themselves from fellowship with
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Other Christian bodies in the pursuance
of Christian work. Nor does it arise
from any desire to impose upon them
our own convictions. We grant to others
all rights that we claim for ourselves.
But the liberty of conscience and the in-
dependence of the churches which char-
acterize our position are involved in our
fundamental conception as to the nature
of the church and of its relation to the
religious life.
We believe in the complete competency
of the individual to come directly into
saving relationship with God. We hold
that a church is a local commimity of
those who have consciously committed
themselves to Jesus Christ. The only
church universal is, in our belief, spiritual
fellowship of individual souls with God.
We do not believe in any form of sacre-
dotalism or sacramentalism among Chris-
tians who are all equally priests of the
Most High. We reject ecclesiastical or-
ders and hold that all believers are on a
spiritual equality. With us ordination is
only a formal recognition on the part of
some local church that one of its members
is judged worthy to serve as a pastor.
The fact that such appointment is gen-
erally recognized in all our churches is
simply a testimony to denominational
good faith.
We cannot modify these convictions
for the sake of establishing a corporate
unity with other denominations. Any
compromise at this point would be an
abandonment of structural beliefs.
We heartily believe in the necessity of
a combined impact of Christian forces
upon the evil of the world. Such impact,
however, does not depend for its effc-
iency upon organic union of the churches.
We are convinced that our fundamental
conception of the church, the nature of
our organization, the democracv which is
the very basis of our denominational life,
make any organic union with groups of
Christians holding opposite views unwise
and impossible.
CHTRCHES
The Girard church of which Rev. J. R.
Hastings is pastor, seems to be getting
along quite well. The church was about
one }ear without a pastor. One mem-
ber of the church writes, "The spirit of
the people is good, the old trouble seems
to be gradually dying out and I believe
that it can finally be entirely erased. It
has been very gratifying to have young
people accept Christ in the regular serv-
ices of the church. Plans are being
made to baptize three members Sunday
night."
Rev. J. C. Richardson, pastor of the
Morris church writes, "You wnll be
pleased to know that our church went
over the top June 24th when we had our
annual meeting. All the bills were met
with $200 on hand, pastor's salary raised
S200. added $52.00 to the pay on char-
ities. Our quota for the $6,000,000 drive
and on making up the deficit of $500,000
to secure the $2,000,000 offered is
$333.33. We have already secured
S462.00 and we hope to make it $500.00."
Rev. J. H. Bruggink, pastor of the
Forest City and Kilbourne churches,
writes a very hopeful and optimistic
letter. He feels that he has two first-
class fields, that the work is moving nice-
ly on both with some evidence of success
on the entire field. Recently some peo-
ple have been received for baptism at
the Kilbourne church and he says, "The
good people there are feeling the need
of a more adequate building and arc now
pushing the proposition for putting a
basement under the building and other-
wise remodeling the present church edi-
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fice." He says, "The work at Forest
City is also going along nicely. The
church had planned to build a new par-
sonage soon but the school building in
the town burned down and in order to
secure a first-class building much of the
money had to be raised by subscription.
The Baptist people subscribed more than
$4,000 on this school building and on that
account delayed the building of a par-
sonage until a future time. Quite re-
con tlr three were baptized into the fel-
lowship of the Forest City church."
The following communication comes
from the pastor of the Morrisonville
church : "We have be<Mi located here
about three weeks, the church and Sun-
day School attendance is rather gratify-
ing. The church gave the pastor and
family a nice reception in the basement
of the church and we feel quite welcome.
Our deacons became a little excited about
a debt on our parsonage which amount
was S15(X).00 with two years' interest.
We also needed some repairs both on
the church edifice and parsonage, so the
deacons thouglit that they would try to
raise some money. They have just re-
ported $2300.00 which will put us on
easy street. We are hoping for success
with these good brethren. — Edgar Ford,
Pastor."
The pastor of the Bushnell church
writes as follows : "I thought you might
be interested to hear from Bushnell. Our
Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. have
done some good work lately. A year
ago our school ran about fifty and we
put on a 'Red and Blue' contest (which
ended last Sunday ) and brought our at-
tendance up to one hundred and seven.
The goal of the contest was pulpit fur-
niture which the losing side is to pur-
chase.
We got in nicel>- on the Victory Drive
and recently paid $61.00 to the Anti-Sa-
loon League. My daughter, Alta recent-
ly graduated from the Bushnell High
School and wished to enter Shurtleflf Col-
lege and we are thinking of moving to
Alton. In his name, H. L. Mounce."
The First Baptist church of Peoria,
while the pastor. Rev. J. C. Hazen was
absent attending the Northern Baptist
Convention at Denver, increased his sal-
ary $600 per year.
The DeKalb church sent its pastor,
Rev. W. R. Yard to the Northern Con-
vention in Denver, and increased his sal-
ary $200.
Rev. A. D. Williams, D.D., pastor of
the Olivet church in Chicago stated in
the Negro State Convention in Peoria
in June that he held a meeting the past
spring with the Ohvet church in Chicago
which now has possession of the Old
First Baptist meeting house in which
there were 357 accessions to the church.
He says that there were converts and
baptisms from many races and colors in
Chicago.
The LaMoille church of which Rev.
A. A. Gordonnier has been pastor is do-
ing good work. The Sunday School
now averages eighty to ninety and the B.
Y. P. 11. thirty to forty and the congre-
gations are good. The church recently
increased the pastor's salary $300.
"The Gilman and Bourlx)n churches of
the Bloomfield Association, joined in
sending their pastor, Ernest W. Cox, to
W^ashington, D. C, June 3-6 as a dele-
gate to the National Anti-Saloon League
Convention, paying all expenses of the
trip and giving the pastor a fine ten days'
outing at Washington, Norfolk and other
eastern points. Both these churches also
contemplate being represented at St
Louis at the National B. Y. P. U. Con-
vention with delegates.
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Rev. J. H. Martin who has been pas-
tor of the Greenville church for nearh
three years, has accepted a call to be-
come pastor at Belleville. Ehiring his
pastorate at Greenville fifty members
were added to the church and he closed
the work there with the finances in good
condition.
Rev. A. L. Lockert w:io has been pas-
tor of the Deer Park church for four
years, has resigned to take effect Sep-
tember 1st. This is Brother Lockert's
second pastorate, having served that
church eight years at a previous time.
During these two pastorates of twelve
year5 he has done good work at Deer
Park.
PASTORAL, CHAXGEvS
The Benson church, whose pastor re-
signed quite recently promptly extended
a call to Rev. Russell Walker, pastor
of the Baptist church at Hartford, Ken-
tucky.
The State Street Church of Rock ford,
has called to the pastorate. Rev. Raymond
S. Carman, son of Augustus S. Carman,
Superintendent of our Baptist Board of
Beneficence in Chicago. He will locate
on the field some time in September.
Rev. J. B. Kelly has accepted a call to
become pastor of the Bethany church
in the Alton Association near Highland.
The Alton Association will meet with
that church in September. Bethany is
one of the best rural churches in south-
ern Illinois and Brother Kelly seems to
be very happy in his relationship with
that church. The church gave the pastor
and his family a very hear«ty reception.
The people came in large numbers and
brought an abundance of good things
with which to supply the kitchen and
provide for the table. We hope Brother
Kelly will have a prosperous pastorate
on that field.
Rev. Lee W. Aimes has resigned the
pastorate of the Fairbury church "to ac-
cept a call to an Executive and Bible Min-
istry with the Chicago Hebrew Mission."
The Fairbury church has extended a call
to Rev. E. C. Shute wdio has been for
two years pastor of the Chatsworth
church. Brother Shute has accepted the
call and will locate in Fairbury soon.
Rev. James M. Osborne who has been
pastor of the East Moline church for
two years and has been in East Moline,
Watertown and Silvis for nine years,
closed his work at F^st Moline June
first and accepted a call to the pastorate
of the Bakeman church, Indiana.
Rev. Judson Mcintosh of Canada, ac-
cepted a call to become pastor of the
Sterling church beginning his work last
February.
ASSOCIATIONS
The Aurora Association met with the
Ridgewood church, Joliet, June 24-26.
The meeting was fairly well attended.
The number of baptisms reported by the
churches was eighty-eight. The church
seemed to manifest considerable encour-
agement in the work. Quite an advance
was made along missionary lines. The
Ridgewood church seems to be in good
condition and put its meeting house in
splendid repairs and entertained the
Association well. Drs. Carman and Ket-
man from Chicago, rendered good service
and the Superintendent of the State Con-
vention was given good time. Rev. L.
H. Koehler of the Sunday School and
B. Y. P. U. work, gave two addresses and
was well received.
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SHURTLEFF CX)LLBGE CO\LMENCE-
MBNT
Dr. E. B. Rogers of Springfield, de-
livered the commencement address. All
the exercises were interesting and on the
whole the work of the year had been quite
successful. Dr. Potter seems to be ap-
preciated as a successful president more
and more each year. The outlook for
next year is very good. For the first
time in a generation or two the school
closed the year without a dollar deficit.
The trustees upon recommendation of
the faculty voted the honorary title of
Doctor of Divinity to Rev. N. B. Hen-
derson, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and
to Rev. S. W. Beaven of Rochester, New
York. These are both Shurtlefif students
and men who have made prominent suc-
cess in the pastorate.
The college elected as a professor of
physical training and athletics, Rev. E.
K. Masterson. Mr. Masterson had been
pastor at Normal and resigned about
thirteen months ago to become a Y. M.
C. A. worker in the army in France.
He was in France close to the battle line
until near the time when the armistice
was signed and he was then sent to
Greece to have charge of Y. M. C. A,
work at Salonica. He did satisfactory
work there and they wanted to retain
him in that work and offered him a good
lX)sition if he would return to Greece
this fall with his family. He decided to
remain in America and was casting about
in his mind where to locate when the posi-
tion in Shurtleff College was ofifered
him without his seeking it. Masterson
will make an influential member of the
faculty of Shurtleff College. Dr. Haynes
reported to the trustees that about $125,-
000 endowment had been secured since
January 1st.
MEETING OF THE GENERAL. BOARD OP
PROMOTION
This organization held a meeting of
five sessions July 2nd and 3rd, at the
Hotel Sisson on the edge of Lake Michi-
gan, near the University of Chicago. The
meetings were of intense interest. The
Board was permanently organized by
electing Henry Bond of \ ermont, as
chairman, and Rev. J. Y. Aitchison, D.D.,
as Secretary of the Planning Department.
These men were both elected unanimous-
ly. This gives Dr. Aitchison tlie most
responsible and far-reaching position in
the Baptist denomination. His name
was mentioned at Denver and ho would
have been unanimously elected there, but
he at first positively declined it, but the
heart of the denomination seemed to be
fixed upon him for this position and he
finally yielded. Mr. Bond was for two
years President of the Northern Baptist
Convention and is an excellent man for
the chairmanship. Of the 138 members
of the Board, seventy-seven were pres-
ent. The new organization will take hold
of the work September 1st.
The $100,000,000 campaign is already
on and all contributions for all kinds of
beneficence, education, philanthropy, etc.,
outside of the expenses of the local
church given since the first of April, 1919,
and except what is being raised on the
Victory Campaign for the $6,000,000 of
last year will be counted on the $100,-
000,000 drive.
Measures were taken to establish a
new denominational Baptist paper and
$100,000 were voted for that' purpose
during the remainder of this year, until
April 1st. Possibly some of the privately
owned papers will be bought out. We
possibly need a great national paper,
but that cannot give much local news in
the states. We now have a local weekl}'
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paper in Main, West Virginia, Indiana
and Iowa. The large papers are the
Watchman Examiner of New York,
Journal and Messenger of Cincinnati, the
Standard of Chicago and the Pacific Bap-
tist. The Pacific Baptist has already
decided to sell out to the new enterprise.
If the other three continue to exist the
supply will be sufficient, but if they, or
any of them merge into the new paper
it seems to this writer that some states
will be compelled to establis-h a state
weekly paper owned by the State Conven-
tion. This of course would take the
place of the Bulletins where Bulletins
are published. Rev. Hugh A. Heath,
Superintendent of Missions in Massachu-
setts, was elected as one of the three or
four Secretaries attached to the office of
Dr. Aitchison. During the five or six
3^ears Dr. Heath has been Secretary of
the State of ^Massachusetts he has greatly
endeared himself to the Secretaries of
all the states and he is regarded as an
able man for that position. Much time
was given in discussing plans for relation
of the rural work of the State Conven-
tion wi*:h the General Promotion Board.
When the question of the inter-church
movement was up John R. Mott, perhaps
the best known Christian worker in all
lands in the world, was sent for and ad-
dressed the meeting about three-quarters
of an hour and cut his speech short to
catch a train. It was a masterful ad-
dress. The next meeting of the General
Promotion Board will be held in Novem-
ber.
INTERNATIONAL B. Y. P. U. A.
MEETING
The Editor of the Bulletin took time
to run down to St. Louis for a little more
than one day of the Convention. We
can only report a few points on the meet-
ings. It was the first B. Y. P. U. A.
Convention he has attended for a num-
ber of years. He noticed that the age
of the people attending the assembly
seems to be much younger than formerly.
There were 2,263 registered delegates
and visitors. This was about as large a
registration as that of the Northern Con-
vention at Denver. The attendance did
not seem to be nearly so large. There
must have been many from near St. Louis
who attended a portion of the time.
Three hundred forty-eight registered
from Illinois, ninety-five of them from
Chicago. Professor D. J. Evans of Wil-
liam Jewell College was elected Presi-
dent. There was a strong contest be-
tween Cincinnati and Toronto for the
Convention next year. It was finally de-
cided to go to Toronto.
Rev. F. H. Adams of New York
preached the Convention sermon Sunday
afternoon. Dr. J. F. Love of Virginia
and Dr. P. H. Lerrigo of New York,
gave addresses on Saturday night on
Foreign Missions and World Reconstruc-
tion. Saturday afternoon free automo-
bile and free boat rides were given. The
writer went with a great crowd on a large
boat four hours up the river. The young
people had a jolly time and a very fine
trip.
Rev. James Asa White of Chicago, was
elected General Secretary to give his full
time to the work. On the whole this
seemed to be a great and profitable meet-
ing- of the Convention.
Rev. J. H. Smith of Greenville, III.
has resigned the pastorate of his two
churches and accepted a call to a field for
full time in Iowa.
Rev. W. E. Andereck, pastor at Brad-
ford, Illinois, has accepted a call to Man-
istee, Michigan.
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HCDELSON BAfTlST ORPHANAGE
Kev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
CENTRAL BAHIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, LLUNOIS
Rev. D. H. MacGillivray, Supu
Mrs. D. H. MacGillivray, ]VIatroD
The failure of the new Superintendent
to send a communication for the June
Bulletin was due entirely to our failure
to keep up with the flight of time. We
freely confess that the new duties, the
building operations, the necessity of trav-
eling among the churches, the farm oper-
ations greatly behind schedule on account
of weather conditions in Egypt, have all
contributed to make the month pass too
swiftly.
As we realize the difficulties in the way
of carrying on the work now when senti-
ment is admittedly stronger for orphan-
age interests we marvel at the courage
with which Superintendent Kelly faced
the opposition, law suits and fraternal
misunderstandings of the earlier days.
The sacrifices of those days are not ended
but we have a foundation upon which to
build with some confidence of success.
Whatever changes of plan are necessary
grow out of the success of this pioneer
work.
We wonder if the character of our
work is to change. Within the last two
months nearly all of our older boys and
girls have gone out to suitable homes or
been removed by friends. Those who
have come in are almost all quite small
children and application has been made
for the entrance of several infants. We
are considering the establishment of a
regular nursery with a woman in charge.
The changes already made in the north
building give courage for the months of
incessant work yet before us. The school
rooms and hospital are taking shape and
the office and Superintendent's quarters
are nearly completed.
June has been a busy month for our
l)ig family. Two helpers are on vaca-
tion which causes us to (Jouble up in our
efforts. However, we have not been too
busy to have some play times.
For the past three years our children
have been the guests of Oak Park Bap-
tist Sunday School on Children's Day.
This year as formerly, the children had
the pleasure of an auto ride there and
back.
A number of young people from Im-
manuel Baptist Chruch visited the Home
May 31st and entertained us with an ex-
cellent program. These pleasures mean
much to childhood days and we thank
(jur friends who are ever planning some-
thing good for the children.
The Sunday afternoon services are dis-
continued during July and August, giving
opportunity for more time in the fresh
air and sunshine. These services are
largely supported by Mrs. H. S. Merrill
of Austin, who for years has been un-
tiring in her efforts to bring to these serv-
ices the best talent available that the
children may be instructed in manners,
morals, and righteousness.
The last Sunday in June we have asked
our Sunday Schools to observe as Cen-
tral Baptist Children's Home Day, giving
us an offering at this time or later if more
convenient. The plea has gone forth
and we hope for a generous offering. Do
your best and do it cheerfully and the
l)lessing will be yours.
We still have barrels of fruit jars
packed and will gladly send to churches
and auxiliaries who wish to fill them with
canned fruit for next winter's use.
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Department of Sunday School and
Young People s Work
Louis H. Koehler, 2006 E.Jackson St., Bloomington, Director
Watch For It
The department will issue this month
a leaflet entitled, "A State-wide Program
of Religious Education." A careful per-
usal of this leaflet will help us all to
think i« common terms and will apprise
the workers of the aims and methods to
be used to carry out the program. The
four headings of this folder are as fol-
lows : The Present Day Importance of
Religious Education ; What is Religious
Education ? ; the Aims of the Depart-
ment; The Program. If you desire one
or more copies kindly send for same.
The department plans to issue later a
leaflet on aims and methods of the local
school.
At Iowa Falls
The state director will attend the Iowa
Summer Assembly, July 31 to August
10th, giving two courses of lectures be-
fore the assembly.
Association Methods
The Aurora Association recently voted
a commission on religious education of
five members which will take over the
work of both school and society. One
of the members of this commission is the
newly elected president of the Associa-
tion B. Y. P. U. The chairman is Rev.
R. H. Claxon. In view of the fact that
very few superintendents could be pres-
ent at the Association, it is hoped that
the commission will plan a number of
local institutes and call in the state work-
ers to assist them.
A Young People's Society
The Young People's Union of the First
Baptist church, DeKalb, 111., has been in
existence a little less than two years.
The present pastor believes in a young
people's society which IS a young peo-
ple's society and so has worked out an
organization which is intended to remain
such. The active membership consists of
Christian young people thirty years of
age anti under. From this membership
must come the officers of the Union and
the chairmen of committees.
The associate members are those who
are not Christians, but who wish to be
identified with the work of the Union.
They may not hold any office or be chair-
man of any committee but they enjoy any
other privilege the Union affords. Most
societies are killed by middle-aged people
doing the work young people should be
doing. The name chosen by this organi-
zation is the Young People's Union of the
First Baptist church.
The Union has a ministering commit-
tee which ministers to all in need by
sending flowers to sick people or shut-
ins, visiting, and kindly encouragement to
any who may be becoming discouraged or
disinterested. At Christmas time and
again at A^alentine time those young peo-
ple took presents and remembrances to
the inmates of the county home near the
city and found great joy in the service.
They also assisted the pastor in conduct-
ing services in the home. When the pas-
tor was at Denver recently the young peo-
ple, and all of them are barely twenty
and some still younger, took entire charge
of an evening service to the credit of
themselves and the glory of the Master
they serve. W. R. Yard, Pastor.
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Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
Elgkm
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 HartzeU Ave., Eraaston
BAPTIST MISSIONARY TRAINING
SCHOOL (OM.MEN CEMENT
The evening of June 18lh. 1919, will be
a memorable one in the hearts of the
graduating class of our B. M. T. S.
Everything that goes to make commence-
ment a happy time was in evidence at
the school — ^parents, teachers, friemls,
members of the W. A. B. H. M. Board,
all with words of congratulation.
At eight o'clock, the twenty-four grad-
uates entered the chapel singing "We
March to Victory." Before the princi-
pal address of the evening which was
given by Mrs. Clara D. Pinkham, presi-
dent-elect, the retiring president, Dr.
Warren P. Behan was called to the plat-
form and in a few well chosen words
Mrs. T. G. Soares expressed to Dr.
Behan the regard and appreciation of the
Board and presented him with three vol-
umes of books — the good wishes of every
Board member being represented.
Mrs. Pinkham's address dwelt with the
true estimate of life — proving that cour-
age, loyalty and devotion to Christ would
carry one through to a victorious end.
The "Memory Bibles" given each year
by Mrs. John Nuveen to the graduates,
were presented by Prof. Burt. Before
presenting diplomas, Dr. Behan stated
that the student body had this year num-
bered seventy-two, twenty states being
represented and eleven nationalities,
twenty normal schools, colleges and uni-
versities. The aim for next year is nine-
ty students. His remarks to the class
were most helpful, he urged each one to
feel that their commission was a respon-
sibility given them by God and their work
could not be what it should be unless their
faith in God and love for God was im-
plicit. It was most fitting that the De-
signation Prayer should be made by Dr.
J. W. Moncrief and most impressive was
the "'Mizpah Benediction" sang by the
student chorus.
Members of the class of 1919 will carry
their motto, "Christ in Every Heart," to
Japan, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Porto
Rico and to many different points in our
United States. God bless each individual
girl and give her wisdom, courage, loyal-
ty and devotion to Christ and to others.
Mrs. W. P. Topping.
A >nD-YEAR WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
Conference of the Bloomington Asso-
ciation was held in Minonk on June 11.
It was encouragingly reported that ten
churches had met their apportionment,
six of these sent in their money quarter-
ly. There are fifteen Sunday schools
studying missions, eleven churches have
mission study classes and in three
churches ten percent of the membership
are taking the Magazine Missions. Mrs.
Topping gave a talk on her trip to Porto
Rico and Mrs. Howard spoke of her
work in Burma. The attendance was
good.
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47
Rev. C. H. Wells, pastor of the Flora
church writes, "I had the flu all through
December and the first week in March I
was taken down with a severe case of
bronchitis which kept me from my work
until recently. I have been absent from
my pulpit fourteen Sundays since Octo-
ber 1st. A business meeting ^lay 1st,
showed all bills paid, including an old
debt with some in treasury and about
$500 in the building fund which has been
raised by the Aid Society since January
1st."
A member of the Paris church writes
in part as follows, "Our pastor. Rev. C.
P. Greenfield, has been with us now a lit-
tle over fifteen months and our m.ember-
ship is united and working with our pas-
tor for the upbuilding of the church. Our
prayer meetings are well attended. We
have from thirty-five to seventy in at-
tendance and the interest is growing.
The interior of the church has been re-
paired and re-decorated, new electric
lights have been installed and a new heat-
ing plant under the Sunday School room
has been provided at a cost of $1,000.
We have recently received thirty-four
new members into the church."
Rev. E. R. Drussell has been pastor
of the Elliott Ave. church in .Springfield
fourteen months. During that tinie fifty-
one members have been added to the
church. They are now planning for im-
proving the building and pa}'ing the
church debt.
An inspirational service was held by
the Ottawa church Thursday night, May
1st. It was a great meeting; a free din-
ner was provided and about four hun-
dred people sat down at the tables. A
splendid program was provided for that
evening. The pastor, Rev. G. W. Chess-
man, is now having splendid success on
that field. The church is in much the
best condition it has been for the past
twenty years.
The First Baptist church of Chicago
of which Dr. W. H. Main is pastor, sold
its great meeting house last summer to
the Xegro Baptists. Quite recently it
has purchased a fine new stone build-
ing known as the New Plymouth church
situated at the comer of 51st Street and
Drexel Boulevard. This church had
gone out of existence and had united with
the Kenwood Evangelical church. The
property had cost this denomination
$90,000. The First Baptist church pur-
chased it for about S30.000 and after
paying for it and making some repairs
the church will have $50,000 left from
the sale of its property as an annuity.
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Evangelical, Evangelistic, Positive, Prac-
tical, Missionary, Baptistic. Fall term
opens Wednesday, September 10, 1919
President, George W. Taft, D.D., 1857
Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois.
Winona's Matchless Combination — Great
Bible Conference
August 22nd to .31st, presenting the follow-
ing speakers: Campbell Morgan, Gipsy
Smith, John McNeill, Bishop Henderson,
William Jennings Bryan, Howard Agnew
Johnston, John A. McDonald, William A.
Sunday, Bishop Nicholson, George R.
Stuart, Frank N. Palmer, J. Campbell
White, Mel Trotter, Roy L. Smith, W. K
Beiderwolf, Milford H. Lyon, Bob Jones, O.
A. Newlin, C. R. Scoville, Homer Rodeheav-
er, Madam and Mrs. W. A. Peterson and
many others, including the following Bap-
tists: A. C. Dixon, A. T. Robertson. W.
B. Riley, C. H. Woolston, Jacob Heinrlchs,
L. K. Williams, George W. Taft, Joseph
Cohn and Grace Saxe. Billy Sunday, Ho-
mer Rodeheaver and evangelistic party will
conduct a camp meeting August 15th to
21st. No charge at the gates during this
week. Chautauqua program July 7th to
August 14th, with high class entertain-
ments. Beautiful park, charming lake,
delightful surroundings, splendid people,
good hotels and boarding houses, cool and
restful. The Summer Resort that Satis-
fies. Address Bureau of Information,
Winona Lake, Indiana.
** ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
This is Shurtteff College
Endowment Year
I One-half Million Dollars is being asked from the Baptists of Illi-
nois for increased endowment for their college.
Our fathers gave to Shurtleff College in those pioneer years aad
bnilt well. Will this generation carry on their work?
Illinois Baptists should not forget that upon two occasions, the Illi-
nois Baptist State Convention has called upon the Trustees of Shurtleff
to launch a financial campaign. That campaign is now on and $125,000
has already been subscribed.
Shurtleff Has Right of Way
It takes more than buildings, classrooms, libraries and professors to
make a college. There must be an "atmosphere and spirit." Give to
the endowment and thus perpetuate for another century, the Shurtlefl'
spirit. Address President George M. Potter or Dr. M. W. Haynes,
Alton, Illinois.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VO^. XI.
NOKMAL, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 1919
NO. 4
Unrest
The world seems to be in such a condi-
tion of unrest and change as has never
been experienced in its history. The
great heathen empires are wakening up.
Japan began to wake up about seventy
years ago. And while she was absorbing
western civilization at a tremendous
speed, the mission boards of various de-
rominations gave them the Gospel in the
old leisurely way, sending a few mission-
aries each decade. The result is that
Japan has become educated and up to
date with our western civilization, but
practically without Christianity, and be-
e-use she is so largely without Christian-
ity she is one of the dangerous perils of
the world. Let China with her 400,-
000,000 of people and India with her
250,000,000 of people, wake up and make
rafJd advancement without Christianity
and they will imperil the world, and both
China and India are waking up rapidly.
The Turkish Empire is broken and her
people of many nationalities are now open
fields for the gospel and the Christian
teacher and the Christian doctor. The
Balkan nations and all of eastern Europe
are now in a condition to receive the
Gospel as never before. Within a few
years, when the Russian empire gets set-
tled with a staple government, there will
be a wonderful opportunity for the Bap-
tists with that 140,000,000 of people.
Africa has opened up and waked up
within the past five years in a wonderful
manner. And the religious people of
America seem to be working up as never
before. What does it mean, that among
what other Christian bodies are doing,
the Southern Baptists voted to raise
$75,000,000 in five years for all kinds of
missions and education and philanthropy
outside of the support of the local
church and the Baptists of the north
$100,000,000 for the same purpose. And
not only these great amounts of money,
but young men and women by the thou-
sands and tens of thousands ought to
give themselves to ministerial and mis-
sionary work. This restless spirit is go-
ing to be used by the Holy Spirit to lead
rich people and well to do people to use
their wealth to save the world at this
critical period, and to support those who
are giving their lives to this work. And
the Holy Spirit will lead hundreds and
thousands of young people to give their
lives to His service rather than to busi-
ness and to making money.
There is much to learn yet and great
improvements to be made, if Christen-
dom can successfully meet this restless
condition. As long as people will pay
from $800 to several thousand dollars
for an automobile and spend two or
three hundred dollars a year in keeping
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it up and running it, and grudgingly give
$10, ^25 or $50 per year for the Lord's
work, His kingdom will not come very
fast. People must come to the point in
which they make it a study how much
money they can make and how much the}'
can give for the furtherance of the gospel
before we can in any measure meet this
restless age. Young men and young
women must not make inquiry as to how
they can make most money, but as to
what the Lord will have them do.
Rev. W. Edward Raffety, Editor in
Chief of the Sunday School Publications
of the American Baptist Publication So-
ciety has recently returned from a trip
to Western Asia, representing the Bap-
tists in an investigation of the condition
of the Armenians and others who were
greatly mistreated by the Turks during
the war, and for many years before. Dr.
Raffety has written a long article, the
closing paragraph of which we prmt be-
low :
"The greatest immediate need in Ar-
menia is a stable, just government. The
people are known for their intelligence,
industry, and thrift, but their very suc-
cesses have been their ruin. At Aintab a
once prosperous Armenian said to me,
'My prosperity was my crime.' The well-
to-do were the first to meet death and
lose their property. In the great game
of European politics it is a well-known
fact that the despicable Turk has here-
tofore escaped punishment for the most
awful massacres in the history of the
world. Periodically for many years the
red-handed, Moslem-hearted Turk has
broken loose, hell-fashion, on the peace-
ful, defenseless Armenian Christians,
confiscating their property, murdering
their leading men, and carrying their
chaste, beautiful women and girls into
lives of lust, in league with the world,
the flesh, and the devil.
And ivhat has been done about all thisf
The Christian world — Christian England
and Christian America — has heaved a
sigh of gigantic proportions, sent mate-
rial relief by the millions — and then
straightway forgotten what manner of
fiend the Turkish fiend is.
But are there no good Turks ? Yes, I
saw sixty thousand of them (at least
harmless ones) in the largest Mohamme-
dan cemetery in the world. Counting all
Turks by the thousands there may be
dozens of good ones — among the common
people ; among the officials, none.
Never again should the Turk be given
dominion over Near East races. Never
again should he be permitted even to
govern himself. The centuries of his
brutal, bloody history demand his political
doom. A traveler^ in the Near East
finds in constant use in all languages the
expressive word 'finished.' This is the
epitaph of the Turk. Surely the Turkish
sun has set. Otherwise world wars,
league of Nations, and Paris conferences
are futile fictions."
OBITUARY
Mr. Jonathan Askew of Pontiac, died
the 16th of June, being nearly eig*hty-
four years of age. He was a member of
the Graymont church and did ver}^ much
toward building up the country mission
chapel of that church. He was born in
North Amptonshire, England. He is
survived by his wife, four sons and three
daughters. Mr. Askew will be greatly
missed.
Rev. Henry Duff has accepted the call
of the East Moline church and will begin
work about September first.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Published monthly In the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
■"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
THE last days in Atigust and all Sep-
tember, and the early days in Octo-
ber will be the time for the meeting of
all the local associations in Illinois, ex-
cept three associations that met in Jime.
* * *
THE time of the meeting of these as-
sociations is the best period for
working up Bulletin subscriptions. So
far as possible, every church of any con-
siderable strength should be influenced to
raise a club for the Bulletin.
EFFICIE,XCY should be a leading
thought in every Associational meet-
ing. How inefiicient many associations
are. What little attention they give to
the weak churches and pastorless
churches among them. How little effort
is made to discover destitute places and
to occupy them.
* * *
NOT only efficiency in the work of
the local association, but efficiency
in the work of the local church should
he emphasized. How few of our local
churches are carrying on their work ef-
ficiently! How few of the wealthy and
well to do members of our churches are
g-iving according to their means. How
few of the members of our churches are
putting their brain power into the work
of the local church as they do into their
business.
* * *
THE apiportionments have been sent
to the churches. This is the busi-
ness of the churches now to raise the ap-
portionments. The apportionments just
now sent out are a portion of the $100,-
000,000 campaign. Everybod}- can have
a part in the great movement by giving
liberally on the missionary budget. And
those who can give largely on the out-
side will have the privilege of subscrib-
ing largely on the great $100,000,000
fund.
^; ^ ^
THE high cost of living does not seem
to go down since the war closed. It
may take some years to readjust things,
but in these times of high cost of living,
people must remember that it is just as
costly for the preacher and his family
to live as for other people. Every
church should see to it that its pastor
has a decent living these costly times.
Many churches have not increased their
pastor's salary anything the last three or
four years. Yet everything else, except
preaching and pastoral work, has nearly
doubled, and many things trebled.
* * *
PEOPLE who stay at home and do
not take a vacation should see to it
that the work in the church is kept up
during August to the best possible stand-
ard. It is easier, less wearisome, to
work in a church, Sunday School, or
B. Y. P. U. when it has good life than
when everything is dragging along. For
your own sake as well as for that of the
church, keep up a good interest during
August. Do not let the church get so
run down in August that it will take all
September to get it started up again.
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L1-:T many people plan early to at-
tend the meetings of the Associa-
tions, i^lan to go early and remain
throughout the whole time of the meet-
ings, and if the roads should be muddy,
do not remain at home because your auto-
mobile cannot run. Do not allow your
automobile to cheat you out of the bless-
ing of attending the Association. If the
roads are muddy, go on the railroad
trains. Does it not seem like our Chris-
tian people have greatly declined in their
Christian character, if a rainy day or
two should keep three-fourths of the peo-
ple frorn the meeting of the Association?
Our grandfathers and grandmothers at-
tended the association when they had to
drive a buggy or ride horseback from
fifty to one hundred miles. How many
of our people will not ride on a railroad
train to attend but must go in the auto-
mobile or not at all.
CHURCHES
Rev. Edgar Woolhouse, who has been
pastor of the Messiah church in Chicago
for a few months, writes : "July 22d
was a great day with us. A large num-
ber of old members came back with us,
in the evening six were baptized."
The Amboy church is at this time en-
gaged in redecorating the interior of the
building. They are doing a very beauti-
ful job and are placing upon the floor
a superior grade of cork carpet in green
instead of hard wood floors. Mr. Geo.
M. Allen, a student from the Northern
Baptist Theological Seminary has been
supplying the church but they hope to
locate a pastor soon.
The Barry church of which O. E. Mof-
fett is pastor, recently celebrated its
ninety-fourth anniversary. Rev. Mr.
Burden of Griggsville, took part in the
afternoon discussion, and preached in
the evening. A purse from the people
of the church was presented by Brother
Moffett to Pearl Wike, the faithful pian-
ist. Five hundred dollars was realized
from a thank offering, besides quite a
sum was paid on pledges.
Rev. Joseph Jenkins, pastor at Jersey-
ville Baptist church, recently gave a serv-
ice for the Fidelity Church in that Asso-
ciation. He raised $40 on the Victory
Campaign fund to help finish out the Six
Million Dollars of last year. Many of
our smaller churches would give liberally
to missions if some one would present
the matter in a straight way.
Rev. F. M. Crabtree has been pastor
of the Union Church in the Morgan-Scott
Association for four years. During that
time there have been sixty members
added to the church and a good base-
ment constructed under the church
The dhurch at Macomb, Illinois, of
which Rev. L. M. Westrate recently be-
came pastor, is doing very encouraging
work. A recently planned budget of
$3,355.50 for the church has all been
more than subscribed. The people seemed
to be worked up to the importance of do-
ing things on a large scale.
Rev. R. W. Babcock, who was given
a leave of absence from the Moline
church to enter into Y. M. C. A. service
in the army, recently returned from
France and resumed his work in Moline
early in July. On July 15th he writes:
"Last Sunday in fifteen minutes we
raised $700 for the Victory Drive. They
only asked for $500, but I wish that we
had made it $1,000. The church was in
good condition, and we have had large
crowds at our meetings. We had so
many at communion that we did not have
enough cups. The Sunday School has
grown materially. I expect to baptize
ten next Sunday."
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Rev. E. R. Raycroft, pastor of Cornell,
wrote some items with regard to that
field. He says: "We wish to thank
God for His goodness to us during the
past year. None of our members were
taken away by the influenza. The church
is now taking on more life in all de-
partments of its work. The Sunday
School is making a new drive for attend-
ance, and the B. Y. P. U. has changed
its program for July and August, and
instead of closing, the attendance is on
the increase. The church has voted un-
animously for a revival campaign in the
fall. I have taken several in by baptism
and more by letter and confession of
faith. The boys and girls are working
for a new piano for the church. The
church elaborately decorated the interior
of the parsonage in the spring. We
hope to fully reach our apportionment on
the Victory Campaign."
UNION CHURCHES
About one year ago the Congregational
and Disciples churches of Pittsfield
formed a union. They tried hard to get
the Baptists to go in with them and some
of the others. The Baptist church re-
fused to go in the organization and the
other two churches formed a union with
a great deal of enthusiasm and advertise-
ment. I recently received a letter from
Pittsfield which says: "The last Sunday
in June the Christians and Congregation-
alists each voted at the -same time in their
own churches as to whether or not the
federated churches was to continue. It
was voted down in each church." As long
as people do not agree in doctrine, it is
a kind of camouflage to attempt a union.
of Danville six years, will close his work
Septem'ber first. He has accepted a call
from the Bethel Memorial church of
Denver, Colorado. Dr. Krumreig has
done a great work in Danville and more
than doubled the membership of that
church. We regret to have him leave
the state, but hope he will have good suc-
cess in the state to which he goes.
Rev. Percy G. Spangler who has been
pastor of the church at Collinsville for
four years, has resigned as pastor of that
church and will close his work September
first. This is an important church lo-
cated in a growing little city and should
have a man on the field quite soon.
The East Moline church gave a hearty
call to Rev. Henry Duff, who has been
pastor of the Chicago Heig'hts church for
seven years, to become pastor of the East
Moline church. They are hoping that
]\Ir. Duff will accept this call.
The Benson church has called Rev. A.
W. Fuller of Michigan to become pastor
and he has accepted. Brother Fuller was
pastor of the church at El Paso for nine
years, at one time.
The Centralia church has located a
pastor. Rev. Geo. H. Murch who had
been pastor of the Fourth church in St.
Louis for fourteen years. Centralia has
been pastorless since Rev. A. P. Howells
closed his work last fall.
PASTORAL CHANGES
Rev. E. L. Krumreig, D.D., who has
been pastor of the First Baptist church
The Pekin church under the pastoral
care of Missionary E. C. Poole is certain-
ly doing substantial and encouraging
work. The pastor reports for the past
quarter eighteen additions to the church,
seven by baptism, $2250 raised for par-
sonage and $346 paid on debt. He re-
ports one hundred thirty in the Sunday
School.
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A ^^EW OF OXE OP THE DWELLINGS O N THE FIXE SECTIOX OF GROUXD RE-
CEXTL.Y PURCHASED B Y SHURTLEFF CX)LIiEGE
SHURTLEFF OOLJJEGE
President Potter writes that the Cole
property has just been purchased for
Shurtlefif College. This is a beautiful
tract of land just across the street from
the present college campus. There is a
magnificent large brick residence on the
place that will make a fine dormitory for
girls. There is another brick building
that can be used for another purpose, and
eight acres of ground that will make a
first class athletic field. Tliis is one of
the greatest moves that ShurtlefT College
has made in a generation. President
Potter seems to be doing things.
LOYALTY TO TRUTH
In these times of strenuous effort to
give the Gospel to the world and to Chris-
tianize the heathen nations, the Baptists
should not neglect to emphasize the great
principals that divide them from Catholic,
Lutheran, Episcopalian, and pedo baptist
bodies. Many people seem to think that
the text of the Sunday School lesson for
July 13 was a Baptist lesson, and so it
was, but it was not selected by Baptists
alone, it is a part of the international les-
son. It is not possible to s-elect a lesson
from the New Testament on Baptism
without having a Baptist lesson.
Baptizo means to immerse, to plunge,
to submerge. No scholar in the world
pretends to say that it means to sprinkle.
Rantizo means to sprinkle. If a little
water had been sprinkled on their heads,
then we should have the expression,
rantize, not baptize. And the command-
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ment given by Jesus Christ and carried
out by His apostles was to baptize (im-
merse ) believers. There is no case in
the New Testament where we have the
record of an infant baptism. Our pedo
baptist friends are not contending strenu-
ously for a substitute for baptism as they
formerly did ; and they are not as strenu-
ous for the christening of babies, but that
is no reason why the Baptists should be
careless about emphasizing kindly and
lovingly, but strongly, the doctrine of the
ordinances. There never can be any or-
ganic union of Christendom so long as
there is the difference on the subject and
form of baptism.
MONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR JUL.Y
Only a few of the churches send the full
apportionment at one time. Whenever a
payment reported in The Bulletin com-
pletes the apportionment, it will be indi-
cated by a ( * ) star.
Alton First $ 60.80
Auburn 6.63
Aurora, Marion Ave 13.75
Barrington 13.00
*Buda 50.57
Burwick 23.50
Canton 7.48
Carbondale 16.96
*Carthage 6.88
Centralia 60.60
Chatsworth 10.00
Chenoa 1.77
Chicago
Austin 52.74
Covenant 5.00
Maplewood 10.00
Tabernacle 5.25
Woodlawn 63.21
*Cordova 30.00
*DeKalb 13.50
Divernon 4.82
*E'gin Emanual 6.30
Fairmont Supiply Work 25.00
Galesburg 37.50
Gardner , 1,38
Hoopeston Supply Work 100.00
Hull 5.27
Hurricane, Separate Baptist Sup-
ply Work 11.50
Indianola Supply Work 13.50
Jacksonville 85.00
Jerseyville 18.84
Joliet-Ridgewood 8.25
Kewanee 7.50
*Kinderhook 19.00
LaMarsh 3.00
Maeomb 64.00
Mattoon, Supply Work 50.00
Minonk 41.38
*Mount Vernon Second Church.... 15.00
Moweaqua 20.00
*New Berlin 43.00
Nokomis 9.15
Normal 6.12
Orion 25.00
Ottawa 40.00
*Paw Paw 44.00
*Peoria 60.00
Percy .89
Piano 4.00
Rockford First 17.19
Streator 6.88
Tampico 5.00
University Church 15.00
Woodstock 2.03
York 6.88
Total $1,310.0,2
STATE UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH,
CHAMPAIGN, UjLu
THE UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH
One of the greatest acts of the Illinois
Baptist State Convention has proven to
be the organization of the University
Baptist church in 1912 at the University
of Illinois and the placing of a man thfere
as the pastor, big brother and friend of
our Baptist young people while they are
passing through college. The next great
step was the erection in 1916 of the hand-
some church building and social center
adjacent to the campus. During the
school year the church is a regular bee-
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hive of religious and social activities par-
ticipated in by Baptist faculty families
and students alike.
Next month the school opens again and
three hundred of our Baptist young peo-
ple from all over the state will be going
there to enroll as students. Not one of
them can afford to miss out in the life
and work of the University Baptist
church. Its Bible school is a veritable
school of religious education, the services
of worship are entered into heartily, the
B. Y. P. U. is a flourishing one and the
social life the most wholesome at the
campus.
It would be a great help in saving these
students to the church and to the Chris-
tian life if pastors, parents and friends
would inform them and direct them to
the University Baptist church before they
leave home, encouraging them to identify
themselves with it the first Sunday in
town and to stick by it regularly through-
out the year as their church home. A
card might also be dropped to the Student
Pastor, Rev. Martin S. Bryant, 807 S.
Fourth street, Champaign, 111., regarding
them. Send them with or without cards
of introduction to call on the pastor and
wife in their home. The most effective
religious work in a State University be-
gins before the student leaves for the
university. The opening services are
the Sunday before registration, Septem-
ber 21st.
STATE CONVENTION MISSIONARIES
Rev. George R. Wood has been our
missionary pastor at Marseilles for one
year and has been appointed for another
year. The church has not done for many
years such successful work as during the
present year. Brother Wood has done
very faithful preaching and pastoral work
and the people responded to his efforts
Rev. Ray W. Barber, our missionary
pastor at Tampico, writes encouragingly
concerning the work there. He says :
"You will notice from my report that
we have had seven additions. The total
from all the societies was $230.50. When
Brother Yule visited us a few weeks ago
in behalf of the Victory Campaign, I re-
ceived pledges of $157.50. I am just now
starting a drive for repairs. The little
Baptist church near Thomas has asked
me to come and preach for them and I
have accepted it."
Rev. L. C. Taylor who closed his work
at Benson, held a meeting just before
closing as pastor. He baptized five into
the church at the close of the meeting.
Rev. A. V. Roland is our missionary
pastor at Peoria, acting as assistant for
Joseph Hazen. Brother Roland preaches
at the two mission churches and his work
seems to be doing very well.
Rev. V. Colbert, our general mission-
ary for Alton Association, has been do-
ing quite good work. He has also been
working in the territory of the Apple
Creek Association. The debts on the
Unity church in East St. Louis are well
nigh cleared up and the work in North
Venice is encouraging. Brother Colbert
supplies these two churches besides other
work in the Association.
Rev. Chas. W. Wolfe, pastor of Glas-
ford and Lamarsh churches says : "Our
chief encouragement this quarter has
been our Sunday School at Glasford.
Our work for boys and girls is of great
interest. Some seem interested in deeper
things, and higher things and I believe
that time will show that extra effort
pays."
Rev. A. Y. Prestage, our missionary
pastor at Oglesby, writes : "We have
had a good quarter. The congregation
is growing and are showing interest in
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the word of God. The B. Y. P. U. is
increasing and the members are increas-
ing in the knowledge of God. The street
meetings have been well attended."
Rev. T. O.- McMinn, our missionary in
southern Illinois, was quite successful the
last quarter. He held a meeting at Free-
mansport for two weeks and this resulted
in fourteen conversions and additions to
the church. The closing meeting of the
quarter was held in the Warden street
church, Marion, a three-weeks' meeting
resulting in thirty-two additions to the
church, some of whom were prominent
citizens of the city.
Rev. John A. Simson of Dixon, receiv-
ed into the church the last quarter seven
persons, three by baptism and this makes
eleven additions since January first. The
pastor has organized a B, Y. P. U. with
an average attendance of fifteen, and a
teacher's Bible class which meets every
week with an average attendance of
twelve.
Rev. Cyrus Webbs of Wood River, re-
ports that some are waiting baptism and
the total additions during the past quar-
ter were nine. Brother Webb has or-
ganized an out-station, a Missionary Sun-
day School in South Wood River.
Thirty-one were present the first meeting.
He will continue to preach there Sunday
afternoons. He is planning for evangel-
istic meetings earlv in the fall.
TIME AND PLACE OF ASSOCIATION
MEETINGS
August
Greene-Jersey, Martin's Prairie, Au-
gust 27-28.
September
Bloomington, Deer Creek, Septem'1>er
2-4.
Rock Island, Antioch, September 3.
Central Illinois, Richland, September
4-5.
Macoupin County, Carlinville, Septem-
ber 3.
Shelby, Lakewood, September 5-6.
Salem, St. Mary's, September 9.
Bloomfield, Champaign, September
10-13.
Peoria, Bradford, Septemiber 17-19.
Ottawa, ManHus, September 23-25.
Quincy, Hull, September 22-23.
Wabash Valley, Flora, Septemiber 23.
Alton, Bethany, September 24-25.
Southern Illinois, Murphysboro, Sep-
tember 25 at night.
October
Springfield, Moweaqua, October 1-2.
Morgan Scott, Literberry, October 1-2.
State Convention, Jerseyville, Oct. 20-
23.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE
BULLETIN
"I was especially interested in your
July editorial. There is no more im-
portant question before the denomina-
tions today than that of adequate Chris-
tian leadership." Martin S. Bryant.
"The Bulletin came to hand yesterday
and after reading the editorial on 'A
Great Need' I felt impressed to write you
in reference to that article. I think you
struck the real keynote. Money, though
very much needed, will not do the work.
I believe that your editorial will move
many hearts as it did mine, and that it
will cause us to think upon the real mo-
tive of our undertaking, and that it is
the recruiting power for the kingdom."
L. E. Elison.
'T appreciate your emphasis on the fact
that the Lord's work needs men and
women as well as dollars. I have been
trying to get our people to pray for labor-
ers for the Lord's harvest." George R.
Wood.
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REV. JOHN Y. AITOHISON, D.D.
The new Executive Secretary of the General Planning Board
of the Northern Baptist Convention
PERSONAL.
Rev. B .E. Allen, Secretary of the Illi-
nois Apportionment Committee, has re-
cently sent the apportionments for this
year to all the churches. The commit-
tee was quite late this year in doing its
work because it was required to wait
until after the meeting of the Northern
Baptist Convention on account of certain
matters. Brother Allen does the work
well, and sent these apportionments to
the churches as soon as it was possible
for him to do it.
Rev. W. O. Shank of Ouincy. who
spent a year in army work as chaplain
in France, is now planning to do evangel-
istic work. In writing a letter he states:
"I have decided to do evangelistic work
this fall and winter. I am now lectur-
ing and supplying churches." Any
church who needs Brother Shank can
reach him by addressing him at Ouincy.
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Evangelist L. D. Lamkin, D.D., writes
July 5th, that he is just closing a meet-
ing at Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is engaged
for meetings from September first until
January, but he is willing to make en-
gagements for time after that. Any per-
son desiring to communicate with him
may reach him by addressing him at
Cairo, Illinois, P. O. Box 17.
Evangelist Francis L. Church of
Berwyn, who spent the winter in Y. M.
C. A. work in France, has returned and
states that he is ready for evangelistic
work, or he will settle as a pastor. His
postoffice address is Berwyn.
TRIP IN THE .ILTON ASSOCIATION
Sunday, July 27, the Editor visited the
old Bethal Church. This church is
about three miles out of Collinsville. It
was organized by the Senior James
Lemen and his two sons. It was organ-
ized one hundred ten years ago. Rev.
A. E. McClurkin is the pastor. Last
year the church built a nice new parson-
age on its ten acres of ground. More
than fifty were present in the Sunday
School and the congregation was good.
Rev. John Howard from South India,
was present and made a short talk. I
have never known the Old Bethal Church
to be in better condition than now. In
the afternoon we had a conference with
six men of the Collinsville church. Rev.
Percy G. Spangler will close his work as
pastor September first and the brethren
are anxious to locate a good pastor soon.
The church is now running three Mission
Sunday Schools and has about two hun-
dred pupils enrolled in the home school.
The Editor spent Sunday night with
the Belleville church. Rev. J. H. Martin
of Greenville, has accepted a call to this
church and will begin work August first.
The church has repainted the basement
of the building, and they put the parson-
age in splendid condition. They have re-
papered and painted the whole building,
put in new lights and have made it very
beautiful. There was a good congrega-
tion and we have never known Belleville
church to be in better apparent condition
than it seems to be in at this time. There
is a great field of work there for the
Baptists.
The Executive Committee of the Alton
Association met in Wood River Monday
afternoon, July 28. There were present
five members of the committee, the asso-
ciational missionary, the superintendent,
and the missionary pastor. The work of
the whole association was gone over,
many encouraging things were reported,
and much aggressive work planned.
"THE BIBLE
By Theodore Roosevelt.
Every thinking man, when he thinks,
realizes what a very large number of peo-
ple tend to forget, that the teachings of
the Bible are so interwoven and entwined
with our whole civic and social life that
it would be literally — I do not mean figur-
atively, I mean literally — impossible for us
to figure to ourselves what that life would
be if these teachings were removed. We
would lose almost all the standards by
which we now judge both public and pri-
vate morals; all the standards toward
which we, with more or less of resolution,
strive to raise ourselves. Almost every
man who has by his life work added to
the sum of human achievement of which
the race is proud, of which our people are
proud, almost every such man has based
his life work largely upon the teachings ot
the Bible.
The immense moral influence of the
B.ble, though of course infinitely the most
important, is not the only power it has for
good. In addition the^e is the unceasing
influence it exerts on the side of good taste,
of good literature, or proper sense of pro-
portion, of simple and straightforward
writing and thinking."
The Belvidere South church of which
Rev. H. W. Read, Ph.D., is pastor, in-
creased his salary $100.
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HUDUSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Kev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS
Rev. D. H. MacGllliTTay, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGilllTray, Matron
Most strenuous has been the month of
July. With the cessation of the rains,
every nerve was strained to complete
the seeding. Oat harvest and corn plant-
ing ended on the same day. Of course
nothing better than ensilage can be ex-
pected of that corn. Twenty acres of
cow peas and some soy beans will fur-
nish ensilage if the chinch bugs get the
corn. But why be a prophet of evil?
The improvement work is progressing
and the children generally are well. We
will soon need a woman to take charge
of our nursery. We give preference to
widows who have children whose care is
a problem to them.
The Superintendent thought it neces-
sary to stay home rather closely except
Sundays, during the final days of seed-
ing and harvest, but at this writing (July
24th) he is making a tour of the former
Free Baptist churches of the Southern
Illinois Association. The reception has
been most cordial and the Improvement
Fund is already several hundred dollars
richer. These churches are rapidly fall-
ing in line with all the advance move-
ments of Northern Baptists. Under the
leadership of G. A. Gordon and Wm.
Bar ringer among the older men and half
a score of younger ministers these
churches are multiplying their former
offerings to missions and greatly increas-
ing their memberships. Also one pastor
informed us that the former tendency
to looseness of teaching and practice is
being corrected by the more clearly rec-
ognized standards of Northern Baptists.
The month of July has been a very
busy one and while the weather has been
hot, dry and dusty, the days have slipped
by quickly.
The harvest of our garden has been
effected materially by the dry weather
only one rain in three weeks. We regret
this very much, fctit it awakens our sym-
pathies for friends in Montana and other
western states where for three years they
have seen the destruction of all their
crops because of drought.
As time passes we are seeing more of
the effects of war and the ravages of in-
fluenza. Never in our experience have
we had to turn away so many seeking ad-
mittance as now. At the present writing
seventy-five children are in the Home and
when we are obliged to turn people away
their extremities are such that they are
almost cross at refusal.
Among those received into the Home
this month are two little Slovak children
who can understand few words of Eng-
lish and speak none at all. It would be
hard to tell who felt the situation most
keenly when the children were left; those
in charge who could offer no word of
condolance or comfort that could be un-
derstood, or the two little children who
were truly strangers in a strange land
and who clung to each other crying piti-
fully and conversing in broken tones in
their own language.
The father of these children is a Luth-
eran and after beating the mother terribly
because she joined the Baptist church, de-
serted his wife and three small children.
His whereabouts is unknown.
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61
Department of Sunday School and
Young People s Work
Louis H. Koehler, 2006 E.Jackson St., Bloomington, Director
DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS
The Baptists in Chicago hold the rec-
ord as far as number of Daily Vacation
Bib-e Schools within a metropolitan cen-
ter is concerned. There are forty schools
in and near Chicago. There are over six
thousand boys and girls enrolled and
nearly five hundred teachers, most of
whom are volunteers. Of these schools
six are among the Bohemians, two among
the Hungarian, six among the colored
and one each among the Slovaks, Poles,
Italians and Germans. Aiken Institute
still holds the world's record as the
largest school with an enrollment to date
of 977, the largest numtoer of these chil-
dren are Italians. This year schools
have been tried out in high class resi-
dental neighborhoods such as Normal
Park, Rogers' Park and LaGrange. In
every case the school has been a con-
spicuous success and becomes a regular
feature of the program of those churches.
Religious education is being taken seri-
ously by our Baptist leaders. What bet-
ter things can be done than to use the
cool church buildings each morning for
five weeks during the early weeks of the
vacation period. As much Bible can be
taught as in six months of an average
Sunday school. In fact churches which
have conducted schools would be just as
quick to shut up their Sunday schools
for six months as not to have a vacation
school.
You may say, as many churches have
said, "Yes, Vacation Bible Schools are
all right for some neighborhoods, but
our children do not need it." Now as a
matter of fact there is not a single Bap-
tist church but what could not, with great
profit to itself, have a vacation school
next year. The children are all around
the church during the summer. They
love a Daily Vacation Bible School and
will attend. We know this to be a fact
for we have tried out schools in all kinds
of neighborhoods.
A Daily Vacation School is a good
thing for the boys and girls. After a
few days of vacation they long for some-
thing to do. They learn large portions
of Scripture by memory, they commit to
memory about ten great songs each year.
They have daily habit talks, drills in
music and a Bible lesson in story form.
They learn to make all kinds of craft
things under Christian leadership. This
past summer more than a hundred differ-
ent articles have been made in our school.
A Daily Vacation Bible School is a
good thing for the community. The
children play, study and work under
Christian supervision. Each day there
is a patriotic service which will help to
niake better citizens. Bad habits are cor-
rected and good habits formed through
the daily habit talks. Too much cannot
be done for the children of a community.
A Daily Vacation Bible School is a
good thing for the homes. The testi-
mony of many parents is that the chil-
dren are far better in the home after
going to the vacation school. Mothers
do not know what to do with their chil-
dren during the busy mornings. They
send them to vacation school.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Woman s
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MKS. \V. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Hjgnian, Editor
Morgan, Park
El^i
Mis. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2S31 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
The program for the state meeting to
<be held in Jerseyville, Oct. 21, is being
arranged and gives promise of being one
f the very best. We are counting on a
large attendance from the central and
h wer part of the state.
We feel sure that every woman who
a-<-ends will feel that she has been well
paid for the time and effort required to
make it possible for her to go. We wish
to strongly urge all who attend their as-
sociation meeting to see that the state
meeting is brought to the attention of
all The women and arrange to send dele-
gates from the association.
There will be a morning and afternoon
session, closing with a banquet at 5:00
p. m. All who have attended the yearly
banquet know* what it would mean to
miss one. Wednesday afternoon the
women have an hour before the Conven-
tion, when two splendid addresses will be
given.
Then in the early morning of each day
a short time will be given to the study
books for the year. This will be a fine
preparation for the mission classes
which we hope each circle will hold dur-
ing the winter. Think about it and plan
to attend. With the first thought, Octo-
ber may seem to be so far away that the
a'bove is useless, but not so, each day as
it passes is so full of opportunities and
work which must be done that the weeks
Avill soon be gone.
It has become a trite saying that our
viewpoint on many subjects has changed
in the last few years, but in no way is
this more noticeable than in regard to our
responsibility to the foreigner who has
come to America to make a home.
We have allowed him to live his life
and cared little whether he became as-
similated with the American people far-
ther than that he did not greatly disturb
our social system. We -gave little thought
as to the manner, or as to how much of
our American life he imbibed. Just
thought that in some way he would learn
without any effort on our part and be-
come a good American citizen. In every
town or city, there are a few or many
who have no right conception of the
American spirit. They cannot read or
speak the language. Whatever they "pick
up" from the streets is translated through
the spirit and language into which they
were torn, and as a result they have small
conception of true American life or prin-
ciple.
Christian Americanization has become
prominent in all missionary and benefi-
cent organizations. The Woman's Home
Mission Society has organized a depart-
ment, whose methods of work it wishes
to introduce into all women's circles, in
an effort not only to Christianize but
Americanize all people in this country.
Write to the society for particulars. All
can help.
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63
BAPTISTS TO THE FRONT
With the Baptists of the north and
south planning the raising of one hundred
seventy-five milHons of dollars for benefi-
cence in the next five years and with the
new General Board of Promotion and
its reorganization of the business of the
Northern Baptist Convention, the eyes of
all the denominations are being fixed on
the Baptists of America. It may be called
Baptist Day in which we live. That is
— it may be so if we live up to our big
ideals and carry out our far-reaching
plans .
Illinois is one of the big factors in
any plans which Northern Baptists are to
take up. Dr. J. Y. Aitchison who went
from Illinois to the secretaryship of the
Foreign Society in Boston three years
ago, has been chosen executive secretary
of the new General Board of Promotion,
and it was Illinois which was chosen as
the experimental laboratory during the
past year to try out the possibility of
securing really big gifts from ordmary
churches during the coming five years.
It was an Illinois church in a town of
1700 which su'bscribed $51,000, payable
in five years.
The practical and important first step
of Illinois Baptists in the great Hundred
Million Campaign is for the churches to
raise their apportionments. The state
apportionment committee has already dis-
tributed the full amount asked of them
on apportionment, and the churches will
soon receive their staitements of the
amounts assigned to them. Rev. B. E.
Allen, Secretary of that committee, does
an immense amount of valuable work in
preparing and sending out these appor-
tionments. There will be an increase
throughout the country averaging eigh-
teen or twenty percent, though it may
vary somewhat in individual cases.
The churches are urged most earnestly
to do these things :
( 1 ) Send in all the missionary money
on hand quarterly, or monthly, if pos-
sible.
(2) // possible, send in a full quarter
of the apportionment by the end of each
quarter, but do not fail to send what is
on hand.
(3 ) Do not wait to get your exact ap-
portionment. Come as near as you can
the first quarter and straighten it out
later.
(4) Send all money on apportionments
to the Secretary of the Board of Baptist
Beneficence, Rev. A. S. Carman, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago.
Camp Knox in Kentucky, was started
last September. It is intended to be a
West Point for artillery training. The
Government has secured a tract of land
seven miles along the Ohio river and eight
miles back into the country. This is in-
tended to be a permanent encampment
for artillery training. The son-in-law of
the Editor of the Bulletin has entire over-
sight of this construction work subject to
the General of the army in charge. He
is managing the work of 7,000 men and
1,600 horses and mules. The encamp-
ment is intended to care for 4,000 men
now and 60,000 in the future.
Rev. H. F. Holbrook has been pastor
of the Orion church one year. That
church has put its meeting house in first
class condition and has a fine pipe organ.
They also have a good parsonage. They
have a strong country membership among
thrifty farmers. Both the Alpha and
Orion pastors gave their undivided in-
fluence for the Victory Campaign drive
and to help raise the $40,000 now to fin-
ish the $6,000,000.
64 ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
!
This is Shurtleff College
Endowment Year
One-half Million Dollars is being asked from the Baptists of Illi-
nois for increased endowment for their college.
Our fathers gave to Shurtlefif College in those pioneer years and
built well. Will this generation carry on their work?
Illinois Baptists should not forget that upon two occasions, the Illi-
nois Baptist State Convention has called upon the Trustees of Shurtleff
to launch a financial campaign. That campaign is now on and $135,000
has already been subscribed.
Shurtleff Has Right of Way
It takes more than buildings, classrooms, libraries and professors to
inake a college. There must be students. What have you done toward
encouraging Baptist boys and girls to come to Shurtleff for their edu-
cation and that "atmosphere and spirit" characteristic of the school?
PRESIDENT JAMES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SAYS:
"As the head, for many years, of large technical schools, and not ex-
cluding the medical, I would prefer to take a young man after four years
in a small Christian college without any technical training than to take
him after an equal time in preparatory technical work."
Catalogue and literature cheerfully sent.
Myron W. Haynes, George Milton Potter,
Endoivment Secretary President
ALTON, ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VOI- XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 1919
NO. 5
Twenty-one Years
This month of September closes twen-
ty-one years in which the Editor of the
Bulletin has served as Superintendent of
Missions in the state of Illinois. These
twenty-one years have been a period of
the greatest growth and most radical
changes in the history of the denomina-
tion. During that time a section of the
denomination in southern Illinois, organ-
ized what they call a State Association,
and united with the Southern Baptist
Convention. This was not because of
opposition to our State Convention work,
but it was started when the Home Mis-
sion Society took the first steps to have
an understanding with the Free Baptists
in Missions, so as not to overlap and
waste funds. It was proposed to set the
Illinois Baptist State Convention in op-
position to this movement of the Home
Mission Society that started the rupture
in southern Illinois.
Since that time the Baptists and Free
1 baptists, and Separate Baptists and Gen-
eral Baptists in Illinois and the whole
territory of the Northern Baptist Con-
vention, have practically come together.
During this period we have built and
equipped a plant at the State Unity cost-
ing nearly $40,000 and established a first
class university church, with an efficient
pastor. We have organized a strong As-
sociation in southern Illinois extending
to the Ohio Rivej- with thirty-nine
churches. Our Illinois Baptist State
Convention is raising more than four
times as much for State Missions as the
whole denomination did twenty-one years
ago. We have organized and built up
two strong Children's Homes, one at
^laywood, and one at Irvington.
During that twenty-one years the de-
nomination has built up a fine Old Peo-
ple's Home at May wood. The women
have built their fine new Women's Train-
ing School Building in Chicago, and the
University of Chicago has grown from
a new school to one of the greatest uni-
versities in the world. Francis Shimer
School and Shurtleff College have made
decided growth and development along
all lines, and the Northern Baptist The-
ological Seminary has been established.
The denomination in the state has grown
from 111,000 members to 170,000. Rev.
Johnston Myers, D.D., pastor of Imman-
ual Church, Chicago; Rev. M. P. Boyn-
ton, D.D., pastor Woodlawn Church,
Chicago, and Rev. M. W. Twing, D.D.,
pastor First Baptist Church, Alton, are
the only pastors, so far as known who
liave continued as pastor during that
period.
Thirteen years ago all the debts of the
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convention were i)ai(l off. It had been
in debt for nine years. Since that time
the convention has paid up all its ob-
Hgations each year, and if all the churches
will come up with their full apportion-
ments this year before October first, the
convention can come out free from deibt
this year. Let this twenty-first year be
the best of this administration and it will
be if all the pastors and churches will
make a vigorous financial effort this
month.
During the past twenty-one years, a
considerable number of churches have
gone out of existence ; in most cases this
has taken place, not of necessity, but
because of discouragement and lack of
willingness to give time and means for
the advancement of the work. Many
new churches have been established, and
some of them developed into strong
churches. Some weak churches have
been revived and have developed into
efficient churches. The missionary work
in the city of Chicago has grown several
times what it was at the beginning of the
period, and is now one of the most thor-
ough and efficient city mission organiza-
tions in the whole country.
PERSONAIj
A short time before Dr. Krumreig
left Danville for Denver, he was called
by a church in Illinois at a very encour-
aging salary to become their pastor and
lead them in the building of a new meet-
ing house. He would have been glad to
have remained in Illinois, but was under
strong obligation to go west. He may
come back to the state some time in the
future.
Rev. A. W. Judd, who has been pastor
several years at New Berlin, and has
greatly built up the work there, writes
as follows: "I am glad to report to yoa
that this church has shown its apprecia-
tion to the pastor in a most wholesome
way. A few of the men of means in the
church decided that the pastor was not
properly su]>ported, and so raised the sal-
ary $300 per year to begin first of last
April."
Rev. E. K. Masterson who has been
elected Professor of Physical Training
in Shurtleff College recently returned
from a trip to California. He bought a
new automobile in June and he and his
wife and daughter and two other persons
drove across the southern part of the
country to California and back by way
of Salt Lake City and Denver in about
two months. They had a fine trip and
when he returned his car was almost as
good as when he started.
King Alexander of Greece, recently
conferred upon Brother Masterson the
decoration of the Order of the Redeemer
for Christian service rendered in the
Greek army during the past year. This
consists of a parchment signed by the
King, and a gold medal.
The Superintendent spent a few hours
Saturday afternoon, August second, in
planning with the pastor and official
members of the University Church in
Champaign. He spent about two hours
with four young teachers in the univer-
sity who are intensely interested in the
church. Satisfactory arrangements seem
to have been made by which we can con-
tinue the work of Pastor Bryant on that
important field. The past four and one-
half years have been difficult on account
of the war and especially the past year.
Everything looks helpful now for the
future, and we anticipate very much pro-
gress during the coming year.
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Published monthly in the Interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
•"pvHIS is the closing month of our
JL State Convention year. No church
will have raised its budget so long as
anything is back on the State Convention
Budget.
* * *
OCTOBER first the State Convention
books will close. Perhaps not one-
fourth of the churches have yet made up
their full apportionment for the Conven-
tion. Let every pastor or ofBcer of de-
linquent churches see to it that the full
apportionment is made up before Octo-
ber first.
:|: * *
NOTICES have been sent to every
pastor, or to the clerk in churches
where there is no pastor, where churches
have not made their full apportionment,
stating the amount of the apportionment,
the amount sent in since October, last,
and the amount due. A considerable
number of churches had not sent in a
thing at last report, August 20th. Let
the pastors and churches plan two things
now. First, to raise the entire appor-
tionment for the State Convention and
second, to plan to attend the Convention
at Jerseyville, October 20-23. Each con-
tributing church is entitled to send one
delegate and one additional from each
one hundred members or major fraction
thereof.
* * *
DELEGATES should be appointed
by a vote of the church, but they
need not bring written credentials. They
will Iiave an opportunity to sign the reg-
ister as delegate or visitor. No one
should sign as a delegate unless appoint-
ed by his church as a delegate, or other-
wise entitled to act as a delegate.
ALL Life Members can attend as
delegates, and all members of the
Executive Board. Each association is
entitled to send one delegate and one ad-
ditional delegate for each one thousand
members or major fraction thereof. No
one will be allowed to visit unless repre-
sented as a delegate. Women's societies,
B. Y. P. U.'s and Sunday Schools are not
entitled to send delegates.
* * *
AS we were not permitted to have a
state meeting last year on account
of influenza, let more plan to attend this
year. This is the year of new things
and large things in our denominational
work. Come to the Convention and hear
about them. Two years is a long time
between opportunities of attending the
Convention.
Shurtleff College has torn down the
old gymnasium and is erecting a splen-
did new building, using the material from
the old building in erecting the new, one.
This will be a great improvement to the
college. The large dwelling house on
the Cole property across the street from
the campus will afiford much additional
room for girls who wish to attend the
school.
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MISSION AKIKS AM> MISSION A liV
('HIK( HES
Kcv. Ka} W. Harlicr of 'lanipico,
writes an encouraging letter from that
field, lie has succeeded in raising $500
for repairs, and the work will he started
soon.
I'^vangelist h'rank .\l. iJunk held a tent
meeting with the Riverside church in De-
catur, assisting the pastor, Rev. Irving
l""ox. The meetings were quite good, and
a considerahle numher of people were
convertc<l and united with the church.
The work seems to he going well at
Riverside, liefore the meetings closed,
there came a heavy wind storm, almost
a tornado, and almost completely de-
stroyed the tent. The poles and side
curtains are good, l)ut the entire top will
have to be replaced before the tent can
be used again.
Missionary H. F. Jones of Macomb,
has acted as State Convention Missionary
on the western side of the state for
about ten years. A portion of that time
he was Pastor at Large. He has closed
his work as State Convention Mission-
ary, and has accepted the pastorate of
the Plea.sant Grove, and White's Grove
churches in the Peoria Association.
Rev. Geo. H. Yule spent most of the
month of July, and will devote a portion
of the time in September in assisting
Rev. L. T. Ketman in raising the Six
Million Dollar fund. Illinois undertook
to raise a special fund of Two Hundred
Twenty-one Thousand Dollars, and
lacked Forty Thousand of having the en-
tire amount when the Convention met in
Denver. The Illinois delegation voted
to attempt to raise the Forty Thousand
and most of it has been secured. It is
not all subscribed yet, and Evangelist
Yule is assisting in getting it.
T"he State Convention has a part in all
the Missionar\ work in Chicago. A con-
siderable amount oi money has been paid
from the State Convention treasurer to
the treasurer of the Executive Counsel
and the Superintendent of the State Con-
vention co-operates with the Executive
Counsel in carrying on the work in that
city. The work has been aggressive and
incouraging during the past year.
Our Missionary work in Southern Illi-
nois has been very encouraging during
the past year. Evangelist T. O. Mc-
Minn. after the scourage of influenza
had subsided in that part of the state,
has done a fine work. The former Free
Haptist Churches in Southern Illinois
were never so successful and aggressive
in their work as now. It is expected
that much more will be done in that sec-
tion in the coming year than in the past.
WOMAN'S DAY AT STATE CONVENTION
Tuesday, October 21st
Illinois Baptist Women are invited
most earnestly to begin now to plan to
attend the State Convention which meets
at Jerseyville October 20th to 23rd. Our
Woman's Day is Tuesday, Octo'ber 21st.
and will be held in the Presbyterian
church. Opening session at 9:15 a. m.
In these reconstruction days the key-
word "Building" seems most appropriate
and the general thought has been ex-
pressed by Nehemiah wdien he said "The
people had a mind to work." The main
topic will be "Specifications."
Morning Hour
Some of the interesting topics will be
■'Specifications," "Building Fund/' "The
.Architect's Plan," "Ten Minute Strikes,"'
and "Building for the Future."
Our Associational Reading Contest
Loving Cup will be presented to the win-
ning Association, and a Children's Play
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demonstrating the Children's Crusade
will close the session.
In the afternoon under the topic "The
Framework", the content of our two
Women's National Societies, will be pre-
sented and a Union Missionary Pageant
is being arranged which will bring out
the important features of the two new
study books for the next year.
At five o'clock comes our Mothers and
Daughters' Banquet and the following
toasts will be responded to : "The Con-
structive Materials," "The Corner-stone."
"The Pillars'' and "Our Arch Triumph-
ant."
Woman's Hour, Wednesday After-
noon. Address by Mrs. Clara D. Pink-
ham, president Baptist Missionary
Training School and we hope by Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery, president
Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Society.
Study Book Presentation. On Wed-
nesday and Thursday at 8:30 a. m. and
1:15 p. m., the new Study Books, "A
Crusade of Compassion" and "Ameri-
canization" will be presented.
Mrs. W. P. Topping.
ERROR
Some time ago in our financial list in
the Bulletin, we gave an item from the
Walnut church in the Ottawa Associa-
tion. We failed to place a star at the
item. That church had made its full ap-
portionment and fifty cents over and
should have had a star.
It is some times a good thing for Bap-
tists to read what others are doing. Our
Methodist Brethren have undertaken big
things in their Centennial Celebration,
and they have succeeded in getting the
money subscribed. The article below will
be read with interest:
"The success of the Methodist Centen-
ary Drive is one of the mountain peaks
of Christian history. Their churches
North and South united in a mammoth
drive in every district of the country and
raised well over $110,000,000. Of this
$85,000,000 is for the Northern Metho-
dists and $20,000,000 for the South.
Upon analysis, it seems that they asked
the average Methodist member to mul-
tiply his present 'benevolent subscriptions
to home and foreign missions by five and
to continue that increase for five years.
Of course this campaign has been ac-
companied by wonderful evidences of
new faith and enthusiasm. Some
churches have raised their whole church
debt as soon as these five-year subscrip-
tions were completed. Others have im-
mediately raised their pastor's salaries
when they saw how easily their funds
were increased. The whole Methodist
Church is alive and on tiptoe with cour-
age and new purpose. This new budget
enables it to reach out with broadening
plans into every corner of its mission
field."
A letter from Dr. S. Z. Batten, August
5th, says, "As you know the Social Serv-
ice Commission presented a statement set-
ting forth the principles of Social Re-
construction, This, we believe, is one
of the clearest statements issued by a
Christian body. We wish to give it the
widest possible publicity. Copies can be
furnished by application to me at 1701
Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa." Dr.
Batten sends the Editor two copies of
this document. There are ten and one-
half pages of closely printed matter
which has many helpful suggestions.
Pastors will do well to write to Dr. Bat-
ten for a few copies of this document.
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MARRIAGE
Mildred Brand, the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Hrand, was married to Mr.
Lyndon Rutledge Wilson of Tucson, Ari-
zona, August twentieth, by her father.
After a few days in Chicago, they left
for Tucson where they will make their
future home.
PROGRAM
We are putting out the September
number of the Bulletin too early to give
th i complete program of the State Con-
vention. We hope to issue the October
number early enough for everybody to
receive it some time before the Conven-
tion meets and will put the program
complete in that number. We do not yet
have the program definitely arranged, but
we have the promise of Dr. E. Y. Mul-
lins of Louisville, Ky., for two addresses,
Dr. Petty, one of the most eloquent
men in New York for one address, and
Dean Shailer Matthews for another ad-
dress. The women hope to secure Mrs.
Montgomery of New York, one of the
most noted women in the denomination.
We are almost sure of having Dr. J. H.
Franklin of Boston, Mass., and Hugh A.
Heath, D.D., of Massachusettes, and
many of our Illinois pastors and laymen
a 'I women. We have the assurance
tl ,t the General Promotion Board will
give us two stereopticon lectures during
the early evenings of Wednesday and
Thursday before the regular addresses
are given. Those who attended the
Northern Convention in Denver will re-
member how exceedingly interesting
those exercises were. The women have
a great program for all day Tuesday.
This Jerseyville meeting will be a great
occasion for all the Baptists of Illinois.
A rich program will be provided ; let
large numbers plan to attend. Jersey-
ville will take good care of all who
come. Begin now to plan to attend the
meetings. We are meeting this year in
one of the most critical periods of the
world's history ; great things will be dis-
cussed and planned this year.
The Superintendent had the privilege
of visiting the first church of Danville,
August third. Dr. Krumreig was packed
up and almost ready to remove to Den-
ver, Colo. There was a fair congrega-
tion and good communion service. A
large committee met after service and
talked over securing a new pastor. They
all seemed hopeful and courageous, and
determined to locate a strong and efficient
man. The Baptist cause is far stronger
in Danville than it was when Dr. Krum-
reig went there six years ago. He gave
the hand of fellowship to one man and
two women.
VACATION
The Editor took a ten days' vacation
in August and visited his old home in
West Virginia. He preached to a well
filled house in his old home country
church where he was converted and bap-
tized, where he was licensed to preach
and ordained and where he preached his
first sermons. It was an enjoyable day,
but having lived out of the community
for thirty-seven years, things do not look
natural. The hills seemed to be closer
together and the valleys narrower. The
rural churches in that section are not do-
ing the vigorous work they did a half
century ago. There are great possibil-
ities, but it seems difficult to get efficient
pastors for such fields ; and it is difficult
to work the churches up to present day
conditions and needs without able and ag-
gressive pastors.
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PASTORAL. CHANGES
Word has just come to the office that
the Erie church "has called a young man
who has taken up the work beginning
the first Sunday in August." We do not
know who this young man is, but we
hope they have made a fortunate selec-
tion and that the work will be carried
on successfully.
Rev. J. H. Bagwill writes that he will
close his work at Taylorville, October
first, and that his family will remove to
Carbondale where his children can at-
tend school. Brother Bagwill is willing
to take another pastorate but cannot have
his family with him at the present, or
he will enter into Evangelistic work. He
can be addressed at Taylorville until
October first, and after that at Carbon-
dale.
Rev. R. M. Webdell of Liberty, Mis-
souri, has excepted a call to become pas-
tor of the Greeneville church in the Al-
ton Association. He began his pastorate
there September first. Brother Webdell
comes well recommended from Missouri.
A member of the Edgewood church in
rhe Rock Island Association, writes as
-'ollows, "the Edgewood church has
c:alled to its pastorate, Rev. Mr. Jones of
Ohio. Mr. Jones spent two Sundays with
the church and captured everyone there.
Here is a rather unusual thing. Our
church has been able heretofore to pay
$600-$700 depending upon the State Con-
vention to help out on the salary. The
church raises for Brother Jones $1560
and furnishes a parsonage which would
easily rent for $35 a month."
On receipt of a letter July 28th from
Rev. W. B. Morris, former Sunday
School and B. Y. P. U. director in Illi-
nois, we learn that he is going to leave
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The severe climate
is too cold in the winter for the health
of either himself or his wife. The Win-
chester church in the Morgan Scott As-
sociation has extended him a unanimous
call with a liberal support and he expects
to become pastor there October first. We
are delighted to have Brother Morris
back in the state and to have him located
in the Morgan Scott County Association.
Rev. H. B. Stevens who closed his
work at Marengo, has accepted a call
to the Rochelle church. He did a fine
work at Rochelle just before he went
to school in Rocliester. He closed his
work at Marengo about two months ago,
and received a hearty call to Rochelle.
We believe he will be a great help to that
field.
A member of the Princeton Church
writes August 20th as follows: "I am
glad to report that the church on Sun-
day after Rev. Winfred L. Sharp vis-
ited in the morning only, the church ex-
tended a unanimous call and he accepted
it at once and expects to commence serv-
ice about August 23rd.'" Mr. Sharp
supplied the church at Shenandoah, Iowa,
during the absence of the pastor while
in France. He did good work on that
field, and the people speak very highly
of him.
Rev. Albert H. Gage, Sunday School
and B. Y. P. U. director for the Chica-
go Association has been very busy this
summer in conducting Daily Vacation
Bible Schools. There are about forty
such schools in the Chicago Association.
He is inclined together with the help of
Brother Ko€hler to introduce the work
in other parts of the state. He will be
at the State Convention at Jerse>-ville
in October, and will talk about the Daily
Vacation Bible School to those who want
to know more about it.
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MONEY RKOKIVKD tX>R THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR AUGUST
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Aledo, Mrs. Geo. Mayhew, life
membership $ 5.00
*Antioch 14.00
*Arthur 24.42
Assumption, J. W. Patterson 4.00
-Bethany 47.00
Berwick 23.00
♦Bloomington 125.00
*Bourbon 26.00
Bulletin Ads 7.50
"Bushuell 16.00
Carbondale 10.00
Carrollton 30.00
Champaign First 15.93
Chicago First 13.66
Morgan Park 52.40
Covenant 50.00
Chrisman 1.84
*Clyde 3.78
Danville First 35.00
Decatur First 60.00
Downers Grove 11.73
Educational Commission 75.00
Elgin First 84.40
*Freeport 5.40
♦Greenville 1.96
*Hillsboro 5.92
Interest 33.00
Kewanee 11.26
Lexington 3.36
Lincoln 9.00
*Macomb : 30.00
Mahomet 8.56
Marengo 12.78
Mattoon Central 6.93
Morrison • 5.25
Mt. Vernon First 72.00
Oak Park First 115.90
Ottawa First 30.00
Percy .89
Quincy Central 100.00
*Rock Island First 66.00
Swygert - 2.26
Waverly 6.41
'White's Grove 8.70
*Wood River 9.63
Total $1,280.87
The Peoria Association will be lield
this year September 17-19 at Kewanee
instead of at Bradford, the place planned
for last year. Bradford is now pastor-
less and it seemed best to change the
place of meeting.
An interesting book entitled "Ministers
of Mercy," written by Rev. James H.
Franklin of Boston, Massachusettes, has
recently been published. It is "Dedicated
to Many Ministers of Mercy, who, in the
first century of Medical Missions, went
even to the uttermost parts of the earth
to serve suffering humanity in the name
and spirit of the Great Physician."
A brief sketch of ten Medical Mission-
aries is given in this book. It is copy-
righted by the Missionary Educational
Movement of the United States and Can-
ada, New York.
CHURCHES
The Divernon Church under the pas-
toral care of Rev. H. C. Leland, Ph.D.,
is making fine progress. As a result of
a Union Meeting recently held in the
city, a large number were baptized into
the fellowship of the First Baptist church.
The prayer meetings are large. The of-
ficers of the church had a meeting Sun-
day night, August 17th. and unanimously
sent a committee to the pastor to inform
him that he must not think of leaving
the church. The people pledged them-
selves to give the pastor much co-opera-
tion to carry on the work at that place.
Ever} indication is that things are for a
large work in the development of the
Divernon church.
A member of the Toulon church
writes, "so far we like Rev. Mr. Pierce
and wife very much. He seems to be
working for efficiency and pushing along
all departments."
Rev. J. H. Martin who recently became
pastor at Belleville, writes, "We are now
on the field at Belleville. Had a fine
service last Sunday, August 3rd, and the
attendance at Sunday School was 133,
with a good crowd at the church service.
They have the parsonage looking ver\-
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nice. Have put about $600 in the way
of repairs, and will install a new fur-
nace for the parsonag^e between now and
fall, which will cost $400, making a
total of $1,000 repairs on parsonage.
They put $100 repairs on the Sunday
School room."
Rev. G. A. Sheets, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Rockford, writes, "You
might be interested to know that the
First Baptist Church in Rockford let the
contract for the new building last month,
and that the work is now well under way.
When com,pleted it will give an excellent
modern working plant."
Rev. W. H. Parker, pastor of the An-
tioch church in the Rock Island Associa-
tion writes on July 29th, "I offered my
resignation a week ago last Sunday and
on last Sunday the church rejected same
and raised the salary $200 instead. To
receive the kindly expression of good
will from a loyal people was an occasion
never to be forgotten, and we feel set-
tled for some time to come."
PASTORAI/ CHANGES
Rev. Edward Benden who has been
a very successful pastor at Pontiac, had
an attack of influenza last winter and has
not been able to preach since. His
church gave him a vacation during the
entire summer and he has spent the sum-
mer in the south, hoping to resume his
work September first, but his health is
in such condition that he is compelled to
give up the ministry entirely for a while.
The church at Pontiac has finally ac-
cepted his resignation.
OORREOnON
The clerk of the Quincy Association
writes, "That Association will meet at
Hull, September 23-24 instead of Sep-
temtier 22-23 as stated in the annual."
Rev. J. FI. Hughes of Mexico, spent
his vacation during the month of August
with the Amboy church where he had
such a successful pastorate a few years
ago. While he was there one young man
was converted and baptized. Brother
Flughes is doing fine work for the church
in Mexico.
ERROR
In the August Bulletin an error was
made in reporting the finances of the
Corodve church. Thirty dollars was re-
ported and it should have been $50.00
received from that church.
ASSOCIATION
The Green Jersey County Association
met with the Martins Prairie church,
seven miles east of Roodhouse, August
26-28. The Martins Prairie church is a
strong country church with a modern
meeting house. The attendance was
large. The house was parctically full
all the time and in the night sessions it
was crowded. The church gave entirely
free entertainment and supplied the peo-
ple with an abundance of food for dinner
and supper in the basement of the church.
The meetings were enthusiastic and en-
couraging and things seem hopeful for
the future. However, this has been a
year of great dearth in evangelsitic ef-
fort. Only about 16 or 18 baptisms
were reported by the whole association.
QUARTERLY MEETINGS
The churches of the Southern Illinois
Assocaition held two quarterly meetings
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August
29-31. One was held at Marion, the for-
mer Free Baptist church which had been
so badly run down. It has been great-
ly revived. The meeting house has been
put in thorough repair and there have
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been about 73 editions to the church dur-
ing the past year. Rev. J. W. McKin-
ney, the popidar county school superin-
tendent, is the pastor there. He is doing
a great work. .\t this quarterly meeting
the house was well filled in the day time
and crowded at night. Dr. A. S. Car-
man and the superintendent of missions
were present and gave several addresses
and sermons besides the splendid and ef-
licient work of the pastors of that asso-
ciation.
Another quarterly meeting was held
at Christopher. This former Free Bap-
tist church has secured a splendid lot and
built a splendid meeting house now in
that place and the basement is sufficient-
ly finished to use for the quarterly meet-
ing. This is a new church organization
and is located in a part of Christopher
where there is no other church among
about three thousand people and they are
nearly all Americans on that side of the
railroad tracks. This interest is build-
ing up quite rapidly and there is great
o))portunity for that Baptist church. Rev.
(.J. H. Blythe of Tamaroa is the pastor.
The first Baptist church has a good meet-
ing house and parsonage on the other
side of town. This quarterly meeting
was well attended and a very deep in-
terest was shown.
size of his church organization. On ac-
count of high prices that work is delayed
for the present.
The first church of Benton has not yet
recovered from the vacation season, and
vet on the last Sunday of August, there
•tffcre 192 at Sunday School and a good
congregation at the preaching service.
Rev. J. L. Meads, the pastor, and the
Methodist pastor have been carrying on
the meetings in a large tent during the
month of August. Brother Meads is an
untiring worker, and is very anxious to
build a meeting house that will be in
keeping with the growing city and the
The 250th anniversary of the Tilehouse
street Baptist church, Ilitchen, England,
lias just been celebrated by a remarkable
series of meetings. This church has an In-
teresting connection with John Bunyan. in
the fact that its first pastor, Rev. John Wil-
son, was a member of Bunyan's church at
Bedford, and went to Hitchin on the
strength of a letter of recommendation
written by Bunyan. During its entire his-
tory the church has had only thirteen pas-
tors, the service of the first four covering
a period of more than 160 years.
The English Baptists have closed a great
year. They raised for foreign missions
1660,000, which is $100,000 more than last
year, and the largest sum in the historj of
the denomination. At their recent annual
meeting Rev. J. H. Shakespeare was cate-
chised with regard to his stand in his
book The Church at the Cross-Roads. He
insisted that he did not advocate reordlna-
tion and begged that the Baptists "should
not slam the door in the faces of men who
were holding out their hands in an appeal
to unite with them in the effort to save
England and the world." It does not ap-
pear just how church union will have Eng-
land and the world.
Greater progress has been made in Pales-
tine during the few months of British con-
trol than was made under the Turkish rule
in generations. One forward step is the
founding of an animal hospital and the
bringing in of veterinary surgeons, looking
to the breeding and cai'e of cattle of good
strains. Lack of such hospitals and sur-
geons has kept the land poor in milk and
beef. Another advance is the building of
an immense sea wall at Jaffa, with storage
warehouses, so that goods may be handled
at wholesale, and merchants may have new
and enlarged facilities for trade. The new
wall is to have a fountain in it commemo-
rating British ascendency and the end of
the Turkish dominion.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
75
MEN KIUjED in the WORLD WAR
The most recent report of casualties in
the late war is as follows:
Best information obtainable by the gen-
eral staff places the total battle deaths for
all belligerents at 7,450,200, divided as fol-
lows:
Russia —.1,700,000
Germany 1,600,000
France 1,385,300
Great Britain 900,000
Austria 800,000
Italy 330,000
Turkey 250,000
Serbia-Montenegro 125,000
Belgium 102,000
Rumania 100,000
Bulgaria 100,000
U.iited States 48,900
Greece 7,000
Portugal 2,000
American Participation
American participation is summarized in
the report in the following table:
Total armed forces, in-
cluding army, navy, ma-
rine corps 4,800,000
Total men in the army 4,000,000
Men who went overseas 2,086,000
Men who fought in Prance 1,390,000
Tons of supplies shipped
from America to France 7,500,000
Total registered in draft.... 24,234,021
Total draft inductions 2,810,296
Cost of war to April 30,
1919 $21,850,000,000
Battles fought by Ameri-
can troops 13
Days of battle 200
Days of duration of Meuse-
Argonne battle 47
American battle deaths in
war 50,000
/ mericans wounded in war 236,000
merican deaths from dis-
ease 56,991
'■ otal deaths in the army.... 112,422
OLEVIBING THE BIG HLLL
We may look upon our apportionment
task as a hill to climb steadily through
the twelve months and the fifty-two
weeks of the year. Each year we have
been taking a little higher hill than be-
fore. We could never take it in a single
jtmip, but our method of weekly giving
provides for a constamt climb from April
1 to March 31. How high is the Illinois
Baptist hill this year, and how far up
have we gone in the first quarter?
It is a goodly hill we have chosen for
the year 1919-1920. Our aggregate for
all objects, state and national, as adopted
by our State Apportionment Committee,
is $214,910, and the amounts to be added
locally for city and associational mis-
sions bring the peak up close to the al-
titude of a quarter of a million dollars.
The distribution to the churches has
gone out at length, involving an average
increase of twenty percent on the ap-
portionments of last year. With them
has gone out to each church a splendid
ringing letter from the chairman. Dr. M.
W. Twing, and the secretary. Rev. B. E.
Allen, of the Apportionment Committee.
It should be read aloud to each church.
At the office of the Board of Benefi-
cence reports are sent out to each society
on the twentieth of the month. The re-
port for July 20 forms a plateau from
which we may look back upon the jour-
ney thus far made, for the period covers
practically the giving of the first quarter.
The total amount received on apportion-
ments is $15,865.31 as against $12,400.59
for the same period last year. But of
this amount, by agreement between the
national societies and the leaders of the
Victory Campaign, $2,382.49 is applied
as belated gifts on last year's apportion-
ments. This helps the record of last
year, but leaves a comparatively small
gain for this year so far. The finishing
of the Six Million Fund and the neces-
sary delay in the sending out of the new
apportionments have hindered our climb.
As always and in all of the states the
first quarter sees us only started. The
big climb is l:)efore us. Let Illinois aim
at half of its apportionment at the end
of si.x months and its full apportionment
for State Convention by October 1. — A.
S. Carman.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
HUDRLSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
liev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOM£
MAYWOOD, ILAilNOIS
Kev. D. H, MacGilliTTay, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGilllvraj, Matron
Following the excessive rains of the
spring came the almost unprecedented
drouth of July and August. Some silos
were filled in August because the corn,
though immature, was getting too dry
to have better prospects. Our farm in-
terests share the prospects of our neigh-
Ix^rs.
Tliere has been a large increase in the
number of children in the Home, espe-
cially since the first of August. We are
about up to present capacity, but expect
to greatly increase that capacity when
improvements have been completed. Evi-
dently the rumor of our improvements
and proposed better equipment is leading
to this increase of applications. Pastors
are writing about the care of their de-
pendent families and some inquiries have
come from public officials. We rejoice
to have a share in meeting the needs of
our fellowmen but we must go slowly.
We are still too much torn up with ad-
vance work to greatly increase our fam-
ily. Our nursery department recently
organized is already out-growing its quar-
ters and we have ordered new beds more
adapted to the work. We have called
for consultation with officers of the
Board as to further improvement plans.
The Superintendent is pushing the
campaign for improvement funds and
meeting with good response. At present
('Aug. 22)) he is in the Central Illinois
Association. This Association is usu-
ally backward in missionary offerings,
but is making a better record for all ob-
jects this year, and is responding finely
to the orphanage proposition.
Our new letter from the Home goes
early to the Editor this month. The
month has been uneventful, yet we are
very glad for the opportunity of speak-
ing to our many friends through the
columns of the Illinois Bulletin.
The beginning of school is near at
hand and we hope cooler days will greet
our boys and girls who are expected to
get into the harness for another year's
work.
Our helpers are back at work again
after vacations well earned, and togeth-
er with the management are planning for
the work of the coming months.
Several cases of whooping cough are
well under way through the generosity
of one little lad who went for a vacation
with friends and returned with a well
developed case. We sincerely hope oth-
ers who are out may not do likewise.
Through the kindness of Mr. H. S.
Merrill and other big brothers from Au-
stin Baptist Church, a pleasant evening
was spent by the entire family (except
those in detention) auto riding on Chi-
cago's splendid boulevards. Much con-
cern was evident on the part of little
Anna spoken of in our last letter, as she
was taking her first automobile ride.
The plans and specifications for some
improvements spoken of in a former let-
ter are now in the hands of a contractor
and we hope ere the snow flies the ful-
fillment of the plans may be realized.
This means more hard work for the Su-
perintendent to raise the needed fund of
$3,500 for the completion of this needed
improvement.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Department of Sunday School and
Young People's Work
Louis H. Koehler, 202 N. School St., Normal, Director
AN ASSOCIATIOX PROGRAM OF RELI-
GIOUS EDUCATIOX
The action of the denomination taken
at Denver in approving a plan to raise
$100,000,000 in live years and enough
trained workers and leaders at home and
abroad to make effective this vast outlay
of money, calls for a response on the part
of the individual, local church. Associa-
tion, and State Convention. This ar-
ticle deals with its application to the As-
sociation.
Many of the Associations have not
been organized and energized for effec-
tive work the year round and two inter-
esting descriptions in recent numbers of
one of our denominational papers tell a
story of great possibilities. In too many
instances the Associations have been an-
nual gatherings only, very helpful in that
respect, but failing to function with pow-
er the year round. If, however, we are
to have a trained body of leaders to make
our great program effective, then we
must not only have a Northern Baptist
Convention with its newly organized
Promotion Board and State Conventions
likewise organized^ but Associations that
because they are nearer the local churches
and know the peculiar needs and capa-
bilities can act as inspiring and dynamic
organizations in this smaller field.
Our department then is very much in-
terested as it attempts to help the denom-
ination make a tremendous spiritual im-
pact upon the world, in securing in each
Association a department of religious
education. What we suggest is a com-
mission of five, with both a chairman to
call committee meetings and preside and
also an executive secretary to put across
the action taken by the cominission. The
work of the commission would include
visitation and strengthening the weaker
schools and societies, inspiring all to at-
tempt attainment of the standards, to
prepare and conduct institutes and rallies,
and to push the Summer Assembly and
State and International Conventions.
This commission should be financed bv
the Association and all printing and post-
age bills, traveling expenses, etc., should
be provided for in the Association's bud-
get. Through this commission the state
director and the elementary director
could reach and assist where most
needed. This organization would be the
necessary link that, would bind the local
church workers to the more important
state conventions and assemblies where
the leaders could receive the needed train-
ing. During this past summer the
Bloomfield Association B. Y. P. U. has
demonstrated that given a leader with
vision, a large delegation could be se-
cured for even an international conven-
tion.
This commission would take over the
work now done by the committees on
school and society work and because
practically all of our society workers are
in our schools, could put over a more
helpful and significant program of activ-
ities.
Members of the state department are
hoping that many Associations will take
action relative to this matter at their com-
ing gatherings.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Elfin
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
Morgan, Park 2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
A splendid program has been arranged
for the annual meeting to be held Oct.
21st in Jerseyville. Each reader of the
r)ulletin and all others who can attend
will be well repaid by arranging to go
and stay for the meetings of the State
Convention.
Those who do not reach Jerseyville
until Tuesday should go direct to the
Presbyterian church, on South Street,
that they may not lose any more of the
meeting than is necessary.
Bring pencils, notebooks, questions,
suggestions, prayer, enthusiasm and all
your friends.
Mrs. L. Vinnedge, Foreign State Sec-
retary reports that the Woman's Mis-
sion Society of the 'Aurora Association at
their recent meeting voted to support
two scholarships at the Baptist Training
School, and to take up the "White Cross
Work" and help outfit with necessary
supplies a hospital in Assam, where now
no Christian hospital exists to which
women and girls can go for treatment.
This is a noble and worthy undertaking,
and is recommended to other Associa-
tions. The war called into active service
many splendid women who are willing
to continue serving mankind as they did
during the Red Cross work for the sol-
diers. The need is always great and the
supplies are inadequate. This will hold
the interest of many and help to conserve
the new forces for other interests.
The Foreign State Secretary is look-
ing forward to seeing every associational
secretary at the annual meeting and hold-
ing a conference with them. Plan to be
present.
It is with much sorrow that we make
note of the passing of Miss Elizabeth
Church. She has been identified with
the W. A. B. F. M. Society almost from
its beginning, always serving in some
of^cial capacity. At the time of her
death she was Foreign VicePresident of
the Central District. Doubtless there
are very few women now living who
have as wide an acquaintance with those
on the foreign field, or who correspond
with so many girls who have gone out
from the society. She seldom, if ever,
missed an annual meeting of the society
or meetings of auxiliary organizations
which it was possible for her to attend.
Her co-operation ability and Christian
character will be missed by all who knew
her.
The Daily News, of Chicago, in a long
editorial on the recent race riots, says:
"There are more than 10,000,000 negroes
in the United States. Their desire for jus-
tice surely is not to be crushed or vindi-
cated by armed mobs or by lone men dying
under torture. The best thought of the
Nation must be brought to bear upon the
problem. Every sniper's bullet, every
knife-trust, every thrown brick contributed
tc the race war makes the matter worse
than it was before. Are not the people
of America capable of devising and apply-
ing a real solution? From Chicago's ter-
rible outbreak of race hatred must come
justice and applied wisdom if the Nation
i?, to atone for this disgrace."
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
79
The Baptist Old People's Home
Majrwood, Illinois
Most of our home family are quite
well and comfortable this summer. ]\Irs.
Prindie had a serious accident in fractur-
ing her hip and as she is passed 80 years
old, the prospects for a speed}- recovery
are not very favorable.
She is obliged to have a special nurse.
Two others require much care and our
resident nurses" strength is taxed to the
utmost. Special contributions to the
Nurses' Fund are needed.
We still have quite a number of jars
and jelly glasses which will be sent to
any church that will try to fill them with
fruit or vegetables for the Home. One
old lady 84 years old, soon 85 — a Baptist
for 70 years, writes, "I am all alone and
not aitle to do much. I think it is about
time for me to retire, have you room for
me in the Home?"
What ought we to say?
What must we say? XO ROOM!
Our Building Fund should be in-
creased so we can erect the much needed
addition and be able to take such people
ts these, several of whom are on our
waiting list. Looking at it in this light.
are "we doing all we can ?
During the hot weather make some-
thing for our Bazaar which will occur
early in December. And please remem-
ber when making out your budgets that
the Old People's Home is in the State
Budget, and send contributions promptly
for the current expense of the Home.
Help meet the high cost of living — we
must have the necessities.
PAUL'S PLAN OP CHURCH FINANCE
Periodic — "Upon the first day of the
week — Worshipful, Habitual, Prayerful,
Cheerful.
Personal — Let each one of you — Each
Man, Each Woman, Each Boy, Each Girl.
Provident — Lay by him in store — Fore-
handed, Deliberate, Thoughtful, lutelli-
gent.
Pi-oportionate — As he may prosper —
Generous, Careful, Responsible, Faithful.
Preventive — That no collections be
made when I come" — No Deficit, No Worry,
No Loan Interest, No Retrenchment.
(I Cor. XVI: 2) — (From Men and Mis-
sions.)
There are said to be 1,000,000 "tithers"
in Methodism here in the North. Tithing
among Northern Baptists would easily
raise the projected $100,000,000 during
the next five years. It is a habit that all
good Christians should cultivate. There
never lived a "tither" whose giving was
not a genuine pleasure, and "tithers" are
far and away our most geenrous givers.
Rev. G. W. Wright has been pastor of
the Alpha church about one and one-half
years. This is quite a strong church with
very good property and is doing quite
good work. The only other church in
the place is the Methodist church with
part time service.
"Dr. Wm. H. Maine of the First Bap^
tist Church of Chicago, has accepted a
call to return to the pastorate of the
Memorial church of Philadelphia. Dr.
Maine came to the First Baptist church
three years ago from the ^Memorial
church. He has done splendid work in
Chicago, and helped the church through
the greatest transition period of its his-
tory. He will begin his work in Phila-
delphia October first."
Mr. De Valera's effort to stir up bad
blood between the United States and
Great Britain and the United States and
Japan will not make friends for Ireland
in our country. This gentleman ought
to be taught to attend to his own busi-
ness.
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This is Shurtleff CoOege
Endowment Year
One-half Million Dollars is being asked from the Baptists of IlK-
nois for increased endowment for their college.
Our fathers gave to Shurtleff College in those pioneer years aad
built well. Will this generation carry on their work?
Illinois Baptists should not forget that upon two occasions, the Illi-
nois Baptist State Convention has called upon the Trustees of Shurtteff
to launch a financial campaign. That campaign is now on and $135,000
has already been subscribed.
Shurtleff Has Right of Way
It takes more than buildings, classrooms, libraries and professors to
make a college. There must be students. What have you done toward
I encouraging Baptist boys and girls to come to Shurtleff for their edi»-
I cation and that "atmosphere and spirit" characteristic of the school?
I PRESIDENT JAMES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILJilNOIS SAYS:
I "As the head, for many years, of large technical schools, and not ox-
i eluding the medical, I would prefer to take a young man after four yeems
I in a small Christian college without any technical training than to take
him after an equal time in preparatory technical work."
I Catalogue and literature cheerfully sent.
I Myron W. Haynes, George Milton Pottbr,
I Endowment Secretary President
I ALTON, ILLINOIS
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VOL. XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 1919
NO. 6
Seventy-fifth Anniversary
The meeting of the Convention this
year at Jerseyville will complete three-
quarters of a century of the State Con-
vention. The Convention did not hold
its seventy-fourth anniversary on account
of influenza. At another meeting more
than thirty years ago, the Board an-
nounced that it had no report, for noth-
ing had been done, but nearly every year
of these seventy-five the Convention has
done active and aggressive work. We
now have about 1,300 churches in the
state. Probably if the Convention had
not been in existence during these seven-
ty-five years, we would not at this time
have more than 800 churches. This sev-
enty-five years' history of the State Con-
vention does not mean that the denomina-
tion in the state is only seventy-five years
old. The first Baptist church was or-
ganized in the state in 1796, one hun-
dred and twenty-three years ago. The
home in which that church first wor-
shiped is still in good condition and the
monument of James Lemen, its owner
at that time, is erected on the farm near
the house. The oldest living church in
the state is Bethel, three miles from Col-
linsville, 109 years old. It has a good
old meeting house and a good new par-
sonage. There were some general or-
ganizations of the Baptists before the
General Association, now State Conven-
tion, was organized, but they were only
temporary.
This seventy-fifth Anniversary is, per-
haps, the most important meeting in the
histor}' of the denomination in the state.
More great things are facing us than
ever before and the world is in a con-
dition to be saved or lost more rapidly
than at any time within 1,500 years. Very
much depends upon the attitude and work
of the Illinois Baptist State Convention
in saving this world or in letting it go
to wreck and ruin. One of the things
the Convention will have to face in Illi-
nois is to share in the $100,000,000 drive,
and not only Illinois' share, but as to
what portion of that share shall be used
within the state. This great drive in-
cludes everything above the local ex-
penses of the church. If five or six or
seven millions are assigned to Illinois,
how much of it or what portion of it
shall be used by the State Convention?
How much for philanthropic institutions ?
How much for mission work in Chicago?
How much for many other things? All
these are great questions, and while the>
cannot be completed in solution at Jer-
seyville, they must be faced and some
steps taken toward their solution.
Every reader of the Bulletin is re-
ferred to the program which appears in
full in this issue. It is a great program.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Such speakers as Mullins, Montgomery,
Mathews, Petty, Franklin, Heath and
Williams, pastor of the largest Protestant
chi'.rch in the world but one, and many
others are on the program.
COME TO JERSEYVILLE OCTO-
BER 20-23.
BA1*TIST FIGURES
A minister of a pedo baptist denomina-
tion recently said to the editor, "How
much has your denomination lost in mem-
bership during the past year? Our
church has lost more than 19,000 mem-
bers more than it has gained." The edi-
tor replied that he could not answer that
question, that he did not think the Bap-
tists had lost any, but he could not say
how mucli they had gained. He went to
his office and looked up the American
Baptist year book of 1919, which came
out a few months ago. This is a well
gotten-up annual and its figures are quite
reliable.
According to this year book, the white
Baptist denomination of the North made
a net gain last year of 38,721 members.
The white Baptists of the South made
a clear gain of 21,126 members. The
Negro Baptists of the whole country
made a clear gain of 20,514 members.
All of the Baptists of the United States
of America made a net gain of 88,361
members, and the Baptists of the whole
world made a gain of 87,302 members.
Those outside of this country suflfered a
slight loss, but when we consider that all
of last year, the time that these statistics
were considered, was in the world war,
with so many things taking the minds
of the people away from evangelistic
and church work, we ought to rejoice,
take courage and thank God that our
denomination did not decline, but in-
creased more than 87,000 members. The
total Baptist population of the world is
reported at this time to be 8,158,064.
These live in the Grand Divisions of the
earth as follows : North America,
7,244,530; South America, 19,320; Eu-
rope, 621,392; Asia 214,971; Africa,
27,683 ; Australia, 30,168.
Illinois Promotion Board held its first
meeting in Chicago Monday and Tues-
day, September 15-16. Twenty of the
twenty-two members were present. It
organized by electing Dr. S. J. Skeving-
ton, of Chicago, chairman; Dr. M. W.
Twing of Alton, vice-chairman ; Mr. W.
S. Davison of Minonk, secretary.
Reports from a meeting of the Na-
tional Board of Promotion in New York
were made by Mrs. MacLeish and Mrs.
Eulette who had been present in the
New York meeting. Supt. E. P. Brand
brought before the Board in a general
way the business to be considered. The
Board voted not to make a special de-
partment for Chicago, but to deal with
the Chicago Association in the same man-
ner as in other associations. The Board
took special steps toward organizing an
Associational Promotion Board for each
Association, and hope through the Asso-
ciation to get an efficient Promotional
Board in each local church. Tlie recom-
mendation is that the Associations should
have board members from three to fifteen
as the minimum and maximum. Of
these one-third should be pastors, one-
third women and one-third men. Great
things are expected of these four plan-
ning Boards, viz., the National, State,
Associational and local church Planning
Boards.
Jolin D. Rockefeller has recently giren
$2,000,000 for the aged Ministere and
Missionaries' Benefit Fund. That makes
$4,750,000 from Rockefeller this year for
the Baptists.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BDLLETIN
Published monthly in the interest of the-
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E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
OCTOBER is a good month to start a
subscription for the Bulletin. It
is the first month of the Convention
year, and one can read the Bulletin for a
whole- year at a cost of twenty-five cents,
or if twenty subscriptions are secured
they can be had for fifteen cents each
per year.
LET the churches that desire evangel-
istic work, and special meetings
communicate with the Superintendent.
He can recommend good evangelists,
some of them State Convention men and
some independent workers.
WE cannot put off what we are go-
ing to do to save this world, for
one or two or five years. The greatest
need of the world now is for large num-
bers of young men and women to give
themselves to Ministerial or Missionary
work. It will require some of these
from six to nine years to make prepara-
tion. This year hundreds of such young
people should decide for such work.
There is no other way in which many
young people could be of so great serv-
ice to humanity.
LOOK out for the blue cross on your
paper. It indicates that your time
is out, and you will not receive another
paper until you renew your subscription.
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LET the prayer meeting in all the
churches the week before the Con-
vention meets, be for the State Meetings
and the State Convention and all the
missionaries and workers. We hope the
Convention will be remembered in prayer
by all the pastors on Sunday morning,
the beginning of the Convention week.
* * *
LET all the churches that need some
help in reorganization, in getting
ready to locate a pastor, or in making
an every-member canvass communicate
with the Superintendent. We now, or
soon will have sufficient men to cover the
state in that line of work.
SUNDAY MEETING
On Tuesday night, September 16th,
the Editor had an opportunity to attend
a part of one of Billy Sunday's meetings
in Rock Island. The meetings are for
the tri cities of Rock Island, Moline
and Davenport. The tabernacle is built
in Rock Island. It is a good looking
building of brick and tile. It is conven-
iently arranged and will seat about 7,000
people. On that Tuesday night every
seat seemed to be taken and many people
were standing at the outside of the doors
and windows. After a while we got a
seat five rows from the wall. We could
hear Mr. Sunday at that distance fairly
well. He preached upon Jacob obtaining
power. He seemed to preach with his
old time vigor and seems to be in per-
fect health. There was the most perfect
attention and a considerable amount of
cheering while he preached.
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ASStKlATlONS
The Alton Association met Oct. 23d,
witli the Ljethany church, six miles from
Highland. This is a church that is made
up almost wholly of I'Vench people. They
have a good meeting house and a par-
sonage, and are now planning to put sev-
eral thousand dollars in repairing the
meeting house. Rev. J. 11. Kelly is the
pastor.
Thf house was full during almost all
the session. The i)eople were royally
entertained by the church. It was one
ot the liest meetings ol the Alton Asso-
ciation we have ever attended. There
seemed to be entire harmony and a hope-
ful outlook for the future. Six or seven
new pastors were present.
Twelve churches reported no baptisms
during the }ear, and eighteen churches
reported 125 baptisms.
The Southern Association met in Mur-
l)hysboro, Sept. 2.^th. This was by far
the best meeting of that Association it
has ever held. The attendance was good
and the interest very deep. Last year
the numljer of cliurches reporting in that
.\ssociation was thirt\-nine. Si.x new
churches asked for membership this year.
The Mur])h)-sboro clnirch did tine work
in entertaining the bod\-. Rev. II. T.
.\bl)Ott is the pastor and he and liis wife
arc greatly ap])reciated. both in the
church and in the city. The Murphys-
boro church reported more than 700
members and more than 500 in the Sun-
day School. \\'hen the editor left the
meeting, twenty-si.x letters had been read,
and they reported ^57 baptisms, about
twice as many as any other Association
in the State excejit Chicago, so far as
we have record.
Rev. T. O. }^IcMinn has been our State
and As.sociational Missionary during the
past year, and he has done splendid work.
I le will be continued another year at an
increase of salary.
There is a wonderful opportunity for
the Baptists in Southern Illinois, and our
Southern Association is a fine body
through which to cultivate that part of
the state.
The Wabash \ alley Asxiciation was
organized one year ago. It held its first
Annual Meeting with the Flora churcii
on Se])tember 24-26. Owing to a num-
ber of other Associations that week the
ICditor could not be present. The Con-
\ention and the Publication Society were
represented by D. O. Hopkins. He re-
ports a tine missionary spirit in the gath-
ering. W. H. Breach ])reached the in-
troductory sermon. J. E. Arblaster, Ol-
ney. delivered the doctrinal sermon. The
women had a tine interest in their meet-
ing.
Dr. Ilo])kins preached an evangelistic
sermon and delivered addresses upon
tlie work of our Convention and other
.Societies. The next meeting will be held
with the Hutsonville church. Rev. J. E.
.Vrblaster is moderator and Miss Bowles
is clerk.
The Salem Association met at the St.
Mary"s church, in a rural village five
miles from Plymouth. The St. Mary's
{)eople are building a fine modern new
meeting house. It is not finished, but is
so far along that the meetings were held
there. This Association, nearly like all
others in the state, had a very meager re-
port of baptisms. Nineteen churches re-
]wrted, ten reported no baptisms and ten
churches reported twenty baptisms.
There are some good strong pastors in
this .Association and the outlook is hope-
fid for the future. The influenza last
fall and winter prevented almost all of
the churches from holding revival meet-
ins:s.
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The Bloomfield Association met witli
the First Baptist church in Champaign,
September 10-12. This is one of the
largest Associations in the state, both in
membership and territory. Thirty-four
churches reported and eighteen of them
162 baptisms.
The afternoon session September 10th
was held at the beautiful Universit}' Bap-
tist church. Seven new pastors were in-
troduced and some of the new pastors
were not there, but still other churches
are pastorless. The Association is
planning to undertake large things the
coming year. Rev. Geo. H. Yule, a State
Convention missionary has done some
strong work in this Association during
the past year. In all the Associational
meetings the people were splendidly
cared for by the entertaining church.
So many Associations meet in Sei)tem-
ber that the Editor can attend only a por-
tion of them. He has enjoyed very
greatly those he has attended. The Ma-
coupin County Association met with the
Carlinville Church, September 2-4. The
attendance was good and the spirit of
the people seemed encouraging. The As-
sociation was well entertained by the Car-
linville church. All the churches of the
Association sent up reports. Twenty-
six churches reported, and nineteen re-
])orted no baptisms. Seven churches re-
ported sixty-seven baptisms. Many of
the churches reported but little for mis-
sions. There is a large number of rural
churches in that Association.
The Central Illinois Association met
with the Richland church, a good country
church about six miles from a railroad.
This is a small Association, but the at-
tendance was good and the church en-
tertained the Association well. Eleven
churches reported. Five reported no
baptisms and six reported sixteen baj)-
tisms. This Association expects much
preaching at the sessions. It met Sep-
tember 4-5. On the first day there were
four sermons delivered. This writer
does not know how many were delivered
the second day. The people in that sec-
tion attend the Association much better
than in some other sections of the State.
The Peoria Association met with the
Kewanee church. Many of the people
who plan to attend the Associational
meetings plan to go in their automobiles,
and if the weather is rainy and the roads
muddy they will not go. The first and
second days of the Peoria Association
were rainy days and the attendance was
small. All matters with reference to the
entertaining of the Association were nice-
ly arranged by the church, and the meet-
ings were good. Seventeen churches
sent up letters. Several of these re-
ported no baptisms and ten reported 130
baptisms. It is hoped that good evangel-
istic work will be done in the Associa-
tion the coming year.
CONSECRATION TO THE >UNISTRY
A young Swedish man recently went
from the Swedish Baptist Church in Ke-
wanee to Minneapolis to educate himself
for the gospel ministry. He was a bril-
liant young man, receiving a salary of
$1,800.00 per year. His employer of-
fered him $2,000.00 if he would remain
in his employ, but the young man said
he would not give up his desire to be
a Christian minister for all the money in
Kewanee. It seems good to hear of such
a young man as that, when so many pas-
tors are leaving the ministry. Thirty-
six years ago a young man from Assam,
entered the Newton Theological Semin-
ary, at the time when the editor was
there in school. His name was Ton
Kohn, Koksa, Sangma. After some time
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in America he went back to his native
land. About twenty years ago, a mis-
sionary from that country said to the
editor that Ton Kohn was doing faithful
work and that the government had of-
fered him three times the salary that he
received as a minister, yet he refused it
in order to preach the Gospel. A mis-
sionary from that country spoke this year
at the Peoria Association. We asked her
about Ton Kohn. She says he is still a
faithful worker. That he has steadily
refused the offer of the government posi-
tion, and has lived very economically in
order to preach Christ.
We are glad to hear of men and wom-
en of all nationalities who are willing to
sacrifice something in order to be a mis-
sionary or a preacher.
STATE CONVENTION MISSIONARIES
Our State Convention Missionary,
George H. Yule, recently spent a few
days with the Fairbury church. He re-
ceived several hundred dollars on the Vic-
tory Campaign and helped them to raise
their budget far beyond their expecta-
tions. They were greatly pleased with
his work.
Rev. J. C. Dent begins his work with
the State Convention, by giving two Sun-
days and a week between with the Savan-
nah church on the Mississippi River.
This church has been pastorless for a
year and is needing some encouragement
in order to get started up and in a con-
dition to locate a pastor. We hope Broth-
er Dent will get them started again into
active services.
PERSONALS
The people of the Baptist church and
of the town of Assumption recently gave
a very hearty farewell service to Prof,
and Mrs. Howard who were going back
to their work as teachers in Rangoon,
Burma. Professor Howard and Uis fam-
ily had been in this country for more
than a year and return to Burma for an-
other period of service.
Rev. O. C. S. Wallace, D.D., one of
the ablest and perhaps the most popular
preachers in the Canadian Provinces,
writes: "Heartiest congratulations on
what has been done, by, through and in
your twenty-one years."
"Evangelist Thomas Judson Saxon and
soloist John Roy Harris of Muskogee,
Oklahoma, are trust-worthy and safe
evangelists. They have had over seven
years' experience. They will go any-
where for free-will offerings. They
stand by the denominational work. Rob-
ert \ an Meigs, Quincy, 111."
Rev. A. Boyle, who some years ago
was pastor in Illinois, and for the past
years has been in Michigan, has returned
to Streator where he will reside for some
time. He will appreciate the opportunity
for supplying churches anywhere within
reasonable distance of Streator.
ANNUITIES
Two parties sent in sums of money in
September for Annuity Bonds in the
State Convention. One of these pays
the donor 9% interest, payable semi-an-
nually during his life time. He is eiglity-
one and a half years old.
There is no investment that seems so
good for elderly people. They get a
larger income while they live than from
almost any other safe investment, and
they k-now that after they are gone, the
money will be doing good in the Lord's
work.
One of our State Convention mission-
aries has economized and managed his
finances so well that he has taken out An-
nuities, $100 at a time, until now he has
$1,000 in Annuities, $400 of it with the
State Convention.
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PASTORAL CHANGES
The Damascus church has called as its
pastor Rev. W. H. Dickman of Port
Byron. Brother Dickman has been pas-
tor at the Bethel church for several years
and begins work at Damascus church
October 1st. Damascus is a fine rural
church and he will have a fine opportun-
ity for building up a fine work. They
have a good meeting house and parson-
age.
The Latham church in the Blooming-
ton Association has employed Rev. G. E.
Milford, who has been pastor for one-
half time for several years. They have
now raised his salary to $1,200 and par-
sonage, and have placed Brother Milford
on the field for full time. This church
reports only sixty-one members, and yet
they are doing this work without any as-
sistance. We expect this church to have
splendid prosperity in the year to come.
The Pilgrim Temple Church of Chica-
go, in accepting the resignation of its
pastor, Rev. J. C. Dent, who had served
them ten years and resigned to accept an
appointment of the State Convention,
placed on record a series of very strong
resolutions, concerning their appreciation
of their pastor and his work.
Rev. R. M. Webdell, of Missouri, has
located at Greenville, 111., and is getting
hold of the work nicely. He appreciates
the field and the people seem to like their
pastor very well.
Rev. James E. Elliott, Mt. Union,
Iowa, has eccepted a call to become pas-
tor of the Lexington church. Lexington
is a splendid field but has been pastorless
most of the time for several years. iVlr.
Elliott says, "With God's help we will
do all we can to bring about success."
THIS YE.Ut'S (JIVING
Many questions are asked as to re-ad-
justments which may be expected under
the extensive re-organization plans of
Northern Baptists. Especially eager are
the questions as to the Hundred Million
Campaign, for example :
1. "When does it begin?"
2. "Are we to raise $20,000,000 this
year?"
3. "Will there be one or more great
'drives' this year?"
4. "What apportionments and allot-
ments may the churches expect?"
To answer these in their order :
1. The Hundred Million Campaign has
been on since April 1, 1919. The ap-
portionments for this year count on tlie
big campaign, and the full budget for the
year's expenses, amounting to about $6,-
000,000 of which $2,400,000 is apportion-
ment, and about $600,000 is income from
invested funds, legacies, annuities, etc.
2. It is not expected that a drive for
$20,000,000 will be made this year. Em-
phasis is laid on raising the apportion-
ments through the regular weekly oflfer-
ings of the churches, and on sending in
a full quarter of the apportionment each
quarter, or better still — remitting one-
twelfth monthly, as they do in Wisconsin.
3 & 4. It is not now planned to have
any further drives or allotments to the
churches this year, but to have a simul-
taneous free-will offering day or week in
February toward the completion of the
annual budget. About $3,000,000 is
needed above apportionments, and fixed
items of income.
Perhaps in April or May. 1920, the
great simultaneous drive for subscrip-
tions in the Hundred Million Fund will
be launched Augustine S. Carman,
Sec'y. 111. Bd. of Baptist Beneficence.
417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
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MONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR SEPTEMBER
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
*Alhambra $ 4.00
Alton Cherry St 30.00
Alton First 60.80
♦Aurora First 144.00
Aurora Park Place 7.00
♦Areola 48.78
♦Ashland 31.00
♦Amboy 21.00
♦Benton 77.00
Bohemian 5.00
Belleville ; 7.00
♦Bethel, Salem Ass'n 14.00
♦Batavia 24.00
♦Bols d'Arc 50.00
Burch Walter, Annuity 1,000.00
Bulletin Suscription 57.20
♦Champaign First 30.00
Chrisman 3.95
Cornell 5.98
♦Calvary 27.00
♦Chicago Heights 15.00
♦Clayton 22.85
♦Chillicothe 17.00
Colbert, Rev. V., Annuity..... 100.00
Cedar Creek 1.08
♦Covenant, Chicago 50.00
♦Cottonwood 8.45
"Divernon 20.18
♦Deer Creek 50.00
Danvers 6.50
Damascus 14.52
♦Delavan 26.25
♦DeKalb First 11.69
♦Diamond Grove 2.00
East St. Louis First 51.00
Educational Commission 75.00
♦Edinburg 15.00
♦Flora 15.00
Galilee 4.30
♦Gardner 4.62
Galesburg 19.76
♦Garfield Park Church 70.00
♦Galva 40.00
♦Gilman 8.00
♦Hammond 21.30
Interest 237.50
.Joliet First Church 11.72
♦Jerseyville 31.50
Jacksonville 8.73
♦Kane 29.00
Lexington 1.96
♦Lorimer Memorial 18.44
♦LaSalle 14.74
♦Lena 5.00
♦Littleton 2.00
"■■Marquette Road Ch. Chicago 13.00
♦Marissa 15.50
♦Maywood 39.00
♦Mattoon 10.12
Mendota 30.00
♦Marseilles 10.00
Messiah 20.00
♦Mason City 27.00
Monmouth 16.85
♦Moweaqua . 39.00
♦Moline " 74.00
♦Mt. Carroll 156.40
♦Marian Warder St 13.00
♦Mt. Gilead, Green-Jersey Co.
Association 14.00
Morrisonville - 8.40
Normal Park 20.95
New Hope 1.00
♦Otterville .75
Oglesby 3.60
♦Ottawa 7.00
♦Osceola 8.04
♦Orion 29.00
♦Oreana 19.00
Paris 36.00
♦Pontiac 132.25
Pleasant Grove 4.35
♦Pittsfield 2.71
♦Plainfield 19.35
♦Plymouth 18.00
♦Pipestone 8.00
♦Providence 8.00
♦Petersburg 5.00
♦Rantoul 27.00
♦Raritan 28.00
Ravenswood ...'. 78.00
♦Rozetta 48.00
♦Shabbona 5.00
♦Somonauk 2.00
♦Gilvis 11.00
♦Sidell 1.89
So. Chicago 10.00
♦So. Wilmington 2.00
♦Stonington (old) 21.00
♦Streator ..- 32.12
♦Sparland 11.00
♦Springfield So. 7th 44.00
Sterling 21.04
♦Toulon 64.25
♦Tremont 42.00
♦Tiskilwa 7.25
Tavlorville 47.00
Troy 4.87
♦Urbana 1st 122.00
♦Urbana, Herald of Hope 14.00
Villa Grove 10.00
♦Western Springs 3.00
Woodlawn 63.21
Windsor Park 2.68
♦Wasco 5.37
♦Warren 1.81
♦Waverly 3.59
♦Waukegan 21.50
♦Warrenville 2.00
West Frankfort 5.60
Woodstock .85
♦Woodburn 3.00
♦York 1.92
Total $4,255.02
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Program
of
The Illinois Baptist State Convention
Meeting in Jerseyville, October 20-23, 1919
Monday Eyening'
Ministers' Conference.
Rev. David T. Magill, Alton, Press Re-
porter.
7:30 Prayer Service conducted by Rev. R.
A. Rapson, Roodhouse.
7:50 Annual Sermon — Rev. Walter I.
Fowle, Galesburg.
Collection for Printing Annual.
Address — "The World War and Re-
ligious Liberty" — Pres. E. Y.
Mullins, Louisville, Ky.
Tuesday :Morning, October 21, 1919
9:00 Song and Prayer.
Topics for Discussion.
9:20 The Pastor who Makes Good —
Rev. M. W. Twing, D.D., Alton.
9:40 Address — "The Modern Call for
Leaders" — Rev. E. Y. Mullins,
D.D., LL.D., Louisville, Ky.
10:20 Business.
10:30 Devotional — Rev. Carl D. Case.
Oak Park.
11:00 Obituary Report — Rev. M.
Twing, D.D., Alton.
W.
H. C.
11:15 Memorial Address — Rev.
First, Rock Island.
11:45 Prayer.
Announcements.
11:55 Introduction of New Pastors —
Supt. E. P. Brand. '
12:15 Adjournment.
Tuesday Afternoon
2:00 Song and Prayer.
2:10 Beginning of Convention Work.
Appointment of nominating and
other special committees by the
President.
Report of Committee on Program.
2:20 Report of Committee on Ordina-
tion— Rev. F. L. Anderson, Chi-
cago.
2 -50 Report of Department on Church
Efficiency — Rev. F. E. R. Miller.
Elgin.
3:10 Report of Department on Educa-
tion— Rev. J. C. Hazen, Peoria.
5:40 Report of Committee on Interde-
nominational Policy — Rev. S. J.
Skevington, D.D., Chicago.
3:55 Apportionment Committee — Rev.
M. W. Twing, D.D., Alton.
4:15 Address — Baptist Negro Work in
Illinois — Rev. L. K. Williams, D.D.
Chicago.
4:45 Business.
5:00 Adjournment.
Program of Woman^s Meeting
Tuesday, October 21st, 1919
(Meeting of the Woman's Baptist Mis-
sion Society of Illinois in the Presbyterian
Church, Jersey ville, Illinois.)
Mrs. W. P. Topping, President, presid-
ing.
Leader of Music — Mrs. H. S. Daniels.
Organist — Miss Doris McMahan.
Keyword — ^"BUILDING." "The people
had a mind to work." Nehemiah 4:6.
Morning Session
9:15 Opening song and supplication-
Mrs. J. W. Merrill, Carbondale.
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3:45
5:00
S:20 Welcome from Jersey ville — Mrs. 3:00
Lawrence Enos.
9:25 Welcome from Greene-Jersey Co. 3:05
Ass'n. — Mrs. C. R. Thomas, Rood-
house.
9:30 "Specifications" — Mrs. Geo. R. Mc-
Ginnis, Aurora.
9:40 "Building Fund" — Mrs. H. W.
Tate, Evanston.
9:50 Devotional: "Our Foundation" —
Mrs. O. W. Shields, Carlinville.
10:00 Tools for Building:
Seven Minute "Strikes." 4:00
(a) Mission Study Classes — Mrs.
W. L. Goble, Mrs. Clara D. 4:io
Pinkham.
(b) Reading Contest — Mrs. H. W.
Reed, Belvidere.
(c) Extension Department — Mrs.
G. W. Taft, Chicago.
(d) Standard of Excellence — Mrs.
L. K. Evans, El Paso.
Time for Discussion.
10:45 Classification of Associations (As-
sociational presidents on plat-
form ) .
3 1:05 President's Message: "Building
for the Future" — Mrs. W. P. Top-
ping, Elgin.
11:25 "Thankful Song and Grateful Of-
fering"— Special Music.
11:30 "The Architect's Plans"
For Woman's Work — Mrs. Andrew
McLeish, Glencoe.
For Our State — Dr. A. S. Carman,
Chicago.
11:50 Presentation of Associational Lov-
ing Cup — Mrs. Minnie E. Oberhol-
ser, Belvidere.
11:55 Children's Crusade Play, Arranged
by Mrs. E. S. Osgood, Austin; Di-
rected by Mrs. Joseph Jenkins,
Jerseyville.
12:25 Fervent Song and Prayer — Mrs. D.
J. Magill, Alton.
12:30 Luncheon.
"Let's get acquainted."
Afternoon Session
1 :.'?0 A Stream of Song (without music)
Directed by Mrs. W. C. Ruther-
ford, Waukegan.
1:40 Report of standing Committee and
election of officers.
1:55 "The Framework": 9:30
"Woman's American Baptist Home 10:00
Mission Society" — Mrs. J. D. 10:30
Louderback .
"Woman's American Baptist For- 11:00
eign Mission Society"— Mrs. L. 11:30
A. Vinnedge.
(Associational Foreign Secretaries 11:50
and Home Directors on plat-
form.) 12:10
2:20 World Wide Guild Conference — 12:30
Leader: Miss Mildred Bush, Peoria
7:10
7:30
7:45
8:00-
8:50
"The Lord loveth a oheerful giv-
er"— Special Music.
"The Stranger in Our Midst" —
Miss Mildred Jones, Missionary
among Italians in Detroit.
"Medical Work of the Orient"- —
Dr. Marion Farber, Mah bubdgger.
South India.
Resume of Pageant — "Visioas of
World Freedom" — Written by
Mrs. W. L. Goble, Elgin.
"Americanization Plans" — Miss
Naomi Fletcher, Chicago.
Closing Hymn — "Jesus Shall
Reign."
Mothers' and Daughters' Banquet
(Served by ladies of Presbyterian
church).
Toast-Mistress — Mrs. J. C. Hazen,
Peoria.
"The Constructive Materials" —
Mrs. E. S. Osgood, Austin.
"The Corner-Stones" — Miss Nita
Ford, Carrolltoii.
"The Pillars"— Mrs. J. T. Whit-
lock, Mt. Vernon.
"Our Arch Triumphant" — Mrs. R.
A. Chandler, Galesburg.
Study Book Presentatii n.
Room in Baptist Church.
Tuesday Night
Prayer Service — Rev. W. J. Camp-
bell, Waverly.
Special Music.
Words of Welcome — by Pastor.
Response by President.
-Annual Sermon — Rev. G. W.
Chessman, Ottawa.
Convention Offering for Printing
Annual.
State Convention Address: Rela-
tion of the State Convention to
Forward Movement — Rev. Sam-
uel J. Skevington, D.D., Chicago.
Announcements.
Adjournment.
Wednesday Morning, October S3
00
10
Song and Prayer.
Report of Nominating Committee
on Members of the Board and
Standing Committees.
Report of the Executive Board.
Introduction of Missionaries.
Devotional Period — Rev. Cftrl D.
Case.
Addresses of Missionarle.s.
Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Business — Rev. M. P. Boynton,
D.D.
Adjournment.
Luncheon for State CouTeotion
Missionaries.
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Wednesday Afternoon
1:59 Song and Prayer.
2:09 Report of Department of Missions
— Rev. S. J. Skevington, D.D., Chi-
cago.
2:2» Address — Mrs. Clara D. Pinkham,
President Baptist Missionary
Training School, Chicago.
2:S# Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery.
3: Id The One Hundred Million Dollar
Program and the General Board
of Promotion as its Agency — Rev.
Hugh A. Heath, D.D., Boston,
Mass.
3:i0 Illinois State Board of Promotion,
Chairman of Board in Chair.
Questions and Answers.
4:40 Business.
5:00 Adjournment.
Wednesday Night
6:45 Song and Prayer.
7:09 Stereopticon Lecture, Illustrating
Home Mission Survey.
7 : i9 Song Service.
8:9t Address:
Women's Work and the $100,000,-
000 Program — Mrs. Andrew
MacLeish, Glencoe.
8:S# The Present World Situation —
Rev. James H. Franklin, D.D., Bos-
ton, Mass.
Thui'sday Morning
9:00 Bong and Prayer.
• :10 Business of the Convention and
Reports of Committees.
Report of Treasurer — L. K. Evans,
EI Paso.
Report of Auditing Committee —
W. G. Davison, Minonk.
9:S9 Report of Department of Philan-
thropy— Rev. M. P. Boynton,
D.D.
Three ten minute addresses.
10:10 Report of Committee on Resolu-
tions.
10:20 Report of Committee on Anti-Sa-
loon League — T. J. Bolger, Chica-
go.
10:30 Devotional Period — Rev. W. E.
Mundell, Belvidere.
10:50 Address — Mrs. Helen Barrett
Montgomery, Rochester, N. Y.
3 1:30 Election of Officers.
11:50 Business.
l:::10 Adjournment.
Thursday Afternoon
B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School
1:45 "The Department's Program of Re-
ligious Education." A presenta-
tion by Director Koehler.
2:15 Business.
Reports — Chairman Hines for
State Department.
Treasurer Hilton for State Depart-
ment.
Direcror Koehler as State Director.
Director Kimball as State Elemen-
tary Director.
President Howard for State B. Y.
P. U.
Secretary as Secretary B. Y. P. U.
3:00 Addi'ess on "Elementary Work"
by State Elementary Director
Marian E. Kimball, Galesburg.
3:20 Address on "Church School Evan-
gelism" by Director of Religious
Education for Chicago Associa-
tion, Rev. Albert H. Gage.
3:45 Address: The Young People of
Today and the Baptist Tasks of
Tomorrow, Rev. Carl D. Case.
4:15
4:30
5:00
5:30
7:15
8:00
8:10
8:40
25
40
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55
Business.
Educatio n — Rev. Myron W.
Haynes, D.D.
Exhibits — Daily Vacation Bible
Schools.
Adjournment.
State Convention Banquet
Topics to be discussed. (Time,
ten minutes each topic.)
I. Tithing — ^Rev. C. C. Long. Ur-
bana.
II New Place for Women in the
Denomination — M r s . W. E.
Poole, Carrollton.
III. New Place for Laymen in the
Denomination — Pres. George M.
Potter.
IV. Spiritual Dynamic of the
New Movement^ — -Rev. G. A.
Sheets, Rockford.
Thui'sday Evening
Stereopticon Address, Illustrating
the Foreign Mission Survey.
Song Service and Prayer.
Address by Dean Shailer Mathews,
Chicago — "The Present Oppor-
tunity in the Baptist Denomina-
tion."
Address by Dr. Wallace Petty, New
York.
Introduction of New Officers.
Closing Words — Pastor Jenkins.
Next Meeting — Supt. Brand.
Closing Prayer.
Adjournment.
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HUD&LSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
llev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, JLLJLINOIS
Rev. D. H. MacGilliTray, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGilllvray, Matron
Great things arc taking place in our
beautiful grove. In the first place the
three buildings are becoming new, but
also thev are teeming with more life.
The number of children is about 70 with
more applications than we are ready for
initil our improvements are nearer com-
pletion. Many of these children are only
half orphans in which case the remaining
parent helps to support them. Some have
been deserted by one parent (generall)'
b}' the father), and the other is not able
to keep up the home. But of course
many are full orphans without caretak-
ers in which case the whole burden of
support is likely to rest upon the orphan-
age.
Our Sunday School now bears a new
dignity, it having been accepted as a
branch by the Sunday School of the Cen-
tralia church. Most excellent work is
being done under the leadership of Mr.
Olson who is su])erintendent of the
school. The religious work of the Home
really centers in the Sunday School, and
results are appearing. On Sunday, .Sept.
21st Superintendent Hafer by authoriza-
tion of the Centralia church, ba])tized
four of our boys and girls in the jiond
at Irvington. This makes twelve ba]j-
tisms from our orphanage school since
last spring.
On Tuesday, October 14th the friends
of the Home are invited to come in large
numbers for the annual home gathering.
Each co-operating church should send its
delegate for the corporation meeting, but
ipany members besides. Bring your
lunch baskets for the i)icnic dinner.
The month of September is always a
busy month in the Central Baptist Chil-
dren's Home. Children that have been
out during vacation are returning and
there is also an influx of children coming
in for the first time.
The matron and her helpers are driven
hard from morning to night to meet the
demand. Children must be provided
wdth school books and other school sup-
plies must be given to sixty-seven chil-
dren, ranging from the primary children
in the public school, to the junior in the
high school. This, together with fitting
them with clothing is a prodigious task.
After the school matters had been ar-
ranged for and the children well settled
in school the matron was prevailed upon
to take a few weeks ofif for rest and re-
cuperation and she has gone to spend
the time with a sister.
The superintendent and helpers are
taking care of the stufif. Our large fam-
ily is enjoying good health with the ex-
ception of one girl, who has been in the
hospital and is now recovering from scar-
let fever.
We are nearing the close of our fiscal
year and we are hoping that the churches
will strive to raise the entire benevolent
budget before the first of October so we
may close the year without debt.
The demand upon us is greater than
ever. Children are knocking at the door
for entrance. If we meet the need we
must realize more support by way of
cash, donations of eggs, canned fruit,
and vegetables, especially potatoes.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
9>>
Department of Sunday School and
Young People s Work
Louis H. Koehler, 202 N. School St., Normal, Director
WHY A DEPARTMENT?
The director has been busy trying to
get Associations to see the need of creat-
ing departments of rehgious education.
Perhaps you have been asked why. Here
is one answer. If a Ijody wants a single
piece of work to 1)e done it generally
ajjpoints a committee. When the work
is finished the committee consider them-
selves relieved of further responsibility.
lUit if an organized body, that in itself
is a rather permanent institution, wants
to do a big piece of work which is vital-
ly related to the outinit of that body and
which is to continue throughout the
}ears, it generally creates a permanent
commission.
Xow the work of religious education
in our Associations is so vital that noth-
ing but a permanent department can ef-
ficiently handle the job. The perma-
nency of the commission of six compos-
ing the department may l)e i)rovided for
by electing two meml^ers annually for a
])eriod of three years. Thus two-thirds
of the membership would hold over and
nothing planned and discussed would be
lost.
Again a committee on Sunday School
work is seldom financed. But a depart-
ment could easily raise the necessary
funds by an annual appeal for say five
cents per capita from schools and so-
cieties. Some of our Associational B. Y.
P. U.'s have continued and done a good
work because they have been organized
bodies and secured funds to run their or-
ganization. It is high time that the
schools and other religious educational
organizations and classes in our churches
came out into the limelight and put somo-
ihing across.
\\ e have depended for years upon the
county Sunday School Association (an
interdenominational body) to be the in-
spiring organization in our counties and
Associational fields. iUit the time has
arrived, is here, when we as J>aptists,
must push our own work with vigor and
efticiency. We ought to rally at once
to create these departments. Why not?
The Salem, Peoria and Ouincy Associa-
tions have fallen into line. Which will
be the next ?
1 he director is anxious to give his time
to local and As.sociational institutes. An
institute consists of at least four lectures,
texts ought to be used, and note books
graded. Are you ready for such work?
It is to be hoped that many of the com-
mittees and the commissions in the Asso-
ciation will plan a series of two or three
institutes during the fall and winter
\\'ill correspondents i)lease note that
our present address is 202 N. School St.,
Xormal.
Our state elementary director. Miss
Marian Kimball has been in attendance
upon a number of Associational meeting's
and her addresses and conference periods
have proven very helpful.
Phis is the sea.son of the year to push
teacher training. Urge your pastor to
organize and teach a class at once.
Miss Elsie Oberg is the new assistant
to Mr. Trent of the Kewanee church,
ller time will be spent in religious educa-
tional work, especially for youth. A
complete office equipment will be fur-
nished her by this progressive church.
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Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Alorgan, Park
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Uartzell Ave., ETanBton
AN ILLINOIS GIRL TO PORTO RIOO
In these days of advancement it is a
joy when announcement can be made
of another young woman going into
definite Christian service. Miss Helen
Weichel, of Elgin, has gone to Rio Pie-
dras, Porto Rico, as director of Villa
Roble, the beautiful new Students' Hall
erected by the Women's American Bap-
tist Home Mission Society as a dormi-
tory for the Protestant girls of Porto
Rico who are attending the university.
Miss Weichel is well prepared for the
position, being a graduate of Lewis In-
stitute, Qiicago, and having had three
years' experience as teacher of Domestic
Science in the Elgin public schools.
She will be greatly missed in her home
church, where, as president of the World-
Wide Guild and teacher of a large class
of girls, she exerted a wide influence.
Her love for girls will help her in the
new position, and we know that many
Porto Rican girls will learn much that
will influence their lives for good from
the new director of Villa Roble.
On the evening of August 15th, Miss
Gladys Topping and mother entertained
the Senior and Junior Guilds of the El-
gin church at a farewell party. As an
expression of love the Guilds presented
Miss Weichel with a writing case. Will
not all Illinois women pray especially
for this Illinois girl as she goes to this
new land among new friends, there to
demonstrate what a Christian home
should be like? Mrs. W. P. Topping.
The Woman's Baptist Missionary
Training School held its opening exer-
cises the week of Sept. 15, 1919. There
is a very large enrollment of girls from
all parts of the country and prospects
are bright for a very satisfactory year.
Mrs. Qara D. Pinkham, who will be
remembered as a former Dean of the
School, has returned to assume the duties
of president. All officers and the teach-
ing force which includes the gratuitous
service of some of the most talented min-
isters and teachers in the city are Tcry
enthusiastic and hopeful for the future of
the school.
The Aurora Association is paying the
expenses of one girl in the school for
the coming year, thus sowing seed by in-
creasing the efficiency of a life which
may bear fruit that will constantly in-
crease through years to come.
Peoria Association met Sept. 23-24 in
Kewanee. The woman's session was well
attended and much interest was expressed
in what had been done and what could
be done in the future. It was voted to
pay a very large part of the expenses of
a girl in the Training School for this
year, also to raise nine hundred dollars
for the Jubilee fund in the next two
years.
Mrs. A. F. Stickney, who has been
Foreign Secretary many years, resigned
and Mrs. H. G. Smith of Berwick, was
chosen to the position.
Mrs. McKee of Canton, was elected
president of the Association.
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The Baptist Old People's Home
Maywood, Illinois
The annual meeting of the Corporation
meets at the liome, Tuesday, Oct. 14th.
Supper will be served at 6 p. m., and the
meeting will follow. The Corporation
consists of the pastor, one deacon, one
trustee and one delegate from each con-
tributing church, the directors, life mem-
bers, benefactors and patrons of the
Home. We trust the churches will see to
sending their delegates.
The Woman's Board of Managers
meets at 5 o'clock same date and place.
We are hoping to give the churches a
full and encouraging report following
these meetings. Our Associational Meet-
ings are over — the delegates have re-
turned to their churches to report the
great plans for our denominational work.
Please see to it that your local Promo-
tion Committee takes into consideration
a part in the support and much needed
enlargement of our Old People's Home.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of fruit
and the difficulty in getting sugar, a few
of our churches have notified us they are
dividing their fruit with the Old People's
Home. Will you join them and thus
help relieve the condition of our usually
well-filled fruit closet which is now as
bare as Mother Hubbard's Cupboard?
Circulars of information and how to
help in small or large ways will be cheer-
fully furnished by writing the Field Sec-
retary.
Mrs. A. W. Runyan,
5742 Maryland Ave., Chicago.
pie's Union of America have been set
for July 1-4, 1920. The Baptist Young
People of North America will join in
celebrating Dominion Day on July 1st
and Independence Day for the States on
July 4th. The place of meeting will be
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
There will be several sessions of the
Executive Board during our Convention
at Jerseyville. Very important matters
are decided at these meetings. Every
member is urged to try and be present
this year. The work of the whole year
for the whole state will be outlined. This
meeting should practically have every
member of the Board present. The Con-
vention can not succeed in its ever en-
larging scope of work without the
thought, time, energy and prayer of the
members of the Executive Committee.
Rev. Levi A. Abbott, D.D., of Alton,
Illinois, died after a brief illness, Friday,
September 26th. He was ninety-six
}'ears of age and had been very active
until a week or two before his death.
His name was on the program for the
State Convention, to speak at Jerseyville
next month. Dr. Abbott had a long pas-
torate at the First Baptist church of Al-
ton, and after that spent many years at
ShurtlefT College. He resigned there as
teacher when ninety years of age. He
had been for many years a member of
our State Convention Board and was a
few years ago made an emeritus member.
OONITENTION DATES
The dates for the 29th Anniversary
Convention of the Baptist Young Peo-
"These strikes that are taking place all
over the country now are no longer strikes
for higher wages, as a rule. Follow them
up for yourself and you will find that the
demands made now are political demands
pure and simple. You will find that pro-
duction is steadily falling off in most of
the principal industries. These strikes,
as a rule, are tests of strength and noth-
ing else." — ^Pomeroy Burton, in Leslie's.
')C> ir.LINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
This is Shurtleff College
Endowment Year
I One-half Million Dollars is being asked from the Baptists of Illi-
I nois for increased endowment for their college.
i
I Our fathers gave to Shurtleff College in those pioneer years and
I built well. Will this generation carry on their work ?
Shurtleff Has Right of Way
Illinois Baptists should not forget that upon two occasion's, the Illi-
nois Baptist State Convention has called upon the Trustees of Shurtleff
to launch a financial campaign. That campaign is now on and $135,000
has already been subscribed.
Shurtleff and the Baptist Program
Shurtleff College is in the Baptist Five Year Program for $725,000.
Every gift to the Half Million Dollar Endowment will be credited on
your church's apportionment to that Fund.
The goal is set. The future of the Baptist State College of Illinois
is being determined. Will you do your part ?
Write or confer with
Myron W. Haynes, George Milton PoTiiBa,
Endowment Secretary President
ALTON, ILLINOIS
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
vol- XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 1919
NO. 7
Meeting of the State Cooventioo at JerseyviUe
The Convention met in JerseyviUe.
October 20-23. It was one of the great-
est Conventions we have ever held in the
State. The registered delegates were
about 445. They came at the beginning
of the meeting and remained until the
end. The house was well filled the first
night and was crowded the last night.
Several things combined to make it a
great meeting. First, the JerseyviUe
people entertained the Convention splen-
didly. There seemed to be no occasion
for complaint from any source. Second,
the meeting house is admirably equipped
for such a meeting. Third, the program
was a very fine one and was carried out
completely from beginning to end. Every
speaker was present and measured up to
a high grade of service.
The Pastors' Conference, Monday
night and Tuesday forenoon was well
attended and ver}^ helpful. Dr. E. Y.
MuUins of Louisville, Ky., President of
the largest Theological Seminary in the
world, was present and addressed the
people Monday night and Tuesday fore-
noon. His addresses were ver}- fine.
The obituary report called attention to
the death of such prominent men as Dr.
L. A. Abbott, Dr. R. E. Maning, Dr.
E. W. Hicks and others. Rev. H. C.
First, for eleven years Superintendent of
Missions, gave the memorial address.
The women had a great time all day
Tuesday at the Presbyterian church. The
church was well filled with Baptist
women. They had a crowded program,
and ate dinner and supper together at
the Presbyterian church, carrying on a
portion of the program while they were
eating. The two annual sermons by Dr.
W. I. Fowle of Galesburg, and Rev. Roy
\\'. Babcock of Aloline, were well pre-
pared and well delivered. They dealt with
present day problems and were of a
practical character. Mrs. Helen Bar-
rett Montgomery of New York; Mrs.
Clara D. Pinkham, President of the Chi-
cago Training School, and Mrs. Andrew
AlacLeish of Chicago, gave fine ad-
dresses in the general meetings of the
Convention. Drs. Franklin and Heath
of Boston, were present and gave help-
ful and interesting addresses. Dean
Shailer Mathews gavi* a good address
Thursday night and Rev. Wallace Petty
of New York Cit}-, gave the closing ad-
dress. Petty made a great address. His
style of speaking is very peculiar and
very interesting. No shorthand reporter
living can report one of his addresses or
sermons.
All the addresses at the Sunday
.School and B. Y. P. U. sessions were
good. There was not a weak hour nor
an uninteresting one during the whole
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three and one-half days of the meeting.
The report of the Board showed up quite
well. It was one of the most difficult
years in the history of the Convention to
do successful work, yet our Missionaries
baptized 599 persons and added to the
churches 1,203. The Convention raised
for current work $25,266.25. For Uni-
versity church building $4,945.50, and
added to the permanent funds $12,84L40.
The whole amount of money received by
the Convention during the year for all
purposes was $43,062.07. All debts and
bills were paid and $2,469.70 surplus left
over to begin work with the following
year. The meetings of the Board were
strenuous, and much practical work was
planned for the coming year.
Rev. D. O. Hopkins,' Ph.D., was
elected as a District Superintendent for
the western side of the State, covering
about one-fourth of the state. He has
accepted the position and will begin work
about the first of January.
The banquets furnished by the church
for Shurtleff College, the University of
Chicago, and the State Convention Mis-
sionaries were very satisfactory, and the
general banquet was served by the Bap-
tist church. There were about four hun-
dred people present. They were well
served and the speaking was very good.
The Convention elected George M.
Potter President of Shurtlefif College, as
its new President, and Rev. B. E. Allen
as clerk. Attorney E. L. Chapin of
Springfield served the Convention well
during the three years he was president
and Rev. Norton J. Hilton of Minonk,
did faithful work as the secretary of the
Convention the past two years, filling the
place of another man who had left the
state.
The Convention had three invitations
for next year, viz., Peoria, Kewanee and
Ottawa. As Kewanee made full prepar-
ations lo entertain the Convention last
year, but was deprived of it on account
of the influenza epidemic, the Convention
voted to accept its invitation next year.
Kewanee will be a fine place for the Con-
veiiliun to meet.
Rev. Joseph Jenkins, pastor of the
Jerseyville church and his people will be
long rememl:)ered for the splendid way in
which they entertained the Convention.
We believe a great blessing will come to
the pastor and people for their self-sacri-
ficing and generous service.
DONT'S FOR CHURCHGOERS
By James G. Tucker.
Don't visit. Worship.
Don't sleep out loud.
Don't hurry away. Speak and be spok-
en to.
Don't stop in the end of the pew. Move
over.
Don't monopolize your hymn book. Be
neighborly.
Don't wait for introductions.- Introduce
yourself.
Don't lounge or loll or sit on the back
of your neck.
Don't choose the back seat. Leave it
for late comers.
Don't dodge the collection plate. Pay
what you are able.
Don't criticize. Remember, and think
on your own frailties.
Don't stare blankly while others sing,
read, pray. Join in.
Don't leave without praying God's bless-
ing upon all present.
Don't sit while others stand or kneel.
Share in the service.
Don't sit with your hand to your head as
if worshiping hurt you.
Don't dodge the preacher. Go to the
chancel and show yourself friendly. — Cen-
tral Christian Advocate.
"The last Kansas state legislature made
the following appropriations: For the
health of hogs, $25000; for the health of
bees, $8,000; for the health of babies,
$7,500. Dr. Lydia de Vilbiss, who has
been reducing infant mortality in that state
for the last four years, has resigned. We
don't blame her a bit."
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Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Conventiou.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909. at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
THE State Convention has changed
the time for closing our financial
year from October 1st to March 31st, or
at whatever time the National Societies
close their year.
^ ^ ^
THERE are some indications that the
National Societies will close their
year April 30th instead of March 31st.
and that the Northern Baptist Conven-
tion may hold its meeting in June instead
of May.
* * *
THIS change in the time for the State
Convention will give us only six
months this year for our financial year.
but many churches have already been
closing their State Convention year with
^larch 31st, and it will not make so much
difference as it first appears.
* * *
THE work for the next six months in
raising State Convention funds
should go on just as before except that
there should be a strong effort every-
where to raise the full State budget with-
in the next six months.
* * *
THE $100,000,000 drive that is talked
oi will not affect us in our offerings
for the following half year. The appor-
tionments have been sent out, and the
work of raising it should be pushed now
vigorously. Let everybody now think of
the State Convention books closing in
the spring, not October 1st.
TIMES are moving rapidly and all
kinds of changes are taking place.
We cannot continue in the old ruts in
State Convention work and succeed. We
must face new conditions by new meth
ods. Many more changes will take place
within the next one or two years. We
hope they will be for the strengthening
of the work.
* * *
LET every church that is in need of
help to reorganize its work, to put
f-n an every-member canvas, to increase
its finances, to locate a pastor, or to do
evangelistic work or to advance its work
in any way, correspond with the Super-
intendent's oflice. We now have five
men giving their whole time to such work
and we hope to have another on the field
soon. We cannot do the best nor the
largest work possible unless we can keep
in close touch with the needs of the state.
ISDIVTDVAIjS
The wife of Rev. Harry E. Miles of
\\"alnut. has recently passed through a
severe affliction and operation. She has
successfully recovered from it. The La-
dies* Aid Society of the Walnut church
showed their appreciation for the pastor
and his wife by sending her a check for
$150.00. Such expressions of love and
appreciation on the part of the people are
greatly appreciated by her and her hus-
band.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
>IONEY REOEIVEB FOR THE STATE
CX)NVE\TION FOR OCTOBER
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Alton First $ 5.00
*Alton Cherry St 27.00
East Alton 5.00
♦Aurora, Marion St 17.92
Aurora, Claim St 21.58
*Arthur 14.58
♦Atlanta 10.50
Austin 59.77
Alsey 4.20
•Aledo 5.75
♦Alpha 32.56
Assumption 15.00
Auburn 7.01
Belvidere First 10.83
Belden Ave., Chicago 100.00
Bunker Hill 5.00
Bethany, Chicago 37.00
Bloomington 50.00
Berwyn 100.00
Bulletin Subscriptions 79.27
Barrow 1.68
Bethany, Green Jersey Co 14.00
*Buda 5.00
Barrington 1.61
♦Central, Quincy 21.00
Centralia 15.83
Carbondale 50.00
Chrisman 2.66
Clark's Chapel 7.70
Cairo 78.00
Chicago, First 8.54
•Chicago, Second 194.11
Carthage 7.01
•Carrollton 28.00
Collinsville 3.00
Canton 4.80
Downer's Grove 8.79
"Decatur, East Park .51
♦Decatur 1.78
El Paso — - 100.00
Englewood 129.00
Elgin, Immanual 6.98
Evanston - 120.00
♦Enon 7.08
Educational Commission 75.00
•Farmersville 11.00
Fidelity 4.50
♦Fairbury 15.55
♦Girard 20.00
♦Galesburg 161.92
Galilee 1.93
*Glasford 2.62
Greenfield 1.40
Harvey 5.37
Hyde Park 100.00
*Huttsonville 12.00
Harmony „ 1.12
Irving Park 30.35
Joliet, Ridgewood 8.75
♦Jerseyville 19.60
♦Kinderhook 8.16
*Kingston 3.00
Kewanee 15.00
•Litchfield 30.00
Loda 4.50
*Literberiy 9.52
''LaMoille 35.00
*LaMarsh 4.08
-LaSalle 28.00
Logan Square 26.00
Monmouth 52.63
*Marengo ' 9.58
*Morrison 42.75
Mt. Vernon 10.00
McLean (Church property) 400.00
*Mt. Zion Wabash Valley Assn... 6.00
Minonk 14.00
*Morris 41.00
Madison 1.56
Mattoon 3.19
Murphysboro 9.31
North Shore 70.00
♦Normal .... • 42.72
Normal Park 1.88
♦New Erie 6.00
♦Oreana 3.00
*Oak Park 148.10
Olney - 7.70
Percy .89
-Princeton 42.00
"Pilgrim's Temple 75.00
^Petersburg 2.28
*Pekin 19.75
*Plainfield 19.35
*Plano 2.50
♦Roodhouse 78.00
*Rochelle 3.25
Rogers Park 17.50
Rockford, First 18.91
♦Rockton 7.00
Rockford State St 17.50
Roseville 39.45
*Shelbyville 43.00
Springfield, Central 200.00
♦Springfield, Elliott Ave 38.00
Springfield, So. 7th St 13.37
*Stillman Valley 9.10
♦Sadorus 5.00
*Shabbona 5.00
Troy .48
*Tiskilwa 1.25
Toulon 37.50
♦Union, Morgan Scott Co 60.00
♦Urbana, Cunningham Ave 17.00
University Ch., Champaign 25.00
♦Utica 40.00
Ward St., Marion 18.00
White Swan 1-98
♦Walnut 1.20
♦Winchester 43.00
♦Woodstock 4.28
♦Wilmette 16.22
♦Wheaton 11.23
♦White Hall 48.00
Total $3,910.81
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PASTOKAIi CHANGES
The clerk of the First Baptist Church
in Danville writes : "Sunday evening, No-
vember 3d, our church extended a unani-
mous call to Rev. F. L. Enslow of Clay-
ton, Illinois, to become our pastor." His
services will begin at once.
Rev. J. C. Richardson, after eight
years' pastoral work at Morris, has been
called back to Burma, where he was for-
merly a missionary. He will sail from
San Francisco December 15th, and will
be located in the Theological Seminary
at Inseine, Burma. Brother Richardson
has done good work during these eight
years at Morris. Nearly one-half of the
present membership has been received
since he came and more than $2,000 has
been expended in repairs, missionary of-
ferings trebled, and the minister's salary .
has been increased twice.
Rev. W. H. Pebles has resigned the
pastorate of the Buda church to take ef-
fect the last Sunday in November. He
has accepted a call to the church at Har-
vey, 111. The Buda church was greatly
surprised to receive his resignation, and
regrets very much to have him leave.
It is reported that the Marengo church
has called Rev. Francis L. Church, who
was formerly a State Convention evangel-
ist, to become its pastor. Marengo is a
good field and Brother Church is an ener-
getic and industrious preacher.
Rev. F. V. Wright informs us that he
will begin the pastorate of the Ashland
church about December 1st. Ashland is
a splendid field and has been without a
pastor for about one year. Brother
Wright has done very fine work at Car-
terville and will doubtless have success
in Ashland.
Rev. Ray W. Barber has been a stu-
dent pastor of the Tampico church about
one vear and a half. He has done ex-
cellent work there. The church has
gained strength under his pastorate. He
has now closed his work at Tampico and
accepted a call at Sparland and Steuben
churches. This gives him a large field
and a fairly good support.
DEATHS
Rev. L. A. Abbott, D.D., of Alton, died
September 20th. He was nearly 96
years of age, and was very active until
about two weeks before his death. He
had lived for many years in Alton, hav-
ing been pastor of the First Baptist
church for about sixteen years, and also
for quite a number of years teacher at
Shurtlefif College. He was at one time
President of the Illinois Baptist State
Convention and for many years a mem-
ber of the Board.
Rev. George F. Righter, a member of
the State Convention Board, died at Ab-
bington. 111., September 28th. For more
than twenty years he was one of our
faithful layman in Illinois, doing mercan-
tile business a portion of the time at Sul-
livan and also for many years in Cham-
paign. Previous to that, he was a teach-
er in the public schools. Brother Right-
er will be greatly missed in the denomina-
tion in Illinois.
Rev. E. W. Hicks, D.D., died at his
home at Belvidere some time in Septem-
ber. Dr. Hicks was for nineteen years
pastor of the Toulon church and for
quite a number of years teacher in Ewing
College. The last few years of his life
were spent in or near Chicago.
On September 26th the wife of Rev.
J. C. Read of Rock Island, was taken
very ill. Slie was taken to a hospital,
where an operation was performed and
forty-eight hours afterward she passed
away. She was a devoted Christian
woman and will be greatlv missed.
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"If after kirk you bide a wee,
There's sonic wad like to speak to ye ;
If after kirk you rise and flee,
We'll all seem cold and stiff to ye.
The one that's in the seat wi' ye
Is stranger here than ye may be.
All here have got their fears and cares;
.\dd you your soul unto our prayers,
l)C you our angel unawares."
Two important matters, out of the or-
dinary were brought up in our State
Convention this year. The Ordination
of Ministers and Tithing.
The northern Baptist Convention and
some of our Associations have taken
much interest in the question of Ordina-
tion. More men ought to be encouraged
to be ordained, but they ought to be re-
quired to make all the preparation that
could be reasonably expected before or-
dination, and we cannot possibly reach
the demands of the coming age, unless
a large number of our members tithe
their income and give one-tenth of their
gross income for the Lord's work.
"A writer in the Word and Way calls
attention to the fact that 3 51 Baptist min-
isters in the United States died last year,
while only 317 were ordained to the min-
istry. Thus the denomination has suffered
an actual los.s of thirty-four from death
alone, not counting those who retired from
active service because of increasing years
or for other reasons. Not an altogether
promising outlook for the future, it must
be confessed."
"Mason in his Life of Milton says: 'Not
to the Church of England, nor to Scottish
Presbyterianism, nor to English Puritanism
at large does the honor of the first percep-
tion of the full principle of liberty of con-
science and its first assertion in English
speech belong. That honor has to be as-
signed, I believe, to the Independents gen-
erally and to the Baptists in particular.' "
CHURCHES
The Edinburg church, of which Rev.
J. VV. Allen has been pastor for some
years, has recently bought a parsonage
at a cost of $2,500. Brother Allen seems
to be doing good work on that field.
Rev. J. L. Franklin of Benton, has just
closed a revival meeting at Bates' Chapel.
There were twenty-one professions and
twenty additions to the church. Brother
r ranklin began a meeting at White Swan,
Monday night, November 3d.
The LaMoille church, of which Rev.
A. A. Gordanier is pastor, has had quite
a successful evangelistic meeting. An
evangelist assisted him in his services.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordanier led in the sing-
ing. The meetings are reported to have
been quite successful.
Rev. James B. Little, pastor of the
Downers' Grove church, writes as fol-
lows : "The Lord continues to bless us
in our work here. 1 baptized four last
Sunday evening and one the Sunday be-
fore. Several have united by letter and
experience. He is also blessing us in
a material way. We have just finished
painting and decorating our church in-
side and out, and we expected to have
to raise $800 or $1,000, but when the
time of settling came, we found our treas-
ury in such excellent shape that we will
have only $300 to raise."
Rev. James Elliott of Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, located as pastor of the Lexing-
ton church October 1st. Brother El-
liott has had several pastorates in Illi-
nois, and we are glad to know that he
is back again in the state.
"The Warren church is being greatly
helped by Mr. A. W. Fleischman, who
is a student at the Northern Baptist
Theological Seminar}-. He returned
from overseas last spring and was sent
to this church as a supply. The church.
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believing him to be the man for the place,
called him to the pastorate. He spent
the summer on the field doing good work.
A teacher training class was organized
and splendid work was done in the Bible
study class. Much interest is manifested
in the services. The church is looking
forward to conducting aggressive evan-
gelistic work this winter." M. E. L.
The clerk of the Baptist church at
Greenville writes as follows : "Since
Brother Webdell has been with us, our
church has taken on new life and activ-
ity. The salary was increased $300.00
over what we had previously paid and
at the last monthly business meeting the
church voted to buy residence property
adjoining the church for a parsonage,
and an effort is being made to pay the
entire sum."
Rev. D. H. Toomey, pastor of the
Baptist church of Litchfield, writes:
"We have been making extensive repairs
on our building, raising it, putting in a
splendid basement, a new heating plant
and decorating the interior, altogether
expending some $2,500. This work has
made us a little slow in getting our ap-
portionment for the State Convention,
but our treasurer will get the money to
you this week."
"The Roodhouse church is improving
its meeting house at a cost of $2,500.
Most of this has been paid. The church
recently increased its pastor's salary
$100.00. The church voted to endeavor
to raise its full apportionment for 1919-
20. The outlook for the Roodhouse
church is good.
Rev. William H. Dickman had a good
closing up of his pastorate at the Bethel
church in the Rock Island Association.
All debts were paid and the church was
left in good condition. Brother Dick-
man has located as pastor of the Damas-
cus church.
>nSSIOX.\RIES .IXD .AnSSIONARY
P.ISTORS
Rev. J. C. Dent spent two Sundays and
the week between with the Savanna
church. It was the beginning of his work
with the State Convention. His services
there were very highly appreciated and
the church brought up to a condition in
which it seems to have courage to locate
a pastor. He made 113 calls during the
week and secured pledges for about
$1,400 for the support of a pastor.
Missionary George H. Yule spent one
week with the Pawnee church in an ef-
fort to raise funds to pay off the church
indebtedness. During the week he spent
with them, the interest of the church
seemed to revive ver}- much and they
called Rev. Mr. Swift of Indiana, to
supply them for a time. Brother Yule
with his wife, who assists him in the
singing, is now conducting a meeting in
Jacksonville, assisting Rev. A. A. Todd
in that work.
The report of Martin S. Bryant, our
missionary pastor at the State University,
shows up quite well for the month of
October. The average attendance in Sun-
day school was 112. The average attend-
ance at preaching services 167. and the
average attendance at B. Y. P. U. 82.
The offerings of the month amounted to
$152.72.
Rev. E. C. Poole, our missionary pas-
tor at Pekin, writes an encouraging let-
ter. He says, "I have received thirty
into the church within the last four
months, also have four others ready to
be received. The church can be put on
its feet, and is for that matter, for the
present time." During the past six month:^
they have secured a good parsonage.
Rev. A. \'. Roland, our missionary
pastor in Peoria, seems to be doing verj'
faithful and efficient work. During t^-
pa«;tor'? vacation Brother Roland, whc- ^
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the assUtani pasiur, preached at the tirst
church and kept the work going at the
three missions. While Peoria has but
one clnirch, it has three good meeting
houses there and three active missions.
i-lvangelist I". O. McMinn wrote in
September as follows: "I am here at
Lone Oak church. Came here on Mon-
day evening, after the Marion quarterly
meeting. It is a country church, located
three miles south of Herron and three
miles east of Carterville, among the far-
mers and coal miners. We have conver-
sions right along. The church will be
received into the Association in the com-
ing meeting at Murphyslx)ro."
Rev. Qias. W. W'oUt has been our
Missionary pastor at Glasford and La-
Marsh for three years. LaMarsh is a
good country church. Glasford is ex-
ceedingly destitute religiously. By hard
work on the part of lx)th pastor and his
wife, the work has been brought up to
some extent in Glasford. The Sunday
.School, of which Mrs. Wolfe is superin-
tendent, is in good condition. Evangelist
Dunk is at this time assisting the pastor
in a meeting at LaMarsh.
SI1>K liKiHTS OF THE CONVENTION
Mrs. VV. P. Topping of Elgin, is an
interesting worker at the Convention.
She arranges a strong program and sees
that it is carried out. Many women at-
tend the meetings because of her work
and advertising.
Dr. M. P. Boynton of Chicago, gave a
splendid address on the 75th Anniver-
sary of the State Convention.
Mrs. Andrew MacLeish of Glencoe,
Mrs. W. P. Topping of Elgin, Mrs. C.
D. Eulette of Chicago and Mrs. James
Logan of Decatur, were appointed as
members of our State Convention Board.
Tlie State Board of Promotion held a
session of several hours at Jerseyville.
This Board is now a department of the
.State Convention.
The State Convention's quartette, three
of them the old singers of several years
ago, were present and gave several selec-
tions. There was also a male quartette
present from the Ottawa Association.
Evangelist Frank M. Dunk makes a
very gcKxl leader of music for the Con-
vention. He loves to sing and the peo-
ple enjoy hearing him.
Rev. S. J. Skevington of Chicago, wa.s
a very busy man. He acted as chairman
of the Convention Board most of the
time, was chairman of the Board of Pro-
motion, delivered the State Convention
address, and was chairman of two com-
mittees whose reports were read.
At the General Banquet, one of the
speakers, Rev. G. A. Sheets of Rock-
ford, took suddenly sick and Dean Shail-
er Mathews took his place. The four
speakers did w'ell and were greatly ap-
preciated. Mrs. W. E. Pool, the lady
speaker, was distinctly heard throughout
the large room.
The exhibits displayed by the St. Louis
branch of the Publication Society, the
Women's Mission Society and Shurtleff
College were very good and seemed to
be appreciated by the people.
The Jerseyville church building af-
forded better rooms for the great audi-
ence, for board meetings, for committees,
and rest rooms, and for eating purposes,
all under one roof than any place the
Convention has ever met.
BOARDS OF PROMOTION
The General Board of Promotion of
the Northern Baptist Convention is made
up of 138 members. Of this number,
each State Convention secretary or su-
];erintendent is a member, and also one
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other representative from each state ap-
pointed by the State Convention. The
other members are representatives of
the National Societies, or members at
large. This National Board of Promo-
tion has charge of raising the finances
aside from that of the local church, for
the denomination. The headquarters of
the General Board of Promotion is 200
Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., Room 600.
Dr. J. Y. Aitchison is general secretary
of this Board.
Each state has a Board of Promotion.
This Board in Illinois consists of twenty-
one members. Rev. S. J. Skevingtoti,
D.D., 6 Chalmers Place, Chicago, is the
chairman and Mr. W. S. Davison of
Minonk, secretary. Each Association in
Illinois has been organized with a Board
of Promotion consisting of from three
to fifteen members, according to the size
and territory of the Association. In
these Associational Boards, one-third are
pastors, one-third laymen and one-third
women.
Through the Association Board of
Promotion, a committee of Promotion
will be appointed in each church. In
these church organizations, a committee-
man will have charge of ten families,
or parts of families, and these commit-
teemen with the pastor as chairman, will
constitute the Board of Promotion in
each church. This plan of work is all
new and is only being organized now.
We shall give a page of information con-
cerning it each month in the Bulletin.
ILLINOIS CHURCH TO BAR .VLL WHO
FLIRT WITH EVIL
Anathema and excommunication await
any of the 900 members of the First Bap-
tist church of Harrisburg, 111., who over-
step the bounds of the Baptist discipline.
The board of the church has taken action
to enforce a more rigid rule of life on its
members. Its edict reads:
"From this time any member guilty of
immoral conduct, drinking any intoxicat-
ing liquor as a beverage, swearing, gamb-
ling, giving a dance, attending a dance,
or dancing, or any other unbecoming con-
duct which may bring reproach upon the
church, will be notified to appear before
the church and make suitable acknowledg-
ments, and in case of failure the church
will then proceed to withdraw the hand
of fellowship from him." — Chicago Trib-
une.
"Rev. Howard R. Chapman has resigned
his pastorate of the First church, Atchison,
Kansas, to become Baptist pastor at the
Universitj' of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
Michigan. He will work in co-operation
with Rev. John Mason Wells, pastor of
the Ann Arbor church."
Brother Howard R. Chapman was an
Illinois boy, brought up near Hoopeston,
where his father lives and is a deacon in
that church. He was educated at Shurt-
leff College and Rochester Seminary.
The home-coming at the Orphanage at
Irvington is reported to have been a
great day, although the rainy weather
kept many people from attending. Mr.
and Mrs. Hafer are reported to be doing
excellent work at that place.
Rev. George W. Taft, D.D., President
of the Northern Baptist Theological
Seminary writes, "The Contract has been
signed for our seminary home at 3040
West Washington Blvd., Chicago. Over
$40,000 have been pledged to date. Fifty-
three students have enrolled and are at
work in residence. We do not count our
correspondence students in this number."
CORRECTION
In the October issue, we failed to place
a star with the contribution from the
Chrisman church in the financial report.
The Chrisman church, of which Re^■.
J. W. Harnly is pastor, has fully made
up its apportionment and should have re-
ceived a star.
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ALTON ASSOCIATION
The Alton Association has already
lined up for the big campaign and that
with the best spirit imaginable.
The Associational Missionary Com-
mittee, the Associational Promotion
Board, all the pastors and regular church
supplies with the ministerial students of
ShurtlefT College were called to meet at
the Upper Alton Baptist church on Wed-
nesday, Nov. 5th by the Moderator, Rev.
D. T. Magill. All but four of the pas-
tors and supplies were present. There
were about 35 in all present during the
day.
For the forenoon session a program
was arranged that would be profitable
for the ministers. Rev. L. H. Williams
of the Fourth Church, St. Louis, told how
to build up a prayer meeting. Rev.
Charles Durdan of the First Church,
East St. Louis, read a very bright and in-
teresting paper on "The Sermon." Rev.
George H. Murch of Centralia told how
to organize a church for work.
In the afternoon Mr. Durdan, who is
chairman of the Associational Promotion
Committee, conducted a conference on
how to co-operate in the big campaign.
It was unanimously decided to follow a
uniform plan throughout the association.
The pastors went home to appoint imme-
diately a Promotion Committee in each
church ; this committee is to divide its
church up into groups of ten famihes
each, and see to it that each group elects
its own chairman.
On account of the spirit of fellowship
enjoyed and work accomplished the meet-
ing is regarded as one of the best in the
association in many years.
Traveling expenses were equalized.
While about half the number present
would have had to pay from $LOC to
$2.75, equalization made each man and
woman pay 90 cents.
On the same afternoon and evening
the Woman's City Mission Union, com-
posed of societies from twelve churches
in the city met with the Upper Alton
church. Our Mrs. J. H. Howard of
Bengal, was their speaker in the after-
noon. At the evening service Rev. J.
H. Howard gave a stereopticon lecture
on India. The ladies served 180 people
at supper.
D. T. Magill.
Rev. E. R. Raycroft, pastor at Cor-
nell, has been called to the pastorate of
the church at Moweaqua. We under-
stand he has accepted the call. Mo-
weaqua is a fine field.
Missionary George H. Yule and his
wife are doing good work in a meeting
at Jacksonville. The pastor, Dr. A. A.
Todd speaks very well of their work.
Brother Yule preaches strong gospel ser-
mons, and his wife is strong in choir
work and solo singing. There has been
much rainy weather, and at times the
congregations were small. At other times
they filled the house. A considerable
number of people have come forward
and some have made a profession of
faith and much more is expected before
the meetings close. There is one very
remarkable Christian in Jacksonville.
She has been able to attend the meeting
some. Her name is Mrs. M. J. Blunt.
She is ninety-two years of age, and has
been a member of a Baptist church about
eighty years. The editor made her <i
visit. Her mind and sight and hearing
are good. She seems to be always in
the spirit of prayer and praise, she offer-
ed a beautiful and forceful prayer and
sang two hymns while we were there.
She always looks with interest to the
coming of the Buletin and reads it with-
out glasses.
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••HOME >aSSIONS IN CHINA
Recently there has developed within the
Chinese church a definite effort to carry
the gospel into the unreached provinces
ot their country. At a personal workers'
conference held in Ruling a managing
committee was appointed which was in-
creased to eighty-four members, represent-
ing every part of China. Considerable
publicity has been given the enterprise,
special hymns have been prepared, mite
boxes have been distributed, and one work-
er has already collected and sent in over
n.ooo.
This is distinctly a Chinese movement.
No Americans or Europeans are on the
managing committee, though their advice
is freely sought. In personnel, methods
and funds it is a strictly domestic under-
taking— more women than men are on
the committee, an evidence of a new era
in China, where women have always been
in the background.
The first efforts are to converge on Yun-
nan, the southwesternmost province ad-
joining Tibet, containing 13,000,000 peo-
ple, 146 square miles in area, possessing
great mineral wealth, and an ideal climate.
The people of this province are ignorant
and unevangelized, but potentially this is
a strong field. — Selected."
"Mr. John D. Rockefeller, last week,
gave another $10,000,000 in aid of medi-
cal research. The income will be used
b the Rockefeller Institute, which has in
its employ some of the best scientific in-
vestigators in the world. All discoveries,
as well as all inventions, made by men
connected with the institute belong to it,
and are placed 'freely at the service of hu-
manity.' Discovery of the causes of ob-
scure diseases, methods of treatment,
methods of preventing epidemics and of
improving the health of the people auy-
V'here in the world are among its objects.
Investigations of this kind are very costly,
and can be made only by such means as
this institute."
"In Russia there are about one hundred
and eighty million people, but less than
10 per cent of them, so it is said, were in
any way identified actively or passively
with the Bolshevistic campaign which
brought chaos to that country. Ten per
cent of the population, or less, was organ-
ized and mobilized as against 90 per cent
unorganized and without leadership. The
result is just what will always happen
when an organized minority of even 10
per cent, aggressively and vigorously led,
can dominate 9 0 per cent unorganized to
their destruction. This is true in politics
as in war. — Ex."
"WHERE TO BUY YOUR BOOKS
Our readers should know that the books
reviewed in Missions can be obtained from
the Branch Bookstores of the Publication
Society, and when the announcement is
made that certain books can be had from
the headquarters of Societies in Boston or
Chicago, it does not mean that they cannot
also be had from the Publication Society.
The Publication Society managers at the
Branch Stores will procure any book de-
sired, if they do not have it in stock, and
wish to serve in every way possible. Many
uf our people, by the way, may not know
chat the Society stores carry a general
stock of books, and welcome visitors and
inquirers as well as purchasers. Give them
a trial."
"It is estimated that over 47,000 Indians
in eighteen different states are at the
present time unsupplied with religious
oversight and Christian instruction. This
is work that must be done. Whatever we
may do in measuring ourselves and our
resources against the world need and the
present opportunity abroad, this primary
obligation must be discharged."
"TRANSPORIMED BY A PRINTED PAGE
In a small town of Guatemala a woman
named Mercedes Morales operated a sa-
loon with a flourishing trade. Four years
ago she was going through a bunch of old
papers and came upon a sheet nearly de-
stroyed by rats — it was a page her son had
torn out of a Gospel song book some years
before. She read it, thought it must refer
to angels in heaven and spoke to her son
about it. He answered, 'No, Mother, those
are the believers in Jesus.' 'But where are
they,' said she, 'in heaven?' 'No, right
here on earth, those who believe in Jesus.'
'Well, then,' replied Mercedes Morales, 'I
want to believe in Jesus; I want joy like
that. But see here, boy, is there any one
here in the village who can tell me more
about Jesus?' The son replied that there
was one woman in the town who had what
she called a Bible. That very day Merce-
ries found this other woman, boriowed her
Bible and sat up all night reading it. Then
and there her life was changed. The fol-
lowing day when customers came for
drinks they were told, 'You can't get any
more liquor here because the woman who
used to se'l it does not live here. Today
a Jesus believer lives here." She poured
out the barrels of liquor and now she keeps
a little store where she sells needles, but-
tons and dress goods. No one comes into
her store without receiving a tract. When
a missionary passing through the town not
long ago held a meeting seven men and
one woman accepted Christ. — Guatemala
News."
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HUDELSON BAPTIST ORPBANAGB
Hex. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
(MTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS
R«v. D. H. MacGillivray, Supt,
Mrs. D. H. MacGillivray, Matron
The last mouth has been full of joy
and sorrow at the Home, good prospects
along some lines and the sense of defeat
in other directions.
The Home-Gathering, October 14th,
was prevented by the weather. No auto-
mobiles could run and few came except
a good representation of the Board of
Trustees. This was reorganized by the
election of Mr. A. A. Curry of Pisgah,
as president and Rev. G. IL Munch of
Centralia as secretary. The informal re-
port of the superintendent showed about
$3,750 received for Improvement Fund
and about $1,900 for current expenses
since May 1st. Plans for the extension
of the work were formulated with pros-
pects of changes in some phases of the
farm work. 'At the superintendent's re-
quest it was voted to place him under
bonds. Some strong laymen were added
to the Board by the recent reorganiza-
cion, among them A. A. Curry of Pisgah,
E. E. Dawson of Petersburg, Clarence
Lloyd of Champaign, C. A. Stookey of
I Belleville. The new ministerial members
are Rev. J. H. Blythe of Tamaroa and
Rev. Levi Corley of Findlay.
A goodly number of barrels of canned
fruit have come in from the churches.
We are not likely to get too much for we
now have about eighty mouths to feed.
The one seriously depressing event was
t!;c (loath, October 30th, of the baby of
the institution, a little waif of three
months, brought to us a few weeks ago
by a relative in distress. In spite of good
care it proved beyond our power to
raise it. Our nursery department is
well cared tor by a motherly woman.
The Central Baptist Children's Home's
fiscal year closed the first of October.
During the year 125 children were housed
and cared for in the Home proper and
besides this number some sixty or more
were supervised and looked after in pri-
vate families, making in all about 185
children that have been receiving help
one way and another.
Since establishing the present plan of
keeping the children in the Home until
they receive the grammar school certi-
ficate the children are more permanent
and of course this lessens the number of
children handled through the year.
While on the other hand we have all the
time a full house.
The annual meeting of the Corporation
Board of the Home was held on October
28th, at the Y. M. C. A. rooms, 19 South
LaSalle street, Chicago. Over three
hundred delegates and friends of the
Home sat down to luncheon. After
luncheon Dr. S. T. Ford, D.D., now of
Wheaton, made the address, in which he
set forth the benefits children receive,
both in comfort and training. The ad-
dress was highly complimented. The
Superintendent then read his report and
afterwards members of the board were
elected, etc.
The year's work showed advancement
along all lines. The Treasurer's report
was very encouraging. The following
is a summary:
Balance on hand Oct. 1, 1918_$ 745.22
Receipts during the year 20,136.91
Disbursements 18,839.7'^
Balance on hand Sept. 30,
1919 $ 2,042.34
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Department of Religious Education
Chairman Rev. Herbert Hioes, El Paso, Director Rev. Louis H. Koebler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
109
Hereafter our department will work
under a new name, a title suggestive of
the work it is to accomplish rather than
the organizations with which it will do
business. The Board of Managers at
the State Convention changed the title
to that given above and planned to co-
operate more fully with the Publication
Society of the denomination. The seven
new members of the board are as fol-
lows: Rev. H. W. Hines, Rev. N. J.
Hilton, Rev. Martin S. Bryant, Pres.
Geo. M. Potter, Miss Elsie Oberg, Har-
old J. Howard and Claude E. Tilton.
The Salem Associational Department
of Religious Education created at the last
gathering of the Association has held two
sessions and planned a mighty fine three-
year program. Items in it include the
securing of life recruits, a list of forty
students in our colleges and higher in-
stitutions of learning, fifty percent of
whom should be in our denominational
schools, and an Associational Assembly
on which a committee is already actively
at work. An Associational Institute will
soon be held at Roseville to which near-
by churches will be asked to send dele-
gates. Keep your eye upon this Asso-
ciation.
Many of our young people's problems
center around the fact that we have not
observed the natural groupings of life.
Where possible it is best to organize and
promote an intermediate society rather
than a junior. Of course it is easier to
build up a junior ; but it is more neces-
sary to save and train the early adoles-
cents. At Areola they have created three
societies and the intermediates have al-
ready completed a missionary text and
are busy on their second book. The
seniors are doing the unusual thing of
going out to needy homes previous to
their regular sessions and conducting an
extra meeting. This "home" meeting is
held every now and then.
Hereafter the Publication Society will
consider only those teacher training
classes that are using the new standard
texts. Since there are eight of these al-
ready issued there is plenty of room for
variety and individual work. Classes
using these texts enrolled in our state
office are as follows : Delavan, El Paso,
Galesburg 2nd, Hillsboro, Jacksonville,
Lincoln, Murphysboro, Ottawa and
Ouincy. We feel sure that there are
more than these nine and earnestly re-
quest that if you have a class not re-
corded in this list that you will kindly
send us name and address of teacher at
once. It looks as if Illinois is not doing
its part, but if all will report we can
make a much better showing. This is
one of the best seasons of the year to
organize such a class. Do it now. Place
one of these texts in your young ladies'
class for the regular session of the
school. It works. As regards examina-
tions, deal directly with the Publication
Society at 1701 Chestnut St., Philadel-
phia, Pa.
One of the most helpful, sane and sug-
gestive books for workers with youth is
Richardson's, "Religious Education of
Adolescents." We recommend this most
heartily.
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Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Elgin
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
The annual meeting of the Women's
State Mission Society held in Jerseyville,
October 21, was one long to be remem-
bered.
The very favorable v^eather added
greatly to the pleasure of all. There
was an enrollment of 265 women who
came from all parts of the state and rep-
resented every association in our con-
stituency. This is a remarkable showing
and indicates that Illinois women are live
wires in missionary interest.
The theme of the program was "Build-
ing," not a material structure, but a spir-
itual building, having for its foundation
the enduring power and helpfulness of
Christ. Reports were read showing
what had been accomplished, also giving
plans for the future and various means
which could be employed to carry out
these plans.
Interesting addresses were given by
Miss Mildred Jones of Detroit, and Dr.
Marion Faber of India, illustrating the
material from which Christian charac-
ter and lives could and should be made.
The plans for future development of
missionary effort which were most promi-
nent were Mission Study Classes, pre-
sented by Mrs. W. L. Goble of Elgin,
and Mrs. Clara D. Pinkham, president of
the Woman's Missionary Training School
in Chicago. The Extension Department
explained by Mrs. G. W. Taft of Chica-
go and the Standard of Excellence by
Mrs. L. K. Evans, El Paso, were very
suggestful and helpful. The Reading
Contest was first spoken of by Mrs. H.
W. Reed of Belvidere, who gave a verj
concise and business like way of keep-
ing a record of the Reading Contest in
the individual church.
To give an accurate report at the end
of the year some record system must
be followed and her way of doing this
seemed almost perfect. That it pro-
duced results was shown when Mrs.
Oberholser, chairman of the state com-
mittee explained how carefully she had
analyzed the figures sent 'to her and
found that the reading done by the Bel-
videre South Church had brought the
Rock River Association so far ahead
that by a small percentage it had won
the honor of holding the loving cup for
the coming year. Rock Island Associa-
tion which had held the cup for the two
previous years, was a close second. Hon-
orable mention was made of the three
churches having the largest number of
books read by the largest number of
readers, Belvidere South took the ban-
ner. Rock Island came second and Galva
third. We will mention other topics
next month.
The banquet at 5 p. m., was admirably
presided over by Mrs. J. C. Hazen of
Peoria, as toastmistress, Mrs. E. S. Os-
good, Chicago, Miss Nita Ford, Carroll-
ton, Mrs. S. B. Wright, Aurora, and Mrs.
R. A. Chandler, Galesburg, in responding
to the topics given them brought the
day's program to an enthusiastic close.
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The Baptist Old People's Home
Maywood, Illinois
The annual meeting of the Corporation
was held Oct. 14th, with an unusually
good representation from churches in
the state. Dr. E. P. Brand and Johnston
Myers were among the speakers of the
evening and spoke encouragingly of the
past history of the Home, the work it is
doing now, and the future there should
be in the larger equipment and better
support for such a work.
While the secretary and treasurer's
reports did not show any great forward
steps taken, they gave record of a good
steady work done, to the limit of the
capncity of the Home, and all bills paid.
The little coal bags taken at some of
the associations have proved to be a
splendid method of interesting the Sun-
day schools and other organizations in
the care and support of the Home and in-
cidentally stimulating respect and love
for the aged, as well as materially adding
to the comfort of the Home when the
cold days come. Send to the Field Sec-
retary and get one, with explanatory
note, free.
Thanksgiving Day will soon be here —
if you have done nothing for the Home
this year, please make us thankful for
your remembrance at Thanksgiving time.
Some few barrels of fruit have been
sent in for which we are most grateful
but so little in comparison with other
years.
"THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
With people cheerfully paying $2 for a
ticket to a movie show, with the theatres
and other places of amusement reporting
record crowds and unprecedented receipts,
with automobiles crowding the streets not
only of the cities but of every country vil-
lage, with fur coats brushing against the
passer-by at almost every step on the ave-
nue, one is almost tempted to wonder some-
times whether the much-talked-of 'high
cost of living' is anything more than a
dream, a figment of the imagination.
There seems to be money enough for any-
thing that one really wants; that is, money
enough for everybody except ministers and
teachers and editors and a few others of
that sort."
"CASTING BREAD UPON THE WATERS
The difficulty of doing successful mis-
sionary work among Indians is well known.
Indeed, some wag has said that the only
good Indian is a dead Indian! On the
other hand, intelligent Christians know
that North American Indians, when really
converted, make the best of Christians. In
the great campaign of the Southern Con-
vention for $75,000,000 many men and
women have placed noble gifts on the altar.
Last week Jackson Barrett, of Henrietta,
Oklahoma, a full-blooded Creek Indian,
made a contribution of $200,000. So goes
the southern campaign. All of this is
cheering news to Northern Baptists, who
are soon to begin their $100,000,000 cam-
paign."
"ROYALTY AMONG US
The King and Queen and Crown Prince
of Belgium have been received with open
arms by our American people. Like Car-
dinal Mercier they typify the brave and
unselfish Belgian people, who preferred
the loss of property, the loss of life, the
loss of everything to the loss of honor. The
Evening Post well says of our honored
guest:
'King Albert's hearty welcome in the
United States will be accorded him not
merely because he is a king, nor even be-
cause he is the representative of the Bel-
gian people, but because he is a true man
who has shown himself of heroic mould.
Germany's ultimatum in 1914 he met as
became the ruler of a brave and honorable
nation, and during all the years of misery
and sacrifice that followed he maintained
his courage and his hope undimmed..
There was a cartoon in Punch early in
1915, if we remember aright, depicting the
Kaiser saying to King Albert, with an air
of mingled reproach and pity: "Now,
you see, you have lost everything." The
King's reply was: "Yes, everything except
my soul." Americans will vie with Bel-
gians in acclaiming one who through it all
"kept the whiteness of his soul." ' "
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For a Larger Shurtleff College
The following resolutions were passed
by the Illinois Baptist State Convention
at its annual meeting held in Jerseyville,
October 20-23, 1919:
Whereas, the campaign for a larger
Shurtleff was planned before any of our
large denominational drives were con-
ceived and fully launched before the One
Hundred Million Dollar Drive was bom,
and
Whereas, Shurtleff College Board
was urged by the Illinois Baptist State
Convention to inaugurate the present
campaign, and
Whereas, there seems great need for
an intensive and State wide propaganda
for Christian education, such as is now
being carried forward, and
Whereas, any change of policy would
seriously interfere with the full cultiva-
tion of our field for such purpose and
delay the expanding of Shurtleff College
to larger usefulness and wider influence,
be it therefore,
RESOLVED; First, that it is the sense
of this Convention that the campaign
for Shurtleff College should be pushed
as rapidly as possible to completion, but
along the lines now being pursued.
Second, that it shall be distinctly un-
derstood that it is a part of the One
Hundred Million Dollar movement and
that all sums pledged to this cause shall
be credited to each church on its quota
of the One Hundred Million Dollars.
Norton J. Hilton,
Secretary Illinois Baptist State Conven-
tion.
Shurtleff College has waited for years
in order to launch its campaign u-nder fa-
vorable circumstances. That time seems
at hand and the campaign was begun
Jan. 1, 1919. It progressed with re-
markable success, and the ultimate out-
come was no longer a matter of doubt.
In May, 1919, the denomination at Den-
ver committed itself to a financial pro-
gram of $100,000,000. This fall we
linked up with the Inter-church World
Movement, and the leaders of that move-
ment announce that the drive will begin
April, May or June. This means that
what w^e do for Shurtleff College should
be done at once. Four months is a brief
time in which to raise $300,000 — especial-
ly if we attempt to cover the field and
faithfully preach the doctrines of Chris-
tian Education.
We therefore request every friend of
the college to co-operate. If pastors are
willing to spend a little time in the field,
will they please notify President Potter
or myself at once? If any have money
they wish to invest in Christian manhood
and womanhood through Shurtleff Col-
lege, please send it in, or if you wish to
have a conference with either President
Potter or myself, write a line to Alton,
111. There are doubtless those in the
state who would be willing to invest large
sums with the college were they assured
of its future growth and its permanence
as an Institute of God.
Let this whole matter be a subject of
prayer by those who love Shurtleff and
those who believe our young people
should be educated in a Christian atmos-
phere unto Christian ideals.
Myron M. Haynes.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
VOI-. XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 1919
NO. 8
Christian Enlistment Week
The coming year from October first is
one of great endeavor on the part of Bap-
tists. Scarcely since Christ sent out his
apostles to evangelize the world has there
been so great a need for aggressive work
on the part of evangelical Christianity as
now. And while the need has been seen
during the past year, Christian people
did not get organized and ready for work
on a large scale until this fall. The Bap-
tists have been making rapid progress
since last winter, and now are ready for
larger things. The first great movement
after the organization of the General
Board of Promotion last May, and the
organization of the State Boards of Pro-
motion during the summer and fall, and
the organization of Associational Boards
of Promotion and through them local
church committees of Promotion, is the
observance of Enlistment Week, Decem-
ber 7-14. This Enlistment Week serv-
ice was attempted last year, but on ac-
count of the influenza, it had in a large
measure to be given up, and yet some
churches carried it on to a very great
success. Thus far this fall the whole
country seems to have escaped that ter-
rible scourge, and every ithing seems
hopeful for a successful week this year.
Enlistment Week is not simply to aid in
laising $100,000,000, although it will
doubtless help much in that work, but if
that should be the principal object. En-
listment Week would be largely a failure.
Work of the two Sundays and the
week between should be devoted primar-
ily to developing tlie spiritual life of the
church. Perhaps no two churches will
care to observe the week in exactly the
same way. Some churches may have
meetings each night and some will have
services only on Sunday and Wednesda\-
night. There should be much religious
calling and Christian visiting. Every
member of the church and every member
of the congregation should be visited.
Every member of the family where one
person is a member of the church, should
be called upon.
Many persons wlio may have had an
experience of regeneration, but from
various causes have remained out of
church relationship should be lined up
for church membership. Many who are
members of the church but who have not
been attending the services or supporting
the church should be lined up and pledged
to regular church services. Many church
members who do not attend Sunday
School and many who never go to prayer
meeting should be interested in those or-
ganizations during that week. A deeper
interest in daily and family prayer should
be enkindled. ]\rany children and young
people who are not in any Sunday School
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or Young rco])lc's organization should
be influenced by their friends and neigh-
bors to attend these services. A large
numlier of the members of the church
should be willing to enroll themselves to
become special workers that week in this
great s])iritual eiifort. Christian Week
means a revival week if properly under-
stood and properly carried out. It will
be a wonderful thing for every Baptist
church in thirty states to make a special
effort during one week to build up its
spiritual life, and to do evangelistic work
in its neighborhood. So far as we have
been able to learn all the Baptist churches
of our State Convention in Illinois will
make an effort to observe Christian En-
listment Week. If churches do not hold
services every night, it seems to this
writer that they might have services on
Wednesday and Friday nights and have
all visitors and special workers to report
on those nights, and then on Sunday, the
14th, have a general report of the work
of the week and the real spiritual condi-
tion of the church.
THANKSGIVIIVG DAY
The t^resident of the United States and
the Governor of Illinois issued a Procla-
mation setting apart Thursday, Novem-
ber 27, as a day of Thanksgiving. They
requested the people to meet together in
their churches on that day and render
thanks to Almighty God for his blessings
upon us during the past year. In some
places this was done and in some cities
it was sadly neglected. The Editor was
in Alton on Sunday before Thanksgiving
Day, and in both lower and upper towns
the announcement was made that the peo-
ple would come together in prayer meet-
ings on Wednesday night and give their
reasons for being thankful and on Thurs-
day morning at ten o'clock the people
would meet in one of the churches for a
Thanksgiving service. In other cities in
Illinois, no Thanksgiving services was
held among the IVotestants on Thanks-
giving Day, but the prayer meetings on
Wednesday night were broken up and a
union service held as an excuse for not
having one on Thanksgiving Day. The
whole day of Thanksgiving is thus given
over to feasting, attending football games
and picture shows. No religious service
on that day to interfere with the pleasure
of the people. The very thing, primar-
ily, for w^hich Thanksgiving Day is set
apart is ignored. We do not know who
is responsible for this, the preachers or
the people, we do not believe the churches
have had an opportunity to vote on it.
We do not believe the preachers have
taught them much along this line. 'We
believe the pastors could control this mat-
ter if they would make an effort. If no
pastor will preach on that day, at least
one church should be open and the people
invited to come together and pray and
thank God, and testify of their apprecia-
tion of his mercy and goodness.
CHRISTMAS
We hope all our readers will have a
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
There never was a time when Christmas
should be observed with more thoughtful-
ness and true Christian feeling than this
year. There was never greater evidence
of the wider need of the Gospel of Christ
than now. He came on Christmas day,
as the Prince of Peace, but one year ago
we closed the most fearful war of all
time, and the past year has been one of
world-wide restlessness and nervousness.
Our Christian civilization will be serious-
ly imperiled unless Christian principles
can make themselves felt throughout the
world.
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E"'ublished monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
G
HRISTIAN Enlistment Week, De-
cember 7-14.
* * *
EVERY Baptist church in the terri-
tory of the Northern Baptist Con-
vention should observe that week. If
services cannot be held every night, then
liold three services or one between the
two Sundays. If the church can be or-
ganized into groups of ten families each
before that time, then work with that or-
ganization.
* * *
IF the church has not been organized
on the group plan yet, work along
some other line, but be sure to have the
cards to be signed for enlistment, let per-
sons be secured for visitors. Let much
time be given to prayer, and let there be
a real enthusiasm for the development of
the local Baptist Church during that
Aveek.
NOW is the time to make a strong
effort to increase the number of
readers of the Bulletin. The last month
in the old year, or the first month in the
new year will be a good time to work for
a new and large club. The price may
s(Xjn be advanced but for the present it
is 15 cents per year, if twenty or more
names are sent in at one time.
* * *
N! >\\' is the time for the country
church to wake up for large things.
Some of our best pastors are willing to
accept rural pastorates if they can be
well supported. In the northern two-
thirds of Illinois, the corn crop is fine,
making this year from $50.00 to $60.00
per acre. The price of stock is good.
Chickens and eggs and butter at a higher
price than at almost any i>eriod in the
country's history. Farmers can pay a
salary of $1500 now easier than they
could $800 five years ago. How many
are substantially increasing their pastor's
salary ?
THE question of making an increase
in the pastor's salary should be seri-
ously taken up by almost every church.
When people who pay from 60 to 100 per
cent increase for almost everything they
buy can get that much increase for al-
most everything they sell, they should not
even question the need of increasing the
pastor's support. Women pay from
$8.00 to $16.00 for shoes no better then
they formerly bought at from v$3.00 to
$6.00, and pay from $75 to $100 for a
coat that is no better than they formerly
bought for $30.00 to $40.00. Why then
should they hesitate to double their sub-
scription t(.i jjastor's salary?
"Of the approximately 6,000 Congrega-
tional churches in the country, about 2,000,
or one-third of tlie whole number, are said
to be without pastors.
The Jerseyville Baptist church recently
increased the salary of its pastor, Rev. Jo-
seph Jenkins, $.300. This makes .^500 in-
crease in salary since he located on that
field. He has increased their benevolent
contributions about 400%.
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MONEY KK(KIVKI) FOK THE STATE
CX)XVENTIOX KOR NOVEMBER
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Antioch $ 10.40
Bulletin Subs 71.12
Centralia, Celia M. Miles .-- 5.00
Cornell 12.05
Carbondale 10.00
Co'-lection in Pastoral Union
Meeting 26.87
Chatsworth 11.00
Cedar Creek 4.20
Chrisman 2.97
Chicago, Albany Park 10.78
Chicago, Morgan Park 35.78
Chicago, Windsor Park 3.55
Chicago, Hyde Park 100.00
Chicago, Western Ave 26.93
Collection in State Convention.... 68.82
Champaign, First -- 25.56
Champaign, University 3.56
DeKalb 8.72
*Erie 16.00
Evangelist, F. M. Dunk Collec-
tion 114.40
Educational Commission 83.33
Oilman - - 8.00
Galesburg 27.26
Hillsboro - - 4.12
Home Mission Society — 106.64
Hudson Church 3.00
Kankakee - - 50.00
Kewanee 7.50
Lexington 4.81
Lincoln 14.00
Marengo 5.93
Osceola 8.54
Orion - -- 9.00
Ottawa, First 7.00
Percy -89
Peoria, First — 81.46
Rock Island, First 30.00
TJockford, State St - 10.50
*Stonington, New 58.00
Shurtleff College Advertisement.. 7.00
Springfield, Elliott Ave 2.50
Troy 8.57
Toulon 10.50
Union, Pisgah 21.98
Waukegan 13.44
Total - $1,151.68
BAPTIST SUMMER ASSEMBLY
The Edticational Commission of the
state held a meeting in Chicago Novem-
ber 10, afternoon and night. All the
members of the Commission were pres-
ent. Director Louis J. Koehler, Pres.
(Jeorge M. Potter and Supt. E. P. Uraiid
were present during all the meeting.
Improved plans of Sunday School and
r>. y. P. U. work were thoroughly dis-
cussed. The prevailing sentiment of the
commissioners seemed to be that any suc-
cess along the B. Y. P. U. and S. S. line
as well as church life is largelv in the
hands of the pastors. Outside workers
can help very much if the pastor wants
to be helped, but if the pastor does not
care anything about graded lessons, or
teachers' training classes or new and up-
to-date literature and will not give it his
hearty support, it is very difficult to help
a church make advancement. Among
other things the Commission is planning
to do is to hold a summer assembly next
summer at ShurtletT College, July 12-18.
It is planned to make that week one of
careful study in the forenoons and help-
ful recreation in the afternoons and in-
spirational addresses at night. This can
be made a very valuable week to our
young people and older ones. One class
will be arranged for the preachers and
pastors who may attend. ( )ne whole
afternoon and evening will be given to a
boat ride on the river, where a helpful
program can be carried out. On account
of war conditions we have not held an
assembly in Illinois for two years. Dor-
mitories, both for men and women can
be secured, and connnon eating places can
be arranged and the women will have a
real week of study and rest and recrea-
tion instead of sjx'nding half the time in
housekeeping and cooking as it was at
I lavana. Strong speakers and teachers
will be secured.
Rev. Geo. H. Yule had great success in
increasing the finances at Hammond. He
was there four days. They increased the
pastor's salary .$4 00 and gave Mr. Yule
$60 for his work.
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CHURCHES
The Providence church in the Rock Is-
land Association is being" suppHed by the
pastor of the Muscatine church of Iowa,
preaching Sunday afternoons. He is at
this time conducting special meetings in
that rural field. Things seem to be quite
encouraging.
Rev. W. E. Pool, pastor of Carrollton,
writes that the church has been organized
along the Board of Promotion plans, and
they are planning for the "Christian En-
listment Week." He says the preaching
services are well attended and everyone
seems to be in good spirits.
Rev. L. C. Trent of Kewanee, writes
as follows : "We are certainly having a
great meeting. Total conversions to date
seventy-eight and we have received thir-
t}'-two for baptism and will baptize a
good many this week. We had almost
900 present last night by actual count and
Stucker gave a very impressive sermon,
really a masterful plea for the old gospel,
Bible conversion. ] think we can safely
recommend Stucker and Jones."
Rev. Mr. Enslow, pastor of the first
Baptist church of Danville, writes No-
vember 11 : "I am pastor officially after
November 15. Will move the last of
the month. Main room and choir filled
last night. B. Y. P. L'. room filled at
this irreeting."
Rev. J. W. Harnley, pastor of the Bap-
tist Church of Chrisman writes very en-
couragingly concerning the work at that
place. "The Sunday School has greatly
increased in all matters concerning its
work and the congregations are much
larger than formerly."
Rev. C. H. Wells reportetl the work
going quite well at the York church al-
though the rainy weather has kept the
people from attending in large nvmibers
since he began the work there.
Rev. L. C. Taylor, pastor of the Kin-
derhook church writes: "I have just
closed a two weeks' meeting at the Pea
Ridge Church. The attendance was
good, there were fifteen conversions, and
reclamations, eleven of whom united with
this church. The church seemed very
much encouraged and revived. Monday
afternoon Rev. Mr. Meigs of Ouincy and
Rev. Thomas Marshall of LaGrange,
Missouri, came to the church and we
held a tithing conference. A class of
eighteen pledged themselves to study
tithing."
The pastor of the Bethany church in
Alton Association writes as follows:
"Our house of worship at Bethany is un-
der great headway. The basement is al-
most completed, the slats are being nailed
on for Keleston on upper part. We are
installing a new furnace and figuring on
Delco electric lights and it will be about
four weeks before we can re-dedicate the
church."
Rev. R. T. Gasoway, pastor of the
Mendota church writes very hopefully
concerning conditions on that field. He
sa\s, "We have repaired, repainted, and
re-decorated, at a cost of $1,700, the
whole church. The church sent the pas-
tor to the State Convention at Jersey-
ville, and paid his expenses. While he
and his family were gone on that trip,
the good people sprung quite a pleasant
surprise. They laid a new floor in the
kitchen and repainted the parsonage."
MISSIONARIES AND >IISSIONARY
PASTORS
Rev. George H. Yule, our District Su-
])erintendent for Eastern Illinois is prov-
ing to be a great power in the Lord's
work. He spent Sunday, November 16,
and three or four other days at Gilman.
That church is being aided bv the State
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Convention to support half time service.
The church has been able to raise only
about $600 per year for all home ex-
penses and missions. In four days Bro.
Yule helped them to subscribe more than
$1200 for the next year. He then gave
two and one-half days, middle of the
week, to Normal, and the subscriptions
for next year were brought up nearly
50'/^ . lie then spent Sunday, November
23d and three days at Girard, and helped
them to increase their subscriptions to
current expenses to more than $2,000 and
the pastor's salary will be increased
$300. Such work is having a tremendous
influence upon the denomination.
District Superintendent, Rev. Joseph
C. Dent was taken sick while in the be-
ginning of a meeting in Warren. He has
been compelled to remain in his home
in Chicago three or four weeks, but he
hopes to begin work again December 7.
He expects to hold an evangelistic meet-
ing for the Antioch church in the Rock
Island Association at that time.
Rev. D. O. Hopkins, Ph.D., has ac-
cepted the appointment as District Su-
perintendent for the western side of the
state and will begin work January 1st.
He will spend the month of January in
the Quincy Association.
Eva.ngelist Frank M. Dunk held a
meeting at LaMarsh in the Peoria Asso-
ciation. He was very sick during the
first few days of the meetings, but recov-
ered and went on with the work. Rainy
weather was very much against him, but
they had a good meeting. The pastor,
Rev. C. W. Wolfe, baptized seven can-
didates in LaMarsh creek. Evangelist
Dunk, at this writing, is conducting a
meeting in the Savanna church.
Evangelist F. M. Dunk assisted the
pastor, Rev. J. W. Wright at xMpha in
a two weeks' meeting. The meeting was
of considerable interest. There were
several conversions and additions to
the church, and the people seemed to ap-
preciate the work of Bro. Dunk.
Rev. F. T. Klotzsche, pastor at Anda-
lusia, has been leading his people along
in putting the church property in good
repair. They have expended nearly
$1,200 on the church building. They
have ordered a new set of pews, and
when these come they are planning for
an all-day opening service of the church.
The Charleston pastor, Rev. L. V. Ed-
wards, writes of improvement: "On a
recent Sunday three were received by
baptism and two on experience."
The following is a letter in part from
the Oilman church : "We, the pastor
and chairman of the finance committee
of the Oilman Baptist church, wish to
express our thanks for the efficient serv-
ice rendered to us by Rev. Geo. H. Yule.
In former years the church through its
finance committee has been able to raise
a budget of $390— $400 for the church
and $50-$95 for benevolence and Mis-
sions. In two days Brother Yule with
the aid of the chairman of the finance
committee has pledges amounting to
$1,216.60, about $225 for Missions, and
the balance for current and local church
work."
Our missionary pastor at Rochelle,
Rev. H. B. Stevens, seems to be getting
hold of the work on that field quite well.
The church had been pastorless sO' long
tliat it seemed very difficult to get the
work started, but he is now getting the
church and Sunday School organized in
good shape.
Our missionary pastor at Dixon, Rev.
John A. Simpson, seems to be much en-
couraged with the work there. The
church has increased his salary $200,
with which to begin his second year.
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The church seems encouraged to take
hold of the finances with a strong hand.
The B. Y. P. U. is doing well and the
choir is making a good impression upon
the church and the town.
PASTORuUi CHANGES
Rev. T. Elmer Jones of Kansas has
located as pastor of the Barry church.
Rev. F. E. R. Miller, who has been
pastor of the First Church, Elgin, for
several years, has accepted a call to be-
come pastor of the First Church of Chi-
cago. This church sold its old church
building on 30th street, to the negroes,
and purchased property on 51st street,
near Hyde Park.
Rev. H. E. Truex, D.D., of Saint
Louis, Mo., has become pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Mt. Vernon. The
Mt. Vernon church has been pastorless
for about one year. Dr. Truex was for-
merly Missionary Secretary for both
North and South in the State of Mis-
souri.
Rev. L. J. Velte, who was formerly
located at West Pullman, and served as
army chaplain in France, has become pas-
tor of the Tabernacle Qiurch in Chica-
go-
"Rev. W. L. Markland, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Streator, has re-
signed his charge there, and will leave
the first of the year for Amboy where
he lias accepted a call to the First Bap-
tist church. His resignation was re-
ceived with deep regret by his many
friends. During his pastorate here, and
under his guidance, the two churches
were re-united, and the church is in
a prosperous condition. There has been
built a beautiful parsonage, the building
of which he supervised."
Rev. E. L. Holland, who came from
Minnesota, and located at Hudson some
time the past year, has closed his work
there and accepted a call at Chatsworth.
The clerk of the church writes: "We
trust that the church may be blessed dur-
ing the ministry and as a church we may
be a power for good in the community."
The Tiskilwa Church has recently
called Mr. Claude Richmond of the
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
to supply that church for an indefinite
length of time. The writer says : "He
is an active young brother and has had
some experience in teaching and preach-
ing. He was overseas for a number of
months and has had one year in the semi-
nary."
Rev. D. J. Scott closed his work at
Plymouth and accepted the Bethel church
in the Salem Association for one-half
time work. During the past year he has
been giving one-half time at St. Mary's
and he will continue his work at that
place.
Rev. E. R. Raycroft, who has been
pastor of Cornell for the past two years,
has accepted a call to become the pastor
of the Moweaqua church, taking effect
December first. Brother Raycroft is
quite a young man and the Moweaqua
'hurch a fine opportunity for a success-
ful pastorate.
Rev. James Earl Corwin has resigned
the pastorate of the Ridgewood Baptist
church in Jo'iet. and he and his wife pro-
pose to enter into evangelistic work if
fields open up for that service. Brother
Corwin has done a large work at Ridge-
wuD'l. and we would like to see him re-
main in the j)astorate in Illinois if some
.^-niitable field opens up for him.
The clerk of the Kane church writes :
"we called Rev. R. E. Carney of Villa
Grove and he has written that he will
assume charge Sunday, November 23d.
Tlie church is happy to feel settled and
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ready for work again. We thank you
for your lielp and for your advice."
Mr. W. S. Davison, a layman of
Minonk, is aiding Rev. Edgar Ford, pas-
tor at Morrisonville in special meet-
ings.
Dr. William Matthews, D.D., "has
moved to Paw Paw and is going to be
pastor of the Baptist church there for six
months at least." Dr. IVIatthews was
pastor of that church several years ago,
and has been supplying them for some
time (hiring their present pastorless peri-
od.
rhe Superintendent spent Sunday, No-
vember 23d with the First and Upper Al-
ton churches in Alton. Dr. M. W. Twing
has been pastor of the First church twen-
ty-three years. The interest in the
church seems fine. There were 235
present in the Sunday school, and the
classes seemed to be well organized and
well manned. The congregation was fine.
Rev. David T. Magill is pastor of the
Upper Ahon church. There were 239
present in the Sunday school that morn-
ing and a good congregation at night.
Brother Magill has been pastor about two
years there and he and his wife seem to
be leading the church and Sunday school
well. Shurtleff College is doing good
work this year and is planning for much
larger things in the near future.
REOPKNING OF CHURCH
Downers' Grove church is having very
encouraging success. Rev. J. B. Little
has been pastor for about one and a half
}ears. He and his wife are intense work-
ers. The church seems to greatly appre-
ciate them. The church recently painted
the exterior of the building and pointed
up the walls and repaired the porch and
beautifully decorated the interior and
raised the $1,600 mortgage against the
property. The money had all been raised
with a nice surplus before reopening day.
On November 16th the church was re-
opened and special meetings began. F.
G. Fisher, the noted gospel singer was
present for the first week and rendered
excellent service. The Editor of the Bul-
letin gave them two sermons. All the
services of the day were good. The
Sunday School was fine and the congre-
gations large. For more than one year
there has been a deep religious interest
and revival spirit in that old suburban
church. Men and women of influence
i-n the community are being added to the
church.
GENERAL. BOARD OF PROMOTION
The General Board of Promotion held
its second meeting in an "LTpper Room"
in Chicago, November 12-14. The meet-
ing was held in the Sun Parlor on the
twelfth floor of the Sission Hotel on Lake
Michigan at 53d street. It is an ideal
place for such meetings. The writer is
of the opinion that this was the greatest
meeting in some respects that he ever at-
tended. There are 138 members of this
Board and 113 members registered as
present. All Baptists were permitted to
attend and the room which accommodated
about 250 was full almost all the time.
This was really the first meeting of the
Board of Promotion since it was fully
organized, last May.
Dr. J. Y. Aitchison was offered the
Executive Secretaryship of the Board,
and declined the oft'er, but when nomin-
ated again in the summer, he accepted.
This is the most important position the
Baptists have ever offered any man.
During the few months Dr. Aitchison
has served he has proved himself to be
a man of marvelous ability. This whole
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movement is new, and Dr. Aitchison has
been compelled to work along new lines,
in doing larger things than the denomina-
tion has ever undertaken. All his
plans seemed so wise that after they had
been thoroughly discussed they were
adopted without a dissenting vote. Dr.
Frank Padelford of Boston, also proved
himself to be a man of great ability and
sound Christian judgment in all the af-
fairs of the denomination. Dr. Aitchi-
son is planning for the distribution of an
immense amount of valuable literature
this winter. He is planning for it not
only to reach the pastors, but so far as
possible, all the families in our churches.
The office for the distribution of litera-
ture in Illinois will be the office of our
single collecting agent. Dr. Augustine S.
Carman, 417 S. Dearborn street, Chica-
go. A considerable portion of time was
given to seasons of prayer. Some times
items of business of the most strenuous
character would close out with a season
of prayer without anybody planning for
it. Women and laymen as well as pas-
tors and secretaries took an active part
in these meetings. We have not space
in a small paper like the Bulletin to go
into detail as to these meetings, but we
must refer to one particular item of busi-
ness. It was fully decided to establish
a weekly Baptist paper to be owned and
published by the denomination. The pa-
per will probably be started by January
1st. It is not known what the name of
the paper will be, at least its name has not
been announced, nor the name of the pub-
lisher. It has been decided to make the
headquarters of the paper, and publish
it in Chicago. It is known at present
that it will take up the mailing lists of
the Standard and Pacific Baptist and
those papers will go out of existence.
The Pacific Baptist had already ceased
to exist and the Standard had taken its
list. The price of the paper will prob-
ably be $2.50. It is hoped that 40,000
subscriptions can be secured for the first
year. Having a denominational paper
for thirty-five states with no other paper
west of Ohio, will lay much greater re-
sponsibility upon the State Bulletins. It
will not be possible to get much weekly
local church news in a paper like that.
We may increase the Bulletin to twenty-
four pages and we may be compelled to
make it bi-monthly.
Rev. James H. Franklin in his book,
''In the Track of the Storm," gives a
very interesting chapter on America's
part in the war. From this Chapter we
take the following quotation: "The War
Department of the United States Govern-
ment has published the following table
which summarizes America's participa-
tion in the war.
Total American forces, including army,
navy and marine corps, 4,800,000.
Total men in army, 4,000,000.
Men who went overseas, 2,860,000.
Men who fought in France, 1,390,000.
Tons of supplies shipped from Amer-
ica to France, 7,500,000.
Total registered in draft, 24,234,210.
Total draft induction, 2,810,296.
Total cost of war, April 30, 19H),
$21, 850,000,000.
Battles fought by American troops, 13.
Days of battle, 200.
Days of duration of Meuse-Argonne
battle, 47.
American battle deaths, 48,900.
Americans wounded in war, 236,000.
American deaths from disease, 56,991.
Total deaths in the army, 112,422.
Between April 6, 1917 and May 31,
1918 was delivered to the army 131,-
800,000 pairs of wool stockings, 85,000,-
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000 undershirts. 83,000,000 trousers,
30.700,000 pairs of shoes, 26,700,000
Manuel shirts, 21,700,000 wool breeches,
13.900,000 wool coats and 8,300,000 over-
coats.
It has been estimated that the total
number of deaths in battle alone was
7,450,200 divided as follows :
Russia 1,700,000
Germany 1,600,000
France 1,385,000
Great Britain 900,000
Austria 800,000
Italy 330,000
Turkey 250,000
Serbia and Montenegro 125,000
Belgium 102,000
Roumania 100,000
Bulgaria 100,000
United States 49,090
Greece 7,000
Portugal 2,000
The above indicates those killed in bat-
tle only, the total of those who died from
disease is far greater.
The following letter by one of the
prominent men of the denomination,
Rev. Orlo J. Price, of Rochester, New
^^ork. was greatly appreciated by the edi-
tor:
"My Dear Dr. Brand :
In the Standard of Oct. 18, I saw a
write-up of you and your work, and am
just writing this note to say that I was
glad of tiiat large publicity being made
of a man who deserved even more than
was said. I shall not forget the years in
Illinois when you stood so firmly and
faithfully by the State Convention work
under rather trying circumstances, and
were a friend and helper to every pastor
in the state. I am sure you rejoice to
see, in a measure at least, the fruits of
your work in the larger undertakings of
our denomination in this day of big
things.
I sincerely hope there may be many
more years of service for you in the cause
which is dearer to you than your life.
With all good wishes, I am,
Faithfully yours,
Orlo J. Price."
STRIKES
The strike of the policemen in Boston,
the long-shore men and typesetters in
New York, and the steel workers all over
the country, and the miners in the bitum-
inous coal region and the threat of a
strike on the part of the railroad men,
denotes a restlessness on the part of the
laborers, and a controversy between labor
and capital that is somewhat perilous in
this country. Most of the strikes that
have taken place recently are made by
the best conpensated workers in this
country.
This controversy does not seem to
come so much from a lack of wages as
from a feeling of injustice and unfair-
ness. Immense fortunes were accumu-
lated by operators during the war and
laboring men, even though they received
high wages, do not feel as though they
had a fair share of the profits. On the
part of the miners, while they could make
good wages, while they worked, a con-
siderable portion of the time the mines
were closed from some cause or excuse
on the part of the operators. The de-
mands of the miners in making the strike
were entirely unreasonable and the con-
tention of the operators seems to us quite
as unreasonable. People who burn coal
know that they pay an exceedingly high
price and the over-profits go somewhere
rather than to the miners.
We have been reading a splendid week-
ly paper published in London, England,
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for about one dozen or more years.
That paper gives the labor conditions in
England as much improved and getting
better rapidly at this time. The English
people seem to feel that their labor dif-
ficulties are being settled much more rap-
idly than they are in this country. It
seems to us that there is no other way
of settling these difhculties than for the
government to take them up and settle
them fairly for both parties and the peo-
ple. The people in general have as
much interest in the steel industry and
coal mining as the operators and labor-
ers and the three classes should be taken
into consideration. We believe that our
government is strong enough to cope
with these matters but they seem at this
time to be getting into a critical condition.
PERSONAL.
Rev. O. E. Aloffet who returned from
France last summer located at the Barry
church in the Quincy Association. In
October he left that field and accepted
the pastorate at Sycamore and Kingston
in the Rock River Association. Quite
recently he has been threatened with an
attack of paralysis, and has closed his
work on this field and will retire from
the patsorate for the present. We hope
that six months or a year's rest will re-
store him to health.
I.ITERATUKE
There has, perhaps, never been a time
in the history of the Baptist denomina-
tion when there was so much fresh, cur-
rent, and valuable literature to be had as
at t!:e present time nor with as little ex-
pense. Any Baptist pastor or layman
who wants any kind of literature or pe-
riodicals on the great Northern Baptist
Movement, or the Inter-Church Move-
ment can secure same by writing Rev. A.
S. Carman, D.D., 417 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Illinois. His office is made the
distributing point for this literature for
Illinois.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE
BULLETIN
"The Illinois Baptist Bulletin pays.
All of its ads and articles are full of 'go"
and vitality in pushing the things of the
kingdom." — Chicago.
"The Illinois Baptist Bulletin is the
best little Baptist paper I know of." —
Mavwood.
LET US NOT FORGET OUR OWN
"Not for a moment would we diT up
the streams of beneficence among our Bap-
tist people. We ought lo give to public
charities and relief work, but we ought to
remember, at the same time, that thou-
sands of wealthy people are interested in
these charities and philanthropies who are
not interested remotely in church work,
Christian missions and Christian institu-
tions. A friend tells us that he cannot
give much to his church and to his denom-
ination, because he makes an annual con-
tribution to more than twenty public char-
ities. That man is making a mistake. A
man is not narrow-minded because he feels
that his first obligation is to his own
church and his own denomination. If we
neglect our churches and our denomina-
tional work, who will care for them?"
Two meetings for setting up work, or
Inter-Church organization and Promo-
tion will be held, one in the LaSalle
Hotel Building in Chicago, December 8-
10 and one in the Central Christian
Church lUiilding, Springfield, December
10-12. Many Baptists are invited to at-
tend these meetings, and there will be
some time given to denominational ses-
sions. We hope many of our people will
attend.
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HUDELSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Kev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAVWOOD, ILLINOIS
Rev. D. H. MacGillivray, Supt.
Mrs. I). H. MacGilllvray, Matron
At present writing (Nov. 26th), we
are filled with some anxiety for the well-
being of our large family. Yesterday
two of the severest cases of what we had
supposed to be only hard colds, were in-
terpreted by our good doctor as laryn-
geal diphtheria and development was
rapid until today antitoxin was adminis-
tered with only fair prospects of success.
Of course vigorous measures are being
used to combat this dread disease.
Enough antitoxin is expected tonight to
imnnmize the whole company of nearly
eighty people.
As the heating plant is not yet in the
hospital department this could not be
used for the sick, but the well boys now
sleep there, so we are able to isolate not
only the diphtheritic patients but also
those who have sore throats, and make
all fairly comfortable. While the situa-
tion is distressing, because of the anxiety
and the danger, we are thankful that con-
ditions are far better than last year and
we hope they will remain so. We are
sparing no effort or expense, confident
that the churches will back us up as they
have always done in emergencies.
On Saturday, Nov. 22d, the friends of
the Home in Centralia, held a tag-day
which netted us about $500. Of course
the Baptist people led in the enterprise,
and Pastor Murch and family by their
tireless energy made the thing go, while
others, particularly Mr. A. E. Quick, who
was chairman of the comimittee, were
equally splendid. No institution ever
had a more loyal support than that ac-
corded the Home by the Centralia Bap-
tist church.
The month of November has been a
very busy month at the Central Baptist
Children's Home. A house full of chil-
dren with sharpened appetites, created by
fresh air and good health, always de-
mand work. But during the month of
November we had at the Home all that
sixty-nine to seventy-three vigorous chil-
dren could create and besides this the
main building was torn up in order to
make the necessary changes to adapt the
new building to the old one. This made
it very hard on the matron and her staff.
However, there is a bright spot in the
horizon. The new addition is up and
enclosed and the plasterers are ready for
their work. When completed the addi-
tion will be equivalent to a good sized
two-flat building. This addition is go-
ing to add to the comfort and benefit of
the children and the household.
Our concern now is the finances. We
had thought that we had one-third the
cost in hand before starting, but now
the cost has run up a third more then we
anticipated. The Superintendent is hop-
ing that the friends of the Home will
rally to our help and send in their checks,
that the improvements be paid for on
completion. We need ten people who
will give $100, fifteen who will give $50,
and twenty people who will give $25, and
others who will help in the smaller
amounts.
We thank our friends for gifts of
canned fruit. Special mention ought to
be made of La^'Iarsh and Manlius
clnn-ches who added chickens for Thanks-
giving.
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Department of Religious Education
Chairmao Rev. Herbert Hines, El Paso, Director Rev. Louis H. Koehler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
The State Department of Religious
Education met recently in Chicago to for-
mulate plans for the year's work. Every
member was present, including Dr.
Brand, superintendent of missions, who
offered many helpful suggestions.
Two items included in the projection
of work are of special significance. The
state director presented a plan to organ-
ize associational departments of religious
education. This was freely discussed by
all present, and it was evident that if the
state is to function properly and effective-
ly in the larger movements of the denom-
ination an associational organization is
absolutely necessary. The department
voted most heartily to push such organi-
zations and voiced their appreciation of
the work being done by the department
in the Salem Association.
After freely discussing the need of an
Assembly, it was voted to conduct a Sum-
mer Assembly at Shurtleff College, Al-
ton, from July 12 to 18, 1920, inclusive.
President Potter, a member of the state
department gave much information and
was made chairman of the committee on
arrangements. The committee on pro-
gram luet the next morning and formu-
lated the aim of tlie assembly as the en-
richment and deepening of the spiritual
life, to help give the Christ-vision of life
and service, to offer a real school of
methods in religious education and to
present a program of recreation and fel-
lowship for all.
It was decided to give the morning
hours to study classes, to play and rest
in the afternoon and to conduct mass
assembly meetings in the evening. Thus
the three words reveal the schedule — in-
struction, recreation and inspiration. The
following courses of study will likely be
offered in 1920: The Bible, The Mod-
ern Church School, Pastoral Leadership
of Religious Education, Principles of
Teaching, Alissions, B. Y. P. U. Aims
and Activities and Educational Evangel-
ism.
The program conmiittee hopes to se-
cure Dr. W. E. Raff'ety, editor in chief
of the Publication Society, and one-time
professor of sociology and pedagogy of
the Kansas City Theological Seminary,
to give the course on the Modern Church
School. Other members of the faculty
will be secured soon and the list pub-
lished in the Bulletin. Watch for it.
The department is desirous that all
who attend will receive the full benefits
of the time spent and are hoping to se-
cure a trained recreationalist to plan the
games and tlie stunt programs. At least
one afternoon will be spent on the Missis-
sippi, the vesper service and the address
conducted and given on the boat.
The State B. Y. P. U. organization
will help materially in working up dele-
gations for the Assembly, the plan being
to work through the vice-presidents of
the three districts. Churches will be
asked to send their workers and potential
leaders to this assembly. The denomina-
tions, the times and the local churches
call insistently for trained leaders and in
the assemblv we have the answer.
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Woman s
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
Mrs. H. VV. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
Greetings to all Illinois Baptist wom-
en!
A Christmas season full of the joy of
making others happy ! A New Year full
of praise and service! As we approach
this old-time Christmas, our hearts in
one glad union say, "Thanks be unto
God for His unspeakable Gift."
Oui- Annual Report
By the time you are reading this, the
^'Annual Report" of the W. B. M. S. of
Illinois should have reached every Circle
president. It should come to you from
your Associational President. If you do
not receive it, please notify her.
Now, dear Circle President, we won-
der if you make a careful use of this
valuable book. We endeavor to have it
strictly authentic. It is full of valuable
information relative to our Women's
work as a denomination and as a state.
It takes much time and careful thought
to coimpile its many details. It costs
quite a large sum of money to print it.
We firmly believe it is necessary to pub-
hsh it, we believe it has been a source
of education to Illinois women in other
years, and we just as firmly believe that
if each Circle president and program
leader studies its contents, makes use of
its suggestions, plans for and arranges a
state afternoon, often referring to various
statements scheduled in our "Annual Re-
port," a greater intelligence, which means
a greater interest in advancing Christ's
Kingdom, will come to Illinois women.
Dear Circle President, it is up to you.
Please do not fail.
Mrs. W. P. Topping.
A very enthusiastic woman's meeting
of the Rock River Association was held
Nov. 14th, in DeKalb. The attendance
was good, the program well taken by
bright and earnest women. Mrs. W. H.
Reed of Belvidere, was elected president
of the Association.
An inter-denominational Reading Class
of 125 members to cover five evenings,
lias been organized by the Elgin Baptist
church. The book to be studied is
"World Facts and America's Responsi-
bilities," by Dr. Patton. Is not this a
good suggestion for inter-denominational
fellowship, especially where the churches
are not large?
The many friends of Dr. F. L. Ander-
son are sympathizing with him because
I A the sudden passing on of his wife,
Mrs. Anderson. She was a woman of
nuich ability and active in denominational
work, especially in teaching Americaniza-
tion to those of foreign birth. At the
time of her death she was president of
the Woman's Baptist Mission Union of
Chicago Association, and will be greatly
missed in Baptist activities. Her funer-
al occurred Nov. 25th, in the Morgan
Park Baptist church.
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The Baptist Old People's Home
Maywood, Illinois
A gift to the Home of one thousand
dollars from Rev. James P. Thorns (de-
ceased) was announced at the last meet-
ing of the Board of Directors and placed
in the permanent endowment fund to be
known as The James P. Thorns Memorial
Endowment. Dr. Thoms will be remem-
bered as among the first interested in
starting this Home for the aged. May
others follow this worthy example till
the Home is placed on a safe and digni-
fied basis with at least one hundred thou-
sand dollars endowment, and the build-
ing suitably enlarged.
With our present relations with the
State Convention and the denomination
no one who wants to do a beautiful and
permanent service for the aged need hesi-
tate to give or make bequests to the Bap-
tist Old People's Home at Maywood.
The annual bazaar for the benefit of
the Home will be held Dec. 6th, from 10
to 5 at 4815 Drexel Boulevard, Chica-
go. A cordial invitation to participate by
attending, contributing or purchasing is
hereby extended.
We greatly appreciate the contributions
of fruit and the little coal bags which
have been coming in from quite a num-
ber of'churches and Sunday schools, also
the beautiful words of good-will that
come with them. A fine expression of
thankful hearts at Thanksgiving time and
a real immediate help to those who carry
the anxiety for the Home during the
present high cost of necessities.
If your Thanksgiving offering was
given elsewhere, please remember the Old
People's Home at Christmas.
On Friday, Nov. 21st, the wife of Rev.
F. L. Anderson, Superintendent of the
Executive Council. Chicago, passed away.
She had been very sick for some time,
but her death was a great shock to the
many friends of Brother Anderson. She
was a great help to him in his great and
successful work, and the loss will be
very keenly felt by him and his family.
Brother Anderson will have the sympathy
of his many friends throughout the state.
Rev. J. D. Scott, who recently resigned
the church at Sycamore and accepted the
Bethel church for one-half time, has re-
cently closed a revival meeting of that
church, resuhing in fifty-two professions
faith, fort3'-one persons were baptized
and six were received into the church
otherwise. The church and community
made Brother Scott a present of a fine
fur overcoat at the close of the Thanks-
giving dav.
THE MINISTRY
We have rejoiced most heartily in the
success of the effort to raise the More-
house Memorial million for the use of
the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit
Board. But our Board must be in a
position in the near future not merely to
grant aid to men who are in distress, but
also to grant pensions to all our minis-
ters. During the next five years our fund
should reach at least $10,000,000.
But the churches must make more ade-
quate provision for its ministers while
they are still in srevice. A campaign
should be carried through our churches
to secure higher rates of salaries. — Sur-
vey.
On Sunday morning, Nov. 3 0, the Green-
ville clxurch raised the money necessary to
pay all indebtedness on the newly pur-
chased parsonage. The Editor of the Bul-
letin aided the pastor at that service.
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THE BAPTIST BANK I
The Annuity Bonds of the various Boards and Societies of the Northern I
Baptist Convention are as safe as a bank account — safer indeed. I
All of the co-operating organizations have adopted a uniform set of rules i
which are published herewith. i
LIFE ANNUITIES
(jienei-al Rules for the Conduct of Annuity Business Adopted February
17 and April 15, 1919
KASIS OF ISSUING ANNUITY CONTRACTS
Annuity Contracts will be issued only in return for
1. Cash; or for
2. Bonds at their market value — except that U. S. Government bonds
may be accepted at par — the market value to be determined by quota-
tions in financial journals of a recognized standing or by special re-
port of a bond and stock broker of reputable standing; or
3. Mortgages of such character as would be accepted for permanent in-
vestment by the Finance Committees of the respective Boards.
ANNUITY RATES
1. The rate at which an annuity contract will be issued is determined by
the age of the annuitant in accordance with the printed schedule of
annuity rates.
2. There will be no change in the rate on an annuity contract during
the life of that contract.
ANNUITY PAYMENTS
Annuity payments will be made annually or semi-annually only.
RETURN OF PRINCIPAL,
It will be the policy of the societies issuing annuity contracts not to enter
into any agreement that any part of the principal shall be returned.
ACCEPTANCE OF PROPERTY UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT
Other property, including stock and real estate, which is satisfactory to the
Finance Committee of the Board concerned, may be accepted under a trust
agreement to pay the donor or donors thereof the actual net income on such
property, when and as paid, with the understanding that the Society shall have
the right, after due conference with the donor or donors, to sell such property,
and that when such property is sold the Society will issue a single or a survivor-
ship annuity contract for the net proceeds received from the sale of such prop-
erty at the rate of income paid to annuitants at the age of the donor or donors
of such property at the time when the sale of the property has been effected.
The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention,
J . Y. Aitchison, D.D,, General Director, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
American Baptist Foreign Mission So- Women's American Baptist Foreign
ciety, George B. Huntington, Treas- Mission Society, Miss Alice B. Sted-
urer, Box 41, Boston, Mass. man, Treas., Ford Building, Boston,
The American Baptist Home Mission Mass.
Society, Charles L. White, D.D., The Women's American Baptist Home
Exec. Sec'y., 23 East 26th St., New Mission Society, Mrs. Katherine S.
York, N. Y. Westfall, Secy., 2969 Vernon Ave.,
Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Chicago, 111.
Board, E. T. Tomlinson, D.D., Sec- The American Baptist Publication So-
retary, 23 East 2 6th St., New York, . ciety, Gilbert N. Brink, D.D., Sec'y.,
N. Y. 17 01 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Illinois Baptist State Convention
E. P. BRAND, D.D., Supt., Normal, 111.
Correspondence is invited with any of the above organizations.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
vol- XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 192«
NO. 9
1920
We are now entering upon a new
}ear. It seems strange that we are so
nearly 2,000 years after the advent of
Christ and yet more than half the world
has never heard of him, and more than
half the professed Christian world knows
nothing of the real vital message of the
Ciospel. Protestant Christianity of Amer-
ica is planning to do more, during 1920.
to give the Gospel to the whole world
than ever before in any one year, or we
might say in any dozen years. 1920
brings to our minds some notable facts
of history. It was in 1620, three hun-
dred 3^ears ago, that the Pilgrim Fathers
landed at Plymouth Rock. This was the
beginning of the most noted community,
and the most startling feature of civiliza-
tion the world has ever known. The
whole of America, that is, of the United
States, was greatly affected by the be-
ginning of the New England settlement.
It was three hundred years ago this year
that the first slaves were sold in Vir-
ginia ; the beginning of a traffic that
lasted nearly two hundred and fifty years,
that almost wrecked the nation and took
a terrible war of four years to break
down, and brought a negro race to our
country that now numbers 11,000,000
people.
The year 1920 will be the first year of
National Prohibition of the liquor traffic
in America. This is almost as import-
ant as the freeing of the slaves, and it
has been brought about, not by a blood
struggle, but by peaceful methods.
In 1919 we were just recovering from
four years of the greatest military shock
the world ever knew. Now in 1920, the
Christian people are hoping to do big
things. Last year John D. Rockefeller
gave to Beneficence, $4,750,000, through
the Baptist denomination, and about
Christmas time gave $100,000,000 to go
to Educational work, toward increasing
the salaries of teachers and to medical
work toward eradicating disease from the
world. Other people are beginning to
realize that they are the Lord's stewards,
and that all they possess is entrusted to
them to use for the benefit of humanity.
We believe the Baptists of Illinois will
do more for the State Convention during
the year 1920 than ever before. The
Convention is occupying a position more
important than in any other year of its
history. Almost every phase of our de-
nominational work is looking to the con-
vention for help ; and almost all of the
National Societies will do nothing in the
state without the co-operation of the
State Convention. This is perhaps w^l,
for no outside organization knows the
state so well as its own Convention, The
Convention is in a better condition to do
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this work than any other organization,
provided the people furnish the means
for it; but a poorly supi)orted Conven-
tion has but little power for the great
work now required of the State Conven-
tion organization.
For the first time in its history, the
Illinois Baptist State Convention has
planned to close its financial year April
30th. That will be only seven months
from the time of the closing of last
year. Last year a considerable number
of churches closed their State Conven-
tion year March 31st. Such churches
can easily do the same this year and there
will be no break in their plans except that
the year of the National Societies closes
April 30th instead of March 31st. But
other churches can easily raise seven-
twelfths of their year's apportionment
for the state work by April 30th. The
apiX)rtionments for State Convention for
this coming year were sent to all the
churches last summer, and it will be nec-
essary for the pastors to bring the matter
clearly before their people.
After the first of May, we may have
new methods on the One Hundred Mil-
lion Dollar Drive ; but the important
phase of our financial work for 1920
must be the first four months of the
year, and a strong effort during that time
to raise the whole apportionment.
The year 1920 should be an important
year in the history of all our local
churches. We can never build up a
strong denominational interest unless we
have strong, vigorous local churches.
The time has come when all our churches
should take on new life. We need spir-
itual life in our churches, not only to
provide material means, but that will
bring some hundreds and in the whole
country, many thousands of our young
men and young women into ministerial
and missionary life. We believe 1920 is
going to do this more than in many years
of the past. Let us make this year
memorable in our history.
THE NEW AMERICANS
The great religious problem in Amer-
ica centers in our new Americans. The
estimated population of the United States
in 1916 was 112,000,000. Of this num-
ber, 32,000,000, or more than one-quar-
ter, may be designated as new Amer-
icans. Over 14,000,000 people in the
L'nited States at the present time were
born outside of it. Hundreds of thou-
sands of these people who have recently
come among us are among the very best
citizens we have. But there are thou-
sands of others who are most dangerous
enemies. Our whole American civiliza-
tion faces the greatest peril in all its
history.
There is only one force that can amal-
gamate all these different elements, and
that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As
a denomination we have been increasing
our work among these people during the
last ten years, but our work ought to be
very greatly increased at once. All our
missionary agencies are now converging
on this point. The Committee on Sur-
vey is approving a budget which wmII pro-
vide for more than double the present
work. Our great problem in this whole
matter is that of leadership. We have
already established some training schools
for the Swedes, the Norwegians, the
Germans, the Italians, the Danes, and
some others. We need a strong, thor-
oughly organized school for men of the
Slavic and kindred races. — Franklin.
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
WE are beginning the first year under
National Prohibition. We have
practically had Prohibition since July 1st
as a war measure.
SOME people, especially in the East
think it will be hard to live under
Prohibition laws. The people of little
Rhode Island are making effort to hold
up the United States Government on the
hquor traffic.
* * *
SOME western states have had Prohi-
bition for many years. Kansas has
been more than thirty years without li-
censed saloons and instead of becoming
bankrupt, they report that they have one
automobile for each five persons in the
state.
* * *
THE subject of Temperance is now
Deing agitated in England more than
ever before. England is one of the most
wide open liquor countries in the world.
It is difficult to get a drink of water in
London or Liverpool, but all kinds of
liquors can be had at almost any point in
the cities. At Rotterdam, Holland, the
great railroad station is a saloon. No
place to sit down except at a table and
then the passenger is asked to buy a
drink.
ALREADY the partial prohibition of
the drink business since July 1st
has had a great effort upon the lives of
the people, and the business of the com-
munities. Fifty years from now, the peo-
ple as a whole will be as much opposed
to the saloon business as they are now
to the slavery business.
^ ^ ^
THE greatest need of the Baptists to-
day, and in fact of the entire Protest-
ant Christianity, is many thousands of
young men and women to give themselves
to ministerial and missionary work. Tliis
kind of work is the most heroic, one of
the hardest tasks to which one can con-
secrate himself. We certainly have
many young people among the Baptists
who are heroic and bold enough to un-
dertake big things and hard tasks. Every
young Christian should honestly ask God
what He would have him to do. If God
leads into the ministry or into mission-
ary work there can be no mistake.
^ ;■; ^
WHY should not some wealthy young
men and women have the honor
and privilege of proclaiming the Gospel ?
For the past generation almost all who
have had this great privilege of making
the most of their lives for God and hu-
manity, have come from the poorer
classes.
T'lE ]^)a])tist Annua! of Illinois is
now just about ready for shipment.
It has been exceedingly difficult to get
all the reports from the Associations. We
liave prevailed upon four clerks from
Associations to copy a list of the officers
and tables and forward them to us so
as not to hold back the Annual. We re-
gret that we cannot get the Annual out
a few weeks earlier, but we cannot if
we have it reasonably up to date and with
correct statistics.
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"IUKKICI l/r TO KXI'LAIN"
It is reported that the Kapti-ls of
Tennessee have received four Associa-
tions of Free J5ai)tists without requiring
a re-immersion. Some Southern Illinois
r.aptists cannot understand why this can
he done in Tennessee and cannot Ije done
in Southern Illinois. Dr. W . W Throg-
niorton, Editor of the Illinois iJaptist,
tries to explain. Of course it would not
do for Dr. Throgniorton to ojipose what
i'i done 1)\- the liaptists south of the
Ma.son and Dixon Line. He admits that
it is all right for the Tennessee IJaptists
to do this, hut when the Southern Illinois
IJaptist Association voted to receive any
and all Free Baptist churches that would
send letters requesting admission to that
Association, Dr. Throgmorton wrote
various articles against it. He admits
that Free Baptists have valid baptism.
but claims that when an individual from
a Free Bajjtist church comes to a Baptist
church he should be re-immersed, not
because he has not been baptized, not be-
cause he himself doubts his own baptism,
but to satisfy the prejudices of some
other people. It se^ms to us that Dr.
Throgmorton, in admitting the correct-
ness of the Tennessee Baptists in receiv-
ing four .\ssociations of Free Baptists,
is turning about and facing toward the
position on .\lien Inmiersion that is held
])y the Baptists of most of the whole
world, the position that is held by eight
of our nine .American Baptist Theologic-
al seminaries, and by practically all the
Baptist schools and papers in the world,
except a part of those in the territory of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
Dr. Throgmorton tries to explain why
it is right for Southern Baptists to do
the same thing that he condemns the
Northern Baptists for doing. Dr. Throg-
morton is a strong man in some things,
but he shows exceedingly great weakness
of argument in attempting this impos-
sil)le explanation. We think that he
knows he is wrong in this matter, he is
intelHgent enough for that, but he is
"too set in his ways" to admit it, not
quite big enough to admit an error when
it stands out st) plainly that almost any
of his followers can see it. If, how-
e\'er, the Doctor lives a few years (we
hope he will live many), he will doubt-
less be constrained to admit his error,
and not try to persuade people who have
been baptized to make a travesty of the
ordinance, by repeating an immersion in
the name of the Trinitv.
UNOCCUPIED FIEUDS
In our study of the non-Christian
world the committee has been compelled
to raise the cpiestion as to whether we
ought not to enter some of tlie unoc-
cupied fields of the world. Two great
fields immediately loom up which are not
adequatel}' provided for : the Moham-
medan world and SoiUh America. Thi^
is a critical hour in the history of Mo-
hammedanism. It has sufifered a fearful
reverse in the war. Christianity's op-
portunity in the Mohannnedan world is
dawning.
Another great field. South America,
a continent of unimagined resources and
teeming with life, has no adequate re-
ligion. There are millions of its people
still in paganism. Most of its leading
men, disgusted with Christianity as they
have seen it, have forsworn all religion.
What attitude are we to assume to-
ward these unoccupied territories? Our
first responsibility is, without doubt, to
the fields which we have already entered.
But as soon as these obligations are at
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133
all adequately met we must recognize our
obligation to the great awakening AIo-
hammedan world and to the peoples of
our sister republics to the south. — Frank-
lin.
MONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
CX)NVE]VTION FOR DECE31BER
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Areola $ 5.30
Amboy 4.86
Annuity — Miss Alwilda Young.... 500.00
Berwick 22.00
Belvidere, First 7.37
Bulletin Subs 103.09
Chrisman 3.49
Champaign, University Church.... 3.75
Chicago, Belden Ave 26.87
Chicago, Normal Park... 11.27
Chicago, Second 45.34
Educational Commission 191.66
Evangelist, P. M. Dunk, Collec-
tions 196.76
Freeport 31.50
General Board of Promotion —
Advertisement 7.00
Greenup. Rev. J. L. Ryan and
wife 10.00
Minonk 14.00
Manlius 20.57
Moline 60. OT)
O'Pallon 2.47
Percy .89
Roodhouse, Mrs. C. T. Scott,
S. E. F 5.00
Rumney Memorial Fund, Chil-
dren's Home, Maywood 500.00
Sireator 7.00
Sterling 7.37
Shurtleff College Advertisement.. 7.00
Universitp Baptist Ch. Insurance 55.00
Victory Campaign 3,000.00
Joseph C. Dent, Collections 88.00
George H. Yule, Collections 228.21
Total $5,166.3 7
IXTER-CHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT
CONFERENCE
By Airs. W. P. Topping.
Cold wintry blasts, half-heated, half-
lighted assembly rooms failed to chill the
ardor and enthusiasm of the State Train-
ing Conference of the Inter-church
World Alovement that met at Hotel La-
Salle. December 8th, 9th and 10th. There
were nearly 400 delegates from Chicago
and twenty-four adjoining counties ;
eighteen denominations had registered
delegates, other denominations sent one
or more representatives. Every session
was full of interest. Would that each
could be reported !
From 9:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. speak-
ers of national fame put before an earn-
est, attentive audience startling state-
ments that demand attention. Here are
a few of the "high lights" :
"Unity of spirit means unity of ef-
fort", "25,000,000 members of the Evan-
gelical churches in America — What could
we not do if we were united in etTort."
"In America there are thirty-si.x races,
tifty-four languages, fifty-eight maga-
zines, 1046 newspapers printed in foreign
languages, 13.515,000 foreign born, 4,-
000,000 not naturalized, 3.000.000 not
speaking English."
"Liberty is never safe, unless under
Ijondage of law."
Up to 1917 there had been 29,000 grad-
uates from the University of Illinois.
Eighty-three of these graduates entered
the ministr}'. Six became missionaries.
Twenty-five percent of all denominational
colleges go into definite Christian serv-
ice, five and one-half percent of other
colleges.
"In Chicago there are 570,070 children
between ages 6 to 21 with NO religious
education."
Dr. Cornelius I'atton, just back from
China. re])()rted seeing numerous gods
thrown into the rivers — he saw the Ten
Commandments hung in a temple where
an old fat god used to be. He said :
"Opportunity is so large, no one denom-
ination can do it — but all together, can
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we not enter in and evangelize China?
400.000,000 of China call to you."
■•The difference between collection and
offering — the collection is like crumbs
we brush from the table. Offering is like
the gCKxl food which makes rich blood
and life."
"Give proportionately regardless of tlie
tenth."
Program for next four months — all de-
nominations co-operating — January, In-
tercession ; February, Stewardship ;
]\Iarch, Life-work; April, Evangelism.
The Intercession periods were most
impressive. Prayer permeated every ses-
sion and no delegate could attend with-
out feeling that a Divine Commander
was guiding this great movement of
Christ's church. Its purpose comes to
every Christian with tremendous force —
"Having prayed, I will co-operate with
God and my fellow workers in answer-
ing my prayers by complete surrender
and obedience to the will of God, and by
doing everything in my power to arouse
and inspire the church." Let us resolve
to make this purpose our own for 1920!
DEATHS
Mrs. Mary J. Blunt died in Jackson-
ville at 8:15 a. m., December 27th. She
had been ill only a few hours. She was
ninety-two years and four months of age.
She was a member of a Baptist church
and has been a Christian from early life.
She was active and bright until the last.
She attended the Morgan- Scott Co. As-
sociation last September and at one time
while I was there, she was called upon
to lead the Association in prayer. The
Editor called upon her about two months
ago. She expressed herself as longing
to see The Bulletin come every month, as
she read it all with much interest.
Mrs. Webb, mother of Rev. Cyrus W.
Webb, pastor at Wood River, died at
5 :30 a. m., January 3d. For many years
she has made her home with her son
Cyrus. She was sick only four days. She
was eighty-seven years and four months
of age. She was a devoted Christian,
and brought up two boys for the minis-
try.
Rev. A. M. Kirkland, pastor at Maho-
met, died in a hospital in Chicago about
the middle of December. He was about
sixty years of age, and was doing good
work with the jNIahomet church and in
the Bloomfield Association. His body
was taken to the state of Tennessee for
burial.
The wife of Rev. E. J. Parson, pastor
of the First Baptist church of JoHet, died
December 6th after having suffered over
a year with pulmonary tuberculosis. Her
husband says, "Long before the end she
was reconciled to her fate. Her fare-
well and beendictions can never be for-
gotten."
THE NEAV BAPTIST PAPER
The Northern Baptist Convention has
established a new weekly paper to be
known as The Baptist. When this new
paper is started, the Standard and the
Pacific Baptist will go out of existence
and the Baptist will take their place in
the mailing list. So far as we know, no
other paper has been given up for this
new paper. The headquarters and place
of publication of this new paper will be
Chicago, and Rev. Latham A. Crandall,
D.D., of Minneapolis, will be the editor.
This will not be a privately owned paper,
but owned and conducted by the North-
ern Baptist Convention, and it will be
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supposed to cover the territory of thirty-
four or thirty-five states. All the sub-
scribers to the Standard will receive a
copy of this paper the last week in Jan-
uary, when it begins publication. We
hope this paper will have a large circu-
lation in Illinois.
UNIVERSITY CHURCH
Rev. Martin C. Bryant, pastor of the
I'niversity church writes that he bap-
tized four the last Sunday in November.
Three of these were young men. The
Editor of The Bulletin was given the
time at the Sunday morning service De-
cember 7th to speak to the students upon
the subject of "Enlistment in ^Ministerial
and Missionary Work." It was one of
the greatest meetings that we have had
during the past twelve months. There
were about' 135 to 140 students present.
They listened attentively to what we had
to say and some of them expressed them-
selves as willing to consider the matter
of some si>ecial work in the Kingdom,
and after the service every student in
the congregation was introduced to the
sjieaker. The pastor giving his name
and place of residence. The State Con-
vention has never done a greater mission
work than in establishing and supporting
the church at the State University.
ORDINATION
A council of ministers was called
b}- the Shabbona church in the Aurora
Association to meet November 26th to
consider the ordination of the pastor,
Rev. G. B. L. Johnson. Mr. Johnson had
been supplying the church for about three
years. Five churches were represented
After a thorough examination, the coun-
sel declared itself fully satisfied and the
ordination services were conducted that
night.
P.^STORAL, CHANGES
Rev. D. J. Scott, who was pastor at
the Plymouth and St. Mary's churches
resigned the Plymouth church to accept
the Bethel church for one-half time. On
November 3d, he began a series of meet-
ings which closed November 26th.
Thanksgiving Day was observed at the
church, with dinner in the basement.
During the meetings there were forty-
seven additions to the church, forty-one
by baptism, two by letter and four on
their Christian experience, and fifty-two
professions of faith.
Rev. W. F. Thompson, who was for
five or six years pastor of the Farmers-
ville and Zenobia churches, closed his
work there in December and accepted a
call to the Indianola church. He bap-
tized two young women at Zenobia on the
2d day of December, the day he closed
his work there. Three have been ap-
proved for baptism in Indianola since
he began his work on that field.
Rev. F. T. Klotzsche, who has been
pastor in Andalusia for more than two
years will close his work on that field
the first of February and accept a call
to the Cornell churcli in the Bloomington
Association. Brother Klotzsche has done
a quiet but good work at Andalusia, and
we hope he will have good success at
Cornell.
Rev. James Earl Corwin, who has been
pastor for about two years at Ridge-
wood, Joliet, has accepted a call to be-
come i)astor of the ColHnsville church.
Collinsville is an important field in the
.Alton Association in which there are
great possibilities for successful work.
The Second Baptist church in Carter-
ville, from which Rev. Fred V. Wright
was called to Ashland, recently located as
its pastor Rev. J. G. Bagwill. Brother
Bagwill began work the latter part of
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November. This is a splendid field and
a good church, and Brother Bagwill is
well known among the churches in that
section of the state.
The following letter has been received
from Amboy: '"Am sending this to you
to let you know that our church extended
a call to Rev. M. L. Markland of Streat-
or, 111., and he has accepted. Mr. Mark-
land and family plan to come about the
first of the year. We have rented an up
to date modern house for the parsonage
and are looking forward with much an-
ticipation to the time when we shall have
a pastor on the field with us again.''
CHURCHES
The El Paso church held its annual
meeting on January 2d. A telephone
message states that they had a great day
and increased the pastor's salary $500.00.
Rev. H. W. Hines is the pastor.
The clerk of the ]\Iarengo church
writes as follows, "Work in the Marengo
church is most encouraging. Rev. Frank
LeG. Church took up his duties as pas-
tor October 19th. He is untiring in his
efforts to build up the church, and there
is a renewed interest in all of the de])art-
ments.
The Sunday evening services are evan-
gelistic, and are well attended. A splen-
did work is being done by Mr. Cliurch
among the men and boys, and we are
hoping and planning big things for the
interests of the Kingdom this coming
year." — Helen H. Spencer, Church Clerk.
.A1x)ut one year ago, Rev. Edward
Renden, pastor of the Pontiac church,
was taken sick with influenza, and while
the church held him as pastor until Sep-
teni'ber, he was able to do almost no
work, and then was compelled to resign
the pastorate." The church d o e s
not yet have a pastor. They recently sold
the parsonage, which was unfavorably lo-
cated and had considerable debt upon it.
All debts on the property was cleared
up. We hope that they will locate a
l)astor soon, for that is a very important
field.
The Claim St. Church in Aurora, is
making very decided progress. A few
\ears ago, it was in a rather discouraging
condition. They called Rev. Thaddeus
L. Stevens and he was ordained into
work in that church. His work has been
quiet and steady, but effective. The bud-
get arranged for the church for the com-
ing year 1920 is $2,509; but few
churches have so many tithers on their
list as the Claim St. church.
Rev. George H. Thompson of AA'ater-
loo, la., assisted Rev. L. E. Ellison in
special meetings at Areola which resulted
in about twenty-five conversions and ad-
ditions to the church. The pastor speaks
in very high terms of his appreciation of
the work of Evangelist Thompson." The
church recently purchased a nice modern
parsonage less than one block from the
church building. All the money neces-
sary to pay for it was raised and $1400
more.
Rev. J. R. Hastings, pastor of the
(lirard church, reports a very good re-
vival meeting in his church. He expected
to baptize about twenty-five converts on
the night this letter was written. Rev.
O. W. Shields, missionary of the local
Association assisted in the meetings. The
church increased the pastor's salary
$200.00, as the result of Missionary
Yule's work.
Rev. J. P). Little, pastor of the Down-
ers' Grove church, writes at the close of
their special meetings as follows : "In
the morning service we baptized four
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(others are waiting), ten were given the
right hand of fellowship, and eleven
came forward and took their stand for
Christ, making twenty in all who have
professed a hope in Him during the meet-
ings. Another interesting feature was
that a fine business man was gloriously
saved and was baptized Sunday morning.
Praise the Lord for his marvelous work
among the children of men."
Rev. L. P. Cassell, the new pastor at
Utica, writes that things have been going
nicely since he opened up the work in
September. "Among the many other
things that we are doing we hope to have
the Baptist Bulletin in every Baptist
home, as a beginning at least, possibly
later in all the Protestant homes in our
town and community."
Rev. O. S. Taylor, pastor of the East
Alton Baptist church, wrote December
4th, "as follows : "AVe have just closed
a two weeks" meeting with our church.
The writer doing the preaching and the
dear Lord blessed in the saving of twen-
ty-five,souls. Of that number, fourteen
have come into the church and will be
l)aptized Sunday evening, December 7th.
May God's blessing be upon the readers
of The Bulletin and the editor. I am
always glad to get The Bulletin."
As a result of the Sunday meetings in
Rock Island, the first church received
about 100 members and Moline 100.
Edgewood, East Moline, Watertown and
Silvis all received a fair number of addi-
tions.
The Mendota church, of which Rev.
R. T. Gassowa\- is pastor, seems to be
in a very prosperous condition. We have
never seen the meeting house and par-
sonage in so good condition. The pas-
tor feels very much encouraged witli the
work there.
Rev. C. P. Greenfield, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Paris, writes that
Rev. A. P. Renn and R. H. Bache Meyer
who held meetings in that church last
year have just closed another meeting.
He says, "The large auditorium of the
First Baptist church was filled each night
and after the first week we had to open
up the Sunday school rooms to accommo-
date the crowd. The interest continues
growing from the beginning of the meet-
ing. We had to close on account of fuel
shortage. There were VJ persons who
made a profession of faith."
Manlius Church. "District Superin-
tendent George H. Yule, of the Illinois
Baptist State Convention spent the first
week in December with the Manlius
church of which Rev. J. Brainard Brown
is the pastor, accompanied and assisted
by Mrs. Yule. An every-member can-
vass was conducted over this rural field
with remarkable results. Many new
pledges of support were received, and
most of the old ones were increased, as-
suring the increase of the pastor's salary
and the entire benevolent budget for the
coming }ear is more than provided for.
State Superintendent McBride, of the
Anti-Saloon League, recently said, "I
consider Brother Yule one of the strong-
est and best efficiency men we have."
The Manlius church is prepared to en-
dorse such an estimate of his wise and
energetic work, in organizing and svstem-
atizing the finances of the church Mrs.
Yule has consecrated her trained voice
to the singing of the old story of Christ's
love and power."
PERSONAL
Rev. L. D. Lamkin, within the last few
months, has held meetings at the First
Church in Springfield, the First Church
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in Decatur, and in Indiana and Kentucky.
He reports good meetings. Some of
them especially strong. He will assist
Rev. R. H. Claxon in the First Church
in Aurora at some time in the future.
Evangelist J. M. Edmundson spent
fourteen weeks in Kansas and Missouri
after September 1st in evangelistic work.
He says, "We had a continual round of
successful meetings out in the 'Sunflow-
er' and the 'Show Me' states." Engage-
ments closed out there December 7th.
l^)rother Edmundson will be open for en-
gagements for evangelistic work at any
point where he might be called. His ad-
dress is Atwood, 111.
Rev. Ernest A. Bell, D.D., was for
many years the pastor of the Midnight
church of Chicago in the red light dis-
trict. He did successful work in preach-
ing on the streets at midnight during
those years. Since the red light districts
have been broken up. Dr. Bell preaches
very much on the streets around the post-
office. He is a very devoted servant of
the Master. The secretary of this or-
ganization is Rev. M. P. Boynton, D.D.,
pastor of the Woodlawn Baptist church.
Since 1906, thirteen years ago, the Mid-
night church has distributed Scriptures
(from a single verse to a complete Bible)
in sixty-eight languages.
STATE CONVENTION MISSIONARIES
The pastor at Charleston, Rev. L. V.
Edwards, seems to be making heroic ef-
fort to bring that church up to a high
standard of service. In some respects
the interest seems to be moving forward.
He has recently received several mem-
bers into the church and there seems to
be some determination to build up the
church. There seems to be some lack of
workers for Sunday school and other de-
partments.
Rev. A. S. Gloyd has completed one
quarter as pastor at Silvis and Geneseo.
Decided progress seems to have been
made at the Silvis church and the pastor
is now taking the ix)sition for full time
service instead of half time. The church
debt is now about paid ofif and they did
good work last year for missions. The
church raised last year for all purposes
about $2,000.
Our missionary at Rochelle, Rev. H.
15. Stevens, has had very encouraging
work during the first quarter. The
Christmas exercise in the Sunday School
was very successful. The house Avas
crowded. The attendance in the Sunday
School is now four times more than it
was the beginning of the quarter. The
}'oung people meet in the parsonage
every Friday evening and the attendance
has increased from eight to twenty-five.
The Rochelle church has been pastorless
for two or three \ears and it is very en-
couraging to note this evidence of pro-
gress.
Rev. Cyrus W'. W'ebb, our missionary
pastor at Wood River, seems to be very
much encouraged with the work there.
He has been on that field ten months and
has added sixty-nine to the church which
now brings the membership up to 127.
The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. have
also made substantial growth. $3,000
have been pledged for a new building
and they are very anxious to get started
on a new building enterprise in the near
future.
Rev. Gustaf L. Lindsteadt, our mis-
sionary pastor of the Swedish church in
Rock Island and Davenport, recently re-
signed his work there and has gone to
another field.
During the month of December,
Evangelist F. M. Dimk assisted Rev. B.
F. Martin of the South 7th street church
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in Springfield in special meetings. Coal
shortage and cold weather were very
much against the meetings and yet the
latter part of the meetings turned out
quite well. The Enlistment Week was
a success that was carried out in the
church.
District Missionary George H. Yule
has been very busy during the past quar-
ter. He has done a very large and suc-
cessful work. Every place that he has
visited has responded heartily in his plans
to lead them into larger things and they
have all expressed great appreciation of
his work. He will spend the month of
January and one-half of February in the
Bloomfield Association.
Rev. A. V. Rowland, our missionary
pastor in Peoria, writes a very encourag-
ing letter. Brother Rowland has charge
of three Sunday school missions and
preaching stations and assists the pastor
of the first church. In the business meet-
ing in October the church voted to in-
crease his salary $200.00.
Rev. A. G. Prestage, our missionary-
pastor at Oglesby, writes : "The Sun-
day gatherings are steadily increasing, es-
pecially the night service. Our B. Y. P.
U. has grown marvelously, especially the
Junior, whose members pray, sing and
testify, almost equal to seniors. I believe
we are going to have a very good year.
The signs are here that such a time is on
the way. Our Sunday School Superin-
tendent is a live wire. To God be all
the glory."
Rev. Joseph C. Dent, district superin-
tendent for northern Illinois, was laid
by on account of sickness during about
six weeks of his first quarter. He began
work again December 21st. On the 22d
he writes from Tampico as follows : "I
preached here twice yesterday, sang two
solos, taught a class in Sunday school and
met with cluu'ch officers in the after-
noon. 1 am standing the work very
well. 1 have decided to stay here ]\Ion-
day and Tuesday to make an every-mem-
ber canvass." We are very glad that
Brother Dent's health seems to be re-
stored and hope that he will be able to
do vigorous work during the next three
months.
The following letter was received from
the Hammond church : "Just a little re-
port which I thought might be of interest
to The Bulletin. " Brother Yule has been
here for the past five days and made an
every-member canvass, and to say that
he has been a great help to us expresses
it mildly. The church has increased the
]Dastor's salary $400.00, besides giving
Brother Yule a check for $60.00, and we
feel that this will be a great year for the
church. Brother Yule is a great man
and will be a great help to any church
or pastor." — A. C. Brown, Pastor.
Our East ]\Ioline missionary field, un-
der the pastorate of Rev. Henry L. Duff,
reports much success during the past
quarter. There were forty additions to
the church, twenty-eight by baptism.
East ^loline is a great and growing field
and we will doubtless have a great church
Evangelist Dunk conducted a meeting
in Havana early in December. The pas-
tor, Rev. Mr. Blunt was sick and in the
liospital during the meetings. This made
it difficult for the evangelist, but there
were fourteen conversions and ten addi-
tions to the church.
Dr. D. O. Hopkins began his work as
State Convention District Superintendent
the first of the month. He is now work-
ing in the Ouincy Association and will
give some time to the Salem Association
as soon as he possibly can. Brother
Hopkins closed a splendid year's pastor-
ate at Normal.
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At the Inter-church Conference at
Springfield, there were enrolled sixty-five
Disciples, forty-five Presbyterians, forty-
two Metho<list Episcopal, thirty-seven
Baptists, twenty Congregationalists, one
Lutheran and one Church of God. The
meetings were of considerable interest.
The one night that I attended, the meet-
ings was strongly Presbyterian, but per-
haps the speakers had not learned that
the Methodists and Baptists are doing
some things. We can see some good
coming out of this movement, but the
Baptists must not rely upon it too strong-
ly. I attended three sessions in Chica-
go. That was a stronger meeting than
Springfield.
NEGRO BO.IRD MEETING
The Missionary Board of the Negro
State Convention met in Champaign, De-
cember 11th. Rev. L. K. Williams, D.D ,
of Chicago, is Chairman. On account of
the coal strike, the conditions were very
unfavorable for the meeting, yet they had
a good attendance of both men and wom-
en. I have never known the Illinois State
Mission work of the negro denomination
in as hopeful a condition as now. Rev.
S. M. Duke, of Chicago, is the General
Missionary of the Convention, giving
his whole time among the churches. The
white Convention pays one-fourth of his
salary and he reports all the money he
raises on the field to the Negro Conven-
tion. The white Baptists will aid the
negro brethren at some important mis-
sion points in the state.
Rev. J. D. Crumley has been pastor of
the Plainfield church more than three
years, x^t the beginning of his fourth
year, his church increased his salary
S300. Brother Crumley and his wife
have done faithful work at Plainfield
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
MAYWOOD, ELLJNOIS
R«T. D. H. MacGiUiTTay, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGllliyray, Matron
The month of December is always an
interesting month at the home. The
flurries of snow as they come and go at-
tract the boys and girls. Then, again,
there is the looking forward to Christmas
and all that it brings and our children
know right well that Christmas brings
not only joy bells but also precious gifts.
This year was no exception. Churches
and individuals vied with each other in
sending toys, books and the more staple
articles of wearing apparel and food.
Yes, even candy was sent in unstinting-
ly, and with all chicken and turkey. The
Pilgrim Temple friends have supplied the
home with turkey for twelve or more
years and this year they came along with
three large turkeys. It is needless to
say our children enjoyed their Christmas
dinner.
The Berwyn church brought a verx'
large donation of canned goods, flour,
vegetables, and also the Christmas tree.
Other churches, too numerous to men-
tion, also brought us splendid donations.
We wish to thank one and all for re-
membering us so generously.
The new addition to the main building
is nearing completion and all that have
seen it think we have made a wonderful
improvement as far as the comfort, con-
venience and looks are concernd.
Now comes the struggle to raise the
money to pay for the improvements. The
budget, asked from the churches to sup-
ply ordinary needs is inadequate, .so the
$6,000.00 additional exipense must be
raised by individual subscriptions.
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Department of Religious Education
CbainnaD Rev. Herbert Hines, El Paso, Director Rey. Louis H. Koehler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
The SUiXDAv School Standard oi'
Excellence. This is the season of the
year to take inventory and check up on
work done. Let every superintendent
test his school by the standard and if it
falls below at any point let the workers
l)e called into conference and definite
plans laid to overcome the weak places.
Every standard is a help and an inspira-
tion and in working with volunteers it
becomes an absolute necessity if we
would do the best of which we are capa-
ble. The report blanks for the schools
will be sent out early in the year and it
is hoped that we wdll be able to report to
the Northern Baptist Convention many
more standard schools than we did last
year.
The second issue of the department
comes from the press this month. It is
an eight-page folder and is entitled, "A
Department of Religious Education for a
Baptist Association." If interested, send
for copies. The first leaflet on the aims,
program and methods of the department
is worthy of your careful perusal and
reference as the months come and go.
Later on the department wdll issue a
leaflet for superintendents containing an
outline of activities for a year's work.
The Summer Assembly plans are well
under way. The program committee is
busy endeavoring to secure a choice list
of instructors and the State B. Y. P. U.
officers are getting ready to advertise and
push the Assembly. Save the date —
July 12 to 18, inclusive. Place, Shurt-
lefif College, Alton.
Church and Associational Insti-
Ti-TKs. The director is now planning
institutes for March and April and is
ready to receive applications for such
service. There are a few dates open in
February also. An institute program
generally includes addresses both after-
noon and evening for two or three days,
every address followed by a conference
Ijeriod dealing directly with the matter
presented and the problems of the school
and society. In some fields it seems best
to begin on Sunday and carry on until
Tuesday evening, while in other places
it seems best to begin on*prayer meeting
night and continue until Sunday evening,
r.ut any two or three day period is suf-
ficient if the people set aside that time
for the institute and give themselves to
the sessions. It is often advisable to
jdan special services for the young peo-
ple and the boys and the girls while the
director is on the field. He can meet
the children after school hours in the
afternoon after the regular meeting with
the workers, and oftentimes he can meet
the young people best when a luncheon
is prepared and time is taken for a con-
ference immediately after the supper. To
get the most out of an institute a good
modern text should be the basis of study
for the lectures and notes should be taken
by the workers. The Publication Society
standard for an institute includes four
sessions, with lectures (and text book if
possible) and note-lx)oks presented for
credits. On the whole it seems best at
the present to use one of the new stand-
ard teacher training texts, although this
is not necessarv.
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Woman s
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Elgim
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editm*
Morgan, Park
Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., ETanston
A number of Baptist churches have re-
sponded to the call of the Spirit of Christ-
mas and have made some of our mis-
sionaries happy by sending them boxes
to be used on their fields for Christmas.
The Christian Center at Indiana Harbor,
Ind., has had a new Victrola given to it
l)ut they have only two records. Prob-
ably some of our Illinois homes have rec-
ords which they are no longer using and
would be willing to give them to this
Center. If you have one or a number
of records which you can spare, please
send them well packed to Miss Sarah E.
Noyes, 3801 Deodar St., Indiana Harbor,
Indiana.
A gift of $25.00 has been received
from the Sunday School of our Christian
Center in Chicago., Aiken Institute, to
be used for the day nursery in the Olivet
church (colored). This church has just
purchased a building in which they ex-
pect to house a well equipped day nursery
for the use of the large colored popula-
tion to which it so ably administers. The
Woman's Home Mission Society is help-
ing them to the extent of $500 in the re-
modeling of the building.
The Aurora Association, ^Irs. J- D-
Crumley, president, is wide-awake and
making a record for "over and above"
gifts. It has contributed $150.00 for
equipment to be given to Miss Edna
Stever, who sailed in December for Im-
pur, Assam. Last summer it assumed a
scholarship in the Training School, which
was to be given to a member of the Asso-
ciation. This is already partly provided
for. A good contribution to the Jubilee
Fund has been given.
The women of the Association held a
semi-annual meeting Nov. 18, in Aurora
First church. A fine program had been
prepared by Mrs. Edward Copelin, of
Aurora. Among those who took part
were Mrs. Geo. McGinnis, Mrs. Schneid-
er, of Aurora, Mrs. E. S. Osgood and
Miss Naomi Fletcher of Chicago.
The W. W. S. girls were given the
evening for a banquet with the usual
toasts and songs. They always have a
rousing good time at their banquets, and
it is reported that this one with Miss
Ethel Rhoades as toast mistress, was not
an exception.
It is with much sorrow that we an-
nounce the sudden death on Dec. 30, of -
Mrs. W. L. Goble, of Elgin. She will be
remembered by all who attended the
Convention at Jerseyville as the leader
of the Foreign Mission Study classes and
the author of the "Pageant of Freedom,"
of which she gave a synopsis, being as-
sisted by a number of Jerseyville girls.
It has just been published by the State
.Society. She was a very superior Avom-
an and will be greatly missed.
Toulon is having a six weeks' class for
the older people, and the B. Y. P. U. and
W. W. G. are arranging a plan by which
they may read many of the books in
Reading Contest.
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THK SUPERINTENDENT'S JOURNEYS
On December 14th, the editor spent
Sunday morning with the Woodstock
churcli. Rev. H. H. Smith has been pas-
tor there for six years. During the past
summer the church raised his salary. I
have never known that church in better
condition. It is an important county seat
town and is the only Baptist church, but
two in McHenry county. The church is
sixty-three years old and has had forty-
seven pastors. Sunday night was given
to Bethany church on south side in Chi-
cago. Rev. O. E. jMeyers has been pas-
tor for several years. This church is not
far from the packing house district and
has a large mission interest. Brother
Meyers and his wife seem to be doing
good work on that field.
Sunday morning, December 21st was
given to Sycamore church. On account
of the affliction of Rev. O. E. Moffet,
that church is left pastorless again. The
people, however, seem to l^e willing to
take hold of the work and a candidate
was secured for them in two weeks from
that time. Sycamore is a beautiful little
city, and the Baptists have a splendid
property there and a fairly strong mem-
bership, but they need encouraging.
Sunday afternoon we reached the Park
Place church in Aurora in time for the
recognition of a Roumanian Baptist
church. This seems to be a strong vig-
orous little body and the outlook seems
to be hopeful.
.Sunday morning, December 28th, we
spent at Littleton church. This church
has been pastorless for about six months,
but has just now located Rev. J- Living-
ston Duff, pastor of the Rozetta church.
He and his family had arrived the day
before. There is a great opportunity
for the Baptists at Littleton, if they will
take hold of the work unitedlv and culti-
vate the field for about five miles around
the town. Every indication seems fa-
vorable at this time.
The following are some of the noted
results from closing the saloons in Chi-
cago the first of last July. On Decem-
ber 5th, it was stated the deaths are as
follows: Before July 1st a body a day
from barrel house district; since July 1st
less than a total of six. From Bride-
well one to five bodies of alcoholics daily ;
since July 1st, total less than twenty.
The daily average attendance of "Bride-
well" formerly was over 2,000, now
about 600. One wing of the prison is
closed. At the Harrison Street police
station, formerly there was 75 to 100 in
cells for drunkenness every night. Now
about three. In the Cook County hos-
pital, since July 1st, the daily average
number of patients has dropped from
1,850 to 1,300. Usual Saturday night
emergency cases formerly 25 to 50, now
only two or three. Cases of alcoholism
almost eliminated and "bums" disappear-
ing. Washington Home (drink cure)
former average of new arrivals 70 to 100
per month, now average two to five a
month. United Charities, cases of relief
caused by non-support (year ending No-
vember 10) reduced from 949 to 137.
Arrests for disorderly conduct, total for
Chicago 460 less during first three dry
uonths than during same three months
last vear.
The General Board of Promotion, 200
Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., are send-
ing out very much valuable literature.
They are anxious for not only the pas-
tors but for the laymen to read it. Any
of this valuable literature can be secured
by writing to Rev. A. S. Carman, D.D.,
417 South Dearborn St., Chicago.
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For a Larger Shurtleff College
Ihe following resolutions were i:)assed
])v the Illinois I5aptist State Convention
at its annual meeting held in Jerseyville,
October 20-23, 1919:
W'hkrkas. the campaign for a larger
Shurtleff was planned before any of our
large denominational drives were con-
ceived and fully launched before the One
Hundred Million Dollar Drive was born.
and
\\'iii:Ri:AS, Shurilett College lloard
was urged by the Illinois Baptist State
Convention to inaugurate the present
campaign, and
Wh[-:ri-;as. there seems great need for
an intensive and State wide propaganda
for Christian education, such as is now
being carried forward, and
Whereas, any change of policy would
seriously interfere with the full cultiva-
tion of our field for such purpose and
delay the expanding of Shurtleff College
to larger usefulness and wider influence,
be it therefore,
RESOLVED; First, that it is the sense
of this Convention that the campaign
for Shurtleff College should be pushed
as rapidly as possible to completion, but
along the lines now being pursued.
Second, that it shall be distinctly un-
derstood that it is a part of the One
Hundred Million Dollar movement and
that all sums pledged to this cause shall
be credited to each church on its quota
of the One Hundred Million Dollars.
Norton J. Hilton.
Secretary Illinois Baptist State Conven-
tion.
Shurtleff College has waited for years
in order to launch its campaign under fa-
vorable circumstances. That time seems
at hand and the campaign was begun
Jan. 1, 1919. Jt progressed with re-
markable success, and the ultimate out-
come was no longer a matter of doubt.
In May, 1919, the denomination at Den-
\'er committed itself to a financial pro-
gram of $100,000,000. This fall we
linked up with the Inter-church World
Movement, and the leaders of that move-
ment announce that the drive will begin
April, Ma)- or June. This means that
what we do for Shurtleff' College should
be done at once. Four months is a brief
time in which to raise $300.000 — especial-
ly if we attempt to cover the field and
faithfully preach the doctrines of Chris-
tian Education.
We therefore request every friend of
the college to co-operate. If pastors are
willing to spend a little time in the field,
will they please notify President Potter
or myself at once? If any have money
they wish to invest in Christian manhood
and womanhood through Shurtleff Col-
lege, please send it in, or if you wish to
have a conference with either President
Potter or myself, write a line to Alton,
111. There are doubtless those in the
state who would be willing to invest large
sums with the college were they assured
of its future growth and its permanence
as an Institute of God.
Let this whole matter be a subject of
prayer by those who love Shurtleff and
those who believe our young people
should be educated in a Christian atmos-
phere unto Christian ideals.
Myron M. Haynes.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST
BULLETIN
vor„ XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 1928
NO. 10
$100,000,000 CAMPAIGN
On Tuesday, February 3rd, a meeting
of representatives of one or two from
each state of the Northern Baptist Con-
vention was called for Chicago, to con-
sider carefully tlie great campaign. Dr.
Aitchison was not well enough to be
present, and Dr. Heath presided. The
entire plan for organizing the denomina-
tion even down to the minutest details
for reaching every member in each local
church was considered. The great drive
will be made April 23-May 2nd. In those
ten days it is expected that the denomina-
tion will reach its goal and go "way over
the top." In that meeting in Chicago
not quite every state was represented, but
nearly all the states from Maine to Cali-
fornia. The apportionment of each state
was given, but the amounts are not to be
published yet for about one week. There
seemed to be great enthusiasm and very
general harmony with regard to the
work.
There was some disappointment ex-
pressed with regard to the education bud-
get, but it was thought that when all the
facts are known, some mysterious things
can be made clear. There were three
long and earnest sessions. The denom-
ination seems to have a wonderful pro-
gram for this work, and if we can find
laymen and pastors, and especially the
laymen who will give time to it, it can be
made a great success. One thing will be
a Httle embarrassing among the Baptists.
We are making this drive in cooperation
with the Inter-Church Movement and the
local organization will be by counties
rather than by associations. The Bap-
tists have never been accustomed to se-
lect leaders along county lines, but by As-
sociations, and it will not be an easy
matter to find a first class layman in each
county to take charge of the work and
to organize the local churches. The time
is so short, everybody must get busy as
soon as the organization is brought home
to the churches and no time can be
wasted.
All that has been given this year from
the first of last April will be counted in
the $100,000,000 fund. It has been talked
by some in Illinois that the subscriptions
made for Shurtleff College after the first
of last April will be counted, but that the
subscriptions made before that time will
not be counted. If that were correct it
would be entirely unfair. For example:
Baptists in the Bloomington Association
subscribed $50,000 in January and Feb-
ruary. It would be entirely imfair tf)
them to not get credit for this and in
other associations they could get credit.
According to decisions in this Chicago
meeting, all money paid on Shurtleff sub-
scriptions before the first of last April.
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cannot be counted. But payments made
after the first of April even on subscrip-
tions made before the first of last April,
will be counted on the $100,000,000. We
think the amount assigned to Illinois,
while an immense sum, is a fair average
with that assigned to other states and we
hope every Baptist affiliated with the
Convention, whether rich or poor, will
resolve to do his best when the time
comes to make the subscription.
tors are planning to hold the Enlistment
Week later in the year.
PERSONALS
Evangelist J. N. Edmundson held a
union meeting in Pekin with the Baptist
and Presbyterian churches. The meet-
ing started' off with fine interest, but was
compelled to close on account of the
influenza. A profession of faith was
made by twenty-eight persons and more
than 100 persons expressed themselves as
interested. Rev. E. C. Pool is our pastor
of the Baptist church in that place and
has made decided progress the past year.
They have purchased a parsonage, cost-
ing $4,100, paid off an old church debt
and about $300 of paving and other
things. The pastor has baptized about 35
during the past year.
STRIKES
The strikes during the later months of
1919 had considerable effect upon the
work of the Baptist denomination. The
coal shortage and cold weather interfered
very much with some of our evangehstic
efforts in Illinois. The coal shortage was
at its extremest and the weather very
cold at the time for the Enlistment Week.
That was much against the assurance of
that work. The strike of the printers in
New York prevented getting out much
printed matter that was intended for the
Christian Enlistment Week. Many pas-
DEATHS
The wife of Rev. Henry Johns died in
Ouincy on the 9th of January. Brother
Johns will have the sympathy of all those
who know him in this time of bereave-
ment. He will make his home with his
(laughter at Sidney, Illinois.
INTER-CHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT —
ILLINOIS PASTORS' CX)NFER-
ENOE, MARCH 8TH TO lOTH
"An Illinois Pastors' Conference will
be held at Orchestra Hall, Chicago,
March 8-10. An attendance of all pas-
tors of Protestant Evangelical churches
in the state will be expected. Plan notes
to be a part of the great 'get-together'
of Protestant pastors."
SECRETARY FOR STATE BOARD OF
PROMOTION
On Thursday, February 29th, a special
meeting of the State Board was called in
Chicago for the purpose of electing a
state director of promotion for Illinois.
The Board of Prom.otion from the state
has had this matter under consideration
since the convention met in October and
presented the name of Rev. A. E. Peter-
son of Grand Forks. N. D. After a
thorough discussion, the board voted
unanimously to elect Mr. Peterson for
this position. He has already accepted
the call and located at 417 South
Dearborn street, Chicago. Dt. A. S. Car-
man has already been giving some of his
time to work in New York and Mr. Pe-
terson will occupy his office. We ex-
tend Brother Peterson a hearty welcome
to the state of Illinois.
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Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
THE Bulletin is late in reaching the
readers this month because of the
"Flu." Most of the workers in the print-
ing establishoTient were sick just at the
time the copy was ready for them.
LET the readers of the Bulletin re-
memlber that the paper always has a
blue cross on it when the time expires
and no ot'her copy will be sent until the
subscription is renewed.
TWO issues of the new paper, "The
Baptist" have appeared. It is a fine
looking paper, with a beautiful cover.
The copies have been full of good read-
ing. The new subscriptions are increas-
ing very rapidly. It is hoped that they
will have 40,000 before the Convention
meets in June.
:|: -.1: *
NO one can be posted on great Bap-
tist affairs in America and the
world unless he reads The Baptist. But
a paper published for thirty-six states
cannot give much local church news in
each state. There is greater reason for
reading the Bulletin now than ever be-
fore. Let us have many new subscrib-
ers for this little Illinois paper.
WE are publishing 5,000 copies of
the. Bulletin in this February issue.
We ran short in January. Many pastors,
where a club is not taken, will receive
copies. Let each one have the name of
a good list from his church sent in at
once.
* * ;!=
ONLY two more issues of the Bulle-
tin will reach the people before the
great drive for $100,000,000 will be on.
April 23-May 2nd is the time. That will
be a great ten days for the Baptists of
the Northern Baptist Convention. Let
every one get ready for that most im-
portant week in the history of our de-
nomination.
THE Baptists are now getting in
shape for aggressive work in Illinois.
Our four District Superintendents are
ready to help the churches that need help
and are willing to be helped all over the
state. Evangelists Dunk and McMinn
are pushing evangelistic work and our
Negro General Missionary is visiting
churches throughout the state, helping
them to more aggressive and better ser-
vice.
5|s >!; ^
WHILE the "Flu" has been much
against the work on the part of our
Evangelists and Missionaries during the
past month, and some very hopeful meet-
ings had to be closed, yet the spirit of
evangelism seems to be strong among the
people. Notwithstanding the hindrances,
many conversions have been reported.
* :1: *
THE people will be interested in read-
ing the items under topics, "Increase
in Salaries." Dotibtless many have not
}et ']>een reported to us. If any have been
omitted and will be reported to the Edi-
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tor, they will appear in the Alarch issue.
One of the first aiul most important du-
ties of almost all our churches at this
time is to increase the salary of the pas-
tor in same measure as the cost of living
has increased.
MONEY HECTh]IVED FOK THE STATE
CX)NVENTION FOK FEBRUARY
Only a few of the churches send the full
apportionment at one time. Whenever a
payment reported in the Bulletin com-
pletes the apportionment, it will be indi-
cated by a (*) star.
Alton, First $ 47.73
Alton, Cherry Street - 28.27
Aledo 9.45
Areola 4.56
Arthur - 39.00
Auburn 9.16
Aurora, First 49.00
Aurora, Marion Ave — 15.62
Bethol 17.42
Benton, Nancy E. Browning
S. E. F .-. 10.00
Big Rock 10.99
Bloomington 61.00
Bradford 7.50
Bulletin Subscriptions 76.81
Canton 11.71
Centralia 17.98
Chrisnian 3.24
Chicago, Austin 79.45
Chicago, Covenant 40.00
Chicago, Englewood 64.50
Chicago, Grace — 2.69
Chicago, Marquette Roads 5.00
Chicago, Second 51.25
Chicago, Tabernacle 16.18
Chicago, Western Ave 15.06
Chicago, Windsor Park 3.76
Chicago, Woodlawn 65.09
Colchester 1.40
Damascus 2.12
DeKalb 23.37
Decatur, First — Anderson Sis-
ters 66.67
Dixon 7.00
Downers Grove 4.83
Deer Creek, J. L. Cornwell, S. E.
F 20.00
Educational Commission 95.83
Elgin, First 55.88
Elgin, Immanuel 6.45
Evangelist, F. M. Dunk, Collec-
tions 130.00
*Fairbury 68.00
Fairmount 5.92
Greenville 10.50
Glencoe. Union 36.81
Glasford 1.55
George H. Yule, Collections 154.69
Hinckley, Investment 424.00
Hinckley 2.31
Hudson Church 3.00
Jacksonville 12.00
Jerseyville 22.96
Joliet, Eastern Ave 23.36
Joliet, Ridgewood 8.40
Kane 3.85
LaMarsh 4.03
Lexington 3.30
Lincoln 11.20
Macomb 54.00
Marengo 15.71
Maywood 10.75
Mattoon 6.44
Minonk 21.95
Normal 7.95
Ottawa 9.10
Paris 8.69
Percy .89
Piano 3.00
Plainfield 6.04
Pleasant Grove 10.00
Rent, Westville, Okla 33.00
Rockford, First 28.71
Rockford, State St ' 24.50
Rock Island First 30.00
Springfield, Elliott Ave 31.50
Somonauk, Mrs. James Rumney.. 10.00
Superintendent Supplies 21.00
Toulon — 12.75
University Church, Collection on
Pledges 993.36
Warren 2.36
Waukegan 16.66
Wheaton 26.20
Woodriver 2.63
White Swan 1.07
York 6.60
Total $3,366.71
Th.ere is almost no business that shows
the great amount of money in the hands
of the people and the elalxjrate expendi-
ture of money so much as the automobile
I)usinss. The following clipping will he
read with interest :
INCREASED FEES ON AUTOMOBILES
Springfield, 111., Dec. 31. Automobile
fees collected by Secretary of State Em-
merson for 1919 total $3,265,083.20, an in-
crease of $500,752.92, as compared with
1918, when the total was $2,764,330.38.
The total collections for the office of the
secretary of state for the year total $4,-
003,073.10, the largest amount ever taken
in.
The statement of the secretary of state
shows that owners of automobiles are
making a rush on the department for 1920
licenses. A total of $513,255.70 has been
paid in during December for next year's
fees.
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Osceola Baptist Church Dedicated January
25th.
DEDICATIONS
On January 25th, the renewed meet-
ing house at Osceola was re-dedicated.
It might almost be called a new building
and there was but little to be rededicated.
A stranger would not be able to detect
in any way that the old building had been
worked in with the new. It is now the
finest Baptist meeting house in the open
country in the state and so far as the
editor knows, there is no better country
meeting house in any denomination. The
building was complete in every respect,
and all paid for before dedication. The
ladies gave dinner and supper in the
church. About 450 took dinner Sunday
noon. Rev. J. C. Hazen, of Peoria,
preached the sermon and Supt. E. P.
Brand offered the dedicatory prayer and
gave the address at night. Rev. L. C.
Trent, of Kewanee, addressed the people
on Monday night and the people made
the pastor and his wife a nice donation
of money, out of appreciation of what
they did in the building enterprise. Rev.
P>. E. Allen has been pastor of this
church 12 1-2 years. It is now one of
our best churches in congregations, pas-
toral support, beneficence and good
property.
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On Sunday, February 1st, the Bethany
church, six miles from Highland, in the
Alton Association, was rededicated. Rev.
J. B. Kelly has been pastor for about
one year. About $5,000 was put in re-
pairs on the church and everything put
into complete order. A good basement,
furnace, electric lighting, and the inside
was beautifully frescoed and the whole
building was veneered with concrete. The
congregation and Sunday school were
fine and the interest good.
AUSSIONAKIES AND MISSIONARY
PASTORS
A letter from one of the members" of
the Woodstock church expresses very
high appreciation of Missionary J. C.
Dent in that church during a part of the
month of January. Sickness and other
things interfered very much with the
meetings and yet this letter expresses the
feeling that the meetings have been a
very great blessing to the church and that
Brother Dent's preaching and singing
were very highly appreciated.
Our missionary, T. O. McMinn held a
meeting with the Second Baptist church
in Christopher which was quite success-
ful. There were 47 persons who made a
profession of faith and Z7 united with
the church, 29 candidates for baptism.
This is a new church organization and
they have just finished a large new church
building. Rev. J. H. Blythe is the pas-
tor.
Rev. J. B. Little, the successful pastor
of the Downers Grove church, has been
elected as District Superintendent for
Southern Illinois. He has accepted the
call and will begin work March 1st. He
will probably make Alton his headquar-
ters, and work throughout the southern
fourth of the state.
Rev. D. O. Hopkins, Ph. D., spent the
month of January in the Quincy Associa-
tion, working at Benville and Mt. Ster-
ling. The interest was good and he raised
quite a bit of money on both fiehls for
current expenses. We hope tliat a pastor
may be located in those fields in the near
future. Dr. Hopkins is now assisting in
meetings at Glasford in the Peoria Asso-
ciation.
Our missionary, Rev. Ray W. Barber,
with the assistance of Evangelist Rich-
mond, closed a meeting at the Sparland
church resulting in 34 additions to the
Baptist church and one united with the
Steuben church and eight went to the
Methodists. This was a very successful
meeting for the Sparland church. The
pastor is planning to put on two services
a week for the instruction of the mem-
bership and converts in Baptist principles
and Bible doctrine.
A member of the Tampico church
writes as follows: 'T was afraid our
church would have to be shut up after
Mr. Barber left, unless we had some
helpful influence, which, I am glad to
say, we received from Mr. Dent, your
strong helper. The work he did here was
wonderful. He raised the largest sub-
scription ever raised for our church, paid
by a membership of about fifty members,
and a few others ; besides finding several
prospective members, in a radius of about
four miles, who have been residents here
for some time. He aided us in securing
the services of Mr. Alex Matheson who
is now ready for work."
Rev. B. F. Martin, of Springfield,
writes as follows:"! want to bear testi-
mony to the good work that Brother
Dunk did. His method was very agree-
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able to the people of South 7th. street, and
he preaches repentance and regeneration.
About twenty made a profession and I
have baptized seven and five more are
ready. The church has made some pro-
gress in various ways. The benevolent
offerings this past year were about 300
per cent above what they were when I
came."
Rev. George H. Yule has spent several
weeks at Villa Grove, Bourbon c.nd
Charleston. At Villa Grove the current
expense budget was brought up about
three times what they were formerly able
to raise and now they are anxious to lo-
cate a pastor and will give $1,500 and
parsonage without assistance. The Bour-
bon church that has always been a half-
time church is able to support a pastor
for full time. Charleston is a very diffi-
cult field, but there is some hopes of that
field becoming a greatly increased Baptist
power in the city of Charleston.
Evangelist Frank M. Dunk held a suc-
cessful meeting at Bois-D' Arc in the
Springfield Association in the month of
January. The attendance was good and
the interest very deep. More than 30
persons were united to the church.
INCREASE OF SAIiARIES
On January 25th, the Minonk church
voted to increase the salary of their pas-
tor, Norton J. Hilton, $400. A few
months ago, they purchased a new auto-
mobile for him. That church knows how
to appreciate its pastor. The Women's
Society of the Bloomington Association
pledged $1,306.50 for the Woman's Jubi-
lee Fund and the Minonk women gave
$321.50, the largest amount given by any
circle in that Association.
Rev. R. T. Gassoway, pastor of the
Mendota church, writes as follows :
"Outlook for the future is quite en-
couraging. On Christmas eve following
the Christmas program, the pastor aaid
his wife were presented with an envelope
containing eighty-nine dollars in crisp
bank notes. At the annual meeting the
church gave the pastor an increase in
salary of $500 per year. Yesterday we
received three splendid women as candi-
dates for baptism. Two of these women
have been working in the church for fif-
teen years. We also received a man by
relation."
The South 7th Street Baptist chuixh of
Springfield, has increased the salary of
its pastor, Rev. B. F. Martin, $300.
The church in Plainfield, where Rev.
J. D. Crumley has been pastor for four
years, recently increased his salary $300.
The Mohne church, of which Rev. Roy
W. Babcock is pastor, increased his sal-
ary $400.00.
The Belden Avenue church of Chicago,
has increased the salary of its pastor.
Rev. S. J. Skevington, D. D., $500.
The Bunker Hill church, of which Rev.
C. T. Coffey has been pastor for seven
years, voted at the annual meeting, Jan-
uary 31st, to increase his salary $180.
PASTORAL. CHANGES
Rev. D. O. Hopkins, Ph. D.. closed
his work in Normal the last of Decem-
ber to begin missionary work on the
western side of the state. Rev. Edward
L. Bayliss of Arcade, N. Y., preached
for the Normal church the first and sec-
ond Sundays in January, and on the third
Sunday was given an unanimous call to
become pastor. He accepted the call and
will begin work March 1st. Brother
Bayliss is a graduate of Brown Univer-
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sity and Rochester Seminary and has
liad three pastorates the last fifteen years.
I le comes very hig'hly recommended as a
successful pastor.
The Tampico church has called to its
pastorate, Rev. Alex Matheson. Brother
Matheson has accepted the call and is now
located on the field. This church has
very greatly increased its budget for cur-
rent expenses and seems to be getting
along nicely.
The Savanna church, which had been
pasftorless for about two years has called
to the pastorate, Rev. James Ostema and
lie has accepted the call. He recently
came from the Congregational denomma-
tion to tlie Baptist. He has been working
in Indiana. He claims to have been a
Baptist in heart for many years. There
is a fine field for service at Savanna.
The North Venice church has called
Rev. W. E. Rose, of St. Louis, to become
]:)astor for full time. He has accepted the
call and is at work on that field.
Rev. Elmer L. Setterlund has accepted
a call to Chicago Heights to become pas-
tor of that field. The outlook for the
work on that field is rather hopeful and
we hoj)e Brother Setterlund will have
good success.
Rev. J. Brainard Brown, who for a
few years has been pastor of the rural
church at Manlius, has accepted a call
to become pastor of the Ridgewood
church in Joliet. While he was at the
Manlius church, 20 were added to the
church and the finances of the church was
brought up about double in the amount.
Rev. Victor N. Witter of the state of
New York, recently accepted the pastor-
ate of the Stonington church and is now
on that field. He is a graduate of Ro-
chester Seminary and has l>een in the
pastorate ten years. The outlook on the
Stonington field is quite hopeful.
THE ANNUAL.
The new Annual is now published and
has been distributed. It is a book of 165
pages, with about 34 pages of statistics.
We have tried to make this an annual, so
far as we can, of that portion of Illinois
Baptists co-operating with the Northern
Baptist Convention and the Illinois Bap-
tist State Convention. We now report
twenty-five Associations and seven hun-
dred and twelve churches. These
churches reported last year 4,511 -bap-
tisms and 7,972 added otherwise or
12,483 additions to the churches last year.
The total membership is 121,370. The
Sunday School enrollment for last year
was 77,026. The value of property re-
ported by these churches is $7,562,397,
and the churches contributed for current
expenses $871,707.74. The total sum re-
ported for beneficence was $423,623.16.
The Annual this year is well supplied
with good cuts and the printing is well
done. It ought to be in the home of
every minister and of many members of
the church. We have some copies on
hand and can send out a limited number
more to those especially needing them.
One of the saddest features of our
American civilization is the prevalence
of lynching. That a great nation like
ours cannot try all criminals by process
of law and punish the guilty, but will
rush to the lynching process is horrible,
and yet this process seems to be grow-
ing rather than to be diminishing, as is
indicated by the following note from
Tuskegee University, Ala. :
EIGHTY-TWO PERSONS
LYNCHED DURING YTSAR
Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 31. — Eighty-two
persons were lynched in the United States
during the year, an increase of eighteen
over 1918, the department of records and
research of Tuskegee University an-
nounced tonight through its annual report.
Seventy-five were negroes and seven whites.
One negro woman was included.
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Property Recently Purchased by the North-
ern Baptist Theological Seminary
We are glad to present to the readers
of .the Bulletin, the cut of the new build-
ing jiist purchased by the Northern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary in Chicago for
that school. This building was con-
structed about 25 years ago at a cost of
$163,000. This has been purchased at a
reasonable cost. It has a large room that
will comfortably seat 350 people and suf-
ficient number of class rooms, offices, li-
brary, reading room, rest and social rooms
to accommodate 150 students. The mon-
ey for the purchase of the building was
secured largely through the labors of
Rev. W. J. Sparks, who is very efficient
raising money for such purposes.
CHURCHES
Rev. E. L. Enslow, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Danville, writes : "Re-
vival meetings have started off fine. T
have not given an invitation yet but I
have rustled 24 new members since com-
ing here and have 10 awaiting baptism.
We expect to baptize them Thursday
night of this week. Congregations are
large, filling the auditorium at both morn-
ing and evening services Sunday. Seven-
ty-five at a mid-week prayer meeting re-
cently and not less than 60 for several
weeks."
Rev. Irving Fox and Rev. A. N.
Sharpes held a meeting in January with
the Oreana church in the Springfield As-
sociation. One of the members writes as
follows: "Brother Fox is presenting the
truths of the Bible in earnest and with
power, and the people are interested.
Six persons have accepted Christ as their
Savior. Others are concerned about their
soul's salvation."
Rev. J. L. Franklin, of Benton, writes
as follows: "I had two good meetings
last fall. At Pates Chapel, there were 21
professions, and at Wliite Swan there
were nine. I baptized 18, others to fol-
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low. During the miners' strike, Rev.
James Kerney went out west of Zeigler,
in Franklin county, and held a meeting
which resulted in the conversion of about
50 people and the organization if a Bap-
tist church. Brother Kerney is a miner
preacher, but he demonstrated the fact
that he can preach as well as dig coal.
The new church has erected a nice meet-
ing house and Rev. Kerney is elected
pastor."
Dr. T. H. Marsh, of Decatur, writes
that Rev. D. L. Lamkin, conducted a ser-
ies of meetings in his church beginning
November 9th. The church was thor-
oughly prepared for his coming. His
preaching was strong and without objec-
tionable features. The East Park and
Riverside churches joined heartily in the
meetings. The spiritual life of the church
was awakened in every way.
Rev. Albert A. Gordanier is greatly
rejoicing with the progress of the work at
LaMoille. He says : "We closed our finan-
cial year having met all bills, and ap-
portionments with a surplus of $121 in
the treasury. The people raised $4,290
toward Shurtleff College. The best thing
that has ever happened to the church is
the visit paid by Dr. Haynes in thi^
drive. He teaches people to thmK m ng-
ures adequate for the Kingdorp "
Rev. Joseph Jenkins, pastor at Jersey-
ville, finds time to do work among the
destitute fields in that Association. He
went out to the Bethany church, which
had been pastorless two years. He says :
"The attendance is large and the spiritual
interest increasing."
The Frankfort Heights church, of
which Rev. O. E. Myerscough is the pas-
tor, reports the following results of last
year: "Forty new names have been
added to the church roll. Most of them
good substantial members. The pastor's
salary has been increased from $1,000 to
$1,200 beginning September 1, 1919. The
Sunday school attendance has been in-
creased from an average of 80 to 125
during the past year. Record 170. We
have put a nice basement under our build-
ing, and put in a good furnace. Have
also bought new pews and have had our
building repainted. The current expense
budget for the coming year is $1,450.
Missionary apportionments are $200.
Rev. T. O. McMinn, the Association
evangelist, held a meeting here beginning
December 8th and closing December 28th.
Had a fine meeting and several good fam-
ilies came into the church."
Rev. T. Elmer Jones, the new pastor
at Barry, writes : "We are located in
Barry very pleasantly. We are making
encouraging plans for the year. Our
Enlistment Week was very satisfactory.
We have one for baptism and have re-
ceived two others since coming here,_ not
counting four that we brought with us,
two daughters, my wife and myself."
The Freeport Baptist church reports
continued progress. The attendance at
Tuesday night cottage prayer meetings
have aggregated nearly one hundred.
Pastor F. G. Sayers has been giving a
series of Thursday night lectures on per-
sonal work. The first quarterly meeting
was held January 15th, the ladies serving
supper preceding the business session.
Reports showed nearly a thousand dollars
increase on current expense fund, also
twenty-six new members, twelve by bap-
tism. Thorough preparation is being
made for the coming, February 15th, of
Dr. J. E. Conant for a three weeks' ser-
ies of meetings.
At the Plainfield church in the Aurora
Association, Pastor Crumley entered cwi
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his fourth year, January 1st. At the an-
nual dinner and business meeting, Janu-
ary 2nd, the treasurer reported all bills
paid and a surplus. The benevolent
treasurer, Mrs, Stopp, gave the best re-
port in the history of the church.
Rev. J. W. Harnly writes a very en-
couraging letter, giving in detail the con-
tinued increase in Sunday school and oth-
ed departments of the church work. A
few years ago the Chrisman church was
in rather a discouraging condition, but is
now making advancement in an encourag-
ing way.
Rev. F. V. Wright, the new pastor at
Ashland, says : "They gave us a nice re-
ception on December 10th. I have re-
ceived four into the church since coming.
We have selected our Promotion Board
for the church and expect to put on an
extensive and intensive program. The
Sunday school is doing well under the
leadership of Mrs. Wallbaum."
The Silvis church in the Rock Island
Association, of which Rev. A. S. Gloyd
is pastor, is making quite rapid progress.
Within the past two years, they paid off
the entire indebtedness on the church
building and they have come up to full
time preaching, supporting the pastor for
full time without any missionary assis-
tance. The congregation and Sunday
school are good. A meeting was recently
held in which Rev. W. H. F. Jones, of
Rock Island, did the preaching. There
were about 30 professions of faith and
31 additions to the church.
Last summer, the Watertown church
called Mrs. J. H. Critchett of Iowa, as
pastor. She had succeeded her husband
in the pastorate in Iowa, when he died,
and continued as pastor of that church
seven years until she was called to Water-
town. The people of Watertown speak
very highly of her preaching services.
The Sunday school has averaged about
100 since she became pastor. A new B.
Y. P. U. has been organized of 26 mem-
bers. Twelve have been received into
the church by letter and one by baptism.
Rev. Frank Woodhull, pastor of Cor-
dova, conducted a meeting aided by a
singer from Moody Institute. There were
25 professions of faith and 12 were re-
ceived for baptism. Possibly twenty will
be baptized. They had to close the meet-
ing on account of coal famine.
Rev. J. L. Ryan, of Greenup, has been
pastor of the Union Center church near
Charleston during the past four years.
Fourteen are now waiting baptism and
others will come soon. Brother Ryan is
greatly appreciated wherever he preaches.
The Bunker Hill church, of which Rev.
T. C. Coffey has been pastor for seven
years, held its annual meeting Saturday,
January 31st. Roll call and dinner was
given in the town hall and in the after-
noon, Supt. Brand gave them an address.
The hall was full and quite a number
stood out in the vestibule. The dinner
was splendid, and in every respect the
service was a delightful one.
THE NEGRO
One of the largest elements in our
American program is our work among
the negroes. Gradually we have worked
out an educational policy in the South.
The public schools have been opened to
the negroes, and the support of independ-
ent primary schools by the North has
largely ceased. The negro has assumed
responsibility for many of the schools of
secondary grade. But the South pro-
vides no higher education for the negroes.
Tliey must still depend upon their friends
in the North to provide the higher educa-
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tion for them. There are now fifteen
schools of higher grade which depend
on our missionary assistance. The en-
rollment of these schools is more than
5,000 students per annum. They receive
an education which ranges from the sev-
enth grade through the college. More
than 4,500 men and women have com-
pleted their full education in these insti-
tutions.
Education is the only power that makes
an independent race. We cannot afford
to have a great and growing segment of
our population in ignorance and depend-
ence. The negro must have the highest
education possible.
HUDELSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Hev. N. T. Hafer, Supt,
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
OUR WORK TO THE NON-CHRISTIAN
WORI.D
Some idea of the magnitude of our
work in the non-Christian world may be
gained from the following summary:
Our missionary staff consists of 257 mis-
sionary families, 181 single women mis-
sionaries and 6,872 native workers. The
list of native workers comprises pastors,
evangelists, teachers, doctors, Bible wom-
en and nurses. The total number of our
churches in the non-Christian world is
1,745, including 1,064 in Burma, 173 in
Assam, 176 in South India, 22 in Bengal-
Orissa, 174 in China, 33 in Japan, 71 in
the PhiHppines and 32 in Africa. Our
total membership is 186,382, practically
the same as the membership of our
churches in the state of New York. We
have 2,789 schools of all grades with an
enrollment of 84,469. We have 27 hos-
pitals. The total value of our mission
property is approximately $3,885,500,
which is greater by several hundred thou-
sand dollars than the reported value of
our church property in Indiana or Iowa.
It was with shame that we noticed the
absence of Hudelson notes in the last
issue of The Bulletin. How rapturously
we look forward to the time when with
all our improvement work finished, the
farm work systematized, the office work
up-to-the-minute, repair work done as
soon as needed, money always plentiful
for necessities if not luxuries, we can go
among the churches and tell of the work
that is being done for needy children,
rather than of the improvements we must
make. Yes and when we can sit down
after supper and take some of these
youngsters on our knees or give some of
them "pig-back" rides and have a score
of others calling for their turns. Out-
rageously undignified for an S. T. D. but
that is a part of our program for the fu-
ture. Occasionally we have that pleasure
now but at the risk of overlooking some
well known duty like the Bulletin article.
The last two months have brought the
joy of the Christmas time but also a ter-
rible tragedy, for on Dec. 12, a five-year-
old child left momentarily alone by the
older girls, climbed to the top of a dresser
to get at a lighted lamp, her clothes caught
fire and she died in three hours. It seems
strange tliat for 15 years this institution
should use oil lamps and now just as we
had a Delco electric system almost in-
stalled the oil lamp should bid adieu in
this terrible manner.
The children easily came out of the
shadow, however, and the Christmas time
was probably the "best ever" in the lives
of many of the children. The gifts from
the churches were superabundant
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Department of Religious Education
Chairman Rev. Herbert Hines, El Paso, Director Rev. Louis H. Koehler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
Our Summer Assembly — The pro-
gram for the assembly is beginning to
take definite shape. It is good news to
know that Dr. Edwin M. Poteat, one of
the general secretaries of the denomina-
tional board oi promotion, has beeii se-
cured to deliver the Bible course lec-
tures. One of the mission study courses
will be given by Rev. Martin S. Bryant,
of Champaign, and the course on educa-
tional evangelism will be given by Rev.
Albert H. Gage of Chicago. Plan now to
attend this spiritual feast. Save the date,
July 12 to 18, 1920.
E.N'COURAGiNG SiGNS — It is easy to be-
lieve in signs like the following. Newly
organized societies have been formed at
East Park, Decatur and at Johnston City.
Newly organized teacher training classes
are noted at Raritan and first church, Al-
ton. Others on the way are a new societ}
at Mt. Sterling and a new training class
at Areola. From a member of the Ur-
bana society the following: "I wish to
tell you that our society has profited
greatly by your suggestions. We sang
Christmas carols to shut-ins, conducted
service at county farm and have planned
to visit shut-ins on Sunday afternoons.
We will also take up some intensive study
work soon. Our attendance was seventy
five Sunday. Hope we may have an in-
termediate society soon." The Colches-
ter church voted to adopt the Sunday
school standard of excellence. Also
voted to organize a men's class in the
school. They elected an elementary su-
perintendent of the school and a commis-
sion on religious education for ilic
cliurch.
AsscKiATiOAAL Goals — The Bloom-
field associational B. Y. P. U. is working
out a program which includes the follow-
ing goals for the year: A 15. Y. P. U. in
every church ; one hundred signatures to
quiet half hour league; one hundred sig-
natures to tither's league; fifty enrolled
in Baptist trained leaders' course; forty
delegates to summer assembly ; forty dele-
gates to B. Y. P. U. of America conven-
tion ; t\vent}-five decisions for definite
Christian service. Ottawa and Spring-
field had l)etter awake.
Those Reports — The report blanks
for the schools and societies will be sent
out shortl}-. This is the time to tie up all
loose ends and to see that your school
and society attains the standard of ex-
cellence if at all possible. Much is pos-
sible if we will only think so and then go
to it with a vim.
A State V>. Y. P. U. Program — There
Avill be issued this month a leaflet con-
taining the program of the state organi-
zatioiL It will include the aim, organi-
zation, meetings, finances, methods and
objectives fully outlined. The objectives
will include the international goals.
Strong emphasis will also be placed upon
the summer assembly. Through the four
district vice presidents and the four trans-
portation committeemen it is hoped that
sumnier assembly boosters can be secured
in each association and through them
boosters in the local churches.
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Woman's
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor
Morgan, Park
Mrs. H. \V. Tate, Treasurer
2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
The W'hite Cross service is a new de-
partment of missionary interest which is
being responded to by many women. It
is a special work of love for our mission-
aries on the home and foreign fields.
They would be better able to meet the
large demands of their work if they had
some articles of equipment which cannot
be classed as absolutely essential, but are
really necessary to accomplish more eas-
ily and with better results that which
they are trying to do. All women know
what it means to have conveniences and
proper material with wbich to work in
their homes, and when forced to do with-
out, what a waste of time and energy
there is. Hospitals need thousands of
surgical dressings and many things.
Schools and evangelistic fields need hun-
dreds of articles which might be easily
supplied by our women. Patch work,
kindergarten supplies of every kind and
many other articles can be used at home
and abroad. Write to the Woman's
American Foreign Missionary Society,
1433 Stevens Blvd., Chicago, for "Stupid
Me," of the Overseas Division and to the
Woman's American Home Mission So-
ciety, 2969 Vernon Ave., Chicago, for
leaflets of the Overland Division. They
will give much information.
New posters of the standard of excel-
lence are out of a very attractive form.
They can be procured from the headquar-
ters of either society for 10 cents each.
All circles should have one to hang up
in the room where its meetings are held
as it will be a source of inspiration.
Now is the time for Study Classes and
activity in the Reading Contest. Belvi-
dere South church reports between 300
and 400 books as read thus far. What
other church has read as many?
The Morgan Park church has just
started its second study class of six weeks
for the year. It is trying the plan of
having three classes, two for the older
men and women and one for the young
people, at the same time with different
books and after the study hour all come
together for a social time and light re-
freshments.
Every one should have a copy of the
"Survey" — a book put out by the Promo-
tion Board. If you are interested in the
study classes it is very helpful, if not it is
equally so as it is full of information. It
will be sent free of charge by asking for
it from J. Y. Aitchison, D. D., 200 Fifth
Ave., New York City,
If any one is in doubt as to the best
way of keeping record of the books read
in the church send to Mrs. John Ober-
holzer, Belvidere, 111., for the leaflet
"How the Record Was Kept." It is free
and tells how one church has held the
prize banner for two years.
Miss Helen Hudson, remembered by
many as field worker in Illinois, has been
appointed a field secretary by the General
Board of Promotion and will do field
work in Illinois and Michigan.
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The Jerseyville church has increased
the salary of its pastor, Rev. Joseph Jen-
kins, $300.00.
The Upper Alton church, of which
Rev. David T. Magill, D. D., is pastor,
increased its pastor's salary $300.00 re-
cently.
NORTHMRN BAPTIST CONVENTION
PROGRESS
The number of our churches has in-
creased since 1894 from 8,583 to 10,666,
while the membership of these churches
has increased from 900,193 to 1,494,343.
The average number of members per
church in 1894 was 104; today it is 161.
The growth in membership has been con-
stant and never more encouraging than
during the last few years. From 1894
to 1918 our ministry has increased by
22 percent. The value of our church
property has steadily increased for twen-
ty-five years, having more than doubled
in that period. Last year we reported
that our property was worth $114,817,-
300. Our contributions toward current
expenses have increased constantly from
$5,754,264 in 1894 to $13,978,982 in 1918,
an increase of 143 percent. During this
period our total contributions have in-
creased from $8,136,789 to $17,351,524,
an increase of 113 percent.
The Mid-Winter meeting of the Min-
isters' and Laymen's Conference of the
Bloomfield Baptist Association will be
held with the First Baptist church of
Hoopeston, Thursday and Friday. Feb-
ruarv 19 and 20. 1920.
GENBRAIi EDUCATION
If we are to carry through any such
program as the committee is proposing,
we must make provision for the training
of leaders. During the past four years
nearly $16,000,000 have been added to
the equipment and endowment of our
schools, over $5,500,000 of it to colleges
at home and abroad other than the Uni-
versity of Chicago. But there ought to
be added to the endowment and equip-
ment of our institutions not less than
$28,010,000. This is an immense sum,
but it is to be scattered among forty dif-
ferent institutions.
Our program for the next five years
must include also a determined effort to
increase the number of Baptist boys and
girls in school and college. The goal for
our five-year program aimed at having
15,000 Baptist students in college before
1921. The idea ought to be kept con-
stantly before us. The educational ad-
vance ought to include also la better
training for our ministers.
BOOKS
We have just read Dr. Franklin's in-
teresting book, "In the Track of the
Storm." This is a very readable and
interesting book. Any one who desires
to secure it can write to Rev. Wm. P.
Lipphard, Ford Building, Boston, Massa-
chusetts.
The First Baptist church of Champaign
has increased the salary of its pastor,
Rev. F. N. Darling, $200. Everything in
the work of this important church seems
to be moving along in an encouraging
manner.
Evangelist Dunk was compelled to
close a very interesting meeting in the
Central Illinois Association on account
of influenza, and Dr. Hopkins had to
close at Glasford for the same cause.
Both men are, however, kept busy at
other places.
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For a Larger Shurtleff College
The following resolutions were passed
by the Illinois Baptist State Convention
at its annual meeting held in Jerseyville,
October 20-23, 1919:
Whereas, the campaign for a larger
Shurtleff was planned before any of our
large denominational drives were con-
ceived and fully launched before the One
Hundred Million Dollar Drive was born,
and
Whereas, Shurtleff' College Board
was urged by the Illinois Baptist State
Convention to inaugurate the present
campaign, and
Whereas, there seems great need for
an intensive and State wide propaganda
for Christian education, such as is now
being carried forward, and
Whereas, any change of policy would
seriously interfere with the full cultiva-
tion of our field for such purpose and
delay the expanding of Shurtleff College
to larger usefulness and wider influence,
be it therefore,
RESOLVED ; First, that it is the sense
of this Convention that the campaign
for Shurtleff College should be pushed
as rapidly as possible to completion, but
along the lines now being pursued.
Second, that it shall be distinctly un-
derstood that it is a part of the One
Hundred Million Dollar movement and
that all sums pledged to this cause shall
be credited to each church on its quota
of the One Hundred Million Dollars.
Norton J. Hilton.
Secretary Illinois Baptist State Conven-
tion.
Shurtleff College has waited for years
in order to launch its campaign under fa-
vorable circumstances. That time seem.s
at hand and the campaign was begun
Jan. 1, 1919. It progressed with re-
markable success, and the ultimate out-
come was no longer a matter of doubt.
In May, 1919, the denomination at Den-
ver committed itself to a financial pro-
gram of $100,000,000. This fall we
linked up with the Inter-church World
Movement, and the leaders of that move-
ment announce that the drive will begin
April, May or June. This means that
what we do for Shurtleff College should
be done at once. Four months is a brief
time in which to raise $300,000 — especial-
ly if we attempt to cover the field and
faithfully preach the doctrines of Chris-
tian Education.
We therefore request every friend of
the college to co-operate. If pastors are
willing to spend a little time in the field,
will they please notify President Potter
or myself at once? If any have money
they wish to invest in Christian manhood
and womanhood through Shurtleff' Col-
lege, please send it in, or if you wish to
have a conference with either President
Potter or myself, write a line to Alton,
111. There are doubtless those in the
state who would be willing to invest large
sums with the college were they assured
of its future growth and its permanence
as an Institute of God.
Let this whole matter be a subject of
prayer by those who love Shurtleff and
those who believe our young people
should be educated in a Christian atmos-
phere unto Christian ideals.
Myron M. Haynes.
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BULLETIN
vol.- XL
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, MARCH 192»
NO. 11
$7,108,000
Seven millions^ one hundred and eight
thousand dollars is the portion of the
$100,000,000 assigned to Illinois. This
is an enormous sum; 'but does not seem
to be an unreasonable portion. Three
other states are given a larger sum, viz :
New York, $23,882,000, Pennsylvania,
$8,968,000, Massachusetts, $7,877,0#,
and Ohio nearly as much, $6,381,000.
For small financiers the mind seems to
stagger when we get to thinking in mil-
lions ; but the government and big busi-
ness are now doing business on the basis
of billions, and the kingdom of Christ
must be carried on in the world on the
expenditure of millions, or it will fail.
The time for raising this money is
fixed at April 25-May 2, 1920. Only
about fifty days now to get ready for this
great campaign. This great sum is to
cover a period of five years, but by April
1st, the first year will be gone. All that
was given for these objects during the
first year will be counted on the $100,-
000,000. These subscriptions made this
spring will cover a period of four years.
That will not be so much as it seems
when we look at it as one sum. It is
not a new subscription in addition to
what we have been doing, but includes
what we would otherwise give during the
next four years. But the giving must be
on a scale several times larger than we
have ever given before. The plan is to
have the work so organized that not only
every church in the territory of the
Northern Baptist Convention will be
reached, but every man and woman,
every boy and girl, who is a member of
those churches shall be solicited for a
subscription. If everybody will come up
with a reasonable subscription, and the
men and women of means, some with
large sums, will give in proportion to
their wealth, we can raise this great sum
easily. Why should not all Christians do
this at this time? We must save the
world now, or our civilization cannot
stand long.
The resources for this great work of
saving the world now must come almost
wholly from Great Britain and the United
States and to a limited extent from
Scandinavia. Would it not be much
better for people of great fortunes to in-
vest it in saving the world than to let it
go in the smashing up of the world. We
cannot enjoy our American civilization
indefinitely unless we can evangelize
America and Christianize Europe and the
pagan nations. God is giving us a great
opportunity, and we are being put to a
severe test.
The Southern Baptists attempted to
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raise $75,000,000 and more than did it.
The Northern Methodists made an effort
to raise $100,000,000 and went over the
top. Are the Northern Baptists as de-
voted to their cause and as free with their
money as the Southern Baptists and
Northern Methodists? If so, we shall
succeed. This $100,000,000 is for all
kinds of missions and education and
philanthropy, recognized by the Northern
Baptist Convention outside of the local
church. Let every Baptist in Illinois be-
gin now to plan the largest sum he can
possibly give during the next four years.
PL»AN FOR $100,000,000 CAMPAIGN IN
THE STATES
First, the Chairman of the State Board
of Promotion and the Director of Promo-
tion must select one man in each state
who will have charge of the campaign.
At this writing the man in chief for Illi-
nois, has not been secured.
The General Director for the state
must secure a Director or Promotion
Leader for each county in the state. The
County Director is responsible for the
organization of each church in his coun-
ty. The local church will be divided into
sections with ten families in each sec-
tion. There will be a chairman for each
section. An effort is being made to have
all this work so far as possible, to be
done by laymen and women; but it is
very evident that unless the pastors take
hold with a strong hand it will not be
done. Pastors and laymen and women
must work harmoniously, and the pastor
is the natural leader in every church. We
v/ant to get all the laymen as deeply in-
terested as we can, but in the last analysis
the responsibility will rest largely with
the pastors.
It is desired to organize a company of
minute men and women in each church
and have them ready for work by March
14th. The minute people are expected
to be prepared to speak four minutes
upon some phase of the great campaign
whenever called upon. The time is short,
only about six weeks now until the great
campaign will be on.
SPIRITUAIi LIFE
The greatest need in our churches to-
day seems to he spiritual life. Organiza-
tion, and an educated ministry and liberal
giving are all necessary to success, but
if all these exist in a large measure, and
there is a lack of spiritual life in the
church, successful work will be largely a
failure. It seems to us that for the last
two decades there has been a great dearth
of spiritual life in our churches. When
large Associations pass year after year
with almost no increase in the member-
ship, it shows that there is a lack of
spiritual life in that Association. If the
churches that affiliate with the State Con-
vention in Illinois were dependent for
pastors upon the ministers they have
given to the denomination within the last
twenty-five years, not more than one
church in ten would have a pastor today.
Pastors have not been working with their
young people to volunteer as ministers
and missionaries. Churches have not
been making it a subject of special prayer
and parents have not been asking the
Lord to make ministers or missionaries
out of some of their children.
In many churches not more than one
in ten or fifteen of their members at-
tend prayer meetings and in many of our
churches, not more than 50% of the
membership attend preaching services
regularly. Oh! that we may have a re-
vival of spiritual life in our churches.
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ILLINOIS BAPTISTBDLLETIN
Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Conventlou.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 10,
20c; clubs of 20 or more, 15c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
201 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
ONLY one more issue of the Bulletin
until the great campaign for $100,-
000,000 will have been made.
5K * *
Now is the time for everybody to
carefully study and plan to give
the largest amount possible for the next
four years for beneficence outside the
local church work.
IF 100,000 Baptists in Illinois should
subscribe $7,108,000, it would be
$71.00 each for four years or $17.75 each
for one year. That does not seem like
an impossible sum for any one.
* * *
WE do not have many Baptist mil-
lionaires in Illinois, possibly not
more than one or two, we do not know,
but we have many, very many well to do
Baptists in this State. Possibly we have
a few who can give $100,000 or $50,000.
Quite a number who can give $25,000,
and many who can give $10,000. When
it comes to $5,000 and $1,000, we cannot
estimate the large numlber who can do it
and ought to do it.
:•;: * *
THERE is scarcely a Baptist in the
State who cannot give as much as
:$5.00 per year or $20.00 on the great
drive; but if people cannot and will not
give that much, the subscription will be
taken down to the lowest figures.
* * *
IT is remarkable how churches and in-
dividuals who give large sums enjoy
it. If Illinois will "Go Over the Top"
in this great campaign, our people will
have the greatest period of religious joy
they have ever experienced.
* Hi *
PEOPLE who have sufficient capital
to live on, and more than what they
need, can serve their children better by
giving liberally for this work than to
leave it all for their children. The next
generation needs a good Christian civili-
zation far more than it does large capital.
* :)« *
OUR children will have no trouble in
making a living for themselves and
in accumulating all the capital they need,
if we leave them a strong Christian civili-
zation, but if we, in our desire to be rich
and to leave large sums for our children,
allow wickedness to triumph throughout
the world, our children may suffer from
what we leave them, rather than be
blessed by it.
FOR the past fifty years the people
of Illinois have been accumulating
wealth and giving but little. Now we
have reached a period in the world's his-
tory, and in the history of our Christian-
ity when Christian people should make
money to use largely for saving; the best
things in the world. If we cannot men-
tion a high standard of civilization, the
more money we leave for the future, the
worse it will 'be. Now is the time to try
to save this world.
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PASTORAL CHANGES
Rev. H. F. Ilolbrook, who has been
pastor at Orion a httle less than two
years, has resigned that church to accept
a call in Bay City, Michigan. Since the
first of January, Brother Ilolbrook has
taken twenty-one members into the
church. Nineteen 'by baptism, and he is
expecting a few more before he leaves.
Rev. W. H. Breach of Danville, has
resigned the pastorate of the Hutsonville
church, down in the Wabash Valley As-
sociation, where he has been pastor for
about one and one-half years. Ill health
seems to have been the cause of his resig-
nation. Brother Breach is a strong
preacher and we hope that he will soon
be fully recovered to take work else-
where.
Rev. E. K. Masterson of Shurtleff Col-
lege has accepted a unanimous call to
become pastor of the Sycamore church.
He will begin work the first week in
April.
The pastor of the Baptist church in
Blandinsville resigned, closing his work
January 1st, 1920. The chairman of the
Ministerial Committee is E. T. Martin.
Rev. L. E. Ellison will close his work
at Areola at the close of his third year
as pastor of that church. Brother Elli-
son and his wife have been greatly ap-
preciated on that field and have done
good work. They have just secured a
nice new parsonage close to the church.
Rev. L. E. Ellison of Areola, has ac-
cepted a call to the A'illa Grove church
and will begin work about May 1st. This
gives Brother Ellison a good opportun-
itv for service.
N. v., has changed its time of meeting
from May to June 23-29.
The Alpha church recently located
Rev. J. R. Shanks as pastor. Brother
Shanks is a graduate of Shurtleff College.
Spent one year in Xewton Seminary.
Was a chaplain in the army and ha.s
spent considerable time in the Divinity
school of the University of Chicago. The
church now pays $600 more on salary
than ever before.
NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
The Northern Baptist Convention
which will be held this year at Bufifalo,
STATE CONVENTION MISSIONARIES
Rev. J. C. Dent held a two-weeks meet-
ing, including three Sundays, in February
with the Claim St. church, Aurora. The
pastor says, "Throughout, this has been
one of the old-time revivals we hear
about, but seldom experience. The Holy-
Spirit was present with great power. The
sweet and blessed seasons of refreshing
will long be remembered. I have only
words of praise for Brother Dent, but
no words can express our appreciation of
such a man. Sixty-seven in all came for-
ward, including four to unite with the
church by letter. They range in age as
follows: from 9 to 11 years, 12; from 12
to 16 years, 25 ; above 16 years, 30."
Evangelist F. M. Dunk spent three
weeks in February with the Fairfield
church in Southern Illinois. At the end
of the month the interest was so good
that he could not close the meetings and
at this writing is giving them another
week. Quite a numl^er of people, who
have been standing aloof from the church
a long time, have been revived and are
uniting with the church.
Rev. J. B. Little, our newly elected
missionary for Southern Illinois, will be-
gin his work with a meeting at Hutson-
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ville in the Wabash Valley Association,
March 14th.
Rev. T. O. McMinn writes that he be-
gan a meeting at Ava in February, but
had to close after a short time on account
of the flu. He has been deprived of
doing very much during the last month
on account of the prevailing sickness.
Rev. George H. Yule spent some time
with First Baptist church in Charleston
and assisted them in putting their work
on a higher plane of efficiency. He then
went to Cooks Mills and Coles and made
an. ev€ry-member canvass on both fields.
He had quite a revival meeting at Coles
and those two churches are now in a
condition to unite in the support of a
pastor. They can give a pastor a good
parsonage to live in with plenty of
ground and a $1,500 salary.
Rev. Chas. W. Wolfe, missionary pas-
tor of the Glasford church, writes : "It
was a bitter dose for us to have to close
the meeting without really accomplishing
what we set out to do. Dr. Hopkins
certainly preached some splendid sier-
mons and those who heard seemed to
approve. The schools closed today be-
cause of flu, and several of our families
are down, so I do not feel that we made
any mistake in closing the meeting. Per-
sonally I very greatl}' enjoyed Dr. Hop-
kins' fellowship and sermons and heartily
hope that some day our aims here can be
realized."
NEGRO ASSOCIATIONS
For a long time there have been two
n^ro Associations, namely, Mt. Olive
and East Mt. Olive in extreme southern
Illinois. Through certain influences
brought to bear upon them in Illinois,
these two Associations voted to co-oper-
ate with the south and pulled out from
the northern work. Ouite recentlv a
new Association was organized in the
extreme south among these negro
churches, and twenty-seven of the strong-
est churches m southern Illinois went into
this new Association to co-operate with
the north in the territory to which they
belong. This means real progress for
these colored brethren in southern Illi-
nois. Some of them are getting their
eyes open as to what they ought to do
and where they naturally belong.
OHUROHES
The Carrollton church, of which Rev.
W. E. Pool is pastor, is getting along
nicely. The pastor is planning to hold a
meeting tlie latter part of March. Dr.
M. W. Ha3nes spent a few days there
some time ago and raised $3,000 for
Shurtlefif College.
A member of the Collinsville church
writes in part : "The year with us opens
vyith all omens favorable. Since the
coming of our pastor, Rev. Jones Earl
Corwin, a budget has been adopted, and
has been provided for through an every-
member canvass. From a financial stand-
point, the church is certainly in better
condition for work than it has ever been.
Spiritually, also, the church is much
alive."
Rev. J. J. Ross, pastor of 2d Baptist
church in Chicago, writes : "At the pres-
ent time we are having a Missionary In-
stitute which will continue through a pe-
riod of seven weeks. We have upward
of two hundred enrolled. We meet at
half past six on Wednesday evenings for
supper, and then from seven to seven
forty-five, we study 'The Crusade of
Compassion for the Healing of the Na-
tions.' We are looking for good results
from this Institute."
Rev. George W. Broome is pastor of
the church at Percy. He writes that
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he began his pastorate October 1st and
lias had an increase in the Sunday school
of 75%. Cradle Roll increased to 85
members and he has received into the
church 27 new members. An every-
member canvass brought the subscrip-
tions $250 over last year. They have
bought a new parsonage and have paid
$1,300 on it. He says: "Our next move
will be a Woman's Mission Circle and
then a B. Y. P. U."
Rev. VV. B. Morris, former Sunday
School Director for Illinois, is now pastor
of the Winchester church. This church
has a splendid meeting house and a nice
parsonage, and Brother Morris seems to
be doing well on that field. The Sunday
School and Prayer Meeting services are
improving. The editor recently spent a
very pleasant Sunday with Pastor Morris
on that field.
A writer from the First Baptist church
of East St. Louis, says that things are
moving nicely. "Brother Rendleman re-
ports increasing congregations and at the
Board meeting at the church last night,
met to consider purchasing a parsonage,
very favorable comments were made on
the plan in general."
Rev. F. L. Enslow, pastor of the First
Baptist church in Danville, writes:
"Closed special meetings which I held
without outside help. Baptized 29 and
have 10 awaiting baptism ; a goodly num-
ber of heads of families, in a few cases
whole families. Have received 61 into
the church since coming here."
Rev. T. B. Marlin, pastor of the Bap-
tist church at Auburn, writes as follows :
"We have received 15 into the church
since January 1st. Received one for
'baptism last Wednesday evening at our
Annual meeting. Had fine reports of
the year's work all the way through.
Since our Annual meeting a year ago
have received into the church 27 mem-
bers, and there are others, I tliink, com-
ing our way. Bills all paid up to date,,
a balance in the treasury and the appor-
tionment well in hand and I think will
be ready to do our part on the New
World Movement."
The LaGrange church, of which Rev.
Eaton B. Freeman is pastor, seems to be
making encouraging progress. That
church has been greatly discouraged in
its work during the past few years, but it
is hoped that successful work will be
carried on in the future.
The Collinsville church is carrying on
three Missions. From recent report we
quote the following: Cuba: The work
is carried on without interruption and is
in good condition. There was an aver-
age attendance of 25 3/4. Maryville:
This work is reported to be in the best
condition it has ever been. The hard
patient work of the past is beginning to
show fruit. The average attendance has
been 83, while there has been an average
of workers of 5 3/4. Tuberculosis Col-
ony: There were five meetings held on
account of changing the time from Sab-
(bath afternoon to the Friday evening
hour as formerly in January. The pastor
is delivering a short message there each
week also. Rev. J. E. Corwin, pastor
of the Collinsville church, is working
these Missions.
Rev. L. K. Williams, D.D.,^ pastor of
the Olivet Negro Baptist church in Qii-
cago, writes a very interesting article of
more than three pages in the Baptist,
February 28th. There are also cuts of
his church, congregation and himself.
This church has a membership of about
8,400, and owns two of the best meeting
houses in that part of Chicago. In 1919
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the churdi reported $46,835.55 raised on
the field. They keep eleven workers,
whose salaries are paid in full. The re-
port of the church for last year shows
that 62,400 visits have been made to the
sick and needy and 986 needy persons
aided. The free Labor agency of that
church have found employment for 1,265
people. The Olivet church owns a motor
bus that cost $2,600 that brings children
to and from the day nursery and kinder-
garten, and to aid aged and infirm people
to get to church. The church calendar
states "that it has every Lord's day at
1 1 :00 a. tth, from three to five preaching
services in its two church homes." This
is done to accommodate the thousands
who would attend its worship. Many
at every such service are being turned
away for want of room. An auditorium
seating 6,000 would be easily crowded.
PROHIBITION
The Prohibition laws are being very
generally enforced. About thirty of our
states already had banished the saloon
before the National Amendment was
adopted. It is remarkable how such
cities as Chicago, Peoria and East St.
Louis have done away with the saloons,
but the liquor interest will die hard. The
people who have been in the habit of
drinking are not complaining so much as
those who are deprived of the business
of making drunkards and wrecking
homes. Rhode Island and New Jersey
through their legislatures are planning to
overthrow the enforcement of the law.
When the Anti-Slavery Amendment was
passed, everybody expected the southern
states to obey it, but now some northern
states are contending for state rights. In
some places, the first efforts will be, not
to overthrow the amendment, but to so
modify it that beer and wine with a small
percentage of alcohol can be used. We
shall still need the Anti-Saloon League
for some time to come, and temperance
voters should be sure that all candidates
for whom they vote are all right on the
temperance question.
STOP!
Young Baptists of Illinois, read this
carefully — The Baptists of Illinois will
hold a Summer Assembly at Shurtleff
College, Alton, July 12 to 18, 1920.
Think of what that means — a summer
school of methods in religious education
for the workers in our local churches.
An exceptional faculty to instruct and in-
spire that you may become more efiicient
as one of Christ's co-laborers.
Act Now — plan your time and work
so that you can spend the week at our
Summer Assembly. Christ wants you to
do better work for him. Will you use
this opportunity for his sake?
For further information write Louis
H. Koehler, Dean, of Summer Assembly,
202 North School Street, Normal, Illi-
nois.
The Editor had the privilege of spend-
ing a portion of a very cold Sunday re-
cently with the new pastor of Chicago
Heights, Rev. E. I. Setterlund. The work
seems to be looking up, but Chicago
Heights is becoming a large city and the
Baptists there need to take hold with a
strong hand.
We spent Sunday night, February 14th
at the Covenant church, Chicago, Rev.
C. M. Kessler, pastor. It was exceed-
ingly cold, but there was a fine Young
People's Meeting and a large and splen-
did choir and good congregation. Broth-
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er Kessler seems to be getting along well
with that field.
KKEIP TH*] CHURCH FTRKS BURNING
(By A. E. Peterson, Promotion Director)
This is the one outstanding necessity.
Without this fire giving money becomes a
burden ; with it it heconies a delight.
AVithout this, making disciples may seem
an irksome, fruitless task; but with it,
it becomes a supreme joy. Without this,
those who offer themselves for Kingdom
service will l>e few ; with it that number
is b!kely to be large.
This is the conviction with which I
l)egin my work with the Baptists of Illi-
nois. It has been growing upon me with
increasing intensity during the last years
of campaigning. It is possible to make
the money feature overshadow every-
thing else, and leave the local church im-
poverished because pastor and people
alike have given of their best life and
devoted the hest period of the year in ef-
forts for funds. I believe there is a
more excellent way, and that way may be
illustrated by the successful modem
fanner in Illinois, who, while he reaps a
rich harvest he does it in a fashion that
leaves the soil of his farm enriched at
the same time that it produces. With
the soil of the church in right condition,
giving money, winning men, enlisting life
for service, follow naturally. Let us re-
member the law of the harvest in these
days when we must do the big things.
"He that soweth bountifully" in prayer,
in heart loyalty, in intelligent witnessing,
in faithful serving", in sacrificial giving,
"shall reap also bountifully" in the bless-
ings of intimate companionship with his
Lord and in the joy of the harvest. This
is a law that holds, thank God ! He is
TiOt asking His disciples to dedicate their
lives and their ])ossessions to a program.
the outcome of which is uncertain. The
God we serve is so big and so true that
He will not allow to come to naught that
v.hich we consecrate to His service. The
time is now upon us when we must to-
gether seek to put across the program of
the Master when he said, "Go ye and
make disciples." The disciple of this
generation is not responsible for the suc-
cesses or failures of the past or even of
the future. But he is responsible for the
record he is making now, and a record
which he must meet in years to come,
and the nature of that record will deter-
mine whether others shall be blessed or
remain unblessed.
All the details of the Financial Cam-
paign for April 23-May 2, will be fur-
nished all our people in due time. Just
now let us be concerned with the "Church
Fires." March is the month of Evangel-
ism. It would do a great thing for the
Baptists of Illinois if during that period
every church, large and small, would
earnestly endeavor "to make disciples."
The sensational methods of some evangel-
ists, unworthy their high calling, must
not allow us to 'become prejudiced against
this one great business of the Christian
church. Instead of thinking of them, let
us go back to Him, who said, "Follow Me
and I will make you to become fishers of
men." Taking our lessons from Him,
there will be no offensive method and the
efforts will not be abortive.
As a denomination we have been
forced by circumstances to go after
money the last few years. Evangelism
has suffered. That we can secure what
we go after with a will and a determina-
tion, the records of these last years
show. And this holy business which is
on the program for March, will bring re-
turns too if we are willing to pay the
price. "When Zion travaileth she bring-
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eth forth children." Memory takes me
back to that time when I recall having
my first dealings with God; there were
earnest Christians about me who really
prayed, and who when they spoke on this
subject it was in terms that left no un-
certainty as to their belief in the neces-
sity of a personal experience of the sav-
ing grace of Jesus Christ. I am not
pleading for a perpetuation of all that
seemed to be good in the past, for modern
life demands and compels many changes,
but I am pleading for a perpetuation of
that spirit of earnestness — a perpetuation
of the spirit of Pentecost.
-.iHere, is a program for the month of
March, suggested by the Interchurch
which is worthy of consideration by pas-
tors and church leaders.
1. Five weeks' campaign.
First Week — Organization of the Local
Church.
Second Week — Personal Workers in
Training.
Third Week — ^Personal Workers in
Action.
Fourth Week — A Week of Invitation.
Fifth Week — A Week of Ingathering.
■ 2. Five Sundays.
March 7th — Already Sunday.
March 14th — Every Member Present
Sunday.
March 21st — Every Member Bring
One Sunday.
March 28th— x^ccept Christ Sunday.
Easter — Joining the Church Sunday.
MONEY REOETV^ED FOR THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR FEBRUARY
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Aledo, Mrs. Geo. W. Mayhew (3) $ 5.00
Atwood 6.45
Aurora, Claim St 7.00
Aurora, T. O. Hicks, S. E. F 5.00
Belvidere, First 8.31
Berwick 7.50
Bradford 7.50
*Bunker Hill 43.40
Bulletin subscriptions 37.60
Bulletin Advertisement 22.00
Carthage 4.33
Champaign, First 22.07
Champaign, University 7.50
*Chicago, Albany Park. 16.65
Chicago, Austin 27.48
Chicago, Covenant 15.00
Chicago, Irving Park 21.50
Chicago, LaSalle Ave 17.20
Chicago, Morgan Park 71.90
Chicago, Second 48.96
Chicago, Windsor Park 6.45
Chrisman 3.22
Decatur, Riverside 13.00
Educational Commission 95.83
Freeport 7.00
Galesburg 71.50
Greenfield 1.40
Griggsville 18.75
Hudelson Orphanage, Expense
of Beneficence Office 11.81
Interest 1,922.34
Joliet, First 19.74
LaMoille 9.90
Marseilles 3.22
Normal 6.30
Osceola 15.00
Ottawa 7.00
Peoria, First 141.50
Percy .89
Rebate on Expense 6.91
Rockford, State St 14.00
Rock Island, Ridgewood, Georg-
inia M. Heck, S. E. F 10.00
St. Mary's 14.00
Toulon 21.00
Troy 7.87
University, Chicago Fund 118.00
Walnut 2.14
Wilmette 14.99
Total $2,966.11
A SPEdAIj MESSAGE FOR ALIy STATE
CONVENTION BAPTISTS OF ILMNOIS
For perhaps seventy-five years the
financial year of the State Convention
has closed October 1st.
This year the State closes its financial
year April 30th. That is the time when
all the National Societies close their
books. They have changed this year
from March 31st to April 30th. Some
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churches have been closing their
offerings for the State Convention March
31st. The change of the State Conven-
tion year will not affect them. Some
churches have made an effort to get in
one-half their State Convention money
March 31st, and the other half Oct. 1st,
but the great majority of our churches
have been delaying their State offerings
very largely until September. All such
churches need to be reminded that the
State Convention financial year now ends
April 30th. Every church should make
a strong effort to pay in at least seven-
twelfths (7/12) of its apportionment by
that time. It would be a good thing for
as many churches as possible to collect
the full apportionment by the time the
year ends, but if not the full amount, at
least seven-twelfths of it.
We are living in peculiar times, a pe-
riod when all religious work is being ad-
vanced and when all religious work is
more costly then ever before. The Illi-
nois Baptist State Convention is doing
a larger work than, perhaps, any year
in her past history. During the first six
months we are going to pay every dollar
of expenditure without borrowing any
money. But if we do as well the second
six months the churches must come up
loyally and liberally with their offerings
this spring. There is no portion of our
missionary work that means more for
the Kingdom than our State Convention
work.
The success of world-wide work, and
of our Home Mission work, and of our
philanthropic institutions, and of our edu-
cational plants depends upon successful
State Convention work. If we cannot
have living, active, spiritual local churches
all our work will be crippled. The chief
work of the State Convention is organ-
izing, building up and developing local
churches.
INCREASE OF PASTORS* SuAIiARIES
The Big Rock church has increased the
salary of its pastor, Rev, W. C. Deer,
$300. Pastor Deer has been on that field
about three years.
The Qaim street church, Aurora, in-
creased the salary of its pastor, Rev. T.
L. Stephens, January 1st, $364.
The Morrison church, of which Rev.
A. B. Wimmer is pastor, has increased
its pastor's salary $250 beginning Novem-
ber 1st. They are now paying $500 more
on salary than they ever paid any other
pastor. The Missionary apportionment
for this year is coming in nicely and it
will probably be more then met. The
church is planning for special meetings
in March.
Rev. Mr. Fleishman who has been pas-
tor at Warren for about one year, has re-
signed that field to accept a call to the
Emmanuel Baptist church in Elgin.
Rev. W. K. Morgan, pastor at Fair-
mount, recently held a meeting in which
there were eighteen professions of faith
and twelve or more will join the church.
AVHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE
BUIiLtETIN
"The February number is fine." —
James P. Abbott, Chicago.
"I am delighted to see through the
pages of the Bulletin how well the King-
dom is succeeding. You are to be com-
mended upon the very splendid editorials
especially during the past four months of
the Bulletin. Your article on "American
Civilization" is the masterpiece. — Gales-
burg.
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PBRSONAIiS
Evangelist L. D. Lamkin held a meet-
ing with the First > Baptist church in
Aurora of which Rev. R. H. Claxon is
pastor. Conditions on account of influ-
enza were very much against the effort
there, but the evangeHst reports quite
good meetings. He went from there to
assist Rev. Harry H. Belton at Virden.
We have not heard the result of that
meeting.
THE "FLU"
While the influenza has not seemed to
be so fatal as last year, yet it has been
prevalent in almost all parts of the state.
There have been many fatal cases. Some
churches have been closed for a short
time and in some cases our evangelists
and missionaries were compelled to close
meetings on account of the "flu." Yet
there has been an unusual spirit of
evangelism throughout the state. Some
very remarkaible meetings have been held
during the month of February. The con-
ditions have been very much against spe-
cial meetings during the past three win-
ters. Three years ago was the exceed-
ingiy cold winter and shortage of fuel.
Two winters ago was the terrible scourge
of influenza, and last fall shortage of fuel
by coal strike and this past winter, sick-
ness. But through these trials the peo-
ple seem to be waking up to spiritual
things.
The Missionary Review of tlie World
quotes the United States census as author-
ity for the following statement: "Of the
large Protestant denominational families,
the Baptists number the largest, reporting
7,263,000; the Methodists are next, with
7,165,000; the Lutherans third, with 2,-
463,000; and the Presbyterians fourth,
with 2,257,00« members. Then follow the
Disciples, with 1,231,000; the Episcopal-
ians, with 1,093,000, and the Congrega-
tionalists, with 790,000." — Watchman Ex-
aminer.
CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTAIiS
A number of Christian people met in
Cleveland, Ohio, last October and put
forth the following statements of Chris-
tian doctrine upon which they were all
agreed. These nine articles seem to be
such a clear statement of fundamental
Biblical doctrines that we give it in full.
Baptists generally will accept them all,
except number seven : There is not unity
in the denomination upon the premillen-
ial coming of Christ. Some believe in
it strongly and others do not interpret
the Scriptures that way. The editor of
The Bulletin accepts the statement of
number seven fully, but holds most hearty
Christian fellowship with those who dif-
fer from him on that point.
1. We believe in the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments as verbally in-
spired of God, and inerrant in the orig-
inal writings, and that they are the su-
preme and final authority in faith and
Hfe.
2. We believe in one God, eternally
existing in three persons. Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was
begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of
the Virgin Mary, and is true God and
true man.
4. We believe that man was created in
the image of God, that he sinned and
thereby incurred not only physical death,
but also that spiritual death which is
separation from God, and that all human
beings are born with a sinful nature, and,
in the case of those who reach moral
responsibility, become sinners in thought,
word and deed.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ died for our sins, according to the
Scriptures, as a representative and sub-
stitutionary sacrifice ; and that all who
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believe in him arc justified on the ground
of his shed blood.
6. We believe in the resurrection of the
crucified body of our Lord, in his ascen-
sion into heaven, and in his present life
there for us, as High Priest and Advo-
cate.
7. We believe in "that blessed hope,"
the personal, premillennial and imminent
return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
8. We believe that all who receive by
faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born
again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby be-
come the children of God.
9. We believe in the bodily resurrec-
tion of the just and the unjust, the ever-
lasting blessedness of the saved, and the
everlasting conscious punishment of the
lost.
"Lincoln said, 'I am not bound to win,
but I am bound to be true. I am not
bound to succeed, but I am bound to live
up to what light I have. I must stand
with anybody that stands right, stand with
him while he is right, and part with him
when he goes wrong.' Abraham Lincoln's
estimate of the Bible is as follows: 'In re-
gard to this great Book I have but to say
it is the best gift God has given to man.
All the good Savior gave to the world
was communicated through this book. But
for it we could not know right from
wrong. All things most desirable for
man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to
be found portrayed in it.' "
"The First Church, Durham, North Caro-
lina, Rev. J. E. Welch, pastor, was asked
for $78,000 in the $75,000,000 campaign
and raised $85,000. On the top of that
they increased the pastor's salary $600,
elected a trained woman as social worker
at $1,200 a year, and presented a Dodge
car to the pastor."
"Mexicans are swarming to our country.
They are hard to reach religiously because
they have turned with disgust from Ro-
manism and are suspicious of all religion.
They are at once a menace and an oppor-
tunity throughout the great southwest."
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME
.MAY WOOD, ILLINOIS
Rot. D. H. MacGilliTray, Supt.
Mrs. D. H. MacGilliTray, Matron
By an oversight we missed getting our
article in the last issue of the Bulletin,
and we know full well that we were the
losers. Ever since our relation to the
Children's Home we have found that the
best medium for informing our friends
in Illinois was the Bulletin, but now we
appreciate it more than ever since the
Standard has left the field.
First of all, I wish to correct an error
in our article in the January number,
crediting Pilgrim Temple Church with
supplying the Home with turkey, etc. It
should have read Tabernacle Baptist
Church.
The new addition is completed and
adds to the capacity and convenience of
the Home as well as to the comfort of
the children. The response to the call
of tbe superintendent, to meet the debt
incurred by said new building, has been
cordial and generous as far as he has
'been enabled to present the claim. How-
ever, there is yet about three thousand
dollars ($3,000) to raise and this must
be met inside of two months. Will not
our friends send in a generous offering?
A share is twenty-five dollars ($25).
Our large family so far escaped the flu,
and all the children of school age have
been regularly in school.
Now that we are nearing Easter, the
kiddies are looking forward to the egg
season. We trust we will be as gener-
ously remembered this year as we were
last.
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173
Department of Religious Education
Chairman Rev. Herbert Hioes, El Paso, Director Rev. Louis H. Koehler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
IT CAN BE DONE
Do you feel the need of more time than
one hour for teaching your class, to do
something more than tincture them with
religious truth ? x\t Johnston City a class
of young fellows meet regularly every
Tuesday evening for an hour and a half
of study and fellowship. In the same
church a class of girls meets every Wed-
nesday night for the same purpose.
Where teacher and class mean business
we can have some of the benefits of the
D. V. B. S. anywhere. At Cambria a
class of seventeen girls, ages fourteen to
seventeen, meet every Wednesday even-
ing at one of the homes. Here is a sam-
ple program for one evening: Meeting
called to order by teacher, Mr. Green,
after which the following papers were
read: "Regular attendance," by Ruby
Elkins. "Keeping Promises," by Eliza-
beth Plumlee. "Financial Loyalty," b>
Rachel Hestand. "Standing up for Class
Reputation," by Pansy Manning. Lesson
subject was then taken up and discussed
iby members, subject, "How to Get Mem-
bers to Take Hold of the Work." Sub-
ject for next Wednesday night, "How to
Make the Most of the Sunday Sessions?"
Composition on "Some Things the Class
has Done" was assigned Rachel Hestand
and Dovie Elkins, same to be read at
next regular class meeting. Adjourned.
Training Teachers
With the above in mind read this. A
pastor with two charges arrives Saturday
afternoon on each field. He gathers the
teachers of the school on Saturday even-
ing for a class in training, while on alter-
nate Saturdays one of the regular teach-
ers take the work. Thus the classes in
these two churches receive the benefit of
weekly training although the churches
have only half time preaching. Wliere
there is the will a way will be found.
Workers' Conferences
At a recent meeting of the workers of
the first church, Mt. Vernon, forty-seven
were present. The chairman of the com-
mittee on religious education of the
church is responsible for outlining the
program for the conferences and the
church workers speak highly of his
thoughtfulness in preparing for the con-
ferences.
The first church, Urbana, has issued
a fine program for its workers' confer-
ences for the entire year. Besides a
conference text, chapters of which will
be reviewed at every meeting, local prob-
lems will be discussed in the light of pre-
pared papers on related topics.
Summer Assembly
Rev. Seldon Roberts, the teacher train-
ing director of the Publication Society
for the field of the X. 15. C, and Rev.
W m. Sly. the director for Sunday school
work among the new Americans, will
give regular instruction for the entire
week. The next communication from
state office will give information regard-
ing meals, cost, local arrangements. Save
the date, July 12-18, 1920.
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Woman s
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
ElclB
Mr*. Martha V. HigmaiL, Editor Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
Morgan, Park 2331 Hartzell Are., Eramston
It is a great pleasure to those who com-
piled the Annual Report of the Woman's
State Mission Society to know that it is
helpful to the women of the state. Many
words of appreciation have been received
for the information it contains and its
general make-up. It required considera-
ble efifort and time to get together the
material and the testimonies of its value
are very gratifying.
All those who have worked to make
the Golden Jubilee a success and those
who have contributed will be glad to
know that the Central District has gone
over the top. The apportionment was
$46,700 and while a full report has not
been received, a conservative estimate
places the total as well over $50,000. Illi-
nois far exceeded its apportionment.
We are pleased to introduce Mrs. R.
O. Chandler, 1249 North Cherry street,
Galesburg, as the recently appointed State
College Counseller. All college girls
will especially appreciate the help she
will be able to give them.
The Bloomfield Association held a mid-
year woman's meeting in February at
Hoopeston, and the Peoria Association is
planning for one to be held in April.
These meetings are so helpful no asso-
ciation can afTord to be without them.
We are always pleased to mention new
societies which have been formed. Wa-
bash Valley reports four of recent origin,
in the following churches : Olney, Flora,
Newton, Hutsonville. Each society has
started right by its members subscribing
for "Missions." One has also been or-
ganized at Wood River, Alton Associa-
tion.
Interest in the Reading Contest is in-
creasing in the state. Societies are re-
porting a large increase over last year
in the number of books read to the pres-
ent time. The First Church of Urbana
read 154 books in January. Isn't that
fine? One party in writing of it, says,
"I consider it one of the most vital
developments of the past few years. I
have been greatly interested in the prac-
tical results which I have observed in a
few churches where I have investigated."
Another writes, "We have a number of
whole families reading and in some cases
the father is not a Christian and has
never read a missionary book before."
Have you the children organized as
crusaders in your church? It is some-
thing new and as captivating for the chil-
dren as the W. W. G. organization is for
the larger girls. Mrs. E. S. Osgood,
5446 Ferdinand street, Chicago, is the
State Secretary-Director for Illinois,
write her for information if you want
something which will mean a good time
for the children.
The Windsor Park church in Chicago,
of which Rev. Fred F. Shields is pastor,
recently increased the pastor's salary
$300.
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175
The Spurgeon Tabernacle Church in
London, England, from which Rev. A. C.
Dixon recently resigned, has called to
its pastorate Rev. Henry Tyderman Chil-
vers, who has been pastor of a Strict
Baptist church at Ipswich, England, for
twenty years. He is forty-seven years
old, and will begin his pastorate at the
Tabernacle church in March. Mr. Chil-
vers says, "You may write me down as
a Calvinist to the backbone." In that
respect he agrees with Mr. Spurgeon.
Charles Spurgeon's church was known
the world over as an open communion
church, and yet it was not strictly so.
Tickets to the communion service would
be given to persons of pedo-baptist de-
nominations, who requested them, for a
brief peri®d. If, after a time, they did
not care to be baptized, the tickets would
not be given. But Mr. Chilvers has al-
ways been a strict Baptist and believes
that a person should be a believer and
obey in the ordinance of Christian Bap-
tism before partaking of the Lord's Sup-
per.
That is the position of the Baptists al-
most everywhere.
Rev. Charles Gray just finished a series
of revival meetings in the Elvaston Bap-
tist church, which resulted in a net gain
of ten members for the church. One
hundred and forty-seven dollars were
raised for him in the last meeting.
Every body liked him, and he made a
good impression here from first to last.
The pastor of the church is very proud
of the fact that not one of the deacons
or trustees uses tobacco in any form.
How many other churches can say this ?
THE GREATEST NEED
The greatest need in the Baptist de-
nomination at this time is that a large
number of our best and brightest young
people give themselves to ministerial and
missionary work. Money alone will not
advance the Kingdom. We believe that
there are many young people who will
do this if the right kind of influence is
brought to bear upon them. Let us re-
member that young people in the teen age
are the ones from which to draw for
ministerial and missionary work. If
they do not decide that matter before
they enter college, in most cases it will
be too late. And a few years in early
life for preparation means much in spe-
cial Christian service. Again let us re-
member that unless the Lord sends them
into the harvest field they will be a fail-
ure, and the Lord sends them in answer
to prayer and our Master encourages us
to pray that the Lord may send forth
more laborers into the harvest field.
For one who has the proper concep-
tion of the Kingdom of God and of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the needs
of the world, there is no life work so
attractive; for one who wants his or her
life to be of the largest unselfishness,
there is no calling so attractive. In the
ministerial and missionary work, there is
the joy of intellectual work of the higli-
est order, and the pleasure of seeing in-
dividual lives refined and souls saved and
society bettered through his or her influ-
ences. There is greater happiness in that
than in simply succeeding in business and
piling up a fortune. Let all our churches
do much praying this year for many new
recruits.
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For a Larger Shurtleff College
The following resolutions were passed
by the Illinois Baptist State Convention
at its annual meeting held in Jerseyville,
October 20-23, 1919:
Whereas, the campaign for a larger
Shurtleff was planned before any of our
large denominational drives were con-
ceived and fully launched before the One
Hundred Million Dollar Drive was born,
and
Whereas, Shurtleff College Board
was urged by the Illinois Baptist State
Convention to inaugurate the present
campaign, and
Whereas, there seems great need for
an intensive and State wide propaganda
for Christian education, such as is now
being carried forward, and
Whereas, any change of policy would
seriously interfere with the full cultiva-
tion of our field for such purpose and
delay the expanding of Shurtleff College
to larger usefulness and wider influence,
be it therefore,
RESOLVED; First, that it is the sense
of this Convention that the campaign
for Shurtleff College should be pushed
as rapidly as possible to completion, but
along the lines now being pursued.
Second, that it shall be distinctly un-
derstood that it is a part of the One
Hundred Million Dollar movement and
that all sums pledged to this cause shall
be credited to each church on its quota
of the One Hundred Million Dollars.
Norton J. Hilton.
Secretary Illinois Baptist State Conven-
tion.
Shurtleff College has waited for years
in order to launch its campaign under fa-
vorable circumstances. That time seems
at hand and the campaign was begun
Jan. 1, 1919. It progressed with re-
markable success, and the ultimate out-
come was no longer a matter of doubt.
In May, 1919, the denomination at Den-
ver committed itself to a financial pro-
gram of $100,000,000. This fall we
linked up with the Inter-church World
Movement, and the leaders of that move-
ment announce that the drive will begin
April, May or June. This means that
what we do for Shurtleff College should
be done at once. Four months is a brief
time in which to raise $300,000 — especial-
ly if we attempt to cover the field and
faithfully preach the doctrines of Chris-
tian Education.
We therefore request every friend of
the college to co-operate. If pastors are
willing to spend a little time in the field,
will they please notify President Potter
or myself at once? If any have money
they wish to invest in Christian manhood
and womanhood through Shurtleff Col-
lege, please send it in, or if you wish to
have a conference with either President
Pt>tter or myself, write a line to Alton,
111. There are doubtless those in the
state who would be willing to invest large
sums with the college were they assured
of its future growth and its permanence
as an Institute of God.
Let this whole matter be a subject of
prayer by those who love Shurtleff and
those who believe our young people
should be educated in a Christian atmos-
phere unto Christian ideals.
Myron M. Haynes.
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BULLETIN
VOI^ J.L
NORMAL, ILLINOIS, APRIL 192»
NO. 12
APRIL 25-MAY 2
This will doubtless be the most import-
ant week in the history of the Baptist
denomination of the North. The condi-
tion of the world is such today, and the
apportionments are so great that the Bap-
tist denomination actually needs $100,-
000,000 for ^Missionary and Educational
work at home and abroad during the next
five* years. Of course it is many times
more than we have been giving for those
purposes, but we have not been giving
nearly so much during the past as we
should, and we should make at least one
great and sacrificial 'effort during our life-
time to bring this world to Christ. We
should not think of this great effort from
April 25th to May 2d as some great
effort beyond our Missionary giving.
This is our missionary subscription for
the next four years including what we
have given during the past year, and this
is not for one year, but for four years and
it should be given every week. ' These
subscriptions should be made as so much
a week for two hundred and eight weeks.
Suppose a man should give $1,000 for this
fund, that would be $4.80 per week, or
$250 a year. Suppose a man is running a
farm. It would take about three acres
of corn or eight good eight-months'-old
pigs. Is that a great sacrifice for a man
who owns 160 acres of good land? It
does not approach sacrifice. ]^Iany Chris-
tian men who are engaged in small busi-
ness and have given only a few dollars
a year for :\Iissions could give $1,000
on this campaign and then make no real
sacrifice that can be felt. This great
campaign must not be compared with past
giving any more than the government of
the United States could compare the ex-
penses of the war times with what it took
to run the government in pre-war times.
Now is the time to make a great effort in
conquering the world. Many Baptist
people have laid up a considerable for-
tune during the past years. j\Iore than
they will need to support them. Much
of their capital must go in some way to
the next generation, but what does the
next generation need most? It is not a
vast amount of money but a good Chris-
tian civilization around the world. The
next generation can make all the mone}-
they need if society is what it ought to
be. The greatest blessing this generation
can bestow upon the next, is to use much
of the present capital to save the world
for the next geenration. Our children
can get along whether we leave them
much money or not, provided we leave
them a civilization rich with Christian
teaching and true Christian experience.
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hic;nkss of thk task
Most pastors and churches, when thc\
received their apportionments of the
$100,000,000 Campaign, felt that it was
an impossible task. It does seem large,
but let us remember that it seems that
rothing less than $100,000,000 can meet
the conditions of the world as it is today
so far as I'aptist work is concerned.
Let each one rememljer that it is a live
}tar task, not one year, and let each
church get so organized tha<^ every mem-
ber will do his best, not in one gift, but
v^ 208 gifts during the remaining period
of four years. It will not seem so im-
{Xissible wdien looked at from that view-
point. We have never undertaken so large
a task. There was never occasion for it
before. We do not know what we can
do now until w'e make a strong effort and
try to get every one to do his best. If
every Baptist in Illinois w'ould tythe his
income for the next four years, we could
keep up all current work, take care of
the Philanthropic institutions, raise the
$7,108,000, and have plenty of money
left. But besides tything, there are many
Baptists that have all the capital they
need anl should give all their income
aside from living for the next four years.
There are other Baptists that could not
only afford to give their income but large
amounts of capital that has been inherited
or accumulated, and all of it is not needed
by those parties. Now is the time to do
something heroic in the Lord's w^ork.
ILLINOIS ALLOTMENTS
The following letter was received from
Rev. Frank W. Padelford, D.D., of New-
York :
He says, "I am writing to confirm our
conversation of the 11th in Chicago. We
will allot for the budget of Illinois $130,-
000 on the permanent account, including
$30,000 for the endowment of the Uni-
versity church. This is an increase of
$50,000 over the budget given in the
Survey. We will make the operating
budget of the Illinois State Convention
as follows: 1919-20, $25,000; 1920-21,
$32,000; 1921-22, $42,500; 1922-23,
$57,500; 1923-24, $75,000. Total $232,-
500. Oand Total, $362,500.
Cordially yours,
in addition to this, the General Promo-
tion Board has allotted out of the $100.-
000.000 Fund $657,750 for missionary
work and church building to the Execu-
tive Council in Chicago. $725,000 for
Shurtleff College and $250,000 for the
Divinity School of the University of Chi-
cago. This makes $1,988,250 to be used
inside of the state of Illinois. Of course
the appropriation of the Divinity School
of the L'niversity of Chicago does not
apply to Illinois work but little more than
man)' other states, but they have credited
what they have given to each school
wherever located to the state in which
the school is located.
Since the above was put in type,
$30,000 more has been allotted to Illinois
making in all $2,018,250 out of the $7,-
108,000 asked in Illinois to be returned
to the State. That seems to be a fair
proposition and everybody should work
and give to make up the whole amount.
" 'The most astonishing thing has been
the discovery of men and of hidden forces
among us,' says Prof. Robertson. 'I can
well recall the time when a man thrilled
southern Baptists several years ago by giv-
ing $5,000 to foreign missions. It was con-
sidered to be amazing liberality. The other
day in Memphis a man who had hitherto
taken little interest in church affairs sub-
scribed $400,000 to the campaign. A num-
ber of churches subscribed $500,000 and
more, and a very considerable number
went above $100,000.' These are pointers
for our own campaign. — Missions."
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Published monthly in the interest of the
Illinois Baptist State Convention.
Subscription price, 25c a year; clubs of 20
or more, 20c.
E. P. BRAND, Editor
Superintendent of Missions,
2 01 North School Street, Normal, Illinois.
"Entered as second class matter, June 12,
1909, at the Postoffice at Normal,
Illinois, under the Act of
March 3, 1879."
FIFTY-TWO hundred copies of The
Bulletin were published in ^larch
and we ran short.
FIFTY-FI\'E hundred copies of The
BULLETIN will be published in
April. The subscription lists are com-
ing up rapidly.
LET everybody take notice, that with
the May issue there is a slight in-
crease in the price of The Bulletin. Club
prices for twenty or more subscriptions
sent in at one time, twent} cents. For
everything below twenty, twenty-five
cents each.
S we start on the twelfth year in
publishing this popular little Bap-
tist paper, let everybody become an
agent, working without cost for the good
of the cause. There is scarcely a church
where a club of twenty or more is now
taken but what many other subscribers
could be secured if some one would go
after it.
* >:= *
LET every reader of The Bulletin try
to get one new subscriber at twenty-
five cents, or a club of twenty or more
at twenty cents. The paper is much
more needed than ever before. It really
ought to be published twice a month but
the Superintendent has not time to (Jo so
much editorial and publishing work.
BEFORE another issue of The Bulle-
tin comes out, the great campaign
for $100,000,000 will be over. The drive
will be April 25-]\Iay 2. We hope Illi-
nois Baptists will make the great financial
effort of their lives in this campaign. The
other states are looking to Illinois to see
what we will do. Illinois has never fallen
down in the past. We hope she will
"go over the top" this time.
^ SjC >Jc
THE secret of success in the Great
Campaign, April 25-May 2 will be in
two things. Let those who have money
use it liberally, and let every member of
the church, men and women, boys and
girls, give something every week for four
years. In that way the total amount of
$7,108,000 assigned to Illinois can be
raised.
5K ^ ^
WHILE the great campaign is being
made, let everybody remember that
the Orphanages and Old People's Home
are included to the extent of $15,000 per
year for two years. By the end of two
years satisfactory arrangements can be
made by which the institutions can be
well supported. There is no cause for
friction among the Baptists supporting
the Baptist Convention in Illinois. Now
is the time for everybody to make a spe-
cial effort.
"It is not too early to begin making your
plans to attend the Northern Convention
which will be held June 23-29, in Buffalo,
New York. It ought to be our greatest
Convention. It will be if we raise that
$100,000,000, April 25-May 2, and who
dares to suggest that we shall not reach the
goal? Let 'Meet you in Buffalo' be the
slogan!"
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THE PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS
IN U^LINOIS
It .was thought for a while that these
institutions could not share in the $100,-
000,000 income. This was regretted by
almost everybody. Now quite satisfac-
tory arrangements have been made for
aiding them in a substantial way.. Plans
have been made with the General Promo-
tion Board of such a character that the
State Convention can turn over to these
three institutions $15,000 per year for
two years. That is on the condition that
the $100,000,000 shall be fully raised. If
it is not raised in full, this amount will
be reduced to these institutions in the
same proportion that all other institutions
will lose. This seems to be a fair settle-
inent of the matter when all conditions
are taken into consideration. We now
feel sure that all our churches and in-
dividuals will subscribe liberally and
heartily to the General fund. Within two
years satisfactory arrangements can be
made for these institutions, and we feel
sure they will be welcomed into any and
all the churches for such assistance as is
needed over and above the $5,000 an-
nually for each. If these had been left
out, it would have been a serious hin-
drance to a harmonious campaign in Illi-
nois, but we feel that trouble has now
been removed, and the executive ofificers
of the institutions and the Chairman of
the Promotion Board of the State and
the Committee appointed by the State
Convention Board and the Superintend-
ent of Missions are agreed and united
that this is a satisfactory settlement for
the present time.
WHAT SOME PASTORS SAY ABOUT THE
BIG FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN
Rev. Joseph C. Hazen, of Peoria,
writes: "The plan is this. The entire
question came before our church Board
of Promotion, then the Board of Trustees
and finally before the entire church on
Sunday morning, recommending that we
as a church co-operate with all of the
other Protestant churches of the city
April 23d to May 2d, in raising our allot-
ment. Our church's plan for raising our
share will be the same as in the every-
member canvass for the last four years."
Rev. Robert V. Meigs of Quincy,
writes, "The Quincy church at a cost of
over $100 has doubled the size of its Bul-
letin and filled it with new World Move-
ment material. This Bulletin is mailed
Fridays from March 25th to April 30th
to each church family and five hundred
extra copies are mailed to the churches
of the Association. The first Bulletin
contained an inspirational address by At-
torney Bennett, Quincy" Financial Man-
ager. The second Bulletin contained the
Easter motive for achieving the goal. A
new World Movement Catechism and a
list of Minute Men and Women."
Rev. Walter I. Fowle, D.D., of Gales-
burg, writes, "Galesburg's allotment $61,-
131. How to raise it? 1st. Follow
Standard Plan. 2d. Educate through
(a) Minvite men in every meeting and
in cottage meetings for every group, (b)
Men's Canquet. (c) Pageant. (d)
stereopticon and easel lectures, (e) Ser-
mons, (f) Literature through group
leaders. 3d. Urge attendance at all
conferences and rallies. 4th. Train
workers as carefully as book agents are
trained. 5th. Get every one to do
something before he gives anything. 6th.
Get large gifts pledged in advance. 7th.
Consecrate workers with public prayer,
April 25th and May 2d. Go after every
man, woman and child in church, Sunday
School and congregation. 9th. Above
all, praying."
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Rev. U. W. Twing, D.D., of Alton,
writes: "The portion of the hundred mil-
lion dollar budget alloted to the First
Baptist church of Alton is $50,858. Plans
for securing this amount include : prayer
on the part of those most interested ; pub-
licity through frequent pulpit announce-
ments and sermons ; talks by the Minute
Alen ; literature distributed to every
member of the church ; an energetic cam-
paign director with a good corps of cap-
tains and a selected working force ; large
contributions from those able to give
largely ; a complete and painstaking can-
vass of the entire membership of the
church and its constituency, including the
non-resident members.
"In the name of our God will we set
up our banners."
Professor George W. Taft of Chicago,
writes as follows : "Yesterday I received
word from Dr. Padelford that the North-
ern Baptist Theological Seminary was in-
chided in the drive. All sums that have
l)een given or may be pledged from now
until the end of the campaign for the
seminary will count in the $100,000,000
fund and the givers will receive credit for
the same. Please let this notice go out as
widely as possible, as many are holding
back their subscriptions awaiting this ac-
tion. The amount is $250,000 for en-
dowment and $100,000 for buildings and
equipment.''
PASTORAL CHAXGES
Rev. Wm. Cowan Uoyd has accepted
a call to become ])astor of 'the Pontiac
church and began work April 1st. He
comes from the Congregationalists to the
Baptists and seems to be a strong preach-
er. While the Pontiac church has been
pastorless for only about six months. }-et
the previous pastor was unable to work
the last eight months he was there and
this is about the first pastoral work the
Baptists have had done for fourteen
months. We hope the new pastor will
have fine success on that field, and we
welcome Brother Boyd into the Baptist
fellowship.
The Mahomet church has called Rev.
L. V. Edwards of Charleston to become
its pastor. Brother Edwards seems to be
doing good work at Charleston and it is
not known at this time whether or not
he will accept the call to Mahomet. Ma-
homet is a good field and whoever be-
comes the pastor there will have a fine
opportunity for service.
Mr. Lawrence C. Johnson of Galva,
writes March 20th as follows : "Some
time ago the First Baptist church of
Galva extended a call to Rev. C. B. Hil-
ton, pastor of the church at Delavan. He
has accepted the call and has just moved
on the field and we will have our first
services this week."
Rev. E. L. Krumreig, D.D., went from
the First Baptist church in Danville to
a pastorate in Denver, Colorado, last fall.
He reports that they have had 54 addi-
tions to the church since he went there
and that the Sunday School has in-
creased 35 percent since the first of the
year. He recently received a call from
Bessie Tift College of Forsyth, Ga.. as
professor of Economics and Sociology
at a salary of $2,500.
Rev. Edgar Ford has accepted a call
to become pastor of the Hudson church
and located on the field, beginning work-
March 21st. Hudson is a fine church,
having a good property and a fine mem-
liership in the country surrounding the
village. We hope that Brother Ford will
have a successful pastorate.
Rev. B. F. Irving of Tekamah, Nebras-
ka, has accepted a unanimous call to the
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l-'irst Baptist church of Streator, Illinois.
He took charge of the field February 22,
and the work of the church seems to be
moving along very nicely.
The Englewood IJaptist church in Chi-
cago, has called as its pastor Dr. George
R. Stair, pastor of the Dudley Street
r.aptist church of Boston, Mass. Dr.
Stair will begin work April 18th.
The Downers Grove Baptist church
has called Rev. John Stewart of Barring-
ton to its pastorate. He has accepted the
call and began his work on Easter Sun-
day.
On Sunday, March 28th, the Delavan
church extended a call to Rev. J. D. Gen-
son, a graduate of Colgate University. It
is expected that Brother Genson will ac-
cept the call.
The Andalusia church recently called
Rev. Geo. B. Wilbur of Chicago to be-
come its pastor and he has accepted the
call. He began work April 1st. Our
Andalusia church has the whole field in
that town and in the surroimding coun-
try. There is no other church in that
territory. The meeting house is in good
repair and there is a good opportunity for
work there. Brother Wilbur was pastor
of Silvis and Watertown in the Rock
River Association two vears ago.
homelike and pleasant as far as the
church relations are concerned.
E. L. Bayliss, Pastor.
The new pastor of the Xormal Baptist
church. Rev. E. L. l>ayliss. desires all
ministers in the state to kindly inform
him of the names of prospective students
who plan to attend the Illinois State Nor-
mal University from term to term. This
church has organized an excellent class
for the Baptist students under the leader-
ship of a university graduate and a
trained teacher. We shall do all that wc
can to make the student's life in Xormal
PAWNEE
The Pawnee church was organized
alx)ut sixteen years ago and soon after-
ward a good meeting house was built
with a $2500 debt at 7% interest. Nine
years ago the State Convention under-
took to save the church and by a can-
vass of the Springfield Association and
a donation from the State Board $1500
was raised and the Home Mission So-
ciety loaned $1000. $333.00 interest had
accumulated on this debt when the Con-
vention again undertook last fall to help
them out of debt. Rev. C. W. Swift of
Indianapolis, who had been pastor there
twice before, was secured for a few
months. Rev. George H. Yule spent two
weeks on this field and canvassed the
Springfield Association and succeeded
well. The debt is now all raised and the
mortgage cancelled. April 15th, an all-
day jubilee was held. Dinner and supper
were served in the church. Rev. Boston
Oldham preached in forenoon arid Supt.
E. P. Brand addressed the people fore-
noon and afternoon and preached at
night. The spiritual interest of the
church seems good. The meetings were
well attended. Money was raised to pay
up all back money Oii pastor's salary with
a nice little surplus in the treasury. The
time seems ripe now for the Baptists to
do a strong aggressive work at Pawnee.
SEMI-ANNUAL, MEETING OF THE
BOARD
The Board meeting at Osceola, April
8th, was very well attended considering
the hindrances. County and Sectional
meetings of the Inter-Church Movement
and the great Baptist Campaign kept
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many of our members away. The great
snow of Easter had just put the roads in
very bad condition. Yet there was a fair
representation of members of the Board
and of the Educational Department and
some others present. The Board con-
tinued in business, exce]3t a brief time for
sujiper in the church and time for two
addresses, from 3:00 p. m. until 11 :00 p.
m. The business was attended to in a
satisfactory manner. The people of Os-
ceola attended the night session well, and
all visitors were delighted with the splen-
did beautiful church building. The night
session began at 8:30. Dr. J. B. Thomas
spoke 35 minutes on the $100,000,000
campaign and Rev. R. Van Meigs spoke
one hour and forty minutes on Steward-
shi[).
"THE BAPTIST"
( )ur national paper. The Baptist, re-
cently purchased the Journal and Mes-
senger of Cincinnati, a central western
paper nearly one hundred _\ears old, and
Zion's Advocate of Maine, an old Nvell
established paper of that state. . This
gives '"The Baptist" the whole territory
of the Northern Baptist Convention ex-
cept the Watchman Examiner, a great
])aper of New York, which will continue
jniblication. The Baptist is a great paper
and should be in every Baptist family in
thirty-four states. But in covering so
large a territory, this one paper cannot
give very much local church news. There
is a greater demand for The Bulletin in
Illinois than ever before and the people
seem more anxious to get it. In jNIarch
we pubHshed 5,200 copies and ran short
before the month was half over. We
published 5,500 in the .\pril issue. The
May issue will begin the twelfth edition
of The Bulletin. The price of printing
is continually going up and we must in-
crease the price of The Bulletin slightly.
We will after the first of May have only
two prices, viz : twenty-five cents for sin-
gle subscriptions and for all below club^
of twenty. When twenty names or more
are sent in the pai)er can be secured for
twenty cents per }ear. Let us get a cir-
culation of seven thousand in a short
time.
PERSONALS
The State I5oard of Promotion and the
Convention Board elected Rev. A. E.
Peterson of North Dakota as State Pro-
motion Board Director and Single Col-
lecting Agent to take Dr. Carman's place
and other features that were brought
about by the $100,000,000 campaign.
P>rother Peterson, while a student, was
pastor in Chicago and is quite well known
in a portion of the state. He has been in
the office and busy for about one month.
An efifort was made to find a lawman
in Illinois to direct the work of raising
$7,108,000 in Illinois as our share of the
$100,000,000. It seemed impossible to
find a layman who could do that work
who would undertake it. Finally the
Committee prevailed upon Dr. Judson 15.
Thomas, pastor of Austin church, to ac-
cept the position. Dr. Thomas is now in
the work with all his might and seems to
be very hopeful of success. Having been
for ten years Home Mission Society Sec-
retary in Illinois, he is well acquainted
with the field.
Rev. Frank L. Anderson, wdio has been
for ten years Superintendent of the Exe-
cutive Council in Chicago and has done
a remarkably successful work as Super-
intendent of ^Missions in that city, has re-
signed to accept the presidency of the
Training School for Preachers of Foreign
nationalities which the Home Mission So-
ciety is estabhshing in New York. The
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Executive Council met in Chicago Friday,
April 2d, and after passing strong reso-
lutions of appreciation of Dr. Anderson's
work, unanimously elected Dr. Benjamin
Otto, pastor at Morgan Park, to the Su-
perintendency of the Executive Council.
It is fully expected that Dr. Otto will ac-
cept the position and enter upon the work
soon.
OHUBOHES
The First Baptist Church of Rock Is-
land is making very decided and rapid
progress. Rev. J. C. Oranger has been
pastor there for two 'and one-half years
and during that time 225 members have
been added to the church, 103 by baptism
and others will be baptized on Easter
Sunday. The church recently made an
arrangement to turn the parsonage into
a Sunday School and parish house. It
will be used for the primary de])artment
of the Sunday School and much of the
social work of the church. The church
will rent another house for the pastor un-
til another parsonage can be secured. The
church also voted to increase the pastor's
salary $500.
Rev. J. H. Bagwill is doing good work
with the Carterville ciiurch this winter.
He had intended to do some supply work
with nearby country fields, but the roads
were such that it made it almost impos-
sible through the winter months. He is
hoping now to be able to do some work
in some country fields near Carterville.
Brother Bagwill seems to fit into that field
well.
Rev. J. H. Bruggink, pastor at Forrest
City and Kilbourne, always writes a very
encouraging message. There seems to be
no pessimism whatever in his system.
The church building has recently been
put in good repair at the expenditure of
about $500. He says, ''Whereas we here-
tofore had a Union Young People's So-
ciety but we now have an organized so-
ciety of our own. We now have a
chorus choir of forty voices. One of the
bright spots in our ministry here has been
the purchasing of a fine property by the
church for a parsonage. Such things as
that help one to appreciate the members
of his flock." The Kilbourne church is
going along nicely. The Sunday School
at Kilbourne is a splendid organization.
Collinsville First: Two meetings of
our downtown Men's Bible Class have
been held. An attractive meeting place
has been secured in the central part of
our city's business section, and this im-
portant phase of the work on this field
begins with promise. Our pastor is
teaching the class, and a permanent or-
ganization is soon to be effected. Sun-
day, February 29th, the pastor presented
to the young people of the church the
matter of volunteering for lives of Chris-
tian Service. In response to this appeal
four 'young women and five young men
signified their desire to invest their lives
in Christian work as the Lord may direct.
—Max U. S. Colbert.
Evangelist L. D. Lamkin assisted Rev.
Harry Belton in special meetings at Vir-
den. A great revival is re[X)rted at that
place. The evangelist writes that there
were between sixty and seventy conver-
sions and between fifty and sixty came
into the church. The pastor. Brother
Belton, led the singing. In justice he
begs to say that Brother Belton is one of
God's able and faithful ministers of the
Gospel. He is deeply entrenched in the
hearts of his people and they all love him
verv much.
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STATE CONVENTION MISSIONARIES
Rev. A. V. Rowland, our missionary in
Peoria, reports quite aggressive work in
that city. The three branches are all
doing good work and quite a number will
be ready for baptism and church member-
ship Easter Sunday. Extensive repairs
are planned for the Bethany building.
Rev. J. Livingston Duff has been our
missionary pastor at Littleton for three
months. During that time he has con-
ducted special meetings and in many re-
spects the church and Sunday School
have made decided progress. The Lit-
leton church occupies a splendid field for
the Baptists and there is a possibility of
rapid and continuous growth.
Our missionary, Rev. C. W. Webb, re-
ports decided progress on the Wood
River field. That is a growing city. The
Baptists have bought a new location and
will soon begin the basement of their new
church building. Lots have also been se-
cured for South Wood River for a new
church in that part of the city.
Rev. Charles W. Wolfe, our mission-
ary pastor at Glasford, writes : "Glas-
ford has advanced considerably. A good
size class of men (12) has been added to
the Bible School. The chorus and or-
chestra are a new feature of the Sunday
night service. Our hopes are high for a
better future."
Rev. J. B. Martin, by the assistance of
an evangelist, had a very successful meet-
ing in his church in Petersburg. He re-
ports 34 baptisms and two other addi-
tions during the past quarter. The out-
look at Petersburg is quite hopeful and
yet very much remains to be done. That
is one of the fields in Illinois where there
is the greatest possibility for the Baptists
almost in the state and yet a field in
which they have always been very weak.
We believe that that church has a better
prospect now for rapid development than
any time in its previous history.
The influenza during the past three
months has interfered very seriously
with our evangelists' work and yet we
have never had a three months when the
work of our State Convention Evangel-
ists and missionaries seemed to be more
hopeful than it has in the past three
months. At the request of Dr. Aitchison
and the State Convention Promotion
Board we have given all our missionaries
and evangelists for the work of pushing
through the state great campaign for
thirty days after Easter Sunday. Yule,
Dent, Hopkins, Little, Dunk, McMinn
and Koehler will aid in the great work
of trying to raise $7,108,000 in Illinois.
Evangelist T. O. McMinn of southern
Illinois, will give his time in the Southern
Illinois Association in the $100,000,000
campaign. The other men will be sent
into all parts of the state.
Rev. Samuel Hoekstra, pastor of the
Fairfield Baptist church in southern Illi-
nois, writes : "I want to drop you a line
just to say a word about the series of
meetings held in our church at Fairfield
by Brother Dunk, State Evangelist.
Brother Dunk was with us for four
weeks, including five Sundays, and his
work was very much appreciated. It
seems to me he is getting better every
time I hear him preach. At this time
nineteen have united with the church,
eight by baptism and one by experience
and ten by letter. Brother Dunk's mes-
sages are thoroughly evangelistic and
right to the point. He is kind and sym-
pathetic but at the same time when he
preaches he strikes the heart of things.
I also want to thank the State Conven-
tion and yourself for sending Brother
Dunk to us in this work."
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Rev. j. C Dent writes from Belviderc
on the 22(1 of March as follows, "The
meetings began here yesterday very en
conragingly and hopefully. Had over 100
out at each service and a Sunday School
of 122. Pastor Mundell and his people
are prepared and we expect good results."
Rev. J. M. Jones, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Carthage, writes :
"I have spent some time with Brother
Hopkins, District Superintendent for the
w^estern side of the state, and like the
character of his work very much."
Rev. I. 'SI. Duke, our colored mission-
ary, writes March 15th, "I am just leav-
ing Chicago for the southern part of the
state, where I will be until our Executive
r>oard meets in Cairo, April 14th. 1 will
drop oti' at Springfield next Sunda\- and
.Alton the following week, and work my
wav from there to Cairo."
DEATHS
Mrs. W. E. Murray, a prominent mem-
ber of the Literberry church, recently
died. On March 26th, the Mission Cir-
cle passed a series of very sympathetic
and strong resolutions concerning her
useful life and character.
Rev. W. M. Rhodes of I'pper .\lton,
died Friday, March 19th. .\ge 75 years.
He ate his breakfast as usual and shortly
after dropped dead. Brother Rhodes had
been active in the ministry for many
years and while he had made his home
at Upper .-Mton during the last thirty-five
or forty years of his life, he continued to
])rcach almost every Sunday in some
church, either in Alton or in surrounding
.\ssociations. He was well known and
resjjected in that part of the state. He
had been a trustee of ShurtlefY College
for many years and was a member at the
time of his death.
.Mrs. Sarah David, widow of Joseph
David, died at Richhuid, Ind., a short
lime ago. W'liile .Mr. and Mrs. David
were btjth living, they turned over to
Superintendent Brand $6,000 as Annuity
for Home, Foreign and State Missions.
Mrs. David also willed their splendid resi-
dence in Aledo to the State Convention
to l;e held for a parsonage of the Aledo
church as long as that cliurch continues
to e.xist.
The friends of Rev. A. A. Todd, of
Jacksonville, Illinois, were greatly sur-
jjrised to hear of the death of his wife
some time ago. She had an attack of in-
duenza and soon passed away. Mrs.
Todd was a loyal helper of her husband
in his pastoral work as well as a true
and faithful homekeeper. She will be
greatly missed in the Jacksonville church
and no one but her bereaved husband can
know how^ greatl)' she will be missed in
the home. Ih'otber Todd has the sym-
l>athy of all pastors who know him.
INCREASE OF SAJLABIES
The church of Jacksonville has in-
creased the salary of its pastor. Rev. A.
A. Todd, $300.
The Roseville church of which Rev.
G. W. Claxon is pastor, gave their pastor
at Christmas time a donation of $250 and
increased the salary $300 beginning Jan-
uarv 1st.
Rev. H. C. Smith was a year or two
ago pastor at Literberry and Bethel
churches, and was then called to Lament,
Iowa. He has now returned to Jackson-
ville, 111. His wife died while in Iowa and
he himself was very sick, l>ut is now
ab'oi't well, fie came to Jacksoaiville,
where his relatives would lie!]) him care
for his children, lirother Smith was
((uite a successful pastor and we hope
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that some church or churches not far
from Jacksonville will secure him for
services in the near future.
Mrs. Allie Gene Kennard, formerly
Allie Gene Davis, of Benton, Illinois,
Secretary Illinois Baptist B. Y. P. U., is
now in Shanghai, China. She writes a
very encouraging letter coucerning their
work at this time. She says, "We love
China so much and our work here is so
interesting and so worth while. We have
decided to stay here at the college and to
help out this winter, hoping to go to the
Language School next winter, returning
to the college again after our winter
there." She adds, "This is the house
where Oska W^a-wa lives. Hope -other
'Oskies' will come to China."
aiONEY RECEIVED FOR THE STATE
CONVENTION FOR MARCH
Only a few of the churches send the
full apportionment at one time. When-
ever a payment reported in The Bulletin
completes the apportionment, it will be
indicated by a (*) star.
Areola $ 5.09
Andalusia, farm rent 112.30
Aurora, Park Place 10.50
Baptist Old People's Home, Ex-
pense of Beneficence Office 27.10
Benton 75.00
*Bethel 17.38
Berwyn 24.75
Big Rock 16.38
Bulletin Advertisement 7.00
Centralia 46.77
Chatsworth 4.17
Champaign, First 18.75
Champaign, University 3.35
Chicago, Austin 26.28
Chicago, Second , 53.75
Chicago, Hyde Park 100.00
Chicago, Irving Park 15.05
Chicago, Lorimer Memorial .... 18.56
Chicago, Normal Park 17.04
Chicago, Epiphany 7.00
Chicago, Tabernacle I. 10.75
Chicago, Windsor Park w- 3.33
Cornell 3.50
Coles 3.22
Collections on Pawnee Ch. De,bt.. 965.12
Danville, First 7.50
Decatur, First ....i 36.00
Educational Commission 95.83
Freeburg 2.17
Galesburg 53.50
Interest 1,106.92
Joliet, Eastern Ave 18.71
Joliet, Ridgewood 5.60
Kewanee 30.00
Kinderhook , -.-- 2.67
Lexington 2.68
Marley .' 7.00
Macomb 30.00
Marengo 22.25
Mt. Vernon, First 47.25
Mt. Vernon, Second 20.00
Normal 3.82
Northwestern Baptist Education-
al Society, Expense of Benefic-
ence office 9.03
Orion 12.00
Oreana 10.00
Olney ^ 6.00
Percy .89
Plainfield 4.57
Rockford, First 16.80
*Roseland 30.00
Repaid Expense Account of Chi-
cago office 38.65
Shurtleff College, Expense of
Beneficence office 9.13
Union Center 3.54
University Church pledges 90.00
Victory Campaign 3,840.00
Woodstock -.- 5.69
York 9.21
Total $7,169.55
Many Illinois Baptists will be interested
in the following quotation. Rev. George
Caleb Moor was pastor of Downers Grove
church twenty-one years ago. He then
went to Indiana and from there was called
to the First Baptist church of Champaign,
where he was pastor for several years.
He is now in New York. The following
quotation is taken from the Watchman
Examiner:
"Dr. George Caleb Moor has been pastor
of the Madison avenue church. Borough of
Manhattan, City of New York, for only
seven months, but during that time new
life has come to the church, and the future
is bright with promise. At a recent busi-
ness meeting the reports from the several
oiganizations of the church were encour-
aging. Every department of the church is
well organized, and the people are full of
hope and enthusiasm. As a token of affec-
tion and good will for Dr. Moor his salary
was raised from $7,500 to $10,000 a year.
The churches of our denomination that pay
their pastors $10,000 a year can be counted
on the fingers of one hand. There are
many men in our ministry, we suppose,
who feel that they could make good use
of such a salary, but they will not envy
Dr. Moor this token of his people's affec-
tion. Dr. Moor is preaching to ever-in-
creasing congregations and is happy in his
work."
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
The Baptist Old People's Home
May^vood, Illinois
HODfiLSON BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Rev. N. T. Hafer, Supt.
Mrs. N. T. Hafer, Matron
This Home with its forty-two resi-
dent members and many deserving ones
waiting to enter is not only still "on the
map," but in actual existence, with a
clean record, beautiful service and a
clean balance sheet.
This last item continues to be an anx-
iety and has been made possible by the
interest on our Endowment Fund, gifts
from friends and Sunday Schools, pieced
out by rummage sales, tag days, etc.
The Illinois churches have contributed
since last April through the Central Col-
lecting Agency a little over $2,000 and
we are hoping some churches that have
not yet contributed as well as those which
have met their apportionments to the
Educational and larger Missionary Or-
ganizations and find a surplus in their
treasury — will send a contribution this
month to the Old People's Home as the
allotment made us by the State Board is
not half met, and our needs are urgent.
Friends of the Home have been happy
in the thought that the "Uig $100,000,000
cam])aign is to cover all Uajnist Interests
except the local church." There has been
some uncertainty about this, but it has
now been adjusted by our State Conven-
tion Board and the General Board that
this shall be done. Five thousand dol-
lars per year for the present to be allowed
each of the Orphanages and the Old Peo-
ple's Home. Of course our current ex-
pense is considerably over this amount,
and we shall still need personal gifts and
help for the much needed enlargement of
the work.
We have but two messages this month,
the one an expression of thanksgiving
that we have escaped another scourge of
diphtheria which visited us in March.
The other statement, which we are happy
to make, that our Philanthropic Institu-
tions will share in the results of the great
campaign. The fact that this will come
directly through the Baptist State Con-
vention by special arrangement with the
General Promotion Board makes it none
the less welcome, for the State Conven-
tion of Illinois has always stood by the
Philanthropic institutions. While the
amount agreed upon is not sufficient for
our needs, the $5,000 per year promised
will be sufficient so that the special of-
ferings of the churches and the gifts of
generously disposed individuals who are
more and more making the care of the
poor a regular beneficence, will enable us
to care for our increasing family of help-
less ones. We are pleased to be in line
with this great movement and trust that
Illinois will go over the top in harmonious
support of this great movement. Any
failure to reach the great objective will
of course lessen the resources of the
Philanthropies as well as every other
l^hase of our denominational work. The
Superintendent of Hudelson has agreed
heartily to the above arrangement and
will give his personal service to the cam-
paign and make his personal pledge
whole-heartedly. The great interests of
the Kingdom are at stake and this is the
time for sacrifice and service.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
189
Department of Religious Education
Chairman Rev. Herbert Hines, El Paso, Director Rev. Louis H. Koehler, Normal
Elementary Directory Miss Marian E. Kimble, Galesburg
School and Society Reports
On account of a delay in receiving the
material, the report blanks for schools
and societies were not mailed out until
March 31st. This makes it necessary
that superintendents and presidents be
urgent in returning same. All reports
should be in by the 15th. It takes but
a half hour or so to fill in a blank. Do
not delay, but do it now.
Daily Vacation Bible School
The school of intensive training for
week of April 12th at ShurtlelT College
has had to be postponed. The interest
in this school was growing and we regret
l)Ostponement. All interested should send
name to director who will inform those
who send in name when the school will
be held. Pastors thinking of conducting
a school this summer should keep in touch
with this office.
The Summer Assembly
Here is a partial list of the courses to
be given at the assembly : Pastoral Lead-
ership of Religious Education, Funda-.
mentals in Missions, Good Sunday School
Teaching, R. Y. P. U. Aims and Activit-
ies, Bible . Study, Baptist History, The
Program of Christianity, Teacher Train-
ing, Training the Devotional Life and
A'lissions-Book Study for 1920. The ex-
penses will be reasonable. Only $12.00
for lodging, meals and registration fee.
Meals will be served by the women of
the church. A second circular giving de-
tails as to faculty, courses and cost will
be sent out after the meeting of the de-
partment early in April. These will be
sent to all pastors, superintendents and
presidents. If you ought to receive one
and do not, kindly send a card to state
office requesting same. We have a card
filing list of all the pastors, etc., which is
revised monthly and we urge all workers
to apprise us of all changes among pas-
tors, superintendents and presidents. Be
sure to plan to attend the assembly July
12-18, 1920.
The B. Y. P. IT. Program
A leaflet describing the aim and organi-
zation of our state B. Y. P. U. has been
issued and a copy sent to every president
of a local society. Now let all the B. Y.
P. L'.'ers get behind this state program
and push it to the limit. This will be the
main gathering of the Baptist young peo-
ple of the state. It is your convention
for instruction, recreation, fellowship and
inspiration.
Items That Count
One of our societies is expecting to
record 100 per cent tithers soon. How
about your society?
The increasing number of life recruits
makes it necessary that we create a state
organization at the assembly. Let pas-
tors purchase "Making Life Count," only
50c, and see that it is circulated among
their young people.
"According to the income tax records for
ir-lg only 1,671 of the 170,000 ministers
in the United States earned enough in that
year to come within the law's minimum
required for the payment of a Federal in-
come tax."
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ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Woman s
Baptist Missionary Society of Illinois
MRS. W. P TOPPING, Pres.
Mrs. Martha V. Higman, Editor Mrs. H. W. Tate, Treasurer
Morgan, Park 2331 Hartzell Ave., Evanston
RtililGIOUS INSTITUTES
The first week in March was made
memorable by three institutes, held in
L'linton and Keokuk, Iowa, and Rock Is-
land, 111.
These institutes were arranged by
Prof. Lapham, of Iowa, and Rev. Louis
Koehler, of Illinois, Sunday School State
Directors. For the first time in meetings
of this sort. Woman's Work in Missions
was presented, and it was a great pleasure
for the president of the W. B. M. S. of
Illinois to meet the women and young
women of these and adjacent cities. The
institutes, educational along Sunday
School, B. Y. P. U. and Mission lines,
lasted two to three days in each place.
The special work of the state president
consisted in addresses on "Woman's Part
in the New World Movement," "Wom-
an's Part in Americanization," "Through
Our Field Glasses," and "Special Feat-
ures of Woman's Work." A question-
naire was conducted in each city and spe-
cial meetings with splendid young women
— many of whom we are hoping to meet
again at our Baptist ^lissionary Training
School.
It is hoped and planned that these in-
stitutes may become a splendid advance
feature of our state life.
The Inter-Church World Movement
held a conference for pastors and wom-
en delegates from the state in Chicago
March 8-10. Women from nine associa-
tions were present. Mrs. W. P. Topping
was made State Chairman of the Wom-
an's Department to arrange County Con-
ferences through the state. All denom-
inations are represented in these confer-
ences, both by speakers and those who
attend.
The Annual ]\Ieeting of ihe Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society for the Cen-
tral District will be held in Carbondale
May 4-6. This is a fine opportunity for
all Illinois women to attend a meeting
which promises to be of unusual help and
inspiration. Those living m the central
and southern part are especially favored
because of the comparative short distance
from their homes.
Again we record that one of our Board
members, Mrs. Chas. Moore, of Chicago,
is in deep sorrow because of the passing
of her husband after a lingering illness.
Her many friends sympathize with her
and her two children in their loss of a
noble husband and father.
]\Irs. Norton J. Hilton of Minonk,
president of the Bloomington Association,
did a splendid work last fall in the Jubilee
Campaign and was rejoiced that the As-
sociations allotted to her went over the
top. Now she is rejoicing and accepting
the congratulations of her friends over
the arrival of a son on March 12th, who
undoubtedly in the years to come will
be a fine addition to our missionary force.
ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN 101
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Can the lUor
d Count on
the Baptists?
T
'he world is in need. How desperately, it does not know.
More than half of the world has never heard of Christ. Even in
so-called Christian lands the need has not been fully met. Our
great cities, as well as the rural fields, call for the largest possible minis-
try on the part of the church. Can the world count on the Baptists
doing their part?
Can the other Christian bodies count on us? When missionary
work was begun in the Philippine Islands, the Protestant churches
agreed to assume responsibility for definite areas to prevent overlapping
and under-occupation. W^e Baptists undertook to evangelize Samar,
Occidental Negros and a large part of Panay, with a combined popula-
tion of about one million. After twenty years we have not yet begun to
occupy Samar. We must discharge our obligation to these people and
keep faith with the other Protestant churches.
When the difl:erent denominations became responsible for Central
America, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras were accepted as Bap-
tist territory. No work has yet been undertaken in Honduras.
In Montana various denominations have allocated the unoccupied
parts of the state among themselves, and the other denominations are
looking to us to minister to definite areas.
Burma is considered pre-eminently Baptist missionary ground. \\'e
I have many more missionaries there than all other denominations com-
I bined. Baptists are directly responsible for 9 Million out of the total I
I population of 12 Million, yet we have only a membership of 75,000 after s
I a hundred years. • I
J Most important of all, can God count on the Baptists ? j
OUR ANSWER WILL BE GIVEN APRIL 23— MAY 2
The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention,
276 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
192 ILLINOIS BAPTIST BULLETIN
Shurtleff College
A Million Dollar Plant
January 1, 19U)— Old Endowment $182,883.05
.\t'\v I'Jidowment, included in the One Hundred ^lillion
Campaign ^ 500,000.00
Total $682,883.05
January 1, 1919 — Buildings and Grounds 105,223.44
Xew Buildings and Equipment in the One Hundred Million
Campaign 225.000.00
Total $330,223.44
Grand Total— Endowment and Plant $1,013,106.49
Have you made your contribution to Shurtleff College?
Illinois Baptists should remember that any gifts made to Shurt-
leff College will count on their church allotments in the National Fi-
nancial Campaign.
If it will clarify the matter and help in the work, gifts may be sent
direct to Shurtleff College and the college will certify the amount to the
General Board of Promotion.
Information will be gladly given.
GEORGE M. POTTER, President.
MYRON W. HAYNES, Endowment Sec'y.
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