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WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION 479
mission service in such a way that the 338,896 members of our 28,493 missionary
education organizations will grow in glowing witness to Christ, the
true Light
"A SAVIOUR TO SHOW"
If we fathom or even sense the purpose of Woman's Missionary Union,
then we can confidently say that we consider that all of the activities as set
forth in this report are promoted because our members know that "we've a
Saviour to show to the nations." That's why we reaffirm that our Union is an
auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, that's why we seek to promote
every undertaking of the Convention and in addition to maintain two other
causes that are vital particularly to the Convention's Home and Foreign Mission
Boards. One of these causes is the W.M.U. Training School, located in
Louisville, Kentucky, on a seven-acre site adjoining the property of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, all of whose classes are open to students of
our School. Only college graduates are eligible for enrolment in our School,
the present number being 228. The other definitely W.M.U. cause is our
Margaret Fund for assisting S.B.C. home and foreign missionaries in the
education of their sons and daughters, preferably during their college years.
Since 1916, a total of 532 young people have received scholarships at an expenditure
of $472,314.07. Despite the disruption of war eighty-seven young
people received scholarships during the scholastic year 1945-46 at a total cost
of $20,000. Scholarships are granted for postgraduate work, to young men for
seminary work and to young women for training school study and nursing.
Medical loans are granted students who expect to go as medical missionaries
under the Foreign Mission Board.
In maintaining the Margaret Fund and the W.M.U. Training School there
is one consuming passion—namely, to guide young lives into definitely Christian
service either in home or foreign lands. Several graduates of our School's
senior class this year and one of its instructors have thus volunteered for
foreign service, even as certain of the Margaret Fund students purpose to invest
their lives. Each month this year in our Calendar of Prayer we are devoting
the first Monday's petition to the urgency for mission volunteers and
the need of encouragement by their parents that they "follow the gleam";
also the need is being emphasized by specially prepared articles in our magazines
for both the women and young people, by talks and demonstrations at
our southwide and state meetings this year and by having "A Call for Volunteers"
as the theme for the W.M.U. Conference at Ridgecrest.
Why do we love and rejoice in all such work, why do we feel the urge to
promote it? Because God "sent His Son to save us" and because thus "we've a
Saviour to show to the nations" beginning with our own, that "Christ's great
Kingdom shall come on earth, the Kingdom of love and light!"
Respectfully submitted
MRS. GEORGE R. MARTIN, President
KATHLEEN MALLORY, Executive Secretary
MRS. W. J. COX, Treasurer
JULIETTE MATHER, Young People's Secretary