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686 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Now hear the news as it came in in 1943:
"March 12. For first time in forty years Foreign Mission Board doesn't
owe a dollar.
—CHAS. E. MADDRY, secretary."
"May 12. Home Mission Board has paid the last of its debt.
—J. B. LAWRENCE, secretary."
"August 3. Southern Baptist Hospital out of debt for first time since it was
organized.
—L. J. BRISTOW, superintendent."
"August 13. Baptist Bible Institute out of debt.
—DUKE K. MCCALL, president."
"October 1. Southwestern Seminary pays last dollar of old debt.
—E. D. HEAD, president."
"October 23. Southern Baptist Seminary pays last, of debt.
—ELLIS A. FULLER, president."
"December 29. We are debt-free in '43, paid 100 cents on dollar, $38,846.49
balance. Hallelujah.
—J. E. DILLARD."
Chorus:
PRAISE GOD
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
THE ROMANCE OF CORONATION
The Southern Baptist Convention is in its Centennial Year. This should be
the most romantic year of the century. None of us ever saw such a day before
and none will live long enough to see such another. It ought to be celebrated in
a great way.
Then the need of a broken, bleeding, bludgeoned, and bewildered world; an
the pathetic condition of our own mission work in the war-blasted areas- and
indeed the critical condition of civilization itself—all call for heroic faith and
sacrificial effort. No ordinary plans and methods can suffice for a time like this.
In order to help meet these needs and to complete, celebrate, climax, and crown
one century of organized Christian service for Christ, and to inaugurate and
launch worthily another century of yet greater devotion and effort. Southern
Baptists have devised and are promoting a Centennial Crusade.
This Centennial Crusade has six great objectives:
1. Evangelism: a million more souls for Christ.
2. Enlistment: a million more souls enlisted in the work of Christ.
3. Education: a million more taught the will and way of Christ.
4. Rehabilitation: rebuilding war's wreckage.
5. Stewardship: reviving Bible giving.
6. Benevolences: relieving humanity's hurt.
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apocalyptic angel shall cry "The kingdoms of this world are become the kinX
of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever "