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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Flu Delays Baptist Mobile Schools, March 3, 1920

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., March 3, 1920

Mobile Schools to Operate

By Walter M. Gilmore

Raleigh—On account of the continued prevalence of influenza throughout the State, the 11 mobile schools, which were staged to be held next week March 8-12, at the following places: Wilmington, Hertford, Henderson, Scotland Neck, Maxton, Sylva, Marshall, Mooresville, North Wilkesboro, Burlington and Newton—have been called off temporarily, according to information sent out from headquarters here today.

A second and much larger series of these mobile schools will be held July 19-23. Dr. W.R. Cullom of Raleigh, who is the general director of these schools this year, is planning to mobilize and train the Baptist forces of the State in this July series of schools on a scale hitherto untried.

Following up the great financial campaign of last fall which resulted in raising more than $90 million in subscriptions for benevolent purposes outside of home church expenses, the Baptists of the South are now putting on an evangelist campaign of similar proportions.

Dr. Walter N. Johnson, secretary of the Board of Missions of the Baptist State Convention, and Dr. W.R. Cullom, who was associated with him as State organizer in the $75 Million Campaign, are arranging for a number of conferences in different sections of the State with a view to working out the details of the big campaign in this State and to put the supreme importance on the movement of the hearts of the leaders of the denomination.

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