Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is not so. A meeting of the American Mission to Lepers, at Manhattan last week, made the point very clear...
...last week's Leper Mission meeting Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy...
...enthusiast in philanthropic work in Boston he has been chairman of the Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the Red Cross. He was also actively interested in the work of the Children's Mission, the Boston Floating Hospital, the Boston Provident Association, and numerous other organizations of the same character having to do with social service work...
Some 3,000,000 persons annually contribute $1,000,000 each year to these mission funds. Many a widow's mite, many a tot's tithe swells the total. Part of Treasurer Carnes's job was to lend money to needy wayside churches, and Treasurer Carnes thereby made contacts with wayside bankers, whom he won as he had won the board. His word alone was good at many a Southern bank, and often he borrowed $15,000, $10,000 and like sums "for the board...
...perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established a restitution fund to make up Carnes's alleged defalcations...