Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-05-30
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,

oOO hEhH BAPTIST CONFENIION9 f
A Baptist Convention met at Augusta, Georgia,
ct which the Hon. William Lumpkin presided
There were three hundred delegates in attendance
from the States Of Maryland, Virginia, South Car
DINA, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky,
and from the District of Colombia. r ..~ .se
The Rev. w. b. johnson, ID. ID. South Carroll
ma, was elected president Of the convention.
committee of sixteen was appointed TO pre-
pare preamble and resolutions for the action Of
the convention.
AT The meeting on Friday, the preamble and
resolutions were reported and adopted without OPP
position. The report is in the following words
"REpokT.--The Committee to whom It has
been referred, to report II preamble and resolu-
tons, cannqt hut express their profound sense OF
the responsibility resting upon your bouy al Tue
present eventI'u crisis, as the integrity Of the ma
tiun-Ee interests Of truth--the sacred enterprise
of converting the heather, are involved in your
deliberations. That such IA convention was lmpe-
rlouSly demanded, must be apparent to all The
Boston Board have, in their answer to the Alaba-
ma resolutions, most clearly and unnecessarily eX-
coed their power, and violated their tIust. 1t is
question admitting of no debate, that the Trienni-
al convention was formed on the principle OF per
feet equality of members from the north and south
And what is all important, the very qualifications
of Missionaries are prescribed by the original con
sttn'.o% v. t'a' eo,e'lto" =; ~ r,"
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and who furnish satisfactory evidence of cenuin,
| piey, good talents and fervent zeal for the Re
deemers cause, are TO he employed as m'ss'oha
irieS'
"Besides this, too, the declaration of the Board
that if any one should offer himself as mission
my having slaves, and should insist on rctanin.
them as his properly, we con'd not appoint 'im'
Is an innovation ana dep"rt!fe from the coGrs
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ro'i'rn''o" al olce PF"cet" 20 organize ooclef
10, ,"' r'oPos"uoN OIL Vlc gospel"
The action OF the convention resulted in d
vision and new organization, az follows
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',s"r' ,.-,;', ,T "e"FS"' al
ery three yeurs TLe fra meeting " ' ro ,aE
place at Nashville. Ten. Nav. 1886
,sThe Board. ME 10 I've two in number for !,
dcpendent nnrro.es-.ono charpeJ viii tho rorai,
missionary denartmeut, the other w;th rho han
missions. The foreign Board is located in XIII
mond. Va. Rev.. B. J,tter, Of tb,t Stale IL !,
president; Fuller, of s. C. is vice prssidenp nm
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