The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-02
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Association met at 81 p NJ.
After the usual devotional exercises, and q re-
port from the Business Committee,
The Bible Board of the Association reported
through Rev. L. q. Jones. The prevalence of the
yellow fever in Norfolk, where the Board is loca-
ted, and the want of funds. had circumscrbed its
operations during the year. The financial part
Of the report showed . balance on hand the LIST of
June, 1855, amounting to $l05 49. Received at
the last Association, S63S 55 Receipts since that
time s409 95 Total receipts Sll53 SO, all of which
had been used in promoting the objects of the
Board, except S9f 02
The report was adopted. -
DR.. Ryland regretted that the receipts of this
Board did not attest that peculiar regard which
Baptists profess to have for the Bible
Elder j. r. Graves. rs the representative of the
was then invited to address the meeting. He re-
quested that some brother would offer two reso-
lutions which he had srepared
lst To the effect that, in view of the wants of the
Home and Foreign Field, the Bible Board bs re
questsd to tretl, quadruple their operations And
I'd. Urging each District Association to form As.
sociation Bible Society.
These resolutions having been proposed and
seconded, Mr.. Graves said: He could net make q
seGm speech Ii he read the faces around him
Alright, his hearers were moved by principle
more than passion. He had long since been dis.
gusted with galoaai-ing religious assemblies-ths
getting up sham feeling for some pence hd penny
business, to execute momentary excitement that
leaves no permanent good come, said he with
something that requires your solemn attention
| to speak to your conseiences about that which
| concerns your own field and the world He want
ed the operations of the Bible Board of Virginia
to appear in the Reports of the Southern Baptist
| Convention-where last year only Sl3 had been
| reported as coming from old Virginia, the great
| Baptist State, the Old Dominion, where people
considered 1t an honor to be born You have
raised Sll00, let it appear to the stranger who
takes up our documents to discover the operations
Of Southern Baptists-but is this eroaghi You
may object to book written by one of your own
men when called TO circulate it, but you canno,
| object to circulating the Word of Life We are
| not created anew in Christ for nothing Our obi
| cations to labor for him high az our obliga
| tions TO Him for this new creation. For foui
| years you have not given Bible TO the pershins
| millions in Foreign lands. Young States which
have wide spread destitution in their own bounds
have stretched out their hands TO aid the heather
| yet not Bible or Testament had gone from Oh
| Virginia
| Mr.. Graves proposed for Virginia new plan
| which was working well in the South. Let eacl
| Church have Bible Society, to meet once or twic
| q year; have sermon or an address, and take III
| collection. Even careless non professor W oul.
| give enough to send Testament to the heathen--
q Testament which cost no more than his last cigar
Let the funds so collected 60 20 the District Asso
/ ciation, which may have q Board and thence d
| the Board OF the General Association and fuali,
to the Baptist Convention, TO be distributed half
home and half abroad. This plan had worked we
| in Alabama. Five years ago they sent out .,
Agent, at $3.50 per year, to organize these Churc
societies. He spoke TO the churches, presented
constitution for their adoption, procured the del
very of . sermon or address. got them to take u
collection, and then adjourn TO meet again In si
| months They raised the first year Sl5O0 the SCI
ond $1,000 the third more thar 5000, the /, urt
more than $4,000, and the fifth and last more tina
5000. The Agent had no need TO return /
churches once visted-the machinery set in me
ton went on, and at every revolution Of the whss
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nessee the same success had attended this plan :
Children we're interested by this plan, aud becam
anxious TO bring their offerings. This was Ii
Catechim for them. Mr.. q. said II was matter