Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-01

! there were other brethren DESTROYS Of expressing
Their views. the question was called for, end Dir.
! Burns arose and said:
That to him this question vas one ofrdeep inter
esi; it vas the pivot which the Whole thing turn
ed and therefore he Whished to express his views
on the subject He said he was going OF the stage
Of action; his head whitened with The frosts Of
eighty winters and he wanted the rising generation
to have the benefits Of what they we're doing to-
night With regard TO the points CT location, he
sid there we're but two places hat have The neces-
sary advantages IL you look at Nashville there is
prospect Of having your books, tracts, and al The
Sunday School literature published there. There
was but one more place that had the facilities like
/ Nashville, namely: Memphis. We want it in as
nearly central position as possible We moth
ing that indicates any otherpont more suitable and
adapted to the ends We wish 10 accomplish than
Nashville, Railroads an wafer navigation radiaie
from that place 10 nearly every point ofthe COM
pass BE said If the books Of the Union should be
published there, how rapidly and conveniently ali
the Sunday School operations Of the Uuion could be
carried on and facilitated If you goNorth to pub
lish your books there is the transportation the diff
fculty Of your Beard in examining your books; and
it would be very announcement. We have facilities
at home 70 perform our work and publish our books.
We have railroads coming in from every direction
river running north aud south. All these advRRs
tsges We have; and then last, though not least,
we have the men - Southern men = men inter
esfed in the work whose hearts are in the business.
We have them where they can b5 consulted every
day-any day. We have them Where we can enter
into communication will them, by letters from time
10 time, SO as 10 know how business IS progressing
Now, sir let this gray head plead With you to lay
down all these objections which have beenurged Look
at the interests Of the rising generation The time
will come, in nv humble opinion, when the Sunday
School viii be the grand lever that shall turn the
world If have living, holy faith, aud have my
fuicrum planted upon the eternal truth OF the Bible,
then give me the Sunday School for my lever aud
can turn the world Il IS the deepest interest Of my
heart that this cause may progress He hoped they
would locate It at Nashville, but if they could not !
agree TO do thst then looate il st Memphis. They
must have their books somewhere where the Board
is located.
MIR. shelton said that some thought that Memphis
was the proper place for location, and Others that
Nashville was He did not think there any |
reason for great haste Il perfectly proper that
they take time to examine all the reasons fer and
against it, and he hoped that harmony might prevail
in all their deliberations He thought, Tor one, that
Memphis for several reasons, should be selected 1t
was a great and growing city, planted upon the |
banks Of the noble Mississippi, and as accessible !
as any other eity-that can be found snyWhere with
in the limits Of the South. Here in this city are |
brethren adapted in all respects 10 discharge the
duties that would devOlye upon such Board. he |
thought if the Board was located here in Memphis,
it WOnd have a tendency to unite together all the
Baplists Of the South who are favorable to South
ern Sunday School literature. And he thought it
was their duty as a Convention to do every thing
in their power consistent with trutl and right 60
establish Board upon such principles that all the
Bap.ists in the South may unite in sustaining 1t
The question had not been disposed of when the
reporter left. That paper says the convention is
composed Of about six hundred delegates, and that
the greatest uuanimity of action is maufestin all
their deliberations.