Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-22
The American Baptist Home mission So
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MORNING SESSION, NAY q.
The A. B. Home Mission Society COM
meneed its session at 9 o'clock.
j. W.sMerrill, ESQ, the President of the
Society, took the chair after an hour spent by
the Society in devotional exercises.
After the reading of the 55th chapter of
Isaiah, and prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Crane, the
President MAIDS a short address on the i'm
p%ortsnce of the meeting in the present con-
ditiOn Of national affairs. He claimed the
Baptist denomination as the only true spOs-
ties Of civil and religious liberty throughout
the world. The Baptists were the only sect
who had never been guilty of religious per-
secution. He expressed his sense of the i'm
portsncs of the Home Mission Society. He
spoke of the reasons which had prevented
the Society from being national,-their feel
ings of conscience on the subject Of the great
national sin
The emigration into the country which
would, in spite of every obstacle that had
been or might be thrown in its way by the
ministers Of foreign governments, be
greater than ever before, would give the So
ciety 6 field for the most earnest lsbors
The emigrants we're Of a much better class
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we had generally received, there was a large
influx Of Protestant Irish and Germans.
He felt that the emigrants could only be
made good citizens by the teachings ofJesus
Christ. He closed with an apology for TAX
ing up so much of the important time of the
Society.
While the Chair was preparing to nominate
the various committees the Society joined in
singing Coronation
The President then announced the Com
mittees
On Credentials Of DdegGtes-Rev's silas nsley,
Of n. Y; A. F. Spaldlng, OF Rhode Island; War
rem Randolph, of Massachusetts G.. W. Chap
man, Esq, of Massachusetts, F. J. Titus, Esq,
OF Ohio Henry Croekey, Of Pennsylvania.
On Life Directors dad Life Mg1lbsrs-E. E.
Barney, Esq, Of Ohio Rev. VIM. H. Pendleton,
| Of n. T.. Charles WIllett, Esq, Of Minnesota
g. W. Little, Of Massachusetts J.R. Osgood,
Esq, Of Indiana.
Anderson, D. D., OF N. Y. A. K. P. Small, of
Maine Reuben jeffrey, of Pennsylvania; James
Boyce, Esq, of Rhode Island; Thane Miller, OF
Ohio; R.. G. Smith, of Michigan W. II. Parme-
ley, Of New York E. G. Mitchell, Of illinois C.
W. Flanders, of New Hampshire (; A. P. Mason,
Of Massachusetts.
The Chair announced the committee Of ar
~rangements as follows:
Rev. DR.. Adams, of Ohio ; Rev. DR.. Bae-
ehus, of New York, Secretary Of the Society /;
Rev. Mr.. Mckenzie and Rev. s. B. Page,
Of Ohio.
A resOlutiOn, inviting strangers present to
take part in the meeting was adopted.
The report of the Treasurer and Auditors
vas read and accepted. The principal facts
thereof are contained in the Corresponding
Seeretary's report.
The Committee of Arrangements reported +:
1st. That the hours of commencing and
closing the meeting be the same as those Of
the Union.
ID. That the Report of the Corresponding
Secretary be now read.
The report was accepted and the report Of
the Corresponding Secretary being called for,
it was accordingly read. We give the follow
ing:
In 1882 a Convention Of Baptist ministers
and members from different parts of the
United States, met in the city Of New York
and organized the American Baptist Home
Mission Society. The Society same into ex-
istence as one full grown. It appointed
ninety missionaries the first year. Fourteen
were for the State of Ohio. 0ne of the four
teen, Rev. Samuel R. Clark, was to labor in
Cleveland, then a small tow Of about one
thousand inhabitants,
With a parents care the Society watched
over, encouraged, and assisted the few Bap-
fists then found in the village of Cleveland
and its vicinity, until of themselves, they
were able to maintain the worship of God.
T~birty-one years have passed, and to-day
the Society holds its thirty-frst anniversary,
not in the Cleveland that was, but in the
Cleveland thatis q large and beautiful city,
with a population Of more than sixty thou
sand.
As the result Of change in policy, the Board
have been much Of the time without agents to
collect, OF secretaries to help. And, though