The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-12

MONDAY. June IL, 1865.

The Association met ut O'Clock, a.
v and half an hour was spent in deyo-
tional exercises.
The President, the Rev. r. II. Bagby,
then took the chair, and the minutes OF
Saturdays proceedings were read and ap-
proved.
The report of the Education Board for
the past year was read as follows:
During the year they have collected no
funds, assisted no young men, transacted
no business. The causes of this inactivity
are:
First. The Richmond College, which was
brought into being by this Board, and which
has been employed from the beginning
to do its educational work, has not YET re-
sumcd its operations.
Second. The depressed condition OF the
country has not seemed To JUSTIFY Us III
calling on the churches for contributions.
We have, however, lost none OF our con-
victons of the importance OF an enligh'-
ened ministry, nor do we feel less pcrSua-
ded that we must lave our own men edu:
Gated on our own soil. What the Boafff1
have done for the last thirty-tivc years Is
seen in the many able and devoted minis
ters who are cxerting Il blessed influence
ON our country. That this work must not
be longer suspended needs no argument TO
show. We recommend to the Association
the following resolutions, to be laid before
the future Board for their guidance
|. R.solred, That as soon as the college
shall resume operations, the Board shall
offer to young men the same lacllitleS as
neutrality-suspicious. instruction and Gre
dit for board, payable without interest.
! 2. Resolrcd That it is the appropriate
business of the Educational Board to seek
out and encourage such young men as pro-
mise to be useful.
3. Resolred, That the churches be called
on to contribute, as formerly, accordingto
| their means, to the assistance ofSuch young
men as the Board may receive under It's pa
/ tronagc.
The Rev. DR.. Burrows congratulated the
Association upon the iervor and libcrallty
of feeling which had characterized It's pro-
cecdngs. He then alluded to the i'm
portancc of the objects of the Education
Board, and hoped that the Association
would give it their cordial cooperation.
He pledged himself that even in our pre-
sent depressed condition every young man
who is called by God to His ministry shall
be provided for, and the means found in
some way for his proper training. lie Sald
/ also that all the different works OF the de
nomination depended upon an efficient and
/ highly trained ministry.
! Rev. A. NJ. Poindcxter, OF Halifax,
thought that the claims of ministerial cdu-
cation could not be over-cStimated. In
Kentucky, the power of the BaptlSts had
decreased it was less now than II was ten
wears ago, and all on account OF the lack OF
energy in conducting the Baptist colleges
there. In Virginia, the BaptistS had had
the bone and sincw Of the land, and had
been the wcalthicst denomination i'll the
State; and yet all that had been done III
! Virginia in the cause Of education was the
Richmond College, OF the existence ofWhlch
many of the citizens of Richmond were
perhaps unaware. Al this day il is ques-
! ton whether Richmond College shall not
sink, and whether the Danville College
shall ever rise above its present condition.
All educational institutions demand our
interest and sacrifices and II We do not
/ elevate and rcinrigorate those institutions,
Baptist children educated in other instltu-
, tionS will become the power ami strength
| OF the BaptiSts. He alluded to the efforts
being made by other denominations to
secure the control of the education of child
rem, and said that the present Baptist
policy was impoveriShing that dcnomina-
ton and paving the way for its gradual de-
cline. In conclusion, hc made an appeal
to the BaptiStS throughout the entire coun-
try to come forward and place their cduca-
tional institutions upon such Il footing that
they would fear no rivalry, and could be
surpassed BY This was necessary for
every work of the denomination, and was
necessary for the SustenanCc and salvation
of the Baptist cause: for although many Of
the preachers only required a knowledge
of the Word of God, there must hc besides
men who could grapple with the enemy in
every form. and draw knowledge from
every source.
The report Of the Education Board was
then adopted.
The Rev. W. r. Mcdonald then pre-
scented the report Of the Committee on
Richmond College in the following rcso-
lutions:
Resolved, That. in the opinion of this body,
the exercises of Richmond College ought
to be resumed at the beginning of the next
session.
Rssolred, That this should he done in
such a way and under such auspices as to
give reasonable assurance that the insti-
tuition is to be one worthy of the character
and suitable to the wants of the Baptist
denomination.
ReSolred, That we respectfully recon-
mend To the Board of Trustees the pro-
prietv, under the circumstances, OF dcvot-
ing q part of the principal of the endow-
mcnt fund to the proper establishment Of
the institution.
On the motion for the adoption of the
report, the Rev. DR.. q. W. Samson alluded
to the tendency to call every subject be-
fore the Association the most important of
all, and said that the use Of superlativeS
was too indiscriminatc. He illustrated the
Importance of early religious training by
the example and practice of Paul the
Apostle; and that ministers of religion
should be made able to read it as the Sa-
yiour spoke it, and that they should not he
dependent upon TRANSACTIONS however reli-
able or correct. He advocated a proper
emulation i'll matters of religion, aud cited
as an instance that the Sabbath school of
Lcigh-strcet (Richmond) Baptist Church
had been the model Of Sabbath schools,
and he, DIR. Samson, had boosted of it in
Washington. This school had come near
getting ahead OF the First Baptist Sunday
school; and had not this excited noble
and glorious emulation-not all unwor-
thy rivalry He would give all his
mower TO the assistance of the Richmond
( FOLIAGE ond this would advance the cauSe