The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-30
From our Special Correspondent.
Closing Exercises Of the Rappahan
mock Associati0n---sro &c.

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SHILOH, KING GEORGE, July &c, 1860.
Your correspondent closed his last letter
in the midst of Monday mornings session
of the Rappahannock Association, and will
resume where the thread was broken.
The discussion on foreign missions was
one of unusual interest, and seemed to
affect deeply the large congregation pre-
sent.
Rer. j. Il. Garlic read most en-
prospects of the foreign mission work, as
conducted by southern Baptists, showing
that the large debt with which the Board
found itself encountered at the close of the
war had been cancelled; that the missions
had been greatly blessed Of late and that
there is now q loud call for more men to be
sent to the foreign field.
Rec George 3. Taylor, who represented
the Board in the absence Of his venerable
father, who has been compelled to seek &
temporary rest from his hcrculean labors
made an able, earnest, and effective speech
Rec. j. HHliGa, Jones urged that i
there were no encouragement in the forein
mission work the simple command Of ne
Master would be enough to make us 60 Or
ward.
Req. j. r. Garlic called attentin to
the fact that during the past year or mis-
sionares in China had baptized NOR con
vcrts lin proportion to numbers1 thin the
ministers of this Association. Fc clo-
qucntly urged the claims of the foreign
mission work. The obligation of tlc Asso-
citation to make more liberal contributions
to this cause, and the best plar by which
this can be secured, was earnestly discussed
by Revs. Alfred Bagby, John Pollard, Jr.,
A. Broaddus, DR.. A. NJ. PoindeEter, DR.. K.
II. Bagby, and 7. B. Evans.
Rev. DR.. w. +. Broaddus preached at the
stand this morning, while the Association
was in session in the house.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Rev. George ". Beale read an admirable
report on ministerial education, in which
he urged the claims of Richmond College
the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
and the Education Board at Richmond.
Rec. DR.. r. Fl. Bagjy enforced the points
of the report in a telling speech. He TRACED
the finger of God in the origin and progress
of both the seminary and the college, paiC
a high tribute to the faculty and course o
instruction of each institution, and elo
quently urged that the Baptists of Virgins
should rally around and sustain them b,
earnest prayer, liberal contributions, anC
by sending their sons to them.
Reu. DR.. a. N. Poinde1ter, agent o
Richmond College, before passing to dis
cuss the claims of that institution, PFC
nounced high eulogy on the seminary,
peculiar organization, its faculty, its couie
of instruction, and the character of te
young preachers whom it had sent forth
He made a most encouraging exhibi of
the condition and prospects of RichIond
College, and forcibly presented the afan-
tages which it offers to students. He
strikingly brought out the fact thatSH OF
the faculty of the college are high oned,
Christian gentlemen, whom the ssldents
might initiate without detriment. &c then
passed TO the discussion of the pee'iar i'm
portance of educating our childR at this