The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-13


of Richmond churches, he did object to some
efforts which had been made to !" tiragnon' .
the Baptis,s into cooperation. The eSplana-
tons made were to him satisfactory. aud he
thought good would result from this free
aud full discussion.
kev. Dr. Brown Pesbyserian), ahothcr
member OF the Committee or the Virginia
Rible Society. then briefly addressed the AS
SocE'tion. speaking to the same effect as Or.
Edwards. He regretted that severe rctiCs'-
tlons had been mad" upon n represent tive
"f the Society i'm this debate. He felt sure
that his action had been n,>intcrpreted. for
there was no more devoted and courteous
Christian gentleman than the present general
agent OF the Virginia Bible Society. DR..
Brown saw no reason why, after NIL that hnd
been said, this Association should not in
dorsc the American Bible Society and its
| work. Do this, and he felt sure that there
would hereafter hc cooperation amongst us in
this matter
kcN. i'r. Burrows explained to the Com
mitrc Of tho Bible Society the imposSibility
oi IN Association taking any action binding
upon the several churches. hut assured them
Of th" sympathy of the individual members
and churches. He then gave his view of the
,'au>cS Of the division which had taken place
in 1886. claiming that the Baptsts who had
withdrawn from the American Bible Society.
50 tar from h'in" ccnSurahlc. were jiuStiimhle,
having been dealt with unfairly.
The rcIort Of the committee aS amended
WIS then adopted. together with the follow
ING resolution. offered by Mr.. !. B. Watkins:
"Rc$olrcd. That we heartily sympathizc
with the work which the Virginia Bible
Society is doing. and desire for it the fullest
success
Rev. nr. Curry expressed qualification at
the happy result of this discussion, and at
his suggestion Rev. DR.. Brown, of the visit
iny committee, led the Association i'll prayer.
REPORTS RECEIVED.
The report of the Committee on Finance
| wl> presented by Mr.. w. NJ. Mason and was
adopted.
Rev. pr. Curry, on behalf of Rev. Mr..
| Garlick. who WAS absent, presented tn" rc-
pert on Foreign Missions. containing Il vul-
prchcn>ivc review Of the foreign work of
the denomination at the South during the
year. 1t WAS adopted.
Rev. DR.. Burrows presented the report on
Education: which. after remarks Ivy Rev. j..
William Jones, Rev. DR.. Hatcher, and Rev.
Mr. Hart. was adopted.
STATISTICS.
Professor H. II. Harris read the report of
| the Committee on Digest of Letters. 1t
states that reports have been received from
| IS churches, and reports from four are miss
| inc. During the year IS persons were added
| on examination, 326 hy baptism, 155 by let
| ter. and 46 by restoration. The names of II
persons were erased. 50 were excluded. 1856
| were dismissed by lettcr.'an 81 died. ! he
net increase of membership was 2ll. and
| the present total membership is $3.50 whites
and so colored Thrty-thrce churches re-
| port 40 sunday schools. Complaint is made
| of imprrttct returns. The report was or
dcrcd to be printed in the minutes.
THANKS.
On motion of Rev. \. j. Smith, as
| amended hy DR.. Vaughan, thanks were re-
| turned 10 1.-THE members of the Richmond
churches for their generous hospitality and
to the reporters Of the press for their adj
milahc reports Of the proceedings of the
| Association.
Adjourned until o'clock L. NJ. PRAYER
hy Rev. George +. Adams.
NIGHT SESSION.
| The Association met ut the appointed
| hollr-thc Moderator in the chair. The
| Sun,,av-School HYMN "Shall We Gather ut
| the River:H was sung and PRAYER WAS offered
| hy Professor Charles l.. Cooke.
| After the devotional exercises, Professor
Cock" made Il few rcumrks commencing the
| scheme adopted hv the General Association
At the last annual session for the relief ot
SurcrannWted preachers and the widows
and orphans of preachers. When hc con.
cludcd. Rev. George +. Adalns offered II
resolution cordially commcndin" the scheme
Z Il 4
adopted.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
! The Moderator announced the subject ol
SUNDAY schools to be the order Of the day.
Dr.. Vaughan offered a resolution COM
mendin" the sunday School and Bible Boart,
which called forth in interesting address
from Mr.. j. j. Watkins. an officer of that
Board. He ~',vca detailed statement of the
operations of the Board, together with some
Statistics IT was stated that within the
bounds of the General Association of Nir-
yiuia there are 800 white Sunday schools,
| with $4,000 teachers and $4,000 scholars,
and during the past year there have been
300 conversions. There are also 200 color
ed schools. in which there are 10000 scholars.
| Rev. L. W. Sytlnor followed Mr.. Watkins
! in some interesting remarks III regard to
| SUNDAY schools among the freedmen, after
| which the resolutions were adopted.
\ motion to adjourn having been mde.
the Moderator made some appropriate vale
| dctorv Icmsrk>. The motion was then car.
rird. and the session WAS closed with deNo'
tional exercises.
CoRnxER's INQuEsT.~-An inquest was held
bv Coroner TAYLOR at the Medical College
Inlirs,mry Yesterday afternoon over the re-
mains of Iiman pabney. the colored boy
accidentally shot at the Academy oi Music
on "Wednesday. A post mortenl eXanlina,
ton made hy DR.. Taylor Indicated that death
w;is caused by prostitution. Several screws
and iackS were taken from the wounded
limb. Both bone> in the lower part of the
right lc" were shattered and good deal OF
the flesh was carried away. There were
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