The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-03
COMPLIMENT TO JAMES THOMAS.
OTHER INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS.

LAST DAY-MORNING SESSION.
After pleasant prayer-meeting, led b.
Rev. T. Hume, ST., the Association proceed
ed to business.
State Mission Fund.
Professor c. l.. Cooke presented the re
port of the committee on apportionint
among the Association the amount necessar.
to raise the $4,000 decided to be raised. !
was adopted as follows: Accomac. $500; AL
bcmarle, 81 ,250; AppQmattoX, 81 ,250 Blue
Ridge, $3.50; Clinc1l Valley, $500 :; Concord
5000; Dan River, $3.50; Dover, $3.50
Goshen, ], $50; James River, 500; Lebanon
$500: Middle District, $500; New River
$1,000; Portsmouth, s., 900; Potomac, 81 800
Rappahannock, S2,05U; Roanoke, $3.50
Shiloh, $3.50; Strawberry, S1,25O; Valley
$1,000. Total, $4,000.
The State Mission and Sunday.SchoO
and Bible Boards
declining to act on the question of the con
solidation of the two Boards, they were eX
following committee: DR.. William ID
Thomas. DR.. G. Tyree, Rev. w. :. Penick
DR.. Parker, Colonel J. A. Hammer. and Rev
J. W. McCown.
Words Of Cheer from other States.
Rev. William Beavins, of Maine, was in
vited to address the body, and bore the fra
ternal greetings of his State.
DR.. Curry made fitting response, assuring
him of the pleasure with which Virginia
Baptists recognize the fact that Baptists all
over the country are one in doctrine and
sympathy.
Rev. MIR. Webster, of the Pennsylvania
Baptist Convention, was received, and bore
the cordial good wishes of bis brethren.
DR.. Curry made a graceful response.
Colonel II. j. Evans, to whom was re-
terred The list Of subscriptions at the taberna-
Gle, made report, which was received tor
information.
The report of the Sunday School and BIZ
bic Board was read by the corresponding
secretary, J. B. Walk ins, Esq.
REPORT OF THE SUNDAY-sCHOOL
AND BIBLE BOARD.
The report greets and congratulates the
General Association on its tiftieth ami
versary, and gives a brief review of the work
of the Board and the progress OF the Sun
day-school work in the State. Fifty years
ago the Baptlsts had few Sunday schools in
tile State, but the Sunday school lcaven had
begun to work, and there had been steady
progress until they now report Gl5 schools.
/, OPT officers and teachers. 81 900 scholars,
and 800 baptisms of members of the schools
during the year.
In the Matter of EOlpOrtage
the Board had done good workup to 1851,
when it secured the services of Rev. A. b.
Dickinson as general superintendent, and
entered upon that most vigorous prosecu-
ton of the work 10y which in 1860 the Board
reports its receipts for the year at up
wards of $4,000, and the employment
of so colporters, who sold $l6,649
worth of books, besides making large
number of grants and the performance
OF Il vast amount of coIportage and mission
airy work. 1t sketches the work of the
Board during the war, when it published
md circulated over SIXTY million pages of
one Hundred different tracts, large edition
IF the New Testament, and 100000 copies of
Hymns for the Camp" and employed
lbout one hundred and fifty colporters and
who in a single year 1S64)
Baptized 1900 Soldiers,
md bore their full share of the work in those
glorious reviyals by which over $4,000 of
Lees veterans found. Jesus in the camp.
The work of the Board since the war is too
amiliar to need REPETITION.
During the Past Year
be Board lost the services of their General
Rev. DR.. A. E. Dickinson,
Don after the adjournment of the General
Association, and were unable to supply his
)lace until the middle of September thus
,eing unrepresented at the n lettings OF the
district associations), when they Sc
ured the services Of Rev. j. William Jones.
I The Board had not attempted to enlarge
heir colportage work because they foresaw
ha the Memorial movement would so at
orb the contributions of the churches as to
ender il unsafe for them to do so. Butthey
AVE worked steadily to increase the num-
Der and efficiency of the Sunday schools, and
With large measure of success. There were
more evergreen" schools than ever be-
ore. They had revived their system of
grants of Sunday school requisites to desti-
ute schools, and had not refused a single
Ippiicaiiou. Various causes had hindered
he holding of as many Sunday-school con-
IentionS US was purposed, but the General
is now perfecting arrange
nents for one in every district association.
The General superintendent had considered
himself t1 s' 'E-.5'
A Sunday-schoOl Missionary
rather than q collecting agent, and has sought
10 promote the work by personal contact
with the Sundny-school workers of the State.
The report gratefully recognizes the work
of Sunduy-school men all over tue State, and
halls them as co-workers in a common cause.
II pays a tribute to the work of Rev. 7. w.
Sydnor in -s..
Organizing Sunday Schools among
The C0lored People, .r..,.
expresses regret that he was obliged to rein-
qush his work because the American Bible
and Publication Society were unable to sus.
tain him longer, and this Board had not the
means of doing so, and expresses purpose
to labor on for the good Of the colored peo-
pie by every instrumentafity in their power.
The Board had In their employ during the
past gear five colporters, who have done an
excellent work. There seems general de-
sire on the part Of the people TO have large
increase Of the number of colporters. The
Board can tind the men. They ask for in.