The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-31


| know that in this General Association II IS
| ai,rays in order 10 pray. -
At the request Of the President, Rev. LIT:
.Jrt,r lei in 4 rrIyer of Thanksgiving ana
Gatncst petition.
| ArrEREODN SESSION
op,ued with prayer by Rev. DR.. Long.
| On motion of Rev. J. l.. johnson. the sub
| Scriptipn of Yesterday WIS referred to com-
| nttec for the purpose OF pcriecting the ilSt
| OF names. The committee was made TO con-
| STAT of Colonel 7. }. Evans. Rev. Il. j. Willis,
| Rev. T. b. Shepherd. Rev. {. II. Ryhnd,
| and Rev w. r. u. Moncure.
DIR. George B. Steel read his report aS
| treasurer Of the General Association.
4 number of uni'nportaut inatters OF de-
tail were attended t.. and the Association
adjourned to nee: tonight al the Fir-t Bap-
tiSt church IT, hear DR.. letters historical DIS
course.
NICHE SESSION.
The First Baptist church was crowded to
its utmost ,4splrty and a large number were
comp lied 10 tur, away uni lie 10 giio even
| standing. 70 IN in the aisle. or -alleric,.
| The venerable d.. kir!; lei the con"rfga-
| tioa in Il teryea' PRAYER, after WHICH Or, Je-
| ter mlt" hi, address.
j
| The tex was Deuteronomy s. Thou
shalt remember all the way which the Lord
thy God led thee these tGriy years in the
| wilderness"
| After IN ap2ro;rintc Introduction, DR..
Jcter said that in 1884 the 8tptiS. General
| Committee WAS formed Ito consider all the
| POLITICAL grievances of the whole Baptist So
| rrty OF Virginia" IN" denomination WaS
| then sInrli aud feeble. and struggling under
the burdens imposed by :. religious estab-
| ii>hmrnf. "Ti;" si"nr:a' Meeting of Con-
| ference followed tn" General Committee,
hut expired with the organization OF The
| General Association in 1873. In The Year
! 1909 there We're 81 jiS Eaptisl> in Nir-iuia;
aud probably Mt mny m)ru III lS2j-p,s>i-
bly, 3j,onU to 1000, more than onc-third OF
whom were slave. Tl"y had no college, DO
hgh school, no Unconventional school OF any
| grade, and 81 tn =. /; now known but one
college graduate aui"nr their minister's
rev. Edward Bap,i-t-thotirIl there were
several who were we'll educated. and abreast
nj the times in General information. There
wa, no Baptist newspaper at magazine pub
ilshcd in the state. >url monthly once
published in l'itt>y lvinii county having been
| lilrouli utic,i Ihrrr Wr;c n;t mulc Than
three or four pastor, wholly supported by
their churches. rnr lou>rS OF Worship
were with tcw exceptions S,ut!l. incouvc-
nicn.. and cum!urilc,>. Sunday schools cX-
cent in Il few or tie larger towns, were I'M
, known. There were few uncouucctcd
mi sion societies in the ca>tclE part oi the
, State. IN i;;'Imond there were two
"hlrrha,-:hc first occupying the house
now known ~ he First African, bili ul not
: much more than half IT, present dimensions;
{ the secoud. Il small body recently formed by
z 4 Srlli-m from the iIr>'. meeting IN Il house
unfinished and cnctliEl,'r%d by debt. III
Petersburg ihc church WAS small aud poor,
without pastor, owninraG un>igitlr house
not puid for. In L>ncllur" The church was
feeble. and its house in Il suburb. In Nor
folk and Portsmouth The churches had pas
: tors and Euli-,.s, and. though not numerous
nor strong. were toicrably prosperous. In
Fredericksburg The church maintained Il
doubtful existence. In Williamsburg md
HAMPTON The church was barely alive. In
FarmyiIc, Stal,uton. Winchester, and other
nyuriSbiu. towns. the Bapi>rS were almost
. unknown. In West Virginia Baptist
churches were f,'.y aud far between; and II
, large proportion ot thcs. not crcdtahir to
! th"ir namc.
\ change came. The baptism OF Jutl~on
mi Rec in India. aud the. return o! the
latter 10 America ar"u.rd the Hal,ti,tS every
where. The Tr:lnili Convention was
:ormad in ISL. Gudcr it, uI-pIr"s C"uni-
nan College WI, founded III 1919. l.ulhcr
Rice, with flaming L al, t'a'ciScd the corlIl-
!. nv. dltluSiny iuiorna'i ~ and organizing
u | missionary >ncictic,. Snlay schools con-
m.uccd their bcncticcnt career
June :, 1923, a mccin" was held in the
u Second Baptist chulc! oi this city. then
u standing on IN alley between Main aud Cary
Ia >Itp pt
sent c,,,tot;l-hou Z. Roy. L. Il. ScuIpIc
q u,,a.hra. Seven A. ;"c;;tionS-- Mnhcrrin,
Apponr,ttox. AIbem,rIc. tirccnhr"r. TO-
luubja, Col hen, ami D,vcr-verc repre-
| ,pntcd l,v tilr"l delegate. There muIr
/, eleven yi>in. minister, invited to lnrlici-
- pate iu the deliberations. Scnp!r Wa' the
u m,,t,r-,,iili' of this meeting. John Bryce
J. wa, another leader. -. &. Brown and Ed
: ward Baptist were others. Fife. except
u .Jcter was the youngest preacher there, and
e now The twn are the only survivors. Eli
d Rail was there IL Il visitor. Daniel via at
trac;rd great attention, Though yolng. ll-
l. ther K &c appeared before The cl1>c VI the
Z ncyiiu- >cmi,c pre- idc''. and William
t FOOD WA~ clerk The Association tortncd il
Il Beard. Sclnplr VA, Treasurer. ne I'm
e entrusted to him Wa S2'3 ~. Daniel itI
* md Dr.. .jrtrr were tlir first missionaries to
Is West Ni!gi!Il. They went through rank
: lin. Patrick, Gr,y,o!l. Noutsomrry, nyihe,
= Giies, Monlor, GlrcnDGlcr, iJcaho'''aH.
l. Bub, ALLEGHENY and Boctv,irt c1uat;.'. aud
i v"r' "'rll received. Tai. took about iwo
; months.
, :, "a, first decade the General Association
y met six tincsIn Richmond twice N Lynch
y bury, once ID Gainesville, an'! onc:-n FRED
e rrickS1llrg, and was reinforced by tIopton,
d Kerr. Broaddus w. -, Robert hglaEd,
e and Others, including Taylor. ~ Tie cl"sc
I of the decide the Association met here: lhe
: sum of Sj.2li.S3 had bccu received INTO It's
r trea. lirv during the year. There hid been
twenty missionaries. six whc,ir ,-rcn 10 Tue
work. ana during tie ycir cIdIns MIJ |,
1888 there were baptized by them joo; ak
.ntrc ics c)nsti utcd, AID three hundred
| tefnurr'ance societies formed. The reports,
however. were nol full. III" BIptl>t>at tins
me nun"crni a'Iouf fifty thousand. 1ndtIc
| churchc. were inp.tit IN Il prosperous staic.
IN 1920 The VirginL, !;apri-i Education
| society was organized. II hr"sllr the
mother OF Richmond Cn'i".>r. The tent
pcrLnrc rriuru,itiuu, Lc:;lln l." Ahnrr Chop
IN in IS.G, reached us highest point ri
na>lcriy in 1899. Many really supposed
the temperance millennium wa, at hand.".
sunday schools were err:l.
| Frtr' 49,; - 1913 was ~ important de-
:.dc lthi. P",ntrxrer. Hume, Sydnor,
,orncil. Tirce, Griinsoy. hrk, and Ma
soun appeared all NOW in; except Hall
,nd Polndcxtcr. AEoEG taymcp, the GrancS,
| ,be Ihonla>e>, the Wor'hap.>, thr Ryiand,,
}. ID. McGili, rhoma> Iiudgiu$. Alexander
Fleet. and il host Of others. Or. Jrtrr mcn-
toned Valentine VI. Mason, jesse WIT, Eli
Bail. and A. u. SMITH. IL useful general
a ~