Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
THE BApTISTS OF THE SOUTH.

The active preparations for the Southern
Baptist Convention, which will meet in
Augusta on the 9Th of May, are in progress
and are rapidly being put in shape for the
suitable accommodation and entertainment
of this large and most important assembly
of the Baptist Church in the South. The
general committee, of which Rev. DR.. Bur
rows is chairman, and Chas. Ii. McCord,
ESQ.,, secretary, is made up of number OF
the most popular and influential citizens in
Augusta and their efforts will secure the
hospitality and open gates of the city for
the Convention in May.
The Southern Baptist Convention is the
controlling body of this powerful denomina-
ton, the supreme head of the church, as it
were, and composed of delegates or messen-
gers from all the separate independent
churches of the South. The Baptist Church
is the most democratic of all the denomi-
nations in it's government, and this Conven-
tion is the assembling of representative men
and members, each the peer of the other.
Rev. DIR. P. II. Nell, the venerable and dis
tinguished Chancellor of the University OF
Georgia, is the hOnored and recognized
Moderator of this Convention, so long as he
shall care to preside, and his coming along
with a host of other eminent lights of the
church, is expected by the hospitable peo-
pie of Augusta. All the denominations of
the city will join in welcoming the Con-
vention and its crowd of attendants to Au-
gusta. A we'll known gentleman, writing
to the Baptist Herald from here, speaks of
this great occasion as follows:
"Augusta is beginning to prepare for
her guests in May. The First Baptist
Church has for its pastor DIR. Lansing Bur-
rows, who is also secretary of the Southern
Baptist Convention. He understands fully
what is to be done, and the church has
appointed committees to make all arrange
ments, official notice of all of which will be
published in due time. The time for the
meeting of the Convention will be May,
when Augusta will be resplendent with all
her luxury of fountains, foliage and flowers.
Her parks will be in full bloom. Her mag
nificent avenues, with long Vistas of stately
elms and grand old oaks, f1anked by her
churches and palaces, and her monuments
and statues in all their glorious setting or
roses and emerald, make Augusta the hand
soonest city in America.
"Our city churches are again about to
move forward. DIR. Burrows, as stated,
leads the old First Church. 1t is with that
church the Convention will meet. 1t was
with that church the delegates, or as DIR.
Nell insists upon calling them, 'messen-.
gers from the slave States met in lS45 and
organized the Southern Baptist Convention.
1t was this church that organized under the
leadership of the elder Brantly in 1920. The
house in which the Convention will be held
was built under the direction Of that wise
and far-sighted builder on the most ellgl-
BILE lot in the city. 1t was dedicated to the
service Of God on the 9Th OF May, 1921. The
64th anniversary of that event will coincide
with the meeting of the Convention on the
9th of May, 1855.
1.-THE church now has a large and intelli-
gent membership. Among them are the
names of prominent bank presidents and
manufacturers, lawyers and doctors. And
it is pleasing coincidence that the men
occupying the most conspicuous and useful
positions in worldly affairs, occupy, rela-
lively, as prominent places in the church.
1t is a pleasant thing to see in the deacons'
meetings the president of the First Nation
al Bank, the president of the most success
full manufacturing company in Georgia or
South Carolina, the president of the lead
ing savings bank, and the man whom the
people of Georgia are on the lookout for an
opportunity to honor, and who some day
will make again in the Senate of the United
States those strains of eloquence that have
been hushed since the death OF B. II. Hill.
augusta, CO., NeNs.
STEAM1NC AND BENDING WooD.-In an
address recently delivered by MIR. II. &.
Sheppard, of New Haven, Connecticut, rel
ative to the use Of wood in carriage making,
he said that after a piece of wood is bent
it's characteristics undergo considerable
change. The wood is heavier, and its fibre
having become interlaced, it will sustain
more pressure and strain than straight wood
in the same direction, either across or with
the grain. He said: ga piece of timber
that has been steamed, whether it is bent
or not, has it's stiffness increased. 1t is
more brittle than it was before, and for
some uses it will do as we'll, and yet there
is quality that the steaming process and
the kiln-drying process produce in much
the same way-they both cook the gum in
the timber and make it brittle and stiff.
There is kind of hickory that never. be-
comes stiff by a natural process OF drying;
and one of the desirable qualities OF Il
spoke, rim or whiftietree is stiffness as
we'll as strength. You take the hickory
and it is the very best we have-and steam
it, and it is better fitted for these purposes
than it was before. 1t is difficult to tear
apart piece of bent wood; the tibres are
interviewer one with the other. We do not
perceive the change on the outside, but when
we come to split the stick open, we find
that its character is entirely changed.'