The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-06

WoIK aDu is COmpIlIIieHteu ny tue
board.
Reports on the foreign missions
on education showed them to be
satisfactory.
The report of the convention
board is lengthy and is altogether
satisfactory to the convention.
J THE TREAsURER's REPORT.
Total receipts. .3l6 5l5.
Appropriations -------------------- l'Vi2' 24c
SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY.
The committee rs grati6ed to
report that this grand institution
is in a very prosperous condition:
during the past session I08 stu
dents were enrolled. At the late
commandments a larger number
received diplomas as full gradu-
ates than in any previous year.
Our Heavenly Fathers gracious
providence has preserved the
health of professors and students,
enabling them successfully to
prosecute their important work
We rejoice to report the financial
outlook as increasingly bright.
THE REPORT OF THE MISSISSIPPI
COLLEGE
was then made, which was en-
tirely gratifying to the conven-
ton.
Rev. B. d. GRAY, chairman OF
Home and State Missions, read al
interesting report ON systematic
beueyolence.
THEl NIGHT SESSION
was, employed mainly In discuss
lion of the report of the commit
tee on temperance. Exercise
Eopenedi with song by the choil
land prayer, by DIR. Manly, OF
iKentncky.,
/ The report of the
/ COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE
lis an able exposition Of the evils
of intemperance. 1t advises the
church members that their duty
as Christians require from then
total abstinence. 1t objects to
the whole license system as wrong
land iniquitous,. as SIN agalnst
!. God and humanity. 1t regards
prohibition absolute and uncon
ditional as the only remedy
against lntemperance. 1t urge,
upon the state legislature the i'm
Eportance of passing a law requir
ing public schools to teach th'
evils and injuries of alcohol.
The committee Iadorses til,
Womans' Christian Temperate,
i Union and asks Gods blessin.
in their work and. closes by ask
ing the ministers of the church tt
earnestly endeavor to instili tim
perancc principles into the color
ed race.
MR.. CALNES,
though strongly fayoringprohibi
tion, said taat the most powerful
remedy against the. evils of in
Temperance, was in the educatio
Iof' the young A child should b
taught from his earliest years t
: hat@ and abhor the very sight 0
whisky. His own mother had S
taught him. and at eight Yeas Q
age, be had yielded to, his moth
er's request AMI had signed tn
: pledge. Since that Jime he ha
: never tasted even so much as G.
der.
DIR. JONES, OF RICHMOND. VA
: made an earnest argument in f;
5 vor of prohibition. In speakin
of the campaign in Virginia, b
: complained that the press, whic
: delighted to chronicle whisk
/ victories and to suppress a
5 knowledge of prohibition tr
$ umphs, had given out to the worl
the impression that the cause {
: temperance. had met with sign
! defeat in tn. Old Dominion, whi
the truth was quite the contrar,
q Only two counties In his distri,
G and three towns had yet voted fl
the sale of whisky while te
i counties, fifteen districts an
: thirty towns had pronounced
favor of prohibition
e The following resolution WI
{ adopted
= Resolved, That the Bapti
k Record be requested to publis
: in full the report of the commi
Z tee on temperance
The committee on nomination
e reported the following names
n their choice for president al
d secretary of the central commi
tee on woman's work. Mrs. M
I IA