The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-17
THE BAPTISIS.
CLOSING DAY OF THE ANNUAL
ASSOCIATION.
An Interesting Session Richmond tho
Place for the NEXT Convention-Report
from the Sunday school and Bible
Boards and on Education.

Boards and on Education.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. November 16.
Special. Tine morning session Of the Bap
list Association began with brief discus
sion OF State Missions, brought on by res
| ,lutiOn which directed attention 10 tn
needs Of the board. Mr. n. h. Eliyson ad
iresscd the Association. showing the need
IF the board, and deplOring the fallin.
III OF receipts last year. lie sait
hat unless the receipts increased this yeaI
| pr ,bably as many AZ eight or ten mission
,ries Sill have to be taken from the work
Mr.. Ellyson said that $4,000 would not be
IN 10 do the work that the denomination
ought 10 perform. and a,erred that the Epis
cOpalirns and Meihodists. particularly. and
even the Presbyterians, are moving ahead
Of the Bdptists.
THE NEXT ASSOCIATION.
The committee on time. place and preach.
ers reported. through it, chairman. DIR. A
Br0addus, the second Tuesday after the
second sunday i'm November, 1890. at ! 30
i. NJ. as the time, and the Leigb-street
Church. Richmond. as the place. and the
Rev. +. G.. Jones (Dr. o. r. Flepps, alter
nate,) as the preacher for the next COnyen-
ton.
PSYCHOLOGICAL.
The Rev. James b. Taylor. Sr. Of the COM
mittee on obituaries. read notices Of those
who had died during the past associatonal
year.
THE sUNDAY-sCHOOL AND BIBLE BOARD
,eported through its chairman. Dr. M.
Pitcher. Of Petersburg. The board asked
ior $1,000 for the work Of last year: s6,sl3
vas received. The board has in the
deld general superintendent. with
.nlrty-eight assistants. who labOred
j.jOl days, visited 5D.2lj families FIR
religious conversation. prayed with
'.212 families, found 2.3g7 persons hahilu-
ally negiecting the gospel, LAO families
destitute Of family Bibles. 24S2 families
without religious books, preached l,O04 ser
mons, enrolled 75l additions. addressed 352
Sunday-schOols. conducted 3i7 prayer-meet-
ngs. organized a. Sunday schools baptized
los. The boards cOlp0rteurs sold 1906 BIZ
nles, 4.Wi Ieslamcnts. 9.oJ4 books, 1858 |
pages q tracts for $7.6gi.s0. gave away
80 Bibies, l,O1G restaments. l.i3s boOl .. |
md lJJ,uji pages of tracts at an expense OF
SN,3O2. The report WAS d. fissed by Mr. /
iyree. Of salem; DR.. Acree. of Petersburg
r. Biting. Of Philadelphia; DR.. J. William
Jones, Of Atlanta, and Mr. Quisenberry.
THE REPORT On EDUCATION
was presented by DR.. Cooper, OF Richmond.
The report stated that as denomination
he Bdptists were conducting three classes
4 schools, academies colleges and theO-
ogical seminary, il was thought that the
academies had been rather neglected. II
he standard OF the academies were raised
hat would raise the standard Of the col
eyes. OF these academies there are two in
he Piedmont, one in Tidewater. and fourin
he Valley.
At the academies there are $50 scholars.
II these, only ljl are from Baptist families.
here are ,5i females attending the female
academies, Of which number 80 are from
bdptist fimilies. This would seem 10 indi-
ate thdf IN lhe future. men Will, IN educa-
ION. be inferior 10 their wives. Those at
ending the college, number I57, Of these l2O
ne from Baptist families.
The association adjourned at o'clock.
The session was the most successful ever
eld