Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-21
THE PLANET.
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICA.
TION SOCIETY REPLIES.
REV. BINGA'S EFFORT
HOW THE NATTER WAS SETTLED.


AS the result of the effort made by
Rev. A. Binga, Jr., before the Publ.
cation Society, the following letter
was received by the Board Of the Va.
Bapt. State Convention:
PHILADKLRHiA, JUNF 6. 1890.
To the Virginia Baptist State Con-
vention.
Dear Brethren
At the recent
Anniversary of the Publication Soci-
ETY. held on the 22nd ult. at Chicago,
your Messenger, Rev. A. Binga Jr.,
ID. d., was cordially received and
heard. The communication he bore
to the Society from your body was
also received and read before the
Society; and referred to the Board
for consideration and answer.
The Board at it's first meeting,
held June 9TH, gave the matter care
full attention, and directed me to say
in reply, "Neither the Society, its
Board, or officers have at any time,
or In any way, intended to cast an
'indignity' upon any of your race,
much less upon the brethren named.
We Webelieved at the time, and believe
still, that in inviting Drs. +. X. Love,
w. J. Simmons and Walter Ii. Brooks
to write permanent tractinstead of
transient article for the Teacher"
we honored them, in asking them to
render more difficult and useful ser
vice than that to which they were
first invited
For thirty years the Society has
shown itself in very many ways the
friend of your people, and never were
more so than at the present time.
During the past year alone the
Society has supported among the
colored people fifteen Sta Sunday
School Missionaries, and four col
porteUrs; and have granted libraries
to 161 ministers, and libraries and
Helps to great number of Sunday
Schools and churches; at an aggre-
gate expense of over eighteen thou
sand dollars.
1t has also published during the
year fourteen tracts, one pamphlet,
and one Sunday School book; and
~kas accepted for publication one
book on Theology, all written by
colored authors, and all peculiarly
adapted to tie special wants OF
your own people.
We respectfully ask that you will
kindly publish this reply in your
Minutes with your Message to us,
and that you will also send it to the
papers to which you sent your com.
munication for publication.
Yours Truly,
b. GRIFFITH, Sec'y.
The Executive Board after du,
consideration made the following
reply;
NORFOLK, Va, June -, 1890.
The Home Mission Board of tn,
V. B. S. Convention, after carefully
considering the communication from
the American Baptist Publication
Society, sent by the Board of Mana
gers of the above Society to the
V. B. S. Convention in reply to tn,
resolutions sent by the Convention
in charge of Rev. A. Binga, Jr., ID. ID
(See item 81 condemning the actor
of the Society in erasing the names
of Drs. +. X. Love, w. j. Simmons
and W. H. Brooks, from the list o
contributors to the Baptis
Teacher Therefore, be it
Resolved; That the same is here
by received by the Board in behal
of the convention, as an amicabl
settlement of the whole matter, a
the same time assuring the Societ,
that no one regretted the ruptur
more than ourselves.
Resolved; That we are gratefu
to the Society for the continued an,
growing interests, as evinced by it
in our people, and that as a race an
servants of the Blessed Master, W
shall endeavor to prove ourselve
worthy of every dollar spent on III
Resolved; That the communics
tion from the Society be publishe
in the minutes of the Convention
along side the preambles and resC
lutions of the Convention, sent t
the Society. Also, that the cIer
Rev. A. Binga, Jr., d. D., be reques
ed to comply with the wishes of til
Society and have their commune,
tion published in such newspaper
as those in which were published I'll
proceedings of the Convention ]
reference to this matter.
Rev. j NJ. ARNIsTEAD. Pres