Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-13
nAPrIsrs Ir CoNFEnHNCE.

S ~~Sv~"S BAPTIsTs IN CoNFERENcE. i econd Days session of she Congress | Visit to the University in the Al. | ternoOn-Entertaine at Dinner by | the Baptist Social Union-The | Evening Proceedings.
 It was exactly 1915 o'clock yesterday | morning when the second day's session of | he ninth annual congress of the clergy nen and la5men of the Baptiat faith was ,alled to order by Professor Erancis Way and. After short prayer the subject, International and independent system of Sunday school lessons" j" was taken up for discussion. Those who read papers upon the subject were: Rev. Warran, Randolph, D. D., of Newport, R. l., Rev. E. A. Woods of Cleveland, O., and Professor Sylvester Burnham, D. D.. of the Hamil- ton Theological seminary. The substance of Rev. MT. Randolph's was that the in ternational system, taking schools all over the country, where this system has been in vogue, has proved to be the best. Originators of this system claim that our scholars ought to study the whole Bible, and not only the parts that agree with our re- igious views.
 The next speaker, Dr. Woods, said the Bible is the production of our living The Bible brings to the attention of men ques- of instructions upon topics that are of in trinsic interest. This is an sevangelistic and missionary age.
 Whatever is true has come to stay. The international Sunday school system has been in operation long enough to prove it's success Our denomination has been ably represented in the committee. Its suc- cssses have been so marked that higher and better method is demanded now I am not here to condemn the system, but rather to plead for it's modification. This modification I would have particularly marked in the primary teaching. This would require grading of the scholars and the provision of text book.
 The Bible is now better understood and better appreciated than ever before. h. tel1igent belief makes firm faith. There are charges made against the Bible. Many of these charges have been answered again and again and yet they are paraded as if new This knowledge should be in the Christian possessions. Our plea is for a system of more systematic and scientific study of the Bible. We welcome the teaching of Professors Harper and Burn ham and of others for their system of in- ductive Bible study.
 Professor Sylvester Burnham was op- posed to the system now in vogue.
 "The time has come" said the writer, Ito lay aside the international system and use system more in harmony with true merit. My objection to the international system, arises, first, from what find the system is, and secondly, for what it is not. The system proceeds from year to year without unity of study. According to it's methods student only knows that he is studying some subject or some book. There is no unity of study. Can then this system have any claim to endure if the survival of the Attest is to obtaina Ou1 religion is not religion of book, but 6 religion resting on historic fact. Books o1 the Bible thus had @ natural birth out o1 the age that gave them That the Bible is literature is a fact that the internationa come for the international system of Biblt study to give place to something else bet ter fitted to survive" The remainder of the session was de voted to general discussion of the sub ject, which was participated in by severa of the members.
 RECEPTION BY PRESIDENT DWIGHT. At 2:3O o'clock the members of the con gress were given g reception at Dwigh hall by President Dwight and members O the faculty. The next two hours wer spent in inspecting the various colleg buildings.
 ENTERTAINED AT DINNER. | The afternoon exercises were happil,, climaxed by the banquet which the Ney Haven Social union gave in honor of tn delegates. This event took place in th church parlors soon after 5 o'clock Lon tables extended the entire length of tn l room and were spread with Mrs. Red cliffe's usual taste and skill. There wer over 200 present. Blessing was invoked b
 Rev Dr. Maxom of Boston. The honor were performed by Prof. Wayland ,presiden of the club. After the eating followe | five minute speeches from ex-Lieutenan
 Howard, Dr; Sanders of New York and
 graduate of Yale '72, Dr. Moxom of Bos
 ton, Hon. E. N. Blake of Boston, D,
 Hobart of Yonkers, N. .Y., Dr. Waylan
 of Philadelphia and Professor Johnson o | Croger university, Louisville, Ky.
 The banquet proved fiattering success l to the committee in charge, composed C
 Messrs. F. L. Walker, chairman; Geore
 E. Robertson and s. o. Preston.
 1 THE EVENING SESSION.
 The evening session at Calvary churc
 last night was, perhaps, the best attende
 of any of the session, the spacious edife
 being comfortably well filed The top
 for discussion was the "Race Problem (
 the South," the representative souther
 view of which was set forth in papt
 read by Professor J. C. Long, D. D., (
 Crozer Theological seminary In his p,
 per was included the following.
 The race question will be very much simplife
 when we remove from it it. all other discussio, ] country vote as race and not as individual ci
 zens, and in this fact lies the menace and dang,
 who hold Seef tsat fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the co
 Hos the
 better to have kept them in slavery. Men "
 submit to be dominated by any political part to being ruled over by the negro. This is in bri | the situation of the race problem to-day. IT
 solution Of it is to teach the negro that in yotil
 brother let us treat him wisely, Justly and kindl The view of the question from nortl
 ern standpoint was ably and clearly pr
 scented in g scholarly paper prepared ar
 read by Rev. H. L. Wayland, D. D.,
 Philadelphia, editor of the National Ba
 tist, brother of Professor Wayland of tn
 city:
 resolves itself into three phases: What ought be, what is, and what win be the relation of t ,t whites and blacks at the souths The only tr answer to the first of these questions is equali l of mankind. Every one is equal be he black ! white and the law of the land should ever
 ready to protect equally the rights of the neg whites. As to second phase: Is the negro : the south today as free as the white man Do
 white mans Dp the of the so%th
 receive the same justice as is meted out to whi | men? We cannot but answer these questions in u negative. The future of the race problem W
 depend very materially upon three things-1rl the action of the north in individual and cole
 tive philanthrophy; second, upon the white ra ] of the south, and third, upon the colored peor
 The third paper on the topic was read by Re | mission at Nassau, Bahama Islands, after whi,
 s g sps l ed, An informal reception was then held, mal taking advantage of the opportunity offered ! become better acquainted. The program of exercises for this, u last day of the congress, will be as fo lows: '+
 At 10ao'clock, Enlarged Church Work
 Cities: 1, Scope -Philanthropic and educ tional 3, Brotherhoods, de conesses, plurality of elders. 3, Sustent , ltion-Endowments. Will be discussed |
 Rev. Russell H. Conwel, pastor Ora !, Baptist church, Philadelphia, Pa., Re , Albert G. Lawson, D. D., Boston, Man Rev. John Humpstone, D. D., pastor In manuel Baptist church, Brooklyn, N. Y. At 3 o'clock discussion on the Divi, Immanence in Recent Theology will he l,
 by Rev, Augustus H. Strong, DID,, LL.I president Rochester Theological seminar | DI,s1sv, c n