The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-07

which according to the figures OF the
committee st birmingham "eio
the past year. c,.u .ba
,.The simple question has been. Shall the
| Southern Baptist Convention throw aWny
| this valuable property and LOOK 70 o-
deIphia for its Sunday-school literature, -
shall it make the service better ana "0
useful? -,ct;on
.'Shall it commit the religious instructor
of our children 10 a foreign polcy ~
| quote from DR.. Bitting's able report MI
| secretary of our Sunday-schooi Doalu)' Vi
| shall il do this work itself ,ooo A..
'At the convention at Memphis IN 1888 VIC
| American Baptist Publication Socle'y anu -
| friends mustered in full force cater q 'lBoI-
| ous canvass and the most posltlVe az
surances that they would win the day Iand IL
was given out that the Kind Words series was
doomed. uuo
I'VE we're ready and'anxious for the issue
ne we were satisfied that we could beat them
NV an overwhelming majority. But tney
exddenlv discovered that there was a con
tract with the publishers of both moral and
ieoal force which could not be disturbed
until the expiration of June of this present
year and SO the convention unanimously
adopted a report postpoping the considera-
ton OF the question.
cussion OF the question in the papers, the con-
yention by a vote of 40 TO 176 adopted the
report Of o committee. continuing the KIND
Words and putting II under the charge OF a
Sunday-schoo committee located at Louis
Vile. This year the issue was not whether
the series should be continued. for that had
already been settled, but whether the COM
mittee should be changed into q board with a
corresponding secretary, and all of the pow
ers of the other boards OF the convention.
Dr. ! NJ. Frost Of Richmond. proposed IN
the Western Recorder and ably advocated
this mesure. and others favored It. whle ,Dr;
Dickinson led the opposition and puolshed
in his paper, the Religious Herald, coIums
OF ridicuie Of the scheme, some interview
almost as curious as this one Of bis in the
Dispatch and a square proposition TO reopen
the issue settled at Fort Worth. and turn
over our Sunday. school series TO the Ameri-
can Baptist Publication Society. This was
the question presented az Birmingham.
Tho Sunday-school committee at Louis
Vile reported in favor of the creation OF a
Sundav.school board with enlarged powers
which should take charge of the Sunday
school interests of the convention and pub
ish and push the Kind Word series; this was
referred TO a committee of one from each
State. The committee, although some OF
the most intense friends of the American pap
tist Publication Society were on It, after long
and prayerful consideration, unanimously
agreed to recommend the creation of the sun
dey-schOOl board, the election OF a CORE
spending secretary and the vigorous pushing
of the Kind Word series.
As the report embodied everything for
which we had c~ontended. our sid had no dis
position to discuss it unless in reply TO our
friends on the other side, and rs they kept
silent we were only too glad to allow the re-
port to 20 without discussion and be adopted,
as it was. by a practically unanimous vote
I'VE are more than satisfied with the re-
suit. and we rejoice if DR.. Dickinson and his
friends are also. We only hope that they Will
Join US in rallying around and supporting the
new board of the convention with an enthu-
siasm and zeal which will make 1t the splen-
did success which it can and ought 10 be. The
election, of Or. Lansing Burrows, of Augusta
as corresponding secretary of this board Is, if
he accepts, the prophecyof brilliant success;
as Or. Burrows is one Of our ablest men and
has rare qualifications for his position. At all
events the question is settled. and Southern
Baptists mean to have their. own Sunday
school SERIES