Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-17
BAPTIST CONVENTION.
An Interesting Meeting Held
Last Week at Knoxville.
jackson Selected as The Next Meeting
Place-The Statistics Read Be-
fore the Convention.

ted Jackson as the next place OF
meeting. The statistics of the church
and its work, as shown by the treas
urer's report, is published by the
Knoxville Journal as follows:
"a synopsis of the treasurer's re-
port on home missions shows the fol-
lowing: Collections, home missions,
"a, ,574.59; foreign missions, So, $50 As ;
State missions, $7,6l7.44; home mis-
sions increase over last year, 81 100.-
19; foreign missions decrease, 81 ,077.-
rs ; State missions decrease, 81 ,445.l2;
net loss in missions, $423.6S; expen-
ded on church buildings at mission
stations, $6,O64.39. The report was
referred to the finance committee.
''Rev. J. II. Anderson, of Nash
vile, next read the report of the
committee on State Missions. Every
thing had been flourishing except the
contributions, which had fallen off.
The following summary of work
done was then read:
"Days of labor, 8,174; sermons
preached, 3,2O2; addresses, 1858 {:
prayer meetings, 1858, pastoral Wis.,
its, S,549; mission societies organized
13; conversions $50; baptisms, 53l !;
additions by letters and baptisms,
,052 contributions to State missions,
81, 1888; home missions, $3.50 foreign
missions, $2O9; new Sunday schools
formed, 18; new books, 1913 religious
tracts, ,l49.
"The committee ON Sunday schools,
through its chairman, DR.. Frost, was
next to report. This report was quite
an elaborate enc. Too much should
not be claimed for the Sunday school.
Ii could not take the place of home
training, etc, but it is an immense
factor in bringing young people into
the church. Here many are born in
to the sunlight of God. 1t should he
distinctly a Bible school, the Bible
should be supreme. The cause in
our State is decidedly in the advance.
Three Sunday-school conventions
have been organized and are in oper
alton in the three divisions of the
State. They have asked that spe-
cial man be put into the field, and
your committee approves OF it. He
could be sustained without loss. The
board at Nashville is doing a grand
work, and Tennessee has been great
ly aided among other Southern
states, one hundred dollars being al
lowed to our State.
"At the conclusion of the report
DR.. Frost was given the floor. He de,
voted long talk to the work of the
Nashville board. He prided himself
that all he had promised last year
had been carried out. He was proud
that the Baptists had stood shoulder
to shoulder and made this board q
great success. During the year the
board felt able to distribute $1,000
among the Southern States. One hun
dred dollars had been given the Ten
nessee board. Texas got over 5000
above her pro rata 500 over her pro
rata has been sent to Florida. He laid
stress on the fact that every order for
literature that comes to Nashville, is
an aid to the Southern Baptist con-
vention, as it is turne d right back for
work in missions. IL you want to
got the Sunday-schools into enter
prises, you must get the enterprises
into the Sunday schools. Said he !:
Take centennial day, one week ago
last Sunday. | will be surprised if
the collection on that day will not
aggregate $4,000. The Woman's
Missionary Union at Baltimore is do
ing a good work in missionary mat.
ters. We are trying to get these mis-
sionary matters in the Sunday-school
and train the children along these
lines. The money advantage is not
to be compared with other points. In
the Sunday-schoOl of to-day you find
the coming ministers, missionaries,
the membership of our future
churches, the men and women who
are to guide the old church in the eyears
to come. Five hundred thousand
scholars, $4,000 teachers Who can
tel what they will do and become?
When l come to think of it, the Sun
ay.school is the very base of the
church movement"
"Rev. j. X. Pace, chairman of the
Committee of Home Missions, read
his report. He said: "The Ameri.
can board has the greatest advantage
of all to reach all the nations of the
earth. The entering of Cuba was the
wisest OF moves Of our home board.
Some of the South's best churches
are the monuments of wisdom of this
board. The edifice in which we
meet once was nourished by our
board. The work is best shown in
cold figures for the past ten years:
Missionaries 1902, churches helped
1920, Sunday.schools established
2,ll7, houses Of worship built $40, ad-