The state chronicle., 1892-12-13

after fully considering the matters per-
tanning to the University have unani-
mously directed the executive committee
OF the board of trustees to press the work
for the establishment of the university
with unremittiDg diligence. In doing
so they are authorized to employ such
agencies as they deem best.
DIR. T. b. Pritchard, of Charlotte.
spoke eloquently and earnestly in favor
OF higher education for women and es.
pecially the Baptist women of North
Carolina.
DR. Thomas Hume, of Chapel Hill,
urged the Baptists of the state to use the |
full measure of their obligations to their |
daughters and give them an education
equal to that received by their sons.
DIR. j. B Bone, of this city, financial
secretary of the University, made an
earnest plea for the school, He said that
Raleigh must raise the greater part of tie
money before the other parts of the state
will give :he assistance needed. The
institution is to be located in tais CITY.
DIR. Skinner made short talk in favor
of the school. He said the institution
must be located where it will do the most
good in the education of women, and not
where the most money will be given. He
said that it should not be at Oxford,
as Oxford has a college; not at Winston,
for it would be burned up; not at Will
mington, as there is too much sand there;
not at Asheville, because it is too cold
there, as Bill Nye says Asheville is the
coldest place he ever saw. There is no
xr1.v Oh 49,
on this institution and locate it in Raj
eigh, as was at first decided. Shall the
thing be buried shall it be given to some
other town to nurse; or shall we 90
ahead to night and build it, 1t should
be located here, think.
The report of the committee was
| adopted.
The following is the annual report of
the central committee of the Womans
Missionary Societies submitted by Miss
Fannie Heck, president of the central
committee.
The central committee is happy to re-
port progress in all lines of its work. Be-
ginning with the conventional year the
womans missionary societies more gener-
ally than ever before took part in the
Christmas offering toNorthC Chin increas-
ingtheir gift of the year previous four fold
Before the centennial year had fairly be
gun the plans for it had been laid before
each society and up to date 2, 200 centen-
NAL chapel fund cards have been dis
tributed. During the summer an effort
was made to call the attention of the
Sunday school superintendents to the
Importance of organizing Sunday school
missionary societies. For this purpose a
letter was sent to each superintendent in
the state with the offer to aid by sending
free literature, etc. To these offers there
have been few responses. Seeking to
aid the centennial movement, we also, in
personal letter to every pastor, offered
to send monthly package of free litera-
ture to faithful, energetic woman who
would distribute it in each church.
More than 400 names have been sent US,
. and we have sent out 4,40O
leaflets to these churches. Be-.
, sides these the monthly publication
of the Missionary Talk for distribution,
among the societies, has been maintained,
. IA, 400 having been sent out. Much lit
era,ure has been supplied by the woman's
= = mission union for free distribution. Th.
letters written and literature distributed
= is as follows:
. Letters written, 1.O35; circular letters
800; centennial leaflets, 40 900; chspe
y cards, 2,2OO; leaflets, 9,220; mission
cards, 5000; mite barrels. 428; Christ
4 mas offering envelopes, 5000; Mi-sionar
4 Talk, 14.4O0 at a cost of printing AM
g postage of $l63 30 The increase in con
= tributions is notable. In the present tw
b years the gifts of the woman's missionar
% societies having doubled, increasing las
- year $2O7 % and this year So, ,916 81
Foreign Missions, 1868 o.; centenni'
- fund for foreign missions, 1915 81
y Home Missions, 1865. o.; centennial fun
9 for missions, 81, 766 5; State Missions
S427. "a; Christmas offering to Mort
: China, 1857 O3; Ministerial Education
$40 35; Ministerial Relief, SIS rs; O
i, phanage, $239 SO; church extentic
- 50 rs; expense fund, $15 "a; Sunds
. schools, 81 80.
, The following resolution was cffere
= and adopted:
~ Resolved, that we express our graft
! cation and thankfulness to God, in vie
' of the inspiring report of the progress
!, the central committee of Woman's Mi
!, sion Societies, to this convention. Th
- ~ we record our deep appreciation of t
help they thus bring to every branch
A. our work and bid them God speed
= their holy undertaking.
n The following report on periodica
~ was submitted and adopted:
~ We cannot overestimate the value al
importance of a denominational orga
A. 1t is the medium through which the Ba
" tist homes and churches must be reache
=, 1t is the vehicle for the dissemination
~ n Baptist doctrine and religious literatu
sa' 1t is the means for conveying general q
Z denominational information. 1t unit
- - our people and concentrate our fore
~ We are to be congratulated that we ha
r such an excellent state paper The B
,ha lical Recorder for a half century
Nd Nd faithfully and efficiently served us as c
n state organ, and we most heartily co
~ ~ mend it to the confidence and patrons
IT. of our people and suggest that past
~. endeavor to enlarge its circulation In
80 our churches. The Foreign Miss
- Journal and the Home Field are very
nI lm' portant agencies for arousing dee
~, and wider interest in the mission VI
~ and should be widely circulated in all
"a churches. Charity and Children is
Nv tended to keep our people inform
' about our orphanage and in thoro1
os sympathy with this institution so dea1
60 our people. The Wake Forest Studen
,.,, one of the best college journals in
~ south. 1t is an honor to the institute
~ Besides containing much valuable
n erature, it conveys much interest
news and information about the coll
"a which every Baptist ought to know.
oInj "a The following is the report OF the ct
IL M > mittee appointed at Goldsboro to In
q" tigate and suggest means to increase
circulation Of the Biblical Recorder:
Your committee appointed last yea
rder Goldsboro with instructions to exam
eld. and report upon the best means OF
IS of creasing the circulation OF the Recor