The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-18
RAPTISTS TO ADJOURN.
mzE AMERICAN NATIONAL CON.
vENTION ABOUT ENDED.


.,onal Convention to be Held in
washington - Thanksgiving Set
Aa,de ss a Day OF Prayer for the Col
o-ad Race-The Separate Car Law
condemned Statistics of the Church.
The American national Baptist oonven-
.,o, which has been IN session in Savannah
.,Dca Thursday morning. will adjourn this
morning
The Baptist foreign mission convention
gill convene at o'clock this afternoon and
Ill continue In session until Wednesday
,Dorping. when it will be succeeded by the
Rantist educational convention.
Yesterdays session was occupied chiefly
18th reports OF committees and the adop-
Non OF resolutions.
Altar devotional exercises the committees
n, resolutions, the condition Of the country,
Abe state Of religion, the establishment of a
publishing house. the young peoples move
ment, and the time and place OF the next
meeting we're appointed
Exoeption was taken by some OF the
vnembers 10 a statement that seats were re-
served for white people at the convention.
They wanted TO know II any such provision
hsd been made and were informed TO the
contrary.
A resolution was adopted stating that the
convention had neither adopted such reso-
luton nor recognized any such distinction
among those attending the meeting of the
body. either as delegates or visitors.
Rev. E. K. Love and Rev. J. j. Durham
were appointed a committee 10 arrange for
divine services at the various oolored
ohurches Of the city to-day.
The first business taken up at the after
noon session was the proposition 20 make
the Eckstein Norton school of Cain Spring.
XIV, the national educational institute OF
the colored Baptlsts. The proposition was
decided adversely after lengthy discussion.
THE CONVENTIONS RESOLUTIONS.
The report OF the committee on resolu-
lions was received.
The first resolution rendered the thanks
of the body to the American Baptist Pub
lication Society for Its great work among
the colored people.
The convention Endorsed the "School
new book written by E. A. johnson of
Raleigh, N. G.
The third resolution, looking to the ANAL
gamation of all the oolored Baptist organi-
cations Ia the country, was not adopted, the
older organizations not wishing to give up
their separate corporations.
The fourth resolution was as follows:
RESOLVED, That the next national ThanksRiy-
Ing day be recommended to the churches in
these United States of America as O suitable
day for special fasting and prayer to Almighty
God to relieve us of the expressions and wrongs
being done us daily.
The resolution as first introduced con-
tanned some expressions about mob law aud
violence from which the colored people were
suffering These were stricken out by the
committee on resolutions. The resolution
was strongly approved by the convention.
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the race question in the convention, nor
anything that could have been construed as
offensive by any white person who might
have been present The tenor Of the con-
Yention as evidenced in all the addresses
and resolutions, however, was that Of in
dependence Of she whites In everything, Ia
religious as well as In secular matters.
AIMING TO BE INDEPENDENT.
They do not request any advice or assist
snce from the white branches of the de-
nomination and assert their ability to
manage all their affairs and Institutions
exclusively among themselves. This spirit
OF independence is partly induced by the
lack of attention given the col ored Baptist
organizations by the white Baptists, as
shown by their neglect to send fraternal
messengers to the conventions, according to
the custom of the denomination.
The two wings Of the denomination are
now working entirely independent of each
other. AS one of the members of the oon-
ven1on expressed it, they were negroes be-
fore they were Baptists.
A vote Of thanks to the First African
Baptist church for its entertainment Of the
convention was adopted.
The railroad companies were given vote
OF thanks for the liberal rates given by
them to the delegates attending the conven-
ton,
The seventh resolution was as follows:
WHEREAS, Several of the state legislatures
nave passed the separate car law,
RESOLVED, That this convention regard said
law as unjust and discrimination against a
particular class of American citizens, and
ResotOed, That said legislatures be petitioned
70 repeal these obnoxious laws.
TO MEET IN WASHINGTON NEXT.
There was a lively and animated dis
cusson upon the question Of the next place
OF meeting. Washington, Lynchburg and
birmingham were put In nomination.
The committee on time and place Of meet
Ing recommended Lynchburg. but after
much discussion Washington was chosen by
large majority.
An adjournment was taken until 8
o'clock.
Vice President Parrish presided at the
evening session. Rev. K. Mitchell, A, M.
OF Kentucky conducted devotional serv-
ices. Mrs. r. J. Radcliffe of Nashville
sang very creditably, "Suwannee River"
ANoF' III. MAO V lear, IL. D., addressed the
convention at length upon the work of the
american Baptist Home Mission Society
among the colored people OF the south.
Prot. Silas x. Floyd of Georgia read an
excellent paper on "The Press as a Means
OF Civilization"
L. A. Scruggs. M. D., of North Carolina
followed in paper on 1.-THE Colored Man
Us a Praoticing Physician"
The report Of Prof. A. w. Pegues, the
statistician Of the convention, showed a
very encouraging increase in the denomina-
Hon during the year.
STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH.
The statistical report as submitted last
night, comprising twenty eight states and
ssrr1toTies. makes the following showing:
Nlneteen state conventions were held last
year There were 1893 meetings of associa-
sIons. The denomination has 1871 ordained
ministers and II ,213 churches. The total
ttnenoership reported is /, 400, 756 being al
increase Of IS, 500 over last year. The num-
uef OK baptisms reported during the year
=, mere was expended for education last
sser SO 1882, for foreign missions $21 ,46S,
nv Ga Tor miscellaneous purposes 1886 ,421.
o. ae Total value Of church property is
S5SOl ,40l. There are 7,917 Sunday schools,
SLtn 1867 officers and teachers and 500, $50