Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-08-24
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met in it's eightY-seventh annual SEES
sion at Chincoteague Baptist Church,
in the upper part of this county, on
Wednesday, August 10Th, adjourn1ng
on Friday afternoon.
The meeting was one of the most
interesting in the Associations MS
tory During the three days session
the weather continued pleasant; the
attendance, both of delegates and
visitors, was large; the discussions
were often spicy, never tircsome; ana
the reports from the twenty -one
churches composing the Association
indicated an aggressive years work
for the Master, with a most encour-
aging outlook, throughout the Asso.
ciational limits, for the coming year.
At Harborton and Wardtown there
are now churches, and steps are being
taken to erect Baptist houses OF wor
ship on Sykes Island and at Parks
lev. The church letters revealed the
fact that not church on the Eastern
Shore is now pastorless The gain in
church membership during the year
was large, the total membership IN
the Association reaching nearly 3000.
The new pastors, who appeared for
the first time at the Association,
created most favorable impression.
They were: Revs. NJ. T. Sanford, J
r. Jones, G. w Matthews and E. Z.
Davis.
The Association was called to order
Wednesday at II a. III. by Judge Is;
u. Gunter, who read the 1st and end
Psalms. Rev. w. w. Wood offered
PRAYER. and then the body proceeded
TO elect it's officers, with the following
result: moderator, Judge B. II. Gun
ter; clerk, G.. Il. Joynes; assistant
clerk, R. w. Bagwell; treasurer, 5.
F. Rogers.
The following visitors were intro
duced and welcomed: }. Carson wat
son, of the NJ. E. Church, South; I.
3. Shepherd, Smithfield; Frank II.
Boston, Potomac Association; ID: j.
Handy, Maryland Union Association;
+. r. Matthews, West Chowan Asso-
ciat;op of n. c.; Timothy White,
Norfolk: VIM Price, Hampton Sol
liers' Home: Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson,
State Board Of Education; Edwin
Taylor. N. p. Church; William
Fisher, Apponattox Associations
h. Fl. Pitt, Religious Herald;
Frank Fisher, Strawberry Asso,
citation: Prof. Chas. H. Winston,
Richmond College; L. NJ. Allen, Ports
mouth Association; j. }. Wicker,
Baltimore Evangel, and Miss Lulu nj.
Butts, Ryland Female Institute.
The annual sermon was delivered
at IL III, by Rev. j. l.. King.
The discourse was an able and inter
esting one and was based on l John
3:5-"Beloved, now are we the sons
Of God: bat it doth not yet appear
what we shall be-"
After the sermon Rev. w. w. Wood,
pastor Of Chincoteague Church, de-
Iiyered hearty and felicltous al,
dress of welcome, Rev. NJ. F. Sanford
making an appropriate response IN
behalf of the visiting brethren.
At the afternoon session the report
on education was submitted by 8. >.
X ellam. The report set forth the I'M
portance of educating the young,
urged Baptists to support their own
educational institutions, and contain
ed a plea for larger contributions TO
the Education Board. Is I. Guntcrr,
.Jr moved the adoption OF a substi-
tute report, calling upon the churches
of the Accomac Association TO With
draw, for the present, their contrlou-
lions to the Education Board, and
give the money raised for this pur-
nose directly to ministerial students
in the Association bounds, to aid
them in securing proper educational
training. The discussion thatfollow-
ed was a warm one and was partlcl-
mated in by 3. T. Gunter, ,Ir.. A. s.
Serar. Thos. NJ. Scott, J. II. EllYson,
! NJ. Dunaway, J. J. Wicker, 2. H,
Purnell, A. Is. Woodfin, R. H. Pitt,
B II. Gunter, Sr. and Chas. H. Win.
ston. The substitute report was ii
nally withdrawn, and the original re-
port adopted with an amendment de-
clarine it to be the sense of the Asso-
ciation that the Board of Education
should be more representative in It's
character and ito this end should be
composed OF, at the least, one mem
Der chosen from each Of the district
Associations OF Virginia.
A collection was taken for minister
ial students from the Accomack AS
ISOLATION, and $500 was raised to help
them pursue their studies.
Thursday morning devotional ex-
ercises were conducted by Rev. s. U.
Grimsley. After the Association had
been called to order, Rev. R. H. Pitt
led in prayer, and Prof. G. H. Win
ston then presented briefly the
claims of Richmond College.
The report on the S. S, and Bible
Board was made by Rev. P. Fl. Pur-
nell and discussed by Revs. Frank r
Boston and J. NJ. Dunaway. On mo-
ton of Rev. J. NJ. Dunaway the mod
orator appointed committee to ap
portion the sum of $500, which the
churches are to raise during the next
associational year for this Board.
The committee appointed to select
the place for the next Association
Meeting reported in fave. of Oman
cock. There were invitations from
three churches-Mappsville, Zion and
Onancock. Rev. NJ. f. Sanford was
named as the preacher of the intro
ductorv sermon, with Rev. j. K.
Jones as alternate. The report on
Home Missions, made by Rev. a. B.
Woodiin. showed an increase both in
the number of missionaries at work
under this Board and in the number
of converts baptized by them during
the past year. The restitution of
many sections, in our own land.
where The people are yet strangers to
Christ. and the danger to orr Chris
tan institutions from foreign ilnmi-
grafton unless this foreign element is
Christianized, were described, and a
more generous support asked for the
Board, row that it's work is expand
ing so rapidly.
At the afternoon session the report
OH Foreign Missions was read by Rev.
NJ. f. Sanford, discussed by Revs. P.
II. Purnell, S. .. Grimsley and Nj. F.
Sanford, and then adopted. The re
port stated that the Foreign Mission
Board came into existence in 1915, at
the organization of the Southern Bap