The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-05-16
REV. HAWTHORNE'S ELOQUEN1
SPEECH.
He Pays Glowing Tribute to the South
and Touches on the Race Question.
Rev. Christians Fling at
ROmanism.

G.. A. Nunnelly OF Memphis presented O
report recommending the establishment
Of permanent board to have charge OF
the building of church edifices within the
territory of the Southern convention. The
report showed that in Texas alone there
were 1000 Baptist churches without shell.
ter The report also stated there were
in the South 100000 people without
the gospel and that 1000 missionaries
were needed within the territory of the
convention.
Dr. TichenOr, secretary of the home mis-
sions board, opposed the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the board which had heretofore had
charge of the work of aid in the construc-
ton of churches. The report was re-
jected
Al this point Dr. III. A. Rolands of Phila-
delphia, secretary of the American Pub
LEGATION society, DR.. L. f. Wilns of Chi
cagO, secretary of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union of America, and General
John Eaton of Washington, president
of the American Religious Educational So
ciety, responded briefly.
J. j. Taylor of Mobile, Ala. treasurer
of the foreign missions board, reported
the appOrtionment of the secretary of
for the foreign mission work of the ensu-
ing year. 1t aggregated $4,000, dis
trlbuted as follows: Alabama, $10,S0O:
Arkansas, $4,000; District of Columbia,
$1,000; Florida, $500; Georgia, $4,000;
Kentucky, $4,000; Louisiana. S21OO.
Maryland, $4,000; Mississippi, $2OOO:
South Carolina, $4,000; North Carolina
$4,000; Missouri $4,000; Tennessee, S13.-
900; Texas, $4,000; Virginia, 81 900:
Indian Territory, 5000.
The report was adopted, after which
the committee resumed consideration of
paying fields, which was not disposed of
at the session Saturday.
DIR. Il. ii. Graves, for 80 years a mis-
Slonary residing at Canton, China, in dis
cussing the report, urged eloquenty ag-
gressive work in China The result of the
Japanese-Chinese war, he said, would
be to open China to modern thought and
enlightenment and now is the time 70
Christianity to strike.
lie spoke of the inadequacy of money
expended by the church in foreign mis-
sion work and suggested that at each
communion service every church member
give cents to carry the news of the Cos
pei to the heather.
DR.. Willingham, secretary of the for
eign board, said that during 80 years of
the existence of the convention it had
contributed over $1,S00,000 and 80 mis-
siOnarles to work in foreign fields. Tn
report was adopted, as was the report o
the treasurer of the home mission board
presented by Rev. Yeathman, of Washing
ton, which showed a marked improve
ment in the financial condition during tn
past year.
j. ID. Christian of Kentucky in re
port upon the work among the foreigner
of the United States (who represent l
per cent of the pOpulation), referred
the concentration of the alien popula
ton in great cities. give cities" sal
he, contain one-siXth of the population
of this country. Those cities are domi
mated by foreigners as the foreigners are
by rum and Romanism. w
must evangelize them or they will over
whelm us. The foreign rulers of our
country must be overthrown and the law
Every Baptist church
worth 100 policemen.
Rev. Richmond of Baltimore addressed
the convention on the work among the
German Americans, and Rev. Albert A..
Dlaz of Havana, who is pastor of q con
gregatiOn of 5000 Cuban Baptists, on tn
work in Cuba. The convention took a ne
cess until evening and this afternoon Sec
rotary Smith gave an excursion to Mount
Vernon to all Georgia delegates.
The feature of the evening session was
an eloquent and earnest address by Rev.
j. b. Hawthorne of Georgia on the his
tory, work and future prospects of the
Southern Baptist convention. The occa-
sion OF the address was a report on the
work of the home missionary board,
among the native white, people of the
South. The address was a practical an
that the time for a reunion of
Northern and Southern churches had not
come and so far as the Southern Baptist
was concerned was thing
of the indefinite future. An understand
ing of the history and work of the con-
vention, Rev. Hawthorne said, would do
much towards harmOnizing the Northern
and Southern churches. not in one body,
because, he said, that was not desirable.
but it would bring the Baptists, North and
South, together as Christian brothers.
The Southern Baptists, he said, regarded
as settled the questions that were so years
ago submitted to the arbitrament of the
sword
Secession was dead, slavery was dead,
both were buried beyond the reach of any
msurrecting power. No man could now
seek to revive them without receiving
an instant and overwhelming rebuke.
But the question whether the Southern
Baptist convention should exist had never
been submitted to the arbitrament of war.
No political significance should be ascribed
to the perpetuation of this body. Its
existence was continued because if the
two wings of the Baptist church were con-
solidated the organization would be I'M
wieldy; two or three organizations could
accomplish more than one. No doctrinal
difference was involved.
Rev. Hawthorne sketched the work of
the Southern church since the separation.
There We're he said, more Baptists in
the South than in all the rest of the world
put together. In some sections it was
difficult to find member of another de-
nomination. With their history in view
he asked how could the Southern Baptists
regret the withdrawal from the national
organization. During his address Rev.
Hawthorne spoke on the work of con-
version begun by Albert Adais in Cuba
10 years ago under the authority of the
Southern convention. Almost 5000 Bap-
lists in Cuba testified to the great result
of that work
II hesitate to touch on political sub
lects,' said he, but if the revolution now
IN progress in Cuba shall eliminate in
civil and religious liberty, in less than %