The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-09
DELAWARE BAPTIST UNION.
Tho Eighteenth Annual MsetIms Now Being
Held In This City.

Eaptist Union yesterday wAs one OF UGH
buslDess. The Introductory a nd devotion
al service was conducted by Rev. B. Il.
Moore, Of Shiloh Baptist Church.
The appointment Of the committees by
the moderator followed the devotional ex-
erclses. They were as follows:
On application of new churches: The
Rev. r. B. Cook, d. D., the Rev. ]. T..
Plenty, and ]. H. Appleby.
On obituaries: The Rev. Milton Jones, the
Rev. II. B. Jones and Washington Jones.
Place Of next meeting: The Rev. C. w.
w. Bishop. the Rev. w. G. Matlack and l..
b. Jones.
Digest Of laws: The Rev. R. NJ. Middle
ditch, the Rev. b. j. Savage and the Rev.
A. L. Mihm.
On missions: The Rev. o. @. Burlington,
the Rev. s. u, Meeser, the Rev. Moses
Heath and W. II. Patton.
On temperance: The Rev. s. J. Wood
ward. the Rev. w. A. Wail1ng and r. C.
Merrill.
On religious exercises: TIE Rev. d. T.
Flror. Elmer Powell and the pastor OF the
church In which the next session of the as
ISOLATION ds held.
Under the head Of general business the
Rev. w. A. Walllng reported for the COM
mtttee on bylaws and the committee on
the Federation OF the Young People. The
reports were accepted and the committee
discharged. Mr.. Wallng announced that a
meeting OF the Federation of Baptist Young
People had been called for this evening in
the lecture-room OF the Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church at 6 O'Clock. officers will
be elected at this meeting, and other i'm
portsnt business will be transacted.
The Rev. R. B. Cook announced that the
reception Of the new churches would take
place at 4.3O o'clock.
The Rev. o. G. Buddington read the
report OF the missionary committee. The
report showed the establishment during
the year Of six new churches. two in
Delaware county, Pa, and four in Della
ware State. Three new churches have
been organized In this city during the
year. The report also showed that all
the mission fields of the territory occu-
pied by the association were reasonably
well provided for by the Delaware Bap-
tist State Missionary Society in securing
aid to the amount Of $1,000 from the Cen
eral Missionary Society of the church.
In the discussion which followed the re-
port speeches were made by the Rev.
Messrs. Walling. Buddington. DR.. Pratt
and Moses Heath.
The address for the home missions
was made by the Rev. q. D. Palmer Of
Philadelphia. 1t was a happy speech. In
which the present time was represented
as one OF great missionary activity. The
missionary society of the church was de-
scribed as being the outgrowth Of the
westward course of population in the
United States. The Baptists were among
the first in the great city OF Chicago. and
the speaker declared that the strength
of the church as represented by the great
university there was due to being early
In the field. He paid a glowing tribute
to the West and spoke In eulogy Of Abra-
ham Lincoln as q Western President,
calling him 'Athe great American" He
declared the need of the church to be
system of missionary organization and
support that would keep the best men in
ministry on the frontier.
The subject of foreign missions was dis
eussed by the Rev. j. w. Lyeli. under the
head OF Missions Among All Nations"
The address dealt with the motives for
mission work. In this 1t was declared to
be the old. old story Of human selfishness.
The speaker argued that the nearness of
home mission work to the hearts of the
people grew out of recognized kinship
with people of the same relationship-the
selishness of caring for ones own. In
foreign missions he assumed a higher mo-
tive because Of the absence of self-interest
and the greater sacrifice entailed upon
missionaries who isolate themselves from
home and kindred. and who shut out from
their eyes and ears all reminders OF kin
dred and native tongue. He assumed that
the greater the sacrifice the more Christ
like the service and held that this is found
I'm foreign mission fields.
FnllOWinP the address on foreign mis-
sions the Rev, Mr. Walllng announced that
the old First Baptist Church on King
street between Tenth and Eleventh streets
would be open at o'clock and invited
those who wished to pay 1t visit to do SO
under his direction. A number of delegates
visited the old church and were delighted
with the quaint old structure.
The last address of the afternoon session
was that of the Rev. G.. NJ. Spratt, d. D., on
ministerial Education" The speaker said
he had been engaged In the work of caring
for the education Of young ministers for
nearly fifty years. In that time the edu-
cational society of the Church had helped
over 800 young men to secure good educa-
tion. OF these seventeen are now foreign
missionaries and over 400 of them are now
In the ministry OF this country. There are
now ninety young men receiving aid from
the society and there are fourteen more
who want help. The speaker spoke with
great earnestness and In eulogy of young
men who seek the glory of sacrifice, and
urged upon his hearers the duty OF more
generous support of the Educational So
eiety.
The new churches were received and
their delegates given the right hand of
fellowship at 4.40 o'clock and the meeting
adjourned until 715 o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The delegates assembled for the evening
session In the auditorium of the church.
The exercises began with service of song
led by the choir of the church, followed by
reading of the Scripture and prayer by the
moderator.
The evening session was attended by a
large congregation. Two addresses were
delivered, ths first by the Rev. D. T. Firor
OF Chester on Some Evangelistic Agen-
cies In Our Sunday Schools
The address was a sharp criticism of
modern Sunday school methods. The
speaker deplored the common neglect of
tho religious instruction Of their children
by parents, and in this formed the reasons
why many OF them were still out Of the
church. He thought Sunday school lessons
were too often about the history and geog-
raphy of the Bible. The true evanglIstic
agencies for Sunday school work, he said,
lay in cooperation between the parents
and pastor and the teacher. Under present
conditions he found this almost impossible,
and declaimed very earnestly against what
he termed the engineering" of the Sunday
school. He urged the study Of the Bible
for It's spiritual teaching, for the influence
of such figures as the Good Samaritan and
for the meaning of THE Christ life