The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-07


we pause TO consider the intellectual
| movement of our times in the direc-
| tion of female education. This move
ment is indicated
Il. In the establishment of endowed
institutions like Nassar College, the
first great endowed college for girls.
now only thirty-four years Old Also
| in the provision which various States
| are making i'm their normal schools for
the more thorough intellectual equip
| ment of girls These things admonish
us of the general awakening Of our
times on the subject of female educa-
tion.
-. This movement is indicated.
| again. in the unusual activity of yari-
| Gus Christian denominations in our
! State at this time, in the training of
| girls They are Offering inducements
to our girls, and we cannot afford to
| turn over their education to these in
| stitutions any more than we can afford
to turn over 10 others the education Of
our boys.
The sooner we do this. the better.
| for this is an epOch-t9aking time and
| girls are now at school who will make
a mighty impress on our times.
%. This movement is indicated again
in the awakening of our own Baptist
| people on this subject
The Baptist Female University is a
necessity for us. The walls are going
| up. Our people long for it's compile
ton: our girls are waiting and longing
| for it, Let US, as a Convention, give
| now practical endorsement in a form
that Will send thrill to the hearts of
| ali our people and prove to every
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| with utmost wisdom, do so, because
we intend, with divine help, to carry it
on to it's high destiny"
| THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The action of the Baptist State
| Convention this afternoon marked an
era in the history of missions TO the
| negroes The plans for the co-opera-
tion with Northern Baptists in this
| work were ratified without a dissent
ing voice. Hereafter the American
| Baptist Home Mission Society, the
| Southern Home Mission Board, the
| Colored State Baptist Convention and
| the White State Convention will CO.
| operate. The first speaker was DR.. |. r.
| IIchenor, the veteran Baptist of At
| lanta; then Secretary Moorehouse. Of
| New York. President Crosby, of the
| Colored A. and NJ. College; Prof. j. W.
Gore, of Chapel Hill; DIR. j. S. Felix,
| President Chas +. Taylor. of Wake
Forest College; DR. ". L. Gwaltney;
| President MeaeNe, of Shaw UniVer-
| sity, and Rev. n. Il. Cobb. of Raleigh.
The Home Mission Board will raise
| 500, 900 this v"ar. sc. ono IN North Caro-
lima.
The committee ;0 aatc n success
sor to Dr. Durham >.iit lrpoft to-mor-
| row.
The subject tonight was the Baptist
Female University at Raleigh Or. J.
W. Carter, Rev o. l.. Stringficld. Rev
j. II. Edwards spoke, and $l,225 in sub
scrptions we've raised The report on
the University is the most hopeful n
the history of the enterprise. Every
effort will be made to keep the work
going on.
The committee appointed to enter
tain the matter of recompensing the
family Of DIR. Durham for money re
spent and the life insurance policy he
sacrificed in printing and distributing
the pamphlet against State aid, re-
ported.
The ministerial relief work occupied
taken by the committee TO nominate
II successor of DR. Durham.
THE TREASURER'S REPORT.
Treasurer Boushall's report showed
that total of $l39s00.22 has been col
lected in the State during the year by
the Baptists for the various purposes,
as follows:
State Missions, $11 ,4025S; Foreign
Missions, $S,207.06; Home Missions,
$4,776.s9; Education, $13,331.24; Or
phanage, $10,584.57; Ministerial Relief
Fund, $590.47; Sunday Schools and Col
portage, $5,399.47; Church Extension,
$s5 900; Students Aid Fund (Louis
ville), $107.94.
The number of Associations in the
Convention the past year has been for
tyfiye.
The number of missionaries in the
State, 106; sermons preached, 20,934;
addresses delivered, II ,303; missions
churches supplied, 335; out stations
supplied, 1,246; baptisms, 1,76S; added
by letter, 1903; new churches consti-
tuted, 81; new Sunday-schools organ
lied, 1877; pages OF tracts and religious
literature distributed by Correspond
ing Secretary, 25,0C0.
ne above ilSuTtS MAKE d very n al
showing of work done by the mission
aries of the Convention.
The Women's Missionary Union has
pressed forward with the work during
the past year with gratifying results.
Their report shows nearly $4,000
raised for Foreign Missions. Miss Fan
ME +. Heck, of Raleigh, is it's presi-
dent.
There are in the Baptist State Con-
yention $50 churches, S4s Sunday
schools, with 52,S7l scholars.
j. d.
Il. K. SHOPS TO he RE0PENED
BURLINGTON, n. C.. Dec g. (Spe-
cial.) THE people of this town are
jubilant over the prospect of begin
ming work hert, in the rniLrnad shnns