Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-12

H. Kerfoot of the Theological seminary; Rev. J. R. Purser of New Orleans; Rev J. William Jones of Charlottesville. Va, who put in a word for the preachers, as- serting that they led the church in the matter of giving; B. F. Roy of Missouri, editor of the American Baptist Flag, who did not believe in the tithing law it was not enough-Christs law required that men should give all they had.
 Rev $. H. Ford of Missouri doubted the advsability of adopting the tithing principle in the churches. He did not keep books with the Lord any more than he did with his wife.
 The report was adopted; also resotu- ton offered by MT Purser calling upon the preachers to use their best efforts to secure the adoption of the tithing system by members of their churches.
 The report on the Sunday school board was read by Rev. w. B. Crumpton, sec retary of the Alabama state mission board The committee commended the work and policy of the Sunday school board, and recommended the continu- ance of the publication of the Young Peoples Leader and that the manage ment of the publication department be left to the board, with the understand ing that the convention is not to be ln- volved in debt. The report was adopted without discussion.
 Rev. I. l.. Hunton of Georgia reported from the committee on young peoples work recommending that churches or ganize young peoples societies, to be un- der the control of the churches; that pas tors hold the societies in closest sympa- thy with the work of the Southern Bap- tist convention, and that the Sunday school board be required to furnish such literature as will be helpful in carrying out these purposes.
 Rev E.. E. Folk of Nashville, editor Of the Baptist Reflector, was recognized to
 | on hot eli n representation, now two years old He stated that the committee had found itself unable to come to an agreement upon any point of change, and it there fore recommended that the present basis remain, and that the committee be dis. charged. The report was agreed to, ana President Haralson returned the thanks of the convention for the very satisfac- tory report. GaughteD.
 Rev D. w Gwyn of Atlanta, Ga, pre- sented a resolution recommending the establishment of representative Bap- tist mission in Palestine, headquarters at Jerusalem.
 Dr. Kerfoot suggested that this was largely a mater of sentiment; that in ob- servation of those who had been in the holy land, mission work was rather over done as compared with other fields, and on this motion the resolution was re- ferred to the committee on foreign mis- sionS.
 Rev. H. Wayland Hoyt, D. D., of Phil adelphia. editor of the Examiner, was in- troduced to the convention.
 The report of G. w. Norton, treasurer of the convention, was presented ana adopted. It shows that Berry League or Atlanta, Ga., deceased, had, by proVis- ions of his will, contributed to the gen eral fund of the convention $632.
 On the motion of Secretary Burrows, Treasurer Norton and Auditor pr. W. r. ,irt1f.t t1c1x-
 Rev Dr. c. Manly of South Carolina moved to appropriate the funds contrib uted by MT. League for the use Of the foreign mission. The motion was agreed to.
 A resolution was offered by Rev. w. H. Gambrell of Georgia providing for the superintendent a committee of seven to meet with the secretaries of state boards and devise means for bringing the Bap- lists of the south into greater co-opera- tion for the work of the Southern Bap- tist convention. The necessity and req son for the resolution, Dr. Gambrell said, was shown by the statement that two thirds of the 100000 members of the southern Baptist church gave nothing to the cause of missions. If the convention is to meet the facts, one fact is that the churchs boards must be pu on a war footing.
 Rev J. B. Hawthorne, D.. D., also of Georgia, conceded the benefits to be de- ClNeu ITOHl lHe appointment VI SuCil d committee as Dr. Gambrell proposed, but he objected to the statement of facts upon which he based his request for it. The speaker said that as large a propor-s tion of the members of the Baptist church in the south contributed to mis- sions as of any other church in the same section
 Rev. s. M. Brown of Missouri said that the published figures mIsrepresented the facts so far as the Baptists of his state were concerned.
 Rev J. N Prestridge of Kentucky moved that the committee thus provided for be directed to arrange for the con solidation of the Foreign Missionary Journal and the Home Field. This gave rise to a desultory discussion, resulting in the adoption of the resolution. ~ At the suggestion of Professor Whit sitt o'clock, tomorrow was fixed as the hour of the Broadus memorial services.
 Rev. T. s. Dunaway of Fredericks- burg, Va, vice-president of the board of trustees of the Southern Baptist Theo- logical seminary, announced to the con- vention the results of the recent meet ings of the board. Prof. W. H. Whitsitt was elected president of the seminary, vice Rev. John A. Broadus, deceased; Hon. Joshua Lowering of Maryland. pres ident of the board of trustees, vice Ex- Governor Brown of Georgia, deceased; Prof. Edwin c. Dargan was made pro- lessor of homiletics, Prof. Archibald T. Robinson professor of interpretation of New Testament. and H. H. Harris of Richmond, Va. professor of Biblical in- troduction and polemic theology.
 The hour for the special order having arrived, the services in connection with the historic sermon by Prof. w. H. Whittsitt, president of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary. were be- gun with the singing of the hymn, 'Glo- rious Things of Thee are Spoken, Zion, City of our God"
 President Whitsitt's discourse was historical in its nature, based upon the words in Ex. xiv, 15; Speak unto the