The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-03

YES vV,VVV ab INC DeSlnnlnR OF tn9 yea
!, had been reduced to $4,000. The r.
t port was referred to o committee,
(; which Rev. A. @. Wilkins was mad
. chairman.
a committee on corporation In til
work among the cOlored people wa
appointed with Rev. w. T.. Derieu
OF Spartanburg, as chairman. Th
: report OF the board of trustees q
, Connie Maxwell Orphanage at Green
wood was presented by Rev. j. l.. Vass
the superintendent and treasurer
Twenty,nine orphans have been re
ceived during the year making tota
OF 20 now In the institution. One nev
building has been erected this yea
and another will be finished befor,
Y spring, which will make the capacit,
100 children. The report was referred
to committee, with l ;ev. N. N. Bur
ton, chairman
The report of the committee on AGED
MINISTER'S Relief Fund was read by the
chairman, Rev. @. g. Brown, of Sumter
There are now fourteen ministers aided
by this board.
When the hour for the Thanksgiving
sermon arrived, the church was filled
to overhowing, both in the galleries
and on the floor below. DR.. w. a.
Whitsett, president of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary preach.
ed q magnificent sermon, taking as his
text LIST Samuel, 7th chap. 18th verse.
After the eermon, the report on
Foreign Missions was read by DIR. w.
@. Lindsay, of Columbia. The indica.
tions In the East seem to be hopeful, as
recent events In China point to bet
ter opening for the missionary efforts.
Many Eastern powers are threatened
with destruction. In Cuba, Brill
and Mexico the outlook is also bright
enlng In Italy, the progress is slow,
but In Africa there are CLEANS OF light
Inc discussion OF the report was mad.
the special der for Friday night
The president during the morn n
announced the fo oAins crn,nltt . !:
Fu nOnln,i. Bp,ru oi rrus.rc, ( !,
Orphanage, j. y. III VI, & alr,uau
On Sunday S"hnrs, Ryv. O. l. MAJ
tin, chairman
On Home M ,-sjone, R,tJ. w. p rry.
chairman.
On Foreign Miss rns Rev. & p.
Erytn, chairman.
On preaching for tnis ruc, ting R-v.
9. 5 Gardner, chairman.
TO nominate delegates to the South
ern Baptist Conve ntion, Rev. A. G..
Wilkins, chairman.
90 time and place of next meeting.
Rev. l.. @. Ezetl, chairman.
To nominate Executive Board, Rev
G. A. Wright, chairman.
10 nominate Board Ministerial
Education, Rev. d. w. Ramsey, chair
man.
Committee on obituaries, Rev. G. Il.
Scaife, chairman.
The Convention Proceedings.
On Thursday night the convention
was opened with the singing of the old
familiar hymn: How firm a founda-
tlon, after which prayer was offered
by'2ev. A. @. Osborn, of Benedict Insti-
tute, Columbia. The special order of
business was then called up, which
was the consideration of the report of
the committee on the annual report of
the State Mission Board. Rev. A, @.
wilkins, the chairman of this commit
tee, submitted the report, which was
short and to the point. The report
commended the work of the board and
urged that more missionaries be put in
the field next year.
Remarks on the report were made
by several: Mr.. Wilkins being the
first speaker. He spoke CT the impor-
tance Of the work and it's success 80
far. Glad to know that the debt was
not so large as it was expected to be.
At first Of the year, the debt was SO, 600,
but had been reduced now to $4,000
some OF which would be paid before
with an earnest appeal to the people
to do more next year.
Rev. Fred. Jones, of Aiken County,
was the next speaker. He told of his
experiences when he first came to
South Carolina as q missionary Of the
State Board at Beaufort. Outlooks
was gloomy then, but has frightened
greatly since. He urged the pas
tors to present this cause to the
people and that the people should be
more liberal. Duty Of Christians and
their privilege to give to the cause of
Christ.
Rev. G. T. scaife, of Woodruff, a
member of the Board, was the next
speaker. Mr.. Scaife said the work in
this State was better organized than
that of any other State. No adverse
criticisms could be made on it..
DR.. Il. M. Bailey, the efficient sec
retary OF the State Board, spoke next.
He said that by order of the conven-
tion, the board had each year extend
ed the work, hut the contributions had
not increased proportionately 1t WAS
necessary to 10 in debt as no one
could tell at the beginning of the year
what the income would be.
udo DGcu ludub WneTC
the work would suffer less. Mssiona-
ries OF the hoard made as great sacri-
fees as those In foreign fields. APP
pcais wero constantly coming from all
over the State to H. Id miss ionaries.
Though cUntrlb buttons were not SO
,arge this year ao In some past years
ti.!re were n)ri OnJriOIrJr5 Jnau
v,r before. Dr.. Bailey c,ustd h,s
-porch by calling for "a c0iieotlOn.
H. Lucius Cutnbert told the tory
OF The almost mil aculonsr' juvena tOn ui
the OLD FIRST Church IN On u.i"a 20. Dr..
Enthb bert Is one of Lhe most "itq co
sr ak ~ 10 the Safe, and for ,t.n.
time II, uelu the audience -p" liL,rsnd d
| by his Srdgnlc description Of tne re-
Opeutpg % trIs church.
On Friday morning the devotiunaI
exercises were conducted by r. v. b.
| p. Robertson, OF Gaffney. The first
subject taken up Was that OF the co OPP
Grafton in the work among the coiored
people by the Northern and Southern
Baptists. The principal speech on
this subject was made by Rev. III. L..
Moorehouse, ID. D., OF New York. He
made an earnest appeal for the Bap-
lists OF South Carolina to take up this
work more vigorously, saying this was
one of the greatest opportunities that
man had ever had for advancing the
cause of Christ. A special committee
was appointed on this subject. The
subject OF ministerial education was
taken up, the first talk on this being
made by DIR. w. III. Whitsitt, Presi
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