Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-12-13
REV. JkO. T. WHITE.
Elected Corresponding Secretary
of Baptist State Convention.
A WISE SELECTION.
YOUNG, SCHOLARLY, AGGRESSIVE: AND
ELOQUENT, HE IS DMIRABI.Y FIT
TED FOR THE WORK.

ton, which met at Greensboro
last week, Rev. Jno. E. White
pastor of the Edenton Baptist
church, was unanimously elect
ed to succeed the late DR.. G.
Durham as Corresponding Sec
retary of the State Convention
the highest position in that great
denomination.
The incumbent has supervi
sorry charge of all the mission
points in the Stat -, of all Sunday
school work, and is leader III
virtually all the conventional
movements of the church. He
attends all the associations and
in many ways is given chief
place. Salary sI,74o.
The Biblical Recorder says:
1t will please the Baptists of
North Carolina to know that the
choosing of a successor to the
late DR.. Durham was marked
with solemnity and with repeat
ed prayer to God. More than
once the Convention bowed in
humble petition for the guild
ance of the Father.
There were no candidates for
the place. Brethren would NEIL
ton this, that and the other one,
but there was not a man VIII O
could be considered a candidate.
The manner Of choosing was
calculated to obtain the will of
the churches. The representa-
tives from each Association we're
asked TO select one from their
number to speak their will, Rev.
Chas. E. Taylor, d. D., being
named III the motion for chairs
nau. I>hi1ty-two Associations
were represented. Prayer was
repeatedly offered. Chairman
Taylor said, after a conclusion
had been reached, that in all his
career he had never seen body
of men SO impressed with the
Importance Of their charge or
more anxious for the direction
the Holy Spirit.
Under these circumstances
Rev. John E. White of Edenton
was chosen, and the committee
nominated him unanimously.
The election in the Convention
was by acclarnation. Every vote
was for Bro. White, and every
voice was hearty and full-such
as to show sincerity, and to ell
courage the new Secretary.
Being invited to speak to the
Convention, Bro White, we'll
nigh overcome with the solem-
nifty of tn , step that had been
taken, informed the body that he
accepted the trust not as an
honor, but because there was no
way to avoid it. Long since he
had put On the arnor of the
Lord, and he could not refuse to
respond to His call now. 1.-The
policy of this Convention is c5-
tab,isied; | am not set up to
make a new policy, butto main
tain that which my revercd pred
ecessor so noblv directed. 1t is
now said of Bro. Durham that
he was q leader-the leader; by
Col 5 help l hope to be a ser
want
Then followed a touching
prayer by DR.. Thos. E. Skinner.
Rev. Jno. E. White is the old
est son Of Rev. J. NJ. v hite.
He was born at Clayton III 1903,
and will be tWenty-seven years
Of age this month. His mother
was daughter OF pioneer Bap-
tist preacher, Rev. John Filing
ton. Periods i'll his early life
were spent III Raleigh, Holly
Springs and Apex. His father
is an educator as we'll as preach
er, and his children are naturally
we'll trained. John graduated at
Wake Forest in 1890. At co..
lege he was a leader-not a pol
itician, but one in whom his
fellows had confidence and on
whom they repeatedly placed
honors. At the time of graduat>
ing he purposed entering the
Law, but the impression made
upon him in a revival that
session started by the young mill
isters-(Rev. J. L. White led the
meeting the last days)-was a
lasting one; and at Mars Hill
College, in which he was sue
cessfully associated with T. NJ.
Hurham, Esq, he became con-
victed that he was called tC
preach. After two yeals at Mars
Hill he was ordained (the late
DR.. Durham being one of the
Dresbvtery,) and accepted a cal,