The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-16
THE sapTIsTs At wasHiseTox.


some Interesting fAcss AID Fixnrss
Breaghs Out At the Great Coas. ntiaa.
The Southern Baptist convention has
been in session i'm Washington. L. T. :,
during the past week. seven hundred
and five delegates are in attendance.
Judge HARRISON, WHO has bern presi-
dent Of the convention for two years.
was unanimously reelected.
Re-sorts were then called for. r. L.
Bell, corresponding secretary and
treasurer of the Sabbath school board.
presented his report. IL showed thai
the receipts have been S63 05a 81 against
81. 80 last Year.
The work of the foreign mission
board vas presented by X. 4. Willing
ham, corresponding secretary. and re-
ferred tn committees on papaI fields,
pa gan fields, and financial policy. The
total amount given for the cause In
the past year was over sl29.s1, but
expenses Tor collecting il in the States
reduced tile receipts of the board 10
sl2J, Az. This was more by $4,000 than
the receipts of the previous year, and
$4,000 more than any previous year ia
| the history OF the convention, except,
of course, the centennial year. Al the
close of the year there We're in the for
eign mission fields s. churches, Ia
out-stations, 81 missionaries, 80 or
dained natives, 50 unordained native
workers, membership 3,i33, Sabbath
school pupils ,:,03, :. houses Of worship,
! Is day schools with 7b7 pupils. The
natives contributed 50 549.
/. L. Tichenor reports for the home
mission board as follows:
Nj ,sionarics, i25: increase IL, and
more than in any year OF the boards
history. Baptized, 5,92l increase l.
| I5l, and 572 more than have been bap-
tiZed in any one year since the organl-
Zation of the convention. Cash eipts
| $3.50, being sl5.100 larger than last
year, and greater than any previous
year except the centennial.
The board began this year with Il
| debt of $685.. May LIST il mad been re-
duced to 81, %.
| The general statistics of the conyen-
| ton were given in compilation made
by Secretary Burrows. 1t showed the
following totals:
District associations, 702: ordained
ministers, 1907 chui ches, IL ,s03; MEM
| bership, white, l,i3l OIL; colored
churches, II 1913; membership, 3I7 100;
aggregate membership, 2,74s,i11.
FOREIGN MISSION WORK FOR THE COM
| ING YEAR.
Secretary Willingham announced
that in the fifty years of the existence
of the Southern Baptist convention
its constituency had contributed ST.,
SOC, 900 to the cause of forei gn missions,
and the board had sent 80 missionaries
into the field.
j. J. Taylor, of Mobile, submitted the
report of the committee on the finan-
cial policy of the foreign missions
board, recommending that the sum of
$15O,OOO be raised for the work next
year, apportioned as follows:
Alabama, $l0,S0O; Arkansas, 81, 400 !:
| Western Arkansas, and Indian Terri
tory, 5000; District of Columbia, s POO :;
Florida, ST 500: Georgia, 600; Ken
lucky, SIS 900; Louisiana; s., 400: Mary
land, $l3 300; Mississippi, $4,000; Mis-
souri,, $4,000; North Carolina, $4,000;
| South Carolina, $l3,SOO; Tennessee,
| 1920; Texas, $4,000; Virginia, S2l, y
900; other States, $500.
woMAN's MISSIONARY UNION.
At the meeting Of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Union of the convention, the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
President, Miss Fannie Heck, of
North Carolina; Miss Annie W. Arm
strong, Baltimore, corresponding secre-
tary; Miss MARITIME, Baltimore, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Lowndes, Balti-
more, treasurer. All these elections
| were unanimous.