The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-14

tive white population Of this country. Il
s-ateu mat while the work among the
pasdhs OF foreign lands. the Indians. and
the negroes Of this country was necessary.
tne Mork among our own native white
teupie Was absolutely necessary. The
Dodru called the attention Of the cOnvcn-
slon 70 the needs of the whole western
frontier, and to the Indian Territory
MHeIe tnere are now more whites than In
.iidhs, ana with less religious oppOrtuni-
eIoS' as rule ana 10 Florida, where there
was now great suffering resulting from
the severe weather of the past winter IL
was the opinion of the board that unless
sOnlething was done to relieve these evils,
many souls, as well as lives, would be lost.
AZ the conclusion of the reading of the
report, DrJ. b. Hawthorne of Atlanta ad-
dressed the convention on the subject He
referred to the separation between the
noIIhern and southern sections of the
church, and said there were still some
people, both in the southern and northern
parts OF the Baptist church. who insisted
upon trying to recognize dead issues and
INTENDED them to exist as a sort Of monu-
tneht 10 the defeated party. This conven-
uon' however, he said, had nothing to do
with southern politics
lie spoke of the history of the board
anu SAID that the first missionary work the
southern states had done was to aid the
struggling city churches in the
iiOfth' that the first church
If ljnfe Was Wia5Shiqgton }gH9l had its start in
ary board of the southern convention The
southern Baptist ministers We're. most of
mem, rlch planters, and did not need or
receive salaries. Fifty years ago, he said,
they looked upon city churches as the
worst held to which Baptist preachers
could be sent Southern churches had
then relieved the struggling northern
churches in their poverty and they now re-
Joieed in their magnificent success.
he touched on the development of the
south, which, he cOntended, was not the
outgrowth of outside influence, as some
people pretended to believe but was the
work of southern effort and southern
heart, and all they needed was capital and
technical skill, and these they were get
ting as well as they could from the best
grains and blood of the New England
states and the boundless northwest
As to the negro question he claimed there
was but one certainty. and that was that
II the white Christians of the southern
states did not save the negroes they would
destroy the whites. He said If the negroes
were allowed to relapse into barbarism as
many OF them showed a tendency to do,
the white people would be driven to bar
barrie methods in protecting themselves.
He then referred TO the new woman,
and TO the women diVines, and said that
the blizzards of last winter would be but
summer zephyr In comparison with the
Baptist minister who so far faltered from
the accepted teachings gof the church and
the teachings of Paul in order to win
smile from a woman who had arrayed
herself in the cast-off habiliments of her
subjugated husband.
B. H. Carroll of Waco, Tex, spoke Of
the glorious religious history of Texas.
He said that out of $500 churches, $500
had no places for holding services, and
of these $500 there were scarcely 100
which would support minister the whole
year round There were seVenty-two
counties in the state, which together
would form a state as large as Pennsyl-
vania, in which there was not single
Baptist minister. OF the 100000 negroes
in the state, he was proud to say that one
fourth were Baptists. He then eXhorted
the convention to give aid to the minis
ters of his state to continue missionary
work in Texas
A. J. Diaz of Cuba followed with short
address, in which he also asked for mis-
sionary aid in his country but stated
hoped for, a closer acquaintance with
the natives of Cuba would have to be
formed.
morrow morning. 1t is understood that
the next convention will be held at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, but the question did not
come before the convention to-day.
At the meeting of the Womens Mis-
sionary Union Of the Southern Baptist
convention to-day the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, Miss Fannie of North Carolina;
Miss Annie W. Armstrong of Baltimore,
corresponding secretary; Miss MARITIME of
Baltimore, recording secretary; Mrs
LOWndes of Baltimore, treasurer. All
these elections were unanimous Vice
presidents, Mrs. George Eager of Ala
bama, Mrs. E. Longley of Arkansas, Mrs
B. B. Chipley of Florida, Miss NJ. E.
Wright of Georgia, Miss r. s. Broadus of
Kentucky Mrs. w. J. Brown of Maryland,
Mrs AYen of Mississippi, Mrs. w. f. Eli
OFT of Missouri, Mrs. James A. Briggs of
North Carolina, Mrs A. c. s. Jackson of
Tennessee, Miss NJ. L. Coker of North
Carolina, Mrs. A. NJ. Gwathney OF Nir-
ginia, Mrs. f. B. Davis Of Texas, Miss
Comprere of Indian Territory and Mrs
Tucker of North Carolina.
The recommendation of the Sunday
school board that the missionary day in
the Sunday schools, which proved so sue
cessful last year and which brought into
the treasures of the home and foreign
boards so large a sum of money, be made
a subject of special attention on the part
of the Women's Missionary Society this
year was adopted.