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BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Eight Thousand Dollars Subscribed for the
Mission Cause,

Eight Thousand Dollars Subscribed for the
Mission Cause.
Chattanooga, Tenn, May 9.-The sec
ond days session of the Southern Baptist
convention began with Judge HARRISON
in the chair, but he was relieved towards
the close of the morning by Ex-Governor
Northen of Georgia. first vice president.
An impassloned appeal was made by r.
j. W,llingham, corresponding secretary
of the foreign missions board, to save
the cause of the missions from going
backward consequent on the increasing
Indebtedness of the board. Subscriptions
were opened on the floor, and $S0S9 was
subscribed by those present. A touch
ing scene followed a motion to honor
the living organizers Of the convention
at Augusta in 1916 by rising vote.
resolution was carried to examine into
the relations existing between the Bap-
fist Theological seminary at Louisville
and the convention. This action arises
out of an article In Johnson's Encyclo-
pedia by President Whitsitt, taking the
ground that Roger Williams was sprn-
killed. after the fashion of the early Eng
lish Baptists.
The innocently worded resolution pre-
scented at the morning session of the con-
vention reads thus:
Be it resolved, That a committee con-
sisting of one from each state represent
ed in the convention be appointed to re-
port back to this body what relations ex-
sst between the Baptist Theological SEM
mary at Louisville and the convention
and what control it has as relates to the
teachings and actions of the former.
The report of the committee will be
made Monday but 1t is doubtful whether
the convention has authority to inter-
fere in the affairs of the seminary or to
discipline its teachers for its teachings.
contrary report is significant of a
strong effort being made to reprimand
President Whitsett for his fearless state
ment "of historical facts relating to bap-
tsmal rites of the early English Bap-
tsts."
A graceful act of that great body was
the recognition of the surviving men,
bers who participated in the reorganiza-
ton of the convention at Augusta in
1916 Messrs. Plumb and Hickman, two
aged men of Augusta Green Street
church. who assisted in the entertain
ment of the first convention, were the
only responses as the convention rose
and stood with bowed heads while the
SILVER grays" mounted the platform.
]. s. Bledsoe OF Arkansas, one of the
founders, aged IS years, who has baptiz-
ed $500 persons into the church, sent
greetings to the convention.
The afternoon session was brief and
taken up in the main by addresses on the
work of the Sunday school board. At 4
o'clock an adjournment was taken to
permit the delegates to participate In
hag-raislng over the county court house.
During the ceremony, which was wilt
messed by 5000 people, minute guns were
fired by the local amillery men in honor
of the sixteen states represented In the
convention.
A grand missionary rally was held to-
night in the First Baptist church, which
was addressed among others by John l..
White, moderator of the North Carolina
convention, on Brazil. w. 8. Schole Of
Dallas, Tex, handled his subject, AT
rca," in an inimitable and witty man
ner.
The original parchment on which
Bishop Heber wrote "From Greenland's
Icy Mountains" was exhibited to the au-
dience. who Joined heartily in the ia
nous song. This manuscript is In the
possession of Rev. II. b. Garrett, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Chatta-
nooga
Japan" was the subject of n very In
structive talk by Rev. j. Kir1y of st.
Louis.
The people had come out to hear DR..
John H. Eager, the beloved representa-
| tive of southern Baptists In Florence,
Italy, who has recently returned for q
brief vacation from the mission field.
| Dr. Eager's remarks told of the thraldom
| In which the Roman Catholic faith binds
| the masses of Italy.
A delegation of seven Creek and
| Cherokee Indians from the Indian terri
| tory divide popular interest with DIR. A.
| ]. DiaZ, late a prisoner Of the Spanish In
| Moro CASTLE Havana. The Womans
Missionary union secured both attrac-
| tions today Mrs. Combes presented a
| request for the admission OF the Indian
| territory, which now has native mission
| aries and over 1900 Baptist believers.
| The Chautauqua salute was given by the
| ladies in honor of their Indian sisters.