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$4,000 for foreign missions during the

$4,000 for foreign missions during the
present year"
The motion carried unanimously.
President Marsh then called the re-
port of the Ministers Relief Board, and
it was read by Rev. J. Il. McDuffy, of
Durham 1t was adopted.
REPORT OF BOARD OF MISSIONS.
The largest and most important com
mittee of the convention is the Board of
Missions and Sunday Schools, and their
report embodies the work Of the church
for year. The chairman of this board
is Rev. ]. r. White. The preamble OF the
report is herewith given:
With gratitude to God for his abound
ing mercy and unfailing providence, we
submit our sixty sixth annual report.
For the first time in its history the
convention assemblies on its western Dor
der, under the shadow of the Blue Ridge.
From this point of elevation and wide
outlook we survey the field we have oc
cupied and the work we have been ena-
bled to accomplish during the conven-
tional year now ended.
We rejoice to report the progress made
and the prosperity which has attended
the effort Baptists are making in North
Carolina to establish the cause of Christ
and the truth.
The Associations have been we'll attend
ed, the discussions have been enthusi-
astic and well received, and the general
spirit among the churches and the breth-
rem has been of such nature as to prom
Use earnest work during the coming year
We rejoice especially to report the spirit
OF harmony which has prevailed in our
ranks. The discussion OF mission meth
DDS have largely subsidized. Such discus
sion as we have had has been generally
good tempered and fraternal. The indi-
cations are that our Baptist brother
hood is more compact, more united, and
less likely to be swerved from loyalty
to our organized work, and that the idea
of Baptist interdependence and co-opera-
ton is too strongly entrenched in the
hearts and minds of Baptist people to be
disturbed God has blessed our mission
work richly. Never in all the history
or the board have we been in greater
need of His divine help and guidance, and
never have we closed a year with deeper
sense of His leadership in the affairs
committed to us. For this God be prais-
ed
When day dawned on the second day
OF the convention it was raining, and has
been raining and cloudy at intervals all
day.
Someone remarked that it was Bap-
tist weather, when one of the ministers
aptIy remarked: mo, it is only a sprink-
ling" Notwithstanding the weather the
crowd is large, and all Morganton is do
ing her best, in the matter of entertaining
A frequent remark on the streets here is,
These Baptists are the best looking body
Of men ever assembled in the town.
This is something, when it is remembered
that the annual Methodist Conference,
the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod,
the Episcopal Convocation and the North
Carolina Press Association have all been
entertained here in the New World city
Of the Violet Crown" The convention
members express pleasure at their recep~
ton, and our people are more than glad
to have them.
The Baptist church here in Morganton
has grown phenomenally since when
twenty years ago it had only one member,
woman, and, though, aged, she is here
to-day. One of the speakers this morning
said: This (the Baptist church is the
handsomest and prettiest cuhrch Of it's
size have ever SEEN"