The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-08
TIE Wr1-S'rt Case Com as TO
a Settleme Mt.
THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
MISS HECK, OF RALEIGH. OPENS
THE EXERCISES.
TEXT OF Mr.. BAILEY's ADDRESS
Also Some Of Mr.. Pullen's Remarks or
Jesus the Only Ideal--lf we Would
be Co, secrated we Must
Follow Jesus.


Wilmington. N. c., May THE South
ern Baptist convention convened IN the
.ud;tor;um OF the First church at 10 a.
IN. to-day.
The President. Hon. Jonathan Haral-
son. of Alabama. called the body to order.
The enrolment of delegates was the
first order of business, and according to
the announcement of the secretaries,
showed delegates present 721.
The election of president was the next
business, and Ex-Governor NOrthen, Of
Georgia. nominated Hon. Jonathan Har-
Alison for reelection. The secretary of
the convention was authorized to cast
the ballot of the convention for the
nominee. IL
President HARRISON said that he had
been so pre-occupied that he had had no
time to prepare his inaugural address.
He expressed his appreciation Of the
honor
Upon motion of Rev. G.. w. Gardner,
of Georgia, the present secretaries, DR..
Lansing Burrows, of Augusta and Dr.
o. f. Gregory, OF Baltimore, were re-
elected for the ensuing year.
Addresses of welcome were delivered,
with fitting responses, and the convention
adjourned to meet at $3.50 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention was occupied in the az
ternoon with hearing representatives from
the Foreign Mission, Home Mission and
Sunday School boards, and the transac-
ton Of the routine business. except for
about an hour during which the following
very important statement and letter was
read before the convention. The state
ment is the official story of the action Of
Of the Board of Trustees session of night
before last and it's this mornings ses-
sion. and the letter was written by Dr.
Whitsitt, ON invitation Of a committee
from the Board of Trustees:
'The Trustees of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary assembled in their
annual meeting in Wilmington, N. c.,
May 9th, 1897. desire to submit to the
Baptists of the South the following state
ment in regard to the institution, whose
interests have beeen committed to their
care and management
i. That We account this a fitting Oc-
caSlon to reaffirm our cordial and
thorough adherence to the fundamental
articles adopted at the time when the
Seminary was established, and to assure
those in whose behalf we hold in trust
and administer the affairs Of this insti-
tuition OF our steadfast purpose to require
hereafter, as we have in the past, that
the fundamental laws and scriptural doc
trines embodied in these articles shall be
faithfully upheld by those occupying
chairs as teachers.
9. That we cannot undertake to sit in
judgment on questions in Baptist history
which do not imperil any Of those prin-
ciples concerning which all Baptists are
agreed, but concerning which serious.
conscientious and scholarly students are
not agreed. We can, however, confident
ly leave to continued research and dis
cussion the satisfactory solution of these
questions.
3. That, believing the Seminary to hold
an important relation to the prosperity
and usefulness of Southern Baptists, we
consider it our duty, while demanding Of
those in charge of its departments of in
struction, the utmost patience in research,
and the greatest discretion in utterance,
to foster, rather than to repress the
spirit Of earnest and reyerent inveStiga-
ton.
4. That being fully assured that the
tender affection which we cherish for
this institution, founded by our fathers
and bequeathed by them to us, is shared
by the Baptists of the South we can safe
ly trust them, as we ask them to trust
us, to guard it's honor, promote it's USE
fulness, and pray for it's prosperity.
DIR. WHITTSITTS LETTER.
10 the Board Of Trustees of the
southern Theological Seminary: Dear
brethren:-I beg leave to return sincerest
and heartiest thanks for the noble and
generous treatment that you have be-
slowed upon me. I have only words Of
aHecuon Tor every member of the board
After consulting with the committee, l
have the following to say:
i. That in regard to the articles writ
ten as editorials for the I,niependent,
have long felt that it was II mistake and
the generous action of the Board OF
Trustees renders it easy for me to make
this statement. What l wrote was from
Pedo-Baptist standpoint, with a view
to stimulating historical research with no
thought that it would injure the Baptists
and with no intention to disparage
Baptist doctrines or practices.
2. That the article in JOhnson's Ency-
clopaedia has probably passed beyond my
control; but it will be very pleasing to
me if can honorably procure the elimin-
alton from it of whatever is offensive to
any of my brethren.
3. Regarding the charge that express.
ed on conviction that a kinswoman of
mine ought to follow her husband into a
Pedo- Baptist church, that Vt was never
my intention to indicate belief that the