The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-12-06
OVER $4,000 COLLECTED
OVER ONE HUNDRED
ARIES EMPLOYED.
ALSO A vOLUN FEER NILSSON CORPS
T here are New in "orth Carolina | ,628 whi't
Baptist Gnu ches a d 1853, 600 Communi-
can.s. turing Past Year There
Have Been II. 500 8aDtisms.

The Baptist State Convention meets IN
GreenviIle y. c.. next Thursday. This
is the si~xty-eighth annual session ot ne
convention. Its session this year prom
Uses to he of unusual. interest. 1t meets
on the SPOT Of its birth. Ihc year Just
ended has been most prosperous. The
reports in numerical increase hy baptism
Indicate the most active year Of evanGa-
listic effort in the history Of the denoml-
nation. Nearly $4,000 have been re-
ccived BY the Treasurer for State. Home
and Foreign Missions. For educational
purposes the sum Of $12,222 has been
contributed IN cash.
The points Of probable greatest inter
est in the approaching meeting, will be
the annual ermon on Thursday night
by DR.. W. S. Penick, of Eiizabcth c ty.
the historical session probably on Friday
night at which DR.. T. T.. Skinner. DR..
J. d. Huffman, 7. III. Pittman, ESQ, Or.
f. W. Skies will represent the backward
and tie forward | Ok Of h denomination
in North Carolina. This meeting will b.
presided over by DR.. Thomas Hume, OF
the University.
Another item of great interest will be
the presentation Of the report of the
Board of Missions and Sunday Schools
by the corresponding secretary. Rev.
John f. White. This board has eXecu-
tive direction of the denominations work
in missions. Sunday Schools and colpor-
tage. The report this year Will be
most gratifying. The State Mission
work is in the most healthy condition.
One hundred and three missionaries
have been at work in the bounds Of the
,4.4@ 1880, l.,. % -l,.t;+,,tD n,,1 nor
lected places with the gospel.
They have in these mission fields or
ganizod during the year % churches. -
Sunday Schools and have baptized 1866
people. 1t is remarkable also, though they
labor among the very poorest and least
developed Internationally that they have
raised III their mission fields. for all de-
nominational purposes, a very large sum.
In addition to the 1903 regular mission
aries an additional State Mission force
has this year been 1T work. called the
Volunteer Mission Corps. 1t consists Of
Sc of the ablest pastors who have en-
listed for Il term of four wears in 4
movement for the evangelizatiOn Of
North Carolina. They nave gone with
out reCompenSe except as to travelling
expenses into the highways and hedges
Of our most destitute sections. and are
pledged to give ten days time each year
for three years more to go wherever the
board may direct them.
1t is Il movement fraught with far
reaching good to the whole State and
has contributed no little to the ev~angelis-
tic esprit de corps Of the Baptist during
the year.
The report viii also show that the
Sunday School work is gaining rood
Roadway. Rev. 3. w. Spilman. Sun
day School Missionary. has done a fine
work IN over half the counties in North
Carolina. The Baptist Book Store is ais
to be reported. It has had tho most pros
porous year III its history. This store i
the property and enterprise of the Bap-
fists. All its profits 90 to support III S
sionaries. From its business the past
year it has contributed $500 towards
the payment of missionary salaries.
Perhaps the most interesting event OF
the meeting at Greenyille will be the
contamination Of the union between al
Baptist organizations in the State. Tn
til recently the Baptists were divided
into two conventions. One west Of the
Blue Ridge and the other east Of the
Blue Ridge. They will now be united
into one great convention. BY all, tbs
union is regarded as an event Of great
est significance.
From the latest statistics we gather
that there are now in North Carolina
$500 white Baptist communicates. l.
62S white Baptist churches. II 1000 bap-
ti>ms during 1S97-9S.
In Attendance upon the convention
in Greenville there Will II number Of
distinguished men from other States.
representative Of the general boards of
the Baptists in the South. \ large at
tendance. fully taking Greenville's hospi-
tality. is expected.