Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-07-15
SATURDAY JULY 10. 1899
GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF THE
OOLoRRD BAPTIsTs OF VIRGINIA.
Mr.. EDITOR

Mr.. EDITOR:
Ga the Goth ult., in the Old Baptist
Chureh Of Richmond. Va, "mouu-
tain" OF the phariseeical. aristocratical
intellect OF eastern colored Baptists oil
Va. conceived and on the 2lst OF June
A. D., 1899 travelled and brought forth
q mouse and gave 1t the above name.
Said concsption. Travelling and birth
were one month and seven days after
the adjournment OF the virginia BSp
tist state Convention at Lexington,
Va. Among the forty seven churches
and Reventy-three delegates that COM
posed the mountain" there must have
been some ministers, some OF them q.
D 8 B. DIS, and ID. DIS, They Ger alnly
didn't practice what they preach. They
preach patience, forbearing, long sur
fering and waiting on the Lord, cast
ing all Our cares upon him, Tor ne
careth for us They had not pa
thence to wait and see what will be the
result OF taking the Virginia Seminary
out of what is called the compact.
Spiller's Academy, Hartshorn Memo
rial College, Richmond Theological
Seminary, Wayland Seminary, the
proposed Onion University were not
Couched.
D1sRKGARDKD THE sCRIPTURKs.
Many of the Boilers expressed de-
Termination long time ago to eliminate
the Seminary from the compact. or
give up the President G.. W. Hayes.
AS they expressed themselves, the
Seminary is out of the compact now,
what are they frettIng and fuming
about If they practice what they
preach, they would have used patience,
long forbearance, long suffering. aud
waited to see the result of the Lexing-
ton work, whether it is Of God. or m an
whether the colore1 Bsptists OF Vir-
RiniR would endorse the work or not
Instead OF practicing what they
preach, they have taken q spasm, and
produced two colored Baptist Conven-
tion in the state. Baptist General As.
ISOLATION, and Baptist State UonveD
ton, are one and the same in sub
stance, six OF one, aud half q dozen the
other. The only difference is in tbs
name. What is Ia q namef A ross
will smell the same by any othel
name.
They who counseled the conception
and birth of the newborn babe are a
the blind leadiog the blind. They al
shall fall into 8 itch OF Babelism. Thu
children of darkness are wiser than th'
children of light. With sinners, IL ont
party gains the ascendency at an cleo
Sion, the party that lost. abides thei
Eime, In their patience pos tess thei
souls, watches the victorious par
ty, eriticises their movtIn ants, hold
up to the public their deficiencies, ant
-oxerthrows them IL possible st the mex
election.
LONG TIE DEvIL's WORK.
tGolored Rantist childrau of lioht Wi
not do that way. They get mad, nv IN
90 9 passion. split the society, split tn
church, split the Association, split th
Convention and imagine they are dc
ing Gods work, bus she facts Ia Tn
case, are, they are doing the Devil
work. He has got them hand and foo
feeds them on malice, envy, prejudice
Jealousy . I'd hatred without causI
some men cry out against lyuehing "
they lynch whenever they can. Tn
fathers OF the newborn bAbe, are seek
ang to deprive the Virginia Bapti
- ate Convention of its life, libert
and pursuit. of happiness. without pu
ting the work of the Convention befOI
the Christian public. as jury. an
await It's decision. Without judge c
: Try, they pronounce it unhs go liv
and proceed to lynch it.
The brethren uttered a protest.
sore they commeuc ID incubation p
7tient. cool, calm, deliberate men, il
Il Fenced by wisdom from on hign, ar
common sense, issue q protest. the
present it to the party they dissei
from with the reserved right for II
ture acti n. They calmly ava
an answer and act aceordingl
AS intelligent brethren they shou
aave formulated the protest. arrange
E0 place IL ia the hands of those TIT
dissented som, and the Christian pu
lie, adi lurned and waited TO see Il
result OF the protest.
INTERESTING STATISTICS
There are 1892 colored Bapti
churches in VIrginla, only AZ church
gave birth TO this new child, the infa
e snera!. 7l6 coioced Baptist ordain
ministers ia the state, not 100 of the
stand as god fathers, 80 colored Ba
list Associations in the state, not o
of them is AZ che annunciation, cDnce
tion or delivery Of the babe OF RE
Enond. It's a.:oucheur, q doctor
Manchester, Va, who appended
name only to the call OF the assemh
for the 10Th ult. rh- q DE-, B. D
and D. DIS, put the m serves in the bs
sexoRnd and made him the cAtspaw
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