The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-14
Radical Action Has Been Taken by the Con-
ventlon Against The "Church Party"
WILL EXCLUDE THEM FROM PARTICIPATION
In the General Convcntion-yote on
IL Was Observation-Disclosures Rcso-
luton WINS Not Considered.

anu Win the appointment
OF the committees began the contentious.
The first clash came over motion ia
allow DR.. R. c. Burleson OF Waco. the
veteran Baptist minister and educator. and
Or. j. ]. Fielder of Navasota seats in IN
convention as messengers despite the
recommendations of the credentials com
mittee. To do this necessitated recon
sideratton of the conventions action OF
Saturday last. This was done. but not
without vigorous protests
Then the committee on constitutional
amendments reported long list of radical
changes TO the existing constitution 'tprint /.
ed in Mondays Post), the principal tenor
OF which was to forever exclude DR.. s. A
Hayden and other leaders of the Church
policy" party from future conventions. A
warm and rather bitter struggle, tina,
lasted six hours, at once began The pro-
posed amendments were finally recommit-
ted to the committee with instructions to
Doll down the amendments and brinS in
another report, Again the anti Hayden
men did their work well and the amend
ments which they reported and which were
adopted by the vote OF 9S9 to 2S2 is rather
severe upon those who follow Dr.. Hayden's
lead. The amendment follows:
Article lX Whenever any church or
association or society shall, by a m-jor-
ity vote of convention. be declared 10 lie
in an attitude of general or continual
hostility or unfriendlness to the work
or purposes of the convention. and to be
an impeachment to the work OF con-
ventiop; or when any person is de-
clared 10 be in such attitude. then such
church or association or society shall,
by such majority vote. be denied the
privilege of sending messengers TO the
convention, AMI such person shall, by
such vote, be denied Il seat as a mes
senger from any church. association or
society; and when any church or asso-
citation or society shall be denied mes
sengers or such person denied seat
as messenger, then the privilege so
denied shall not thereafter be eger-
clsed by the church, association. So
ciety or person until granted by a ma
Jority vote OF convention, after per-
manent organization.
The smallness of the total vote is OK
planned by the absence OF more than one
third of the messengers, who had grown
tired OF the length of the convention and
gone home.
Immediately after the fight on the con-
amendments ceased the conven-
ton was almost thrown into a mob by the
of resolution demanding the
of Congressman elect Brigham
II. Roberts OF Utah because OF his prac-
tice of polygamy. Before ii could be read
Hon. Dudley G. Wooten made the point of
order that BaptIsts could not discuss pol
tics in their convention President Buck
ner sustained the point of order and the
threatened row was averted The conven-
ton then adjourned till 7.30 tonight
The regular convention OF the Baptists
lid not do much of interest at the session
tonight, but the followers of Dr. S. A.
Hayden did. Five hundred Church policy"
idherents met in the CeAtral Baptist
,hurch and passed ringing resolutions de-
of the actions of the general
In unseating DR.. Hayden and
n adopting 'prohibitive unconstitutional
amendment" to the constitution A COM
nttee of five, consisting of s. ]. Anderson,
j. b. Pender r. +. Butler. j. X. II. Will
Jams and S. II. Slaughter, was appointed
o draft an address to the Baptist churches
VI the State, telling of the actions of the
general convention enumerated above. The
Meeting was an enthusiastic one and the
speeches, among them DR.. Hayden's. were
eceived with every evidence of approval.
Following is the statistical portion of
he report OF DR.. j. 3. Gambrell of Dallas.
VI lN9pblluiAlb SGCltlaIS Ul INC MISSION
oard of the Texas Baptist church. II was
pproved by the board of directors of the
eneral convention submitted to that bo1v
nd adopted word for word. 1t shows the
ears work, Is easily the most important
ocument before the present convention
nd is of interest TO every Baptist In
'exas:
The year just closed has been one OF
marked features, At the beginning il was
ecognized that a new and large factor
ad come into the affairs Of the Baptists
t Texas, and that room would have to
e made for 1t. The educational work was
0 be leading feature for the year, and
was not without concern that your board
onsidered how tn mission work could be
ven maintained not to say advanced,
With the education commission drawing
lrgely especially on the strong centers.
rom which the bulk of mission money
ONES At the frat board meeting the
ltuation was met with faith and courage
iod had been with us in the past: we
ould not doubt He would be with US
gain. The state mission feature oe the |
york was laid out on basis OF $50 600 /
which was n distinct advance, ami all lines
we're advanced in like manner An adIi-
ional general missionary was put in the |
eId. making four. The effort was to dis
ribute the work, to meet the variant de-
hands OF the wide field. The general plan |
4 the work was this;
1. To strengthen the frontier wark. ex-
ending from the upper Panhandle around /
" Ell paso. down the Rio Garnde river |
nd across the southern coast from |
,aredo 10 Orange, in all something like |
900 miles.
2. To supply the neglected places all
,yer the State This is largely n filling |
n work 10 complete what has been dona
'ears ago.
q Supplement weak churches in .coun-
70 village and city, thus strengthening |
he things that remain
A general work of reviving falling !
,hurches reunlting dlscordant churches, I
laveIonipg the stronger churches and. in |
General advancing the churches toward |
Gosnel standard OF missionary effort.
ON, nrebended within these plans were |
ne missionaries to The foreign populations,
.nrmans swe1es and Mexicans
The following statistical report VIII |
M ,ho work done as far as figures can
Stations supplied, regularly and
, NY. 1900 ............... 24,29 /
Jay ,ap' nreached ..............,. l7l4f /
ryhortatlons and other religious al
ulsssee and addresses mann. 2, 400
-hnrches assisted in organizlng..'. 90
Number OF constituent members OF
ah,,rchaa organized .,.,....'t-.'' -p8
;, enureass n,.ssion churches ...... 1871 (