The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-31
From Every County in
Georgia.
WELCOMED IN SAVANNAH HOMES
Distinguished NJ i nj s t er S
Present.
EOm3R'S Missionary Union in Session.

The Georgia Baptist Association will be-
i gin its nty-seventh annual convention
4 with the Savannah Baptist Church, on
Chippewa square, to-day. Baptists from
over the entire state of Georgia, from
i every county, every city and almost every
town in Georgia, will be heard.
Some 400 delegates, representing
4 numerous churches and associations,
/ will be in attendance. They be-
gan arriving yesterday. and last
nights trains brought in nearly one-halt
Of the delegates The others will arrive
this morning Committees met the visit
ors at the deDots and escorted them to
4 the homes where they will be entertained.
/ The deacons of the two Savannah churches
4 have been constituted a general reception
committee to meet the delegates at the
. First Church each day, make them ac>
+ Quanted with each other, and the people,
and to furnish Information as to matters
and points of interest in and about the
city of general as well as religious inter-
est
The convention will begin its session In
4 the First Church at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. After the welcome address by Rev
Jonn D. Jordan, D. D., pastor of the
church, and reply, the work of organiza-
uon will at once be gone into and the
convention VIII be started as promptly as
possible. Missionary ana educational mat
tiers will demand the attention of the body
during the greater portion of the session.
Tonight the convention sermon will be
Preached by Rev. w. w. Landrum, D. D.,
pastor of the First Church of Atlanta.
Rev Mr.. Landrum is a native of Savan-
nan and son of former beloved pastor
Oh the church, Rev. Sylvanus Landrum.
tomorrow viii be given up to business,
Ou' on Sunday the pulpits of the Baptist
'nurches and of a number of the other
churches of the city will be filled by the
"sNlhg ministers. The business of the
convention will probably be concluded at
Of Monday mornings session, and the
a''eIh noon will be devoted to an excursion
u" iYoee which courtesy has been ex-
ended to the convention by the Central
u Georgia Railway Company.
Georgia's Baptists.
Inc Baptists are a host in Georgia. In
Guiding all divisions. both white and coll
'eu' their numbers approximate the half
''iioh mark. The Baptists number near
y as many as all other denominations In
We state combined.
1t was not always thus. The Baptists
were once a feeble folk in Georgia At
- oeshhlng of the war of the revolution
"ey mad only three churches in the state
'u 81 It's close they had only five
orIaees. The First Baptist Church
Itt799il@ed in Georgia was the
I7-o church, in Columbia county. in
a.. Inc church is still in existence. The
~ association of Baptist churches in
l7s, sla'e was the Georgia. organized in
Tho, WIN nVe churches represented From
4 of 49, olle until the present day the growth
4 SOM denomination in Georgia and in the
a tn Has Deen steady and uninterrupted
XItor Sre"'h Immediately after the revolu-
/ go, "ds very rapid. Large numbers Of
eIs removed to Georgia from the
4 r., populous states, many of them being
4 soil 80 georgia seemed to be a fertile
c on lor Baptist doctrines. as MANY who
n cb,,r.tilto the state as members of other
cen,os =. OF unattached to any church ac-
- p'ea the Baptist faith.
4 The go Ten years after its organization
Il cbi,r,tp georgia Association included Sc
linz s' = being located in South Caro-
n sssoo,attu," was decided to form a new
wbich ,lon' Y churches being dismissed
i j7oa me Hepzibah Association. In res
n wiz 9arepta Association was organized
d ton. "ihe churches. These three associa-
N and In continue to-day among the largest
N BsYsta,, ost nourishing of the numerous
N he - associations of the state. From
4 soei.,i,aiII1ee nave sprung the slxty-odd as
n bersbin - which now make up the mem
a Ter OF al, ~ tne convention. besides a num-
WANTS not part Of the convention,