The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-09
REPORT ON PERIODICALS.

REPORT ON PERIODICALS
The report of the committee on Period
icals was read by Rev. Fl. A. Brown, Of
Winston. 1t called attention to the value
of religious literature in the home and
recommended to the patronage of Baptists
the various denominational publications,
and was IS follows:
There is no agency which more power
fully influences for good or evil than the
literature we place in our homes. The
growth of our people in intelligence, de-
sire to do good and be good, and their
effectiveness in all Christian activity are
largely the outgrowth of what they have
read. There are many who belong to the
debased and criminal classes of the people
who might have been saved to society if
they could have had the benefit of good
reading matter in their homes. Our pas
tors and teachers should urge all who
hear them to supply themselves with the
best religious papers to be obtained. The
Biblical Recorder, the agency of our
denomination in this State, has long been
regarded as one of the best edited and
best published periodicals in the South.
It's fearless advocacy of the right, both
in church and State, it's soundness in all
of the fundamental principles of our de-
nomination, its aggressive leadership and
its wide and hopeful view of our future
as a people, make it worthy of place in
every Baptist home ia our great common
wealth. Charity and Children, the organ
of our orphanage, The Wake Forest Stu
dent, The Baptist Historical Papers, and
the North Carolina Baptist are all good
papers and well deserve the patronage
Of our denomination. We also commend
The Foreign Mission Journal, The Home
Field and Seminary Magazine as valuable
helpers"
Mr.. Brown spoke to this report, espe-
cially commencing the Biblical Recorder
to the support and endorsement of the
church.
Short speeches were made on the report
by Rev. c. w. Scarborough, Rev. ]. S.
Hardaway, Rev. T. Bright, Rev. t. M.
Honeycutt, Mr.. Jacob S. Allen and Rev.
A. z. Brown.
Mr.. Brown started the discussion by
proposing to so amend the report as to in
sert in it the "Skyland Baptist
Mr.. Scarborough objected to the inser-
tion of so many publications.
1T will tend he said. ito loosen our
hold on, and loyalty to, the Recorder.
don't see how this convention can put
the stamp of approval on half a dozen
papers and send them out. 1t is an ele-
ment OF discord and weakness. Let Us
stand to one paper-the Recorder"
Mr.. Hardaway would like to see all the
Baptist host take one paper.
Dr. Hufham "If we had a perfect pa
per-"
Mr. Hardaway: yes, if we had per-
feet paper"
DR.. Hufham: (Which we have never
bad"
Mr. Hardaway: until we get one
don't think we can do any harm in men,
tioning and recommending to our people
all the papers that we know are good
ones. Our people are free people. They
are not going to be governed by any cast
iron rules about their reading or anything
else
Mr.. Bright If the convention owned
a paper OF it's own, then I'd have no OBJ
lection to confning the report to the Re-
cordcr, but all of the papers-Recorder
and all-are individual enterprises"
He spoke in highest terms of the work
of the ''Skyland Baptist" in the Western
part of the State.
Dr. Skinner: 1T doesn't make much
difference whether you endorse a paper
or not If people want it they are going
to take it, whether it's in the report or
out of it. The more papers the better
The trouble with us generally has been
that we've taken too few papers. Put
in the the report the 'Skyland Baptist
and any other Baptist that's good Bap-
t.st.'
Dr. Hufham said on such endorsement
of the 'fSkyland Baptist" he was willing
to subscribe to it and he handed UP the
price.
Mr.. Jacob S. Allen said this effort to
cut out certain papers to favor one was
the first evidence of narrow mindedness
he'd seen IN the convention. He. too.
wanted to subscribe to the "Skyland Bap-
list"
REPORT ON RECORDER.
The report as amended was adopted,
and Pew. j. e. White read the following
Dor dor