The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-09
GEoRGIA's NEGRO BAPTIsTs.
Questions Discussed in Their State
Convention.

fHfNNAunS 4biAtuSNfN III EAHtN
Convention.
The Georgia Baptist State Convention
wound up its. third days session at 1879
o o'clock last night The sessions have all
been orderly and intelligent and signs of
progress have been SEEN The influence
of Rev I1 X. Love, who was for many
years pastor Of the chruch in which the
session. are held is apparent, and his
successor, Rev. c. S. wilkins, B. D., of
Augusta, endeavored 10 carry out his
plans and policies. Upon the death of
Rev. Love Rev. wilkins became presi-
dent and consequently the acknowledged
leader of the negro Baptist family; and,
Notwithstanding ambition for promotion
is not a lost art in such conventions, the
delegation suppressed every selishness,
and voted unanimously TO keep their new
president and leader and his entire cab
met, together with the board of directors,
in power and authority for another year.
The delegation TO the convention is large
and interest in its work unabating. It
represents the industrious, credulous,
self-reliant, self-assertive element of the
negro Baptist family in Georgia-the type
of negro who believes that his race has
ability to do something for itself. The
one prevalent idea in the convention as
that the kind of cooperation which the
negro Baptistts receive from Northern
white societies is more injurious than
helpful to the negroes, in that the power
and authority for directing missionaries
and operating educational institutions
among them reside by abe terms of CO.
operation, with the white society.
1.ur &
is that since The negro cannot control
and manage the institutions of learning
that his Northern white brethren have
established for him, and, that since ne
gr0es viii never learn to control eduea-
tional institutions unless an opportunity
is afforded them to experiment, it were
/ infinitely wiser and better for them to
leave the management of the schools built
by the Northern institutions to these in
sGtutions and to utilize and engage their
forces in building educational institutions
which the negroes can manage
The convention is partial TO the manner
in which the Southern white people make
/ contributions to the missionary and edu-
cational work among the negroes; in mon
ey for their churches schools and other
helpful institutions and that they contide
in the judgment, discretion, integrity and
ability of the negro to make the Wlsest
and most iudicous disbursement of the
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appointing another white man 10 super
intend the distribution of their gifts. That
/ the determination to equip ana manage,
some of the educational institutions, is
neither visionary nor spasmodlc, IS evil
dcnced by the fact that the convention
has bought a lot, in Macon, upon which
it has erected a $1,000 building, known
/ and designated as the Central City Col
lege" with large campus for industrial
purposes, ard under the proficient man
/ agement of Prof. w. Il. Holmes, a classi-
cal graduate of Atlanta Baptist College,
and a full-fedged member of the faculty
of that institution for sixteen years, has
| recently closed its first years work with
a commendable success. The further fact
that 81 500 has been raised al this session
Of the convention for the work at Macon
during the approaching college year, sup
/ plementing $1,000 which it has raised for
/ the same institution since October, 1879,
to the present meeting.
Yesterdays session was given to
women The introductory sermon was
preached by Rev. n. S. Mccall Dublin,
on Christ the Way" The welcome add
dress by c. A. Love was well delivered
and equally well responded to by Mrs. Car
nett of Brunswick. The resolution on the
/ death of Nellie l.. Cook, president of the
| Woman's Convention, showed the high
| esteem in which the deceased was held by
her associates. The foreign missionary
i secretary OF national Zane gave tax on
| mission"
Al the second days session. upon the
| introduction of visitors, it developed that
| there were several cooperative agents
present among them President George
/ Sale of the Atlanta Baptist College; DR..
| C. S. Brown, special agent of the AmeUi-
| can Baptist Home Missionary Society:
Rev e. 7. Johnson, General Educational
/ missionary under the board. Besides these
were the representatives of negro ability,
/ Rev r. H. Boyd, secretary of the Negro
National Baptist publishing board Rev.
l.. r. Jordan, secretary of foreign mis-
sious. and Rev. +. w. d. lsaacs secretary
of the National Baptist Young People
Union.
President Sale made some statements OF
his work. President Holmes Intercepted
him and many things were aired. Presi-
dent sale declared that he would vouch
for the work done at the Central city Col
lege by its president. and Prof. Nabrit.
DR. Brown presented his theme. He is a
rolator of anecdotes. A cat. he remarked.
was owned by boy and his mother the
former owning the tail. She stood on It
ana the cot squealed. In this condition nc
pictured The negro and the North.
DR. Boyd spoke in a timely manner of
/ the unfair treatment of negroes North,
and ably defended negro enterprise. Rev
] Isaacs dis-ected every argument of the
| special agent. At the close the cat, tail
aud all, by common consent. was the ne
rrocs to own. control and wag. rather than
squeal as heretofore his condition OF alb.
solutc dependence has caused him to do
Prof NJ. w. Reddick OF Americas made
5 timely talk.
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