The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-10
MONUMENT TO BURLESON.
Money for II Raised Without Effort
at Baptist Convention.
AN APPEAL FOR THE MISSIONARY CAUSE
A New Representative VIII Have TO Be
Sent to Cuba TO Replace the Polit-
icaI Missionary.

ApIt NCILhs IeAaS, november g.-Wncn
the second days session Of the Fsfty-tbird
annual convention Of the Texas Baptists
opened this morning, Judge W B benson
OF Gainesville, after devotional exercises.
presented the Burleson memorial matter
to the Convention He recited at some
length Of the services Of DR.. Burleson in
the cause Of education for young people
Of Texas, and said that he was the pioneer
Baptist educator to offer free education
20 tho theological students The proposl
ton is to raise 5000 to be used In the
erection Of a bronze statue Of DR.. Burie-
son. mounted on a marble base, and 10 be
located on the university campus at Waco.
Before the matter was left the 5000 was
raised
DR.. Gambreli reported on the subject Of
aid for the storm stricken sections Of the
state an effort to secure funds With which
70 rebuild tho wrecked churches II was
stated there was now only one church In
Galveston but before the great storm there
were three. Some thirty Baptist church
buildings were wrecked by the great storm.
The cause Of home missions was dis
CusSed by DR.. Mcconnell. secretary OF the
{ nome mission board, who said that this
cause was the bond that held Southern
baptlsts together He spoke OF the needs
Of ST. Lonis. Memphis New Orleans and
cuba. lie said the boards old representa-
i've In Cuba lDaz) drifted into politics
and the board had 10 have his RESIGNATION
OF the Baptist cause in Cuba was ruined
IL was decided to raise $4,000 with
which TO rebuild the wrecked churches
night session was held tonight Dr.
/ Buckner made report on the Buckner
/ orphanage for the past year. II showed
! 10 10 children and six widows IN the home
/ me improvements represent an expendi
/ ture OF over $4,000. The total cash col
/ lecuons were S4I.T46 with S1O.259 now on
| hand. OF the endowment fund S2979 have
1 been invested at good rate Of interest.
\ large number Of orphans came over from
/ Dallas on q special train and attended the
| convention this evening
! collection Of SEQ was taken up for
/ the orphans.
The First Baptist church at Waco In.
! vited the convention 10 meet there next
/ year A message Of greeting from Mis-.
sionery Daniels In Cuba was received
The trustees for Baylor university select.
ed were; Levy anderson Of Kileen. A. ].
Harris OF Bolton, w. c LntimoTe Of Den.
ton. Trustees Of convention. G. c. Slaugh.
ter OF Dallas 7 Smith OF Amarillo. II
J.. Bowen Of Van AlsJyne. George Murphy
doches. j Boone of Dallas B II. Car
roll and W. Il jenkins n Weatherford A.
J Harris Of san Antonio, G. S Tumlln OF
Breuhem. John T. woford Of Cuero, A.
3 Ingram Of Graudyiew, J. p Ray OF
Gorsicana E p King OF Mckinney, D
2 Bsgby Of Navasots, / T. Head OF
charles perlsne If c;reanviiis -harios Epsr
. kIns Of Nacocdoches r r Jenkins Of
GreeuvfUe Q r Johpsoo OF Abilene I
, 3. Riddle Of Williamsburg, j F. Pstter
2 " K Tenrod ~ Ennis
Directors Of the convention were appoint
ed os follows: c. c Slaughter. George W
TI7iitt ". l.. Williams. E II, BRIGGS A
\ nan
The committee on ministerial education re
ported there were about 100 Texss theo
logical students In RRvlor university m,
. correlated schools and the louisville mi
] vereltv The session tonight was devoted