Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-15
The Southern Baptist Convention.

New Orleans, La, May 1.-THE South
ern Baptist Convention met at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning in tho First Prcsbytc-
rian church.
1t was called to order by President w
j. Northern, of Georgia. Devotional
exercises were conducted by DR.. William,
K. Hatcher, of Richmond, Va.
President Northern was reelected
PRESIDENT by acclamation and Dir. Lans.
ing Burrows and Dir Oliver Gregory
were elected secretaries. George W.
Norton, of Kentucky, was reelected
treasurer and DR.. w r. Harvey, Of Ken.
lucky, was reelected auditor.
The roll of delegates was made up by
tho secretaries, showing that one thou
sand representatives were present. Every
State in the conventions S territory is rep.
resented.
The foreign mission interest occupied
the attention of tho great gathering
most Of the day. A report was read by
Or. Ramsay on the subject The foreign
year than ever before and South Carolina
raised over $4,000 Of tho amount.
Reports were also read showing the
magnitude of the years work of the
homo and foreign mission and Sunda,
School boards. The work of all the
boards is growing. The foreign board
has raised $l50, 600 during tho year.
DR.. +. II. Kerfoot, chairman, looking tc
establishing a new board for the purpos,
of clecting and directing the forces OF
the denomination. Tho committee re-
commends that an agency be appointed
to get into direct touch with district as.
sociations in the South. The matter il
one of the most intensely interesting
things of the convention. South Caro-
lima Baptists, it is said, do not want it.
a total of $4,000 was raised at the con
vention for the suffering Baptsts of the
burned city of Jacksonville, Fla.
Asheville, N. c., gets the next session
OF tho convention in May, 1902
New Orleans, May l2.-This has been
a.great Baptist day in the resent City
all Protestant pulpits being filled by Wis
lting ministers. The new century and
the consccratiOn Of its work and wealth
to Christian civilization was tho central
idea of the addresses and tho preachers
took hopeful view.
DR.. G. 5. Gardner, of South Carolina
of Wealth." which was the greatest ad.
dress Of the convention and created Il
profound impression.
The following resolution, by h. l..
Wesson, Of Mississippi, is the most sen
sational SO far offered at the convention
We, as Baptsts, in convention assem-
bled, believe it unsciiptura to ask for or
AoSoi'o OF LOSSES
suffered i'll China through persecution,
and instead to suffer persecution and
injury for ChriSts sake.
we seek the souls of Chinese; we are
willing to suffer the loss of goods for the
sake of the Lord"
Great crowds attend all sessions of the
convention.
New Orleans, May 13- According to
nome mission mass meeting programme
the board will raise S35, 900 to rchabili-
tate the suffering Galveston churches.
The Woman'S Missionary Union ad
Journcd after appropriating S70,UOO for
work am ing home and forcign missions
and picGging 100000 tor building new
churches.
The Southern Baptists broke OF from
the Northern branch of the church in
1914, under conditions much like those
that severed into sectional bodies several
other church connections, and the South
ern church has ,rown and prospcrctl
greatly, with quite IL million and halt
OF white membership and twenty thou.
sand churches in fourteen States be-
sides colleges and theological schools.
The convention adjourned sine die.
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