The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-05
100 BAPTIST TO co
SOUTHERN CONVENTION BEGINS
 THURSDAY IN SAVANNAH.
Big Party of Alabama Churchmen Will Travel in Special Car All Montgomery Minister
 Will Attend.

Nearly 100 persons will leave Montgom- cry Wednesday morning to attend the Southern Baptist Convention. which will
 be held in Savannah. Ga, commencing
 Thursday
 The train conveying the Montgomery
 Baptists will leave the city at s o'clock
 Wednesday morning and one section VIII
 he in charge of Rev. 0. r. Gregory, D.
 D.. pastor of the Adams Street Baptist Church. who is one of the secretaries Of
 tho convention. The delegation which
 leaves Montgomery will be composed of
 persons from Selma and other towns
 south of Montgomery.
 The train will arrive at Savannah at o'clock in the evening.
 Thursday morning the Baptist Young
 Peoples Union Auxiliary to the conven-
 tion will meet and the Trustees of the
 Southern Theological Seminary at Louis-
 ville Ky. and the Womans Missionary Union auxuIiary to the Convention, will
 meet and the Alumni Banquet of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will take place Thursday evening. Rev. Oliver F. Gregory. of this city, is secretary of the convention. and Mrs. Charles A. Stakefy Is president of the 1 Woman's Missionary Union. Rev. l.. O..
 Dawson of Tuscaloosa, is President of the Southern Baptist Young People 8
 Union. and Rev. J. M. Shellburne. of
 East Lake, Is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union.
 Friday morning the convention. which represents nemDerSnlp pl dboul three and one-half million persons. the largest of any assemblage In the world. will be held, and it is expected that between 1000 and 5000 persons, delegates and members, will be present.
 The Southern Baptist Convention com prises the Baptist denominations of every State south of the Potomac and Ohio riv- CTS and east of the Mississippi River. and includes MarTland. District of Columbia.
 Missouri. Arkansas, Indian Territory, Ok Iph MpXirn Cuba.
 The convention was held last year at Raleigh. N. C., and about 2,5o0 delegates and visitors were in attendance. pr. Gregory said yesterday the dele
 gations from the Montgomery churches had not been appointed and would prob ably not be appointed before Wednesday morning or possibly not before the Mont gomery contingent reaches Savannah. The convention will be attended by all of the Mont yomery Baptist ministers, in ciuding Rev O. F. Gregory. D. D.. of
 the Adams Street Baptist Church: Rev. (. A.. stakeiy of the First Baptist Church; Rev. R. F. Tredway.. of the J. Elliott and Rev. q. w. Townsend. The officers of the Convention are AS l follows: President, Rev. James Philip
 Fla gle. Little Rock. Ark; Vice-Presidents, l Mo; Hon. Joshua Lowering. Baltimore, Md; Rev. Robert H. Marsh. D. D., OK ! ford. N. C.: Rev. Chester C. Meador, D. D. Washington. D. C.
 | Secretaries. Rev. Lansing Burrows. D. ! D. Nashville. Tenn, and Rev. O. r. Gregory, D. D.. Montgomery. Treasurer, George w. Norton, Louis viIIe. Ky.
 Auditor. Rev William Patrick Harvey D. D.. Louisville. Ky.
 ! Dr. Gregory has served with distinction as Secretary of the Convention number l Of years.
 It has in connection Home and Foreign Mission Boards. a Sunday School Board | the Womans Missionary Union, and the Bar ptist Young Peoples Union. This will be the forty-eighth session ir | the hfty-eighth year of the Convention l Ii will be held at the First Baptist Church of Savannah. and the annual sermon vii | be preached by Rev. W. r. Williamson of Missouri, or his alternate, Rev. W. M Vines, of North Carolina.