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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10
These matters attended to the board
adjourned sine die.
CUBAN MATTERS
COME UP TOMORROW.
Conditions in Havana Not Entirely
Satisfactory.


The condition of Baptist Missions in
Cuba will be discussed in the conven-
ton Monday morning, DR.. T. T. Eaton
being announced to speak on that por-
ton of the Home Mission Boards re-
port which touches the work on the
island. 1t is likely that considerable
time will be given to matters in Ha-
Vana, as the report indicates that the
board is still having trouble with DR..
Diaz in regard to the claims on the
property of Gethsemane Church. 1t is
also understood that legal proceedings
have been begun in Havana by the
church The portion of the Home Mis-
sion Boards report regarding this sub
jcct, and Cuba in general, is as fol-
lows:
The situation regarding our property
is unchanged since our last report.
The Gethsemane Cuban Church still
worships in our Jane building by per-
mission, and the Calvary Church, COM
posed of Americans and Cubans, also
use the house for worship at different
hours. DR.. Diaz still makes claim to
all Of our property in Cuba, but our
titles are clear and unquestiona BILE
We rely upon the justice of the Cuban
government TO protect our rights and
trust that Dr. Diaz will not persist in
these groundless claims.
Several preaching places have been
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF SEMINARY
Elected Otncers and viii Raise an
Endowment Fund.

Elected Offcers and VIII Raise an
Endowment Fund.
The annual meeting of the Alumni
Association of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. Louisville, KY,
was held at the De Soto Hotel yester-
day. President Willard was in the
chair and a large number of members
was present. Routine business was
transacted and reports were received
after which an election was entered
upon and officers for the ensuing year
were chosen, as follows:
President-W. w. Hamilton of Louis
willie.
Secretary-Everett Gill of Louisville
Vice Presidents-H. w. Province, AL
ALBANIA Finlay F. Gibson, Arkansas;
H. r. Moseley, Cuba c. c. Coleman,
District of Columbia; F. c. Edwards,
Florida; ]. G. Harrison, Georgia; G. S..
Leonard, Indian Territory; j. N. Pres
fridge, Kentucky; Gilbert Dobbs, Lou
isiana; T. A. Johnson, Maryland; w.
J. Williams, Mississippi; G. w. Hyde,
Missouri; ]. G. Blalock, North Caro-
lima; r. P. Mansfield Oklahoma; II. P.
Mccormick, Porto Rico; q. T. Cody,
oOuLH AdTOllId5 y. Ilhe EOWeTSs len
nessee; r. T. Hanks, Texas; ]. L. Law
less, Virginia.
A committee which had been ap-
pc ted to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
- taking, in the association, to
IN fund of $50, 900 to endow a school
1I11 seminary, reported favorably,
"a mi will take steps towards
a. "a the aim, this good work.
: &C, reconnaissance ~'nFements were made
dCOot.. sTs - BANQUET which
~ next annual during the
Tn hs given in Nashville, Nonven-
time Of the Southern Baptist I
~ 1QnA
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Miss Moon, a missionary to China, but
who is now at her home in West Vir-
ginia; Mrs. E. G. Willingham of Geor-
gia was appointed to express the SYM
pathy of the union with Mrs. S. T.
Williams, upon the recent death of her
husband and Mrs. ]. B. Gambrell of
Texas was instructed to carry to ex-
Gov. Eagle of Arkansas the sympa-
thy of the union with him in the re-
cent loss of his beloved wife.
1t was suggested that the church
building and loan fund was an appro-
pirate object for an offering and a coll
lection was made which netted $S75.0S
of which $3.50 was in pledges and the
remainder in cash. The collection was
followed by the following recommended
lions by the Foreign Missionary and
Home Missionary Boards, which were
adopted:
The Foreign Board.
1--WE appreciate the earnest, conse-
Grated zeal of our sisters in trying to
send the gospel of the Lord Jesus into
all the world. Their organized efforts
for disseminating information, awak-
ening interest and gathering contribu-
lions are accomplishing great good
both by influencing our churches, and
lso '. results which are coming to
=. oy 'oreign lands. Feeling that
those Ell III d =, md upor our sist, ers for
continued help, we make the fohe"Flhs
recommendations for the convention
year, 190S-19O4;
"F;rst. That you do all in your pow
or IN disseminate information by scat
terinE tracts, getting subscribers Tor
the Foreign Mission Journal, and tell
ing as far as possible to those around
vou Of what the Lord is doing in this
work. Through your help the Foreign
Mission Journal has received thousands
of new subscribers, and we wish ten
Thousand more this convention year.
we look to you to help secure these.
Second. We ask that you again
make a Christmas Offering for the
great work in China. Your gifts IN
years past have helped much to develop
the work in that great country, which
now seems open to the gospel as never
before. Women can do work in the
homes OF China that others cannot, and
we hope the women in this land will
helm the earnest female missionaries in
that land by furnishing the means for
their support.
.'Third. We ask that YOU will as
sist the Sunday-school Board in bring
ing prominently before the Sabbath
SCHOOLS the special Missionary Day,
which has been so helpful In gathering
contributions from the young people
and at the same time training then,
| in mission work.
Fourth We would impress the duty
Of systematic and proportionate Civ
ing. and ask that you use your infu'
ence IN bringing this subject 20 the at
tention 81 the churches.
fifth. A large proportion OF our
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10
BAPTSTS IN MANY PULPITS
Visiting Divines in Most of Savannah's Churches
Today.

the Sunday-schools:
First Baptist, p. M, Rev. B.. w
Spillman, Tennessee.
Duffy Street, p. M, Rev. w. r
Royal, Virginia; Rev. j. T. Shipman
Virginia; Rev. E. P. Jones, Kentucky;
Rev. j. D. Chapman, D. D., South
Carolina.
Southside Baptist, Sis p. m, Rev
A. c. Cree, South Carolina.
Christian Church, 9:15 a. m, Rev. B
P. Robertson, Maryland.
Epworth Methodist AIS .. M, Rev
7. S. Skinner, Maryland.
Grace Methodist, AIS p. m, Rev. B
H. Dement,, Kentucky.
Lutheran Church of the Ascension
AIS p. m, Rev. r. M. Inflow, Missouri
First Presbyterian, 4:15 p. M, Rev
T. B. Ray, Tennessee.
Trinity Methodist, AIS o. M, Rev. A
U. Boone, D. D., Tennessee.
Wesley Monumental, AIS p. M, Rev
L. p. Leavell, North Carolina.
Westminster Presbyterian, 4:30 p. m.
Rev. A. c. Davidson, D. D., Alabama
Berean Mission, No. 431 Montgomery
street, $3.50 a. M, c. A. G. Thomas
North Carolina.
At 5:15 p. m. there will be a union
meeting for all Sunday-school work
ers in the auditorium of the First Bap-
fist Church, presided over by Rev. B.
w. Spillman.
COIored Churches.
Baptist
First, Franklin Square-11 a. M, H.
N. Quisenberry, TIL. NJ. of Louisiana,
S:15 p. m, w. T. Amis, TIL. M. OF
Arkansas.
Second, Greene Square-11 a. M, A.
n. Couch, D. D., of louisiana; S:15 D.
M, A. j. Barton, D. D., of Arkan-
sas.
Bryan, Bryan Street, West-11 a. m.
A. V. Rowe, D. D., of Mississippi; s:15
p. m, B. F. Jepkins of Kentucky.
Beth Eden. Lincoln and Gordon
Streets-11 a. M, L. M. Roper, A. M,
of South Carolina.
Mount Zion, West Broad and CASTOR
Streets-11 a. M. E. E. King, u. D.,
of Texas; S:15 p. m, H. C. Rosamond
of Mississippi.
Mount Bethel, No. 16 Lumber Street
IL a. M, R. C. Kimble of Kentucky.
Union, No. 529 Charles Street-11 a..
M. j. E. Oates of Florida: 8:15 D. M,
Henry Miller. TIL. D.. of South Caro-
lima.
Arnold Street-11 a. M, ]. w. Gillon
of Texas.
st. Johns, Hartridge Street, near
West Broad-S:15 p. M, 8. F. Hyde
of Kentucky.
Congregational, Habersham and Tay-
Tor Streets-A. S. Pellie of Kentucky.
First African, West Broad and Boil
ton Streets-11 a. M, John H, Eager.
d. D., of Maryland.
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A TRAINING SCHOOL
TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR WOMEN
BY WOMEN's MISSIONARY UNION.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
TO CONFER WITH COMMITTEE
FROM BAPTIST CONVENTION.

Action Taken at Session of Union
Yesterday Letters of Greeting
Sent to Missionaries in Foreign
Fields and Letters of sympathy to
Mrs. $. r. Williams Because of
Death of Her Husband and to Ell.
Gov. j. r. Eagle on Account of
Death of His Wife - Collections
Made for Church Building and
Loan Fund Amounted to $S75.OS
Recon- ma e ndatiOns of Home and of
Foreign Missionary Boards Ac-
ceptcd.
The Woman's Missionary Union held
its second session yesterday morning
in the Independent Presbyterian
Church, the Sunday-school room hav-
ing proved too small to accommodate
the delegates.
The session was opened by a scrip
ture lesson on Seed Sowing" which
was led by Mrs. j. L. Burnham of Mis-
souri, The minutes of the preceding
days meeting were read and confirm
ed, then Mrs. Graves, a missionary to
Canton, China, made a brief talk.
Short addresses were made also by
Mrs. R. ]. Willingham, corresponding
secretary of the Foreign Missionary
Board, and by Miss M. j. Burdette cor
responding secretary of the Woman's
Baptist Home Missionary Society.
letter of greeting to the women
missionaries in foreign fields was sub
mitted by Mrs. A. E. Dickinson of Vir-
ginia, was adopted and will be sent out.
Miss Annie w. Armstrong announced
that the resolution referring to a wom-
ans training school for the South, had
been presented the Southern Baptist
Convention by ex-Gov. w. J. Northen
and had been adopted by that body.
For Woman's Training school.
On this showing Mrs. J. H. Eager,
presiding officer of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Union, appointed the following
members of the organization to serve
on the committee to plan for the school:
Miss A. W. Armstrong of Maryland, |
Mrs. J. A. Barker of Virginia, Mrs. ].
D. Chapman of South Carolina, Mrs. |
e. G. Willingham of Georgia, Mrs. w. |
D. Chipley of Florida, Mrs. F. S. Davis |
of Texas, Mrs. w. ]. McGlothlin of |
Kentucky. This committee will have |
conference with a committee to re
appointed by the convention.
An address was made by Rev. F. C. |
Mcconnell, corresponding secretary of |
the Home Mission Board, and Rev. Mr.
O'HAlloran, missionary in Cuba, !
through Mrs. Mcconnell, presented the |
union with a photograph of his church.
Mrs F. H. Martin of Virginia was APP
pointed to send letter of greeting to |
the absent president, Mrs. Charles A. |
Stakely of Alabama, Mrs. l. j. Van
Ness of Tennessee was requested to |
telegraph the greetings of the union to |
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REV. c. A. STAKELEY, ID. D., OF
ALABAMA, AT INDEPENDENT
PRESBYTERIAN TONIGHT.

Rev. Tom Nicely and Rev. P. Franqul
Matanzas-Rev. j. v. Cova.
Colon-Rev. E. V. Carbonell.
Cienfuegos-Rev. ]. r. O'Har
Santa Clara-Rev. A = -io'an'
Sagua lie Grande- :. y. Cabrera:
r ~ ~"~ DIR. E. f. Rodri-
suez ar. Rev. Y. E. Barredo.
Guanabacoa-Rev M. M. CALICO.
Pinar del Rio-Rev. G. Cardenas.
To these should be added the names
of the women: Miss Gertrude
Joerg, American; Miss Pura
Cova, Mrs. O'Halloran and
Miss Conception Rodriguez. who are
teaching and doing mission work in
connection with the churches in their
respective cities.
What We Need-we need to increase
the preaching force in Cuba by the
employment of at least five new men.
But the greater need in Cuba is the
means with which to build houses OF
worship for our churches.
Isle of PiRes-By request of the in
habitants of this island, Brother Dam
lei made visit 10 them in March, and
reports the prospects good for hope
| full work.
The Isle of Pines Is about forty miles
from Cuba, between the Atlantic
| ocean and the Caribbean sea. The sol
/ is fertile and we'll adapted to stock
raising and fruit. Americans are buy
| ing land and settling in the island II
large numbers, and IT is thought tina
the mineral springs and genera
! hcalthfulness of the climate will in
| duce a large population.
Brother Daniel is the first preache
10 visit the island, and has received
assurances OF hearty cooperation II
opening and maintaining mission
should we md II possible TO take al
a work there in the immediate future.
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TRIBUTES TO GREAT BAPTISTS
To-day's Memorial Service I'm Honor
of DIR. Curry and DR.. TIchenor.

TO-day's Memorial Service i'm Honor
of DR.. Curry and DIR. Tichenor.
Memorial services will be held at
Wesley Monumental Church at 4 o'clock
this afternoon in honor of the late DR.. J.
L. M. Curry and DR.. Isaac T. Tichenor.
These two great and good men having
passed away since the last Southern
Baptist Convention, it was deemed
right and proper that a memorial
service be held and general rec
ognition be given to the worth and
example of such stalwart Baptists.
The service will begin with PRAYER
and praise, after which the memorial
addresses will be delivered. Rev. DR..
Whitsitt, of Richmond College paying
tribute to the memory of DR.. Curry
and Rev. DR.. ]. B. Hawthorne, of
Richmond, speaking of DIR. Tichencr.
Among those present at the memorial
services will be Capt. Manly B. Curry.
U. 5. A, son of DR.. Curry.
DR.. J. L. M. Curry.
The life and works Of DR.. J. L. M
Curry are we'll known to the people of
the South, and it is unnecessary to give
in advance of the memorial service
more than few words concerning him.
DR.. Curry was born in Lincoln county,
Georgia, June 5, 1926. He went with
his parents to Alabama when a lad of
13 years and grew to manhood, taking
up Arst the occupation of planting. In
1S4S he graduated at the University of
Georgia. and at Harvard Law
School in 1S45. He represented Tai
ladeg2 county in the Alabama Legfs-
lature 1S47, 1853 and 1855. In political
matters he was an Acknowledged DOW
er, and was vigorous in his work for
the betterment of the people of his
adopted state and the South. DR.. Cur
ry was a member of the Thirty-fifth
and Thifty-sixth Congresses. His work
in the four years preceding the Civil
War is matter of history. He was a
delegate to the first permanent con-
gress of the Confederate states; and
for time was Speaker OF the House
His record In the war, where he served
under Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston is
also we'll known.
In 1S46 DR.. Curry united with the
Baptist Church and was ordained a
minister In 1866. In 1865 he was made
president Of Howard College, and went
TO the Richmond College in 1853. He
was made the general agent Of the trus-
tees OF the Peabody Fund and was en-.
gagged In furthsrinE the work Of south
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SEMINARY TRUSTEES
FILLED VACANCIES,

pra.tdent J. w. Thomas Of the NJ @.
h 81. L. Elected From Tennessee.
The board Of trustees Of the Southern
naptist Theological Seminary held its
6nal meeting for the present session Of
the Southern Baptist Convention yes
terday morning. The chief matter TO
come before it was the election OF
members to al six vacancies existing
on the board. Those elected were: For
Georgia, Rev. John E. White. pastor
Of the Second Baptist Church Atlanta;
for Alabama, ]. c. Bush of Mobile;
for Kentucky, Rev. c. II. Jones, pas
tor of the Broadway Baptist Church.
Louisville; for South Carolina, q. I.
Cody OF Greenville, and Rufus Ford OF
Bennettsville; and for Tennessee, j.
w. Thomas president of the Nash
VILE. Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail-
road.
Aside from the election the only 9TH
er business done was the adoption Of
resolutions expressing regret at the
death of Dr. Arthur Peter OF Louisville
q former member Of the board, and set
ting forth the many and varied serv'
tsss he had rendered the seminary
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vitations extended. the cities of Waco,
Kansas City, Louisville, Houston,
Asheville and Greensboro, all desiring
to entertain the convention. The first
vote in the committee room was di-
Vided but after short time the ma
jority of the members was shown to
be in favor of Nashville, and 1t was
finally made unanimous.
Before the convention adjourned
last night it was announced that the
first business before the body Monday
morning would be the further hearing
of committees on Report of Home
Mission Board. DIR. T. T. Eaton of
Louisville. DR.. Skinner of Baltimore,
and DR.. G. w. Truett, will be the
speakers.
Announcement was made that on ac-
count of the weather the memorial
services for this afternoon would be
held in the Wesley Monumental
Church.
Business sessions were then adjourn
ed until o'clock tomorrow morning.
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SUNDAY-SCHo0L WORKERS.

An important and interesting meet
ing Of Sunday-school workers will be
held this afternoon at the First Bap-
fist Church, beginning at Sis o'clock.
All superintendents. officers and teach
ers in Sunday-schools are requested
and desired to attend, and naturally
there will be many others who are in
terested in the work present. The spe-
cial feature of the afternoon will be an
address by the Rev. B. W. Spillman
of Nashville. the field secretary OF the
Sunday-school board of the Southern
Baptist Convention. Mr.. Spillman u
regarded In the light OF an expert in
this work and his discourse will be OF
particular value 10 all who are con-
cerned In the direction or management
Of or instruction IN SundRy-schOoi
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MISSIONARIES ON
THE PLATFORM.

Continued from Page Twenty.
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one of the secretaries out as soon as
deemed eXpedient. The motion was
adopted,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-19
GROWING OF COFFEE.
Principal Industry of the State Of
Sac Paulo, Brazil.
American Correspondent Describes
How the Crop IL Planted, Gath.
cred and Graded for the Mar
kets Of the World.

The coffee trees bloom several times
syear. Sometimes you find the bloom
and the ripening berries with all in
termediate stages, on the same trees.
This is very undesirable. In general,
one good bloom gives the main crop
which can all be picked at once. At
the same time, some over ripe and
some green coffee will be gathered.
If there is much of this, the quality
of the crop is injured. The picking
season is from May to September or
October. Last year heavy freeze al
most entirely destroyed the August
bloom. Thousands of young trees
were killed, and many older ones seri-
ously injured. Reports were at once
circulated that the coffee crop for
next year would he almost an entire
failure, etc. There was some hope
that the present prices might 60 up.
In October, however, there came the
second bloom. So there is still hope
of some coffee for this year.
The cafezal, when in full bloom, is
beautiful sight. Many of the trees
are nearly solid banks of small, white
or pink-tinted, delicately-scented bios
SONS. There are frequently IL to Ii
whorls of blossoms on single branch.
1t is delightful to take an early morn
ing ride on horseback among these
mounds of beauty. But commercial
ism soon enters. In three or four days
the bloom has practically all come and
gone. The merchantable crop of cof-
fee has begun to grow.
When the crop is to be gathered, the
soil is scraped away from around the
trees, making saucer-shaped place
under each one. Here the coffee that
falls and is stripped off can be scraped
together. On stony land, sheets are
sometimes used in gathering. The
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-19

ance in 1909, either by worlds fair
or some other celebration, he would
have thought the people of this locali-
ty mad. He was in search of the road
to India, and was so disappointed at
not finding it that he continued his
search afterward in the Canadian seas
which bear his name, and lost his life
III the quest. At last, when, in 1854,
the Northwest passage was discovered
in the frozen north, the world found
that it could make no use of it.
But the beginning of work on the
Panama canal a few months hence
will attract the worlds attention
anew to the short cut to Asia. Here
will be a road to India which will be
on the ordinary paths of commerce,
and which all the world will be glad to
traverse. The completion of this ca
nal will be a bigger achievement than
was that of the canal at Suez a gen.
Grafton ago. A greater celebration,
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
will attend the opening of Americas
waterway from the Caribbean into the
Pacific in 1910, or whenever this takes
place, than greeted the completion of
the channel uniting the Mediterranean
and the Red sea in 1869. When De Les
seps began work on the Panama canal
it attracted comparatively little no.
tice, because the world was skeptical
at the chances of it's completion. When
the United States, in 1908, takes up the
task where the French company left
off, everybody will know that accom-
plishment is within measurable dis
lance. It will be a work of consider
able difficulty, but it will be carried to
success, and though it will be under
United States control, all the nations
will be gamers by it. When, few
years hence, the waters of the Pacific
mingle with those of the Atlantic at
the Panama isthmus, the course of
Magellan, Drake, Cook, Gray and the
rest of the globe-girdlers will be short
ened one-half, and the dream of Co.
lumbus, Cabot, Pineda, Hudson and
their associates and successors will be
transmitted into fact.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-19
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Uncle Sam About to Unite the Two
Great Oceans.
A Dream Of Centuries Has Become q
Eact-COurse Of Magellan and
Cook to ne Shortened
@E One Hal3.

=, TIL Colombian treaty, under which
the worlds two great oceans will pc
united by waterway across the neck
Of land at Panama will bring q CEN
turies' old dream to realization. When
Columbus made his way across the
Sea of Darkness in 1492 he was in
search of road to India, and he
imagined that he had found it. de
never knew that he had discovered
q new world, and he would have been
displeased had he known it. All that
he thought he had found was a collec-
ton of islands, which barred the way
for the time to the continent of Asia,
but he was encouraged at the thought
that he had reached the borders OF
that continent, and therefore the ma
tivcs whom he met on the islands on
this side of the Atlantic he called In
dams. In fact, when Vasco de Cana,
the Portuguese navigator. in 1497,
rounded the cape of Good Hope and
reached Asia, erybody in the old
world, including Columbus, supposed
that that was far greater exploit
than was that of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella's representative.
1t is in this day, four centuries after
Columbus death, that his dream and
that of his fellow-navigators will be
realized. When Cabot and some of the
other navigators of different nations
who came later than he found that q
great continent blocked the way in
their voyage to India, they deemed this
an impertinence. Some of them tried
to find a short cut through the CONT
nent, and many voyages were made
along the Atlantic coast, from the
gulf of Mexico up beyond the bay
of St. Lawrence, to trace out the in
let which would lead them through
it and give them access to the prom
Used land of Asia. Hudson was on this
quest, when, in 1909, he entered the
river which bears his name, and sailed
up to the site of the present city of
Albany. If Hudson could have heard
at that time that his exploit would
be deemed worthy of national observ'