The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-14
FIGHT over
THE NEGRO
Continued From FIRST pase.)


made A. short, stirring address to the
Fight on Virginia Resolution.
Professor s. G. Mitchell. OF Richmond.
presented the petition of tho Virginia
Gencral Association on the negro ques-
ton. now known In the convention us
the "virginin resolution" Immediately
upon tho conclusion Of tho reading, DR..
Hawthorne took the floor and Btarted
to make speech, I'm explanation" of
the resolutions. member OF the Home
Mission Board. which Will nntaRonlze
the Virginia resolution, quickly raised a
point Of order that the resolutions were
not debatable until they had taken
their course through the committee
room The point was sustained and the
Virginia petition was referred to q COM
n,ittcn yet to be appointed. Ordinarily
this you'd be pge6n boiling. but In
this case II may not be so. ire Vlr-
ginjans will try to see To 1t that the
committee liz really appointed, and that
It really considers the matter. In that
event. they will fight for their negro
plan before the committee, and In the
event of failure. they will fight again
in open convention. II they fall to get
a report from the committee they viii
still have q fighting chance or chance
to fight when the Home Boards report
is reported upon and submit their plan
for working for the negro or working
the negro.
And So while the vEsinians we're
squelcied, they will not stay squelchcd.
Their plan and that OF the Home Board
was outlined In these dispatches last
night. The North Carolina delegation
has since come In with another plan for
helping out the negro. 1t IL In most re-
spects similar TO the Virginia plan.
Both antagonize the Home Boards af-
filIation with the national (negro) Bap-
list convention. and In some way or
other thIs negro question will raise
row before the convention finishes Its
week. It will probably come. Monday,
when the committees report.
Sunday School Boards Report.
At the afternoon session. the first
business was the presentation of the re-
was parccllcd to the proper committees.
The Boards Report. !,
In the opening of his report DR.. Frost
says:
eve celebrate the Conventions coming
to Nashville with the announcement that
the Boards receipts this year have passed
the hundred. thousand-dolar mark. The
advance In some respects Is the greatest
OF any one year In It's hstory-the re-
ceipts exceeding last year nearly twelve
thousand dollars. giving a grand total
or sloa.7S2, Is. The increase Is normal and
healthy, showing most ut the two vital
points of the Boards finances. viz, the
periodical circulation and the Bible Fund,
which this year passed the nve-thousand.
dollar mark. giving total OF s5,3227s
Out OF the years earnings the Reserve
Fund has been again Increased by the
addition OF more than ten thousand doll
lars. while five or six thousand dollars
have been expended for improvements in
the new building and for necessary
equipment. including an extra large fire.
proof safe; and the appropriations for
denomInational work for the year
amounts TO over twenty-one thousand
dollars. Including one thousand dollars
to the Foreign Board for Bible and col
partage work on the foreign field.
Here again We erect our Ebenezer--here
again INT up our banner IN the name Of
our God! IIeFtath done great things for
lis, whereof we arc glad and sing our
songs OF praise to Him"
The secretary then tells OF the Boards
home. the ma gn!ticent building on Church
street. a picture 6f which was given in
last Sundays Times-Dispatch. This
building cost 5000 and some 5000 has
been expended in equ!pping It for It's
present business. The secretary says:
with gratitude. and something OF
pride. the Board presents this building
TO the Baptists OF the South assembled
IN the Convention. 1t is their property
In actual ownership and control. and It's
doors stand open with cordial welcome"
The report then shows how the Board
commenced business Is years with desk
room given 1t full In a church paper Of
fee. how 1t later rented rooms. then
bought a ten thousand dollar house and
finally in March. 1903. bought and moved
into its splendid sixty thousand dollar
quarters, =
The Board has not yet put in presses
and printing plant and perhaps never
Will 1t lets It's printing out to con-
tract. On this subject DR.. Frost says In
his report:
a careful study has been made of the
question of printing, and the Board is
convinced that its present course is the
best for the present 1t, however. by TO
means commits itself to this policy for
all the future. 1t has not so far deemed
It wise to make an outlay Of money for
q printing plant and to incur all the In
convenience and disadvantage OF It's oper-
alton. when our neighbors have all the
machinery that is needed. and can do
the work at less cost to US than 1t could
be done from our own plant And yet
this matter Of publishing. already OF
large proportions both in periodicals and
in books and tracts, Is all the While
growing and Is capable of Indefinite en-
panslon. And the Board will hold itself
ready to change It's policy and make any
enlargement in its plant which may be
demanded by the interests Of the denomi-
nathlon and the opportunities of tho fu-
turc.
The report furnishes this statement OF
fol- h,tSInosa conditions: 7
The Southern Baptist Convention be-
came n publisher more than forty years
ago, when Its former Sunday School
Board began the Issue OF kind Words
under the leadership of Basil Manly, Jru
MS President, and John A. Broadus as
Corresponding Secretary. Much OF that
former movement passed away unner
the stress of the times, butt itkind
Words" remained as growing power
under the control OF the Home Mission
Board, and became the nucleus OF conf
plete series of Sunday School Helps; ana
still remains to this day, having never
missed single issue during all the years
and is now an ornament and mighty fac
tor in our UNCONVENTIONAL literature,
In 1891, thirteen years ago, the ConVch,,
A. p ,i,,oi ,of, an11rPnn