The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
HOME MISSION BOARD.
Interesting Paper Red Before Caro-
lima Association by G. S. Jones.


work of the ''Home Mission B1ard'' was
read before the Carolina Baptist Associa-
ton, at Mt. Gilead, Oct. 6, 1905, by Rev.
G. S. Jones of Hendersonville.
With heartfelt gratitude to our Heavenly
Father for the return of another annual
opportunity for associational greetings
your committee on "Home Missions"
tender the following. brief review of some
cheering facts, as geaned from the s'harYes
field"
The past years records as now compiled
sets forth as among the most encouraging
features of this department of our Southern
Mission work the inspiring fact, that the
outlook of hopefulness is characterized by
the spirit of the age which says, make
room, make room! the lines are now too
circumscribedI extend, reach out! climb
over the walls that nave hitherto bound
our horizon! Onward, Christian Soldier.
Bulwarks of opp Dsition are yielding Istrong
holds of Indifference so long occupied by
the faint-hea.t, are %crumbiing, the shadows
IF mental slumbers are being disturbed by
the dawn of a coming morn We, even now
the early hours of an educational awaken
ing are growing brighter-mists of doubt
as to our pathway are slowly Blu! surely
drifting away under the touch of increas-
irg light, and there comes a deeper breath
ing. a quicker pulse, a wider vision, a more
approaching hearing, and a larger and
mole generous response to the calls of our
Mission Board whose anxious heart-throbs
of devotion to the gospel Of the Kingdom
are reViving the er ergies of our Baptist
brotherhood in all the States and Territories
of our beloved Southland, embracing
special efforts i'm certain of our cities into
must needs be fitted for spiritual growth
and a loyal attachment 10 Christian citi-
zenship, while becoming thrifty home
makers. Again, the frightening lines of
our obligations now include some of the
West India isles, the centre of which is
Cuba, a little Republic lately recognized,
being lifted out of ecclesiastical slavery in
to personal. soul liberty entitled TO, and
asserting, freedom of conscience, and
claiming legal protection in the enjoyment
of rights and privileges consliluIioually
recognized IN the light of an upyn Bible.
Again, the attitude of our Home Board
towards the coIored Baptisls of The South
is approaching a palmer definition. There
are still some questions of ~expediency to be
settled, but at the same time not to be re-
garded as a racial problem too hand for
solution in the light of Gospel teaching, for
it is evident that in the appointment of
DIR. Barton as field secretary and superin-
tendent of this special work, the position
of the Board is in harmony with our
Christian duty which we are fully pcrsuad-
ed can only find its breadth measured with
in the matchless golden rule, and its
length within the limitations of the Com
mission: Go preach the Gospel to every
creature, > and surely a ready compliance
Herewith IS worth more than carloads o t
theories.
Again, our Home Board has been doing
a noble work In the department of Church
building, supplementing local efforts
notably in three of our larger cities, Balti-
more, Memphis and New Orleans, where
aid to the amount of about thirty thousand
dollars has prompted the raising of u cor
responding sum.
In conclusion, let it be said in everlast-
ing praise of the Board. that to Its helping
hand, the mountain district, embracing
parts of Va, KY, Tenn, Ala, Ca, South
and North Carolina, is much indebted for !
the existence of no less than twenty two
Schools Of high order, employing eighty
teachers, attendance of over five thousand
students, an average of four wellStrained
teachers in each School. At this point we
of the Carolina Association are in vital
ouch with the Home Board through the
growing importance of our Fruitland
Institute. And while we have had occasion
lime and again, to acknowledge greatefully
the helping hand Of the Board through It's
efficient w~ide-awake Secretary, Rev. A.
E. Brown, whose presence, this day, gives
kindly assurance of continued favor, we
would n OF let this opportunity pass with
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