The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-09

nation. The volunteering of this
minister is in answer to prayer"
Mr.. B. d. Gray, secretary of the
Home Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, said young man
had been to him. offering his life to
serve as a missionary in Cuba, and
he asked that prayer be offered
for him. In this petition to God was
included supplication for the mspir-
alton of several young men in the
Baptist Tabernacle, of Raleigh, who
had expressed a hope to work in
some mission field.
Yesterday afternoon DR.. e. M. Po-
teat, president of Furman University,
delivered a unique, powerful and re-
markable address on the significance
of Baptist Education.
An effort will probably be made
by the convention to obtain this
affiliation of the Free Will <Baptists
Meeting in Detail.
The convention met at $50 o'clock,
and the devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. G.. b. Justice, of Ruth
erfordton.
After the reading of the minutes the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted. being offered by Rev. Dr. w
G. Tyree, of the First Church of Raj
eigh:
I'VE heartily thank the kind re-
porters of the different papers for the
full and admirable reports they are
giving of our sessions. We desire to
express sincere gratitude and highest
appreciation of the splendid Wake
Forest supplement published in the
News and Observer
Free VIII Bais,ists
Rev. DR.. j. J. Hall. of Fayetteville.
offered n iYocr Int
its consideration was indefinitely post
poned: Whereas there are in the
State of North Carolina 1900 to
10000 believers known as Free Will
Baptists (white) who stand with us
i'm the great distinguishing doctrine
and practice of Believers Baptism.
Therefore. Resolved. that com.
mittee of three be appointed. of which
comittee Livingston Johnson shall De
a member, to open correspondence
with them with a view If possible. of
bringing about closer relationship"
Publication Society.
Rev. r. j. Seymore. d. D.. Secretary
of the American Baptist Publication
Society addressed the convention He
said the North Carolina Convention
was marked by the spirit of progress
and the spirit of service, and the spirit
of God. The question of young men
for the ministry is a serious question
he said, and he endorsed with hearty
amen what DIR. Dargan said Thursday
In regard to what the president of :,
foremost seminary said at the Ameri-
can Federation of Churches. He was
on the platform in New York he said
when that utterance was made and
he then hung his head in shame He
said the Publication Society had
woven itself into the very texture of
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whole South had felt its fibre and
work. 1t is a Baptist Society. he said,
and Baptists should stand for some
thing, having principles worth the
propagation. Baptists are related to
John the Baptist: with honey, sweet
to the taste. with no wax. they stand
for the word of God. The Publication
Society propagates Baptist principles
and disseminates the truths of
God. The great struggle for religi-
Gus freedom has made us what we are.
but we have a creed. common phase
of the New Testament that holds it
together over the world. and what we
need is to give information to the
people, instruct the converts as
to what we believe This society is an
informing society, and it is too a book
concern. 1t has poured forth a ire
mendous literature. 1t is a literary
concern. and publishes the best liter
ature i'm the world We have no mar
row spirit about it. 1t is the best the
BaptistS have in the world. There are
men and firms making markets of our
religious literature. Unless YOU keep |
Baptist Literature in the Sunday |
Schools you will have no Baptists for
the future. for what is to be with our
church will be as we have made it,
This publication society is. too. an |
evangeliZation society. and that should |
be the key note of this convention. |
Our business is to save souls"
He referred to the great work of |
the organization in distributing the |
various publications. thousands of peo-
pie sent out. and HUNDREDS of gospel |
wagons, spreading abroad over the
face of the world information about
the Saviour and the Baptist |
faith. He said it is a Baptist institu
ton an informing institution. and
an evangelical institution. and the in
itial letters of these words spell
Message From Students.
Secretary Moore read the following
telegram from the North Carolina
students at the Southern Theological
Seminary. at Louisville. KY:
Baptist State Convention, Raleigh,
Y. c.
at the Seminary.
"Collosians second chapter fifth
verse: Isaih fifty-eighth chapter. Sth
through twelfth verse:
For though / be absent in the
Spirit. rejoicing and beholding your
order. and the steadfastness of your
faith in Christ
Then shall thy light break forth
as the morning. and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy riehte-
BUSINESS shall go before thee; the glory
of the Lord shall be thy reward. Then
shalt thou cali, and the law shall an
Swer: thou shalt say: here / am If
thou take away from the midst of thee
the yoke. the putting forth of the
finger and speaking vanity: and If
thou draw out thy soul to the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted soul; then
shall thy light rise in obscurity and
thy darkness shall be as the MONDAY:
and the Lord shall guide thee contin-
uaIly and satisfy thy soul in drought.
and make fat bones: and thou shalt be
like the watered garden. and take a
spring of water. whose waters fail not
And they that shall be of Thee shall
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