The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
Convention Will Adjour n
Tonight.
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cieties to the number of six hundred
and twenty-five with a membership
OF 1876. Their contributions for the
year aggregated $17,15S.49. the So
cieties of the Mt. Zion Association
leading with contributions of
$1,916.27. In the report prepared by
Brother Hight c. Moore. the Stalls
teal Secretary of the Convention, we
find that while something less than
one-sixteenth of the total member
ship is in these societies. yet they
gave during the year nearly one :
fourth of the total contribution of
the State for Home and Foreign Mis-
sions. With such an earncs st and de-
voted band of sisters under the talent
ed and devoted leadership OF MISS
Fanny E. S. Heck, we are confident
that even greater results will be
achieved for the support extension
OF the mission cause both at nome
and abroad.
&C. F. Meserve. c. G.. Wells, j. E. M.
Davenport, w. B. Warff, A. G. Wilcox.
l.. NJ. Curtis. j. M. Holleman. COM
mittee."
The report was adopted
Ministerial Relief Board.
The committee to nominate the
Aged Ministers Relief Board, reported
the following names, which were
created the board:
&C. j. Thompson. chairman; j. F.
McDuffie. secretary: T. E. Cheek, w.
G. Barrett, H. A. Foushee. e. r. Har-
ris, Reuben Shipp, R. Il. Riggsbee. and
j. V. Riggsbee."
Ministerial Education.
The Committee on Ministerial Edu-
cation reported through Mr.. r. n.
Simms. The report said that Baptist
preachers We're proverbially poor, and
continued: 1--WE can afford TO de-
clare it. We can better jest about
it than to shed tears. We Ought to
be proud to declare it. 1t is to their
glory that it is true. 1t is probably
not to the glory of us laymen who
ought to pay them better salaries and
then keep them promptly paid, but 1T
is to the glory of our preachers hat
they are not money makers.
God calls poor boys TO be Baptist
preachers. Thus He has for His minis
try men who coming out of poverty
into that goodly measure of prosper
ity which every church ought to be-
stow on it's pastor. are able to sympa-
thiZe with every class of its people
and thus like their Master. be touched
with a feeling of the infirmities of all.
mo boy ought to be too poor TO
become a Baptist preacher and no
Baptist preacher ought to be too poor
to obtain an education. The money of
his brethren ought to be his. And
this ought to date from the time when
God lays His hand upon him and
bids him preach. He wears Gods ;i"-
cry upon his spirit from that holir,
and il were shame for Gods men 10
let his physical body be covered with
rags. We are sefishly wrong in
withholding a support from a preach
er until he is fitted to pastor church.
He is serving God while training mis-
mind for his service. and is then
worthy of his hire. Surely tho day has
gone by when we need to argue that
Gods messengers ought to be educat-
ed. When not school-educated they
must be educated: for educated
men they ever have been and must
ever be. They can be educated III the
schools in about one-tenth OF the
time in which they could dig out an
education by their own unaided Ell
forts. To enforce upon them this
loss of time from the active service
of Christ were a crime when God bids
us hasten the message ?" 81 mankind
and speed the triumph of His Son.
Slothfulness is treason in the service
of our King.
1.-The Baptists of North Carolina
have done a good work along this
line Our fathers eSta bl1shed wake
Forest College primarily for this pur-
pose. If only our efforts in this be-
half were as strenuous and our ocn-
tributions proportionately as large. we
should have no need for anything but
praise in this report.
This last year there has been eX-
pended for this purpose at Wake For
est College by DR.. w. r. Cullom. the
efficient treasurer and corresponding
secretary Of the board having charge
of this work, about $4,000. This fall
there are So men receiving aid from
this source. Last year there were a.
at the corresponding period. OF course
this increase of about % per cent IN
the number of men to be supported
caIl4 for a corresponding increase
i'm the funds to be raised.
Brethren the report may seem
good. in one sense it is. 1t shows inn
provement. but it is almost a shame
to us. We have been putting thi:
work aside too much and too long Lee
us rally around it in the day tf
COM. and while God calls men tC
be His ministers and calls us to then
support. let us be as quick to answer
Here am l., as we would have them
to be-"
After an interesting address by DR.
w. r. Cullom the report was adopted
Presentation OF IteIc.
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire. o
the diocese of North Carolina. was
introduced to the convention. and ar
ter q few remarks. he presented to the
convention an interesting relic. a docu-
ment left by the old historical Baptist
Palmer.
Upon motion of Mr.. j. w. BalleN
the relic was accepted and presented
to Wake Forest College, where 1t may
be properly preserved.
Shaw University Commended.
Rev. w. r. Gwaltney offered tht
following resolution, which. after re-
marks by Mr.. Gwaltney DIR. X. /
Vann, DR.. c. F. Meserve, F. +
Hobgood. j. E. Ray j. C. Scarborough
and Carey j. Hunter, was adopted:
Forty years ago the first day o.
this month Henry Martin Topper be
gan the work of establishing Shaw
University This institution has grown
until she is now the largest Baptis
institution in the world for the educa
ton of colored young men and wo
men. The leaders of the colored Bap
lists of North Carolina, a majority
of the educated clergy, many minis
tiers in other States and several mis-
sionaries to Africa received theil