Richmond planet., 1907-05-18
THE VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE
CONVENTION a GRAND
SUCCESS.
Large DcIegation-Fine Speeches.
A Splendid Collection.

A Splendid Collection.
The 4Oth Annual Session of the
Virginia Baptist State Convention,
held in Staunton last week was one
of the grandest of its history. The
delegation was very large and re-
presented all parts Of Virginia, Dis
trict Of Columbia, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York. Peace
and harmony reigned throughout the
entire session President r. II.
Bowling delivered an admirable an
nual address. The Convention was
welcomed by the Mayor OF the
city. Rev DR.. Gregory OF the white
Baptist Church and Prof. Kenncy
OF the Public School. These all
made timely addresses.
The cap-stOne was put on when
the great pulpit orator DR.. G. b.
Howard OF Petersburg made the re
sponse. It was said that the speech
OF DR.. Howard was a masterpiece OF
oratory The annual sermon was
preached by Rev. Bernard Tyrrel,
ID. D.. OF Lynchburg. The sermon
was eloquent, scholarly and far
reaching by 4 unanimous vote DR..
Tyrrell was requested To put the ser
mon in pamphlet form. Two other
grand sermons were preached by
Revs S. A. Jordan OF Danville and
H. II. Harris. ID. ID. or Newport News.
These sermens were up TO the one
hundred percent mark.
Some distinguished visitors were
present in the persons OF Drs. ". a.
Beckham and r. w. d. Isaac. These
brethren gave new life and inspira-
tion TO the great convention. Drs.
w. II. Moses and r. c. Pannell, the
able pastors of Staunton with the aid
OF their good people, took the best
of care OF the delegation. All the
old officers of the Convention were e.
locted by acclamation. Or. ]. g
Jackson OF Lynchburg was made sta
tistician in place OF DR.. l.. c. Gar
land who hal mo sed 10 PenpsyNan
a.
me Board OF Trus -ecs OF Virginia
Seminary held its meeting every day
during the Convention. DIR. W. +.
Graham was reelected as Chairman
by acclamation as were Secty. r. II.
Bowling, ID. ID. and Treasurer A. A.
Calvin, ID. ID. Dr. Holland Powell
OF Springfield. Ohio, having been
proposed by DR.. Graham was elected
Financial Secretary of the School and
will begin his work the LIST of July.
The Trustee Board will meet August
question OF the election of a Presi-
dent for Virginia Seminary
The School conferred the degree
of ID. ID. on Revs. Il. III. White OF
Clifton Forge; l.. G. Metz of Norfolk
and Rev c. T.. Miller of Bedford
City. The degree of Master of Arts
was conferred upon Mr.. b. II. Pey-
ton Of the American Beneficial In
surance Company The Convention
raised at this session $4,000 in
cash All of the teachers were paid
up in full and the back debt due Prof
Gregory w. Hayes was reduced from
$4,000 TO something less than
100000.
The Convention is in an excellent
condition and never before have the
members shown stronger determi-
nation TO carry out the purposes, OBJ
ject and aim, which begun in the
hearts of the Negro Baptists of this
State twenty-four years ago. Drs.
w. Bishop Johnson, George w. Lee.
A. c. Tyler, ]. Anderson Taylor, w.
Wilbanks of Washington, ID. c. and
Drs. w. w. Brown, r. c. Fox, Toul-
ton of Pennsylvania and many others
were on hand TO see us.
Rev. George Washington of Nor
folk was honored with d. ID. by
Guadalupe College of Texas-one of
the greatest Negro Institutions in
the world.
The Convention will meet next
year with the First Baptist Church,
Newport News. During the year
$70O0.00 were raised. This added
10 the cash raised at the Convention
runs the total amount up to 1O.700.