The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-12-05
sOf The West Virginia
. Baptisfs
Makes His Annual Report OF Funds
q Received From tive Various Sum
day Schools Under His Jur-
,k} IS &s,+.: isdiction.

II an this state. In viewing the vast
\ afaount Of work now being accom-
v pltshed by working on the founda-
,,3Stion they laid so we'll, we are lead
sSto believe that the work is surpass-
SS.ing their expectation. They seem to
have been endowed with the mission
4 airy spirit as the records show that
%thefr organizations we're established
as a means through which the mis-
sionary work could be more success
y fully done
}Jr,l Thirteen years ago, when the
I clouds Of adversely gathered so thick
3ly over this land of ours; and when
the admoEition from Satan's strong
mold was being hurled into our
camp, the West Virginia Baptist
" Sunday School Convention was or
1 ganiZed, still retaining the Heaven
borne idea-Missions. The brethren
6 saw that in order for our Baptist
k church to grow as God would have it
that greater care must be taken in
the training Of the young in the doc
%trine OF the church and missions.
+ After six years Of planning, Rev.
%. j. Ellis was appointed as the first
missionary, who rendered faithful
service. His reports brought before
J the convention the work needed to be
done. The following summer in
keeping with the recommendation of
the president Office Of superintendent
of missions was created and A. P
: Stranghter was appointed to organ
lie the mission forces so as to be
able to pay the missionaries. While
: he did not serve long, still, through
: his plan the cOnvcntion's treasury is
! being replcnished
When the Sunday School mission
ary work was started the Bible and
a hymnal was The missiOnary's out
>>ft. These are good weapons as far
as they so, but the missionary must
now be better supplied. In looking
forward TO greater accomplishments
Secretary J. w. Scott brought before
the board the idea OF adding col
..porteraSc the work and it has more
, than doubled the usefulness OF the
!: missionary.
give a good idea Of what has been
. done but the story can be better told
/ by the new Sunday school, the num-
erical intellectual, spiritual growth of
Athe convention and the lives OF our
&Eoung people who have been pointed
10 the road o. right doing.
After the adjournment Of our
Huntington meeting OF the conren-
zion in May the board employed two
ymisstonaries with your -hcdieHt ser
want as superintendent c. missions.
The other brother Uot finding it con-
VeHicnt to enter the field all the work
was lest to the superintendent
Through his dffOrI the various part Is
Of the state have been visited, prayer
meeting conducted, Sunday schools
organized and more than a thousand
books and TRACTS have been distribute
ed In the several homes. They will
tell the story OF the cross long after
our life's work is done.
1t is very hard to establish Derma-
nent work among our people. as our
new corners are largely floating Deo-
pie | very often go to places, visit
the homes and arrange for service
two to four weeks hence. and go to
other places doing similar work.
and at the appointed time travel
more than hundred miles to meet
the appointment and on arriving
finding that the people with whom
I had arranged services had moved.
Sch things bender us greatly, but in
obedience to Him who said Cast
thy bread upon the Waters" The
I work must go on.
The district religious organizations
have been visited and the most of
them have gladly given space on the
programs for the presentation of the
Sunday school work and very favor
able resolutions have been passed
concerning the work the Sunday
school convention is doing in bring
ing about better things for our peo-
pie. AS we increase in strength our
field is broadening. The building Of
the coal and Coke and the Virginian
railroads bring the extreme sections
, OF the state in touch with US. so let
us. concentrate our forces 50 as to
speedily take the field for Christ.
g.. The cOlpOrtGr department is doing
much good in several ways, through
it good books are placed into the
. homes Of our people, such literature
having found place the trashy i'll
tame stories are kept out. Many Of
. our most successful men credit their
success to the reading Of some good
BOOK. While others whose lives are
"a disgrace credit their downfall to
I the reading Of some worthless book.
# have In mind a man who was
Inspired by the reading Of the life
. or Washington. He saved the coun-
4 Try and liberated four million OF
Its citizens. Then I think Of anoth-
Yed who read the works Of that sensa-
sSfional woman Emma Golden, and was
lead to murder the Nations chief.
80 IN thinking Of the distribution Of