The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
OF iN7ERES7 TO
 CHURCH WORKERS
What Socississ ds,d
 Chl.rchss DD
LOTHIAN CONVENTION
DELEGATES TO ATTEND FROM ALI PARTS or STATE.
Baptist Meetilg Dekinnlsg sn the 1ord Promises to Be One of the
 Best n the History of
 the Church,

Baptist churches from all the churches in the State are sending aei- esates to the great Bapti't s1nv,T CGnvsm, Te on the 2srd of this month and last ing for sevtgal days.
 Several very important questions will come before the convention. among which ars the laymans movement ana the tenperance question, which is now on a high wave towards abolishing the
 Rev. W. B. Crumpton. Secretary of the n Home Mi'siSn %on,re%say B9asa; wlso who is a delegates to the convention. in an . we go to the Dothan convention on a special train from Montgomery at o'clock on the morning of the 2srd. No better country can be found in Alabama and the people all over the State are eager to see 1t.
 been a great change in the moral at mosphere about the city among the pines. A great revival has been held. which shook the whole city. Hundreds lives. and the spensary. which had been the pride of many in the wire grass, has been closed up. Baptists from all over the State ought to be eager to go to such a place"
 be the livest question to come up at Dothan, Mir. Crumpton said:
 The layman's movement will take shape there. I am sure. Many of the members of our churches came back from Richmond in May, where they had been in attendance on the South ern Baptist Convention, overwhelmed with the conviction that the, time had work of the churches. Noble men we have in all the, churches. men of great ability and great wealth, but their splendid service and wealth have not been coHsecrated to Gods cause as 1t
 You may be sure.. too. the great temperance wave, which was largely precipitated by the persistent agitation of the question among the Baptists and years. will be given an impulse for ward. We are moving out rcd handed after the liquor traffic, joining forces with other Christians and all moral people to put down this evil, which has dominated too long our fair State.
 From the agitation going, on in the Birmingham papers. doubt. not some ringing speeches will be made at Do- tions from State. county or. municipal treasuries. It seems that the county of Jefferson has been appropriafing money for such purposes and . vigor- Baptists would not receivee such ala for their ihstitutionA as they contend s,r sSs entire separation of church snd
 Not much may >be said about 1t at Dothan. but at no distant day the Bap- lists expect to possess thepvelves of some of this splendid propefty right in the hear, of Montgomery flor Bap- tist .headquarters. r-neyer look at the handsome building occupied by tho Alabama Bible Society on Dexter Ave- nue but bless God for the deed of one of our citizens. MT, McGee. who died in 1857. leaving that property for the Bible Society. The income from the rents enable the society to sell the Word of God at cost to the people
 Who that ever lived in this beautiful city has so grand mondment as this old servant Of God? He caught . vision of the future. revealing the gissd gi5sss test ssr nsed of ths people and pro
 T confidently expect another such monument to be erected here before many years. could easily do a ten pr twenty thousand dollar colportage and Bible work next year, if we had suitable quarters"