The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-10

state.
The report Of the committee which |
was adopted read as follows:
There are 135 teachers in our denom- |
irrational schools. There are 1855 stu
dents being taught by these conse-
Grated teachers From this enrolment
there were approximately 300 conyer-
items 125 students entered our denomi-
national collegesthis fall There arc
yearly from four TO Eve hundred young
men and women with minds and hearts
| frightened and quickened on account
Of the training received at these
schools who enter directly from their
doors in to the various and busy walks
| OF life.
The civic educational and religious
influences exerted directly, by these
institutions through those who never
go to college as we'll as those who re-
Ceive college training cannot be esd-
mated.
| "A large majority of the Baptist
IECsts have always been and always will
be composed of the middle class form
ing the backbone OF civil religious and
! industrial society who have not and
cannot have the advantage of college
; training, but who, nevertheless,
should be learned III mind, heart and
hand for all OF the duties of practical
citizenship. And in this training no
Loo h.
denominational schools located here
and there throughout the state, with
in easy reach of the masses.
while recognizing the uplifting in
fiuence of these schools upon our de-
nomination and our state we are COM
PEELED TO admit that with fewer than
80 denominational high schools already
established in this great state of North
Carolina. We have only been playing
and experimenting with the question
We have made but 4 beginning. The
entire territory of our state, practically
speaking is virgin soil awaiting our
development in SO far as this depart
ment of our denOmInational activity
is concerned
Let us stand by our institutions
with our support, with our patronage,
and with our prayers
1--WE recommend that this session of
the convention appoint a committee
of five to consider and report to the
next session of the convention upon
the advisability of more vital relation
| Sh IN 1)kafhr II
high schools and the convention.
Respectfully submitted
''P. S. VANN,
u. c. CLIFFORD"
TEMPERANCE REPORT.
The special order for o'clock was
the report of the committee on temper
ance and it's consideration by the con-
ventiOn Much interest had centered
about this hour since the opening of
the session and many expected d heat
ed discussion to follow the reading of
the report, but the unexpected hap
ipened. Such care had been taken by
the committee in the preparation of
the report that it met the approval Of
the body and was adopted by ris-
ing vote. Hon. A D. Ward, chairman
of the committee read the report which
was wOrded as follows:
eve wish again 10 declare our un-
compromising hostility to the liquor
traffic as the great enemy of the peace
and good morals Of the people, the
we'll being Of the home and the work
OF the gospel among men. We con-
gratulate the people of North Carolina
on the splendid progress made in tenn
perance in the last ten years, and on
the rising tide at this time to drive the
lafic out of the state.
I'VE extend our encouragement to
The people now engaged in their eff
forts to vote the traffic out of the sew
eral cities and towns in the state.
where it is now being carried on, and
to the Anti-Saloon League and its
work
"Believing the traffic in intoxicating
liquors to be inherently wrong, we en-
phatically declare ourselves in favor
Of the principle of state prohibition
Further: We favor the enactment
OF such laws by the congress as shall
}prohibit the shipment, for purposes of
traffic, by interstate carriers of intox-
icating liquors into prohibited terri
| tory.
| we urge upon our people to contin-
ue the great campaign of education
and law-enforcement against ths. sale
and use of intoxicating liquors until
this great curse shall be reduced to q
minimum in our state
"a. D. WARD,
For the Committee.
The other members of the committee
are the following ncmod rnoraho-- ~