Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-05-31
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Quarterly Meeting was held at Bethel
nj. e. Church Saturday and preaching
there by Elder Reed Sunday.
Children's Day exercises at Wesley
Chapel Sunday night were well attended
and program rendered interesting.
The new Baptist church at Fairport |
will be dedicated next Sunday. Rev.
DR.. J. w. Porter, of Newport News, will
preach the dedicatorv sermon.
June is the month set apart for
special collection in all the Sunday
schools of the Virginia Conference, the
money so contributed TO be applied to
the Methodist Orphanage.
Rev. E. F. Garner preached to an
appreciative audience yesterday (Thurs-
day. afternoon at Irvington Methodist
church. The occasion was memorial
day of Washington Camp, p. o. S. of
A., of Weems.
Children's Day exercises at White
Stone Methodist church last Sunday
were quite a success. There was
large audience, to whom the juveniles
rendered pleasing program. $50 was
the sum realized.
ECHOES OF THE GREAT CONVENTION.
The Baptist Convention of North
America, composed of Baptist Conven-
tons north and south and delegates rep
resenting the negro Baptist National
Convention, with Mexican and Canadian
Baptists also in attendance, adjourned
at Jamestown Exposition Thursday
night last. The Convention is declared
to have been great success. Notable
speeches were made by the four leading
negro delegates in attendance, which
received the plaudits of Southern dele
gates in particular. 1t was the first
time in the history of the South that
white Baptists had met with negroes,
but there was not the least i'll feeling,
and the Convention was one of brdtherly
love and good fellowship. Officers were
elected as follows:
Presidential. H. Strong, of New
York.
First Vice-President-J Taylor Ely
, son, Lieutenant-Govenor of Virginia.
Second Vice-President-Ch E.
Hughes, Governor of New York.
Third Vice-P resident-A. L. Crimmon,
!, Canada.
Recording secretary-Thomas d. Os-
borne, Kentucky.
Assistant Secretary-J. S. Dickerson,
e Illinois.
d Corresponding Sec'y-S. d. Meeser,
:. Michigan.
= Treasurer-M. E. Thresher, Ohio.
:. One Of the speculator features of the
!, convention was the demonstration that
e followed the presentation by delegate
S from the conference of South Carolina
/ to the delegate from Maine of his.
g tory of the beginning of the Baptist
e church in America. Kittery, Maine,
e was referred to as the fountain of the
}, Baptist religion, and the book contained
l. much of interest about the origin of the
y church at that place. 1t was accepted
It by DIR. A. B. Lorimer, of Bangor, as
e the joining link between the North anC
e the South, and when the incident hac
S closed President Stephens suggested
!. that the salute be given. Every dele
}, gate and woman in the big hall arose
n waved their handkerchiefs and Joined
S in singing, s'Blest Be the Tie That
L Binds" Just prior to this presentation
s the delegate from Canada requested the
e delegates to visit the Canadian Building
" at the close of the session and sing
n God Save the King" under the Unior
It Jack. The request met the approva
y of the convention. Among the most
IS important resolutions adopted today was
one indorsing the movement to erect {
,. Baptist theological seminary in Russil
and the effort to raise 100000 will
which to do the work.
- Eight hundred women visiting the
. Exposition, with the delegates to the
Baptist convention of North America
: met behind closed doors in the Auditor
ium, the session being the first and only
one held by the women in connection
with the national assembly. The body
was called to order by Miss Fanni,
:, Heck, of Atlanta, president of the
Woman's Missionary Union of tht
:, Southern Baptist Convention, whC
presided throughout the day. The ad
dress of welcome was made by Mrs
George A. Schmeltz, of Hampton, Va.
u on behalf of the local Baptists, and b!
Mrs. ]. A. Wheeler, of Tennessee, oil
behalf of the Baptist women of tn,
South.
II President Tucker, of the Exposition
entertained the convention and wei
), coined the Baptist women to Virgins
8 and the Exposition.