Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-04
BAPTZSTS END
CONVENTION
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED FOR
ENSUING YEAR
MATTIsoN B. JONES is THE NEW
MODERATOR
E, E. seIph Retlres from Position.
Rev. Robert J. Burdette Preaches-
Sermon-Short Addresses
Made

Yesterday marked the closing day OF
the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the
Los Angeles Baptist association held in
the East Los Angeles Baptist church.
The time was occupied the entire day
until o'clock last night with short in
termission, and much business was ac-
complished and several interesting ad-
dresses WEI made, including the sermon
by Rev. Robert j. Burdette at the close.
At the morning session the annual cleo
tion of officers was held, with the re-
suit as follows: Moderator, Mattison b.
Jones, to succeed Z. E. Selph, Los Ange-
les; vice moderator, Rev. w. M. Perry,
Ocean Park; clerk. Rev. George Taylor,
Sawtelle; treasurer w G. Badeau Mon
rovia; other members executive commit
tee H. f. Brainard Los Angeles; Rev.
III. j. Powell, San Dimas; A. A. Mclean,
Long Beach; G. p. Falls, Los Angeles;
]. H. Merriam, Pasadena
F. S. Wager and r. c. Roseberry are to
act as state nominating committee.
The session was opened with devotion
al exercises conducted by Rev. w. NJ
Perry. T. S. Tomkns read a report
on homo missions. The foreign work was
presented by Rev. Arthur s. Phelps. REV.
Arthur w. Rider made an address on
the missionary interests of the church.
Considerable discussion was called
forth by the exclusion laws as effecting
the Chinese and indirectly the mission
movement in China as the Chinese hold
it against the missionaries
Short Addresses Made
Short addresses and reports were made
by Rev Albert Hatcher Smith and D. P.
Ward. Rev. G. C. Pierce, pastor of the
Memorial Baptist church, started move
ment to curtail the church letters to be
read at the conventions to 200 words,
which was carried by resolution, thereby
saving much time in the annual sessions.
short address was made by Rev.
George Solteau of London, who spoke
of the Bible in the Sunday schools.
DIR. Edward Braislin delivered the SER
mon on THE Goal of Spiritual Life"
Women of the church have served
lunches and suppers at the East Los
Angeles Congregational church through
out the sassions of the association.
Yesterday afternoon the semi-annual
meeting of the Womans Missionary soci-
ETY. was held. An address was made by
Mrs. w. E. Schliemann, state secretary of
the Southern California society, in which
she spoke of the mission work. Home
missions were presented by Mrs. ]. o.
Churchill.
Last night at the beginning of the ses-
sion the delegates for the northern con-
vention to meet in San Francisco next
May were elected as follows: Rev. c.
C. Pierce, Los Angeles; Rev. r. j. Bur-
dette, Los Angeles; Rev. j. Lewis Smith
Long Beach; Rev. Albert Hatcher Smith,
Pasadena; A. P. Griffith, Azusa, Rev. J.
O. A. Henry Los Angeles.
Rev. ]. o. Borroughs made an address
outlining the church work within the
jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Baptist
association, using a map to illustrate his
subject
The sermon of Rev. r. J. Burdette was
the main closing event of the association.
He took his subject from Genesis ix:13-
14-15:
Il do set my bow in the clouds, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant be-
tween me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when 1
bring the clouds over the earth, that the
bow shall be seen in the clouds;
''And 1 will remember my covenant, |
which is between me and you, and every |
living creature of all fiesh and the wa
ters snail no more become flood to de-
stroy all flesh"
The topic was Rainbow Chasers." He
said in part:
THE theme is hope, and its rainbow
symbol. What does the rainbow mean?
The children will say, That the storm is |
over But a man, with the experience of
many years, will reply correctly, That
there is going to be another storm So
long as we live there will be more storms
storms of trial, temptation, sorrow trou-
Bile. But never storm will sweep across
Ithe soul of man that he cannot live |
through triumphantly, gloriously, if he
will accept the protecuon and guidance
of him who holds all storms in his hand |
The rainbw is made for storms. The first |
time we see it in the book is just after
desolation had strewn the fields and hills |
of the earth with horror and death. Max
ing it the seal of an everlasting covenant, |
God made it divine sign. 1t lifted the |
souls and the eyes of men away from the |
earth and it's dead to the glory that was
making the clouds radiant with the ever
lasting promise. Men looked at the splen-
dor of the covenant sign. Then they
planted and sowed in the sodden ground, |
and waited patiently for the vintage and
harvest they knew would come. Let the
next storm break and the next one rage
they had the promise of God, who could
not lie. The sign lifted their faces to the |
sky. They might stumble, but they would
stumble forward. Their feet might be
smeared with the mire but they could
not stain their souls with clay while they
were looking uodward. IN all the ages
they have sowe1 and reaped in the faith
of that promise Only lhe man who re-
CARDS the cloud shall not reap The man
whose soul is big with hope always plans
largely and accomplishes splendidly Great
hopes make great men. A skeptic says:
"A man can't live on hope But he can. |
lie can live and grow fat and strong on
hope when the larder is empty and the
pastures burned. Longfellow sings: Ma
tions, stronger than ours, have leaned on
her wavering promise, having naught else
but hope A man can hope when love is |
cold and faith is dead 1t will last until |
all things hoped for have been attained. |
for God never plants false hopes in the
heart"
The meeting closed with the singing of
"God Be with You Till We Meet Again"
led by Prof. Stout, and benediction by |
Rev Arthur s. Phelps.
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