The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-15
MISSIONARY UNION MEETS Many Baptists in Hot
 Springs. EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE Baptists' Young Peoples Union Holds Interesting Session Repert on the Work of Missions by states shows That Alabama
 Has Exceeded Her Ap-
 D portionment.

f1ot SpfinBs, AIk. s1hay AS--NAiSS oh- nie E. S. Beck. of North Carolina, pre- sided at the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union held in the Eastman Hotel today. in advance of the Bap- tist Convention. Miss Edith Crane, of Baltimore as secretary.
 The annual reports of the officers were read and the work of the Union in connection with the Foreign MS sion Board, the Home Mission boara' the Sunday School Board snd the Wo- mans Training School. at LouisV"ie' Ky.. was thoroughly discussed oS sneakers appointed for the occasioH' Chief interest this year centers ih U" effort to arise $2o.00o for the endoW- r,... of inc Training School at Louis. .,,,is No reports have been given OuI a. vat hut it Is believed that most oL fha sunn has been subscrtDeo pS sA~ different State Unions. ,..onat
 rha southern Baptist Educeuones f.onference this afternoon met n t"s First Baptist Church. beginning .. >ps n. The afternoon meeting Mas as Sraased by President S. Y. brooks, o1 ps,,Icr University, Waco. Tex. Tnese adSrssses were followed by genera dIacusston of problems connected With tna atandards and management or the va r,ous Baptist Instutions or learning The Educational Conference eacn year Is considered one of the most ~ i've features connected with tne So" tion.
 Coufereee Selects Ofhcers.
 The educational conference, Wnlch reoresents the colleges and seconoafy seh,oIs under the management of the Southern Baptist Convention seiec1eo the following officers: 1
 President. F. W. BoatwrisnI hlcn- naond College, Virginia
 Vice President. NJ D. Jeffries of the Carson Newman College of Tennessee
 Secretary. D. M Rivers. of the Con- way ColieRe. Arkansas
 The conference resolved itself into \ ro,1r1d table sersion and discussed tl,6 Methodist Church endowments.
 Addresses were made by w. T. Lowry oY ina Mississippi College of Clinton. Eftsw pr ia. T. Hale. General Sec. retary of the Kentucky Educauonai society of Louisville, and President
 The Baptist Young Peoples Union held an interesting day session in which addresses were made by H. H. Hunt. of Missouri, George T. Weoo. secretary of the Baptist Young Peopies GIioh @ of America and Otto s. Russell of Han
 The The election of officers resulted as
 President. W. W. Hamilton. Atlanta.
 1 Vice Presidents. O. S. Russel of Mis- souri. J. T. Watts and James Gore of North Carolina. o,.
 The woman's Visionary Union was welcomed in an address by Mrs. W. T. Amia of Hot Springs. to which Mrs. " McComb of Mississippi respond ed The address by President. Miss Fannie E. S. Heck of Kentucky, her subject being "A Survey of the work.
 In speaking of the work by states Miss Heck said
 eTo the smallest. State connected with tho Union belongs the honor of having reached and gone beyond apportionment for hoth home and foreign missions. South Carolina took as its apportion- ment inr ound numbers to thes two ob- iects. S16,5O0. and exceeds this amount by s3.300.
 AIabama's ADpOrtiOnment.
 "Georgia has exceeded her foreign mission apportionment by $400. Tennes- see her home mislson appointment by sI AO and Alabama her home mission anportionment by near S100.
 "While all praise is to these. this by no means indicates that others have not done most valiantly. Virginia has made a total moneyed increase of ST. 900; Georgia, $6,500 south Carolina. Ss,5OO; Tennessee. $4.7Oo; Kentucky. the most liberal contributor to the Training School. $4.500: Alabama, nearly $3.o00; Mississippi, a few dol- lars less than $2,000; Missouri, nearly 1,5OO 7, and other States in varying de- Erees. North Carolina on account of change in the State meeting and rec adjustment of quarters. reports only eleven months and cannot therefore be entered into this comparison. The lar- gest per centage of increase is to Ok iabonaa, which nearly doubled in the year and Arkansas, standing next, with nearly sixty per cent increase But one central committee reporting for the en- tire year failed to report increase the District of columbia-where the tide sets strongly to the Northern so- ciatfea" '"