The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-10-02
TWO MAMMOTH REPORTS.


OF Two of the Largest Boards, Re-
ports to the National Baptist Con-
vention-What the Home Mission
Board and the Publishing Board ac-
compllshed During the Fiscal Year
Ending August 81, 1908.
Chautauqua Hall, Lexington, KY,
Sept 10, 1908.
TWO OF the largest boards operated
under the auspices of the National
Baptist Convention which has been in
session in this magnificent city for
the past four days finished reporting
to the parent body to-day. These
boards were the Home Mission Board
OF the National Baptist Convention,
of which Rev. J. P. Robinson, A. r.,
d. D., of Little Rock, Ark. is
chairman, and the National Baptist
Publishing Board Rev G. H. Clark,
D. D., Nashville, Tenn, chairman.
The Convention, as usual, waited with
patience the making of these two re-
ports. Both boards have for the past
twelve years elected one secretary
to serve them Although the head
quarters of the Home Mission Board
Is in Little Rock and the Publishing
Board is in Nashville, they have ac-
complished greater results by contin-
ulng one secretary, as both boards
work in cooperation. There is not
department of the national work, so
far as the Baptists are concerned, in
which there is greater activity or
more work being accomplished than
Z by these two departments.
The Home Mission Board reports
that, Notwithstanding the panic dur
ing last fall and winter, which caused |
such scarcity of money for doing
missionary work, it has been able to |
keep at work directly and through the |
cooperative plan the same number of |
missionaries with the addition of a |
few more, each having reported an
unusual amount of work The board
showed that it had expended for sal
aries Of missionaries, colporters, field
secretary, contributions, donations.
and incidental expenses from Sept.
/, 1907 to August 81, 1908, $43, 396.42,
a sum much in excess of6that of last
year. There is hardly a state in the
Union now in which this board is not
doing effective Home Nilsson work.
The report is divided up as follows
l. The general organization of the
board
2. The plan of missionary opera
tions.
g. The cooperative work with State
and Territorial Conventions and it's
results.
A. The work of our field secretary
3. The missionary and colporter
work performed jointly.
6. Our cooperative work with the
Home Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention
z. The beginning of missionary
work in the insular possessionsA
8. The West Indies Islands.
3. The great need of a Church Ed
ifice Department.
TO- The financial needs of the
Home Mission Board
AS usual the report of the Publish
ing Board created the most lasting
That institution, located
at Nashville, is, no doubt, the biggest =
boast of the Negro baptists It's sue T.
cess has been phenomenal. 1t reaches
out into the industrial world like
great lever propelling and moving g
along with the times During the re- D
cent panic it was able to maintain
healthy business. While the report p
shows but little increase In receipts
over last year, it shows an unusual d
volume Of business with an enormous n
increase in the circulation of it's peri u
Odicals II
DR.. Boyd prefaced his report with :,
he statement that the small increase ~
N receipts was due to the boards in ~ ~
ability to collect outstanding debts. ",
The most remarkable part of the -
'eport was the tabulated account of !,
periodicals circulated y,
lmong Negro Baptists, Dr. Boyd showed =,
rom records that there had been =,
nailed in Sunday-school periodicals, ~
nonthlies and quarterlies for the last ~
lscal year II, 001 ,O09, as against 1929 ~
22 the preceding year, an increase ~
It 1857. The Secretary showed in
lis report tabulated by months and
that there had been received
nd mailed out total of 226, 1852 let
ers circulars and post cards. Aside tn
rom this, the receipts and disburse- he
nents were brought in. He showed M
hat the receipts from all sources for ri
he past year amounted to $160,281.95, B,
hat the amount brought forward w;