The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-08-19
CONVENTION.
OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINA
. TION
Hold Their Annual Meeting ut Aid.
erson and Discuss PLANS to
.... Fight the White Plague.
Over 81, 600 Raised.

y vention held It's sixteenth annual ses-
;tsion here Wednesday, Thursday aud
a Friday Of last week with the Shiloh
\ Baptist church, which cared for the
stdelegation in its usual hospltahle
manner. The local committee met
{ every train and assigned the dole
{gates to their homes which saved
4 them from the embarrassment Of
4 looking up the committee.
! At nine o'clock ON Wednesday,
morning the auditorium of the
!, church was found crowded with rep
! fesentative women from all parts Of
! the state. After greeting the delega-
1on the president, Mrs. M. A. W..
thompson sounded the gavel and in
PRODUCED Mrs. Pearl H. Woods who
conducted the opening devotional cy-
erc1ses in an impressive manner
which were followed by words of all
wise by the, president. The usual
working committees were appointed
on enrolment, reading, letters, H.
nance, new bodies, state missions.
foreign missions, temperance, perma-
nent organization, obituary and res
| oiutions.' Intermission was taken
until eleven o'clock at which time
I Rev.. VIM. Jackson, OF Lewisbure,
| was introduced. He preached good
sermon from the subject, Gods Wo-
/ men for the Times" The speaker
traced the record of our women in
history and called his hearers at
ttent1on to the good work the women
are now doing for the uplift Of man
I kind.
The afternoon session was SPORT
! largely In the reading of letters and
soliciting annual and life members.
I The evening session was opened. by
MRS. Gunnie Mayo and Cathrine Ear
n.y. Welcome address on the behalf
1 or the church and the missionary So
eiety were delivered by Miss =. Cora
7 Frsemeta and Mrs :Elizabeth4,, FREQ
man. respectively: These addresses
were responded to In an acceptable
manner by Miss Eva Parker, of
charleston. At the conclusion Of
these exercises the president intro
duced Rev. J. J. Turner, Of Mt. Car
Don, who preached a good sermon
from the subject, "Our Fathers
House and the Way to It,"
| Rev. Turner spoke of 1T, firstly, as
the place Of Gods immediate pres
ence; secondly, as permanent
house; thirdly, as perfect house and
concluded by speaking Of the way to
the house.
| Mrs. Annie Davis sang, SOFTLY and
Tenderly Jesus is Calling-Come
Home"
On Thursday morning at nine
O'Clock Miss Camelia Coles and MICS
Anne French conducted the dcyo-
tlonal exercises which were follow
ed by the report Of the committee on
new societies, which showed that
thirteen new bodies had beel added
during the session. This Increase
showed that the field secretaries had
been doing good work. The field
secretaries, Mrs Pearl II. Woods aud
Mrs. Mary Stratton, made their re-
port which brought before the con-
VentiOn much valuable information
Mrs. Mary 8. Reid, messenger from
the West Virginia Baptist Sunday
lSchool Convention spoke Of the work
of that body as was witnessed in it's
Macdonald meeting. Rev. J. J. Tur-
ner. superintendent OF missions,
spoke Of the field work and the nec
essity Of putting into the hands Of
the young good literature Rev r.
ID. w. Meadows, superintendent Of
missions for the Baptist State Con
vention, spoke Of the broad field CT
work Of that convention. Miss Eva
Parker read a we'll prepared report
from the returned delegate MRS.
Matilda Parker) from the National
Baptist Convention. After these re-
ports Mrs. Sallie l.. Tillman read. q
good paper on '"The Betterment Of
Our Young People" 49,.
The afternoon session on Thurs
day was opened by Mrs. M. J. Banks.
After some routine work Miss Jose.
Dbine p. Jackson, Of Lewisburg, read
a good paper on How Shall We as
Young People Succeed After Secur
ing an Education" which was fol-
lowed by the reading Of the report
Of the committee on education by
Mrs. G.. Lewis. In this report the
state was mentioned in favorable
, terms for the manner it is arrang-
, ing for the education Of our youths
/ in the public schools and such in
stitutions as the West Virginia Col.
ored institute and the Bluefleld Col
ored institute. 1t urged the rebuild
ing Of the Hill Top School and then
> varied from the usual manner OF
!, submitting such reports and advised
that steps be taken to drive out o.
= this country the dreaded white