Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-18
JOSHUA LEVERING AGAIN
HEADS THE BAPTISTs
Continued from Page One.

ten workers on tne foreign llelu, OhS
hundred churches, fifty-seven houses or
worship. There were S45 baptisms that
wear and a total membership of five
thousand three hundred and forty-seven.
The sum OF one hundred and nine thou
sand dollars was given for the work.
Now there are six hundred and six work.
ers, two hundred and fifty-nine churches,
one hundred and siXty-two houses OF wor-
shin. nearly three thousand baptisms,
membership of sixteen thousand rive
hundred and ninety-six and a contribu-
ton of four hundred and sixty thousand
dollars form the home churches.
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
The report of the Sunday school board
at Nashville. of which DR.. ]. NJ. Frost is
the secretary. shows a gratifying state
of affairs. The cash receipts this year
coming mostly from the sale of Sunday
school periodicals, were two hundred ana
five thousand dollars. an increase OF
twenty-six thousand dollars over the pre-
vious year The board has given to the
work of the denomination during the
year the sum of fifty-four thousand roll
lars OF this sum twenty-five hundred
dollars went toward the issuance OF a
Chinese edition of the Bible and like
sum was expended for erecting chapel
at Colon, in the Panama canal zone.
The Sunday school board has been
great money maker from the start and
all it's profits go toward extending the
work of the denomination.
ATLANTA AFTER CONVENTION
Atlanta Is being looked upon as dark
horse for the 1910 session of the conVen-
ton. Quite rivalry for the next meet
ing has sprung up between st. Joseph,
Mo, and Baltimore, Md, and Asheville,
n. c.
The Georgia delegates feel that they
have been west so often of late years
that it is time to go somewhere else.
Baltimore is off on the extreme end OF
the territory and Asheville is so hard to
reach that many have been anxious to
have Atlanta extend an invitation.
The Atlanta delegates have no author
ity to offer any inducements and no IN
vitations will be extended unless there Is
a deadlock in the committee.
The First Baptist church Of Atlanta
has a committee here to look out for a
man to succeed DIR. Landrum.
Among those who have been suggested
as possibilities are DR.. w. L. Pickhard,
of Savannah; DR.. w. j. Williamson OF
st. Louis, and DR.. H. H. Halton' OF
Charlotte, N. c.
MR.. GRAY REPORTS
p. D. Gray, of Atlanta, Ca, In his re-
port as corresponding secretary OF the
Home Mission board said in part:
There have been organized 5,197 Bap-
fist churches and 1sS,OO3 persons baptized
bv the board during the year. Our work in
Cuba and the southwest is yielding large
returns and the probability Of our enter
ing New Mexico makes our transmits
sissippi territory the greater. The edu-
cation of 4316 mountain boys and girls
In excellent mission schools in the Appa-
lachian mountains at a cost to the de-
nomination of slightly more than S. each
per year Is an achievement.
THE amount expended by the Home
Mission board during the year is divided
as follows:
/ alabama, $S,4S42s; Arkansas, $500;
Florida. So 1924; Georgia, $500; Kentucky,
80 31e "a: Louisiana, 81, 1880; Maryland
50 1877: Mississippi $3.50; Missouri, A,1O5;
North Carolina, 50, 465.9s; Oklahoma, 3d.
1851: South Carolina. $500; Tennessee, 49,
SIS; Texas. $15,536.S5; Virginia, $9O41s
''These states, on their own initiative
expended in the same work total OF
$685., O96.47.
Expenditures for the purchase and i'm
provement of mountain school property In
Alabama Kentucky, Tennessee and Viz
ginia are not included in the above Ia
ble
tai of 1,1OS workers in comparison with
s61 the previous year. and has held as an
example, 1923 prayer meetings in the
southern states"
WORK IN PANAMA
It Is pointed out that the work In Pan
anna which has been pursued during the
year opens the way toward the evangeli-
cation of the South American republics
The work among the negroes is treated
of with the claim that southern negro
Baptists are upon a higher plane of up
lift than those of any other section.
The report of Treasurer Walter Dunson,
of the board, ends the report. This shows
total receipt in cash during the year Of
| $311, 974.O5. All reports are from May /,
! 1908, to May 1, 1909.
r. ]. williams, of Richmond, Va, pre-
! scented voluminous report for the for
| eign mission board as corresponding sec
rotary. This shows in part the follow
ing gifts from the various states during
| tfG year:
Alabama, s2s, s2911; Arkansas, SIP, 1927 %;
| District of Columbia, $5,0S1.15; Florida,
| IS. 664.27; Georgia, $6951416: Kentucky,
| $S7, so. "a; Louisiana. $5.5OO.56; Maryland,
| SO, 1864; Mississippi, $S1, 634.65; Missouri,
| (some to northern convention $26, 474.61 /;
North Carolina. $50, 1865 30: Oklahoma part
| to northern convention), 2970.67; South
| Carolina, $4O145.OS; Tennessee, $24. O32 6s;
Texas, $50, SO4.s6; Virginia, S5S, 1920; other
| sources. S5,3S0.4S.
Contributions from women in the south
to foreign missions totaled $96, 641.24 dur
| ing the year.
| In conclusion Mr.. Willingham said that
receipts were $5S.00O more than in 1908,
and more conversions and baptisms re-
/ corded than ever before.
The report deals with detailed efforts
from Baptist missionaries all over the
/ world. describing each town and mission
and the work going on therein.
Baltimore Next Meeting Place
Baltimore was this evening chosen by
! the Southern Baptists as the place for
holding their next annual convention.
| The convention will open May IA.
| The convention decided that It was in
| advisable to affiliate with the Home Mis-
sion Council of New York, made up OF
| the home boards Of other denominations.
It was decided that since Baptists had a
message that no one else would deliver,
| they could not tie themselves up with
! others who did not believe as they did.
HOME BOARDS WORK.
The work of the home board in the
cities in the evangelistic field, among the
! Indians and among the foreign popula-
ton, was considered, and speeches were
made by F. c. Mcconnell, of Kansas
1 T,{.,, ood n - G Wallace Of Ra1ti-