Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-19
.BAPT|STS OPEN
THEIR CONVENTION
First Days Session Devoted
TO Election Of Officers
And Business.
NORTH CAROLINA RESPONDS
Millionaire Will Give Fortune to
CauSe-llfficial Roster Re.
Elected at the epenlng
Session.

Louisville, KY, May 13.-The busi-
Baptist convention, which opened at
First Regiment Armory tonight, was
the reelection of practically it's entir'
Official roster.
The officers include: Joshua Lever
ing of Baltimore, president; Lansing
Burrows, of Tennessee, and Oliver f
Gregory, of Virginia, secretaries,
George W. Norton, of Kentucky, aud
itoF.
The huge armory has been quarter
proportioned with canvas drop from
it's ceiling to the floor, in order to pro-
vide convention hall. In this space
were seated upwards of 5000 persons.
OF whom 5000 were delegates to the
it tonight.
After the election President E. Y.
Mullins, of the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, of Louisville, wei
coined the delegates in brief speech.
John e. White, of North Carolina,
responded to the welcome and the
Rev. E. c. Dargan, Of Macon, Ca,
preached the opening sermon.
After routine business the conven-
ton adjourned until tomorrow.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
adopted unanimously the report Of
the nominating committee, electing
the following officers:
w, w. Hamilton. of Lynchburg, Va,
president; w. B. Moorer, of Oklahoma
first ce-president; William Russell
Owen, of Baltimore, second vice-pres-
ident; r. H. Coleman, of Texas, third
vice-president; L. p. Leavell, of Mis-
sissippi, recording secretary; T. j..
Watts, of Kentucky, treasurer.
State yice-presidents at large in
clude r. Vandeyenter, of Georgia; c.
w. Duke. of Florida; II. b. Gambrell,
Of Maryland; w. G. Barrett, of North
Carolina, and n. B, Hale, of South
Carolina.
Tie Women's Missionary Union re
ported that during its twenty-on.
years of existence without the aid OF
one male creature" $1.s49,672.9s was
raised. The Union has 10000 mem
bers.
Joseph N. Shenstone, of Toronto
Ont, whose declaration last night that
he intended to devote his great for
tune to missionary work, stirred the
laymen, added another electric shock
at the meeting of the laymen today
when he said quietly:
II would be ashamed to be worth "a
Million"
The reports at the laymen's meeting
from the various states were of great
interest.
j. T. Henderson, of Bristol, Tenn,
speaking for Florida, said:
I'VE have interested seventeen state
officials in the work.,
]. II. Tyler and Joshua Levering, of
Maryland, reported:
I'VE have developed dollar and a
half Baptists and secured $4,000 in
the year.
]. L. White. of North Carolina: 1--WE
have awakened the spirit and will
1 IOlu GOul0lCuCC tAlS J..
| Mr.. Shenstone said that Canada was
now giving $500,060 a year for mis-
sions, and d. d. Mullins ended the re
Iinort with a general address concern
ling what the seminary has done fol
iaymen in the South.
The Southern Baptist Educationa
Society at final meeting elected thu
following officers:
/ R.. L. Patrick; of Marion, Ala, pres
4 iaent; G. NJ. Potea, of Greenville.
G., vice-president; W. r. Rivers, o
i Conway, Ark, secretary.
i Resolutions were adopted that tn
n society be made into an association a
q its 1910 meeting with delegates iron
church districts and from Baptist col
II leges.