Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-12-08
BAPTIST CONVENTION
Annual Sermon Will Be By
Pastor of GoIdsbOr0'S
Church.
The Convention Promises to Be OF the
Greatest Interest and Enthusiasm.
Have Made Greatest Gains
i'm DENOMINATIONS History.

The Annual State Convention of the
Baptist denomination is now assem-
bling in Wadesboro, where its delibera=
tions will be held this week, and the
convocation promises to be one OF
greatest interest and enthusiasm.
The past year has not only been
successful, but will show great gains
along all lines.
Missionaries have good reports to
bring to the body, the various depart
ments Of the UNCONVENTIONAL life have
prospered and the specific reports are
awaited with deep interest by the Bap-
tist hosts dwelling along the sea and
on the mountain summit and in the
intervening valleys and plains.
The opening meeting will be the
pastors conference. THIS feature has
been connected with the convention
only two years and is popular with the
pastors The questions discussed are
chosen by committee appointed last
year and the speakers are selected in
advance. Practical subjects to be
presented by men who are in a sense
specialists along that particular line
make the conference valuable to all
who attend.
The convention proper will open
with the annual sermon Tuesday
night The preacher of the sermon
will be Rev George T. Watkins, the
pastor of this city. Prof. ]. B. Carlyle,
~ WaLa Eorocf Co1looo who for the
past two years has presided over the
convention, will call the body to order
Immediately after the sermon and the
organization of the convention will
follow It is generally understood that
Professor Carlyle will decline re-elec-
ton as president, and if he does de-
cline, the selection of the man for the
honor will be interesting. The record
ing secretary, N. B. Broughton, of Raj
eigh, will be reelected and this will
be the twenty-seventh consecutive
year Of service for Mr.. Broughton in
the secretary's chair. AS an assistant
he will have Prof. G. E. Brewer, OF
Wake Forest College.
Several well-known convention
leaders will be missed in the sessions
at Wadesboro. Rev. DR.. William
Lunsford, formerly the eloquent pas
tor in the First Baptist Church al
Asheville, and Rev. DR.. Henry W
Eatt1e, who for years had made an I'M
press upon UNCONVENTIONAL work. are
among those who have left the Stat
during the year and whose presence
will be missed. Some OF the new pas
tors have come In and will be vel
coined with the well-known hospital
,ty of the Old North State. Among tht
men of national prominence who viii
, attend the convention will be Rev. B
II Dement,, D. D., Of the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary, Of Louis
VILE; Rev. r. J. Wi1lingham, D. D.
secretary of the foreign mission boart
of the Southern Baptist Convention
Rev. B. D. Gray, D. D., secretary of tn
home mission board Of the Southern
BAPTIST Convention; Rev. J. NJ. Frost
D. D., secretary of the Sunday Schoo
board of the Southern Baptist Con
yention; Rev. J. E. Love, D. D., assist
ant secretary Of the home mission
board of the Southern Baptist Conven
ton, and Rev. T. ]. Watts, secretary @
the young peoples work, and Rev.
J. VanNess,. editor of Sunday Schoo
literature of the Southern Baptist Con
vention.