The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-04-12

high and holy and good, and he hop
ed the session would prove that the
welcome had not been misplaced. He
believed Newberry was to out-Herod
Herod and would go beyond the Ba-
raca motto and prove that one could
not be stranger in Newberry even
once. In speaking of that to which
the delegates had not been welcomea
he thanked God that they had not
been welcomed to a State or a coun'
ty or a town dispensary.
"We have come here and We arc
yours" he said. "Fidelity to God
is service to man, '-if We worship
Him we may worship Him possibly
apart from man, but if We serve him
We must serve man-and that was the
aim and purpose of the Baraca-Pail.
atheas, he said. Let that be the
motto of the convention fidelity
to God is service to man. and le'
each 60 horne resolved that he o.
she would be more faithful to God BY
being Of more service to man. IL
hoped that while the delegates were
receiving a great deal from Newberry
that Newberry would also receive d
great deal from them.
Marshal A. Hudson, National Pres.
ident.
President Gentry introduced Mar
shal A. Hudson, national iresiden!
of the Baracas. Mr.. Gentry said
that about 20 years ago a plain but
successful business man in New York
conceived the idea which resulted III
the formation of the first Baraca
class, and those who had knowledge
of the movement must believe that
it was a divine inspiration.
Mr.. Hudson was enthusiastically
received.
He brought greetings Of half mil
lion members of Baraca and Philathea
classes, and said the prospects Of a
million men were never so bright-a
million men and women for Christ.
"What has God done-what has he
wrought, out Of the sixteen or eigh-
teen men whom We gathered together
that Sunday in the old church and
formed the first Baraca class?' Why
should God chose him to lead a class
with a million men, or give him a
vision of a million men studying the
Bible? One day a 7. NJ. c. A. secre-
tary laid his hand on his shoulder and
told him there were 10000 men IN
Syracuse who were not in the church.
If there were only Is people in the
city who didn't know where his place
of business was, he said, he would
have sent them an invitation to come
down to his place of business. Then
was when he saw the vision, and when
God told one to do something He
wanted that one to do'it, and not go
hunt somebody else.
All Americans were trying odo big
things. Combination was the rule,
and he believed God wanted his peo-
pie to do big things. A million men
studying the Bible-he was willing to
put his life with that thing. But
sone things which We consider small
were big in Gods sight. Mere man
might have considered the organiza-
tion of the first Baraea class which
the speaker had organized a small
thing. But evidently it was the
will of God, with results which had
been achieved and with still greater
results which could be achieved.
He spoke of his efforts in the Or
ganization of the first Bible class,
starting with eighteen members, to
some of whom agreed to attend if the
class was held in the rear Of the
church 50 they might slip out if any
thing happened. The class was open
ed with prayer, and was sustained by
prayer. A name was needed, and a
name was chosen and it was taken
from 2 CBron. O:26, where was spok-
en- Of the Valley of Happiness, or the
Valley Of Baraca. And then plat
form was chosen and it was writ
ten by a high school boy, and the
speaker said he was firmly eonvinc-
ed that it was as much inspired as
were the gospels 'young men at
work for young men, all standing by
the Bible and the Bible school," and
the motto of the Philatheeas was as
equally expressive young women
at work for young women, all stand
ing by the Bible and the Bible
school," He said the union stood by