The log cabin Democrat., 1910-05-23
DESCRIBES WORK OF
 GREAT CONVENTION REV. J. J. HURT RETURNS
FROM SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION HELD AT
 BALTIMORE.

Rev. J. J. Hurt, pastor of the local. Baptist church, returned Saturday night from Baltimore, where he has been fer the past tan days attending the annual sessions of the Southern Baptist convention. He also attended several meetings of the Worlds Sun day School convention, now in session in Washington city. When asked this morning to tell the Log Cabin Democrat readers something about these two great meetings, he said
 "The Southern Baptist convention is the largest representative body of our Baptist people, but, according to our doctrines, this body makes no leg islation for the individual churches, our idea being that each local church is supreme in itself. Therefore, our conventions are inspirational and ad visory only. Reports were received from all departments of our work, and showed that during the past year Southern Baptists contributed for foreign missions $501 ,000; and for the mission work in destitute parts of the homeland $328,000. This is in ad- dition to amounts contributed by each state for mission work in its own bounds The Sunday School beard re- ported a business last year aggre- gating $25l 900, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, locat- ed at Louisville, Ky, reported 302 students, and about $4O0 900 added to the permanent endowment during the year.
 "fhere were ,G89 accredited mes sengers from the churches present at the Baltimore convention. besides about 5000 more visitors said MT. Hurt. In this number Arkansas had between 50 and 60 representatives Many of the Arkansans stopped over on the return trip in Washington City tc attend the Worlds Sunday School Convention, which closes there tomorrow.
 "The Southern Baptist convention, at it's recent session, recommended to the churches plans for greatly en- larging and strengthening the work at home and abroad These plans call for raising during the present year for foreion missions $600,000, and for home missions $400,000. Of these amounts Arkansas is asked to raise for foreign missions $16,400 and for lOIilG HllSSlOllS P1C,OOb. lue iGpiG- sentatives of Arkansas thought the amounts would be raised without diff fculty. The convention also advised the raising of $200000 more for per manent endowment fund of the Theo- 1 logical Seminary at Louisville, and cash collection was taken amounting to $24,000. A movement was started also looking to the raising of a church building loan fund of $500,- 000 It is expected that most of this will be provided during the next year or two.'
 1 Rev. Hurt presented the report rec ommending this fund, and also deliv- cred an address in support of it. The report was adopted unanimously, and already something like $100,000 is in sight, in conditional gifts.
 Two features of the convention were the seating of representatives of 1000 Baptists in Illinois and pro- vision for the publication by South ern Baptists of their own Sunday school lesson texts. The Illinois Bap- lists asked to join their southern brethren because of what they termed doctrinal "looseness" in Illinois and the north. They became dissatisfied with the Illinois Baptist convention because of what they believed to be the conventions attitude to Prof. Eos ter of the University of Chicago and