St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-11-26
bAP fists MEET
IN NEW ORLEANS
Grunewald Hall the Scene
Of Immense Gathering.

New Orleans, La, Nov. 22.-The
sixty-second annual Louisiana Bap-
fist Convention adjourned at 1
o'clock in the First Baptist Church,
the final session of the convention
lasting four hours. During the morn
ing the reports Of the obituary, tenn
perance and woman's work commit
tees were read and adopted and the
work Of the resolutions committee
completed.
After the report of the temperance
committee had been adopted DR.. s..
A. Smith, who for some two years
was the superintendent of the Louisi-
ana Antisaloon League, announced
! that he would again assume the
superintendency of the league in
Louisiana. For the last eighteen
months he has maintained headquar-
tiers at Little Rock, Ark, where he
did great work in raising funds
for the Southern Baptist Seminary
at Louisville, Ky. He was loath to
give up this work, and had it not
been for the strong report of the
convention relative to temperance he
probably would not have again as
sumed leadership in Louisiana.
II am deeply moved by this report
on temperance" said DR.. Smith, land
Ii this convention adopts this report
| pledge you now that will take the
office to which the Louisiana Anti
saloon League has selected me-"
He said the work for prohibition
cannot be done in day, in a month
or in year, and that no positive
thing can be done for prohibition
until all the prohibition forces are
united
President Parsons called the con-
vention to order after short devo-
tional meeting, and DR.. Summey,
pastor Of the Third Presbyterian
Church, New Orleans, was introduce
ed. He made short address and
was accorded seat with the mes
sengers to the convention.
The report of the obituary COM
mittee made reference to Revs T. B.
Bush, M. o. Stribbling, j. F. Miles
and w. j. Page, Baptist pastors Who
died during the year, and also men
toned T. L. Gatlin, deacon in the
church, who was also member of
the board Of trustees of the Baptist
Female College at Keatchie.
1t was evident that all Of the
ministers and church workers who
had died during the year had not
been mentioned and the convention
decided to appoint the chairman of
this committee a year ahead Of the
convention. Rev. J. S. Campbell,
who for ten years was secretary of
the convention, was named as the
chairman of the committee for the
next convention.
The report of the Temperance
Committee was read by Rev. ]. Ben
jamin Lawrence, chairman The re-
port was an appeal for prohibition,
as being much broader than temper
ance.
Temperance is use by an indivd-
ual of all good things and the nonuse
Of bad things" was the definition
given temperance.
1t was held that a state cannot be
temperate as long as it in any man
ner condones the liquor traffic The
report said the question of prohibi-
tion appeals to the churches as the
most important movement of the age.
The report stood for absolute pro-
hibition and the unqualified indorse-
ment of the Louisiana Antisaloon
League.
In the discussion following the
reading of the report, DR.. Lawrence
said that it had been proven in New
Orleans that the saloon cannot be
regulated. He said that even with
the cooperation of the Protestant
Ministers Association, the city au-
thorities. including the mayor and
the Police Department heads, that
the Gay-Shattuck law cannot be en-
forced. In regard to this law, he
said it was probably the best lew in