The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-14
BAPTIST TO RAISE
MILLION and HALF
Project Campaign for This
Year on Broader
Lines
HOLD NEXT SESSION
IN FLORIDA CITY
Will Meet in jacksonville and DR..
Gardner to Preach Sermon.
Boards Make Fine
Reports.

ESPECIAL to The Richmond yirgtnian-)
BALTIMORE. MD. May 1.-THE
NEXT session OF the Southern Baptist
convention. now holding a great
meeting here. win be held In Jack
sonville. Fla, June II, 1910. Rev.
Or. C.. s. Gardner. formerly pastor
al the Grace Street Baptist church.
Richmond. but now professor In the
southern Theological Seminary.
louisville, KY. win preach the SER
mon.
This mornings session Of the body
was given up to foreign missions
Various reports were read and ad-
dresses were delivered by T. H. Ell
lett. ESQ. Rev. r. b. Ray. ]. l. Hart
and Or. wiilinxham. At noon the
famous preacher, DR.. +. B. Meyer.
addressed the body.
At the close OF the foreign mission
meeting DIR. wtllingham announced
that a friend had offered to pay the
outfit expenses, and the first year
salaries OF ten new missionaries pro-
yided the convention would send out
twenty others. DIR. WiilinEham ask
I'D for churches and individuals to
subscribe $1,000 each In addition to
their ordinary subscriptions. to send
these new missionaries out. In very
little while $4,000 In subscriptions
was secured. II was done with ut
most ease
This afternoon the Educational So
ciety held its meeting. with President
r. w. BoatwTfght a. enc Of the speak
ers The Convention 10 moving on
schedule time and 1t Is very likely
viii conclude its work on time. IL ID
beyond doubt one OF the greatest ana
most enthusiastic sessions ever held.
BY resolution adopted Friday the body
,sfarts out to raise in their convention
year S60e. euo for foreign missions.
5000. 600 for home missions and $780,
GOO for church building fund. The
ROOd women report the nseetinks Oh
their Missionary Union as the very
best ever held
HONS Missisn Work.
Friday night was gwen TO a mass
meeting In the interests Of home mis-
eione4 The report was read by rev.
nv. Haymore. OF Kentucky. and great
addresses we're delivered By Rev. J.
W. Porter, of Lexington, KY. Rev. q.
wv. Mcdaniel. OF Richmond and DIR. Is.
ID. Gray. secretary OF the board. DR..
Graz, by yay OF illustrating the rapid
changes In population that are going
on, asked all in the great audience who
we're now living away from their native
states to rise to their feet II was
estimated that fonr-fifths rose.
Friday noon n company or dele
rates from Florida were driving in
Druid Hill Park. when the horses ran
away. severely injuring several OF
them--One so badly as to necessitate
the amputation of her foot.
The following Richmond preachers
arc appointed to fili Baltimore puipits
sunday. DIR. Mcdaniel. Rev. w. /.
Han. Or. w, r. L. Smith. DIR. Ryfand
Knight. Dr.. w. C. James. Or. r. J.
Wiliingham. Dr. J. T. Watts and DIR,
u. n. Ramsey.
Mr.. Shakespeare Speaks.
This convention will be remember
ca, In all probability. In the years to
come ~ that during which Mr.
Shakespeare, OF England. spoke. Not
that II has been at all lacking in many
elements OF permanent human inter
aot, but rather that this address. with
IL graphic story Of Baptist struggles
and triumphs. particularly In Eu-
srcpe. made 30 deep an impression. was
10 natural. no yivacious. 90 thrilling al
times, that the memory of 1t will
never die with those who heard It.
Al its close an offering was taken 20
b. used to pay the expenses OF the
Continental Baptist preachers to the
N0fid.a Haptiat ConKreas.- which La to
sOf 1911. Mr.. Shakespcare's visit to
this country was particularly In this
Interest, and also to show TO our
American Baptists what the Bantist
Worlds Alliance, which Is a standing
committee. representing the Worlds
Congress. ad interim. was accomplish
lng. He gave instances OF how the