Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-15
BIG CONVENTION
OPENS TOMORROW
DELEGATES WILL ATTEND BAP-
fist SESSIONS HERE.
COLLEGES TO REPORT
Some Of the Most Distinguished Bap-
fists in the Country to Attend
State Mission Work.

The Baptist State Convention OF
/ Arkansas will meet in annual session
here Thursday. 1t is expected that
! 1000 or more delegates and visitors
will attend The sessions begin Oh
Thursday morning and will continue
through the following Monday.
The First Baptist church and the
+, Ohio Street Baptist church of Pine
Bluff are making extensive arrange
ments for entertaining their Baptist
comrades. Rev. Carol d. Wood IS
chairman of the general committee OIL
entertainment, and has associated
with him L. c. Saunders, J. NJ. Shaw,
John w. Reap, Thomas Green and
Chas Hayeock as chairmen of SUBJ
! committees.
The railroads of the state have
granted an open rate of fare and
one-third for the round trip, tickets
to be on sale November IA, Is l6 and
| 10. In connection with the convention
there will be held Ministers and
Laymen's Institute, which begins its
sessions Tuesday night, the 14th, and
closes the next night; also the Wo-
mans Missionary Union of the state,
] which will be in session all day We'd
nesday.
The Baptist State Convention is not
law making body for the churches
of this denomination in the state, the
Baptist theory of church government
being that each church is competent
to legislate for itself upon the basis
Of the New Testament The coming
meeting, therefore, will be for pur-
poses OF fellowship, counsel and ms
pir ton. Such subjects as mission
work al home and broad, education,
temperance and church development
will have full and flee discussion.
The state mission work and the
educational work in Arkansas will
have the center of the platform. The
State Mission Board his appropriated
and spent between $4,000 and $4,000
in mission work in the state during
the past year, and just now there Is
lively campaign in all the churches
of the state 30 raise enough mone2
10 pay eff thu indebtedness on this
work.
Colleges to Make Report.
The two baptist COL leges OF Tie
state will IN Ike fine eQorts TO e
convention. There IN tie Ouachis "A
college at Afkadelphia. OF which Rev.
r. c. bowers is president. and the
: Central college AT conway. OF which
Prof. John W. Conger is the president.
Both institutions will show an in
creased enrolment over the past s,s-
sion. TER reports will be heard wth
uItasual interest On account of the
fact tn | both institutions opened in
September with new presidents and
the Baptists OF the state will be great
~ grat1:ied TO hear that both presi-
dents are making good.
The report OF the Baptist Educa-
tional Boara will show that during the
campaign OF the past ye subscrin-
tions amounting TO approximately
$4,000 We're raised with which IL
liquidate the Indebtedness resting un-
on the two colleges II is the plan
of the authorities aow to press the
educational work and to greatly
strengthen the two inst tutions.
The meeting at Pine Bluff will bring
a number OF the mast distinguished
Baptists of TIE country to the state.
Prominent smong these will be the
Rev George B. Eager, b. D.. professor
in the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. at Louisville. Ky; Rev. r
j. Williams ID. d, OF Richmond, Va.
secretary of the Foreign Mission
Board; Rev. J, F Love, d. d., assist
ant secretary of the Home Mission
Board. Dallas, Texas: Rev. !. j. Van