The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1911-09-16

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 14.-Showing
gross receipts of $751; for the
fiscal year ending August 81, 1911, and
at the same time reporting SOC, $50 let
tiers written to the various Baptist
Sunday-sehools throughout the United
States, Rev. R. h. Boyd, Secretary of
National Baptist Publishing Board, of
Nashville, Tenn, concluded his two
splendid reports this afternoon before
the National Baptist Convention in
session in this city. DR.. Boyd declared
in his remarks before this Convention,
which is reputed to be the largest or
ganized religious body in the world,
that unless his people exercised more
self-dependence, which win make them
a progressive and indutrious people,
and help teach their posterity that ga
wen man needs no erutehes,'' they
were not going to make as rapid
strides in the future as they had in the
past. He spoke particularly from a de-
nominational point of view, as, he said
he represented the future churches
among two and one half million Negro
Baptists.
It was the sixteenth annual report
of the Home Mission Board of this
Convention, of which Rev. ]. P. Robin
son, d. D., of Little Rock, Ark, is
chairman, and the fifteenth report of
the National Baptist Publishing Board,
located at Nashville, Tenn, of which
Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., is chairman.
Dr.. Boyd fills the secretary-ship of
both Boards. These two positions he
has held with credit to the denomina-
tion and to the race since 1896. The
reports as presented by Secretary Boyd
were in pamphlet form and consisted
Of ninety-six printed pages. 1t re-
viewed the work Of the Publishing
Board from its beginning in Nashville,
Tenn, in the winter OF December,
1896, when without dollar from this
Convention DR.. Boyd began to demon
strate what the Negro Baptists, as well
as the race, could do if they would
cultivate self-dependenee. His reports
show that up to the close Of August,
1911, he has mailed out during the
past twelve months nine million
eighty-five thousand one hundred six
ty-One periodicals and requisites writ
ten, arranged, compiled, edited and
sent out from the National Baptist
Publishing Board an increase OF nine
teen thousand seven hundred and
seventy-one over 1910. It was inter
esting to watch the trend Of his re-
port showing how, step by step, year
after year, the institution under his
management had gone along in the
face Of much opposition within the de-
nomination, as well as the keen com
petition, which naturally opposes from
without, yet he reports an increase Of
business over last year. The report was
received with enthusiasm BY the dele
gates to the Convention, and again DR..
Boyd was proclaimed by his denomi
nation as their Moses Of modern
times.
This report also contains ''The sto-
~ Of the sunday-sehOOl Congress, -
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Mss, IN which thousands Of Sunday
school workers were represented. In
the work Of sunday-schools, Dr.. Boyd
said that this sunday-sebool Congress
had proven to Be = potsEs factor In
helping IN modern sunday-seheOl work
and methods BE stated that the on
ganized sunday.scboOl class novsment,
saeh as the Metoka ana the Galeds
CLASSES, together with the Nationsl