The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-21
Strong Resolutions Adopted
Regarding Sale of
Ardent Spirits
APPEAL is MADE TO
VIRGINIA PEOPLE
Association Closes Great
Meeting In Norfolk.
Home Missions
Discussed
BY REV. r. II. PITT, D. D.

NORFOLK, VA. Nov. 20.--After a
series OF exceedingly busy and I'M
brokenly harmonious sessions. the
Baptist General Association Of Vir-
gtnia closed its eighty-eighth annual
session tonight and adjourned to
meet in Petersburg next November.
The features OF the closing session
were the fine and memorable ad-
dresses by Professor spenser Il. Nee
ser. u. D.. Of Grocer Seminary, Ches-
ter, Pa, and Rev. NJ. Ashby Jones,
y. D.. formerly Of Richmond, now of
Augusta, Ga. For several years past
1t has been the custom of the asso-
citation to BRING TO the meeting for
its closing session distinguished men
from beyond the State who are in
vited to deliver addresses on themes
of current theological, social or prac-
teal interest. The experiment has
been very successful, and the two ad-
dresses tonight We're fully up to the
high mark already set.
Memorial Meeting.
At the morning session various
matters were under consideration. DR..
Oliver +. Gregory. OF Staunton, read
a paper on systematic beneficence.
and Rev. j. r. Tucker made a state
ment in the interests OF the Bap-
tist Ministers Fraternal Association.
Then came the memorial meeting in
honor OF the beloved dead. The list
was unusually long and included the
names OF Drs. William II. Whitsitt,
James Il. Taylor and John Pollard,
who died in Richmond, and Revs
J. w. Martin, OF Amherst; George
II. Snead, OF Fluvanna. and r r.
Boston. OF Warrenton.
The report on temperance. pre-
pared by Rev. r. j. Dogan, was next
presented. Following is the report.
in part:
Throughout the civilized world, and
in a great portion OF paganism war
in some form, Is being waged agains,
the liquor trafY1c. Moral suasion 30
Presidents, crowned heads and other
rulers are warning their people
against the dangers Of intoxicating
liquor. States and governments ev-
erywhere are trying to solve the prob
lem by stricter regulation. while vas,
numbers Of people are moving for
the total abolition Of the traffic. The
struggle Is going on in several States
for the amendment of local and coun.
ty option laws. In many. of the States
local option movements have pro-
crossed to Statewide prohibitory cam
paignS. and In several Of our States
Statewide prohibition prevails, and
the battle in these States Is now for
the enforcement of the law and pro-
lection from the interstate imposi-
ton OF the liquor shipping .tratfic
The success or failure of any great
movement cannot be determined by
few months or years of shifting
warfare with incidental victories vi
defeats here and there.
Let those who are Inclined to be
discouraged by few defeats OF the
last twelve months get wider sur.
yey of the situation and take heart
Six years ago there were only three
prohibition States in the Union; now
there are eight. During this perio<
one State has temporarily turned
Observation-Disclosures While remem
I bering that Maine, after fighting tn,
liquor forces or the country. remain,
| dry By nearly eight hundred votes
| and that Texas was lost by very few
| thousand, let US remember that Texa
a few years ago went '1wet" by 100.
| 900 votes: that Oklahoma has en-
| phatically reindorsed her prohibition
| the county option car In Kentuck.
has rolled over that great center o
| distilleries- IN l
We must Essnsmher that this pro
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