The broad ax., 1912-09-14

i CONVENTION DOING A GREAT
WORK ON HOME FIELDS, PANA-
Ma AND THE wEsT-GETs Re
LIEF-TEN. YEARS RECORD
SHOWN IN REPORT.
Houston, Texas, Sept. 9, 1912.
The Macedonian cry. "Come over
and help u.s." that was uttered hun
dreds of years ago has been heard by
the National Baptist Convention and
is being responded to by the Home
Mission Board. No greater proof of
this fact has been brought to light,
than the report of the Board made
through its Secretary, Rev. R. II.
Boyd, D. D., of Nashville, Tennessee.
In this report the Convention is given
credit for doing a mastery work.
Secretary Boyd, shows that the ban
ner of Emanuel has been established
in every cline and country where the
Stars and Stripes now float. He shows
that more than ffty-seven thousand
dollars have been expended in the
prosecution of mission work on what
the denomination calls "home fields"
within the past twelve months.
In the report he deals with the
Home Mission work as it affects the
National Baptist Convention. The
work is sub-divided under the pecul-
lar relation that the Home Mission
Board sustains to organized Baptist
work; the organization of the Home
Mission Board in 1895, Missionary CO.
operative plans of the Home Mission
Board, our work in the States and Ter
ritories in cooperation with the State
and Territorial Conventions, the COM
bined cooperative plans of doing gen.
eral missionary, Sunday-sehool and
colportage work generally, Bible Con-
ferenees and Theological Training, the
National Baptist Conventions Mission
airy work in the western states, the
work of the Field Secretary, our mis-
sionary work in other territories and
the Canal Zone and Panama work,
showing a complete and systematic
missionary plan of operation that has
taken in every phase of the work.
Ten years, from 1902 to 1911, of the
missionary operation are given in this
report. The tabulation shows that 467
missionaries have been employed in
that time, and that they have deliv-
cred s4,445 sermons and lectures; LASS
missionary Baptist Sunday-schools and
churches have been organized; 41,5Is
churches, associations and conventions
were visited by them and 1851 ,225
miles travelled with total expenditure
Of S3s5,51l.zi. Never in the history Of
the National Baptist Convention have
such splendid results been shown by
cooperation under the various mission
airy boards and the several state or
CARNATIONS.
The work of the Board, this fiscal
year, which closed August 31st, 1912,
as is found in the report, shows a
decided increase over the returns of
last year, notwithstanding the many
difficulties and obstacles that had to
be overcome.
The recommendation of the Home
Mission Board concerning the work in
the western part of the United States
with its inexhaustible field is taken
to mean that the Missionary Baptists
will not only branch out further in the
work they have been doing in Panama,
where they have 10000 worth of
property, three churches and three
parsonages and where they have been
so royalty treated, but that they will
penetrate the far west and sendN min
listers to the DakOtas, Wyoming and
other states where no organized Bap-
fist churches are being operated.
DR.. Boyd has been Secretary of the
Home Mission Board for sixteen years,
during which time, DR.. ]. P. Robinson,
A. NJ, D. D., Of Little Rock, Arkansas,
has been chairman. When the report
was made it was received with hearty
approval by the thousands of Baptists
who showed deep interest in the work.
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