Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-30
DETROIT GETS
NEXT MEETING
OFTHE EBAPT|STS
Choice Unanimous, Though
Denver Made Bid for the
4 Convention; Workers Ad~
dress Meeting.

Des Moines, May 29.-DetrOit was
unanimously awarded the next annual
Northern Baptist convention at the
closing session of the Baptists here
today.
Denver was the only city considered
on the floor of the convention. The
committee reported in favor OF Detroit
when the proposition that the 1913
gathering 20 to the Colorado City was
made by resolution.
The resolution failed to gain any
large amount of support and the
choice of Detroit was made unani'
nous. The 1913 convention will open
the third Wednesday in May.
Frank L. Miner of Des Moines was
today chosen treasurer of the North
ern Baptist convention.
The Duty Of Missionaries.
"Jesus Christ Is not going to play
the oratorio of the redemption on a
drum and fife, but on the combined
instruments of the combined orchestra
of the east and of the west," said the
Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin of New York
in addressing the Northern Baptist
convention in session here today. In
speaking on foreign missions he de-
clared that it was the duty OF mis-
sionaries to prepare the field for the
service. "True religion must rejuve-
nate itself with every generation.
have no sympathy for the sentiment
of simply applauding the work which
has been done. We should carry out
the work of those who have gone be-
FORE" he concluded.
Several minor business matters
were taken up at today's session
which Is the closing session of the
convention.
Young Missionaries on Platform.
Twenty young men and women,
newly appointed foreign missio
lof the Baptist church, stood on the
platform and told why they were go.
ing to the fields where there is call
for Christian workers. Every one OF
them are college graduates.
Five Of the young women are
fiancees of the young men who are go.
ing into the business Of soul winning
in far countries Two Of these young
women were present and stood on the
platform with the men with whom
they have promised to share burdens
and honors alike for life, and unhesi-
tatingly told of their determination to
go to make the homes for the men
who loved them and who were going
into the foreign mission service
There were several young married
couples who together decided to leave
the work here and go into the foreign
work, and these young wives unhesi-
tatingly renounced the comforts Of
the homes they might have had in the
land Of their birth to go with the men
they have chosen for life partners and
as they all said, make Christian
homes for these men,"
One father, old only in the service
Of the denomination. threw his arm
over the shoulders Of his son, who is
going for his first term of service, and
proudly told how the entire family is
in the foreign service In three lands.
Delegates rose to their feet and
saluted the new flag of China. which
was waved from the platform by Mrs.
A. F. Groesbeck, wife of one OF the
missionaries to the new republic OF
the far east. The flag was little silk
emblem of stripes of red, yellow, blue,
white and black. AS Mrs. Groesbeck
held it aloft, some one suggested a
salute. The assemblage rose to their
feet and waving handkerchiefs and
hats paid homage to the new banner.
Mission Society Elects Officers.
Rev. Carter Helm Jones of Okla
homa City, Okla, was elected presi-
dent of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission society Other officers elected
were: First vice president, l. W. Car
penter, Omaha; second vice president,
Andrew MacLeish. Chicago. third vice
president, Rev. w. B. Hinson, Port
land, Ore; recording secretary, Geo.
B. Huntington, Newton Center, Mass;
foreign secretary, Rev, J. H. Franklin.
Colorado Springs; Home secretary,
Rev. Fred P. Haggard, Boston; treas
urer, Ernest S. N. Butler, Botson.