The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-16
BAP lists CONVENE
IN OKLAHOMA CITY
Seventeen States Represented in
First Days Attend
ancc OF 048.
DR.. DARGAN is REELECTED
Virginia Again Leads All States
i'll Cause of Foreign
Missions.
DR.. DARGAN is REELECTED

Oklahoma City. May 1.-THE hf,y-
seventh annual Southern Baptist Con
Fentlon began this afternoon, with 3is
messengers from seventeen States in
attendance. Officers wtr. elected and
the reports Of the Sunday Schoo!
Foreign Missions were read. DR.. Ed
ward c. Dargan. of Macon. Ga. w-s
Unanimously reelected president
The convention was .or:nally opened
with the singing Of old time" hymns
and scriptural reading b. Rev t.
Buckner. ID. D.. OF Dallas, Texas. The
delegates were welcomed by DR.. Carter
II. Jones. the local pastor. President
w. Y. Lowry, OF Blu Mountain COL
lege. Miss. responded.
The report OF the Sunday school
Board was presented b. Rev John NJ.
Frost, OF Nashville. secretary o. the
board.
Tho board also announced the APP
pointment OF the following lesson com
mittee: Dr. Dargan. OF Georgia: Dr.
J. +. Green. OF North Carolina: DR. -
II, Dean, Of Kentucky; DR.. J. NJ Frost.
OF Tennessee; DR.. l. ]. Van Ness. Of
Tennessee. and DR.. J. r. sampey. o.:
Kentucky
Or. p. u. Gray. Of Atlanta. Rad the
report Of the board on home missions
II showed that during the year four
and ore-half times a much was given
70 home missions as ten years ago.
The board asks permission to purchase
property at Atlanta for permanent
headquarters.
The report Of the Foreign Mission
Board was presented by DR. r. J. VIII
bingham, OF Richmond, secretary o.
ths board
Four new ministers went out this
year the bonrd reported. five resigned
and four have died. In theological
sem!narles IN foreign fields 2i5 min
isterla! students arr enrolled. and 3I2
women ara In the training schools.
The board owns 9l2 house, OF wor-
ship. which are fast becoming self,
sustaining. and maintaining les preach
Ing stations. The necessity OF add!-
tlonal chapel buildings is pointed out.
In foreign fields there are III male
missionaries. Is! female. liz. ordained
natives and 4ss unorha,n4a native
helpers. The total contributions up to
MAY were s55o,iosI7. Contributions
from women totaled si5ssis.4i.
Eightythree cents o. each dollar con
tr!outed. II was shown. reached the
foreign field
Each Of the Sc; district associations
IS urged hereafter to elect its own
vicepresidcnt OF foreign missions. The
Baptist Theological Seminary report
The field secretaries concluded their
meeting today with the election O.
the following officers:
President. Rev. p W. Spillman. Kin
ston. y. C; Vice President. c. a.
Strickland. opelika. Ala. and Secre-
tary. Z. l. Middleton. OF North Caro-
lima.
Upon being reelected president OF
tho convention DIR. Dargan held aloft
the gavel that has been used for
forty years. It is made Of wood from
lc':lsalem and the Jordan. having
been presented by DR.. Jno. 4. Broadus
One OF the four vice presidents
elected was DR.. Carter Helm Jones
a banner on the wall shows that
once more Virginia leads all the 9TH
or States in the gifts to foreign mis-
alons. Georgia comes second. anc
Texas third.
Tonight the annual sermon wa
preached by DR.. Il. T. Cody. OF South
Carolina. His text was Lest the cross
of Christ should he made OF none ef-
feet His subject was The Call OF
the Cross"
All the delegates to tho convention