The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-04-19
BV Or. r. II. BOYD. d. D.. IL. D.
CHAPTER w.

livers, and that there were no poor people
among us; that the secretary only had to
ask for five or ten thousand dollars and 1t
would be raised at any meeting. After tea
we shook hands with the brethren, and
the brethren from Empire and Pedro Mi
guel took the early evening or night train,
and we were ready for the night services.
At night we preached The house was
crowded as long as standing room could be
afforded, and a number of people were
turned away from the door. AS many as
could crowd in the gallery of the home
peeped in at the windows, and great
crowd stood out at the front door and looked
in. We are indeed sorry that the church
is so small, but there is hope. We have
a third lot that was decided to us for school
purposes, and it will be an easy matter to
rebuild and have the church occupy both
lots and build church large enough to &C
commodate the growing congregation. We
think that in a short time the Panama
church will become self-supporting, that is,
when they are trained to know their re-
Sponsibilities
After preaching services a committee OF
ladies called over at the preachers home,
which joins the church, and they, too, de-
manded to know something concerning the
future of the work These were agreea-
BILE sisters, very intelligent and well-ln-
formed. We were surprised to find that
these sisters had copies of our reports and
minutes of the National Baptist Conven-
ton and back copies of the Union and Union
Review. They asked us many questions
concerning the recommendation of the
president, the vote of the Convention and
MANY other things that surprised us. How
well they had been informed and kept in
formed concerning the work of the states!
We asked the sisters to excuse us from
making a full explanation, but we felt
called upon to give them enough explana-
ton to make them know that the National
Baptist Convention was firm in it's deter
mination to keep it's banner floating in Cen
trail America With this explanation, each
of the sisters gave us warm handshake
and said, "God be with you till we meet
again"
When this little conference was over, we
threw ourselves out full length on that big
iron bed in the front room of the preachers
home and we did not hold the watch but
Brother Thourbourne, who was compelled
to be up a little late attending to some do
nestle affairs, came to us and shook us and
told us that we were disturbing the COM
munity lying on our back the way we were
snoring. He Mrs Thourbourne and Mrs
Darlington stated that we were snoring in
less than two and a half minutes after
the sisters had said goodnight; but we
were sleeping a good sleep and felt happy,
and felt that the Lord was truly in that
land.
Monday morning, February goth, we
forgot to awake at our usual time. When
we awoke at half past six, we found our
coffee waiting us, and we made hasty
dash for the shower bath room, and here
we took on another shower bath, dressed
ourselves and had our coffee. About this
time, it was our pleasure for the first time
to meet Mr. w. H. Darlington, IL. B., one
Of the leading attorneys of the Zone. He
called early to have little interview con-
corning the lawsuit, and remained over and
took breakfast, he and Mr.. V. G. Desuge,
ILL., B., attorney-at-law. both of whom had
volunteered to take care of our interests
pending before the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court. We furnished him with
such documents concerning the work as we
could show up, giving a full history Of the
National Baptist Convention and its work
making both of them understand as we'll as
we could the organization of the National
Baptist Convention and the Southern Bap-
fist Convention. By this time it was fully
ten o'clock, and Mr.. Darlington informed
us that it was time for court to open, We
called carriage and had him rushed to the
court building at Ancon, which was about
eight blocks away. When we reached the
court room, we found the court in session.
Hon. H. A. Gudger, Chief Justice, presid.
ing. 1t was the last day of the term, and
the motion docket was before his Honor.
The third motion was the plea of ]. ]. Pin
mock and others versus R. H. Thourbourne
and others concerning the Pedro Miguel
National Baptist church property. The
lawyers split halves over points of law fol
while and discussed many legal points
Finally, Chief Justice Gudger said that he
would not confne himself to- strict lega
technicalities in this case that he would
set it as the last case on the docket for the
day, and that he would lay aside legal tech.
nicaIities and would hear the case "denovo:
He ordered the chief marshal to see to i
that all the officers and parties concerned