The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-09-13
THE STAR OF
FIRST MAGNITUDE
Rev. r. H. BOydS Reports
Growth Of Work.
Publishing House of His Denomination
Enjoying Prosperity-Has Built a
Living Monument to Nashville
Great Baptist Host Cheer
Him to the Hlehest-Hls
Home People Proud of
Their Texas Hero.

Houston, Tex, September 12, 1912.
-Brlmful Of information concerning
the work of the Publishing House,
located at Nashville, Tenn, owned,
operated and controlled by Negro
Baptists, an infant in years but
tower of strength in the eyes of the
people, was the sixteenth annual re-
port of the Board operating this plant,
made by Rev. r. H. Boyd, D. D.,
the founder of the institution, the
| present secretary, treasurer and
manager, and Rev. G. H. Clark, D.
d., Nashville, Tenn, chairman. be-
fore the National Baptist Conven-
tlcn which is holding its thirty
sIcond annual session in this city.
Baptists from all over the world are
here making up one of the greatest
and most magnificent audiences as
sembled during the past years. The
report is in printed form and makes
a book of more than a hundred pages.
1t is replete with data, statistics and
recommendation on the publishing
work as 1t directly affects the Sun
day-school. Secretary Boyd has not
overlooked anything that would go
to make the Sunday-school of today
an institution to meet the demands
made upon it. Not in the recolIec-
tion of the oldest members of the
Convention has such a report of
progress, showing what a single de-
nomination among the Negroes cah
do in less than score of years, been
attempted. The printing house, bet
ter known as the National Baptist
Publishing Board, weathered the
hardships of the most severe winter
the South has known for a number
of years. 1t tided over the watery
and overflow spring which two COM
bined, it is estimated, compelled the
suspension Of twenty-five per cent.
of the Negro Baptist churches and
Sunday-schools south of the Mason
and Dixon line.
The report of the Publishing
Board pointed out that in the face
of these hardships and suspensions,
its growth continued. DR.. Boyd re-
ports that during the past year new
machinery, new publications, new
standards for higher literature and
several new departments were added
to the work. In other words, sub
stantial growth, in the way of these
additions, has been taken on Since
the Pittsburgh meeting. DR.. Boyd
declared that the rapid growth of the
denomination forced these improve
ments. The very fact that he CORE
spends and keeps in touch with
twenty odd thousand Sunday-schools
places him in a position to know
their wants. Interesting indeed were
the figures showing the enormous
correspondence carried on by him.
The report shows the correspondence
by quarters: 1st quarter, 64,710 let
ters; 2nd quarter, 5S,2S1 letters; 3rd
quarter, S2.206 letters; 4th quarter
G7026 letters. In other words, with.
in the past twelve months 27S,229
, letters have been mailed out from
Nashville Tenn, to the churches and
Sundayschools of the denomination
One of the new departments of the
. Board which has lifted the Sunday
0bhOOl WI n w q llblN llll DOl loli
place in the eyes of the people is the
p Sunday-School Congress, the direct
= outgrowth of the Sunday-school de
partment. The mammoth printing
plant in Nashville is looked upon by
the Negro Baptists and the race in
general as the lighthouse of theiI
denomination, the store-hOuse of in
formation to the Negro Baptists Of
the world, a star Of the first magni
tude to the race at large. The bust
ness and financial operations of the
Publishing Board as outlined in tht
report of the Secretary bring the
gross expenditures of the plant tC
,. within the quarter of a million mark
q Secretary Boyd shows that the hard
est year in the history of the plant
was experienced since the last an
nual meeting, and yet the eXpendi
lures by quarters show from Septem
;. Der to November 1911, $3O,277.95;
December to February, 1911-1912
=, $27314.72; March to May, 1912, $33,
/, S6459; June to August 81, 1912
= $33,945.01; missionary operations
S559OO1O; making total of $1S1,
4 1926.
When this report was submitted
and handed out to the representa-
J. tives of the two and half million
Negro Baptists assembled, it was q
surprise and the sensation of the
: Convention.
t No one will doubt that DR.. BOYD
d has reached the Negro through
a church periodicals and publications
q from the Publishing House in Nash
g vile as no other agency in the race
r has attempted to do. His direct
= supervision of the Sunday-schools
puts the institution in an enviablC
e position. In closing the report DR.
d Boyd dwelt upon the suspension o.
1 Sunday-schools and declared the dis
a continuation of many Of them die
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