The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-12
BAPT|STS GO TO
WEST THIS YEAR
Southern Convention Meats In
Oklahoma City Next
Wednesday.
ATTENDANCE WILL BE LARGE
Celebration of Judson Centennial
on Program-Chief In
terests OF Church,
Especial to Tho rlmes-Dlspotoh.1

Especial to Tho Times Dlspatch.I
| Oklahoma City. Okla. May 1.-THE
Southern Baptist Convention swings
| West this year to Oklahoma City. Last
! year the body met in Jacksonville. |
| Fla Southern Baptist hosts will gath |
| or in this new Western city on Wed |
| nesday, May 10. The pastor of the |
church where the convention will hold
| its sessions is Rev. Carter Helm Jones'
| u d., Nirglnian, born in Nelson |
county Just 100 years have Ameri-
| can Baptists been working for the |
worlds cvanSelization in Il we'll or |
Sahized way. ~ century ago n meg
sage came from India that gave Amer
lean Baptists unity OF organization |
| that they had never had before This |
| qulckeninS message was from Adon- |
| IRAN Judson. Ho had gone forth from
! this country. the first American mls-
sionary, to heather lands, q member |
| OF the Congregational Church, and II
sent out by this denomination. On the |
long voyage careful study of the
| Now Testament led him to adopt Bap-
list views. and soon after his arriva,
in Calcutta he was baptized. Then
camo his message to the Baptlsts in |
I his native land. What was finally
known as the Triennial Convention was
! organized. Until 1s45 all the Bapt!sts
| IN this country affiliated with this
.
tion Of slavery. Southern Baptists left
/ the mother convention and organized !
I In Augusta, Ga. the Southern Baptist
! Convention. Whatever may be said |
= about the feelings that may have re-
suited from the slavery question In a |
/ half century or more ago, to-day per-
feet fellowship and good will exists
| between Northern and Southern Bap-
| lists, and they would doubtless come |
together in one body but for the fact !
that their numbers make two organi-
cations more effective. This year at |
Oklahoma City plans Will be adopted !
to celebrate In becoming way the !
, Judson centennial. y committee to |
suggest such plans was appointed last i
! year.
/ Four Chief Intcrests.
! While many collateral matters and II
| questions will be considered by the
convention a Oklahoma City, the en-
phasis will fall on tho work being
done along four lines. These four
avenues of Christian effort are sug-
gcsted to the minds of Southern Bap- |
lists by naming these four cities-Rich- |
mond, Atlanta, Ga; Nashville. Tenn.
an Louisville, Ky. In the first of these
| cities the Foreign Mission Board is
} located, in the second the Home Mis- |
sion Board. in the third tho Sunday
School Board, and in the fourth the |
! southern Baptist Theological Scmin-
airy. These titles suggest the scope OF |
| the mission work being done by the
| 100000 white Baptlsts of the South
| crn States. The foreign board has I'M
der it's appointment over 500 workers,
in the several fields OF Brazil. ArGen-
| tina. Mexico. Italy, Africa, China and
Japan Last year the gifts 10 this |
work ran up to over $4,000 Ten
years ago the amount raised for this !
/ object was only Il littlo over $21s,5oo. |
] oh
wonderful growth. The Home Mission
+ Board works among tho foreign popu-
lation In the West. has a department.
OF evangelization and another forl
church building. and looks after edu- |,
cation work in what is known as the |
mountain section. This board. last
year. reported contributions to its,
work amounting to over s406, 900. The
Sunday School Board, located at Nash
Vile, takes no collections vet from
| the profit on its publications, is able
| to do no inconsiderable work along
the lines of colporteu- and Sunday
school effort The income Of this board
Louisville Seminary had last session
S12 students. Its holdings of property
and endowment sum up over s1,S22. 600 |
Basis of Representation.
Just how largs the attendance this |
year az Oklahoma City will be Is some
WHAT uncertain. Whllo the number OF !
delegates going from the Atlantic
States Will probably be small. on ac- |
count OF the great distance. Texas, OF |
! course. and other nearby States will ba |
fully represented. However, the at |
tendance last year at Jacksonville was |
a surprise, being larger than had been
expected. The number of delegates at |
Jacksonville was 1853. How many WIS.,
itors were present cannot be accu-
rately known. Last year Virginia was
entitled 10 3Is. but had present only
tifty-three. Last year Texas was en-
titled to 4o7,> but only seventy-one
We're present The possible attendance
last year was 3.S52
The basis OF representation in tho
convention is twofold-fnancial and
what might be called numerical For
every $3.50 paid into tho treasures OF |
the two boards during the convention |
year delegate may be appointed
/ Each district association in the bounds
| OF the convention has tho right to APP
point one delegate. Notwithstanding
the fact that FREQ entertainment in tho
convention city was given UP some
years ago, tho attendance upon the ses-