The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-21


now believe that we are going to win
this fight"
% Ministers Cared For
The trustees charged with the duty
of caring for the aged and infirm
ministers made their report, stating
that during the year 2S ministers had
been paid $40 per month. The total
amount raised by this board was
$4342.74. This was one of the boards
which the committee on nominations
had tried To abolish
Judge II. IS. Foster has showed thai
since the board had been in existence,
1t being created four years ago, the
funds Tor, this cause had marvelously
Increased. So the convention decided
to retain the board and when the re-
port WAS made this afternoon by A
rising vote u resolution indorsing the
action of the board and it's conduct of
affairs and thanking Judge Foster it's
chairman, for his useful and skillful
work on 1t was passed.
The committee on orphanage, located
at Evergreen, reported that 139
orphans are being cared for and that
this was an increase of Al, or over
so per cent. since the last convention.
They are digging an artesian well at
the orphanage and have already in
stalled an electric light plant for light
ing. etc.
The health record at the orphanage
is splendid, not a child having died
in the home in over six years. During
the year 2S of the children joined the
church.
S133,000 Raised for Missions
The Rev. L. l.. Gwaltney presented
the report of the committee on CO.
operation This report shows that
there has been raised during the year
for state missions, $500; for home
missions, 36,400 for foreign missions,
$4S, 400, or a total of $123,300. This is
100000 more than was raised the year
before. He also emphasized that idea
which is in the mind of the conven-
t1on for more compact organization by
recommending that missionary and ed
ucational meetings be held in strategic
points and that the centers lend their
strong preachers to this work for at
least four Sundays in the year; and
further, that Pastors unions be or
ganized in all the associations
Memorials Read
M. NJ. Wood the secretary of the con-
vention, read beautiful through brief me-
MORALS of the Revs. M. A. Hoffman, J. j.
Bourtner. j. b. Sheldon, L. A. Smith, w.
V. Vice. G. W. Wilder, F. M. Woods and
George w. Duke, the preachers who had
died during the year The educational
commissioner reported that $200 had been
appropriated to the Headings Springs
academy and was Immediately available
and that $12,000 per year had been ap-
propriated for tn needs of maintaining
the institution.
The last thing on the programme for
the afternoons S session was the consdera-
ton of the Judson centennial. This is the
centennial year since Aeioniram Judson
left America to begin missionary opera
tions in India He was one of the most
successful missionaries the modern church
has had and Baptists rever his memory.
The southern Baptsts have decided this
year to raise 81, ,250.000 above their regular
gifts to missions in commemoration of
this event; $4,000 of this is to be used for
training native preachers, for the denomi-
nation believes that after all the various
countries must be saved by the preachers
of native sons; 100000 is to be used for
establishing publishing plants in foreign
lands, and $250,000 for schools, orphanages
and other work in mission territory.
w. Y. Quin Stanberry and G. W. Boul-
din made splendid talks.
An important work projected by the
committee ON Sunday scnols is the prepa-
ration of textbook for the 800 Sunday
schools helped by the board This book
is to be collaboration, and the various
work in connection with it was propor-
toned out this afternoon in the conven-
ton II. L. Strickland, the head of the
Sunday school work, is to be editor in
chief and associated with him are to be a
number of others on that part of the
book which deals with Sunday school
and Baptist Young Peoples union work.