Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-22
Large Gathering Hears Sec
retary at Clarendon
Yesterday
URGES CHURCH WORK
Makes No Reference, Even Remotely
to Subject of preparedness" by
United States.

Reading and discussion OF lmpor
+,n+ reports covering Church actiNi
+;os and progress during the last year
the adoption of resolutions in tn'
ao,+h of Booker T. Washington, pay
ing splendid tribute to the great ne
GRO educator; discussion OF the won
derful town of Hopewell and the op'
portunity presented to the Churef
tbere and the raising of almost 81
900 by collection to clear the aeo' o.
tho Clarendon Church, were the out
standing features OF the closing ses
sion of the Baptist General Associa
ton of Virginia, at Clarendon Alex
andria county, last week.
Tbe following officers were elected
President Westwood Hutchinson :
DISTINGUISHED layman and banker O.
Manassas. :.
First e-President-W. S. jenkins
second Vice-President = Lloyd 1
Wilson.
Third Vice-Presidcnt-R. S. Bar
hour. w.,
Fourth vice-Prcsident-N. II. vii
liams.
secretary-Hugh C. Smith.
Assistant Secretar?-H. T. Eilyson
Treasurer. A. Jacobs.
Auditor-E. M. Long.
= r TayIor EGyson, read an nencoriag.
;ne report of $3.50 received an'
spent for the partial support OF 1
younp men in preparatory anc
collegiate schools.
The BAPTIST have in their theologl'
cal seminaries 1,47b students, ana /
colleges and secondary schools ",oe'
other young men preparing to enter
the seminarics.
Report of Treasurer B. a. Jacobs
for the year ending November l. W
balance on. hand last report, S3,o6o.
0s: State missions. $47,o0o,6S; Sun
,Iay school, $6.379.si; education board
s5.210.35; foreign mission, "$SI,9i2
70. home missions, s45,sl2.95; minis
ters' relief. $5,97O,9O; orphanage, $"4,
ooe ne. educational commission, 81.
1880; Iudson fund, $4,000; Crane
total, s25s,771.14.
No session of the association wa
held Yesterday fore noon. DR.. ,Ed"ll
s. Blackwell. of Norfolk, preached a
IL. o'clock. in. the Baptist, Church
where the association is meeting
About 100 of the visiting minister
filed pulpits OF the various denon,lna
tions in Washington, Baltimore Alex
andria and Northern Virginia.
Judge Nicol, of Alexandra; u. h
Rucker, of Clarendon land DR.. ). "
Cammack, of Richfond, at the reques
of the association secured an automo
h;le and went to Washington at
o'clock to escort Secretary Josephu
Daniels, of the Navy, to the churef
where he was to address the assocla
tion at 3 O'Clock. Secretary Damei
was accompanied by his wife. he wa
introduced by DR.. II. W. Battle,
Charlottesville, who had known MI
Daniels intimately fortwenty years
Standing room was at premium l
the church, while the address was de
,;vered. Contrary to the expectation
Of some. the Secretary of the Nav
did not refer even remotely TO III
subject of preparedness" His appe'
was to men to interest themselve
for their own sake, and the sake {
the cause, in the work of the churcl
Secretary Daniels said that !
found great pleasure in greeting tF
representatives of the l7O,O0o Bal
fists of Virginia, He had lived in tn
midst of the militant hosts Of Mort
Carolina Baptists. who number 25o
600. He humorously remarked that /
understood that the Macedonian CT
often went up in Virginia to the Mort
Carolina preachers, "come over al
help us" This had gone on to sue
m extent that perhaps third of tt
Baptist preachers in the safe hs
come across the line from Mort
Carolina. It was also prove nthst ha
III. college prssiasnts in Virgin
Carolina. II was also proven that IA