The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-18

Sunday School Board Is Opposed t'
Baraca and PhiIathea Glasses fOi
Young Men and Women, and Gives
It's Reasons.
HOUSTON, Texas.-Dr. Lansing
Burrows, of Americas, Ga, was re-
elected president of the Southern
Baptist convention here at its open
ing session. The election, which
came directly after the opening eAer-
cises was unanimous Vice-presl-
dents elected were all new to the Of
flee. They were: B. c. Henning,
Elizabeth City, N. c.. John Crump-
ton Hardy, Waco, Tex; J. L. Gross
Houston, Tex; P. C. Barton, Jones'
boro, Ark
The two secretaries of the conven-
ton were reelected. They were U.
F. Gregory, Baltimore, and H. G.
Moore, Raleigh, N. c.
Opposition to the worldwide move
ment known as the Baraca and PM
lathea classes for young men and
young women respectively was voiced
in the report of the Sunday school
board. These classes are interde-
nominational and are found in many
Baptist Sunday schools. The report
suggested that in place of them all
Baptist classes, regardless OF class
name, be dropped and affiliated in the
convention adult class department
with the motto, THE Bib'e and the
Church"
The report stated that the Baraca
and Philathea classes alone of all
class names in Sunday school work,
so far as we know, are tethered.
Sunday school work, so far as we
know, is tethered by copyright and
charter, as a means of control from
a central office and as a source of
business profit.
This is their stigma; once so hon
Ored and full of promise they are
now in danger of losing their pres
tige and even their usefulness. These
copyright names are giving much
trouble throughout the South, both
with our own people and with other
denominations.
Besides, literature is being sent
into the classes with these names in
Baptist churches which is thoroughly
Objectionable and contravenes all our
teachings, and tends to break away
from the life and service of our peO-
pie"
The report includes the following
financial showing:
n FyaAT t1n co IL
of periodicals 07,956, an increase
of $27,573 over The previous year.
The following institutions were
given money to assist their work;
Woman's missionary union, $500;
woman's training school, Louisville
$4,000; woman's training school
Fort Worth, $4,000; Judson Memo
rial fund, $1,000; foreign mission
board, $1,000 home mission board
$4,000; Sunday school work in diff
ferent states, $1,000; other denomi-
national work $1,814. Sale of peri
odicals has greatly increased in the
past year, one publication reaching
$4,000 copies per issue.
In the last twenty-four gears the
board has taken in from sale of peri
odicals $3,176,550 has on hand as
sets. of S559,719, and has given away
to UNCONVENTIONAL work $46.29
1850 New Organizations.
The report of Miss Kathleen Nal
lory, of Baltimore, corresponding
secretary of the woman's missionary
union, showed that during the past
year $3.50 new organizations of wo-
men had been formed, making total
of 10, 424 women societies now con-
nected with the union. The union
during the year distributed 240,7 05
leaflets and pamphlets on religious
work. A total membership of 3OO,-
600 was indicated.
The report states that successful
missionary societies are being main
tanned by the union among women
in foreign lands. In Shanghai, Chi
ma, 1877 young women of the Young
Women's Auxiliary of the Baptist
church have taken as their special