The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1915-11-17
BApTIsTs HOLD STATE CONVENTION.
SeVenty-Seventh Session Was Held at
Hattiesburg Last Week-At
Columbus Next Year.

The sc venty seventh session OF
the Mississippi Baptist State Con-
vention was held at HattIesburR
last week, November 10 IL. The
membership of this body is made
up Of representatives from local
churches in every section Of the
State, and Of fifty four District
Associations, representation based
in both upon numerical member
ship. About six hundred messen-
gers were registered, beside sever
al hundred visitors to the Clnven-
tion. The Hattlesburg Baptists,
and the community generally. re.
ceived messengers and visitors
graciously and extended the most
attentive hospitality.
The sessions of the Convention
were held in the First Baptist
Church, of which DIR. ] I. Cnris-
tian is pastor. Words Of welcome
were spoken by President Joe
Cook, for the Mayor of Hatties-
burg. and by DR. E E. Dudley,
of the Main Street Baptist Church,
for the Baptist churches of the
city
J. L. Johnson, president of the
Mississippi Woman's College. was
elected president of the Conven-
tion, A. 7. StuvalI, of Okalona.
and F. D. Solomon, of Meridian.
ce-presidents, and Walton E
Lee, of Como. Recording and Cor
responding Secretary.
The work of the Convention con-
sists in receiving reports from the
various interests fostered by the
denomination and discussing these
interests and planning for elicitinR
and directing the benevolent and
other general interests of the Bap-
lists in the State. Reports were
made on the LaymAn's Work, to
which Dr. j. I Henderson, Secre-
tary of the Laymen's Movement in
the Southern Baptist Convention.
spoke: on the foreign mission
work to which Dr's ]. I. Love and
e d Graves, representing the
Foreign Mission Board at Rich
mond. Va, spoke; on the home
mission work, to which DR.. B ID.
Gray, of. the Home Board of At
lanta, spoke; on the State Mission
work, with reports from the vari-
uus workers engaged by our State
Board; on Sunday Schools. Hospit.
ais, Woman's Work, Publications,
B. Y P. U etc.
Points Of special interest we're in
noting the fact that the State
Board receipts we're the largest.
amount IN its history for that
work. over $40 900 90; the creation
of a Publication Commission to
have supervisory powers over the
deDominational paper, and to de-
wise some plan OF cooperation and
support for the Baptist Record; in
the report of the Education Com
mission. showing nearly sixty
thousand dollars raised for the Wo-
mans College and the Clarke Col
leRe IN the past nine months; in
the subscriptions to the current ex-
pense fund of Clarke College to re-
Iieve the burden borne by the fac
ulty for some months. no member
of the faculty for the last session
and the present one, receiving over
forty dollars per month. including
the president: in the new interest
in the cause of Ministerial Educa'
tion, with good subscriptions from
the churches for these causes.
An entirely new interest was
that of the Southwestern Baptist
TheoI gical Seminary at Fort
Worth, Texas. Two Trustees from
the Convention, Rev. E. D. Solo
mon and Rev R. L Gillon, were
appointed. DR.. L r. Scar
borough represented the Fort
Worth Seminary. DR.. A. I. Gard
ner was present ie the interest of
the Louisville Seminary.
The. Convention meets next year
at Columbus. Martin Ball. of
Clarksdale, is appointed to preach
the Convention sermon; Webb
Brame, of Vicksburg, is the Alter
nate,
The Mississippi Baptist Minis
tiers Conference was 10 session en-
Tuesday preceding the meeting OF
the Convention.