The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-12
YOUNG PEOPLES
UNION GROWING
Report Of Executive Committee Of
Baptist Workers Shows Great Sue
cess Of Last Year.

The report Of executive committee Of
the Baptist Young Peoples Union for
past ycnr submitted 10 the Southern
Baptist convention today showed a
great growth In this work II was
submitted today 10y T. j Watts, cor
responding secretary. Kentucky GeOr
gla, Oklahoma, North Carolina and
Texas all have secretaries for push
ing this work Arkansas Alabama,
Florida. Illinois, luul-iuuu Mary land
Mississippi, Missouri South Carolina.
Tennessee aud Virginia are doing Is
Y. T. u. work lu connection with a
Sunday school secretary There are
now 3ilD u the lnpriat> Young pcO
pies Union with membership NJ
100 bA3 The growth uf the work IL
attributed iu the report 60 the hold
Ing ur conventions m different states.
some Of them having ns many ns three
during the lrur During the last year
training schools have been conducted
by workers In Richmond Atlanta.
Louisville, Macon Nashville. Chattn.
noogu and Memphis The report urged
the unions 10 increase their efforts TO
promote bible reading among mem
bers
Baptist lenders today Indicated that
among subjects which are expected ~
command much attention from the
convention viii be-:
Objections already voiced by several
leaders 10 International bnracca and
philn composed NJ young people
OF the evangelical churches aud which
some Baptist delegates claim are
breaking down deuunnationAl lines
Tending to district the attention ot
the Baptist Young People from their
church
The preparation to consolidate scv.
rral Of the boards Of the convention In
order to pcouuml2e
Plans for uidmg tine inner develop
ment of the rural Baptist churches
many Of which leaders indicated. are
hampered by hack Of funds
The movement for increasing the
foreign mission work aud extending
its scope
Following the organization this aft.
ernOon an election of officers for the
coming year win be held the usual
welcome addresses aud responses will
be made, and the convention will take
up as Its first business the report Of
the various committees and boards,
the most important NJ which are said
to be the foreign mission board the
home mission board and the Sunday
school board Dr Lansing Burrows
OF AmeriCus, Ga., president Uf the con
yentiOn will preside
The wUmHn's missionary union, an
auxiliary to the convention, opens It's
twenty seventh annual meeting this
morning with various committee meet
ings. The auxiliary organization will
be formally called 10 order late today
by Mrs. f. B Mathews of MBaltmOre,
vice president for Maryland Miss
Fannie +. $ Heck Of Raleigh, n. c.
president OF the union for Il number
Of years, seriously III and unable to at.
tend the present session This organ.
iEatiOn will elect officers May TO-
Various devotional services and spe.
clal meetings are planned for each day
Of the convention both by the cOnven.
ton and It's auxiliary union
OF the Baraca and Phllathea class.
es, many Of which are found IN Bap.
tist sunday schools, the report Of the
Sunday schOO board says
There are many class names aud
there Is no restriction ny TO choice and
class preference The barara and
philnthen alone Of all class names IN
Sunday school work, 80 far as we
know are tethered by copyright aud
\ charter ~ II means " control from
O central office and source Of busi
ness profit This Is their stigma
Once SO houOred aud full " promis,
they are now In danger N losing their
| prestige aud even their usefulness
| These copyright names ure giving
much trouble throughout the south
both with our own people ana with
other denominations.
Besides, literature Is being sent
into the classes with these numes Ia
Baptist CHURCHES which IL thoroughly
Objectionable, aud cuntmyenes all our