Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-15

DO THEIR OWN WORK
Don't Favor Sunday School
Classes Mixing With 9th
en- Denominations.

HOUSTON, May 1.-THE Southern
Baptist convention in session here to-
DAY gave evidence probably more than
at any recent session that southern
Baptists, as represented 10y their dele
gates, oppose joining with the
churches )f other faiths in the various
phases of Christian work.
The principal features If the day
probably we're expressions Of opinion
for and against this, the announce
ment that Baptsts Of the south would
ondeavUr 10 raise i total of Sl,065,-
so for foreign and home missions and
adoption of a recommendation that
hereafter no salared officers Of any
boards of the church shall ue mem
hers of these boards. The latter ac-
tion, which necessltdted change in
the conventions constitution prevents
corresponding secretaries Of the home
mission board, the foreign mission
board and the Sunday school board
from holdm :, after this convention
their present positions as members of
the board rs wen as secretaries
Oppose Inter-MiNing
opposition to members Of tho south
Crn Baptist churches joining IN church
a
lers of other churches already mad de
ycloped when the committee on sun
day school work announced its opposi-
ten to the worldwide Baraca and
Philathea classes, found i'm many Rap
tIst Sunday schools These ,rganiZa-
tons are nterdenominatioual This
report was set for consideration sat
urday.
Today the Woman's Missionary
union, an auxiliary to the convention,
went on record as opposed TO organ
ization Of Young Women's Christian
Association branches in Baptist
schools, urging instead that branches
OF the Young Wumdn's Auxiliary.
Baptist society be fostered 10y the
churches
The convention late today after
lengthy discussion referred to q com
mittee for a report at the next annual
session that part of the report of the
committee on foreign mission board
which recommended that southern
Baptsts appropriate annually $1,000
| toward maintaining an iuterdcnomi-
national school in Shanghai, China,
for children of missionaries. The
school already has been started by
other evangelical denominations,
which sought to have the southern
( Baptist convention and in its support
and encourage its missionaries IN
China to send their children to school
in common with the children Of mis-
sionaries Of other evangelical faiths
May Mean Fight.
At the same time there were not
few speakers who advocated Bap-
/ lists working in common with repre-
sentatives of other evangelical faiths
! nd OF
they might oppose the recOmmenda-
/ tions i'm regard to the Baraca and
| Philathea movement.
The Woman's Missionary union
adopted its resolutions opposing the
college branches of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association after the
Rev. DR.. j. w. PortU of Lexington,
Ky. had addressed them. What we
want to do" said Dr.. Porter in the
course of his address, is TO gather
/ the young together in our schools and
to train them in Baptist work"
The union also adopted resolutions
outlining it's work for the coming fis-
cal year and providing among other
things for raising $4,000 to enlarge
the Woman's Mission union training
school at Louisville, Ky The final
/ date for the collection Of the sum
was set as May, 1917. 1t also was
announced that the total value, es-
timated, Of property held by the un-
ion was slightly more than $127,000.
The Night Session.
Tonight the convention devoted its
time principally to inspirational work
in connection with foreign missions.
The question OF adopting the report
on the foreign mission board, other
than that part relating to the school
for missionaries children. went over,