Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-20
bAPIISIS FAVOR NEW ORLEANS FOR
 1917 CONTENTION Attempts to Complete $780, GOO Fund for Foreign
 Debt Deferred. MRS. JAMES HEADS
 MISSIONARY UNION Convention Establishes Board to Aid iR Cause of "EducatiOn in General and Christian Education in
 Particular"

ASheVllle, N. C., May l9.-New Orleans was selected today as the 1917 meeting place of the Southern Baptist convention by the committee which considered the invitations from cities in the South. The selec- tion of the committee was later given the approval of convention. Other cities which wanted the convention included Louisville, Kansas City, Hot Springs and Muskogee.
 The motion of M. H. Wolfe of Dallas, Tex, that the three boards of the cOnve ntion be consolidated, was sent back to the committee headed by Wolfe, and the committee was in, structed to make a complete report to the 1917 convention.
 The convention spent the entire day in a business session, defarring attempts to complete the $1S0,0OO fund started last night
 The woman's missionary union, however announced pledges and sub scriptions to the fund of approxi- mately $11,000.
 A more substantial system for mana cement of financial affairs in Southern Baptist churches was pro- posed in a resolution adopted which appointed a committee to work out church financial program and recom- mend it to the several churches. A permanent education board to aid in the cause of "education in general and Christian education in partlcu- lar" was established. The conven- tion voted to allow the commission not more than 5000 annually for ex- penses.
 War Halts Work.
 The report of the commission on a world conference on faith and order was then read. The commission stated the European war had brought the proposed movement to a stand still. It added that American Bap- ists are not yet ready to yield assets to the sacramental theories upon which prelacy would seem to rest as upon as essential foundation.
 "Division existing in large denoml- nations Of this country should be rec onciled among themselves and their separated groups reunited as a step toward the unity sought" the report added.
 The convention adopted the report of the commission on world confer ence on faith and order and voted to continue the commission another year. The commission consists of the Rev. pr. Lansing Burrows. presi- dent of the convention, and o. F. Gregory and H. c. Moore, secretaries Of the convention. Dr. Burrows also was reelected statistical secretary.
 The night session was devoted chiefly to devotional exercises.
 Mrs. James Heads Union.
 Mrs. w. c. James, of Richmond, Va., was elected president of the Woman's Missionary union late to- day. Mrs. James succeeds, the late Miss Fannie E. s. Heck of Raleigh, who, for fifteen years prior to her death, August 25, last, was president of the, union, an, auxiliary to the Southern fs Baptist convention. All ether officers of the upion were re- elected.
 Women Address Assemblage.
 For the first time in the history of the Southern Baptist convention, ac- cording to it's older members. a wo- man addressed the meeting tonight. She was Miss Katherine Mallory, cor responding secretary of the Woman's Missionary union. She spoke on be- half of th'd women's training school at Louisville and introduced Mrs. Maud Mcclure, who has charge. Mrs. Nc Clwe made a plea for Southern Bap- lists to raise $98,000 for new buildings there.
 The report of the committees, to which was referred the annual re- port of the Sunday school board, was adopted. The committee had recom- mended that the apportionment of the board for the coming year be $48O,0OO including the present debt of $72,oOO.
 No further action toward raising the remaining $9G,000, still left of the $1SO, ,0OO debt, of the foreign mission board, was taken. It was intimated that the matter probably will not be taken up again at the convention
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