The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-20
BAPTIST HOLD
MEETING | TO-DAY.
otf,cers Selected at session Of the
Keokuk Association This Morn
ins-c Committees
Appointed.
GROWTH DURING YEAR
Local Church Has Added s2s New
Members While Other District
Churches Report
Increase.


loving officers were selected:
Rev. j. B. Cash, Fort Madison, mod
orator.
Rev. J. P. Nelson, Pennington, clerk.
Rev. F. G. Ottowa. Fort Madison.
treasurer
The meetings today were held in
tile First Baptist church and were
we'll attended by delegates from towns
in the district.
Delegates are here from Fort Madi-
son, HillsborO, Bonaparte, Pennington
Mount Zion, Harrisburg, Charleston
and Denmark.
The session this morning opened
with devotionals led by Rev. Cash Of
Fort Madison, following which officers
were elected and the church letters
read.
According to these letters, the
churches of the district have had a
substantial increase in membership in
the last year. The Keokuk church let
ter showed that a total of 32S new
members had been added to the
church here since the last convention.
The report Of the associational mis-
sionary committee was then present
ed and at 11:45 O'Clock Rev. j. F.
Sanders spoke on "Bible Reading and
Christian Stewardship The morn
ing session closed with the appoint
ment OF committees.
Dine at Y. w. G. A.
Dinner was served to the visiting
delegates this noon at the Y. w. G.
A. During the convention they will
take both dinner and supper at that
place. The visitors will be the guests
of local church members at night.
This afternoon the meeting opened
with devotions at 200 o'clock. The
papers included 1.-THE Five Year Pro-
gram" delivered by DR.. S. =. Wilcox
and The Religious Newspaper. My
Part and Yours" by Editor R. R. Sad
Ter. The general discussion OF the
afternoon was led by Frank Watts.
Consideration was given the new Iowa
provided by, Mr.. and !. Mrs. Edward
Laubersheimer. The afternoon closed
with the reports Of committees.
This evening there will be two adj
dresses, by Rev. p. H. Peterson and
Dr. ]. W. Bailey The former Will talk
on why Do Not Baptists Sprinkle
Their Children The song service
will be led by the Keokuk choir
Sermon Last Night.
The convention opened last night
and will extend through Thursday ev-
ening. The service last night was
opened by Rev. F. B. McAllister. The
annual sermon was delivered by Rev.
Cash of Fort Madison. Its title was
Go Forward and 1t was taken from
Exodus. 14:15. "Why criest thou unto
me? Speak unto my people that they
go forward" Rev. Cash said In part:
"The demand Of the age Is go for
ward We must advance. Let this
be the keynote OF this entire sermon.
Get picture of the setting of this
lesson. A company Of Israelites, I'M
til that very day, had been slaves.
They are encampej by the Red sea
with strong army Of trained Egyp-
tan soldiers in the rear. Advance
and retreat, from q human standpoint
Is impossible.
The Israelites begin to murmur.
Then as now we like to place the
blame for anything that goes wrong.
on some on else.
But Moses faith was firm. He be-
leved in Gods promise. He said
Stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord This was his mistake for
the Lord said, Speak unto My people
that they go forward
This seemed impossible, but the
command was to go forward to the sea-
side, and they did it, trusting God for
the rest.
The application from this illustra-
ton is this: Meet difficulties, over
come obstacles, trust His promise and
40 not fear to attempt even what
seems impossible.
The falling churches in our asso-
cation. the cause in Iowa, the great
nve year program OF which we will
near more. the new college, the local
problems In each community and
church, are apt illustrations OF the
lorbidding outlook and direct COM
mand of our lesson.
In His name, by His help, and
with all the strength He gives us, we
must go forward"
Visiting Delegates.
The following delegates from out Of
town had registered this morning