Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
NATIONAL PROHIBITION
ENDORSED BY BAPT|sTS
Southern Convention Goes on Record
Against Continuance Of
Liquor Traffic.
NOT QUESTION FOR STATES
Believes Dry Country Would See End
of Gambling Dens, Dcns OF Vice,
Sweatshops and Other Social Evils.
Annual Meeting Ends.


Recommendations that the various
States in which tho Southern Baptist
Convention is represented raise total
Of Sso5.72s for tho work Of the foreign
mission board, and s616.75O for tho
home mission board. and that the Fed
eral Constitution be amended to pro-
vide for national prohibition were chief
among the resolutions adopted at the
final session of the convention here
to-day.
or the sum asked for the home and
foreign boards. Texas was asked to
contribute more than any other State.
total of $4,000. and New Mexico
least Of ALL $500.
URGE CONGRESS TO MAKE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DRY
The resolutions urging national pro-
hibitton, which came under the head
OF the report of the committee on tenn
perance and social reform, also urged
congressional legislation to make the
District Of Columbia prohibition terri
tory. This report. which was adopted
after brief discussion. put the Southern
Baptist Convention on record as "un-
traffic. gambling dens. dens of vice.
child labor and the sweat shop" and
asserted that elimination Of tho liquor
traffic, which was declared TO be a ma
tional and not n State question, would
aid In Kidding the nation of the "other
evils mentioned In connection with the
liquor traffic.
Tho report OF the prohibition and
social reform committee stated that
the fiscal year June. 1915. showed "a
decrease in liquor manufactured. while
discussion Of the apportionmcnt report
brought plea that all Baptists leave
legacies in their wills for whatever
sum possible to aid the convention
work. Methodists and Presbyterians
leave more money to their church when
they die than do Baptists, according
to several speakers. one OF whom, the
Rev. ]. B. Gambrell, D. D., a retired
preacher OF Dallas, known to conven-
ton delegates as Uncle Gideon" told
the convention that "the Methodists
may be little Off in their ideas on
Jordan" referring to baptism, hut that
they do better for their church when
they die than do Baptists.
WANTS EVERY EFFORT MADE
TO RAISE REMAINDER OF FUND
The convention also urged that every
effort he made 10 raise the remaining
sum of approximately 100000 for the
foreign mission board debt, appointed
a committee to report next year on the
advisability of the convention cstab-
fishing in the Southwest n sanatorium
for care and treatment of tubercular
patients. and continued until another
year the committee appointed to work
nu nj fnr at iSh n ar nh jS
n negro theological seminary. The
latter committee reported that
"denominat!onal interruption" among
negro Baptists and the financial condi-
tons resulting from the European war
made it unwise to try TO establish the
seminary at present. II added that the
interruption" apparently was about
to be ended.
Other action taken before the con-
vention finally adjourned shortly after
1 o'clock included adoption of a reso-
tuition which declared ut is alarming
TO note tho frequency with which free
dom of speech and of press is to-day
being interfered with by mobs in our
cities and towns" and recommending
that police give protection to persons
seeking to express their sentiments
either in speeches or through the press.
The resolution added that lin this DON
nection Southern Baptists speak out in
no uncertain terms against mob vio-
lence by whomsoevcr and against
whomscever directed"
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE
MAKE ENCOURAGING REPORT
The annual report OF the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of the South
showed "a total membership Of 1901,