The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-05-11
The Baptist Ministers AL
lance.

Held its regular session in the chapel
of the Publishing House, Monday
morning May I: 1917. Rev. c. H. Clark,
D. D., presided.
The meeting was called to order AT
11:2O am. by the President, and the
following ministers responded to the
roll call: Rev. c. Fl. Clark, d. D., Pas
tor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church; Rev
]. c. Harding Pastor, Newhope Bap
fists, Rev. j. c. Fields, B. A., Pastor
Pleasant Green Baptist Church; Rev
H. A. Alfred, Pastor Mt. NebO Baptist
Church Rev. E. w. Hawthorne, Pastor
Lily of the Valley Fifth Avenue Bap-
tist Church; Rev. II. NJ. Burns, Pastor
Tabernacle Baptist Church. Rev. G. B
Taylor. Pastor Second Baptist Church;
Rev. Jno. B. Ridley, Pastor HopeWeli
Bartst Church: Rev. D. a. Weaklev
Rev. J. T. Tunstull, Pastor ~ 9th St
Baptist Church: Rev. Samuel S Cum
by, Pastor FIRST Baptist Church Column
bia, Tenn, Rev. |. Davis, Pastor ~
lebanon Bart'st Church, Rev. j. L.
Harding, Pastor Third Avenue Bap'
t'st Church; Rev. J. A. Brown, Pastor
" Zion baptist Church; Rev. w. s.
Ellington, Pastor First Baptist Church
f. Nashville; Rev. A. w. Porter, Pas
tor 10Th Avenue Baptist Church; Rev
w. J. Baugus, Pastor Bass Street
Baptist Church. Rev. c. c. Roland, Pas
tor Rolling Mills Hill Baptist Church
and Rev. Henry Roland. Rev. Fuller
Rev. Lewis and Rev. R. II. Boyd to
gether with many others whose names
that | cant recall now.
The meeting was interesting from
the beginning to the close. The diff
ferent reports showed much progress
among the churches of the city, and OF
the cont guous vioin'ties. The plans
for taking care of the coming messen
gers to attend the National Baptist
Sunday School Congress tunincorpo
ratedD which will convene In this city
on the morning of June 18th, 1917 The
committees of the ministers alliance
are hard at work on the matter OF
giving to this citv and TO the visitors
that may come here from afar. the
best entertainment that has ever beer
given to a baptist gathering.
The ministers reDorts further snow
cd that seven rantist churches OF the
city baptized at the same time dowr
at the wharf on the Cumberland RIVER
where the Bap'ists and thousands CT
the citizens Of the city were presen'
to witness the solemn rights Of ban
tism as ordered by Our Lord and ga
yiour Jesus Christ. The number O
persons baptised were between seven
ty-five and one hundred. Much discus
sion arose over the question of mi
legality of a pastor Of a Dart'st churcl
haptizing the candidates of bapt's
church over which he had no mims'e
rial relation, neither others from TN
church in question by vote to do 81
II was AGREED uncn by common ccN'
se~t, that the bartist church can ont
order bartism by srme one CT IN
members of its own fold. or the N'"ts
ter thot serves the church who ma
been elected by the nastor. The mee'
ing is looking after every phase CT TN
religious and business relations O
the Baptists in the city tra' zee Ter
resented in this body. One thousand o
more dollars we're taken by the w
ious BAPTIST churches of the city rel
resented in this todv in their regula
service on last Sunday.
Respectfully submitted.
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Rev. c. H. Clark, d. d., Pastel
Rev. ]. L. Harding. B. d.. Set
lE. w. Hawthorne, Reporter.