Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-17

ballot. The five other candidates for president withdrew and the con- vention directed the secretary to cast the entire vote of the body for Dr. Gambrell. Among the other candi- dates, Dr. s. P. Brooks, Austin, Tex, received 195 votes.
 pr. Gambrell immediately took the chair and will preside over the pres ent convention, which is to close May g. The delegates th3n directed the secretary to cast the full vote of the convention for Drs. Nell, Brooks Landrum and Henderson as the four vice presidents of the convention. All other former officers of the body were reelected.
 MT. BrownloW declared lawyers had held that the laws would not permit a convention incorporated in Georgia to project itself into other states, thru separate units or interpretations, as had been done. He moved as a sub stitute to the consolidation report, that the entire subject be referred to committee of seven lawyers, minis ters and business men, empowered to employ counsel if necessary. and to report to next years convention.
 Late tonight the convention referred the report and the motion to com mittee which is expected to report to- morrow.
 Foreign Mission Report.
 Notable progress was made during the past year by the Southern Bap- tist convention in it's work of carrying the gospel into foreign lands in spite of war conditions in two of them, Italy and Mexico. The report of the for eign mission board, presented to the convention today, shows there were |6,473 baptisms, an increase of two.
 The board maintains 458 churches abroad with a total membership o1 147,161. Sunday schools number 66e with an enrolment of 31,575 scholars Last year the number of self-support' ing churches increased from 95 to 115 Eighty two new out stations were op' ened with 500 students. The medica missionaries treated 29,368 more pa tients than the year before. Mission work abroad is being done by 3O7 missionaries and 6O9 native workers, seventeen medical mission aries, six trained nurses, twelve na tive physicians and "A native nurses The board has IS hospitals in which l4,234 patients were treated. Marked advance has been made 1T Brazil where money from the Judsor centennial fund enabled the board tt erect building for college and semi nary at Rio de Janeiro at cost o1 $45 1000 and to purchase 1-2 acres fol college and seminary at Pernambuct at a cost of $18,OO0. In Northern Brazil there are Al churches owning their buildings and in Southern Bra gil 25.
 More than 1000 copies of the Bibl' and the New Testament were distribu ted among the soldiers in the Italian army. Two missionaries in Japal have sold enough Bibles within thu last five years to make stack 75,OO' feet high.
 Home Mission Board. Nearly half million dollars - $476,O75 to be exact-was raised las year by the home mission board of thu Southern Baptist convention. Churches in the south contributet IpOOA,O4Os LAC OOPe@A SA1V1At V evangelism $34,100 was secured. Th' church extension department raise' $5S, ,891. In cash and contribution this department raised $156,000. A debt of $72,000 was reduced t. $36, ,838 by reason of the smallest ad ministrative expenses in the board history.
 The boards work added 60,2O2 ne, members to the church and had III volunteers for ministry and missio work.
 In the enlistment department wor was done in six states where 266 insti tutes were held. Eighty churches wer grouped into seventy pastoral field and 22 churches were led to increas the number of preaching services. Six l ty four pGstorless fields were served The sum raised in this department wa $58,524.
 In the mountain regions two ne, schools were opened. The cost of con