Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-10-13
NO TROUBLE In VIRGINIA.


others, conditions now declared to be
existent in Georgia are not duplicated
In Virginia. Here any divine Is per.
mitted to affiliate with either of the
wings of the National Baptist Con
vention, without disturbing his stand
ing or relationship in the Baptist
family of tho Old Dominion The
wisdom of this may be seen by the
following statement, which appeared
in n recent issue of the Atlanta, Ga.
Baptist Of which the brainy B. J.
Davis is editor:
The four hundred and twenty
thousand Baptists in our State are
yes, drifting into Boyd and Morris
factions. Dr.. e. r. Carter, pastor
OF Friendship Baptist Church, is the
Boyd people, and there Is q fight to
shall be the most prominent leader
Of that faction.
Now, these brethren have a per-
feet right to differ among themselves
and choose whom they please TO fol.
low on all national questions; but
our State work should not be inter-
ferrod with, nor should our schools,
-Morehouse College, Americas III.
stitutc, Walker Baptist Institute and
Jeruel Academy-be made issues in
the strife.
The work Of tho General State
Baptist Convention should not be
burdened with national strife. Every
Baptist preacher. member, associa-
ton or organization in tho State
should be permitted to choose which
ever national branch, corporated or
unincorporated, 1t will serve; and
our schools should not be made to
suffer because Of personal ambition
and strife.
1t Is appalling to contemplate, as
you walk through the streets and see
advertisements Oh the doors OF thu
white churches pleading for men and
saved, while the chief topic among
the Baptist preachers OF our state is
strife, charges and counter-charges
all for personal gain, advertising
to the world, strife and dissension in
the body polite.
Those in charge OF tho schools
should remember that the schools
have friends on both sides; that the
Boydites love tho schools and sup
port them; that the Morrisites love
the schools and support them; that
the State work Is all Of our work, and
let the individual and denominations
al organizations choose for them
selves and let us lose neither sleep
nor love trying to convince the other
OF the righteousness or wrongfulness
of his cause.
This is free country where every
man is entitled to free and untram-
melled expression of his convictions,
and let us not fall out and hate one
another because We do not agree on
national issues.
Let us leave Boyd, Morris, tho
Publishing Board and everything else
out Of it, except the fostering OF our
State work, the supporting of our
schools and the taking care Of our
own local institutions.
This was the advice We gave the
brethren in this State at the start,
and the leaders, including that prince
of Baptist livines, Rev. w. T.. Ora
ham, D. d. took up the refrain, with
the result that we have united
Baptist brotherhood in this State and
no chickering's as to tho success of
either the one side or the other. More
money was raised at the Lynchburg
session Of the Virginia Baptist State
Convention than appears to have been
actually raised by both Of the Ma
tional Baptist Conventions combined.
In our opinion, the value of the
Boyd plant at Nashville, Tennessee,
operated by the National Baptist
Publishing Board has been greatly
overestimated. 1t has value with
the Boyds and it has little value
without the Boyds. If we had the
choice Of purchasing the plant and
purchasing the Boyds, we would be
willing to pay more money for the
Boyds than we would for the plant.
Yes, double, yea, treble, yea, qua
druple tho amount.
lLet Df. motifs ana Ills frlenuS pur-
chase a plant of their own and save
money. 1t will be better than throw
ing money away fighting the Boyds
of Nashville, Tennessee.
Benjamin J. Davis, Of Atlanta
Georgia and his coterie Of friends
seem to have outwitted the national
organization by securing State
charter, behind which they arc de-
flying their enemies. Money Is being
expended in that State and it Is un-
fortunate that q basis Of compro-
mise cannot be reached with this de-
fiant leader and his army Of devoted
followers.