The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-12-13
STATE CONVENTION
0F BAPTIST CLOSES
1 SELECTING GREENSBORO
AS MEETING PLACE FOR
NEXT YEAR.
BAPTIST TEACHERS ONLY
Million Dollar Drive for Educational
Institutions Is ordered-Many
Splendid Addresses.

nurham.-The Baptist State Conven.
.ion here was one OF the most success
s,1 and most largely attended in it's
n;storv President J. A. Oates presid-
~ ovor the convention with his usual
ooso grace and placid influence.
The committee on place and preach
A. made it's report. Greensboro was
Oo1ected for the next meeting place Of
tho convention a year hence. Rev.
n Cav, of Durham, was selected to
nroach the annual sermon, and Rev. J.
y Harte, of oxford, the alternate.
The report was adopted.
The convention reached a great CHI
max with the historical address Of
Dr. W. ]. McGlothlin on "Angelicans
and Methodists."
The Sunday school work came into
the limelight. Prof. ]. H. Highsmfth,
n Raleigh, delivered an address on
"The Problems of the Modern Sunday
School" DR.. Hight c. Moore, formerly
editor of The Biblical Recorder and
now on the editorial staff Of the Bap-
fist Sunday School board, Of Nashville,
Tenn, presented the work and achieve
ments of that institution. W. G. Bar
rett of Gastonia, state member Of this
hoard, presided over the discussion.
The report of the board of missions
reveals the fact that Southern Baptists
are working in the following foreign
lands: Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chi
ma, Italy, Japan and Mexico. A total
of 1861, 97O.4S was raised last year for
this purpose, $47,923.56 of this amount
coming from North Carolina.
Leads the South.
The home mission board located In
Atlanta, doing work in the South, has
done wonderful work during the
past year, outranking all similar
boards in America in the tangible re-
ports of money collected and in
the matter of baptisns. The Sun
day school work in the state, which
is In charge Of Secretary Middleton,
Of Raleigh, showed substantial growth.
This state leads the entire south in
the matter of teacher training. There
are now in the state 2,151 Baptist Sun
day schools with a membership OF
1,151 Baptist Sunday schools with
1881. Ten years ago, there were
only 1873 schools with an enrolment
Of 1S9,467.
Ministerial relief plans in accord
ance with the general plan Of the
Southern Baptist convention was
adopted by the state convention. This
provides for the retirement OF Bap-
fist ministers at the age of So with an
annuity for the minister of his family.
Several million dollars will be raised,
and each state will be allotted a GER
tain sum in proportion to it's Baptist
strength
Following the report of the Baptist
seaside assembly, an effort was made
to incorporate in the motion to adopt
that report. an amendment that the
state convention go on record as fav-
orlng an appropriation for a program
at Ridgecrest.
Certain education occupied the
center of the stage at the morning
session. The report of the board OF
education shows that there are now
IN the Baptist high schools Of the state
L5Ol boys and 1858 girls. In the
three colleges, Wake Forest, Meredith
and Chowan, there are 532 men and
00O women. The total endowment for
tneSe three schools is $647,581,37. The
TOTAL property value is $1,138,0O6.
SpcrQf "
Sented the following pastors who have
come into the state since the last con-
Yentlon met: Revs. B. H. Harrf1l,
Aernersville; J. A Mclaughlin, Ruth
ellordton; Drs. Weston Bruner, Raj
elsn; J. W. Kincheloe, Rocky Mount;
w. F. Powell, Asheville; John A.
Wfay, Monroe, H. L. Swain, New Bern;
benjamin Sargee, Asheville; r. c.
campbell, Shelby; E. S. Pearce, Roam
oke Island.
with great enthusiasm, the coven-
uon committed itself to the movement
VI launching a campaign to raise a
"llAon dollars within the next four
years beginning January 1, for the
p'ptlst educational institutions Of the
state
1nls is considered the longest step
onward the denomination has taken
III many years.
Alter warm discussion, the reso-
.ution was finally passed with a quail
-ying amendment: This does not ap-
NY 10 teachers already employed or to
negotiations now pending.
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