The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-07-06
OUR WORK
BY R. B. Porter of Little Rock, Ark.

was of a constructive nature, a meet
ing out of which the real unbiased
seekers for truth and information as
to the status of the Sunday school
work and how best to get the great
est result in doing this work, they
could be informed.
Another opportunity that the meet
ing afforded was that every delegate
from the thirty odd states represent
ed had an opportunity to visit and to
go over and through the property that
is owned by the Baptists of the coun-
try held in trust by Board of Di-
rectors, about which there has been
one continuous war for the last two
years. l say that these delegates had
an opportunity to find out the stand
ing, the record and all else concern.
ing this property about which there
has been so much confusion. In fact,
the Baptists who are real DESTROYS of
knowing the truth for themselves,
and who have been misled by false
representation that did not go to
Nashville to attend the Congress that
afforded them such an excellent OPP
portunity to be properly informed re-
lative to the standing of this property
and the work that the Publishing
Board is doing should not complain
any more about the condition of af.
fairs, for when persons have an op-
pOrtunity to find truth for themselves
and fail to grasp 1t and continue to
complain about something into which
they have had an opportunity to look,
to the writer's way Of thinking they
are infamous hypocrites and down
right sinners.
DR.. R. H. Boyd, whose brain con.
ceived the Sunday School Congress
idea, will be held in high esteem in
the memory of Baptists yet unborn,
for the Sunday School Congress idea
Is an advanced idea. It ia but the
result Of studious mind and fertile
brain. Dr. G. II. Clark needs special
commentator for his ability to know
the future of we'll thought out plan
and the agreeable disposition which
he possesses to cooperate with such
a plan that means so much to the de.
nomination and race.
DR.. Henry Allen Boyd, who has no
equal in his class and day among the
Negro Baptists of America, covered
himself with glory in the way he,
with the cooperation of the other
great pastors of Nashville, received
and handled that numerous host of
Sunday school workers. He demon
strated to the Negro Baptist denomi-
nation in particular and the Negro
race in general the greatness of his
character. 1t proves that the Negro
Baptist Sunday school workers Of
America need not give themselves
any uneasiness when their interest is
left to DR.. Henry Allen Boyd. All
of the Baptists of the Progressive
conventions of Arkansas join the
writer in congratulating those who
are responsible for such a great gath
ering and peaceful meeting in Nash
vile few days ago. q
Now a word to the ministry. At
last the long-looked-for, hoped-for and
prayed-for object for which We have
been working and giving for the last
eighteen years is now a visible OBJ
ject, and an established fact. refer
to the National Baptist Theological
Seminary. 1t does not make any diff
ference who may say it is not, tell
you the truth, and nothing else but
the truth when / say it is. "A plot of
land has been purchased in Nashville,
Tenn, between five and seven acres
with buildings, the capacity of which
will amount to 65 rooms we'll lighted,
we'll heated, sanitary conditions most
excellent, only three blocks from one
Of the best car lines in the city of
Nashville by the National Baptist
Convention, unincorporated, during
the writer's brief stay in that city a
few days ago. The only thing that
is needed now to develop this propo-
sition into real seminary is an ef-
ficient faculty and student body, then
the saying can go without hesitancy
that indeed and In truth that we have
at last a school to point the young
men in the ministry to where they
might prepare themselves for future
usefulness.
At the meeting of the National Bap-
fist Convention that will hold its ses-
sion at Atlanta, Ca, September of
this year, arrangements doubtless