The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
BAPTIST BOARDS WROUGHT TOGETHER UNDER NEW PLAN Creation of Executive COm- mittee Recommended to
 Southern Convention MEMBER FROM EACH
 STATE IS PLANNED Nashville Will Be Headquarters and at Least Two Meetings
 Year Are to Be

l " S>0SueiVe committee IS to be created
 by the Southern Baptist convention to as- sure cooperation among the three
 boards of the convention, if the recom-
 mendation made by the convention's s special committee is adopted. | consolidation of the three boards had
 been proposed, but after investigation the
 special committee on the subject has made the following report. which will he read with interest by Baptists all over the south
 1 The committee appointed at the meet Ing of the Southern Baptist convention at Asheville, N. C.. last May to consider the question of the consolidation of the three boards of the convention have given extended thought and work in the prem ises and 12 members of the committee out of IS have agreed upon the vital matter to be contained in the report of the com mittee which will be submitted to the con- vention at it's next annual meeting in New | Orleans in May, 1917 The report of the committee in substance will be as fol- lows, it being understood that the details will be worked out later:
 The committee recommends to the con- vention the creation of an executive com mittee to be elected annually. whose na- ture, functions and duties shall be as fol- lows:
 T. Function. To be as it's name inn plies, standing executive committee of the convention to act for the body as may be ordered during the interval between the annual session; to be medium of contact and cooperation between the boards of the convention, the various state boards, and other denominational agencies as they may be related to the work of the convention; to hold toward the three boards of the convention, es- pecial arq,e two mission boards, an exec utive re ne in needdo 9ferning the co-ordina ton of Veryth presenting of rae,71aS rpph'S sndBERS BROS, Druggistsoo ooeh oe nitely outline ppiansr rhioAorS lr Vaiies' iehil presentation of the worl.
 as to prevent overlapping anoe disordered
 REPRESENT CONvENasess S of of the he
 '"To be the official representative on for convention in the interium of meetings in regard to such matters as vitally concern the body in it's relation to other bodies of Christians, such as temperance and other reforms, cooperation, etc. To pre- 
 of it's actions for information and to re- ceive instructions. it being clearly under stood that the executive committee can- not commit the convention to any course or policy without specific instructions by the body itself.
 '2. Membership. The president of the convention and one of the secretaries shall be ex-officio members of the execu- tive committee and respectively chairman and secretary of the committee.
 Besides, the president and one of the secretaries of the convention the eXecu- tive committee shall be composed of one member from each state cooperating with the convention in the promotion of the objects fostered by the convention. Each state convention state assembly. CO operating with the convention may be re- quested to nominate one member of the executive committee, but in case no nomi nation is made by such state convention or assembly then this convention shall se- feet the member from the state failing to nominate. No officer or member of any Of the boards of the convention shall be elig ible to membership on the executive com mittee, but the secretary of each board shall be expected to attend the meetings of the executive committee to give coun- sel or information concerning the work of such board
 '.3. Quorum A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the trans action of business. But in case major- ity shall not be present at the meeting and as many as five members are present. these may consider any pressing business and their findings be regarded as tenta- tive awaiting the action of the quorum of the committee.
 NASHVILLE HEADQUARTERS
 A. Location. The committee shall have it's headquarters at Nashville, Tenn, in the building of the Sunday school board. The Sunday school board shall be in structed to provide an office, with suita- ble equipment, for the work of the com mittee and for the care of it's files, min utes, papers. and other archives of the convention
 "5. Meetings. The committee shall hold two stated meetings during the year: one in the winter, say December or January, after the state conventions, and the other a day previous to the annual session of the convention, at the place of it's meet ing. Other meetings may be called, if necessary, by the chairman, upon confer ence with five other members or at their request Meetings shall be ordinarily held at the headquarters of the commit tee, but may be held elsewhere if the committee shall so order for special req sons.
 '6 Expenses. Travelling expenses and entertainment of the members of the committee at the stated meeting in the winter, or for called meetings, shall be