The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-04-05
GREAT BAPTIST EDUCATIONAL RALLY
Twenty-Five Dollars The Goa-0her States Similar Cam
paign Enlightened Ministry.

Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars will
be raised by the Negro Baptists of
Tennessee in am Educational cam
paign. This campaign will open inn
mediately after the meeting Of the
Baptist Executive Board that has
been called by President ]. l.. Hard
ing, of the Baptist State Convention.
This money, according to president
Harding's statement, will be augment
ed by amounts to be raised by organ
izations of various states. The wom
en- of Texas, under Mrs. M. A. B.
Fuller, have campaign on for Ten
i Thousand Dollars, while the workers
in Kentucky Alabama, Florida and
other states have similar campaigns.
It was learned here this week,
through leading Baptists, tina all of
these efforts financially, will go to
relieve the obligations of the Educa-
! tional Board of the Convention, in
paying for the site known as Bosco-
bel College. President Harding was
very optimistic and felt that all Bap-
lists of the state will join in this
effort. 81 do not feel that the sum
of Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars is
what shoupld be asked for at this
time, hut as Baptists we do not ask
for more than what is wanted-we
could just as easily ask for Twenty
! Thousand Dollars, but Twenty-Five
Hundred Dollars is enough for the
Baptists" declared the president who
also sent out the following state
ment to his workers throughout the
state: The Missionary Baptist State
Convention of Tennessee is going on
record to put into the National Bap-
fist Theological and Training Semi
nary, several thousand dollars in the
very near future. The GAINESVILLE
Normal College will also be literally
: supported an enlightned con-
gregation we must have an enlighten-
ed ministry, Sunday school superin-
tendents and teachers, B. Y. P. U.
presidents and Missionary workers
for Home and Foreign fields. Even
now, the Home demand is greater
than the supply of preachers and train
: ed workers. 1t is alarming to see
, the vacant fields and hear the Mace
donian cries, with no response, say
, ing. "Hear am l, send me-"
: God inspired the work, but the
. church must prepare the inspired
: ones for service Every Baptist mar
: and woman should rise to the digni
I ty of the occasion, and save the Bap
q lists of Tennesree from the stigmf
n of ignorance and lethargy, put upo1
us by our materialistic incorporation
brethren who succeeded in incor
| operating the Negro Baptist denomi
nation. Tennessee in PARTICULAR
out Of Roger Williams University
not of management only, but of more
than that, out of legal equity, ant
the same brethren have attempted
to incorporate the entire Baptist de
nomination out of all the propert!
held by the various Boards, and arr
now suing for their management
Their trick worked very we'll in Ten
nes,ee-they did not have to SUI
for the management because the,
/ made such a mess of the money w
4 gave to help buy Roger Williams, W
H Just let them have the whole thlne
l at leart what there was of it. Unles
H we help build and maintain our Thee
j logical feminary, We will always b
REGARDED as a lot of ignorant an
non-progressive Baptists. The Stat
Executive Board will meet on Frida
ttfbre the fourth Sunday i'm thi
month, April 26, 1918, at the lot
q Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. A. "
u Porter, pastor, at which time tn
u great Theological Seminary and Ed
~ cational drive will be launched
10 think and pray, and decide what par
# you, as an individual, will take. an
"a what part you will try to tnfluenc
4. Others to take Brothers and sister'
n let us pray and work.
q. J. L. HARDING, President,
Il Missionary Baptist State Conventio
~ of Tennessee,