The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
COMMISSION HEAD NEW MODERATOR OF ! BAPTIST ASSEMBLY Dr. Barrett Presiding Off, ficer of Association in Ses-
 sion at Woodlawn WAR DEPARTMENT
 ORDER PROTESTED Howard Colleges Plans of Military Training Laid Before Associa-
 ton by Dr. Dawson, Act
 ing President

1 At it's eighty-fifth annual convention lheld in the West Woodlawn sBapust
 church yesterday, the Birmingham Sap
 tist association adopted resolutions protesting against the order recently issued by Third Assistant Secretary of
 War Keppel for the withdrawal of
 camp pastors from the army and the
 substitution therefor of chaplains un-
 der military regulations.
 The adoption of this resolution is in | line with the action taken by other de- lnominational bodies since the order was lpublished.
 | Dr. N A. Barrett was elected moder- ator and Rev M. M Wood secretary of
 the convention. The Birmingham asso- citation represents so churches and be- Itween 5000 and 10000 members.
 The first days session consisted of a number of very interesting addresses and discussions, including missionary Nvork, ministerial and denominational education, military training, war and | temperance.
 At noon the ladies of the West Wood lawn church served a bountiful lunch 1 con.
 DIR. JAMESON TO SPEAK l Dr. S. J. Jameson. formerly president
 of Mercer university, and now enlist
 ment secretary of the home mission board, was present at yesterdays ses-
 sion and today will deliver an address | on the work of the mission board. Work on the Mission Board in the Southern Baptist Church" was the sub- lject of an address yesterday by pr. w F. Marlborough, state secretary of the
 mission board of the Alabama Baptists 1 Following a report on ministerial and idenominational education Dr. J. c. Daw-
 son. acting president of Howard col | Ilege, made very interesting talk on
 Howard college and the work there, iduring the course of which he explained | the new departure which includes mili- | tary training for boys and their en- rollment in the military establishment 1 of the Uniteds States for boys attend l ing the college.
 | Rev. J. H. Chapman, recently elected | to the chair of homiletics and the Bible, outlined the work he expects to accomplish with the ministerial stu dents.
 pr. Frank Willis Barnett emphasized the fact that never before in the his. tory of the Baptists was denominational education so needed as the idea of de- mocracy is in the air and that the Baptists had great opportunity to stress the value of religious liberty, which is very dear to them. HOWARD'S POSSIBILITIES Dr. H. H. Hibbs, pastor of Ruhama Baptist church, spoke of the financial necessity of arranging a comprehen- I sive plan to make Howard college not 1 only a great denominational school. but Ito branch out along technological lines because of it's location in this great | industrial center.
 1 A large number of visitors attended
 the convention and about half dozen
 new pastors were introduced to the members of the association by Dr. | Frank Willis Barnett.
 :, The report of the committee on tenn perance, read by Chairman Davis of the committee, was adopted without discussion.
 I The final session of the association