Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-19
Union Goes Over.


of $500, the money to be paid in the
next five years. This church which is
under the pastorate Of Rev. o. L. Jones,
has the distinction Of being the first
church in the York association to
raise its apportionment and state
Baptist workers who were present
said that SO, far as they. had informa-
ton the church was the first in the
state to come up to the apportionment
set by the s75,0OO,0O0 campaign, x
With a. E: Willis of Rock Hill,
presiding. the annual meet
ing of the association convened last
Wednesday morning. Rev. B. II.
Waugh of Yorkville acted as clerk.
The association was opened with de-
votional exercises conducted by Rev.
George NJ. Rogers of Lowryville. Mr..
w. G. Reynolds of Bowling Green.
spoke on Religious Literature" and
Miss Emma Dowell of Rock Hill, ad-
dressed the association on "Woman's
Work"
At the afternoon session Wednesday
devotional exercises were conducted by
Rev. T. II. Roach Of Rock Hill. Rev.
j. w. II. Dyches of Fort Mill spoke on
the subject of "the Sunday School,"
]. H. Dlckard on "Public Morals" and
Rev. d. b. Goines made the obituary
report. the record showing that num-
ber of well known laymen of the
church had died during the past year.
Thursdays Proceedings. fs
The meeting of the association yes
terday morning was opened with.
prayer service conducted by Rev. j.
c. Lawson. Practically all of the ad-
dresses Of the day were given over
to an explanation of the plan of the
Baptist denomination to raise s75,0G0,-
900 for various church purposes and
the need of this money in the promo
tion of the Kingdom Of Jesus Christ.
Rev. b. III. Waugh, OF Yorkville, read
q report on the great needs of funds
for missions, bencvolence and educa-
tion and outlined the plan of campaign
in York county and South Carolina.
South Cardinals share in the s75,000,-
900 drive, he said is s5,500,000. This
amount is prorated among the various
objects as follows: Foreign missions,
s1,400,000; home missions, 100000;
state missions, s525.00O; Christian
education. o.oOO; ministerial edu-
cation, 100000; orphanase, s425.ooO;
lief, 100000. This is q bigger task
than we have, ever before undertaken"
said the report read by Mr.. Waugh.
at calls for. larger> planning, more
thorough cooperation and fuller con-
secrationI than we have ever known.
We urge every Baptist man, woman
and child to enter into the spirit of
the movement and do their best to
make it q great success for the glory
of our Christ"
Rev. DR.. C. z. Burts, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Columbia, de-
livered an interesting and powerful
address in the interest of the. cam
paign. He told his Baptist audience
that It was not only their duty to raise
this sum for the cause Of the church
fromJa religious standpoint but that
it was worth while from a commercial
standpoint, because through the dis
semination of education and Christian
religion all people are being and will
be thrown closer together and tho
commercial trade of the world will be
constantly increased. His was an ad-
dress filed with interesting incident
and anecdote by way Of illustration
of his thought and he drove home to
his hearers that it was the dvty of
every Christian man and woman to
promote the Kingdom to the full ex-
tent of their means and power.
At the afternoon session Rev.fO. L.
Jones. who is county organizer for the
campaign and Rev. Waugh, the county
publicity director, outlined the plan
of campaign. 1t is the plan to have
special services at each of the churches
in the association, at which times the
plan Of campaign for raising the res
pective apportionments will be ex-
planned in detail. Mr.. Jones's churches
have released him from his pastoral
duties for such q period of time as may
be necessary to devote to the work of
raising York countys apportionment
of s107,917, the campaign to come to q
close December Z.
Other speakers yesterday afternoon
were Rev. ]. P. Tucker, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Rock Hill, Mrs.
Edwin Carpenter of Florence, state ,di-
rector of Women's Missionary Union
Work Of the Baptist denomination and
Rev: DR.. T. J. Watts, -Sohth Carolina
of the Baptist $75,000.000
campaign.
Announcement was made yesterday
afternoon that every church in the
York Association was represented at
this years convention for the first
time in the associations history.
every church not only sent
its full quota of delegates but a num-
ber in addition and religious fervor
and church enthusiasm to q marked |
degree featured the entire proceedings. |
A feature of the proceedings yester-
day was the song service directed by |