The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-10
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 SUBJECT OF MEETING. OF BAPT|STS TODAY.
Birmingham Association to Meet Next Year at Pratt City-State Health Bill
 Is Indorsed

The largest attendance in the his. tory of the Birmingham association ot the Baptist churches marked the meet. ing at the Brighton Baptist church yesterday. There were a noticeablS large number of business and profes sional men among the number attend ing. in addition to the ministers anc women, who are the regular attendants Out of 76 churches in the district, only five failed to have representatives pres. ent. The officers elected were. Rev J. R. Hobbs, moderator; Rev J. NJ Woods. of North Birmingham, secre. tary and treasurer; Rev. Ed S. Barnes of East Birmingham. assistant secretary and treasurer.
 Following the reports of the execu. tive committee, treasurer and obituar- ies. Rev. Jesse A. Cook. of the West End Baptist church. preached the an nual sermon, taking for his subject
 The Salvation of the Church."
 In the afternoon reports from the churches were submitted. all of which were marked by the splendid finan- cial showing and the many additions to the church during the year The report of the W. M U. was most in teresting, showing the great activity of the church societies under the super vision of the women. A
 The report of the laymen's mission ary movement was made by Darby H. Brown, and Rev. A. J. Dickinson spoke on modern sanitation His ad dress made marked impression on the association, and at it's conclusion Dr. James E. billiard introduced res olution indorsing the health work and calling upon the legislature to pass the state health bill. This resolution which was unanimously adopted, fol lows:
 Resolved, CD that the Birmingham Baptist association, representing the l5.000 Baptists in the churches of Jeff ferson county, expresses its apprecia tion of the warfare on venereal dis eases now being waged by the govern ment of the United States; CD also its grateful appreciation of the doctors of the medical association of Alabama who. for more than 40 years. with un- tiring effort, have served as health department for the state rendering free of cost to the state their valuable serv- ice in protecting the public health and promoting social sanitation and hy- giene: (3) that we heartily indorse the health bill now pending in the legisla- ture and pray that body to give im- mediate and favorable consideration to the same to the end that the health of the people may be further protected and social and other preventable diseases eradicated (D that these resolutions be communicated to the rep resentatives of this county in the leg islature.
 Wednesday will be the day for launching of the Baptist campaign for millions. and Dr. w. P. Price, pastor of the First Baptist church of Besse- mer. who is director of the campaign, will have charge of the exercises.
 In the morning pr. Charles A. Will Hams, of Howard college, will speak about the relation of the campaign to the small schools. Dr. J. E. Dilla I'd will tell of the relation of the cam paign to colleges. Dr. Marlborough. state secretary for missions will be one of the principal speakers, Pratt City has been selected as the meeting place of the association next year, and the an nual sermon will be preached by Dr. W. P. Price. A record attendance is expected Wednesday. on account of the inerest in the $75.000.00o campaign of the Baptists