The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-20

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ordinate colleges. with GE1y-tAFoO'
ministerial students. With new bud
ings necessary and probable for both
schools for next session. and . Stus
dent body in Richmond and West
hampton colleges aggr~gating 1000
for next session a prospect.
The report dealt at some length
with the desire of the general aaso-
! ciations to be certain as to the Baptist
denominations control OF the col
leges, the paper assuring. the dele
gates that everything the conyentio.a
had requested in the, past looking tn
this had been complied with. II
showed that thirty seveh of the forty
trustees are Baptists, that all of the
officials are members of the dcnomi-
nation and that stronger and large
faculty is in promise as result of
the endowment.
The report told the convention
that there was no dancing permitted
ait the colleges and that y was dim
cult to control this away from the
colleges and that this Was matter
rather for parental and church rcgu-
lation.
Orphanagc Report
Rev. DR.. q. w. Mcdaniel, of Rich
mond presented the orphanace re-
port, which showed that tic fns,itn-
ticn had no deaths during the in
nucnza epidemic last year and thai
the health OF the children Is soou.
\ new cottage Is being provided for
thirty additional bows by funds from
requests and that there must still hn
further endorsements. = The report
showed that the receipts were $3.50
larger than the disbursements. bus
that high expenses will soon use tn
surplus. The orphan @r now has ae7
children and fifteen teachers and ma
irons ''*
The repor, OF the -.aisters' relief
fund read by Nr 4 ~ Patterson
showed balance in hand of s7,391
with $40 600 endowment and 3
or cent Increase in offerings from
the churches during the nast vo09.
During the year all beneHciaries OF
The fund had their allowances in
creased 20 per cent NJ the begin
ming of last year there. were 'sixty-fsye
on the roll; seven were added. nfae
dropped. and three died. The &c
port showed that it ia not feasible 70
transfer its work tn the genera
board because il could not he mad
practical under its charter and re-
commended that the board be con
tinued.
\ number 81 resolutions and me
MORALS FROM the district soeiations
fund with the convention board werS
here referred IN the standing com
mittces without being read to tn,
convention,
Five Convention sermons,
The annual sermon by fhe associa-
ton. preached by Rev. 4. Aubrey
Villa MS OF Norfolk. was an excep-
tionally fine one. II was preceded
by an earnest PRAYER by Rev Alfred
Bagby, the veteran aud beloved
Richncnd minister who is ALWAYS
Interested In the work Of the king
dom. DIR. Williams. enc ~ the bril-
liant mon OF the Baptist ministry In
Virginia read the thirteenth ehapts"
az Marx. and based his scholarly anil
ferved discourse on the seventh anA
eighth verses, He sought to apply tn
simple Christian principles of the
first century 10 the modern disturbed.
and troublous conditions Of the
world today The hope OF tho worif.
The preservation of our social system
and the salvation of thN world lay IN
The application Ia ali of our prob
LENS and conditions at the simple
principles or the gospel Of cur Lord
Committees were announced this
morning aud these opt The after
noon considering various phases ~
the work of the demon Ina ton
The address Of pr Mullins tonight
was one OF the features Of the asso-
citation He saw God's hand In the 3
war iii the giving TO the common man
freedom and liberty and In the de-
throning Of nonalF1hs u1ders whom
government was put above the souls
If meu for the saiHation OF which
Christ caslr and died. The spirit -
the seventy five mlllion campaign liz
manifest In all the work ~ the asso-