The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

ices rendered In our modern lire, ana IL may refer to work rendered in the busi- ness. political or religious world.
 
 Take, for instance, the duties of a mod ern secretary of Chamber of Commerce and it ranks now as a profession and takes abilities of high order and com mands good salary.
 The secretaries of our great industrial combinations are men of wide business attainments and attain great influence in keeping the wheels of industry run ming smoothly.
 It's a poor organization which cannot i boast of a secretary, and, while many of our capitalists have their private sec retaries, we also know that some of our social leaders have their social secre- | taries
 But just at present I am thinking of secretaries as they are related to the various boards of the numerous denomi- nations, for there has grown up with the increasing religious functions of the 1 churches a secretariat which is both l numerous and imposing.
 l have in mind now the general secreta- | ries of three of the boards of the Southern Baptist conference. DTS. Gray, Love and Van Ness, respectively of the home, for eign and Sunday school work of the denomination. pr. B. D. Gray. of Atlan- | ta, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church, is known as the greatest ecclesf- astical statesman in the denomination whose speech on Wed xesday afternoon was a masterpiece.
 pr. J. F. Love of the foreign board, of Richmond, Va, now touring the orient inspecting the various mission stations l great ability, and an author of note He was represented at the Alabama Baptist state convention by pr. T. B. Ray of Richmond, Va. who has trav- eled widely among the mission stations of the Baptists in Sosfth America, who brought a vision of the $1.5oo,ooo pro- gramme for which his board is committed for this years work.
 Thursday morning. Dr. l. J. Van Ness of Nashville, delivered an address packed full of provocative though along the line of his duties secretary of the Sunday
 school board, which does an annual busi-
 ness of over s600 900, and whose duty 1t
 is to see to 1t that his great constitu-
 ency of hundreds of thousands of
 southern Baptists are furnished with the
 proper kind of religious literature to be
 taught in the Sabbath schools.
 |
 Now the three named secretaries are
 preachers of power and note, but Dr. J.
 T. Henderson, secretary of the laymens' movement with headquarters at Knoxville
 is just a plain business man, who gave
 up his work as a college president to try and enthuse and organize the Bap- tist laymen of the south to take a fuller
 share in the organized work. He made a
 forceful and convincing speech. much tt the pleasure Of Darby H. Brown of Bfr- mingham, the chairman of the work ir Alabama.
 P Dr. William Lunsford, secretary of thu 3 aged ministers relief fund, of Dallas 5 Texas made his initial bow to the body , as the work he represents is the newes ] of the boards of the southern Baptist! t convention-but one which is badl, needed. Dr. Lunsford is an eloquen - speaker and moved the hearts of the con
 vention with his plea for the better sup
 port of the old soldiers of the cross wn'
 had given their best days in service unde
 the banner of the Lord.
 T These and other visitors spoke durin, e the sessions but on Thursday mornin, e when state mission came up Dr. W. F n Marlborough, high type of the religiou . secretary, man known for his piety . his enthusiasm and his energy, brough | before the convention the cheering re port that the board for the first time il I Il years was out of debt. The new u caused the body to break out in applause q pr. Marlborough is a Mississippian- e first had the pleasure of meeting hir d more than a score of years ago whe IT 1 1 was at the SOutnoFN bapCSl luSOioSi
 cal seminary at Louiville Ky. We parte
 and for years our lives did not cross 'S but in 1910 he came from Jackson, tn
 capital city of Mississippi, where he ha '' served as pastor for Il years, to the Par E. ker Memorial church of Annistop, br '- since then we have been much togethe
 He did not set back and wait on comin
 to Alabama before getting whole hearted n l ly into the general work of the denomina ID tion but from the very outset took hol h as if he had been born and reared in tn V state, and by his modesty and tact backe ot up by hard work, he soon won for hinse
 a warm place in the hearts of the bretf m ren-and two years ago when tho "b' TX loved secretary" pr. w. B. Crumpto
 who had carried the Baptist banner | and down the state for quarter of . a' century, was made secretary emeritus,
 loud call was made for the black-eyt ag and dark haired Mississippian. ge pr. Yarborough stepped into difficu ed job but he has more than made goo
 and is today strongly entrenched in Il .. .. bosoms of the Baptists of his adoptt nu state. and is rapidly being regarded
 the ideal secretary. for while he h to plenty of courage, he is always reAt