The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-06
FIRST BAPTIST HAS
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Members Hear Encouraging
Reports and Interesting
Address by Pastor.
ENVIABLE WAR RECORD
Furnishes $50 to Army and
Navy-Service Flag Has
Three Gold Stars -Co-
operate with Sunday.
ENvIABLE WAR RECORD

Reports read at the annual meet
ing Of the First Baptist church, held
yesterday afternoon. show that the
church year just closed was A most
successful one
The treasurer's report showed total
collections Of sss.Tois9, apportioned
as follows: Church expenses. $1s.-
aaa o. foreign missions. $s35e25:
home missions. $s.4oa51. state rsfs-
stons. sa,aSI,I4. and other benevoIen-
cies. s24,sss.oT.
The membership Of F-irs. baptist
church is 1.63i. New members dur
ing the year totaied %. the member
ship losing twenty eight by death
during the same period.
One hundred and nfty Ave. inciud-
Ing Ave young women, are In the
country's service The service flag Of
the church bears three gold stars. for
0nnfe T. Nance and Grady Buchanan.
and Richard II. Todd, who died In
France
The annual message Of the pastor
the Rev. George W. Mcdaniel. TO the
church xas-SiIan- -lattax-ghicA
was read to the congregation by Mr.
Mcdaniel In IL. he touched upon
the relation .of the world war 20 the
church work and exhorted the mem
hers TO an active narticination in the
approaching ~Rfttv-' SUrfay meetings
and I'm the church building and loan
fund campaign of the home mission
board
At the close OF the meeting. mes
sares OF Christian love and sympathy
were conveyed by the members pres
emit to thoae who were absent on ac-
count OF sickness or affliction. APP
propriate letters win be sent to out
of-town members and to DR.. George
Green. the church's missionary to
Western Africa
DR DANIELS MESSAGE.
DR.. Daniels message. In part, fol-
lows:
Tn the generations to come, 1918
will be regarded as the most epcchal
year In the annals Of time. That
year saw RIGHT and might graphic in
a death struggle; saw the conscience
of man ASSERT itself against organized
immortality; saw the overthrow OF en-
irenchcd and enthroned militarism:
saw the acceptance Of the principle
that all Just government derives its
power from the consent Of the gov
erned. Such WAS It's Significance to
Europe and 10 the world.
I'm America Il was q period Of mo-
bsTfxatfoff md movement: The men,
ace OF a German victory In the early
spring AZ thorou~hlv aroused America
as It alarmed Great Britain and
Franco. From that date the nation
took the war seriously. verv serious
~. Incompetency In departments
RoSv-coiored dreams vanished and
q solemn realization or It's stern task
took possession Of the country.
r,etharFv Yielded to zeal and. in an
unn~eccdented time. we aeccmp-
pfished unparallAfled results. Amer
lea fully awake. put her soul and
STRENGTH into the winning Of the war
ard fastened II TO an unanticipated
close without exertirg her full force.
1T was a year Of moral triumph
II is not strictly true thai we entered
the war for the beautiful idealism
since exrresscd--we went ~ war be-
cause our rights were violated and
our property DESTROYED on the htgh
seas: X II. ney<r-fhe-less. true that
having entered the war. we ervolved
those lofty aims. the expression Of
which have made our president the
cynorure Of all eyes and our nation
the admiration o. all lovers % free-
dom. Within few days envrvs viii
gather at Versailles to crystai,xe tho
sentiments of the victorious nations
in "a peace pact. We must ferventiy
pray and earnestly hope that the re-
suits of that memorable conference
will establish human rights and tus-
tice the world around. Il too much
to believe that the ApriRciplea incor-
porated in THAI treaty. WIFI he to man
kind what Magma charta was to the
BaronS Of Runnymede. what the Dec
Iarattnn OF Jndebendence was Ia the
struGxiing colonist1? III
more than one hundred In6 6fkv